"Say Nagisa, do you know why Koro Sensei is having all of us to meet up?" Kayano asked with her head slightly tilted.
"Who knows, he's probably just l being lonely again. He's already tried that a dozen of times even though we just graduated two weeks ago." Nagisa replied with a forced smile on his face.
"You seem to have something on your mind." Kayano said while elegantly sliding in front of Nagisa and looking at him with worried eyes.
The relationship between them had been different since graduation. It wasn't like anything had happened between them, but Kayano somehow had the feeling that Nagisa and she were slowly drifting apart and she didn't like that.
"Huh?" Nagisa seemed shocked for a moment but quickly regained his composure after slightly leaning back, "It's nothing." He answered with his usual gentle smile on his face, but Kayano just felt that something is different; it didn't feel as natural as it was back in school.
"Ok…" Kayano forcefully smiled at him and continued to walk, what Nagisa didn't see, was her almost tearing up after she had turned her back towards him.
It's been like that since graduation, back then they could talk for hours without running out of topics, but now it suddenly felt so hard to start a proper conversation even with her trying so hard.
Nagisa slowly lifted his head and looked at Kayano who now is walking right in front of him. When Kayano suddenly appeared in front of him, his brain just went blank.
-She looked so cute-
Was what Nagisa thought while shaking his head. He didn't know why but her tiny body looked so fragile all of a sudden, despite the fact that he knew she was a well-trained assassin just like him.
Recently he had just randomly been getting the urge to hug her and to keep her in his arms, an urge so strong that even with all his training he wasn't able to keep these feelings suppressed once they were there. And this really was freaking him out.
It's been like this since graduation. Back in school, Nagisa was so concentrated on assassinating Koro Sensei, and even after he decided not to do so, all sorts of things popped up that he never had any time to spare.
But now that they've all graduated, he suddenly had all the time in the world and nothing to worry about. So he finally had time to think about himself, he had time to observe things in another perspective, he had time to look at Kayano as just a friend without the influence of school or assassination.
And that's when he realized that she changed, not physically, but in his eyes, Kayano had changed drastically. Every time he was around her, all kinds of feelings just kept surfacing and he would get nervous whenever she had her sight on him. He loved her and he didn't know what to do, he was scared. He really wanted to tell her, but he was afraid that it might just ruin the relationship between them.
He liked how it had been, and he wanted to keep it that way, at least till he found the ideal condition to go for the guaranteed instant kill. That was what he had learned in his past years, but how was he going to create this moment? In this case, he couldn't just go up and use his Nekodamashi!
What Nagisa didn't know was that this target of his was different than any target he had ever faced. This target wanted to be killed by him; she was eagerly waiting for him to make the move. All he needed to do is to raise the blade and she'd jump into it by herself. The ideal condition was always there, but Nagisa couldn't see it with all the habits of assassination that's still rooted inside him. This would be Nagisa's last and most important assassination.