Chapter26

The girl went out of the huge metal thing sitting down on her knees and panting heavily. She put her hand on her mouth and tried to push the feeling of vomiting away as she forced her eyes shut.

"My, my, I knew that this would happen." The man squatted next to her and rubbed the back of hers trying to control over his laugh. She raised her head slowly to look at him with her miserable eyes that was about to weep.

"I-I-I'll never… r-ride…" the girl's head fell down on the guy's arm as she saw stars at that time.

"Yeah, yeah… you'll never ride a train again." He grasped her right shoulder and helped her to stand up off the ground as she wrapped her right arm around of his shoulder and they started to walk towards the bench.

"Come on, Natsumi-san. You're strong." He said and heard her mumble some things that he didn't even catch. He continued walking and wanted to tease her a little more. He looked down at her sweaty face and talked.

"I never knew that you would be this heavy, Natsumi-san." he chuckled forcing her eyes to be forcefully opened.

"S-Shut up, I-I-I'll hit y-you." The blonde placed the girl on the top of the bench and sat squatting in front of her looking at her from beneath, grabbing her cold trying to warm them somehow by rubbing them with his ones.

"Are you alright? What should I do to you?" the man questioned as he felt that his girlfriend suffer was somehow doubled after such a long journey in this train and that's why he felt really worried about her.

"Y-Yeah, I-I'm fine." She then felt like puking again. "N-No, I-I'm n-n-not!" she stated as she rested her back on the bench's back behind of her and squeezed her eyes shut.

"Wait for me; I'll bring you something to drink."

The blonde mage quickly stood up from his spot and walked away from her as he decided to buy some juice to this poor girl who was nearly dead because of that train ride. When he starts to think about it, he finds out that this mighty salamander has so many weaknesses like train and rain and even after those, she still acts mighty in front of people. And on the other hand, she shows him her weakness and he's happy that she is doing that. And it's not like she is afraid or embarrassed but she trusts him and all.

Natsumi moved her head and rested her cheek on top of the hem of the bench's back and looked at the space. Her heart was heavy and her mind was scrambled a little about the thought of coming here with him. She really never met his father but the thought of him made her thinks about her own father and thinks of what happened to her a long a long ago.

She took a deep breath and cleared her throat trying to push sadness away because she needed to stay strong for Lucas in such a moment.

Minutes have passed and the man came back again while he was holding a small can of orange juice. He sat down besides the beautiful girl who was looking at the other side. She moved her head slowly as she realized that he was already here. He raised his hand up to her face and cupped it with a soft smile upon his lips.

She moved her eyes to look at the figure that bothered her while resting.

"Lucas…"

"I brought you an orange juice. Come on," he helped her to sat up straightly and she stretched her arms out to grab the can.

"You didn't fully recover, right?" He stated slowly looking at her weary face while she was drinking. After hearing what he said, she put down the can on her lap grabbing it with both of her hands and letting out a sigh and not talking. "Is there something wrong with your body?"

"Nothing wrong but," she talked again but then paused feeling awful at that moment.

"Natsumi," he neared her and looked straight into her eyes. "I'm starting to get worried."

The dragon slayer moved her head to look at his face and straight into his eyes and then looked back at the same spot.

"My magic is so weak, old lady Porlyusica said it might take some months for my body to be fully recovered." She stated slowly as she started to roll the juice inside of the can. Lucas kept staring at her for a second and then decided to blame her for something.

"Why didn't you tell me?" he asked as he kept looking into her eyes that wasn't even looking at him. She moved her face to look at him with a weary smile on her lips.

"I never wanted to bother you since you were already bothered because of your father's issue." She stated slowly still wearing and the blonde didn't let the chance to argue with her in back.

"You should've told me. You said it yourself, you love being with me because you feel safe and that's what I feel too as well," he paused as he stretched his hand out to rub her left one. "Without knowing what's wrong with you will never let me feel safe at all." Natsumi felt that she was happy that time as she looked at him when he was worried about her. She feels that she was so lucky to have this person in her life and was ready to do anything to keep these feelings safety.

"I'm alright; I just need more months, that's all." She stated as she kept looking at the man besides her. The man was about to say another thing but couldn't since he was the one to ask her to come with him to visit his father's grave and she said yes. He can't just argue and she was forcing her body for him at least what he needs to do is just to try as much as he can to lessen the limit of forcing that poor body. Now, he just can't get rid of the idea of that he was the reason of all these things that had happened to her from the very start.

"You know," the girl cut off his thoughts to talk to him about something she had just realized. He moved his head to look at her face after staring at her hands that was rubbing the can slowly.

"What?"

"It's not the same drink but it reminds me a lot of the first time." she gave him a toothy grin and blushed lightly as the train of memories came running through the both mages' minds.

Now you say so. This thing seemed to be so familiar to both of them because it seemed to be like the first time they had met in. The man smiled as he started remembering things he was about to forget? No, he would never forget such a fateful day. The day that changed his life and turned it upside down.

"The day that turned my life upside down." The man smirked as he looked at the pink haired girl that was giggling next to him forgetting about her pain immediately.

"I remember slapping you back then," she laughed as she held her belly from laughing hardly. The man rubbed his cheek at hearing this remembering how painful the slap felt.

"Yeah, it hurt me real hard back then!" he kept rubbing the same spot. The girl didn't say anything after hearing that and kept staring at him on the eyes.

"Your worried eyes back then," She stated calmly as she remembered that the worried eyes that he gave her so many times and she never really got bored of.

"What about them?"

"I never forgot about them because all I did since then is worrying you." She stated as she looked deep in his eyes feeling that the both of them were all alone in this world and nobody was around of them, like they owned the world.

"Natsumi,"

"I'm so happy to be able to be with you, Lucas."

He was so happy to hear these words coming out of her mouth and he kept thinking what the good thing he has done to receive such a valuable gift. Now if he ever dies, he would die blissful.

"Thank you for being in my life." She stretched her hand and gabbed into his one as she really owned the world that time. Because they didn't have a fancy love, their pure love has kept rising and rising to the limit that everybody was amazed of how these two who were always fighting ended up to be having such a relationship.

"I should be thanking you, Natsumi." The man responded as he couldn't express how warm her words warmed his heart. "Without you I wouldn't have been living my life up until now, you're the one encourages me to… you're amazing and warm. You have the ability to make any person to fall in love with you." He paused to realize her blush that spread across her cheeks.

"But of course I'll never let them go near you because I own you." He squeezed his hand with hers and his eyes were just placed on her cute face that wasn't someone's aside from him. She laughed at what he said feeling how weak the mighty salamander can get for him just to be protected by him.

And this was all about love.