Chapter 47 - Kazuya P6 (1/2)

Lost in his thoughts, Kazuya didn't feel another person presence until he felt a familiar warmth touch on his cheeks. Lyn sat crouched down beside him; her hand caressed his cheek.

”Lyn?” he called out surprised.

The girl seemed quite fl.u.s.tered since she moved her hand away instantly.

”Um ....—sorry about this...but...you weren't moving so,” Lyn stuttered.

So she's only concerned, that's a given. Maybe because he had just dwelled on the memory of their first meeting, but Kazuya felt something stir in his heart.

Kazuya sat up, ”I was only sleeping. Lately, my ambassador work has taken a toll on me,” Kazuya explained, yet he attended that lunch. Lyn must have understood that since she sent him an apologetic look. Kazuya shook his head, ”Don't mind it too much.”

”Ah, I heard you participated in a Joust tournament congratulations?”

Kazuya thanked her before he realized something, ”How did you get up here?”

Rather than say he was on the rooftop area, it's more like he was on the actual roof. He watched the girl fidget with her fingers and noticed that her face color was anything but normal. The words that passed Lyn's lips came out as a stutter; he could barely make out what she said. Kazuya scanned the place and saw the ladder.

”You climbed here?”

Lyn slowly nodded her head; her cheeks seemed to color red. Kazuya looked at her puzzled, why is she getting embarrassed?

”But aren't you afraid of heights?”

It was something he learned about her during their first meeting, and something he quickly picked up when he saw her again. Lyn doesn't join him when he climbs on trees and her reaction with the carpet too.

The girl's cheeks were already stained red, but now her whole face was red.

”I—I am...but Fukami said you were here, and that you didn't seem to look too well. So I only came here to check,” Lyn stammered. Though the girl stammered, Kazuya understood.

Is she still worried about him? Even though he used her in such a cruel manner? Even though he hurt her all over again. Kazuya shook his head. What is he thinking? She knows none of that. She doesn't remember it.

Lyn knew nothing now. Does that mean she forgives him? Forgives him for arriving too late? For not using his powers, if he used it, then he could have stopped that situation quickly. To protect his identity, Kazuya reached over and entangled a strand of her hair in his hands. He brought the strand to his lips and kissed it.

Lyn seemed very surprised; this is the first since they met again - that he's acted this way after all. It must be because he was reliving in the memories of the past. Yes, that's it.

Kazuya had no intention to do anything at all to her. Right now he only wants to bluff and maybe scare her a little? Let's face it; Lyn really is innocent. He can see why Rhys finds it amusing to tease her. But it's not like that; there's something more to it. Sometimes, Kazuya felt a fit of burning jealousy whenever he watched her, whenever he is with her. She's a noble, and yet she isn't one at the same time. She isn't free, and yet she is freer than him - this burning jealousy engulfs him, and he ends up thinking such horrid things.