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Kite's POV

Aura walked towards me. As I knew that I wasn't the one that she wanted to approach, I gave her way to go to her daughter. She stroke Zefie's hair, then kissed her forehead dearly. This made me look at them longingly. They were AIs, yet I felt like seeing the real human mother and her human daughter. Was this the difference between common AIs and Ultimate AIs? Ultimate AIs were superior to common AIs. They seemed that they really had human emotion.

… or perhaps because I'm a human and have a heart, I can feel this ….. I thought bitterly. Seeing them reminded me of my mother and my younger self. Truthfully, it hurt, yet I felt right. I missed this feeling as my step-brother-to-be and my step-mother-to-be had been trying to ruin my previous personalities, and it looked like they succeeded. I changed to be who you saw me now.

Passing four years, I realized that she never changed a bit. I meant, she did change. Yet, she still kept her serene personality and white dress on her appearance. Things that made me admire her since I was a little boy as she looked like a runaway little bride or a lost small princess.

Now she was taller, and more mature, especially when I saw her blue eyes. I believed she had learned many things when I was gone, and at this moment, those eyes that showed fear and concern four years ago, developed into the eyes that showed intelligence and compassion. Even oddly, I also could feel a motherly sense from hers. Perhaps, it appeared because of Zefie.

Lastly, the change that I could see from her was that she was more feminine. I swore I didn't mean to be a pervert jerk. But at this time, her previous shape of little girl had changed into a beautiful young woman figure. Definitely wonderful.

I blushed, thinking about it.

So this was her current look. She was not a terrified shining girl that I firstly met. Also, she was not the bound little girl anymore, like the statue that I saw in the cathedral. Now she is the hidden ruler. The goddess of twilight. The core of the World. The girl that I ….

… killed ….

I swallowed hard. Stupid guilty feeling.

Honestly, I wasn't ready to meet her. I needed a good planning for this. I should prepare many questions, mainly about our last meeting. For God's sake, I couldn't sleep well after that incident. I even had nightmare about it for weeks, seeing her death repeatedly in my hands.

What was her reason to be killed … by me?

"Thank you for escorting her home, Kite," she gratefully said, pulling me back from my thoughts.

"No problem." I awkwardly grinned, realizing that now she called me by my name in the World, not my real name, though they were similar names. In fact, I felt a bit confused. How did she know my real name? Did she know my real identity? My real appearance?

I opened my mouth, but no question could be asked. She was staring at me as if she knew that I wanted to say something so she waited.

It's now or never.

I bravely asked, "Aura, do you mind explaining why you let yourself accept my last attack to Corvenik?"

She was stunned, then she composed herself. She knew that it still bothered me until now. She saw my intense eyes looking so demanding for answer without any intention to hurt her deliberately.

She answered sadly, "Since mother fused with him, any common attack was not useful. Moreover, you could be defeated and would never be able to save your friends. So I sacrificed myself. I believed I could be a good weapon to overpower them."

… and what you believed was true, yet ….

"You made me scared there," I said worriedly. "I couldn't sleep after that. That nightmare haunted me. If you had the plan to be killed, why didn't you tell me?"

"I'm sorry for letting you feeling that way. I just thought that you would refuse my idea. So I didn't tell you."

I sulked.

… of course. Letting my friends to be hurt or killed is not in my dictionary.

"Kite."

I lifted my head to gaze at her.

"Do you hate me for ending your adventure like that?" She asked carefully, afraid that I would say 'yes'.

I was amazed. I couldn't believe she had that idea.

"Do you hate me so you didn't want to come to the World again?" She asked again, more carefully. She looked like she was ready to accept the worst answer from me.

I wanted to comfort her, saying that I never had that feeling towards her. But the problem here was I wasn't type of guy with good mouth to say something dreamy (or maybe I was just too shy). I always thought that action and determination over sweet words.

"Well, I'm not the one who can hate someone easily …." Then I looked away from her eyes. Don't judge me wrong. Everyone thought when someone lied, he wouldn't dare to stare into the eyes of he was talking to. But was there anyone who could think another way?

I didn't lie. But seeing her eyes made me lost my words, and I didn't want to be a soundless loser here. I wanted her to know what I wanted to say.

"In fact, I can't hate someone … who granted me with this power … twice." I looked at my shining bracelet responding my words. This second bracelet, the Daybreak Bracelet, not having many differences with the first one that I asked BlackRose to destroy. The Twilight Bracelet. I continued, "And about why I didn't come to the World, I thought you hated me. So I keep myself busy with school problem."

"I cannot hate someone … who saved me and my world, Kite," she shyly said. From the corner of my eyes, I swore I could see she blushed a bit. So did I.

After four years of waiting for this moment, I felt relieved. Even I wondered where that guilty feeling went from my mind.

"Will you keep coming to the World?" she asked timidly.

I didn't want to admit her blatantly that the World was a second home for me (though I already said 'tadaima' to her, stupid mouth of mine!) so I would come into it again, especially after the big misunderstanding between us had been covered.

Still, I chose the short and reassuring answer.

"Well, I guess."

Kaito's POV

Logging off, I smiled contentedly while grabbing my visor to take it off.

I stared at the clock. 2.20 am, and it was Friday.

I hope I won't sleep in class.

However, I didn't regret it at all. Aura and I had good relationship now. I hoped this could make me easy to talk to her about the thing that kept bugging me since the first time I saw the little girl with the same hair color with mine.

Zefie's identity.

to be continued ...