"Calm down, Second Sister!"
Little Light hurriedly stopped her, "Ten ice creams, do you remember last time you ate three ice creams in one go and ended up with diarrhea for a whole day?"
"Those days are different now, Little Light," Luna put on a serious face, playing it up.
Little Light scratched her head and asked blankly, "What's different?"
"Before, I ate them out of gluttony."
Little Light blinked her big pretty eyes and still looked puzzled, "And now?"
"Now I eat with a mind for revenge. Finishing ten ice creams and walking away unscathed is no problem!"
"...Are you sure you can finish them all, Second Sister? Ten whole ice creams."
"Of course. Don't underestimate me, mere ten ice creams—"
———
[Five Minutes Later]
"Little Light, help me eat, I can't finish them."
Little Light silently covered her face, looked at the three ice creams left in Second Sister's hands, and sighed.
"I thought your limit was five, didn't expect you could actually do seven. Can you share your secret to success, Second Sister?"
"Helena can only accompany Sister for one, but I can eat seven, so my love for Sister is seven times Helena's!"
"Our Silver Dragons have produced a math genius, Second Sister!"
"Then the remaining three are yours, Little Light. Prove your love for Sister."
Little Light waved her hands repeatedly, "My love for Big Sis is witnessed by sun and moon, it doesn't need ice cream to prove it."
"What should we do then?"
Little Light thought for a moment, then a lightbulb lit above her head.
"Eh! I've got an idea!"
A moment later, in the tribal plaza, the pigeon, full and sated, was preparing to return to its nest to sleep, planning to come out again at night to beg for food.
But just as it flapped its wings to leave, it was suddenly held down by something.
Turning its head, it saw the two little dragon girls had come back, wearing evil supervillain smiles on their faces (Pigeon-chan's perspective).
They held three ice creams and seemed about to do something unpleasant to it.
Pigeon-chan: 'I just wanted a bite to eat, please spare me!'
———
The third stop of the bestie date was the fountain near the tribal plaza.
"Actually this place looks better at night."
Noah said, "At night there are lights, with the fountain it's especially pretty."
"Then we can come again at night. After all, our vacation is long."
Noah nodded, "Mm-hmm. Let's take a few pictures first."
"Okay."
Noah took out a camera, pointed the lens at herself and Helena, and the two besties posed with various styles and hand gestures.
But Helena was still better at facial expressions. After all, you couldn't expect Noah, a stone-faced girl, to make very animated expressions when taking selfies.
At the same time, the tailing duo peeked their little heads out from behind a tree nearby, bobbing up and down.
Luna was on top, Little Light below.
"Did you hear that, Little Light?"
"Hear what, Second Sister?"
"Helena just said her and Sister's vacation is still long, meaning she'll be staying at our house many more days."
"Wow Second Sister, you can't even hear the teacher calling on you in class, how can you hear what Helena said from so far away?"
Luna lowered her head and rested her chin on her little sister's head, seriously saying, "That was me pretending not to hear, so the teacher would pick someone else to answer."
Little Light tilted her head up to look at Second Sister's soft round face, "Second Sister, you're a genius at slacking off."
"Damn it, today's the weekend, tomorrow we return to the academy. I can't bear to think what Helena might do to cozy up to Sister while we're not there."
"So what are you going to do, Second Sister? Take leave?"
After a pause, Little Light added, "The reason for the leave being worried your biological sister will be snatched by a senior, so you need to guard the tower at home?"
"Little Light, I might be a bit dumb, but I'm not stupid. That kind of excuse wouldn't fool even Daddy, how could it fool the teacher?"
Little Light pondered for a bit, then concluded, "So what you mean is Daddy is very dumb, right?"
"I don't know if Daddy's dumb, but Daddy's offerings are all delicious."
The little dragon girls chatted back and forth behind the tree.
Unaware, Noah, who was taking photos by the fountain, faintly noticed a clue.
"Noah-chan, look, how's this one?"
Helena held the camera and pulled up the preview projection.
In the projected image, Noah still wore a cold expression, but Helena leaned close to her, placing her palm under Noah's chin and gently tilting her face.
From the photo angle, Noah looked like a well-behaved kitty snuggling in Helena's palm.
"Mm, pretty."
Noah looked at the projection. The composition was very cute—good enough to print and put in a room.
However, noah squinted slightly and looked carefully at the background of the projection.
Beside a tree behind them, two little tails seemed to be showing.
One silver, one pale pink.
Silver tails are common in the Silver Dragon tribe; alone they wouldn't draw Noah's attention.
But pink tails are quite rare.
And the rarest thing was seeing both colors of tails appear at the same time.
According to Noah, only one situation could meet this condition, her two younger sisters.
"What's the matter, Noah?"
Seeing Noah staring at the projection in a daze, Helena asked, "Is the photo bad?"
"Ah no, it's nothing."
Noah didn't look back.
When she woke up this morning and didn't see Luna and Little Light, she more or less guessed those two little ones wouldn't be very obedient today.
And now, even if she confirmed her bestie date with Helena was being followed, Noah didn't plan to expose her sisters, to be precise, she wouldn't expose Luna.
Assuming Luna was following the date was, in Noah's mind, the best way to balance her siscon sister and her friend.
Also, while interacting with Helena, Noah deliberately didn't act overly intimate.
Otherwise her siscon sister would certainly get jealous.
"Noah, let's go take a few more pictures under those cherry trees," Helena suggested.
"Okay."
The besties headed toward the nearby cherry grove.
Naturally, the tailing duo intended to keep following.
But as Luna took a step, she suddenly froze.
Little Light turned back, "What's wrong, Second Sister?"
Luna looked a bit odd, holding her stomach and blinking, "It's nothing...let's go."
"Oh, okay."
The two little dragon girls quickened their pace to catch up.
———
The rest of the date was just taking photos, drinking cold drinks, or going to the lawn to feed squirrels and small animals.
There weren't any particularly suggestive events, nor the scenes Luna had imagined, like, "Ha ha, Noah-chan, you're mine now~"
Or,
"Without your sisters, a world of just you and me, so blissful!"
Things like that.
They just walked and strolled, holding hands only when taking photos.
That's how friends are, pure friendship, without anything else mixed in.
It's just that one siscon little brain can't get past that bend, and being too dependent on her sister, turns every bestie meetup into a 'shame-luo' scene in her head.
By evening, the sunset slanted.
Noah and Helena sat side by side on a bench by the park lake, enjoying the cool evening breeze, very relaxed.
Helena swayed gently with the breeze, humming a nameless tune, her long legs in white stockings swinging back and forth.
"Today was fun, Noah."
"Mm."
Noah replied, and with the corner of her eye she inadvertently spotted a few packets of snacks stuffed in Helena's bag.
"Why did you buy so many snacks?"
"For Luna-chan and Little Light."
Hearing this, Noah was stunned, then immediately understood Helena's meaning.
"You noticed them too?"
"Of course. Their disguise is easy to spot. I figured you noticed but didn't say anything, so I didn't either."
Helena took the snacks out of her bag, "They've been following us all day and haven't eaten much. We passed a stall earlier, so I bought some."
"Then—", Saying that, Helena jumped down from the bench.
Noah curiously asked, "What?"
"I'm going to deliberately stage an encounter to get your sisters to come and eat something."
Noah was momentarily taken aback, then smiled, "Okay."
Helena walked slowly toward the other side.
Noah watched her back.
A few steps later, Helena stopped behind a tree, looked left and right, then fixed her gaze from a certain angle and put on a surprised expression.
"Luna, Little Light, what are you doing here? What a coincidence~"
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