Honō: “A… date?”

Ross: “Yeah, unless you won’t like to...”

Honō: “Nonono! I would love to! It’s just you were too sudden, you caught me off-guard!”

Ross: “Then should we get going?”

Honō: “If you want to.”

Ross: “Then let’s go!” She says with a smile.

Honō: “O-okay” He says, blushed.

After going into the town, Ross enters into a store dragging Honō in, there Honō notices that it’s a jewelry store, he then gets dragged by Ross to look at some collars, when looking around, Ross takes two collars. The first one’s chain was made of silver and had a ruby encrusted in the shape of a heart, the other one has a gold chain and some emblems decorate an emerald in the center.

Ross: “Which one do you think it’s cuter?”

Honō: “The red one.”

Ross: “Ok. Hey look! There’s another one that looks exactly like this one!”

Honō: “Neat. Now we can have matched necklaces.”

Ross: “Yeah!”

After getting the necklaces, Ross dragged Honō to a restaurant.

Waiter: “Welcome, please take a seat. We will serve you right away!”

Ross: “Thanks! Let’s go Honō.” She says while still dragging Honō.

Honō: “Alright alright, but please! stop dragging me!” He says in a tired tone.

Ross and Honō then sit in a table for two, the waiter then hands the menu and leaves.

Ross: “So what are you choosing?”

Honō: “First I have to figure out what I am reading right now.” He says looking at the menu.

Ross: “How can you perfectly speak Bruraic yet you can’t read it?”

Honō: “Hey! It’s not my fault that Bruraic and Japanese are spoken the same!”

Ross: “At least you understand the writing?”

Honō: “Only the idea of the sentence.”

Ross: “And have you already figured out what you want?”

Honō: “I already figured it out, but I don’t know what to choose...”

Ross: “You want me to choose for you?”

Honō: “Yes please!”

Ross then calls a waiter and orders a salad with a rare steak.

Honō: “A balanced meal I see.”

Ross: “Indeed.”

After eating the dish, Honō then starts speaking.

Honō: “You told me to go in a date with you, yet you haven’t told me the reason. May I ask why you invited me so suddenly?” He says while taking a sip of his wine.

Ross: “Well, I-I just wanted to...”

Honō: “To?”

Ross: “I just wanted to tell you that I...”

Honō: “What?”

Ross: “I wanted to tell you that, I love you-!”

???: “NO ONE MOVE FROM YOUR PLACE!”

Breaking the door, a group of bandits entered the restaurant.

Bandit 1: “Give us everything valuable that you have and we won’t harm you!”

Everyone went silent. Then the bandits started speaking again.

Bandit 1: “I said… GIVE US EVERYTHING THAT YOU HAVE!” He says while grabbing a woman's arm.

Gentlemen 1: “Get your hands off my wife!”

Bandit 2: “You should be more careful to who are you talking to.” He says while pointing a knife to him.

In that moment, Honō stood up his chair with the glass of wine on his hand, then he extended his arm and pointed his finger at him.

Honō: “*sigh* you couldn't choose a worse moment to do this could you?”

Bandit 1: “And who the hell are you?”

Honō: “Heh, that’s a catchy question, but do you really care about who I am? Because if I tell you that, you would piss your pants and bow to me.”

Ross: “Honō, what do you think you’re doing?”

Honō then turns to Ross with a determined look.

Honō: “I can’t stand when people interrupt my meal and start harassing innocent people.”

He then has a sip of his glass of wine and yells at the bandits.

Honō: “AND THOSE WHO DARE TO DISRESPECT ME BETTER BE WILLING TO PAY THE PRICE!”

Bandit 1: “Bandit 2, I let you do the work.”

Bandit 2: “Heh, with pleasure.”

Bandit 2 then starts running towards Honō with a knife, Honō then crouches and makes bandit 2 stumble. he then stands up again and takes another sip of his wine and starts to look stressed.

Honō: “I’m getting a feel of Deja Vu...”

Bandit 2: “You bastard, let’s see if you can dodge this!”

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Bandit 2 then throws his knife at Honō, Honō then turns to him and extends his arm, he then catches the knife in mid-air, he looks at the knife and takes another sip of his glass of wine.

Honō: “Yup, totally a Deja Vu.”

Bandit 1: “You should be more aware of your surroundings.” He says while sneaking behind Honō.

Honō then looks back and punches him in the nose.

Honō: “Why thanks for revealing your “sneak” attack.” He says in a sarcastic tone and looking irritated.

Ross: “Honō, can you please not damage the place too badly?”

Honō: “Well, in that case you just limited my available actions drastically. *sips glass of wine.* Damn, this is some serious gourmet shit.”

Bandit 2: “Don’t get too cocky you idiot.” He says while grabbing Honō’s shoulder.

Honō then turns immediately and punches him in the face, breaking his nose. He then starts speaking menacingly.

Honō: “Do not touch my shoulder you scum.”

Bandit 2: “B-bastard! You broke my nose!”

Honō: “Any moment now.”

Bandit 2: “What?”

Honō: “3, 2, 1… and Knockout.” He says while doing the countdown with the hand holding the knife.

Bandit 2: “What are you talking about-” He then faints.

Bandit 1: “What did you do to him!?” he says terrified.

Honō: “Well you see, it’s called punching someone.”

Bandit 1: “What kind of ability is that?”

Honō: “I call it Knockout Countdown, and I think his name describes exactly what it does.”

Bandit 1: “Crap, I didn’t think I would have to use this, but I guess the boss would be angry if I don’t finish this.”

Honō: “Ha! And what would you be able to do?” He says while extending his arms, spilling the remaining wine in the cup.

Honō: “...I just spilled the wine didn’t I?”

Ross: “Yup.”

Honō: “...fuck...” he says while blocking his face with his wrist.

Bandit 1: “Just die already!” He says while sprinting towards Honō.

Honō: “SHUT UP ALREADY!” Honō says while throwing the empty glass to the bandit.

Honō throwed the glass so hard that it broke on the bandit face and the fragments nailed in his skin.

Bandit 1: “*Screams in agony*”

Honō: “Oh shiet.”

And it was in this moment that Honō knew, he fucked up.

Honō: “Alright Ross, pay for the meal cuz we are getting out of here.”

Ross: “Already on it,*sigh* Why did this had to happen on this day?” She says while giving the pay to a waiter.

Honō: “...”

Gentlemen 1: “I thank you from the bottom of my heart for protecting my wife.”

Honō: “Oh, yeah, totally.” He says, hiding the fact he totally forgot about him and her wife.

Honō: “Au revoir! I hope to not meet you in this circumstances ever again.”

After that Honō and Ross went out of the restaurant at a quick step.

Ross: “*sigh* I’m sorry that I took you to that place...”

Honō: “... I am sorry too, I ruined the date.” He says while scratching his head.

Ross: “No, don’t be, I was selfish to take you there without telling you.”

Honō: “...”

He looks at Ross and gets an idea.

Honō: “I’ll arrive first at the mansion, alright?”

Ross: “Yeah. You get there first.”

Honō then starts sprinting, after two minutes he arrives at the mansion and enters in a rush. Lancer comes and asks Honō what’s the matter, after regaining his breath, Honō told him the plan. Lancer then smiles and tells the plan to the maids, then heads to the kitchen and orders the chefs about what’s happening, while Lancer explains the plan, Honō heads towards his room, goes into the bathroom (yup, that room has a personal bathroom.) and brushes his teeth, after that he goes to the bedroom again and starts looking in the cabinets. He then takes a small blue box and then changes his clothes. After some time, Ross finally arrived at the mansion, and was received with a surprise, everything was lighted up, she looked around her and then saw Honō standing at the top of the stairs, he was wearing a red suit with a golden shirt with a blue striped tie, he then casually approached Ross and extended his hand to her, she grabbed it and Honō then guided her to the second dining room, this one was much smaller than the main one, but still had it’s charm, in the middle there was a table with only two chairs, a candle was in the middle of the table, giving a soft light, in the table there is a pair of exquisite dishes, two glasses and a bottle of wine.

Honō: “Shall we continue our date where we left it?”

Ross: “Y-yes...” She says, still in shock.

After eating, Honō then took the bottle of wine and filled the two glasses, he then took his cup and started speaking with Ross.

Honō: “So, what do you wanted to tell me in the restaurant?” He says while taking a sip of wine.

Ross: “The thing that I wanted to tell you... ” She starts blushing, embarrassed with just the thought of telling Honō what her feelings are towards him, maybe in another time,but she asks herself if that time will ever present itself, she should tell her how she feels in this moment, because right there, right in that moment, that was the best place she could propose to him. She then stands up and starts talking.

Ross: “Honō, I...I love you!”

Honō stays silent while Ross is still talking.

Ross: “From the first time I saw you, I fell in love with you, I didn’t wanted to tell you because I did not knew if it was because you saved me, I couldn’t tell you because I couldn’t bear to be wrong about this feelings, but after all the things we have done, after I knew you, lived with you, worked with you, helped you, learned with you! laughed with you! smiled with you! eated with you! talked, cooked, cleaned, read, discussed, traveled, all of these things with you! I have realized that this feeling is not anything but love! love for you! love for who you are, love for what you are, I love everything about you!”

Honō then takes his glass and puts it in the table, he then looks at Ross, with tears in his eyes and a smile in his face.

Honō: “With this heart of mine, I have always sealed my emotions, reading the mood, not getting too attached to anyone, just growing attached to some people, yet I grew sick and tired of not being able to be myself, when I arrived at this world, I opened my heart after a long time, and just after meeting you, I could not keep myself from feeling again.” He started shedding some tears while speaking.

Honō: “I was in love with you, yet I couldn’t tell you, after opening my heart, I was afraid that it would be hurted, so I kept my love tied and hidden, even when it burned my chest, but thanks to you, I can open up once again and tell you this, Ross Oswald, I love you! With all my heart, I love you!”

Then Honō and Ross stood up the table and hugged, without wanting to let go of the other, Honō then takes out from his pocket the blue box and gives it to Ross. Inside it there was a pair of earrings the shapes where those of stars and planets.

Honō: “I made this earrings as a gift for you, now i’m finally able to give them to you.”

Ross: “I also have a gift for you Honō.” She says while smiling.

Honō: “Oh, and what is it?”

Ross then grabs Honō from his suit and kisses him. After finishing, Ross looks at Honō.

Ross: “So, what do you think about your gift?”

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Ross: “Honō, are you ok?”

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Honō: “Alright, that caught me off guard.”

Ross: “So, what do you think of it?”

Honō: “Truly the best gift that I have received.”

Ross: “Let’s go to the living room.”

Honō: “Roger that.” He says while smiling.

A thing about the second living room is that to enter there you need to pass through the living room, after entering into the living room, he sees Uketsuke and Nick sitting in the couch. Honō looks at both of them.

Honō: “How much did you heard?”

Uketsuke: “Everything.” She says while smiling.

Nick: “Truly a delight to see.”

Uketsuke: “Indeed.”

Honō: “Ross, follow me.”

Ross: “Where are we going?”

Honō: “To the bedroom, I forgot I was tired after everything that happened today.”

Ross: “Oh yeah… right...”

Honō: “By the way.”

Ross: “What?”

Honō then grabs Ross from her waist and gives her a kiss, after that he chuckled.

Honō: “Now we are even.”

Ross: “T-That’s not fair.” She says, turning red.

As he princess carries Ross to the bedroom, Honō starts talking to himself.

How much will it take before shit hits the fan? Was an idea that rounded the young man’s head, but he was decided to get the best of every good moments that remained for him, after entering to the bedroom, well...

...I will leave what happened next to your imagination.