Almost reaching their destination...
They walk a few miles more until they reach the doorway's area. Lucky for them, the weather conditions remain mild and unthreatening.
When they reach a few kilometers near the doorway, the blizzard leash creature circles around them three times as if it is telling them goodbye.
Olivia approaches the creature and pats it on its head and says, "Thank you for all your help. I wish I can bring you along with us. Would you like to become our pet?" She asks the blizzard leash creature whilst smiling cheerfully.
"Would you or can you come along with us?" She includes, thinking and placing her index finger by her chin.
She looks at Piko, who seems to be thinking about something else.
"Huh?" He says when she catches his attention, having his thoughts disrupted.
"Oh sorry, what did you say? You said, you wanted that snake-like creature as a pet?" He repeats what he recalled.
"I think Len wouldn't mind." She assures him perkily.
"Well ok, if you want." Piko says smiling, finding her quite adorable to think so.
Olivia smiled back then turns to the creature and talks to it, "So how about it, Snakey? Want to come with us and become our pet from now? I will ask your summoner to allow you to stay with us."
The creature tilts its head to the side and for some rare reaction, it permits Olivia to cuddle it.
The creature curls gently around her like it's cuddling back.
"Looks like it likes you, Olivia. Let's just ask Len all about it on our way home." The silveret says to her as he offers her his hand.
The golden-haired beauty gladly takes it and stands up from where she is crouching.
"Come Snakey, you're coming home with us." She calls and it follows beside them faithfully.
They stand right in front of the doorway, gazing at it for a while.
"Piko, before we go in. May I ask you one more thing?" Olivia blurts out.
"Yes?" He replies, a bit startled as he is already once again focused on something else.
"I see that you are thinking about it again. May I ask you what it is, please?" She asks whilst her eyes shone with a very concerned appearance.
"Oh ok..." Piko sighs. "It is just... that it's your brother..." He trails off and becomes silent again.
"Oh? What about him? Is there something about what he said that caught your attention?" Olivia wonders, trying to get him to look at her eye to eye.
"No, not that. It's just that ... I think I've seen him before. I just couldn't exactly remember when or where..." He tells her whilst he tries to unravel his thoughts deeply, pondering to recall the information once again. Sadly, he couldn't grasp it.
Quietly, "I see..." Olivia said growing more concerned.
Then, she carefully slides her gentle little hands by the side of his cheeks and leans diagonally upright towards him.
...!
His eyes grow wide open at her sudden tour de force and very soon, they slowly close as he savors the intent of the uncalled-for yet very enticing feat.
Wanting him to relax and to stop stressing out on things, Olivia's efforts has soon taken into effect.
He eagerly snakes his arms around her as he presses his lips more on hers, enjoying and loving every second of it.
When they stop, they rest as their foreheads touch whilst they remain gazing at each other.
"Let's go home." He finally whispers, enjoying one another's tender embrace.
"Uh huh!" Happily, she nods whilst smiling.
All of a sudden,
"! . . . . . . ."
Olivia feels something shake and then twitch inside the vest.
Piko feels and notices it too.
She takes it out of the hidden pocket and they both gape at what they saw.
!
Athrylith has become a glistening egg!
!
He appears gleaming whenever light shines on him whilst the simple blue sticker strip converted into a glimmering shade of metallic blue. The handwritten letters that mentioned his name has become golden in font colour and it glitters when rays of light shines on it.
"Piko, look!" She happily exclaims, absolutely delighted with the unexpected surprise.
"Yes, I saw." He says and starts observing. "Wow, not only he has become bigger and heavier, he's changed his exterior appearance!" He says.
Olivia excitedly giggles and happily twirls around holding the spherical SP progeny up in her hands.
"We better go home and write about this on our journal then." She suggests energetically.
"Will do." He replied, very interested on the discovery then suddenly he pauses.
He creeps beside her then snakes his arms around her once again and he holds her in his arms for a while.
He sighs as he thinks that once they step out of the realm, he wouldn't be able to act so affectionately towards her because of the possible annoying 'audiences' that would clearly and will most definitely tease them to death.
"Don't think that way. Please feel free to act yourself whenever you like even if we are no longer here in Winterdomain." She calmly whispers and tells him whilst blushing adorably.
His face paints a tint of blush on itself. He realises that he is too focused thinking carelessly near her that she is able to read him easily.
'Ok then, if you will allow me to then I will if that's what you want.' He replies to her telepathically, winking.
Then, he leans eagerly forward one more time before they step out of the realm.
Athrylith glows even more brilliantly as his SP parents share and savor every second of their activity.
Back in the Kagamine's kitchen, sitting by one of the kitchen counters...
"Huhuhuh..."A strawberry blond youngster cries.
His face pressed and buried itself in between two soft, marshmallowy and pillow-like substances which are also the comforts of his SP spouse's massive cleavage.
He is shaking in terror for what he was subjected to do earlier - being an unwilling taste-tester of a very odd-looking, totally sight-repulsive and absolutely traumatizing food sample that obviously scarred him for life.
"There, there, there! It's ok, Nero my love. They're just cookies. Time will heal and erase those memories soon." His soft-spoken, voluptuous SP spouse console him.
Gently cuddling him and showering him with comforting smooches, she attempts to ease his pain.
He continuously laments, mopes, sniffles and whimpers even more
whenever
the thought of the life-scarring experience pestered his mind.
...( tears forming ...)
( the memory haunts again...)
"WAAAAAAAAAHHHH ! ! ! !" He sobs even louder when it all suddenly comes back into his memory and WOL-ed.(Wailed-Out-Loud).
On another corner in the kitchen...
"Hey bro... bro?" Miku is crouching beside her older sibling, who is sitting on the kitchen floor, rubbing him on the shoulder, trying her best to summon his consciousness back.
He is in a catatonic state of shock whilst a tear drops on the side of one of his cheeks.
Tear streaks can be visibly seen and are marked on both of them as he leant by a corner aside on one of the kitchen walls.
By another side of the kitchen by the warmer area of the room...
"Come on angel, it's over now so please try your best not to be so twitchy or be so rattled any more, relax..." The golden-haired boy softly says in a comforting tone when his partner wakes up from fainting earlier.
Rinto rubs Neru on the back as she lengthily grips him on the waist, shuddering constantly.
As the horrid thought bothered her and as the experience haunts her from time to time, she couldn't help but start to fuss. "Waaaaaaaaahhh..." She wails too, echoing her brother's.
And so, her golden-haired SP spouse once again continues rubbing her gently on the back to calm her down whilst trying to make her drink a cool glass of water or handling her a handkerchief for her to blow her nose.
At the center...
"SEE WHAT YOU HAVE DONE YOU RETARD! Now we have a tear-jerker's fest here at home! And get the hell rid of those dirty, disgusting and REVOLTING pieces..., no, PILE! of crap that you're holding!" Len scolds his half-frozen twin ballistically.
She has recently obtained a bump on her head as she holds up a tray with her hands whilst partially immobilized.
"No way! I refuse to waste food. I'll keep them for me if no one wants them! BUT HONESTY, I RATHER SHOVE IT INTO YOUR MOUTHS JUST TO PROVE I COOK GREAT COOKIES!" Screaming, she angrily retaliates and then she stick her tongue at him.
Her twin made a face that made her flinch and shudder.
Angrily glaring at her for the impudent back talk, he shows her the creepiest face that an entity can ever show anyone.
"Y-YIPES! I swear, bro! I promise! I won't traumatize anyone with these cookies anymore." She instantly implores and reverses her earlier statements.
Having a big heart, he sighs then unfreeze her. "Make sure that you do or else! Now, apologise to Mikuo, Nero and Neru!" He orders her to make amends.
"Whatever!" She coldly and grumpily replies, stomping her feet as she walked to them.
First, she approaches Lenka and Nero, who shivered visibly as he terrifyingly distanced away,
"AAAAAAAAAH! STAY AWAY FROM MEEEE!" He cries, extremely horrified.
Lenka rushes to his side and hurriedly consoles him as she gently leans his head back on her bosom which he eagerly buries his face in, sniffling.
"Shh, shh, shh! It's ok, it's ok! Don't worry my cutie Nero. There, there, there!" She utters whilst patting him on the back.
"I'm sorry Nero! Pffft!" Rin mutters and she sticks out her tongue then stomps away from their side right after she said it.
Next, she stomps towards Rinto and Neru then stare at them for a few seconds. The poor, little, rich girl is shaking in fear and clutches Rinto's waist even tighter as Rin comes closer.
"Sorry Neru." She briefly says then she almost discreetly sticks out her middle finger when she leaves them crossly.
Last but not the least, she approaches the Hatsune siblings where her twin crouches beside Miku, healing Mikuo's numerous bruises and oozing scratches.
"You really don't yield when it comes to your tough love, do you?" Her twin bluntly says with a straight face as he counts the numerous bleeding scratches on her SP spouse's arms, face and neck.
"I'm sorry Ku-Oey." She blandly says, who is not looking at him at all to which Len stands up after healing him and whispers in her ear, "Just look at him closely, sis. Then you'll realise the error of your ways." He strictly and seriously advises her.
After he says that, he takes Miku by the hand as he intended to let Rin be alone with the motionless tealet.
Rin kneels down in front of him when they left as to let her brother be convinced that she's following his orders and advises.
'Pfft! NOT!' She saucily retorts in her mind.
As she slowly glances towards Mikuo's direction,
she feels an unexpected surge of guilt nag her from deep within.
He looks like a rag doll that has been torn, tugged and literally been run over by vehicles on the highway.
Her eyes glisten as tears moisten them whilst she instinctively dive-hugs him, snaking her arms around his neck.
She sniffles as she finally feels guilt overcame her coldness as she whispers in his ear, "I'm so sorry, KuO-ey. Please forgive me." whilst more tears flow down her face that splashed on him.
A fatigued hand tiredly elevate slowly, positioning itself resting above the huge white flowing ribbon on top of her head.
She looks at him and sees his lips move very exhaustingly saying, "Good one, Rin." Then, he tries to show her his signature wink.
Her eyes glisten more as she hears and sees this then she leans forward to reward him for his good sportsmanship.
As tired as he was as she inclines towards him, he struggles eagerly to embrace her and reciprocates the activity.
"All is well that ends well." Miku says gladly as she witnessed this and then she feels a strong and warmth and clasped hers.
The others in the room, too, witness this, and then there is a very pleasing sensation of forgiveness that circulated in the air.
Everyone inevitably smile at that moment of pleasance as they all finally become calm and composed.
All's happy to be back to normal.
! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Then suddenly, Len senses the presence of two familiar auras as he immediately announces the news to them, "Hey guys! They're back!" Len happily announces.
"Let's go meet them at the clearing!" The tealet siblings excitedly suggest simultaneously.
"Let's all hurry guys!" The strawberry blond siblings insist eagerly whilst making haste with the preparations.
Then wiping away their weepy faces, they all take their SP children and journals, and then gather all the food items that they prepared for the two awaited people and rush to the clearing joyfully.