"H-Huh?" Everette stared at her with wide eyes. He was baffled at the words that left her mouth.
Ada could feel his stare burrowing into her and couldn't help but bury her face into his back to hide her face. She was a blushing mess.
"O-Okay... What about the others?" Everette side-eyed the others. She also glanced at them before answering.
"W-Well... They can leave."
Alice was close enough to hear this and began pushing everyone out of the room before winking at Everette and mouthing the words: "Have fun~"
He stretched his arm out to them before witnessing the door close on him. He pulled back his arm with an agitated smile before suddenly feeling himself being pulled onto the bed.
"W-woah!" His body bounced on the soft mattress before feeling the weight on his waist. He looked towards its source and found it was Ada straddling him.
Everette's face began to turn red. He tried to push her off but wasn't even able to make her budge even an inch. He mentally facepalmed, 'I forgot her strength stat is higher than mine!'
Ada leaned down towards his face with a dazed expression. She then pushed her face into the crook of his neck.
Everette's body froze. He could feel the hot air from her face blowing into his neck. Ada had also locked his arms to his side by wrapping her arms around him.
He was stuck.
'I thought she became more timid!' He began wondering where the shy and adorable Ada went before pushing him down.
"Everette..." Ada moved her face to his ear before calling out his name. Everette's body stiffened up by how close her face was to his.
"Y-Yes...?"
Ada gave a short pause before speaking again. This time, with a more vulnerable and perhaps even a bit possessive tone, "You won't leave me, right...? I promised I wouldn't leave you, so you have to reciprocate..."
She moved away from his ear and made eye contact with him. Everette felt something inside him when he saw her pleading eyes. He couldn't help but become even more flustered than he already was.
Ada waited for his response. Noticing that he was taking a while to answer, she began putting more pressure on him. She was going on the offensive.
"Right? You wouldn't leave me, right? We're in this together... Right!?" Her voice was growing more and more desperate for his confirmation, and he couldn't help but blank on how to respond.
Her arms wrapping around his chest began to tighten. He could feel the air being pushed out of him.
"Back at Trinity, I noticed you paid more attention to Alice than me. Why? You still haven't given me an answer, Everette." She stared intently at Everette. Her eyes burned with jealousy at the thought that Everette was smitten with Alice.
"I just visited her occasionally to give her some food."
"Food? Why didn't you visit me as well to offer me some as well?" Ada's face was painted with scepticism as she scanned Everette's face.
"T-That's because I don't know where you were. Alice was always in that Cadel."
Her eyes narrowed at that before returning to her place in the crook of his neck. She breathed hot air onto his neck before slithering up back towards his ear.
"Fine... I'll believe you. But if I catch you ogling at other girls or even show a hint of attraction towards them... I'll—"
"Okay, Okay...!" Everette calmed her down before she could get any more intense. Ada smiled at that before nuzzling into the side of his face.
He breathed out a sigh of relief. He couldn't help but feel that this Ada was a lot more troublesome to deal with than "normal" Ada. He rubbed the back of his head.
"So... You won't leave my side, right?"
"Huh?"
Everette totally forgot about the question she had asked before. Her sudden possessiveness had flustered him so much that he couldn't process everything she had said just a few seconds ago.
"You still haven't THAT one yet, darling~..."
Ada stared at him with beady eyes. Her hug became ever so increasingly tighter, causing an uneasy feeling to well up inside him. He sighed before accepting that he wouldn't leave her side.
Her eyes flashed with joy before rubbing her face into his chest like some sort of kitten. Everette swore that he heard her purr as well. Her hair brushed against his face, which caused him to pat them down.
Ada, assuming that he was patting her, leaned into his hand. Everette eyes widened before mentally facepalming, 'You couldn't have just stayed still?' It wasn't that he didn't like the feeling of being close to Ada.
It was just that he preferred it while she was still in her right mind because it currently felt like he was taking advantage of her a bit, even if he was the one being forced.
***
He spent half an hour being her pillow. He had heard something going on outside but couldn't go out to satiate his curiosity due to his current circumstances.
A few moments later, the door slowly widened to reveal Alice holding what seemed to be two bowls of stew. Ada, while cuddling up against Everette, saw her in the corner of her eye and quickly crawled behind Everette with a timid expression.
She pressed her chest into his back and tightly gripped his shoulders with trembling arms. Everette's face glowed red a bit when feeling two soft mountains pressing up against him.
Everette's eyes twitched, and she held a wry smile at this sudden action of hers. 'So she's timid around other people but not me!?'
Alice placed the bowls on the bedside table before quickly making her way out while trying to hold in her laughter. Everette tried to reach out to her before failing once again.
He balled his fist in the air in frustration before once again feeling Ada breathing into the side of his face.
"Evey~..." She held out her hand before pointing at one of the bowls. The bowls were nothing special other than being ceramic. She linked with his right arm and pulled against it.
"Feed me..." She urged him with an innocent expression. Everette stared at her before breaking out into a burst of laughter. He couldn't help it. She was way too different from how she usually was, and it seemed like some kind of weird dream.
He picked up her bowl and the spoon before scooping it. He noticed the stew was brown and held small floating pieces of beef in it. He sniffed the steam coming from it and couldn't help but have his drool pool up inside his mouth before gulping in anticipation of trying it later.
He carefully held it up towards her face. "Open up, Ada." In response, Ada just stared at it and sensed how hot it must be. She pouted before ordering him to—
"Blow it first..."
He sighed before doing as she asked. He slowly pulled the spoonful of stew towards the face before blowing it.
Fwoo... Fwoo... Fwoo...
He gave three soft blows before holding it back out towards Ada again. "There... Happy?"
"Umu!" She nodded with a satisfied expression before opening her mouth and taking it into her mouth. Everette's eyes softened at the sight of her joyful expression.
He couldn't help but start to pat her head unconsciously. Her eyes went off like fireworks at his sudden petting. She stared curiously at Everette before cutely tilting her head innocently to the side.
"Enjoy it while it lasts. I'm not always going to do this." Her body trembled in pleasure from how good his patting was, and she couldn't help but recline back into him and lean towards his hand.
"Mhmn~" She gave a small moan.
Everette couldn't help but chuckle a bit at that before continuing to feed her. He began to want more moments of peace like this with Ada.
'Peaceful... I hope moments like these come more often...'