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Spanner and Lachesis had been busy with helping Kyoka decorate. As they went to work the normal looking apartment began to be covered with cutesy Halloween décor that Kyoka acquired from Daiso earlier. Cute pumpkin lights were hung across the walls, little statues of skeletons and black cats placed about, and a festive tablecloth over the table just to name a few.
Unsurprisingly Kyoka was preparing for the Halloween party that she had offered to hold for everyone at the last minute. Little over an hour was left until they all would begin to show up.
This was going to be Lachesis’ first ever time celebrating this holiday. So it was no wonder Kyoka wanted to go all out.
Lachesis had heard about Halloween in the past, moreso the history of how it developed in western countries. But there was never a need to celebrate it until now.
She wasn’t against the idea of joining in the festivities. Another part of becoming human was partaking in these events. Doing so would help her get one step closer to the freedom she wanted to achieve. Even though Lachesis was open to celebrating with everyone else, she wasn’t entirely sure what to exactly do. This was a whole new world for her.
Kyoka had told her not to worry and just enjoy herself. How Halloween, and especially a get-together like this wasn’t something to overthink. So for the time being she’d give that approach a try.
Spanner brought out the bowls of various candies. Chocolates, gummies, hard candies—it was a whole array of colorful sweet treats. Lachesis could only imagine just how packed Kyoka’s bags were back at the store.
He began to walk to his room, “I’ll go get dressed, Kyoka-san.” Sounding very matter-of-fact. Spanner wasn’t enthused about getting in costume. Surely it was one more item to add to the list of what he saw as a ridiculous joke.
Despite this, he would deal with wearing one for Kyoka.
“Alright!” Kyoka grinned and gave a thumbs up. She was already dressed as a mad scientist. Her outfit was largely the same. But she had a white lab coat on, rubber gloves, as well as some wild looking circular glasses. “Can’t wait to see my Frankenstein’s monster!” She was positively beaming.
Spanner only sighed with a wry smile before closing the door.
Kyoka moved over to Lachesis, looking up and down at her thoughtfully. “Lache-chan… Now that I think about it, you’re already dressed pretty well for this.” She came closer and patted her shoulder. “You kinda look like a Gothic maiden!”
Unable to keep it together, Lachesis couldn’t help but laugh at that notion. Her haughty laugh filled the air of the entire room, and Spanner certainly would be able to hear in the next room over.
Kyoka simply pouted in response. In a rather cute way too, it made Lachesis want to give her a kiss.
Perhaps later.
“What? I’m not wrong!” Deciding to change the subject, she went over to the candy bowls. “Either way. Try some of this before the others get here. I know they'll be popular.” Passing over a wrapped candy to Lachesis.
She examined it. It was called a “kitkat”. This wasn’t her first time actually seeing one of these. Kitkats were in a lot of stores, in a variety of flavors too. The one for this was “pumpkin pudding”. She knew pumpkin was a food humans ate as well as using for decoration.
Though this would be her first time actually tasting pumpkin. And it combined with pudding of all things sounded interesting…
Unwrapping it, she popped it into her mouth and her eyes widened in surprise. It tasted sweet, but had a tiny hint of spices to it. Also possessing an overtone of chocolate as well alongside the pumpkin flavor. This was actually quite good.
Kyoka chuckled before picking up one for herself. “You don’t have to put the whole thing all in at once.” She snapped the kitkat in half. “You’re meant to break it in two, and enjoy each bar one at a time.”
“Well how was I supposed to know that?” Lachesis said with a smirk.
She scratched her head. “…True. Got me there.”
Lachesis leaned over and gave Kyoka a quick kiss. Enjoying the flavor of that kitkat across her lips, which felt so much more addictive when tasting it this way. She could get used to this.
Kyoka smiled and gently kissing her back. She then rested her hand on her chin, gleefully gazing at Lachesis with a dreamy smile. “Was it good?”
“Mhm.” Lachesis winked. “Very good.” Directing her eyes to the other bowls of candy next.
All of this raised the question, what were the other ones like? Lachesis felt her curiosity start to bubble up. Feeling quite excited at the prospect. And more importantly: How would they taste while kissing Kyoka?
They had about an hour, and Spanner was still out of the room… It was time for a little experiment before the party would start.