Xania steps out from the toilet, drying herself off with fire magic as she materializes a new set of clothes onto herself, just in time as Anise who has been trying to get her to take a damn shower for very long teleports into the room.

  “Great…” Xania mutters softly to herself as Anise notices her and smirks.

  “My lord, so you do enjoy showering huh?” She starts poking Xania on her cheek, stopping to move her hand out the way as Xania reaches out to grab it.

  “Shut it, there was just a predicament, a unique situation. The time wasted on showering could be better used on sleeping.” Xania pushes Anise away, walking to the bed and getting irritated as she notices some black goo she hadn’t cleaned up which destroyed the bed, causing her to teleport it to Davien in a box made of concentrated mana with a piece of paper attached to it. On the piece of paper a picture of an unspecified finger, left to Davien for him to guess.

  “My lord, what was that?” Anise asks while fixing the bed up.

  “Not sure, some stupid thing called a shapeshifter according to Davien.” Xania lets her body fall face first into the bed.

  “Really? I swear that’s not what shapeshifters looked like.” Anise says, trying to recall what they looked like but not being able to clearly remember due to them almost never being in their original forms and the amount of time since the last time she’s seen one.

  “Huhwhadidtayloklke?” Xania mutters lazily, her voice further softened due to being muffled by the bed.

  “My lord, stop muttering so softly to yourself, I can’t hear anything.” Anise says, making Xania lift her head up.

  “Huh? What did they look like?” She repeats before putting her face back into the bed..

  “Well, something like blob but… wait, what colour is Blob?”

  “Blemotlycanchangcolor” She mutters as Anise hears a bit.’

  “Blue mostly, can change color. Is that what you said?” Anise watches as Xania confirms.

  “Mhm.”

  “Good. So doppelgangers looked like Blob but more solid, non-acidic. Their ability to change their appearance was also a bodily function, hence undetectable using mana.”

  Xania finally lifts her head up from the bed, reluctantly teleporting herself to sit upright mostly. “That thing used man though.”

  “Exactly why it isn’t a shapeshifter.” Anise points out, poking Xania’s forehead using a finger, irritating her.

  You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story.

  “Don’t do that. Just don’t disturb me, I want to go to sleep.” Xania tries to let her body fall forwards into the bed as Anise pulls her off the bed by the back of her collar, annoying her.

  “What is it?” Xania looks at Anise.

  “You’re not even gonna ask why I was busy?”

  “Oh yea right, what about the game? It ended in a draw.”’

  “Because you lost count!” Anise shouts, getting annoyed at remembering how all those games to decide a winner was for nothing.

  “Calm down, we can just play a singular game.”

  “I’m calm.”

  “You’re not.”

  “I’m calm.”

  “You’re no—”

  “You mother— If I say I’m calm, it means I’m calm.” Anise grabs Xania by her collar in a not calm manner as Xania slowly pushes herself away.

  “Alright, alright. I got it, you’re totally calm.”

  Anise sighs, pushes Xania down, causing her head to hit the hard bed frame. ”My lord, I went to look around for designers to give me suggestions.”

  “Suggestions for what?” Xania rubs her head.

  “To decorate our room.”

  “What for?”

  “What do you mean what for?! Look around the room. We have a smaller room thatDragrove and Blob don’t use since Dragrove made himself and Blob a brand new home god knows where a bed windows and a toilet and that’s it! We don't even have a proper closet, you’re just throwing clothes you can’t be bothered to burn around the place!” Anise finishes, leaving herself panting afterwards due to not stopping much and shouting as Xania puts her hands up around her shoulder level while backing up.

  “Fine, if you want to decorate the room, go for it. I won’t stop you.”

  “No! You’re going to help! I do most of the work you’re supposed to do along with all the work you tell me to do so you’re gonna help me!”

  Xania groans in annoyance, complaining softly beneath her breath as she stands up.

  “Fine, how do we start?”

  “Finally you’re cooperating. First, what’s your favourite thing?”

  “My favourite thing is… I honestly have no clue, does sleeping count?”

  “No.”

  “Fine, what about… playing?”

  “I suppose we can work with that. Favourite colour?”

  “Black.”

  Why?”

  “Because it’s the colour I’ve seen most in my life so I’m just a lot more used to it.”

  “Sure, my favourite colour is blue and I like playing too so let’s improvise on this.”

  “Sure.”

  Xania and Anise start trying out different types of styles for the room, finally deciding on the wall with the windows which are oversized in Xania’s opinion having playing cards with many small blue and black coloured swirls on the wall.

  “My lord, I hate this.”

  “Same, but it looks less boring compared to when there was nothing right?”

  “My lord, the walls were already grey and blackish in colour, your black didn’t do much.”

  “What matters is the fact it did anything now sh!.”

  “Fine, we still need furniture though.

  “Fine.”

  Window

  Closet cubby shelf

  Bed       Toilet door.

  nightstand

  Door to outside

  doorbell(For whatever reason)

  “Seriously? A night stand?”

  “Yea, for a candle since you had a nightmare and I nearly lost my life last time.”

  “It was once!”

  “Nope, there were times when you were on the verge of activating mana, each time scaring the hell out of me.”

  “Fine, what’s the doorbell for?”

  “What do you think people use a doorbell for?”

  “Well, usually they use it for the front of their home, and their homes aren’t usually castles.”

  “Doesn’t matter, we’re keeping the doorbell.”

  “Fine. Are we done yet?”

  “Nope.”

  “What?”

  “One last detail.” Anise puts a deck of playing cards on the cubby shelf along with a potted plant.”

  “Oh right, you do gardening and that type of stuff.”

  “Yep.”