Ch. 30 A Moment of Relief
With all of the insanity that the group has dealt with, Shido decides to give a suggestion to Kotori and Mana, who are currently at the ship's helm. Shido thought of this last night, and suggests to Kotori.
"You know, we really haven't gotten the chance to do anything fun in a while, so we don't we take a day off to enjoy a day at the beach or something?"
Kotori doesn't oppose the idea, but has to ask.
"But what about Origami? I mean, we need to help her to and all."
Shido has a slightly worried look, but explains.
"Kotori, we basically just separated a young girl from her parents, I got Aki involved when he had nothing to do with this problem. Not to mention the others that got hurt because of me."
Mana enters the control area after hearing her brother and rebukes this in a concern tone.
"Big brother, whoever started this is to blame, not you or us."
Shido scratches the back of his head and adds.
"Yeah, but I think we still deserve some time off."
Mana and Kotori agree to this and decide to park the ship close to an island and have a day at the beach.
Elsewhere on the ship, Ellen is walking around since she can't get to sleep with her arm still in a sling. Kurumi is standing in the corridors of the ship in her astral dress as Ellen spots her. Kurumi looks at Ellen with an annoyed look, points her gun at her, and fires a shot at Ellen. Ellen makes no attempt to dodge this and instead takes the bullet. Her body then begins to reverse as she moves her arm a bit better. Ellen simply asks.
"Why didn't you use your power to help Hiro? He needs it more than I do."
Kurumi simply answers.
"Because that annoying soldier said I better save my time for someone who's worth it. Since he's out for a while, we might as well have you on standby."
Ellen wonders about Hiro now, but she decides to drop it for the time being since she needs to go to Shido and check on him. She thanks Kurumi, and walks to the bridge. Kurumi goes to the sickbay to check on Hiro, who is doing a little better but has a lot of bandages on his body from the injuries he has. Aki left the sickbay to go sleep in his cabin in the ship leaving Hiro alone in this room. Kurumi enters the room and looks upon Hiro and bluntly asks.
"What are you playing at?"
Hiro sits in the bed and simply smiles at her as he responds.
"Nothing, I just don't want you to waste your time on me is all."
Kurumi adds.
"You lost your eye. So you should just let me do something to fix that."
Hiro shakes his head and tells her.
"The fact you're okay is enough to make me feel better."
Kurumi gets a little annoyed and places a jar with a red eye in it and tells him.
"Then take this. I took out of one of my duplicates. So it's fine."
Hiro attempts to hand it to her, but she then knocks him out by smacking the wound on his chest which causes him to pass out from the pain. She then takes the eye out of the jar, pulls back Hiro's face bandage, and proceeds to crudely remove his damaged eye and replace it with the good one. She manages to do it successfully and walks out of the room whispering.
"Now we're even."
In the kitchen, Shido is preparing a picnic for the beach trip since he's decided to surprise the others. He is making sandwiches, rice balls with various fillings, salad, and some other things. Ellen walks into the kitchen to check on him since Kotori told her where he is.
Ellen tells Shido what happened, and then thinks that Hiro should probably stay on the ship for a while. Ellen offers to stay aboard the ship to protect him, but Shido disagrees and says and asks.
"I think he'll be fine alone on the ship. Besides, remember last night when you said you missed being a mom?"
Ellen nods and Shido explains to her.
"I bet you miss being a wife too. So I've decided that we're taking a day at the beach, and I'll be your husband for an afternoon."
Ellen blushes, and Shido blushes as well and immediately with a flustered look.
"But I mean within reason. You should know what I'm talking about right?"
Ellen's blush then gets replaced with grin as begins to laugh a little at Shido's innocence in this matter. After laughing for a little while, Ellen simply replies.
"I look forward to it then."
Author's Note- I'm very sorry this chapter took so long and that it is so short. I've been a little pressed on Next Generation Dragons and have had little time to work on this story, but I am doing my best to juggle my stories. I even decided to start doing shipping fic of DXD. I am not quitting Spirit Children, I've just been slow and I am sorry.