Broken Mirrors and Hearts, Part 5
"So that's the story..." Keisuke leaned on the sofa as Junko and Mukuro finished explaining Kagemi's story. "Gods, we were so cruel to him just because we assumed."
"Yeah..." Bao En nodded softly.
Ryaku sighed, "Agreed.... Kagemi must have suffered so much..."
Rasen followed Keisuke's example, "But we should help him apologise to Cuddly then. Let him explain the story to Cuddly so he'll understand."
Keita nodded, "Yeah...."
Bloody noticed how down he seemed, so she decided to ask, "Hey, Keita, you alright?"
"Me? I'm fine," Keita's eyes were blank, though.
Movien recognised the gaze he owned. And he didn't like it.
"Keita," Movien grabbed the younger male's shoulders, making him look at him seriously. "This was not your fault. You didn't know."
"I know, but..." Keita sighed softly. "That doesn't justify me accusing Kagemi out of nowhere."
"Hey, hey," Movien sternly glared. "This was both your faults. Kagemi dropped it by accident, and you assumed. You are not going to have this guilt party. Kagemi is bound to forgive you."
"You sure?..." Keita mumbled.
Movien smiled softly, "I'm very sure. For one, I've been with Gemi for 30 years. For another, he knows that you don't get mad for no reason."
Keita was silent for a while before he sniffed, "T-Thanks...."
"No problem," Movien just hugged Keita as the SRS leader sobbed quietly on his shoulders.
Keisuke smiled before Natsume poked him. The younger brother blinked as he looked at Natsume, only to recognise the gaze she was giving him.
Keisuke didn't waste time, immediately getting up to join her and the rest of the Agency as they headed off to Jorogumo's room together.
"We should explain the truth to Cuddly too, you know," Akino offhandedly mumbled.
"But will Cuddly forgive him?" Touma questioned.
"That's a good question," Choiseung admitted. "We haven't known Cuddly for long, so it's difficult to imagine being in his shoes."
"What do you think, Keisuke?" Rau looked at the youngest of them. "You were the first one to meet Cuddly out of all of us here."
Keisuke considered it, "I think he might. Kagemi was just trying to improve it, anyway. He didn't mean to burn it."
"True," Akinori nodded.
"That makes sense," Chenhua remarked.
"Well, let's deal with Jorogumo first before we do anything else," Ayame reminded them as they arrived at Jorogumo's room.
The group then looked at one another, as if wondering who should knock on the door.
In the end, Akino was nudged forward, making the Japanese look at his friends in annoyance before he sighed and knocked on the door, "Jorogumo?"
"Come in," her voice called out, which gave them the okay to open the door and enter the room.
It was chaos, so to speak. Cuddly, or Bearlynyan now, was curled up in a ball at the corner of the room, while Jorogumo was watching with sad eyes on. Books, papers, toys... They were all messed up.
"Woah...." Ayame mumbled. "Why is Cuddly here?"
"He's been here since the date," Jorogumo sighed. "He's refusing everything...."
"All over one single date?..." Touma looked somewhat confused.
"He apparently worked really hard on it because..." Jorogumo looked away at this. "Because he was going to propose to me."
The group's eyes widened, but Keisuke's softened, understanding the real reason why he was this angry at Kagemi.
"Hey Cuddly, you okay?" Keisuke walked closer to the male and went down to be on the same height.
"N-No I'm not...." Cuddly sniffed. "M-My engagement was just ruined because of fire..."
"Just like the Cathedral fire in the non-fictional world, right?" Keisuke softly asked.
Cuddly numbly nodded in reply.
"It's okay, it's okay..." Keisuke patted him on the head. "I know how painful it is, but you have to let it go. It's in the past. Plus, there's something Kagemi wants to tell you about what truly happened. Are you okay to listen to him?"
"W-Why should I? H-He..."
"He didn't do it on purpose," Keisuke firmly spoke.
"H-Huh?" the bear Youkai looked up to the human, feeling confused.
"He didn't do it on purpose, Cuddly," Keisuke repeated. "You should listen to what he has to say first before assuming. Believe me, we did that, and he's a sobbing mess now because of us."
"H-He's a what now?" Jorogumo spoke up, eyes wide in shock.
"Keisuke's right," Natsume nodded. "Kagemi's a huge mess now just because we thought he did it on purpose."
"The result... Well, you should see it for yourself," Akinori added.
Cuddly looked a bit hesitant, but soon looked at Keisuke, "Can you take me there?"
"Same here," Jorogumo got up.
Keisuke gave a smile, "Of course."
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