Anthology: A Slow Love
by Her Pretty Smile
Synopsis: #1: The first time they met, they clashed. —RazeUlrika.
Warning: Unbeta-ed; may contain mistakes or any of the sort.
Disclaimer: I do not own Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy or even the first series.
A/N: There's such a lack of Mana Khemia stories here. Let's add one! BTW, this is an anthology.
#1: Meeting
[RazeUlrika]
I.
When he first met her, he thought that she looked like a ditzy idiot.
[And she just proved that to him multiple times ever since.]
It also irritated him that she was actually more concerned about her gaudy-looking stone than the fact that he tripped because of it. And why did she even get angry at him? She was the one who dropped it in the first place, wasn't she? So why was she acting so stingy?
She doesn't even seem like a girl, he thought, irritated.
II.
The first time she met him, she thought he looked like a serious-looking jock.
...Okay, she admitted it. He did look a bit cool in her first impression of his looks, considering that his dark-blue cape really suited him and brought out the color of the blue sky in his eyes.
But when he opened his mouth, her mild admiration started to diminish little by little... until it turned into a drastic amount of dislike.
He's such a jerk...! she thought in annoyance. Sometimes he even pretends that he doesn't hear me. Jerk.
III.
He looks at the picture they'd taken before they graduated. All of them looked so close. All of them had all sorts of smiles on their faces.
After they had their big group picture, they also took pictures of each and every one and their preferences. He had a (forced) picture with Lily in which she had a kind of shy smile on her face and an unnaturally red shade painted on her cheeks. He also had one with Whim, who insisted on also having Et with them. Then, uncharacteristically, Yun had asked him for a picture. He explained that he would like a memento. Both Pepperoni and Goto joined soon after, resulting into some sort of wacky poses which made him and Yun cringe.
And, unexpectedly, she asked him for a picture. She didn't ask him in the normal way, though. Instead, she proposed the idea, and then pulled him towards her before he could even protest.
Not that he would, anyway.
The last time he saw her was at the graduation.
His last words to her were, "See you later."
IV.
The last time she saw him was at the graduation.
She clutched the copies of the developed graduation pictures in her hands, waving at her workshop friends and also to the teachers and her once-rival's workshop.
The boy she once disliked stood in front of her after she had said her farewells to the others, his blue hair flying along with the wind as he assessed her with his eyes.
A soft expression actually adorned his face. "See you later," he said.
She watched his retreating back and smiled, a light pink shade unconsciously colouring her cheeks.
(Chloe secretly filed away this tidbit of information for blackmailing.)
Her last words to him were, "Let's see each other again!"
fin
Author's note: Raze's last words in Japanese were: 'Ja, matta ne' or 'じゃあまたね' while Ulrika's were: 'Matta ai mashou!' or 'また、会いましょう'.