"Are we done, Beta?" Tenma groans as he struggles to carry the bags in his arms while his feet start to hurt, "I still need to go back to my house."
Beta hums while poking her cheek with her finger, "Hmmm, not quite, I still need to check out two more stores, though I guess we could go grab some food. You'll pay of course~"
He lets out a sigh of relief, "Sure. As long as I don't have to carry all of this." They walk to a nearby crepe stand then he fumbles around to reach his wallet.
"Can you please take out my wallet?" He asks as he shows her the right pocket.
"Be honored that I am feeling generous to help you." She takes out his wallet then opens it, though she raises an eyebrow, "You look way too funny for your ID card."
Tenma pouts as he sets the bags on a nearby outdoor table, "I look good."
"Nope."
"Yes."
"Nope."
"Are you guys going to order or what?" The cashier frowns, "Both of you are holding up the line." He raises his chin to gesture at their back, prompting Tenma and Beta to look back and see that there is a long line of people, most of whom are using their futuristic gadgets, though the rest are looking at the duo in annoyance.
Beta pouts, "How rude, I –"
"I and her will have the special crepe of the day." Tenma awkwardly smiles as he puts a hand to cover her mouth.
The cashier sighs in relief before going away to make the crepe. Beta roughly throws his hand away then glares at him.
"Tenma. Do that again and you will be missing a finger or two," Her voice turns a darker tone, which clashes with the light and high pitched tone she had.
He freezes then slowly raises his hands in surrender, "Yes, ma'am."
Beta nods with a grin, "Good servant~! You remembered to call me properly!"
"Two special crepes of the day!" The cashier appears with 2 chocolate strawberry crepes with decorations adorned all over each of them.
Tenma gestures for her to pay, since she has his wallet, prompting her to roll her eyes but hands the cashier the money. The cashier puts the money into the cash register that has an almost invisible red light inside then it lets out a ding noise.
The duo heads to the table that has the bags and seats on opposite sides of each other. Beta takes a small bite of the crepe then lets out a small moan, "Ahhh~ I just love eating sweets after a shopping spree~!"
Tenma awkwardly smiles as he sees other people taking a glance at them, though they soon go back to ignoring, "How many shops left? I only got –" He takes a quick glance at his rather outdated watch, "An hour left before I need to go home."
Beta pauses with her crepe right in front of her mouth, though she lowers it to look at him with a raised eyebrow, "Is my servant planning on running away? Oh~ how unfaithful of you~" She exaggeratedly swoons, prompting him to awkwardly look at her then to the sides.
She stops herself to lightly smile at him, "Just kidding~ I just need to go to one more shop then you can go." She takes another bite of her crepe.
He sighs in relief before unwrapping the paper holder of the crepe then scarfing it down.
Beta looks at him with an unamused eye as she sees him licking his fingers, "…I didn't realize my servant has no basic manners in eating."
Tenma shrugs and simply says, "I was hungry."
She sighs then takes the final bite of her own, "Well, hopefully you have enough energy to last." She gets up then starts to walk away with a huff and without looking behind.
He looks at her with a clueless expression before getting up and grabbing the bags, "Wait for me!" He jogs after her.
"Hey Meia, do you think this looks good on me?" A female with neck-length peach hair, styled into a braid, though across her head, asks while holding up a purple dress that reaches her knees.
Meia puts down the clothes she was holding onto a nearby rack then turns to look at the peach-haired female, "Hmm…" She squints her eyes before shaking her head, "Nope. It doesn't really suit you and your hair."
Meia points to her right, "Try that white dress we saw at the display near the entrance, Nike."
Nike hums as she uses her right hand to feel the purple dress, "I kinda like this though… You know what, I'll just buy both." She nods before walking away.
Meia shakes her head while smiling a little before going back to the clothes that she put down just now.
"Come on servant~ just a little more then we are done~"
Meia raises an eyebrow as she hears the slightly high pitched whiny voice before shaking her head as she grabs the clothes, only to come face to face with Tenma right beside her.
"T-Tenma?!"
"B-big sister Meia?!"
Both of them take a step back with their eyes wide while looking at each other. They stay like that for a few seconds before Beta pokes Tenma from behind.
"Is something wrong, servant?" Beta asks, prompting him to snap out of it and look back while Meia also snaps out of her shock to look at the female behind him.
Tenma opens his mouth, though Meia talks first, "Tenma, who is she?" She asks in an icy tone that sends chills down his spine.
"J-just someone I met just now, big sis," He quickly says as he glances at her, though flinches when he sees the icy glare of hers.
Beta pops her head over his shoulder to look at Meia with curiosity, "Hmm? Tenma, who is she?"
He moves backward so that both of them can look at each other, "So, um, this is my big sis Meia and big sis this is Beta," He quickly introduces while awkwardly smiling and profusely sweating.
Beta and Meia walk closer to each other, as if sizing the other. The former smiles with arrogance in her eyes while the latter smiles that, rather than invoke friendliness, invokes a feeling of slowly freezing to a popsicle.
