Black Mage of Phantasm

SotF Chapter 3 Snippet #1

Added 2023-05-07 05:20:45 +0000 UTC

Chapter 3: Troubles of a Shooting Star

It took five minutes to get to the ice cream stand, a little cart called "Eye Scream Cones (Now With Less Eyes!)" that had a somewhat disturbing picture of a sentient street cone with a massive eye on its face, screaming as the mouth of a person took a bite out of its head, what looked like mint chocolate "blood" leaking from its massive wound.

The man that owned the shop had been dressed in a pale yellow, American ice-cream uniform, had a fake glass eye, and had a smile that stretched from the ends of his face and showed off all his teeth. It was actually rather intense, and Yugi did not miss how said smile seemed to twitch every now and then. He tried his best to keep his discomfort from showing as he bought the ice cream for both Mabel and himself, after Mabel insisted he buy something for himself since "eating overly sweet deserts with friends is a blast!"

Now, sitting on a nearby bench, his backpack off his shoulders to his side, travel bag between his knees, Yugi Muto stared as Mabel licked her ice cream. It was something called a "Nether Rainbow", which just looked like a somewhat dark rainbow—he didn't know what flavor, as Mabel had just described it as "nightmarish yet very sweet," so he was just going to assume licorice for now—next to a scoop of strawberry and chocolate.

Yugi had gotten vanilla. Which was a perfectly respectable flavor. Mabel had even said so.

...It was probably a bad sign he sounded so defensive of his choice even in his own mind.