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The same evening Law and Elga walked towards their way back home with the boy holding the bike beside him.
They were wandering in the snowy path silently with the only sound to be heard, the fresh snow that crashed with every step.
The brunette's brain was troubled with thoughts that swirled in it all day long after the second kiss, the boy stole from her.
She had finally set her mind and decided to trust him and leave her feelings overwhelm her heart for good without hesitation.
She turned her gaze towards him and realized he was the reason she owned a place to live peacefully, safe from nature's dangers, she had a job at the small clinic and some new people to call friends.
He also made her sense all those new feelings, she never thought she was going to have for another person and her soul was finally calm after such a long time of trying to survive on her own.
"Why are you looking at me?" Law talked still looking in front of him.
The girl turned her head aside to hide her blush.
"Uhm, I decided that I trust you…" she said in a low voice and this sentence caught the boy's attention.
He glanced at her face and left a sigh.
The situation between them was indeed a confusing one.
He still hadn't clear his feelings inside his mind and heart but only acted according to his instincts and still immature male hormones in puberty.
He knew pretty well though his system's changes as a teenager doctor and tried to separate his true feelings from his body's needs.
However, he couldn't deny the affection he sensed for this girl even though he knew both of them should be careful when it comes to a relationship of this kind.
"Wrongly, though… I'm not a trustworthy person." he replied blankly.
"I don't care what you think of yourself but I feel like it."
Law was taken aback with this response and couldn't help but chuckle.
"What? You are not taking me seriously?!" Elga asked putting a serious face.
"It's not that… I just would never thought you would end up being such a sentimental person. Thinking about your behavior at the beginning…" he explained and placed a smirk on his face remembering the girl's aggressive attitude when they first met.
"Well, whose fault is that?" the girl answered looking at the ground with her face turning an even darker shade of red.
Law's cheeks took a light pink blush but he hid it by bringing his hat lower to his face.
He found it hard to hold himself from kissing the girl one more time for this day but he decided not to surpass the limits.
He didn't say anything in response and just kept walking for the rest of the way.
~…~
"The hair salon is so busy those days! I want this festival to end!" Shachi whined letting his tired body melt on the chair, after eating his dinner.
"You don't mean that…" Penguin answered eating a bite from his grilled fish.
"No, I don't mean that heheh, only imagine all those beautiful girls! I just got bored of fixing hair and breathing hair products!" he explained.
"I'm thinking of visiting the hair salon too in order to have a nice hairstyle for the festival." Elga entered the conversation, glancing at Law to remind him her true purpose.
She only wanted to talk with Cynthia and only this. The brunette didn't care much about her appearance after all and more importantly didn't want to create a false idea to the black-haired boy in front of her who had carved a teasing smirk on his lips.
"Of course Elga-chaaaaan~~~ I'm going to make the best hairstyle ever to your beautiful hair!"
"Actually, I want to see Cynthia…"
"Oh…" Shachi replied gloomy and stood up to pick his dish and place it into the kitchen's sink.
"Law? Are we going to the festival tomorrow?" the white fuzzy bear questioned the boy but Law only sighed annoyed.
"You can go if you wish, I will stay home." he blankly answered.
He preferred to spend some time studying from wasting his afternoon at a noisy and crowded festival.
"But it won't be the same without you…" Bepo continued putting a cute face.
Law found it pretty hard to contain his serious self, watching his friend with this expression and knew this situation would get nowhere, he rolled his eyes and pinched the edge of his nose.
His gaze fell on the girl's dark brown orbs that seemed like they were pleading him to come along with them.
"Alright, but only for half an hour…" he said defeated.
The girl's eyes brightened with joy and so did the other's at the positive response.
Bepo stood up from his seat and started dancing in joy while taking his dish to place it along with Shachi's one, inside the sink.
However, this polar bear had difficulty in realizing his true size and his body fell on the china closet that was full of plates and glasses.
Within seconds the cupboard started falling towards Bepo as the shocked bear froze and didn't move but just stood there watching it.
Elga with quick reflexes, rushed to push the bear and save him but stumbled on the chair in front of her and fell on the floor.
She stretched her right hand in a silly effort to reach the bear.
"Nooooo!" she yelled out of her lungs frightened for Bepo's life and suddenly a pink light like a beam came out of her hand and overwhelmed the furniture holding everything away from him.
"E-Elga-san, your eyes…" Penguin said observing the girl's orbs that had turned into a shiny pink color.
"S-stop looking at me stupid and g-go catch the furniture! B-Bepo g-get out o-of there!" she tried to reply panting hard.
Bepo completely scared moved aside and Law stood from his chair and run towards the spot holding the china closet on his shoulders when he saw the girl bleeding from her nose, probably as a sign of high brain pressure.
The cousins rushed to help Law too when the girl stopped using this power and dropped unconscious down.
When everything was back on their position the black-haired boy walked towards the brunette and picked her up on his hands, bridal style in order to lay her on his room's bed.
It was too cold outside to transfer her on her own bed and he could admit he was kind of shocked too even though he kept his coolness until the end, so he wanted to keep a close eye on her all night.
"What is all this ruckus about?! Law? What happened to the lassie?" Volff entered the place ready to get everyone scolded for the noise but watching the scared bear and the fainted girl, he began getting worried.
"Come with me. We will talk in private." the boy answered and the elder man just nodded his head and exited the kitchen, leaving Shachi and Penguin behind who tried to comfort the negative bear.
~…~
After placing Elga on his bed, Law closed his quarter's door so as to keep quit and let her rest.
Volff waited for him to begin the explanation, having his hands crossed on his chest.
"Elga-ya activated her devil fruit powers." Law said and glanced at the old man.
"You told me once you know many things about devil fruits, right?"
"Yeah, it was my hobby many years ago."
"Her eyes had turned a color like pink and there was something like a beam with which she held the furniture." the boy continued with Volff hearing the details carefully.
"I do have some fruits in mind but it is likely to be that one if her eyes turned this color…" he responded like mostly thinking out loud.
"Which one?"
"Buren Buren no mi (Brain Brain fruit –if I'm wrong with translation inform me plzz, I don't know Japanese xD-)." He mentioned the name and Law took a serious expression.
"She will have the ability to lift and hold things with her brain, read and even control other people's heads. Also she can use more than the 10% of her brain and memorize a large amount of information… As you can understand there will be many after her in order to use her fruit for their own benefit." Volff advised the boy and Law nodded understanding what the elder was trying to say.
"This fruit is pretty difficult to handle. She will need help to train it and learn to use it right." he added and place a hand on Law's shoulder, squeezing it a bit to give him courage.
Law felt like the weight of protecting this girl fell on his shoulders with Volff's touch but he knew it was his responsibility as the leader of this group after all.
He wouldn't leave someone harm his own people again in his life.
"Alright, Mister Junk…", he replied and Volff frowned at the sound of his nickname.
He started walking irritated towards his bedroom so as to sleep for the night while Law returned in his room to check on the girl's nosebleed and wellbeing.
He approached her sleeping figure having the lights turned off and took a hold of her hand sitting beside her on his bed.
He knew there was no way she could know this move and just kept observing her beautiful features in the night's silence.
"I know this will be too much for you but we are going to surpass it together.", he whispered at her remembering the times he had to get used to his own fruit's abilities.
"I decided that I trust you…", he thought of the words, she confessed to him earlier this afternoon and looked outside at the cloudy night.
"Elga-ya, I will not let you down.", he whispered to her, determined to do anything to protect her and stood up to leave his quarters and go check Bepo.
