"Tell me about it."

"Good, good...~"

She buries her face into Neptune's neck, rapidly planting kisses while gently nudging the toe of her boot into her leg.

She pats Neptune's head to calm her down a tad.

"Just to check – you okay with this, yeah?"

She flips the two of them around and pins Neptune to the sofa, one knee pressing into her leg.

"Cutie~"

Stroking her cheek with her thumb.

"Mmm? Does someone like that?~"

Squiiish~

She casually wraps her legs around the goddess, her boots lightly squishing against her.

"Hmhmhmhm~"

Her expression becomes even more smug.

Astrid receptively pulls Neptune's head directly up against her chest, a covert smirk adorning her expression.

"Yeah, me neither."

She shifts her position a little, allowing for more comfortable cuddling.

"...You know, after this, we should go and get some dessert."

She softly strokes the other girl's back.

They were both botto— oh, uh, yeah. That works too.

Astrid gently squishes Neptune against her body.

"Mmnnh~"

Internal abababa—

"F-Fine, we both are, then!"

"Heheh, cutie."

Another two kisses!

Immediately, she pulls Neptune into a super tight and comfy hug.

"...Thanks.~"

Gentle forehead kiss.

"Mmm... well, you know... being a big sister and a city leader *and* its defender gets stressful sometimes... Sometimes my sister isn't even home."

She awkwardly plays with her own hair, as if she was embarrassed to admit to exhaustion.

"Eheh, yeah, yeah. Everything's been fine."

She just sort of lets herself be pampered, as if she's been waiting for this all day.

"Ahaha— that's a *huge* oversimplification, but pretty much, yeah."

She buries her face into Neptune's hair a little, squeezing her a bit tighter.

She scratches her cheek.

"It comes from my connection with the natural entropic noise in the world – I can see it *as data* and 'refactor' it, so to speak. Basically, I can convert the universe's background noise you never see, and turn it into usable power."

"Mm, not really. I'm quite happily just cuddling."

"Dummy."

She rolls her eyes, sitting down and pulling Neptune onto her lap.

"Fine... maybe I'm cute as well."

She smirks and kisses the other's cheek.

"Mmnnhh..."

She pulls Nep into a comfy hug, rubbing her back softly.

"A-Awaa..."

She stops resisting and leans into it.

She pouts gently. "W-Well, yeah, but that's just 'cos you're the cute one out of us two!"

She giggles softly from the headpats, her cheeks glowing red.

"O-Oi, you're not allowed to fluster me—"

Soft shrug.

"I haven't been up to too much either. More importantly, though, I'm here now."

"Hey, Nep."

Smol kiss to her forehead.

"You look bored."

Oh, hey, how convenient – there she is.

She's now scooping Neptune up into a big hug.

She smirks and pats the child's head.

"You're in a good mood."

Astrid lifts her glasses temporarily and rubs her eyes, yawning softly.

Astrid walks by, stretching her arms, naturally wrapping one of them around her niece.

"Hey, Petal."