Chapter 148 - Questions (1/2)

Lyn wondered if father 'approved' of Kazuya and her dating. She never asked about his stance on the issue, because she felt it wasn't necessary to ask. It didn't make a difference whether anybody approved of her relationship with Kazuya at all. Nothing would change, she would still date him. However, the more Lyn thought about her father's behavior towards Kazuya, the more that thought resurfaces.

”Lyn? What's wrong?”

”Ah, nothing,” Lyn looked around, ”Kazuya, I'll heal your injuries.”

”Mmm, okay. There are no recorders here or anything to detect magic. So they shouldn't notice. Make it light, though; it would be strange if I recover completely.”

Lyn nodded, and a familiar glow appeared in her hand, as she extended it towards Kazuya's arm injury. Even though she is using magic, it's not as simple as people think. To use healing magic, one must require an extensive amount of medical knowledge, so while she may have remained ignorant to most things about the Empire. The knowledge she has regarding specific topics match up to scholars.

With her isolation, Lyn had all the time to read and study. Though books regarding politics are taken out of her shelves, she is intelligent academically.

More importantly right now, Lyn looked over at Kazuya, and sure enough, he was staring at her with an intense look in her eyes. Her cheeks flushed immediately, uwaa she ended up getting caught staring.

”Kaz-”

Her sentence fell short when he leaned down and touched her cheek with the palm of his hand. ”. .. . .. Lyn. . . .”

”Yeah…”

His face is so close to her; it's challenging to remain calm like this. But she can't keep acting like a fl.u.s.tered idiot, whenever something happens.

”Now that we've met, I finally realize how long I haven't seen you.”

Uwaa, is he serious? Is that why he's touching her? Even though it's only on her cheek, it's still classified as touching. Lyn coughed, ”Whose fault is that?” she wanted to swiftly change the topic before Kazuya realizes how embarrassed she is.

”Mine.”

Lyn sighed, ”Why do you keep avoiding me? Do you not like me anymore or something?”

Sensing his silence Lyn panicked, wait, wait, wait? Is that really it?

”It's not that,” Kazuya shook his head, ”In fact, I like you more and more as each day goes by.”

”Then, how come?”

”After speaking with your sister. I realize there are still many things I don't know about you. Do you think it was abrupt of me? Asking you out?”

So it's because of what her sister said to him. Lyn would have hit him if he wasn't injured already. What a moron, but still..... Her cheeks grew hot, and Lyn blushed, ”Well, you know, even if you didn't, I would have?”

That's right, even if Prince John didn't appear and that situation came about that lead to Kazuya protecting her. Lyn would have asked Kazuya out. From the moment she met him, she was immediately drawn to him. Then again, their first meeting wasn't exactly pleasant. She's always wanted to know though, why did Kazuya kiss her that day? At first, she was on guard even when she hung around him. Lyn was afraid that he would kiss her again. However, it didn't take her long to learn that this person is clumsy when it came to girls.

”I see, that makes me happy,” Kazuya trailed off and laughed, ”Really, I'm glad we felt the same way about each other, even back then. So it was love at first sight? With an angel that descended from the heavens.”

Lyn rolled her eyes, ”Quit being stupid,” but love at first sight, huh? It was probably that. From the very moment they met, Lyn knew there was something different about Kazuya then all the others.

Thump, thump. She can hear it loudly, the sound of her beating heart.