"You know Kazuki-kun, if Ai-chan were to see us like this, one of us is bound to be killed right now," she said and I did not move. More like, my body was not letting me move. Even if I wanted to, this body of mine was not listening to anything I was saying. I at least wanted to sit up off Ama’s lap so that I can be at face level when we are talking.
"You’ll not let that happen, I know that," I muttered again and Ama brought her ear closer to me this time.
"Can you say it again Kazuki-kun?" she asked me and I obliged with her request.
"I said, you’ll not let Ai kill any of us," I said in the same weak voice and I wasn’t doing that on purpose. I really was so weak that this was the only level I could talk to at the moment.
"Oh my, you have a lot of confidence in me now, don’t you?" Ama said teasingly and winked at me.
"Koto could beat Ai and you could beat Koto," I explained and she just nodded with a warm smile on her face.
"Well, don’t speak too much though Kazuki-kun. You did lose a lot of blood this time," she said and I raised my eyebrow. How did I lose blood though? "What happened was, you started screaming and fell to the ground. You started bleeding from your eyes, ears, and mouth and there were some internal bleeding too."
"Wha- "
All that happened to me when I was in so much pain? No wonder that happened because it was slowly getting really unbearable and if I can brag about something. I have been physically hurt in many ways. Stabbed, crushed, slammed, and even beaten to a pulp into my flesh. So the fact that my body was feeling so much pain because of all this was quite a surprise.
"The scariest part for us though was the fact that your vitals had gone for s few seconds. We really thought we lost you but then you came back to your senses and so did your vitals," Ama explained and I just nodded. So this is what Ethan was talking about.
"What do we do about it?" I muttered and Ama lowered her ear again to hear me. "I said, what do we do about it?"
She got back up and kept scratching my hair making me feel relaxed and thought about it a bit holding her chin. I could see the focus on her face as she was trying to find an answer to the question and then let out a sigh. "For now, I don’t really know what we can really do. Your condition is one of a kind and seeing these effects just makes me suspect something. Kazuki-kun, is there something that you are not telling us?"
Ama looked at me with a raised eyebrow and I decided it was wise to tell them about what was going on with me. I was not going to make the same mistake again since they are more professional and experienced in this field. This is their literal job for years now so telling them was probably the right thing. Though, I do need to let out this one person to another.
"Um...Ama," I called her out and she lowered her ear again. Some of her hair fell down my face and it smelled really nice. "Can you call Natsumi-san to come here?"
"Why do you want to call Natsumi-chan here?" she asked me surprised by the request. "Moreover, she is getting ready to leave for the mission and if it’s something really severe, she might as well decide to just stay here instead of going on the mission."
"I understand this…" I said with my voice getting even weaker. "But…please…"
"Oh Kazuki-kun," Ama said with a soft smile on her face and caress my cheek gently. "I can’t really say no to you when you say please this way."
She tapped my nose with a little giggle and called for Natsumi-san. We both stayed like this not saying much waiting for Natsumi-san to come here. I looked at her and she was just looking at me while cupping my face. I could see her lips tremble for some reason and I didn’t really understand what was going on at this point. Is something wrong with Ama?
"Um…Ama?" I called for her but she didn’t really say anything. "Ama? All hail to Ama….Amantha?"
The moment I called out her first name, she snapped out of the moment and looked at me with her lips still trembling. I didn’t quite understand what was going on with her. A little tear dropped from her eye onto my cheek and it rolled down all the way to my neck which got me worried.
"Why are you crying…?" I muttered and she touched her eyes and started rubbing them.
"These? Oh, nothing Kazuki-kun, probably just some things flocking my mind came back," she said trying to ignore the topic and I decided to not dig any deeper into that. "You just remind me of someone."
As she opened a little on that, I looked at her and she just gave me a warm smile. Someone she knew? I didn’t quite understand what was she talking about.
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"A family member?" I guessed and she just laughed a little.
"Kind of, at least he was family to me," she said in a sad tone and I decided to not ask anything further than this. I should just keep to it.
As we stopped talking about this, the door of the room opened with a card, and who entered was Natsumi-san accompanied by Koto and Ai. They looked at me and Ama in the position and I saw a mix of emotions on each of their face. Ai had an angry and jealous face; Koto was straight-up confused and Natsumi-san looked really worried.
"Kazuki…" she muttered and ran at me. Once close, she took a proper look at me and scanned me from top to bottom, and looked at Ama. "What happened to him and why was I not informed about this immediately?"
"You have a mission to leave for in an hour," Ama said and that angered Natsumi-san.
"The damn mission doesn’t matter to me as much as Kazuki’s safety does. I promised Masumi and Kazuto that I will keep him safe," she said and clenched her fist. I slowly moved my hand over to her and grabbed it. She looked at me worried and looked away. "God, what is wrong with me? Why am I getting so worked up about it."
"Because Natsumi-san, at the end of the day you are someone who worries a lot about me. Don’t lie to yourself now. You had stopped showing that you did some years ago but I have seen that side of yours," I muttered with a smile saying all this with every ounce of strength I got. "But I need to tell everyone something."
"Before anything, can I ask something?" Ai said raising her hand and Ama nodded. "Why is Kazu-kun on your lap?!"
Hearing that, Ama giggled and started caressing my hair. "Well, because Kazuki-kun looked pretty lonely when he was just lying like that so I thought I’d comfort him."
"Well, no need for that, since I’m already there," Ai said walking towards us and sitting down. She carefully picked up my head off of Ama’s lap and placed it on hers. "I am the only one who is allowed to do that." She looks really jealous right now. And cute.
"Anyways, what did you want to tell us Kazuki?" Natsumi-san said looking at me and going back to her normal strict demeanor.
"Okay, I just want to preface this…I’m not joking here…" I said and the atmosphere in the room started to tense up with everyone starting to understand the severity of the situation. "I am slowly turning into a vampire."
Silence.
Absolute silence took over the place. It was so quiet that is someone were to even move an inch or so, it will be heard in the room. Everyone looked at me as if I was a madman saying random stupid stuff.
"Do you understand what you are even saying Kazuki?" Natsumi-san said in a serious voice and I tensed up hearing it. "Tell me that you are not joking because if I find out that you are, this will be in the last thing you will speak about this day. You got unconscious on your own for some reason but this time, I will make you unconscious for the next twenty-four hours- "
"Natsumi-san, I don’t think Kazu-kun is lying here though. He would never lie about something this serious. Yes, he jokes around here and there but…" Ai said and her eyes widened. "Is this why you asked me if I’d still love you if you were a vampire Kazu-kun?"
I just nod my head and let out a sigh.
"Since when did you notice this? Any symptoms and stuff," Natsumi-san asked.
"Maybe a month ago but before it was just a hunch…I didn’t really want to say anything until I was sure," I said and everyone patiently started to listen since my voice was very low and slow. "It was explained to me by…Ethan…"
"Ethan?" Ama asked and I nod my head.
"The first…"
"Are you sure he is not lying or joking with you?" Natsumi-san questioned and honestly, I didn’t have a plausible answer. It can be very true that Ethan was just lying to me this whole time and I wouldn’t be any wiser but for some reason, I trusted it. I trusted Ethan’s words.
"No, he’s not lying," I said, and reluctantly, she agreed with me.
"Sigh, what a pain in the ass now," Natsumi-san exclaimed.
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