Seeing that Liyami really didn’t seem to be faking it, Lavinia asked in disbelief.
“Building sandcastles? You want to play that? Isn’t that a bit…”
Lavinia didn’t finish her sentence, but everyone present except Liyami roughly understood what she meant. Even Kolin was a bit surprised by Liyami’s idea. Liyami showed confusion at this.
“What’s wrong? Is there a problem? Can’t we build sandcastles here?”
Seeing that Liyami really wanted to build sandcastles, after exchanging a glance with Eleanor, Lavinia couldn’t help but say.
“But we came all the way to the beach! How can we just build sandcastles? That’s too… ordinary! What’s the difference from playing with mud as a child?”
Eleanor rarely agreed with Lavinia.
“Right, right! Building sandcastles is really not new to us now! It’s basically no different from playing with mud when we were kids. Haven’t you played enough as a child?”
Lavinia and Eleanor had intended to dismiss Liyami’s idea with these words, but they received an unexpected answer.
“Playing with mud? It seems I really haven’t done anything like that as a child. As far as I can remember, I’ve been raised in the Secret Society’s orphanage. The Secret Society was quite strict about such things; they basically never allowed us to do things that looked dirty—probably because they thought the cleanup afterward would be troublesome. So I really have no experience like that. As for whether I played before I can remember, I don’t know.”
Seeing Liyami unexpectedly concentrate on recalling and explaining, Lavinia and Eleanor, who had been somewhat dissatisfied with building sandcastles, gradually fell silent. Even Kolin didn’t know what to say.
It wasn’t until Liyami asked in a somewhat regretful tone, “Can’t we really build sandcastles first? I really want to try it soon,” that Lavinia and Eleanor finally couldn’t hold out and agreed to Liyami’s proposal. Kolin couldn’t help but smile.
“In that case, I’ll join in too. After all, there’s plenty of time later to experience things like swimming and surfing. This time, let’s try building sandcastles!” Kolin finally announced that Liyami’s proposal had been adopted.
Although Liyami didn’t understand why the two who had opposed her earlier suddenly agreed, she was still happy. After all, she could finally try something she had always wanted to do. For her, this was definitely the best start to the vacation!
But just then, Liyami suddenly thought of something and asked with a puzzled expression.
“So you two, Lavinia and Eleanor, also played with mud when you were kids? I thought beautiful elves and pure saintesses wouldn’t do such things. I didn’t expect you to have more experience than me! That’s amazing!”
As Liyami spoke, she sighed in admiration, which made Lavinia and Eleanor, who had just been sympathizing with her, almost jump. If they hadn’t seen Liyami’s innocent eyes, they would have buried her in the sand.
“Heh, heh, of course! Although other elves really don’t do such things, who am I? I’m the legendary archer Lavinia! Other elves might not have experience, but I definitely do!”
“Right, right! Same here. Although a saintess shouldn’t do such things in principle, to… experience ordinary life, I also have some experience with this!”
By now, Lavinia and Eleanor had no way to lie to Liyami that they had never done such things. So they had to reluctantly admit it.
Liyami was very happy about this. She looked at them with expectant eyes, hoping that these two experienced seniors could teach her, a nearly inexperienced novice.
But unfortunately, in the end, they refused Liyami’s plea on the grounds that the first time must be attempted on her own. This made Liyami feel very regretful.
Just as Liyami was about to invite Kolin to build sandcastles with her, a figure with cute furry ears walked over and asked curiously as she approached.
“What are you guys planning to do? Is there something fun?”
The newcomer was naturally Laura. Although she had been one of the victims of the Sunlight Island Population Disappearance Incident a few days ago, she was fine and quickly recovered, coming out to play like this.
Seeing Laura approach, Liyami warmly invited her to build sandcastles together.
When she heard they were going to build sandcastles, Laura’s eyes instantly lit up. She excitedly hopped over to Liyami and said with great interest.
“Sure, sure! I’ve always wanted to try building sandcastles! Although I played with mud as a child, this is my first time building a castle with sand!”
Hearing this, Liyami immediately became happy. If she had an experienced person like Laura to build with her, they would surely build something great!
Thinking this, Liyami directly pulled Laura into her camp.
Laura naturally had no objection. Although she would have preferred to be with Sir Kolin, since it was her first attempt, she didn’t want to lower his impression of her by building something not good enough, so she agreed to Liyami’s invitation to be partners.
But before starting to build sandcastles, Liyami suddenly asked curiously.
“By the way, why are you alone? Aren’t you always with Xiaolan and Laine? Didn’t you see them? Where did they go?”
As soon as she finished, Liyami noticed Laura’s face suddenly turn ugly, as if she remembered something very unpleasant. This instantly put Liyami on alert.
“What’s wrong? Did something happen again?! Is that Brian still on this island?”
In response to Liyami’s tension, Laura simply shook her head. Under Liyami’s questioning gaze, Laura slowly pointed a finger in a direction.
Following the direction Laura pointed, Liyami saw Laine and Xiaolan standing near a secluded reef.
Just as Liyami was wondering what was going on, she suddenly saw Laine put a necklace with a beautiful shell he had obtained from somewhere around Xiaolan’s neck. This action instantly made Xiaolan’s face flush red, and even Laine looked a bit shy and nervous. No matter how you looked at it, the scene resembled a pair of lovers in the heat of passion, inspiring beautiful hopes.
Of course, that was only from an outsider’s perspective. For those close to them, it was a different story—like for Laura right now.
“Look at them. Is there any room for me to interfere? Right now, I can’t even avoid them fast enough!” Laura said with a gloomy look but a hint of envy in her tone.
Liyami also felt a bit envious seeing this, but since they were in that kind of atmosphere, it was better not to disturb them.
Therefore, without any hesitation, Liyami gave up on inviting Laine and Xiaolan to build sandcastles and instead focused on building her own sandcastle with Laura.
With an experienced person like Laura, they would surely build a beautiful sandcastle!