Princess: This thought just… came to me.
Pie: Yes. While watching the Karin anime. I always felt like… Boogie-kun was there for Anju more than he let on.
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I stared in horror as Anju curled up in the corner, crying.
In this form, I could do nothing to help Anju. I could do nothing to get her to stop crying.
Her silent sobs ripped my heart to shreds.
"Anju," I whispered in as sweet a voice as possible, but in the body that I'm in, my vocal chords are… well… non-existent. So it comes out more of a rasp. "Anju, you need to understand. If you do that to someone who is deathly in love, that's the way they'll react. Karin cannot live in your world, and in Kenta Usui's as well. You made the choice, and now you're paying for it."
Anju lifted her tear-streaked face, her emotionless, tear-streaked face.
"Thank you for worrying, Boogie-kun, but this isn't something of your concern."
"But you're crying!"
"I'm not."
"Not anymore. But even though there aren't tears and you're not making any noise, you're still crying on the inside!"
"I said I'm not crying," she snapped in her emotionless voice. Her normally unnaturally calm eyes flashed with anger, which was directed at me.
I can feel my own beady eyes blazing.
"This was my choice. And I don't regret it." Doubt coated every word that came out of Anju's mouth. "I did the right thing." The tears started coming again. "I did the right thing. I did the right thing, Boogie-kun!" She ran over to me and squeezed me tightly into her arms.
After a moment of thought, I replied in my most serious, yet soft voice I could muster.
"… Yes. Yes you did. You love your sister very much. You let her have her life, the life that she wanted. It was the best choice."
We just sat like that for a while. If I could, I would cry along with dear Anju.
Because I am her protector.