"I cannot believe…I had to hear these words in my life. Oh man, Kori would have a blast if she ever saw on the receiving end of these words. She always said that I am too emotionally constipated to hold on to things."
Amane laughed out loud but felt a flinch in her chest once the words registered inside her heart.
For the first ti, Amane was allowed to make a ho for the people from her past. But instead of being helpful, it turned out to be sothing that caused her trouble.
Neither Kristia nor lissa knew what to say in this situation. So, they chose to remain quiet. This was their best choice since Amane's mood had soured considerably.
Finally, Kristia broke the mood while he approached the sealed mansion. He placed his hand against the barrier and was instantly rejected by it.
"Looks like the security system will not allow to enter. We will have to force our entry from a weak spot."
Kristia ntioned before, he rubbed his burned hand. His recovery was amazing, but that did not an his hand did not hurt.
The barrier was placed here to stop intruders from entering, but Amane knew how to handle it. She slowly approached the barrier and watched as her two partners tensed up.
She did not reach the barrier before her hand was grabbed, and Amane was pulled back harshly. Her back collided with a solid chest, and she looked up into llisa's familiar eyes.
lissa looked pained as she held Amane back from doing what Amane wanted. But it was clear that lissa did not want to see her getting hurt.
"Don't! Amane, don't head toward the barrier. You want to touch the barrier to confirm its state, but you see what it did to Kristia. You will get burned if you touch this barrier. You are a normal human, and I do not want to see you hurt."
lissa warned Amane with a heavy heart. The burn Kristia sustained was not big, but lissa still wanted Amane to be safe. Amane stirred her instincts as no one had ever before.
This was the first ti she felt like this, and lissa had no way to hold herself back. She could only follow these overwhelming emotions and allow them to lead her.
'I think I am losing my mind slowly. There is no need for to be this concerned about Amane. And yet, I cannot help but want to hold her tight and pull her into my arms. What is wrong with ?'
lissa could not figure it out. She could not figure out what to do with herself either. She knew that she was falling in love with Amane.
But it had not even been a few days since they t. How could soone fall for the other this fast? This made lissa doubt Amane and her intentions. Was the outsider performing so kind of magic on her?
"The barrier is temporarily down. I tampered with it a little so we could enter and exit safely. But we need to hurry because this tempering will not last. This is a self-healing barrier."
Amane's sharp words cut through lissa's thoughts, and she watched in fascination as Amane pulled her unhard hand back from the barrier.
"You stupid child. Why would you reach out toward the barrier after you saw what it did to my hand? Do you have a death wish or sothing?"
Kristia asked while reaching for Amane's hand and examining it. He pulled it up to see if anything hurt. lissa felt a growl build up inside her throat at the frustration that built up inside her heart.
'How dare Kristia touch what is mine? I will serve all his limbs and use them as soup. He will know the true aning of pain and…'
lissa forcefully stopped her thoughts. She was not even aware that she could think of such destructive things. It made her heart beat painfully inside her chest, and lissa clutched it.
"Just what was I thinking? Kristia had been with for so many years now. How could I think of harming him?"
lissa's brain was spinning, and she could not think of anything but grabbing Amane's hand and pulling the female into her arms. lissa needed to own Amane at all costs.
"lissa, are you alright? You look a little flushed. You are not coming down with anything, right?"
Amane asked as she leaned closer to lissa and lightly touched her head.
lissa flinched when that cold hand touched her head before she pulled back. She looked at Amane's eyes, and all her anger and disappointnt flushed away from her face.
'I don't know what about Amane, but I feel safe and warm when she is with . I cannot wait to spend the rest of my life with her.'
As these thoughts crossed lissa's mind, she knew what was happening. She had a crush, and her biology tried forcing her to mate.
Her concentration would not return until lissa had buried herself balls deep into Amane's body and painted her insides white.
"lissa, do you need to rest? I am sure that there is a place you can lie down in if you want to."
Amane placed her hand on lissa's shoulder. That contact burned, and lissa bit her lip to hold her moan back. She did not want to show her lacking self in front of Amane. She needed to show that she was strong.
"No, I am alright. The Tsurugi mansion is a little weird and has too many slls. But I will get used to it soon…"
Amane hoped to get used to it all, but it might take so ti. After all, she did not want to risk exposing her growing crush. She needed to hold herself back from pouncing on Amane.
They headed inside the barrier, and Amane led them to the main mansion. It stood intact and had a solid fra. The security system on the wall was electronic, and no one in their group knew the password.
At least, no one was supposed to know the password until Amane walked up to the gate and punched the password in.
The door opened for them with an ominous creak. It felt like they were in a horror movie, and this was the part where the antagonist revealed he had been killing people.
Amane also turned toward the pair behind her with an awkward air around her. It was enough to solidify that sothing was wrong.
The non-human pair in front of Amane held their breaths while waiting for Amane to say sothing.
"lissa, are you sure you are alright? You are pale and shaking. You should head to a room if you are feeling unwell."
Amane stressed this again, and lissa knew she was reaching her limits. Walking had beco difficult for her due to a past injury, but it did not bother her most of the ti.
Sothing about this mansion and the way energy flowed inside it was weird.
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"Miss, shall I prepare a room for you? You just need to command, and this head maid will take care of everything."
The trio stiffened as soon as they heard that new voice. They turned to look at the mirage where a shadow bowed.
It had sounded human, but the appearance was anything but so.
'Ah, this is an echo of the past. All the shadows we will et here died a long ti ago. I can only interact with their shadows now.'
Amane looked at the head maid with a longing expression. She hated that she would never be able to say farewell to everyone she knew.
She had miraculously managed to crawl her way back, and for what? For the people who died a long ti ago?
"Amane, are you alright? You do not have to force yourself to be here if you do not want to. You head to our base, and I am sure no one would say anything about it. I will take full responsibility for what happened here."
lissa offered, and Amane knew that this was a great offer. She would likely not get a better offer than this one.
But her heart warned Amane not to do it. Amane breathed a sigh of relief as her senses slowly returned to her.
"No, there will be no need for that. I can endure a few hours of running around the Tsurugi mansion. But before that, I think we should take care of your body. I know that you are beginning to feel uncomfortable."
That was true. Saying that lissa was uncomfortable was a gross understatent. lissa was feeling hot, and her chest hurt. She needed so relief, but she had been getting by with the hold of her willpower alone.
"lissa, are you sick? You should have told . Heck! You should have stayed back; we could have taken off this mission. There was no need for you to push yourself."
Kristia sounded worried, and for good reasons. He had not even noticed that lissa was sick or getting tired. He had been more tied up in his situation than he had been keeping an eye on what was happening.
"Huh? How did you know that I felt out of it? When did you notice? I tried so hard to hide it all this ti. But since you noticed anyway, help out. I want to lie down before I do sothing I regret."
lissa begged as she allowed her expression to collapse. She looked desperate now, and Amane quickly took her to the bedrooms nearest to her.
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