Outcasts and Outlaws
Volume 3, Chapter 7
Connor's Burden
Opening Music: https/youtu.be/zL6lJ3cP6kw
[The Pet Girl of Sakurasou OP 2]
OUTCASTS AND OUTLAWS V3
(Cherry blossoms fly past the screen)
Harewataru sora wa aoku!
(Shows Connors feet running) Chikazuitekuru
(Shows Connor's while he's running)
ashioto!
(Shows Ruby in a cherry blossom tree)
(Ruby jumps down from the tree) Hikaridashita kaze
(She lands in front of Connor)
Ni osa
(Shows Ruby looking at Connor) Reru
(Shows Connor looking back at her)
you ni hora
(Shows them both looking at each other)
Deatteshimatta!
(Zooms on Connor and shows flashbacks of him)
Sorezore no yume!
(Zooms on Ruby and shows flashbacks of her)
Sorezore no mirai!
(Connor and Ruby turn around and see each other)
Makenai
(They walk towards each other) you ni hashiri!
(Shows Mars)
Kizuitara zutto
(Shows flashbacks of Mars)
issho ni itanda!
(Shows a young Connor smiling behind him)
Dare yori mo!
(Shows Jim and Yang eating together)
Nayande
(Shows Jim carrying Yangs shopping)
ochikande
(Shows Yang yelling at Connor) naite
(Yang gets Connor in a headlock) Waratte!
(Shows all of them at a table celebrating)
Kasokushiteku!
(Shows Kane)
Kimi ni todoke!
(Shows Irileth)
Sora wo kakete!
(Irileth tries to hug Kane but he moves)
Massugu na
(She tries again and he moves again)
omoi
(Stephane runs in between both of them)
gyutto dakishime!
(Shows Connor and Ruby together) Kitto
(Zooms on Connor's face when he smiles)
umaretate
(Ruby smiles back)
no tsuyosa
(Ruby runs over to Connor)
wa mune ni!
(Ruby hugs Connor)
Kono kimochi ga tsubasa
(Connor takes Ruby's hand)
ni nari!
(Connor and Ruby run to the Beacon entrance)
Watashi wa watashi wo tameteyuku!
(Connor and Ruby meet up with everyone else at the Beacon entrance)
END
The next day Connor, Ruby, Jim and Yang gathered in the lunch hall again. Kane had been dragged off by Irileth, who was wanting to sow something into his cloak, and they hadn't seen Mars since the party. Ruby had her head in a weapons magazine and was cooing excitedly at all the new models whilst Connor watched her with a smile on his face. Yang was busy putting together the last parts of Jim's mechanical arm, fixing the last screws of his finger joints into place. When she was content with her work, she pocketed the screwdriver and then reached down to her side, pulling a yellow spray can out of her bag. She pointed it at Jim's robotic hand and sprayed yellow paint on the back of it, drawing the same yellow fire symbol she had decorating her weapons and clothing.
"Hey!" Jim exclaimed as he noticed what Yang had done. "Why'd you do that?"
"I figured since I practically built it I should put my symbol on it." Yang responded, whilst placing her spray can back in her bag. "You got a problem with that? I think it looks cool."
"I guess not..." Jim muttered quietly, looking away from Yang and staring off into space.
"Well it's all fixed up now, so be careful with it." Yang instructed. "I'll be annoyed if you break it again."
"Yeah, ok..." Jim said, not really paying attention to what Yang was saying. Ironically he was too busy thinking about what had happened between him and her in the workshop.
"Hey! Are you listening?!" Yang yelled, pinching Jim's ear until she got his attention.
Connor looked over to the two of them briefly, annoyed by the ruckus they were making. He wanted some quiet time to hang out with Ruby, something that he hadn't been able to do very much since returning to Beacon. Sighing at the sight of Jim and Yang beginning to argue and knowing they would only get louder, Connor turned back to Ruby and asked her, "You wanna go hang out somewhere quieter?"
Ruby looked up from her weapons magazine with an innocent look on her face, her hair flopping with the sudden head movement. Connor found himself perplexed by her cuteness as he had been on multiple occasions before. He could have sat there and admired her for hours, if Yang and Jim weren't going at each next to him. "Umm...sure! Back to your room?" Ruby replied, not too concerned where they hung out as long as they could spend some time together.
"Sounds good." Connor agreed, standing up and holding hands with Ruby. The two of them then walked out of hall, while Yang pinned down Jim on the floor with her eyes blazing red.
"Yang, please let me go!"
"Shut up!"
When the two of them arrived back in Team KALOS's room, Ruby immediately sat down on Connor's bed, smiling brightly as always as she stuck her head back into her magazine. Connor walked to the back of the room where the mirror was and stared at his reflection in the clear glass. He felt a strange urge flow through him, an urge to take of his eyepatch. He usually didn't let anyone see the scarred skin underneath, even Ruby rarely sighted it. He suddenly wanted to remove his patch however, let Ruby see the damaged eye, let her know he was comfortable for her to see it. He hesitantly moved his hand up to the eyepatch, but stopped just before he reached it, a little nervous. He'd never looked at himself in the mirror with his eyepatch off before. He had a pretty good idea of what it probably looked like, but he had never seen it for himself.
As he hesitated, Ruby looked up from her magazine and saw him reaching for the eyepatch, but his hand was frozen in the middle in the motion. She dropped her magazine on the bed and rushed over to Connor's side, looking in the mirror with him. "You don't have to take it off." She told him. "You can wear it all day if you want to."
Connor considered leaving it on for a minute, if Ruby didn't mind, then where was the harm? He then remembered why he had wanted to take it off in the first place; so that he could get used to not wearing it all the time. He raised his hand up again, grabbing the fabric of the eyepatch, and slowly pulled it off. He and Ruby looked in the mirror at the skin covered socket where his right eye had once been for a moment, Connor rubbing the skin around it with one hand, looking gloomy.
"If I hadn't been captured, you'd still have your eye." Ruby muttered solemnly.
Hearing that, Connor spun round to face Ruby and put his hands on her shoulders, then looked right into her eyes and told her, "I promised to protect you didn't I? My wounds are nothing...because I was still able to save you. Don't you ever think that if take my good health over yours, I'd take a thousand more scars for you."
"Connor..." Ruby replied as she stared back into his eyes, the the two of them both leaned forward and exchanged a loving kiss.
It was at that moment that the door swung open and Mars stared into the room, seeing Ruby and Connor embracing each other, and walked into the room carrying a big box full of books and dryly commented, "Get a room."
Letting go of Ruby and rushing to pick up his eyepatch and put it back over his skinned over right eye socket, Connor replied to his old mentor, "We are in a room."
Mars yawned loudly as he put the box of books down on his bed, and then turned around and replied, "Whatever, I need to speak to you privately."
"You can't say whatever it is in front of Ruby?" Connor asked.
"No, this has to be between you and me." Mars responded.
Connor faced Ruby and asked her, "You okay to wait for me outside the classroom?" Ruby nodded and said she'd wait there, then gave him a peck on the cheek and left the room, allowing Mars to speak to Connor.
"So what do you want old man?" Connor teased as soon as the door closed, eager to hear what Mars couldn't say in front of Ruby.
"Hey! Don't call me an old man, you juvenile!" Mars retorted. "I'm barely 45 years old!"
"You're 47." Connor corrected.
"Whatever!" Mars snorted back. "Let's just get down to why I'm here!"
"About time." Connor wryly commented, sitting down on his bed as Mars took a seat on his own.
"Right...well...I know you haven't told Yang about your engagement to her sister." Mars began.
Connor started to look troubled. He rubbed the back of his neck with one hand and replied, "What's your point?"
"You're going to have to tell her eventually, she might not let you marry Ruby but if you keep it a secret until she finds out, then she definitely won't." Mars advised.
"Well..." Connor replied, then sighed and said, "I guess I will have to suck up and tell her at some point...even if she does pummel me for it."
"That's the spirit!" Mars exclaimed, standing up and grinning at his student. "Even if she does break your ribs for it, you've gotta tell her!"
"Inspiring." Connor commented sarcastically, standing up from his bed. "Hey...why couldn't we talk about this with Ruby?"
Mars then grinned sheepishly and ran a Han through his green dyed hair and answered, "Well I I know I am incredibly handsome but you should know I'm not all that good with woman."
"Handsome? My ass you are, old man!" Connor retorted. "Besides, Ruby's thirty years younger than you and she's engaged to me!"
"Age makes no difference, love could blossom between any two candidates!" Mars teasingly countered.
"Love?!"
In an instant Connor was pushing Mars out of the room by his back, fuming at his horrid joke. When he reached the door and Connor opened it for him, Mars went serious and sternly told Connor, "Listen, I know I joke and tease you a lot, that's only natural as your my student, but remember that if you need any kind of help, I'm here."
"Sure..."
Ending Music: https/youtu.be/URQJP9UbjdA
[Nisekoi OP 1]
(Shows tiny Grimm bird flying)
Kioku ga hiraku oto! Kikitai kara! (The tiny Grimm bird flies over young Connor's head)
Kimi ni sashidasou!
OUTCASTS AND OUTLAWS V3
(Shows Connor waking up)
Aa, konna ni mo!
(Connor leaves his room and starts running down the corridor) Taisetsu na omoi mo!
(Connor runs past Mars)
Toki no suna
(Connor runs past Kane)
ga ooikakushite!
(Shows Connor run past Team JNPR as they come out of their room)
Aimai ni shite shimau keredo! (Connor stops at the stairs and runs up them)
Unmei nante kotoba
(Shows Connor running to the top of the stairs)
wa chiipu da nante!
(Shows Connor run down the corridor to the other stairs)
Issho ni warai atteru kimi ga! (Connor jumps down the stairs) Sono hito datarri suru no ka na! (Shows Irileth, Stephane and Nora) Kitto!
(Shows Connor on his back and sitting up)
Minna daji na koto!
(Connor looks behind him)
Sokushi zutzu
(Jim, Yang and Ruby are behind him. Ruby seeing if he is okay) wasurete iku kara!
(Connor smiles back at them and stands up)
Kimi to no omoide wa!
(Connor stands with Jim, Yang and Ruby)
Wazuka dake demo
(Jim walks past Connor and pats his shoulder, and then Connor, Ruby and Yang follow him) takusasete yo!
(Shows the Kalos Crystal)
Sorou hazunai pazura!
(Shows Irileth from behind) Kakusheteta
(Shows Stephane from behind) Saigo no kakera!
(Shows Nora walking)
Kioku ga hiraku oto!
(Shows Ruby and Yang)
Kikitai kara! Kimi ni sashidasou! (Connor pops up)
(Jim appears next to him)
(Shows them walking into Beacon) END
