Chapter 21
"K-Kou-kun!" Yui exclaimed as she pulled away from Kou.
"What?"
Yui blushed. "I-I'm sorry about what happened to you in the past... But you can't bring that up here! I mean doesn't it hurt you more?"
Kou was silent. "Hurt me?"
"Yes, don't you feel it? The pain that you feel when you remember about something that hurt you?"
"And what would that be?"
Yui gaped at Kou's words. "Your past.. Doesn't it hurt?"
"No.."
"Why?"
Kou smiled. "I chose to forget."
Yui's eyes widened and she started to cry.
"Y-Yui?!"
She sniffed. "I'm sorry... But I just feel sad that you wanted to forget a memory of yours..."
Kou sighed, "It's my memories. Besides, it has nothing to do with you..."
I can't be a person that can be her love... But being close to her is enough..
"N-No! It does... If I don't care.. and no one cares... Aren't you all alone?" she asked.
His eyes widened and he stared at her. "Why would you care?"
"Because I do!" Yui screamed.
Kou looked down.. His face darkened.
"Love is a candle
Flame that glows bright when cared for
Warmth can burn you
But bring you great joy
Fire burns everything
Love that shatters tear everything you have to ash
Burns hurt
But for a love I haven't felt before
I will experience that pain for you " Kou stated.
Yui blinked. "A poem?"
He stared straight down.. "I don't know.. Lyrics... Words.. I don't really care."
"A love song?" Yui asked.
Kou shakes his head. "How dense can you be?"
"Saying I love you... to me?"
"Yes saying I love you, is hard and new to me.. I've never felt like this before.. Why.. I.. never wanted to feel again.." Kou whispered.
"Then why now?" Yui asks.
He stayed silent.
"Kou?"
She reaches her hand out to him and tries to touch him, but he slapped her hand away.
"Please leave.. I want to be alone right now.." he muttered, his voice dark and emotionless.
Yui, hurt and puzzled, tried again. "W-What's wrong K-"
"I said LEAVE!"
Yui took her hand back and smiled nervously. "W-Well... Please excuse me then..."
She turned for the door and opened it.
"Being close to you was enough... But now I feel like I can't stop myself anymore.." he muttered. "So it would be better if you left me alone."
She closed the door and leaned against it. She sighed.
"Why did Kou-"
"Yui?" a voice said.
She turned her head and found Azusa standing a few feet away from her. "Azusa."
He nodded. "Did Kou tell you to leave?"
Yui shook her head. "How are you feeling Azusa?"
"I'm better more or less."
Silence..
"Azusa?"
"What is it Yui?" he replied.
She hesitated, "How do you know me?"
Azusa looked at the wall and laughed. "I was wondering when you were going to ask that."
Yui walked closer to Azusa. "Well, how do you know?"
"Haha.. I'm the one who saved you from those bad guys when you were little." he said.
"Eh? Bad guys?"
Azusa grabbed her arm and straightened it. "The ones who put the scar on your hand right here,"
He pushed her sleeve up and she found nothing but pale skin.
"Azusa, do you have a fever too?"
He shook his head and then his eyes glowed.
Suddenly, Yui felt pain up her arm. "Ngh.."
A long scar when up from her arm to her palm and it was glowing red,
"I hid the scar with a seal to hide it from you."
"B-But why-"
Azusa sighed. "I have the same scar on my back."
"Eh?"
He got closer to her. "You wanted to know how I knew you... Then I'll tell you…"
"What?"
Azusa leaned in close. "You came here looking so different so I didn't recognize you until I took a closer look. You look exactly like yourself when you were young." he said. "The eyes you had, the smell you had… I doubt you remember this.. But the reason I know you… the scar on your arm identical to mine… Remember when Kou said that you were his fiance?"
Yui nodded, confused at Azusa's words.
He chuckled. "No one knows this… not even Ruki or any of the Sakamakis.."
"What are you trying to say?" Yui asked.
"You guys faked that little fiance act of yours to get away.. But I'm here to tell you reality… Reality is.. You're not Kou's fiance… You're mine…"
Yui's eyes widened. "W-What?"
Azusa stared into her eyes. "Yui Komori… From the age of 10, your father and Karl Heinz arranged our marriage… from life to death… in sickness and in health… You..Yui Komori… You are my betrothed…"
She couldn't breathe, her heart stopped beating.
"And I am yours.."
Between them… A rose that was colored blue appeared…
"Believe me Yui…A symbol of marriage was already made…"
A blue rose…
Glowed bright between them… And it pulsed
Yui's eyes wide as she trembled slightly.
The blue rose…
The symbol of Eve and her knight's fate sealed with the rose that contained the soul of the Goddess of love…
"There is no turning back." Yui thought.
Azusa smiled wearily and nodded.
'Surrexit autem sors signati est ' he whispered.
Then fate is sealed…