Hmmm....
Andre is sitting backward on his chair and starting forward.
"What did you say?!"
"Yes! It's so big!"
Hmmm.....
He leaned forward and joined his hands in some pose.
"Hey hey are you fighting?" Shiki is trying to sort out fighting between those two boys meanwhile Cia is shaking every box and trying to recognise which one contains what?
"Did you guess?"
"Can't. Not much sound." She said to Crystella.
"It's a good thing otherwise it will break."
"Is it something of glass?" She shook it again but couldn't understand.
"Why not just open it now? It's already night." Ark said from behind while tossing popcorn in his mouth.
Finally Andre stood up and decided to step forward.... And that's it?
Hmmm....
Cia looked back at him, "Did something happened Papa?"
Hmmm....
How? How does she have uh how many of them again? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Five friends? I thought Ark and Crystalla are her only friends. But wait. Those two idiots seem to be all by themselves. What are their names again?
"Ok kids. Sit around the tables now, I'll put up food."
"Let me help them." Antonio came forward as if it's some kind of honor.
"Hm? Ok."
They both started putting out food and decorating on the table.
"Grill is ready, how many of you wants Tichela?"
"Me!"
"Me too!"
"Don't know what's that but I'm up for it!"
Looking at these children, thymey aren't much aware of customs here huh?
"Tichela is a supporting recipe to eat with dinner." I don't think they will get it, let's just make it first."
"I know. It's my favourite food!" Shiki looked at Andre excitedly.
Hm? He finally shown few more expressions. Heh. Good.
Cia came forward again and clapped her hands. "Everyone! I want to show something else I made!" She said enthusiastically.
Shiki made a confused face and shrugged it off but then Hailing came, stood beside him.
"Big brother, don't underestimate this situation."
"Hm? What possibly be of my interest between you guys?"
"You don't wanna know what they have got."
"What? There's no–"
Suddenly whole garden lit up. No lights no wires. It all became like some park.
"Huh? Projection?" Shiki made another confused face and Cia couldn't stand it.
"Yes, It's projection"
"You made these designs?"
Everything present in the area got defferent lightning shapes on it shinning, perfectly balanced with the environment. Normally with projector alone this is not possible because it cannot show it on every angle.
"What is all this?"
"Hmph!! I made the layout of whole garden and potential changes in it. So it can detect and project perfectly aligned lightning designs!"
I don't know what's she saying but it's good looking. Well done my angel, you made something that I found useful. Otherthan that cleaner everything else was just advanced toys.
Andre just smiled thinking that and kept making Tichela.
"So uh it's just projector right?" Shiki is really looking it.
"No, or atleast I'd say many projectors."
She looked around at those who are confused looking at her then there's Ark who is enjoying the view.
"It's all lasers right?"
Ark said while looking at a plant leaf.
"Uh yes. It's all interactions between lasers projected from different angels."
"You know how dangerous this is?"
"And I know how imperfect it is if you stay silent!"
"Eh?"
No matter the angel and distance, lasers still can be interrupted.
"It's still in work so I made the previous version."
"Figured."
Ark stood up and went to Andre instead, "is this Tichela?"
"Yes."
"Looks like someone's meat."
"Yes, it's derived from that. You can have it in 15 more minutes."
He kept looking at sizzling food on the grill, for another 5 minutes while Cia kept fixing her lightning and eventually left it as it is.
"Aren't you gonna play with us Ark?" Shiki came to the grill as well.
"No. I'm getting hungry. What's Cia doing?"
"Well uhh...." He looked back.
Hailing is trying to balance the cleaner bol on his foot while standing on Andre's chair. CIA got permission for this drama.
"Look! I've got it!" Hailing said excitedly naming his own record.
"Damn bro" one of those 2 said.
"Bro?"
"Oh I heard that from some big boys you were talking to."
For some reason, Hailing got some sweat on back of his neck. "Who exactly?"
"Ok boys and girls come to the tables! We'll serve the cake now." Andre said will a smile, everyone looked at him, totally bored out.
"Aww, don't be bored. I wasn't really ready today, tommarow we all will go to a really good cafe I know."
Andre said will a weird face and instantly got Cia's disgust.
You never change papa.
Everyone came to the table. Andre started serving Tichela and cake in the middle of the table. Shiki helped as well.
"Antonio."
Then Antonio nodded and stretched a string. Suddenly with few suing sounds, firecrackers started.
"ON YOUR ROOF?!!" Ark is flabbergasted by the sight as the rocket kept going up from their roof. This is another thing Cia made and Andre fixed on the top.
The sky instantly got filled with multiple bright colors.
A circle,
a heart,
few other childish shapes,
and at last a cartoonish face of Cia.
"Ok my angel, cut the cake, everyone is really hungry for that." He gave her a wooden knife.
"Ok!"
As blowed the candles and starred cutting cake, everyone sand the song of birthday and suddenly cleaner got up to the table.
"Eh?"
"It can climb?"
"What's he gonna? Clean the message?"
"I don't know right?"
"Hey hey get down! Get down!" Cia and Crystella tried to stop the thing that is now taking the disposal plates.
"Trash!"
"No dammit, that thing got my food–"
At last, after 10 minutes of chase, it's battery died.
"Oh is this the remote?" Ark said while showing a tiny remote in his hand. "It has been here all the time."
"...." Cia looked at him with the most brilliant grudge of the eternal rage.
"Eh? Cia?"
....
"Happy birthday Cia."
"Thankyou."
"Happy birthday Cia."
"Thankyou."
"Sniffs."
Ark got a bump over his head.
Then Andre grabbed a mic. "Ok listen children. I will celebrate her birthday tommarow too and everyone can come with us. Not just cafe, maybe Karda zoo again? Not that would be too much. Anyways, tommarow blah blah blah ...."
"Whaaaat? Really?"
"Yeah it has big teeth like some wolf."
"Woah."
"Yeah and they drink blood!"
"Vampires are cool."
"What's so cool about drinking blood?"
"Well, it helps them getting healed and increasing life years!"
"Will it work for us?"
"Are you a vampire?"
"Well I have got good canine teeth, see."
....
"Listen here brats, I'm saying something!!!" Andre screamed in the mic, making it go numb on backside.
"Sighs.... Ok children don't care much about speeches."
"We do. But Vampires are more important."
Vampires? Oh them. Those have extinct according to books. Only their descendants as ghouls exist. Though never seen one.
He looked at the children playing around and eating his cooking, he can get a feeling of a complete family for a while.
I planned two children with her....
Nevermind.
"Ok everyone, finish cake and Tichela quickly. Dinner is coming up. Antonio!"
"Yeah coming to help out."
....
And it kept going till late 8 pm.
"Ha.... Uncle Antonio, you are looking double."
Ark is in Antonio's hands who is taking him and Hailing into the car.
"That was water Mr. Ark. Are planning to practice for real drinks?"
"Eh? no! no!"
"Anyways. And Antonio take others too. It's late."
"Yes. Hm?"
Suddenly a guard came. "Is there someone called Crystella? Her mother is waiting on the main gate of the society."
"Yeah she's here. Little girl now you can go."
"Coming!"
Snap!
She took one more photo with Cia and then went with the guard. Antonio took those two friends of Ark with him.
....
Everyone is gone.
"Ahhhhhh!!!"
Hm? What happened now?
Andre looked back to Cia. She is standing stunned, looking at her gift boxes.
"What's up?"
"It's....
It....
It's a freaking design of advanced propulsion miniature?!! Ark you are the best! Eh another gift?"
Freaking? Propulsion? What is that?
"Oh this one is...."
Her eyes shone brighter than ever.
What's in next box? Is it even more better that that freaking thing?
Hm? A table robot body?