39-1
I was at the Horn's house for approximately three days and now I was on my way back to my house.
By the way, by my house, I mean Grandma Julia's house. Well, we all consider her house like our own house.
I have been away from the house for two days. Even though I left the letter and later Frank did let them know that I was in his house, I am still kind of worried.
Most of my worries are focused on Aetna since she is contracted to me. Staying away from me for a long time weakens her state.
I hope she is okay...
I was near the entrance of the house, there I found Rai sitting near the entrance, she looked like she was waiting for someone.
"Waiting for someone?" I asked as I walked towards her.
She shot a furious glance, with that she stood up and dusted her back as he walked inside the house.
She ignored me...
"Did I do something to make you mad?" I asked this time with caution. I felt like I was digging my own grave asking this question.
"No, you didn't do anything." She replied with a barely audible tone.
"Then why are you mad?" I asked.
"That's the point. You didn't do anything." She said this time in a slightly higher voice, she walked towards me as she asked:
"You went to fight that monster alone, didn't you?"
I suddenly found myself avoiding eye contact with her.
She asked again "I asked did you fight that monster alone?" this time waking more closer to me.
I still couldn't give her a proper reply.
She walked closer, close enough that her face was near mine with maybe an inch distance between our noses.
"Look into my eyes." She demanded.
I did what she demanded me to do and looked directly at her without breaking eye contact.
"Did you fight that monster?" she asked again in a whispering tone that was barely audible.
"Yes," I replied matching her tone of voice.
"Why didn't you asked me for the help?" asked Rai narrowing her eyes.
This time I looked directly into her with a firm look I replied "That's something I needed to do alone."
"What is that supposed to mean." She yelled.
She looked at me with sharpening eyes, she bought her face even closer than it already was. Our nose was already an inch away and she got it even closer.
What is planning to do? Any closer than that, we might end up kissing!!
I closed my eyes.
So this is how I will have my first kiss, not bad…..
Bump!
I felt the pain of something hitting against my head.
"Ow," I yelped as I fell on the ground. I was headbutted by Rai.
As I was down on the ground she got over me "This is the final warning, If you ever pull a stunt like that in future... I will kill you. There is no point in being the hero if you lose your life." She said in a cold threatening voice as she grabbed my collar.
Scary!!!!!
She got up from me and walked towards the entrance of the house.
Right before entering the house she stopped, she opened her mouth without looking back and said:
"If you want the first kiss, you will have to wait for more than that.".
I will be lying if I said that it didn't make my heart skip a beat.
After saying that she walked into the house without looking back. The only thing I could see was her beet-red ears.
Before this, I have never seen her get this red...
First time for everything, huh?
39-1
It was night, I was currently having dinner with everyone.
After getting headbutted by Rai, I went inside to find Rudi waiting inside for me.
The worst part was that he waiting for me with a knife in his hand. Well, I somehow managed to get rid of that knife from his hand as he attempted to murder me with that knife.
{Author note: Our protagonist here is being dramatic… Murder is an exaggeration}
It's not an exaggeration.
Then what do you call it, when someone is chasing behind you with a bare knife and intending to stab it inside you?
It's called attempted murder.
Even after taking the knife from him, he was ready to throw hands with me. But I won.
Well, he did manage to land a punch or two.
I can understand why they are mad at me.
But Ulrich, Annie, and Aetna weren't mad at me. They are angels in my eyes. I thought as I took the first bite from my dinner.
After taking the first bite, a certain realization hit me. Ulrich is also angry at me.
He was taking his anger his way...… the food is damn salty. Damn you, Ulrich!!!.
"Thank you for the food," I said thanking Ulrich with a sweet smile.
I ate it somehow, forcing it down my throat.
After getting finished with the dinner, I sat on the chair. The salty food took a toll on my body.
"Here." I heard the voice of Ulrich behind me.
I looked behind to find he was standing with a plate of dessert in his hand.
I hesitated a bit to take the dessert from his hand.
"It's not salty." He said handing me the dessert.
I took the first bite to find that it was indeed not salty, on contrary, it was pretty tasty.
"I will make tomorrow's food double tasty." He said without looking into my eyes.
He felt guilty to feed me salty food.
To me, in this instant, Ulrich looked like an angel descended straight from the heavens.
"Don't worry. It was my mistake to not let you guys know about me fighting the monster alone." I said apologetically.
These are good people.
I am glad to have people worried about me. It makes me truly happy.
But I sometimes think that, do I even deserve to have people like this around me.
Did I even deserve to survive that day instead of my mom or various villagers?
Do I even deserve to live when all those kids from the village died?
They wanted to live, so do I even deserve in their place?
Among all the people, why a person like me survived. I am just a person who takes things from everyone.
I destroyed such a happy family.
Do I even deserve to live?