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She had given up and now spoke to him, her back turned. "So now what?"
"…We talk."
"Huh." She sounded sarcastic.
There was a silence.
"Why do you not look at me?"
"Because if I do, I'm gonna start acting like an idiot. I won't be able to think straight."
Another silence.
"…You know, Aoshi-sama…"
"Hm?"
"When you… Kissed me… I…" she cut herself off, then got the courage to speak again. "For those two seconds I was done. I wanted you never to stop… But when you… When you looked at me like that…" she shook her head. "Why'd you do that, if you really didn't want to do it that bad?"
He did not speak for a while. "…I-" he stopped. "…I thought that if I showed you that I was nothing but a man… Not any grandiose figure that you fell in love with… You would cease to feel for me in such a way. But instead…" he did not finish.
There was another silence.
"Instead what?" she asked. "'Cause I didn't fall in love with any weird-ass grandiose figure. I fell in love with Aoshi-sama."
"Instead, I finally, truly realized that I was an absolute idiot."