They both stare at me in shock. He chuckled and blocks the only exit.
"Enough." He nods his head
"Deal." The gold in his eyes smolder.
He pushes her towards me with his leg.
"Hey little beauty don't be scared okay. Fly away when you get the chance, I'm more than enough to satisfy his hunger." I whisper when she's close enough.
I don't even care when I see Yozora shake his head, knowing he heard what I said.
"Th.. thank you. He..he said he'd let me go if I helped you, I don't have much hope for my life but I'll do my best to help you."
Ai was a bit nervous at first especially when she cleaned my clean my wound she had to make a matching cut on my right wing. She said I'd be able to fly again once it heals but the opening will remain so the cut was necessary in order to help me fly again.
She also feeds me some nectar. Yozora had her collect because his poison would mix with the nectar if he got it. She tells me he caught her by the tree and had her store it in a flower. We secretly bonded by being kidnap buddies till Yozora pulls her away from me and legit kicks her out the flower.
"Was Sparta kicking her out the door necessary? You basically slapped her in the face after she helped me."
"Necessary.. she leaned on your wing. She wanted to leave and I didn't eat her... what's Sparta?"
He saw that? Ai accidentally leaned on my wing and I didn't have the heart to say anything after all she was in the Demon Spiders lair because of me.
My heart softens.
"You didn't have to be so forceful." I mumble.
"She's your friend?"
"Who's Sparta?"
"He kicked you?"
I look at him confused, why is he so intuitive and attentive in this life. Maybe he's not Lu Rem. He was never this understanding.
"Sparta isn't a person it's the ... name of a kick from a high altitude. And yes she's my friend so you can't bully her."
"Ok.. I'll remember next time."
Is he being cute on purpose.
WHAT ... stop no, he's a spider! Pull yourself together!
———
A week passes with Ai's food supply and Yozora's attentiveness I gain control of my body again.
I finally convince Yozora to let me out to practice flying again.
He wasn't such a bad guy.
And I wasn't stupid, even if he's a killer to my kind I knew he had some weird affection for me.
Doesn't mean I was dumb enough to let my guard down, I just thought since we'd be living together I could at least try not to compare him to Lu Rem.
Another week passed by and I learn to fly again! It took a lot of trial flights.
I didn't even care that Yozora made us look like fools; with his web attached to my abdomen while I practically bungee jumped off branches till I learned to fly again.
His care was genuine and I started to feel differently.. I couldn't help but .. like his kindness and consideration.
It also didn't help that he was like a god at seduction. Everything he said was laced with affection. I think I might be falling in love with him.
Even if we can't be together, I believe just being in each other's company was enough.
We both stand on a branch of bleeding heart watching the sun go down.
A blissful week passed us by.
He confirmed my thoughts when he confessed his love for me. He said I didn't have to return his love but wanted me to acknowledge his affection.
Two days pass by full of flying eating and affection. We sit on the branch above our home watching the sky change colors..
"I like to watch you fly."
"I like you too." I blurt out.
What!? How freakin embarrassing.
Don't make eye contact, just look at the sun..
Stop looking directly at the sun you idiot!
Maybe he didn't hear.
Of course he did I have such a fat mouth!
Please don't say anything. Please... just ignore what I just said.
Don't say anything.. don't say anything
Seconds tick by...
...
Is he really not going to acknowledge what I just said!
Why isn't he responding. Say Something! ...
I turn to look at him only to find him looking back at me. His golden eyes swirling with affection ease the turmoil in my heart.
"Say it again."
I look deep into his eyes and confess. "I love you too."
One hour after midnight.
Four weeks after my rebirth as a butterfly.
On the third day of that week.
Yozora kills me.
The golden glimmer dies out of his eyes suddenly and he brutally drags me to his web. Tears off my wings and drinks my blood.
I lived it, I loved him, I couldn't feel the pain, I wish I could... it'd be better than to feel this ...this...disgust with myself my heart hurts.. I hate him. I will never fall for him again.
———
Or so I thought.
I was reborn again.
And again.
And again.
Into different worlds.
And different times.
With different families and even had other children.
I learned many things and accomplished different careers and had different goals and ambitions and preferences in each life.
Sometimes I was an animal or plant.
Sometimes a human or some other life form.
I was even once a star up in the sky..
But no matter what I was reborn as, he'd follow.
Not always in the same appearance or characteristics but he was there, I knew it was him. I could feel it in my heart that it was him. But no matter how I tried to avoid him or kill him first or kill myself.
I couldn't escape...
I found that it wouldn't end-not till I fell in love with him.
And Pretending.. didn't work.
I was force to meet him in every lifetime and had to genuinely fall in love with him.
Shortly after he kills me.
And I'm reborn again.
And again..
I'm currently living my 11291999th life.
My system keeps count for me.
Wait..
Scratch that I just died.
...
———
I felt someone shake my shoulders. "Baby. Wake up baby, it's almost noon. Oh my, looks like I raised a little piggy instead of a princess." I hear my mother's affectionate giggle as she pulls the hair away from my face.
What the f*ck! ... this is my current life... what happened in the life I died before being reborn. Why... I didn't get to see anything ..what happens to my child? This defeats the whole purpose of me going through all this!
I continue to relive my first day being reborn till I fall asleep in my mothers arms.
*Ping! New Hidden Task Received*
*Ping! Memory Wheel Projector Closed*
*Ping! View Task Reward and Task Punishment*
I ignore old messages and click on the new task.
*Ping! You Accepted Hidden Task*
[Your Decision: You've seen all past memories excluding three of your past lifetimes that are locked. Find the ones that know of your dark past and correct the decision that set your fated lifestyle in motion.]
"..."