The bazooka shot on the roof ledge causes a rain of debris to fall on her and Black Cat. Ayame feels her glasses slip away from her face. When she reaches up to fix its position, there's intense pain in her arm. Warm liquid starts dripping from her nose.
There's no denying that she absolutely loves the pain.
She tumbles in the air, landing on her butt. Ayame could die in happiness, until the Black Cat kicks her leg. It would've been romantic, had he not been a child.
"Get up," the boy says; and she obeys.
When Ayame blinks, the entire world before her melts into blurs of shapes and colors. She doesn't know where the Black Cat is, but she walks up to what looks remotely like him.
"That never-"
"I'm over here," the child says from behind her, and she finally sees him.
"That never-"
"Are you blind?" he says from beside her, exasperated. Her glasses are shoved onto her face, and Ayame has never felt so relieved.
She turns to Natsume, saying, "That never happened." The child looks at her for a moment before nodding.
The rest of their lesson is then spent sitting in silence.