Chapter 16: Just A Talk
Chapter 16: Just A Talk
I’m aware that Kanna didn’t shout, however I needed to put (!) Which is necessary to convey emotions.
Having (!) Doesn’t mean she has to shout, there are many emotions that could be interpreted here, it doesn’t mean it has to be shouting.
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Tohru and Kanna were sitting together on the dining table, Kyle and Kobayashi were seated on the opposite side.
Tohru opened her mouth first, introducing the little ball of cuteness. “Let me introduce her once again, this cute little girl right beside me is Kanna Kamui and she’s a good friend of mine from my home world.”
“I kind of figured it out but she’s really a friend of yours huh.” Kobayashi San nodded and glanced at Kanna for a moment.
“Tohru-sama went missing, so I came looking for her.”
“Went missing?!” Kobayashi San was surprised, she didn’t know about this information, Kyle remained silent though, he knew about this and more. However, he didn’t know the exact details, just the general summary of Tohru’s story and the plotline. Many finer details were already forgotten by him.
“Tohru, you should have let your friends know before leaving.” Kobayashi San scolded her a bit.
“That’s right Tohru, they might be worried about you.” Kyle softly added as he looked at Tohru.
Tohru smiled wryly and apologized. “Sorry.”
Kyle paused and pondered for a bit before continuing. “Even if you don’t inform your friends, you should at least inform your parents about your well being, lest they might be worried sick about you.”
Tohru flinched visibly when Kyle mentioned about her parents and replied in a shaky tone, sadness visible in her quivering voice. “I’m afraid not… my parents aren’t exactly the lovely, gentle parental type… they might not even care if I died…”
“Huh? Really? Then nevermind… I won’t talk about your parents then.”
“Thank you.” Tohru glanced at Kyle shyly and smiled brightly at Kyle’s understanding, she was grateful that Kyle didn’t ask about her past, she wasn’t ready to share it yet.
Kanna suddenly interjected in their conversation. “Tohru-sama, why are you in such an outfit? Come home with me… Tohru-sama I need you, Tohru-samaaaa!!”
Tohru glanced at Kanna and added softly. “I have decided, Kanna, I’m not going home.”
“Why not?”
“Because…..” Tohru glanced at Kyle, her face turned slightly crimson, a blush adorning her pale cheeks, there was longing and adoration visible in her eyes, her body fidgeting in want.
Kobayashi San noticed this immediately. “Hehh….”
She made a shitty grinning expression, meanwhile Kanna got confused, she wondered ‘Why is Tohru-sama blushing? Perhaps..’
Kanna followed the line of her sight and realized that she was peeking at Kyle’s direction.
“So it’s you… the reason why Tohru-sama won’t come home… in that case I will kill you if I must…!” Kanna leaked intense bloodlust, directing it at Kyle.
She was absolutely serious about killing him, she might look like a child around the age of eight-nine but her kill count was only surpassed by Tohru which basically means in the thousands.
Kyle could feel her bloodlust, but he remained unfazed. He knew that nothing will happen to him.
“Diiee!!” Kanna pounced at Kyle, raising her palm she attacked him.
The attack connected and… he felt nothing, he spoke in a bored tone. “Is that all?”
“I’m not done yet! Take this and that! Why you..!!” Kanna continued her childish hammering ahem- constant attack on Kyle.
‘This is more like massage than an attack.’ Kyle mused inwardly.
Few minutes of childish tantrums later, Kanna stopped, she felt tired and gasped for breath, after regulating her breathing she spoke quiveringly.
“Hah… hah… you’re strong!”
“Strong my ass! You’re just too weak!” Kyle rebutted harshly.
Tohru stared at Kanna intensely and asked. “Kanna, you’ve become weak, did you lose your powers?”
Kanna jolted but still nodded weakly, glancing at Tohru still catching her breath, she spoke between pants. “You’re the odd one here, Tohru-sama..! The mana purity here is too low! How can you still gather so much power?”
Kobayashi San noticed a detail in between her talks, so she asked. “Kanna-chan, do you mean you can’t go home anymore?”
Kanna jolted visibly, her heartbeat accelerating in panic. She couldn’t admit it. She’d never admit it.
“Th-that’s not true!’
“It’s not? But you don’t have anywhere to stay, right?”
This time Kobayashi San’s words were like a thunderbolt in the ears of Kanna making her tremble and shudder!
“Come on, look at me in the eye and answer.” Kobayashi San’s dead like eyes were scaring Kanna who was a mighty dragon, she was sweating profusely, horrified by that intense stare.
She was too scared, at this rate she was about to cry if Kobayashi San didn’t take her eyes away from Kanna, Tohru was about to stop her lest she might scare Kanna to death.
Before she could however, Kyle beat her to it. “Oba-San, you’re scaring Kanna looking at her so intensely. Did you forget about these damn eyes of ours? It can scare someone to death, so stop staring at her already.”
“Huh? Really?”
Kyle rolled his eyes at his aunt’s negligence. It was hard to believe she didn’t notice it. He knew that she was trying to be gentle to Kanna, asking about her condition worriedly, but those damn eyes, a telltale heritage of their accursed family, was simply intimidating Kanna, scaring her till she became teary eyed.
This time Tohru spoke. “Kanna, please tell us what you’re planning honestly.”
With teary eyes, Kanna decided to speak while sniffing. “Actually….”
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“So you were exiled for a prank?”
“Kanna does love pulling pranks a lot.”
While they were talking Kyle was feeling a sense of Deja Vu, he could tell he heard this conversation before, so this should be heading at…
He stopped paying attention to their talks and spoke straightforwardly. “Hey, hey Kanna-chan do you want to live with us here?”
“Huhh?! It’s my apartment you know, you can’t just invite someone like that?! I’m the one who was supposed to say that!”
“Don’t mind the little things Oba-san, I can’t really invite her to my place now can I? Moreover, your apartment is bigger than mine.”
“That excuse again… however I can’t refute that part.”
“That’s right you can’t refute it, so shut up!” While they were debating with each other Kanna suddenly spoke out.
“I-i don’t trust humans!”
Kyle’s attention shifted to Kanna as he asked. “Why?”
“Because you’re probably plotting something!”
“I’m not.”
“You’re trying to use me!”
“No, why would I use a kid that can’t even beat me?”
“Guh..!” Kanna couldn’t refute that, she lost because she was extremely powerless right now.
“I-i just don’t trust you humans!”
Kyle sighed deeply and smiled at Kanna. “Well, I can understand why you don’t want to trust me, I’m just a stranger you’ve only met today, it’s natural to not trust me, but Kanna-chan, I’m not asking you to trust me, I’m just asking you to live in this apartment with us and Tohru, you trust her right? She won’t let anything happen to you so stay with us okay?”
Hearing Kyle’s soothing voice full of brotherly affection, Kanna’s last inhibitions broke, the pent up feelings inside her chest broke out in the form of a loud rueful crying.”Uwaaa! Sniff~ uwuuu..”
Kyle unconsciously dropped on his knees, patted her head and hugged her in his arms, he felt like he had to do this, in order to pacify Kanna.
Kobayashi San was smiling behind him, her expression filled with pride directed at her nephew, she jokingly said. “I never thought you could say something so mature at your age Kai-chan, that’s pretty unlike you.”
“Oba-san be quiet, you’re ruining the atmosphere here!” Kyle retorted softly, still patting Kanna, pacifying her sadness.
“Ahahaha, alright alright however you still didn’t ask for my permission though.”
“All I did is just stated the inevitable, if I didn’t you would’ve so I spared you the words you would’ve spoken anyways.”
“Sigh~ that’s right, you know me too well, you damn brat.”
“Heh, I didn’t live with you for the last 10 years for nothing Oba-San! I know you more than you know yourself.”
“I wasn’t complimenting you.” Kobayashi San added drily.
“I took it as a compliment.” Kyle joked with exaggerated theatrics.
“Whatever.” Kobayashi San gave up with a sigh.
From this day onwards, Kanna was going to live with them.
( `END` )
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