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These are the pictures on Kazuma's phone, which he knows all by heart. There is the picture of Veena where her head is tipped back, caught in a laugh. A picture of her looking out across a bridge, eyes squinted and the wind in her hair. He has a picture of her goofing around with her younger shinki, another of her scratching Kuraha's lion form behind the ears. And if Kazuma had to admit, he was jealous of Kuraha, in that moment. But he was a consummate lead, he pushed that thought away before it could sting her.
Veena doesn't really understand some of the pictures he took of her. "What is this?" she asks. She shows him the phone and Kazuma looks: it's a picture of Veena eating a plate of dumplings.
"I, er, liked the way you were holding the chopsticks."
"What about this?" Veena says, and she shows him the picture of her tugging on a boot.
"Um," Kazuma licks his lips. "You are putting on your shoes."
"And? You have a picture of this why?"
"Because..." he blushes. "Because it was easier to imagine you dressing." In his room, after having sex with him. He lets that go unspoken, however.
"So this picture then..." and she scrolls to a picture of her mugging at the camera and holding Yugiha's sword form, her fingers wrapped tightly around the hilt. "It's not what I think it's for, right?"
"Er. Well it is rather phallic."
"And this picture here? Of me eating that ice cream sandwich?"
"Uh..." Kazuma knows the picture she's talking about. Her lips are wrapped around the frozen treat suggestively, and he could almost imagine the position of her tongue up against the tip.
"Kazuma!" Veena's ears burn.
"Please remember that I never stung you!" Kazuma says.
Veena groans. Kazuma hides his face under his hands.
(He has other pictures, too. Of Veena hugging Mineha and her snuggling up against Kuraha's lion form, or resting her head against other shinki's shoulders. Those were a little more pathetic, in Kazuma's estimation - what red-blooded male fantasized about being cuddled? - but Veena found it sweet, and let the rest of it go.)