We were talking for long hours.
But for some reason, I didn't feel tired.
─Hmm, so Shiki has the [Mystic Eyes of Death Perception], huh. I already understand how you could cut me like paper using a knife as small as that.
─Well, they are the [Mystic Eye Killers] for something. Although I'm not proud of any of that...
─Why? It is a very powerful ability! Besides that you're not just anything, you used [Time Alter], right? That's a very advanced spell for a boy your age.
Do you even know about it?
Wow...
Arcueid has been very talkative, at least I think she has fun conversing with me in this way.
It is not what I would expect from someone whom I "killed" myself.
It seems that her desire to murder me was over from the moment we started talking amicably.
Now I can feel a little calmer... when I return home, I just have to lower my head and apologize deeply to everyone there.
I better answer now, Arcueid seems annoyed when I am slow to answer him.
─Right... it's a trick I learned thanks to the father of a friend of mine. He was an [Executor] and learned many things throughout his life from him.
─I understand everything! Shiki, you are a natural born killer!
─Ugh... why do you say that?
─Just think about it, Shiki. You were able to slip between the slit of the door without a problem, and with a simple knife, you cut me into seventeen pieces of meat. At that moment I had my guard too low, the truth was not at all expected that it was someone like you who would be behind the door.
─... I am not proud to be a natural born killer then.
─Haha! You are very funny, Shiki. You are more in the position of [Monster] than I am. You're just too modest to accept it, which is why you don't admit the extent of your capabilities.
I want to die...
She has been very annoying in all the time that we have been talking. She gives me sudden little compliments and it makes my heart flutter a bit.
Because to start...
How can she show herself so helpless towards me? I murdered her a few hours ago. But she looks completely calm right now, so I don't know.
Arcueid is weird... and I'm not saying that in a good way (Is there a good sense to say that someone is weird?).
She asked me to sit on the floor, with my back on the bed. She lay down on the bed and from there we started talking as if we were lifelong friends.
...
Let me add, that despite her level of weirdness... her smile is quite attractive from my point of view.
It agrees with a girl like her. A beauty that she qualifies at the same level as Aoko-san.
I still feel my heart... pounding.
Like when I first looked at her, but apart from the fact that I intended to kill her.
...
Hey?
─... this is bad...
What is this?
It's the first time that happens to me...
I am not talking about having had an abundant urge to murder. Nothing of that.
It is the polar opposite of hatred.
Something that has been bothering me for a while.
I hadn't thought that the reason my heart feels this uneasy was because of Arcueid's presence.
I was about to lose myself recently...
I almost lost myself in my melancholy and that's why I was on the verge of committing suicide. I thought I had done something really bad. That there was no way to repair my mistake. I thought so. However, Arcueid forgave me like nothing.
She decided to make me her ally, since there is no way she can face Aoko-san and Touko-san at the same time. I know that. Although it wouldn't just be the two of them, we should also add Ryougi-san, Ciel-san and probably the entire Tohno Family in the process.
Ah----
Ciel...
I must apologize to her for what I did, reject her kindness directed solely at me. I also wish we could forget about the kissing issue. It's going to take me a bit to convince her, but I'll be fine.
But now I don't have the time to think about that.
Arcueid gets up from the bed and says to me in a lively voice:
─Shiki, cook for me!
?
─What? ─. It was normal for me to be confused at her suddenly strange request.
We hardly know each other, and he asks me to cook for her?
That is stupid not to say too weird.
Can vampires get colds?
I would like to make a derogatory comment like that...
No, I can't keep that to myself...
─Did you catch a cold? You have a fever? Do you want me to get medicine for you?
─Cold me? Nah, I'm fine, Shiki, but thanks for worrying. Come on, come on, I want to taste your food!
Arcueid pulls my arm to get up, and so he leads me into the kitchen of her sizable apartment. She just let me go because I want to enjoy her smile a little more.
I guess I owe her too much...
I have to make up for everything I did to this girl.
It would be fine if she was furious with me still, she wouldn't mind if she hit me a little more, but she even she took care of healing my wounds. Like I said before, Arcueid is pretty weird, but for whatever reason, I feel like we can get along from now on.
─A week. ─. I said at some point while she was cutting vegetables.
Arcueid who was sitting at the table looked at me with interest and asked back:
─A week? ─. Her expression was similar to that of a cat looking intently at a single point.
I twist my posture a little so I can give her a friendly smile and answer her.
─I am going to do everything you ask me for a week as compensation for what I did to you, without limits. So don't hesitate to ask me for something if you need it.
─Really?! I didn't think your kindness got to that point, Shiki! Even though we started off on the wrong foot, I hope you can handle my demands, hehe.
Ugh...
It's bad for my heart that she smiles often.
It took a while for her to finish cooking.
I served her food just for her. I'm hardly hungry anyway, so I made myself a sandwich.
The menu for Arcueid is miso soup with white rice, and I also made steamed pork chops with a vegetable garnish for her as there were the ingredients for her. Although I don't make this dish much, since most of the time she has disgusted Aoko-san and Touko-san.
I don't understand why... well, maybe it's because we can't all cook steamed pork chops.
But this time I am confident that everything will work out.
Before I even took a bite of my sandwich, I watched as Arcueid had bright eyes seeing the food served in front of her.
Arcueid cuts a piece of the chop and cooling the same piece with her mouth, she then puts it in her mouth to start chewing.
There...
Different from all the times I've cooked this.
For the first time.
Arcueid herself draws a smile on her face, her eyes shining from her she says.
─It's delicious!
...
Silently, trying to ignore her to hide my embarrassment, I start eating my sandwich.
After we finished eating...
I was in a dilemma.
I have classes mornings. However, I can't go home.
Arcueid took care of drying my clothes using [Sorcery], so that's not a problem for me.
I just don't know where I'm going to spend the night...
Should I stay up all night and sleep at school tomorrow morning?
I don't think I'll be able to stay alert during the first classes of the day...
I have to think of something and fast.
Ugh...
─Shiki, you're going to stay to sleep, right?
While I was thinking about it, it was as if Arcueid was reading my mind.
?
Can vampires read minds?
That is a good question.
I went to sit in the same place as before, leaning my back against Arcueid's bed. I hear the bed creak a little as Arcueid goes to bed on his own.
We are silent...
Arcueid went to turn off the light, she then asked me in a strange tone of voice.
─Thank you, Shiki. You are a great cook. You are sure to be a great husband when you get married, so until then, take care of me as long as I need you.
...
I understand...
It's my fault, after all.
Arcueid was hurt by me and no one else, so I am in my entire position to take responsibility for what I did.
I close my tired eyelids, trying to fall asleep, but then...
─Shiki. ─. Arcueid calls me.
─Sleep. ─. I reply immediately.
─I don't want to~. ─. She says with a flirtatious tone of voice.
Ok, that doesn't matter to me.
We let the silence abound for a few minutes.
Looking at the ceiling of the room, I realize that they are stroking my head.
It's about Arcueid, who put her hand on my head without warning. The bad side is that I can't resist her. So silently and without complaint, she let me do what she wants.
Arcueid is somewhat strange, as I have said so far.
But this doubles the rarity level of her...
─Shiki, have a good night. Rest, tomorrow we are going to do a few things.
─I'm busy half the day, but if you can wait for me until then, I will gladly accept.
─Ehhh, but I want to keep talking to Shiki all day tomorrow as well.
─We can do it when my classes finish, okay?
─Hmm, if it's only half day, then that's fine. Just please don't be careless, okay?
I didn't understand what she meant, but I just nod my head to let me sleep in peace.
Arcueid removes his hand from my hair and lies back down to sleep. Before long, I am able to hear her soft breathing. Inside this room and at the short distance in which we find ourselves, not listening to her is impossible.
But I think this is fine.
Arcueid trusts me. I must do the same.
Perhaps it is because of my resistance to the supernatural, but let none of this surprise me, it is strange even to me.
Dammit...
Could it be that this silly vampire hit me with some of her strange habits in the short time we have known each other?
Ah, well. I want to deworm.
I guess for now... sleeping is Shiki Tohno's priority.