Ana saw the message that popped up and wondered since when did dating games have female protagonists, unbeknownst to his outdated self, the game Pure Pure Lovers Paradise had the choice to start as either gender, and the dating options branched out accordingly.
He quickly glanced at his surroundings and checked if there was someone with protagonist vibes around but the only three girls that were present here were just acting oddly suspicious while stealing glances at Ana.
Ana thought that maybe the female protagonist was Klara, or possibly one of the other two, but since he believed females only dated males, he thought that it was most likely misspelt protagonist instead of heroine, or all of it was a stupid prank by Behrman, and he decided to properly look into it later, temporarily dismissing it as a funny joke, and just focused on the problem at hand, afterall he had no way of knowing that the message was real and quite dangerously real.
"Did…you…call me…garbage…?" Klara was the one who first broke the silence.
Her heart was beating too fast to properly have the noun, or, in her case an adjective that Ana had offered her, wrap around her mind as a commodity to fuel her anger for Ana, since being from a well sheltered home and always being praised by those around her for her superior talents, she has never once had anyone insult her so directly.
"Aaaaaaghh!!" Klein, though, was furious. "How dare you?! How dare you?! How dare you?!"
His eyes became red, as he picked up his sword and began to sprint with his awakened powers towards Ana.
"You will die tonight! I will bury you myself!"
"You think I'm cute?" But Olga came to Ana faster.
Ana gazed at what was going on infront of him, both of Olga's bodyguards, even the one that was holding Toti had left his task to assist the other, intervened Klein's assault and grappled him, pinning him down to the ground.
"Aaagh! You! You insulted my Madam!"
For an animal, Klein sure did have a lot of vocabulary, Ana thought to himself.
"Aghh!! Leave me! Let me go! LET ME GO!!"
Klein easily overpowered his imprisoners, but, right at the next moment, one of Vera's dogs that had been beaten by Klara, got up and bound Klein up with a glowing rope and left him incapacitated while Vera, herself, was busy squatting down on the ground, holding and shaking her head vigorously, like a person whose world had just shattered.
"Gar-garb-gabage….I'm garbage?" Klara began to tremble in shock as she blankly stared at Ana.
"Tell me! Why did you call me cute?" While Olga just had to know why Ana had said that to her.
"I didn't say that." Ana rolled his eyes. "I said you're cute garbage."
He had said that because it was apparent at first sight, that Olga was a beautiful girl, so the opposite of the two choices, cute and beautiful, for Olga would be cute.
"!!!" Olga's face blushed even more after Ana called her cute again.
Ana didn't know this, but Olga was always jealous of Vera's cute appearance, and she had this inferiority complex about the size of her breasts and unruly hair which she kept short, so naturally she tried to redeem her lacking cuteness by keeping up with cute fashion trends, shopping for various cute accessories and clothes, for example the frilly skirt and decorative ear piercings that she was wearing currently.
"Do…you…really…" Olga turned her head a little and showed Ana her pierced ears, which by the way, looked more intimidating than cute, "think that…I'm cute…?"
Now Ana had a girlfriend, so he couldn't just nonchalantly chat up women as he pleased so that's why he replied without any romantic feelings.
"Yeah, I think so." Ana picked his ear with his pinky finger while looking up at the ceiling wondering why Olga was deliberately ignoring the second part of Ana's insult.
Olga's face turned beet red as she turned around, hiding her happiness from Ana, "K-klara, I think I've had enough for tonight", and she informed Klara, who was still looking at Ana in disbelief, about her early retreat.
Olga then swiftly walked up to Vera, who was still on the ground and shaking her head like an asylum patient, and grabbed the back of her collar before starting to pull her away.
"S-see you later then." Olga, one more time looked towards Ana, slightly mumbling something as she examined his face and pulled Vera with her, out of the gymnasium.
Their contracted hunters, not knowing what had just happened, only looked amongst themselves before following their masters out.
"Uh, I guess we're free now?" Toti, who had no idea how Ana had successfully mediated the situation, stood up and scratched his head as he looked at Klara and her broken cur that was bound and snivelling in distress, "So, I thinking we should be leaving too-"
"Toti, go back to your room." Klara said to him while still staring at Ana.
"Yes, my Lady. Good evening then." Toti bowed again, slightly pissing off Ana who was hating his submissive attitude. "Let's go then-"
He raised his head and looked towards Ana intending to suggest the great idea of leaving but Klara seemed to have her own plans.
"He'll be staying here." Klara ordered like a prideful gang leader.
"Eh? But-" Toti could sense danger incoming.
"I said", Klara finally turned her cold eyes to Toti, "He'll. Be. Staying. Here."
Toti shivered a little at Klara's dominant words as he swiftly turned around, not before offering Ana small words of encouragement.
"Best of luck." He softly whispered to Ana and jogged out of the big gymnasium.
"Argh, arghhhh!!" While all of this was happening, Klein was still as lively as ever, drowning Ana with his murderous eyes but unable to do anything due to his status of being wound up with mana ropes.
Ana returned to his casual act of putting his hands in his pocket, not even bothering to look at the fallen soul, while he assessed Klara's beauty, now don't get Ana wrong, he was just doing what any man would do in his position, and he was definitely not cheating on Eva.
Klara was wearing her academy uniform for candidate matriarchs which was a long sleeved top and a skirt reaching only upto her mid thighs, which normally, according to academy rules should atleast cover the knee caps.
"Tell me…" Klara walked upto Ana and put her finger on his chest. "Why did you call me garbage?"
"Because you are garbage." Ana replied immediately.
"You bastard! You!! Argh! Arggh!" Klein continued to scream in the background but neither Ana nor Klara paid any attention to him.
"I'm asking why!" Klara pushed her finger deeper into Ana. "Why do you think that I'm garbage?"
Ana decided that he actually wanted to say something to this sinister and cruel woman so he properly answered Klara's question.
"There's nothing to think about. Just looking at you and your toy is enough to call you garbage."
Klara this time, didn't like Ana's answer since she wanted a proper explanation, so she grabbed his collar and pulled him down to her face.
Ana was a little surprised to see how strong Klara actually was, but he didn't let that stop him from putting his own hands on Klara's collar.
"What? Do you think just because I treat my dog badly, I'm garbage?" Klara would be a bit disappointed if that were the case. "Is that it?"
"No." But Ana's logic was different. "I think you're garbage because you're garbage."
Klara pulled on Ana's collar in annoyance and brought him even closer to her face.
"How am I garbage?!" She screamed at Ana, little drops of her saliva sprinkling on Ana's face.
"You are garbage because you are garbage!" Ana too didn't back down.
"UGH!!! Like I said!" Klara completely pulled Ana in, touching her forehead on his. "WHY AM I GARBAGE?!"
Ana also put pressure in his neck and pushed back against Klara, making the tips of both their noses touch.
"AND LIKE I SAID! YOU ARE GARBAGE BECAUSE YOU-"
Smooch
But before Ana could finish, Klara sealed her lips on his mouth and smooched him lovingly.
Smooch...
After about ten seconds of wild lip grazing, Klara looked down to the ground as tears started to well up in her eyes.
"Don't… don't call me garbage…" She sobbed.