Chapter 89 - 89: Going Back (1/2)
In front of a massive purplish palace that looks like it had been filled with too many neon lights, an almost imperceptible flash appeared in front of the palace doors.
Appearing from the flash of light was a flustered Yasaka holding her sleeping daughter Kunou, Riwuccu who was trying to decide whether he should just call it quits and leave the hopeless Yasaka to fend for herself in the Titans presence or to try one last time to help her and finally Asfius who was just standing there with no expression on his face and no incline to what he was thinking.
”Shall we head in?”, Yasaka asked after recovering her demeanor. Both Asfius and Riwuccu gave her a nod and followed her into the palace.
While walking Riwuccu would sneak glances at both Yasaka and Asfius every now and then, he could tell that Yasaka was troubled by something and she was currently thinking of a solution by how there was a tiny crinkle at the center of her brow, but when looking at Asfius and looking for quite a while he couldn't find anything.
'Come on, give me something!', Riwuccu raved in his mind as he kept trying to deliver any abnormality's on Asfius's face but since the beginning, when they had first met to this very moment he had never seen him have a different expression on his face except for when he was rescuing Kunou.
Even when Asfius was reading to Kunou her stories he never had a single change in his facial expression. 'Wait', Riwuccu suddenly came to thought, 'He might give incline to his emotions when speaking, now all I have to do is get him to talk'
”So, Asfius-dono, what are you planning on doing after this”, Riwuccu asked.
”Go home”, Asfius replied.
”I see, where might I ask is that”
”Headquarters”
”I see so the headquarters of the organization you're from, Samsara was it?”
”Yes”
Riwuccu kept talking and Asfius kept answering, this continued all the way until they reached Kunou's room, where Yasaka gently placed the little fox girl into her bed. Tucking her the trio sat down at a table in the room waiting for Kunou to wake up while a Kitsune wearing a maid's attire poured the group some tea.
Riwuccu was silent at this moment, he had been keeping the conversation going for as long as he could but in the end, he could only talk for so long until he ran out of topics. 'I'm not used to this kind of thing', Riwuccu sighed as he gave up trying to get any incline as to what Asfius was thinking.
'Might as well go and try and read what a rock is thinking”, Riwuccu sighed.
”Asfius-san, thank you”, Yasaka said out of the blue. ”You can ask anything of me and I will if it is within my power do it.”, she said, looking seriously at Asfius, the man who saved her beloved daughter.
Asfius shook his head slowly, ”no...”, ”Don't decline my offer!”, Yasaka interrupted Asfius's refusal with a strick voice. ”You saved what is most precious to me in this world, I am not able to give anything of equal worth to you, so please do not refuse and ask for something, anything.”
Asfius was silent, he looked at Yasaka for a long time, her golden eyes that looked so seriously at him, her beautiful face that held a stoic expression with that little crinkle in between her dotted eyebrows.