im going to fight the ENTIRE OCEAN

Deith watched a couple of feet behind him. He didn't look at Lei while they walked, so he hadn't realized, until then, that the male would most likely need to wear something else. His face slightly reddened from the embarrassment of keeping Lei almost naked. "Rice..? Uh... Sorry I don't eat rice there's bread in the cabinet though hold on I'll be back." Just like that, he stormed out of the kitchen, ran upstairs, and returned with a black cotton sweater in his hands. It was his, so it was going to be slightly bigger on Lei. But it's cute that way, and that's why he reflexively chose that.

"I honestly forgot you're... not clothed enough. Sorry," he muttered, while offering the sweater.

Deith grinned when Lei accepted. It was getting funny to him again, he can sense some kind of air around them that made him feel like they were in a funny, fluffy cliché story. The way Lei responded made it seem so. "You're cute, Lei. But sorry, if I ever had any plans of being 'tempted', we would've long been stuck in bed right now," he teased. Messing with Lei like that was fun.

Even as he grabbed the bag of bread from one of the cabinets, his grin didn't go away. Even as he got a plate ready and started to have the bread toasted. No more feeling sorry, apparently.

Deith flinched and looked back at him in reflex. He turned to the toaster quickly after. "I'm not taking it back." He laughed. "My illusions, huh? But I'll need extra energy for that."

He took the toasted slices of bread and placed them on the plate before making another batch. He took a few moments to think of anything that could make Lei's jaw drop. Oh well. That wasn't important. Glowing purple runes appeared and surrounded Deith's right arm as he snapped his fingers. They burst into glowing crystal-like dust particles and scattered in the air. Slowly, the kitchen started to crumble down, revealing an outside world full of snow, which was supposed to be impossible for Manta Carlos at the moment. Even the cold felt real. Deith smiled at Lei, and made random hand gestures. "Ta-da~"

Deith understood that snow would somehow have an impact on Lei but he didn't expect his illusion to remind the male of his home. <i>He seems happy about it.</i> Deith understood, but only to an extent. After all, he only did experience a warm and welcoming home for a really short period of time. Such a thing was just like a distant dream for him.

He moved his arm so that he could hold Lei's hand, instead of Lei having to hold on to him. "We're the only two who can experience this right now. I'm glad you like it," he said. "But, I need to take you back to reality fast." He let go, and snapped his fingers again, and everything seemed to do a rewind as it goes back to being the kitchen again. Deith was still smiling, but with an apologetic look. "It's risky to leave the stove and toaster unattended," he reasoned.

Lei's gentle smiles were comforting, Deith was quite surprised it made him feel a fluttering in his chest. Kind of like...

<i>No. Just no.</i>

Deith turned away and prepared another batch of toast. The fluttering was followed by a slight and prickly pain. Lei had too much resemblance with his dearest, and he wasn't ready for that kind of bullshit. He did not like the fluttering.

It was a good thing the tune Lei was making was unfamiliar to him, because otherwise there would be something else to be added to the list.

"That's quite a beautiful tune..."