Chapter 06 : Mikage and the stranger's solution

Sitting on the edge of the bathtub, Mikage let Fon take care of her wounds. Her abdomen was full of nasty bruises and taking her tee-shirt off had been difficult. She tried to not let her half-nakedness bother her, even if she really had to pull herself together to do so. The older man had already seen everything there was to see during their night together, there was no need to get so embarrassed and yet... He softly rubbed the haematomas with some kind of homemade healing paste, before dressing them with bandages. She wondered what kind of face he was making, as he leaned over her belly she couldn't see it.

"Who did this to you ?" He asked. "You're lucky your ribs aren't broken."

Given that he was growling his words, he was probably angry. Mikage could understand, she would be angry too if someone she knew came to her so badly hurt.

"My father," she answered. "He's blaming me for my mother's suicide."

Fon clenched his fists, before rising his eyes to her level.

"You're not going back there," he said. "I'm not letting you."

She shrugged her shoulders with hopelessness.

"I don't want to go back either," she confessed while wringing her fingers. "But I doubt he'll let me go that easily..."

Fon took her hands into his, trying to comfort her. He could guess how hard it must be for her, he didn't want to make it worse but there was something he had to say, so he did :

"Mikage-san... You should take him to court. What he did to you is downright abuse, it's a serious crime."

"I can't !" She begged, trying to make him understand. "I can't... Not because of some misplaced filial duty or whatever but... That man... he has his fingers in so many pies... If I take him to court, he'll turn everything against me... There's nothing I can do, he'll never let me go... not alive, not ever."

Fon took her into his arms. It took all his self-control to not go kill her father at once. Only the knowledge that Mikage needed him now, kept him from doing so. He put her head on his shoulder, gently brushing her hair to help his thought process. He just had to take her away from her father's clutches, lawfully if possible. For that he should... He should-

"... get married !" He realized. "We should get married."

"Erh, what ?"

"Yes, it would be perfect : if you are married your father would no longer have any hold over you. It's really perfect, I just have to warn-"

"Ehm, Fon-san..."

"A small committee would be better... I-Pin will be so happy-"

"Fon-san !" She exclaimed to interrupt his rambling.

"Yes ?" He asked, never stopping petting her hair.

"Fon-san... I'm thankful you are trying to help me, really, but... we barely know each other, isn't a marriage a little... extreme ?"

The look on his face made her feel like she just kicked a puppy.

"You're right, sorry," he amended. "It was presumptuous of me to assume just like that. But, honestly, beside a marriage, leaving the country or taking your father to court, I have absolutely no idea of how to get you out of his custody."

Mikage grimaced, she really didn't want to try her luck with a court and leaving the country wasn't even a possibility.

"Fine," she sighed. "Let's get married."

"Hum..." Hesitated Fon. "Would you rather we find another person for you to marry ?"

"No, it's fine," she chuckled. "I'd prefer you over someone I don't know. And I don't have any other friend anyway."


Hello~! I think I read this in a fanfiction or a manga but I don't know if it's true : can girls really get married from 16 years old in Japan ? I made it like this in the story but perhaps it's wrong, I don't know... ^^ Anyway, Fon's solution is totally extreme, when you're abused I think it's better to report it to the police and go to the hospital... Well, it's a fanfiction anyway so let's let Fon be as extreme as he want.

Que l'inspiration soit avec vous,

Plew A.E