After practice, Sena watched Julian preparing to return ho—despite her offer to have dinner together, he ntioned their plans to play the ga together.
"Thank God I told him about the spare machine," Sena whispered as she watched his figure walk into the second shower room.
"Haa…"
Sena touched her chest while leaning against the closed door, panting after their long practice. Each ti she felt their distance closed, Julian beca like the past. Suddenly, he would look at her with a complex expression.
"Why did he look so sad?
Sssss~
She flicked the shower on hot, and the water pelted her body, mixing with the expensive body wash she bubbled between her chest. Her mind returned to their fight when Julian suddenly stopped after she hit him for the first ti. He called Sena's na.
'The way he spoke made my body shudder.'
What confused her was that he suddenly called and told her about a ga a week ago. After he finished speaking about it, Sena couldn't deny how much she wanted to play, a place to test her limits as a swordswoman.
Thud!
Unable to calm her anger, she punched the tiles with a bang and closed her eyes tightly as bubbles flowed from her shampoo. Sena chose the scent of honey and vanilla that Julian liked flowing down her face.
'Does he no longer have any feelings for .'
Her hands brushed along her body, unable to forget the tingles on her skin each ti he whispered her na in his deep voice. Or when Julian's hand brushed against her, causing jolts of electricity to flow through her body during their training.
'But if that's true, why would he co here?'
"I don't get it."
Sena couldn't help but shake her head, placing both hands on the cold wall—as steam and water filled the wet room, she took deep breaths. She couldn't help but rember how focused Julian was during their sparring, the faint scent of his body, and the warmth of his touch.
'I want to find out why he acted so strangely.'
That image of Julian felt strange.
She couldn't help but freeze, her chest tightening with a dull ache.
'It was the first ti I ever saw him cry.'
With a look of determination, Sena clenched her fist and decided that she wouldn't accept his words from the phone call and would make him say it to her face.
"Otherwise. I won't let him escape so easily!"
PAH!
The mont she gazed at her figure on the mirror wall, a smirk ca to her lips as she washed the soapy suds from her body. "I won't lose, Julian!"
Because the young lady of the Kang Group never lost sothing she wanted.
So, after today's training and the mixed signals, she believed in her chance to win him back.
The pair then left the showers after thirty minutes.
Sena and Julian walked into the main flat complex for won. Many of the residents looked at him with curious and worried eyes.
Because Sena didn't want others to see him in his training outfit, she made him wear a pair of spare jeans and a T-shirt she had prepared secretly for when he visited.
"Co on, I live on the top floor~ it's the best flat hehe and Maria isn't ho today!"
As the heiress of the Kang group, it was impossible to let her live alone so easily, so Maria, a family friend thanks to her parents, offered to stay in the flat. Only then did Sena gain permission from her overly worriso mother.
'I can't believe I lost control of my emotions.'
Julian's mind beca conflicted during their duels, and bitter and depressing feelings overwheld him.
The image of Sena's death almost beca a trigger, causing sothing inside him to reject his cold idea of pushing her away. He struggled to treat her the sa because most of his past emotions vanished when he regressed ten years of solitude, dulling his nerves and mind.
"What are you standing there for? Co inside, Julian."
He suddenly lost focus and noticed her at the door, leaning forward while wearing tight shorts and a loosely fitting bunny T-shirt.
'I am not dense, though she's trying to seduce .'
Sena's lips curled into a teasing smirk while she bead at him with both eyes closed in crescent moon shapes. "I always wanted to bring you here~ ehehe." Without waiting for him, she skipped inside, her light body soon reaching the end of the hallway as Julian rushed after her.
"W-Wait up!"
"No way~ you should be faster."
The mont he entered, the sly fox turned back and pressed a button on the wall; with a bleep, the door slamd shut and locked before she deactivated the manual exit buttons.
"Sena?" His voice sounded a little concerned.
Normally, she wouldn't bring him upstairs, worried her mother or roommate would report it. Yet, he couldn't deny that his heart started to beat faster when she acted cheekily and played around like this.
"Hmmm?"
"The door is locked."
"Hehe~ I know, now you can't run away or escape before you satisfy ."
The pair gazed at each other before Sena's cheeks beca bright pink, like a cartoon.
"A-ah! Not that way!"
"Hahaha."
Sohow, with Sena acting so confused and cute, he couldn't help but forget about the future… no matter how little ti they had left in this normal world, he wanted to treasure it together.
"Don't laugh at ! Hurry and co into my room~ I will show you the custom units I bought!"
"I'm coming, don't be so impatient."
Julian walked inside, his mind clearing already.
The world and his actions had changed from the last ti.
He refused to rush into the ga and beco focused on only power because if he did that and neglected himself and Sena.
'What would be the point of regressing again?'
Expensive art works, so childish and others from past competitions, littered the walls. Sena had paid soone to decorate the flat, or maybe it was Maria.
'Ah, that's a painting chosen by Sena, definitely.'
He noticed a picture of a kendo champion who retired five years ago, soone who trained Sena's father and grandfather in the past.
The mont he entered her room, the first thing he could sense was the scent- a warm strawberry flavour but not too strong, along with two huge black VR units. The thing that shocked him was that they were a pair unit.
A special and rather cliché item, a lover's version of the VR unit, not necessarily for 'those' kinds of gas, but they could be used for that. The true usage of a pair unit was being able to log into the sa place at the sa ti and never be separated while in a ga.
'But wait, I am sure they also ca with overpowered features?'
Bonus experience when paired, teleportation to each other's position, cheaper items and higher drop rates while in a group together.
However, the downside was being able to touch each other during the ga, which could lead to friendly fire and collision.
"Ehehe~ are you embarrassed to enter this with ?" Sena teased him.
Julian didn't know how serious Sena was about this, because of the communal VR lounge on the first floor, but ignoring that, he wanted to call her bluff.
"Are you sure you want to?"
Julian didn't mind.
In the days when the world started to collapse, bathing beca a luxury, and you would have to do it with several other people. Even if you were shy or an introvert, there wasn't any choice but to do so.
'Because those damn beasts have a good sense of sll.'
When he removed his shirt, Sena's eyes beca like stars before she turned beet red and suddenly rushed out of the room with a cute cry.
"Will I be able to enter the normal ga if I enter this machine with Sena?"
Though it might have seed he had other intentions, his main goal was to enter the world and see if this unit could bring him to the normal Avalon to help his plans. Although attracted to Sena, he knew to prioritise important things.
"A-Are you really going to enter it with ?" Sena's lovely voice sounded from the door as she peeked inside.
Julian turned to face her and smiled brilliantly. "I am. Don't you want to?"
When she heard his question, Sena looked like a deer in headlights.
Oblivious to her internal strife, Julian continued to examine the unit. He removed his clothes and caused the young woman to squeak, "Kya?!" Before he climbed inside the spacious VR unit, filled with blue-coloured gel with a different texture.
At the sa ti, he considered upgrading his unit to this one.
"Ah, wait. I'll enter, don't start without ."
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