In all of Asuka's life, she has never felt this good. Her life was hard where everyone looked down on her if she made even the smallest mistake resulting in her getting punished. This was now changed when Yuki was now her official master.
Those people who once mocked her for being clueless and dumb was now being kind to her, she gets good meal everyday, and the best part is she now enjoys her job.
Asuka hated her job, but because that's all she can do she never quit because she wanted to support her family in every way she could. But now everything is different, she has a good master that treats her well, and she has a better salary.
Because she is not part of Aria's maid, her salary came from her employer which is the head maid of the mansion, her salary is low. It was up to the point that it can only feed her family for 2 weeks before they ran out, so for the sake of her family she worked diligently to save up enough money for them.
But now everything was different, she is now living a good life. She has money to spend on herself which she normally cannot do, and most importantly she is happy in what she does.
In contrast to her happiness. Anna felt extremely sad and mad at the same time, she felt neglected by Yuki. Even though she knows that she doesn't have the right to be jealous because they are not even together, she cannot stop herself from being so.
"Yuki, do you hate me?" Anna asked timidly.
"Why are you asking me this?" Instead of answering, Yuki asked her a question instead.
"It's because- I want to be the one who takes care of you, but you seem to not like it because you have someone else to take care of you." Anna answered.
"Huh? Isn't that because you're an adventurer. I don't want to hinder your time in taking care of me, that's why I asked Asuka instead because I already took 1 week of your time." Yuki said.
"What if I say I enjoy taking care of you, would you let me?" Anna asked, her voice was getting quieter by the second.
"Take care of me? Why, you do know that you're only gonna waste your time on me." Yuki answered.
"Not at all! I find it very fun and relaxing." Anna said.
"Stop lying, I know that you are lying to me right now, and I can tell you now I hate it." Yuki snorted.
This made Anna extremely nervous.
'Oh no, is she going to kick me out?'
"No- I- I - okay I just want to be friends with you and be close together." Anna answers.
"Friends? Aren't we already one?" Yuki asked.
After seeing the fear in Anna's eyes, Yuki can already tell that she doesn't harbour any bad intentions. Yuki finds it amusing and cute.
"Hais- You look cute when you are lying you know?" Yuki muttered.
"Cu- cute!?" Anna blushed immediately.
"Yeah. Now out with it tell me what is it that you really want?" Yuki asked, she then held onto her wrists so that Anna couldn't get away.
The reason why Yuki did this is because Anna had already run away from her 2 days ago when she asked her why she was mad. So for safety measures, Yuki held onto her.
'Her hands feel soft.' Yuki then began to caress Anna's hand.
Anna's eyes went wide when she saw what was happening.
"I really just want to be friends with you." Anna said truthfully with difficulty.
"Really?"
"Yes. I will not lie to you. Because I love you." Anna said, but the last part was a whisper that even Yuki didn't even hear even with her great senses.
"Okay then, prove it to me." Yuki said.
"How do I do that?" Anna asked confusedly.
"Sit next to me, and have a good chat with me without you being nervous then I believe you."
"What? How will that prove anything?"
"Easy. It's because you are too nervous when talking to me, that I think you have some bad thoughts about me." Yuki said.
It was a lie, Yuki can already tell that Anna was not lying about them being friends. But because of her past she purposely locked herself away, not letting on inside. But after seeing Anna's pitiful face, she found her walls being broken by it.
So she decided to tease Anna a bit.
"How am I nervous?" Anna asked.
"You don't believe me? One, you always fiddle with your hands when talking to me which you don't do when talking to others, two, you will sometimes stutter when you are with me, and finally you will not make eye contact with me, and if I look at you, you will look away immediately." Yuki began to list the things that Anna does when she is around her.
Anna got tongue tied after hearing Yuki's explanation. Anna herself knows that she did all of that because she was too nervous around Yuki.
"So, if you can talk to me naturally like what you do with others without doing any of those that I just mentioned then I will believe you and even consider you as a good friend."
Yuki cannot believe how things got up to this point, she usually doesn't talk to others much especially to those who she doesn't know. But somehow she enjoys talking with Anna, especially when she gets nervous and she starts to stutter, Yuki finds it incredibly cute.
She was even scared of her own thoughts.
'Why am I being like this?' Yuki questioned herself . But to have her answer, she decided to open her heart for the first time.
After seeing that she cannot run away, Anna decided to sit down next to Yuki.
Just as she was about to speak, she felt a cold hand touch her head.
"See you're already quivering, just relax your body and talk normally."
Anna felt comforted by Yuki's words, so she decided to lower her guard, not really that she needed it.
"Yuki can I ask you something about yourself?" Anna asked after so much consideration on how she would start the conversation.
"Of course, what would you like to know?" Yuki smiled and leaned on her chair as she looked at the beautiful garden in front of her.
"Yumie said that you hate humans, may I know the reason why?"
Yuki froze instantly when she heard the question.
Anna felt nervous again.
"No you don't have to answer me."
"No it's fine."
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