Amelia walked along by herself humming lightly and taking the occasional lick from her ice cream. When they had eventually found a stand Lina had demolished hers in all of three seconds before dashing back to the inn to start searching the menu for tonight's meal. Amelia preferred to walk round the town and see the sights so, here she was.

"Good afternoon Amelia-san." A familiar voice seemed to ring from all around causing her to jump a bit.

"H-hello Xellos-san. How are you?"

"That's a secret." He replied, phasing into view and walking next to her. "You shouldn't be out on your own princess, anything might happen…" he left the sentence hanging. Not quite a threat but certainly meant to unnerve.

Realising his game Amelia batted her eyelids and put on her sweetest most sugar-filled voice and clasped her hands over her heart (careful not to get ice-cream anywhere) as she replied.

"Oh but you wouldn't let anything happen to me Xellos-san! Such a stout, devoted ally of justice as yourself would never allow a comrade to fall into peril! I know that should anything happen you would use the shining light of justice in your heart to lead your dear friends to safety and be a beacon to the world for truth, love and justice; showing everyone you met how wonderful life truly is!" She turned from him and struck a pose, finger pointing skyward as her cape flared dramatically behind her in a conveniently timed gust of wind "You would make sure the hammer of justice smote those who spread chaos in the world and make a safe place for children to sing, puppies to play, fluffy bunnies to- "

She broke off as she realised Xellos was crumpled to the ground, a very sickly shade of green and breathing heavily as he fought to keep from losing consciousness.

"Ah! Xellos-san! I'm so sorry!"

She knelt by his side and helped him sit up. He seemed to recover rather quickly but the truth was he was feeding from her guilt to get rid of all the… sickeningly sweet thoughts she had just instilled.

"Please…" he gasped out "Don't do that again."

"I'm sorry Xellos-san, but you deserved it! Trying to scare me like that was most unjust!" she proclaimed. But seeing the tinge of green still lingering about him relented a little "Although I might have gone a bit too far."

"Just a bit" he agreed and allowed her to help him back to his feet.

"Here" she offered him the remainder of her cone as a kind of apology "It's not Saillune soft-serve but it's really good!"

"That's quite alright princess" he said straightening up and only leaning on his staff a little "I'll drop by Saillune sometime and have you buy me the real stuff to make up for it." He added sensing her desire to make up and recognising an opportunity for even better ice-cream. "I think I'm also going to start warning mazoku to stay far away from you." He mused aloud.

"Gee, that's nice of you Xellos-san!"

"Believe me, I'm not doing it for your benefit."