Warning: Undertone Yuri which will never be a genre of this novel. Please read at your own risk.
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“Asagao…”
“H-Higan…”
Crap! Crap! Crap! Crap! Crap!
I need to think of something!
Plan A? Plan B? Plan C?
There are no such things as plans!
Why am I even panicking like I am someone caught cheating?! There is no need to feel guilty at the first place! But I damn swear being caught like this creates a tension between the culprits and the victims!
I whisper to the maid that’s leaning in my precious spot.
“Milin! Milin! Please wake up!”
“Zzz…”
“V-Violetta-nee is here!”
“Zzz…”
“…”
“Oh look, its Priscilla-san too.”
“WAH?! ARGABLBIYYBLFUY?!”
“…”
“Where’s Priscilla-san?!”
“…”
“…”
“You were pretending to be asleep?”
“Tee-hee!~ Thanks for the meal!~”
…
“Violetta-nee, please drag her away.”
“I shall.”
Violetta-nee drags Milin away by pinching her in the ear. As she drags her away, Milin’s voice echoes resound from the hallway and the room is envelope in silence.
I stand up from my bed and try to sense where’s Higan is. I feel embarrass she has to see me that way but I feel happy that she if fine now! I don’t know what face she is making right now though so I am kind of scared.
“Higan… I’m glad… that you are fine…”
“…”
“Higan?”
“…”
“H-Higan… won’t you say something?”
“…”
“At least… let me feel you…”
“Asagao…”
“Higan!”
I was really scared there for a moment. She isn’t even talking at all. I’m glad I was able to hear her voice again!
My heart surges with relief as I know that she is also here to visit me.
“Higan… I…”
“Asagao, are you fine? Are you hurting anywhere?”
“No. I’m all fine now. Even though I am temporarily blind, I am perfectly in a good condition, albeit, a little tired.”
“I see. Then it’s fine.”
“Higan?”
I can feel her approaching me. I ready myself as she usually hugs me with delight. It was comfortable sensation as someone with almost the same size hugs me. I embraced myself for her tight hug when suddenly…
SLAP
Eh?
There’s a burning sensation at my left cheek. I was dumbfounded and was lost for words. I didn’t expect that at all…
I turn to look as Higan again and talks.
“H-Higan?”
SLAP
This time, she slaps my right cheek. Both of my cheeks are in dull pain right now. I really don’t mind any pain anymore from an enemy, but… to be slap by someone you care about… there must be a reason behind it…
“Higan, why…”
SLAP
“Wai-!”
SLAP
“That hurts, Higa-!”
SLAP
“Sto-!”
SLAP
“M-my cheeks are… swelling…”
SLAP
“Higan! I had en--!”
SLAP
SLAP
SLAP
SLAP
SLAP
She kept slapping me even if I protests. It seriously hurts but I don’t feel like blocking them too, I just let it be. She slaps me left and right. Because of the intense pain, I am tearing up a little.
Why?
I… have to say something…
SLAP
“I..I get it Higan! I…I’m sorry…”
“…”
“I’m sorry for ditching you and Alstroe-nee!”
“…”
“I’m sorry for not saying anything!”
“Are you… really sorry?”
“Yes, I am.”
That’s all the reason I can think up of why Higan is mad at me. I just did it for them, for their sake and mine. I don’t want them to hate me or anything upon knowing the ugly truth about me.
“So, Higan…please…”
“You still haven’t still reflected, Asagao.”
“Eh?”
“Do you really think that’s the whole reason I am mad?!”
“But, Higan I…”
“Because of what you did, not only you suffered, but also us, who care for you!”
“I’m sorry for making you worry too.”
“You still don’t know where you should stand…”
“W-what do you even mean?!”
“…You’re getting cheeky Asagao…”
“I-I am not!”
“…”
Higan suddenly leap towards me and grabs the collar of my clothes and lifts me up. When did she become this strong?!
More importantly, why?!
I-I can’t breathe…
She walks towards the direction of my bed and slams me into it. The air in my lungs escape and I try to catch for air when suddenly, Higan straddles at me on the bed and holds both my hand with her own.
“What do you think I am fighting for?!”
“Eh?”
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“I fight and get strong not for my own sake, but for you, for Alstroe-nee and master too!”
“…”
“And the cause of my bravery and passion for it is none other than you Asagao!”
“Higan…”
“Do you really think lowly of me?!”
“No! I don’t think like that!”
As she shouts at me while still pinning my hands against the bed, she was crying. Hear tears falls on my face. I don’t want to say it but there too many people crying… because of me?
I don’t want to think too pretentious like that. As I realized every faults and mistakes that I made, I learned that being too self important and self indulgent is bad.
But I know that these tears are meant for me right now and I can’t talk back because she is totally right.
I feel like these tears are drawn up from the pain Higan experiencing right now.
“You don’t?! Really?!”
“Really!”
“Really? Really?!”
“Really! Really!”
“Really? Really? Really?!”
“Really! Really! Really!”
“But you thought that we would hate you if we know something about you right?!”
“!”
“You really did think lowly of us…”
“I… I am sorry… I… didn’t mean it like that…”
My tears start bursting too as I understand the bottom of her anger towards me.
“Asagao… you are my very first friend together with Alstroe-san. I don’t want to lose you, we wouldn’t want that. You are the person who freed me from my binding of my black and white days, the one who unbound me from the shackles of my own ignorance to this world. I am willing to destroy everything just for you. You are my reason for existence now and I wouldn’t be able to take it if something really bad happens to you. But it upset me the most because the reason you sent us away is because of something trivial and you thought we will hate you because of that!”
“Higan…”
My chest grows hotter as her words pierces right through me. The feeling of both glad and regret are mixing. I already know that fact. But I didn’t even consider their feelings when I made the decision of sending them away while they suffering from the effect of our last battle. I have not considered the pain that I would incur to them and its severity.
I may have, but thought something more deeply about it and it goes totally wrong.
“I like you. I want to be with you. It’s not because of how you appear to me but on how you have taken my hand to a new world that’s beyond me.”
She suddenly lays her forehead onto mine. As our foreheads meets, our noses touches, tears from hers and mine mixes at my cheeks as we still continue to cry. Her grip to my hand loosens. I can feel her breathing close to me and I know that she can feel mine too.
“Asagao…”
“Higan… so you are okay if I told you that I was previously a twenty years old man?”
“Fufu. Don’t be silly. If told you that my mother is several hundred years old and still look young. If I apply the same logic to you, it doesn’t really make any difference you know. Twenty, thirty, forty, or whatever, it doesn’t really matter now to me how old you are.”
“I don’t know how Izuna-san will feel about that…”
“What’s important is that you should know the severity of your crimes and you should know that it won’t go unpunished.”
Wait… The conversation feels like going in a bad turn.
“Eh?”
“You said you were a man too previously right?”
“Y-yes…”
“And… that person earlier… was feasting… under here…”
“Eh?”
“I should thoroughly inspect it and cleanse it.”
“EH?!”
Things gets weird!
Higan’s hand let go of my left hand just to be grab by her other hand. She is now pinning both of my hands with a single hand of hers.
Strong!
I can’t pull out my hands from her grip.
And her hand is slowly creeping onto my private place.
Hey!
She inserts her hand into my pajama and instantly lands on that spot!
“AHH!~”
“Fufu..”
“S-stop it…Ahh!~ Higan!”
“No.”
Seriously!
The door suddenly opens. It seems their timing to intrude is great. Too great…
“Who… is this little fox… girl?”
“Ah,…it’s one of my disciple…”
Of all people, it should be Fon-nii and master…
“Hey… Human king… your sister is being assaulted… should you do something about it?”
“…Tell me about it… aren’t you their master? As if I can really do something…”
“That idiot fox of a disciple of mine is one of the hardest people for me to deal with…”
“…”
“…”
The door closes…
HEY!
Did they just escape?!
They didn’t even think of dispersing this situation!
“Don’t worry Asagao, it’s a joke.”
“You and your goddamn jokes!”
Seriously!