Shiki paused for a moment, looking intently at Kanra, slightly surprised by her reaction. He smiled fondly.
He said, "I see" before motionning toward her to kiss her lightly and making his way to the elevator, leaving her unable to correctly process the situation.
She stood there, watching him as he left, blushing when their eyes met before the doors closed.
It was becoming more and more hard to understand and predict the man's actions and she already started to think she should never have accepted his proposal.
However, there was no turning back now.
Shiki simply was not a man you could afford to lie to, she loved her life and she honestly did not wish to be found the next morning floating in Tokyo Bay.
She sighed and went back in her appartment, deciding she would do better to go back to bed. She couldn't work with such a headache anyway.
As soon as she entered the comfortable refuge of her blankets, her phone started to ring. Shiki's ringtone. Echoing through her room, resonnating into her head , she could almost visualize the sound going through her brain.
Even before she could make the decision to start moving the phone went silent, starting to vibrate instead.
It probably was a text from Shiki and the man didn't appreciate to wait for people.
She motionned to the phone and picked it up.
Exactly as she suspected it was a text from Shiki. She was unsure of what she felt, happiness or worry, as she opened it.
It read :
Through thorns the path is hard ;
Worth is the light at the end.
She stared at it for a few minutes, wondering what this was supposed to mean when she had an epiphany.
A haiku. That was a haiku. Shiki-san was courting her as he would have courted a woman during the Heian era.
An immense smile illuminated her face, the kind of genuine smile she would have been ashamed to have in front of anyone.
She suddenly felt like a high school girl in love, this knowledge was disgusting enough, had it been anyone else she would have dismissed the feeling and said it was only her hormones, that it was only sexual on her part.
And she would have thought the other party was only trying to trick her.
But it was Shiki, and Shiki did not lie.
She fell asleep, her phone in her hand, thinking she should reply as soon as she wakes up.
It's proper for a woman to make the man wait a little isn't it?