Stardus decided not to wait any longer after hearing his words of advice.
Right.
In order to get closer, she had to be a little more reckless.
That's why she had co to this prison, to this cell with Egostic, and decided to stay by his side.
Only because she wanted to be close to him. Only because she wanted to be close to him. She had no other intention.
But
"Black heart? To , Stardus is a hero, a hero in my own archaic way. Nothing more, nothing less."
""
How co?
That thing he said. That he has no black heart.
A statent that clearly has nothing to do with her.
Why does he want to turn it around so badly?
"In the first place, I never saw Stardus as a woman, not even for a mont-"
The mont she said it, she acted on impulse.
-Snap.
She yanked Egostic out of his chair and toppled him over onto the bed where she was lying.
One mont she was lying on the bed, leaning back against him, the next she was in his arms.
Her arms outstretched beside his head, their faces so close they could feel each other's breath.
She smiled, and turned to Egostic.
"So now, you don't see as a woman?"
and imdiately regretted it.
Wait, Haru, you're being too pushy! What will he think of !
However, she was still a little embarrassed.
".."
Those thoughts were washed away when she saw the slightly flushed face of the most embarrassed she'd ever seen him.
She never saw him look so flustered before, always smirking and breezing through any situation.
She forgot that she was blushing just as much, and smiled cheerfully at him.
-Flick.
"Huh?"
The next mont, her hand was grabbed and her arm was yanked away.
She didn't react, and when she ca to her senses she was lying at the foot of the bed with her right hand being held.
Above her, a red-faced Egostic was looking down at her.
"So, what I'm saying is, if you keep provoking , this is what might happen."
""
The fluffy sheets of the bed supported her back as she looked up at Egostic directly above her.
They'd shifted up and down, but they were still so close that their breaths touched.
Hot.
Stardus felt her own heart beat loudly.
-Pounding. Pounding. Pounding. Pounding.
Ouch.
She, the hero, was crushed by the villain in bed, in a state that would make a normal hero feel ashad.
Why is her heart pounding?
And
The difference in strength between her and him is significant.
It should be easy to escape from his embrace if she were to use her strength.
Why doesn't she want to?
And, again
Why?
""
Maybe this isn't so bad after all.
With a face even redder than before looking up at Egostic, whose cheeks were equally red she swallowed her embarrassnt and smiled tauntingly at him.
"Well? I don't mind, I guess. Do whatever you want."
She was going to go all the way and even if she didn't know where that end was.
What the hell, how did this happen?
-Flick.
-Flick.
~On a bed in a prison cell~
On a bed that was sohow too big and white to be a prison bed, I was looking down at Stardus lying beneath .
"So, what I'm saying is, if you keep provoking , this is what might happen."
I looked down at her, who was looking up at from beneath with a deep red face.
I, for once, said sothing like that, trying to hide my embarrassnt.
..'
No, it was just an impulsive thing I did in the mont when I saw her looking down at smiling smugly from above .
Sohow, things seed to have gotten even weirder.
".."
Our bodies were intertwined, probably due to our hasty movents.
I tried to ignore her body, which was almost touching my chest, and her soft touch on my calloused right hand.
I looked down at Stardus, who was lying on her back, red-faced and sobbing slightly in embarrassnt.
Oh, my God.
God, why are you putting through this?
I said an angry prayer to the gods who had sent here, and did my best not to look at Stardus beneath .
I'm a man, too.
I an, when things get this bad, my patience gets pretty thin. I an, when the person I like more than anyone else is doing this to , and I can feel every curve of her body through her thin clothes.
The good news is, given the difference in strength between Stardus and , this will be over soon enough. She'll kick , shove , whatever, and it'll hurt for a whilebut it'll put an end to this weird situation.
Just as I was thinking that, I heard an unbelievable voice in my ear.
"Well? I don't feel like anything. Do whatever you want."
Instead of running away, she brazenly said that.
Except, of course, that she was still looking up at , her face still bright red.
""
Seeing her say that from beneath I glanced at my wrist for a mont, and then muttered with a defeated sigh.
"Can you not regret it?"
And with that she was silent for a mont.
Her cheerfulness was gone.
With a flushed face, she avoided my eyes and muttered to in a low voice, barely above a whisper.
"I told you then."
"Egotistic, if it's youI'm fine."
And the mont I heard those words all sorts of thoughts and emotions swirled, rising and falling to the surface in my heart.
Just like that, I was.
Just like that, she and I.
We were both flushed, our faces close enough to touch, and I looked down into her watery blue eyes.
In that strange atmosphere suddenly, I heard a cold chanical sound.
[It's al ti].
"?"
Along with those words, the sound of sothing clicking could be heard from the other side of the room.
"Haha. It's already alti, so let's eat-"
I was about to pull myself up and escape when my savior appeared just in ti but a pair of arms were behind my back, holding in a hug.
And just like that, I collapsed on top of her, embraced again by Stardus as I rose to my feet.
That's how I ended up burying my head in the pillowcase next to her head, panicking.
Underneath , she was now fully embracing , our bodies overlapping.
Still holding , she whispered in my ear.
"Why? You said you didn't think much of it anyway."
"Then."
"Co on, let's do this a little longer."
"."
And just like that I stayed in her arms for a while.
What the hell was Stardus thinking?
I still couldn't understand why she was doing this.
""
Still, Stardus' arms were soft and warm.
And for a mont. Hugging each other.
I don't know.
It will be what it will be.
******
After a while.
"Thank you."
The al was delivered via so sort of small elevator, and we were seated at the table, facing each other, eating.
The al was pasta, perfectly plated.
..'
No matter how you look at it, isn't this too fancy for prison food?
I questioned that for a mont, but decided that the people of Carqueas must have known that Stardus was here, so I let it go.
Stardus in front of nodded.
"Mmm. Delicious."
She was enjoying her pasta as if nothing had happened.
"What are you looking at?"
Seeing that I was staring at her blankly, she replied with a stern look.
She turned her head away excitedly, but her still reddened ears were evidence that what had happened earlier was real.
After a mont of silent contemplation, I sighed, picked up my fork, and muttered.
"I don't know what the hell Stardus was thinking."
As I said that she smiles as she rolls the pasta around her fork.
"It's just. You said you didn't think anything of , so I tested you."
"No, no matter how you say it Ha. No."
I replied, putting the pasta in my mouth as well. It tasted good.
'
I was about to ask if the other villains were doing this, but then I rembered that Stardus had said it was okay if it was , and I felt even more sour. What the hell.
Now that I think about it, I've got the problem of catching the Wish Granter, and it's giving a headache to think about her.
Yeah, but I still have a week to spare.
I had said that it would take a week to catch him, so I had that much ti.
The problem is.
In other words, I'd be stuck with her for a week.
"Huh? Why?"
She looked up at with her blue eyes, her shiny blond hair flowing, and chewed on her pasta in a ssy ss.
I sighed again, involuntarily.
A week with her, I wondered if I could survive.
I wasn't sure.
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