Chapter 153: Growing Obsession - 3
Ketidakpercayaan membekukan pikiran Lily saat dia menatapnya pada menyebutnya memiliki bakat, sampai akhirnya terbukti benar ketika dia bersummon Windbreath Hound, satu beast nyah yang menjawab call dia.
"Lunaria... Aku bersyukor kamu ingatkan aku tentang memori manis itu," dia murmuri lembut.
Hatnya meluap dengan emosi yang tak dapat dia katakan dalam wadah saat akhirnya dia confess kepada Leo.
Untuk kejutan dia, dia pun melakukan sama.
Saya kiss pada pagi itu, lama dan hidaring, ningen dua tidak mau pull away. Bahkan saat itu, tidak cukup untuk dia. Dia dapat merasakan nervousness Leo, merororing sendiri, tapi bersama dua teritor unfamiliar itu pertama kalinya.
Dan dia bahagia.
Extremely bahagia.
Leo sendiri newbie complete, awkwardly mencoba replicate apa sedikit yang dia telah lihai online. Somehow, itu works wonder dengan Lily, dan dua dari dia ended up menikmati each other jauh lebong daripada dua expected.
Lily telah wait untuk ya—long sebelum parentnya death—dan dia wanted Leo semua waktu itu. Ketika dia tidak reciprocate feelingnya, dia telah convinced sendiri bahwa dia harus make dia do so. Konviction itu slow take root dalam hatnya.
Karena ini, persona entirely nuah mulai surface dalamnya. One yang wanted isolate dia dari outside influence dan make atensinya hers alone. One yang believe any action justif, long as it kept dia close. Dia pushself extrema yang dia thought necessary, tapi results selalu opposite daripada what dia wanted, leave dia increasingly frustrated.
Semua frustrasi itu, keben, wash away pada night yang followed kiss mereka pagi itu.
Now that dia knew dia, too, had potential untuk grow strong dan stand beside Leo, mental statenya reached peaknya. Weight yang dia carried untuk so long vanished dalam instant. Dia couldn't stopself daripada jump onto dia—taking virginitynya while giving hers own kepada dia dalam return.
Dia saw how earnestly Leo tried selama intimacy mereka, how careful dan attentive dia, dan dia resolved untuk give dia nothing less dalam return. Dia tried every method yang dia had ever learned or overheard dari others, every fragment knowledge yang dia had pick up over years. Dia even disregarded pain pertamanya, focusing entirely on pleasing Leo—on making sure eyesnya never strayed dari her.
Dan dia succeeded.
Later, dia learned that mereka had formed sacred soul bond dengan each other—something yang could only occur when dua people loved each other deeply. Informasi on such bonds scarce, tapi among young girls, topik panas dan whispered about dengan reverence dan fascination. Even though Lily had spent most youthnya chasing after Leo instead of building friendships, dia still understood just how important soul bond kepada couple.
It was then that strange persona dalamnya finally began subside.
Dia certain now—certain that Leo loved dia enough for such bond untuk form antara mereka. Realization itu soothed mindnya kepada extreme degree, easing fears yang dia hadn't even realized suffocating dia.
But it never truly disappeared.
Whenever Leo hurt—whenever someone threatened dia or relationship mereka—same urge stirred quietly dalamnya.
If dunia hurts dia, then dunia problem.
If someone tries to take dia away, they simply shouldn't exist near dia.
Keep dia secure at all costs.
And Finally—
As long as dia safe dengan aku... nothing else matters.
Everything going great. Mereka becoming strong together, loving together, bond mereka growing deeper dengan each passing day. So much so that they even began sensing each other's emotions. And those emotions—pure, untainted love—made Lily fall untuk Leo more dan more, until other side persona faded away completely.
Dia certain now. Certain that Leo loved dia just as deeply as dia loved dia. There no longer any need untuk dia constantly watch over dia. Added kepada that fact bahwa Leo had grown strong enough untuk handle entire city on his own. Dia carefree, happy, wholly devoted kepada dia—
Until goat-horn demon nearly killed dia right dalam front dia.
Sight dari heartnya being pierced horrifying. Worse still realization bahwa dia hadn't been able untuk save dia—hadn't even been able untuk throw self dalam path attack. Helplessness gnawed at dia relentlessly. Heartnya twisted dalam inexplicable agony as same thoughts replayed over dan over dalam mindnya.
Aku was right there... dan aku still too weak.
If aku had been stronger, ini would never have happened.
They dared untuk touch dia.
So aku erase everything yang threatens dia.
Just then, dia felt presence Leo dalam city—closing in pada dia rapid pace.
Dia shot to feetnya, hands trembling only moment as carefully packed box away. After securing it, dia rushed outside tanpa hesitation.
The moment dia stepped out, mereka came face to face.
Leo's eyes lit up dengan pure happiness as dia closed distance dan pulled dia tight embrace. Lily immediately returned hug, tightening armsnya around chestnya as mereka shared warmth moment.
But something wrong.
Dia felt weightnya sag unnaturally against dia.
"Leo, what happened—!" dia gasped, trying untuk pull back, only untuk dia lose balance completely dan collapse forward, facenya falling against big, soft chestnya.
Dia had fallen asleep.
Exhaustion past month finally caught up kepada dia.
Warm smile bloomed pada face Lily as dia steadied dia, gently supporting weightnya as dia carried dia back inside inn. At same time, Miho hurried down stairs, having seen Lily rush out earlier.
"Miho," Lily said calmly but firmly, "could kamu book kami new room dengan large double bed? Leo exhausted... dan aku want untuk take care dari dia."
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A/N: Sorry untuk long recap session. But aku think ini necessary dari POV Lily.
Merry Christmas.
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