"I dOn'T kNoW, OkKAy?"

Shina explained to Hose multiple times but he seems to not fully believe her. She then gives back his hood to him.

"Trust me. If I know what happened I would rather tell you than die..."

"True..."

He thinks more about what happened back then. He looks at Shina again, staring at her figure once more.

She does looks like someone... but who?

"Do you believe me now?"

"Yes, I'm sorry"

After some minutes, they arrive at Luxender's place. When they arrive, Hose does the same greeting like before. Shina looks at Luxender and do the bows head a little bit. She notices that Luxender is with someone, he looks familiar. It's Ryouto. Shina tries to pretend she doesn't know him.

"Good day, your excellency."

Luxender smiles knowing Hose is really polite.

"You may raise your head, Hose."

Then Hose raises his head then looks at Luxender then to Ryouto.

"Congratulation on your winning to next round, Ryou-nichii"

"Thank you, Hose. I can win thanks to Lux-sensei who teached me patiently and also to the mysterious person who saved me."

"Well it is because you always train so hard than my other disciples too."

Ryouto chuckles a bit while Luxender just smiling. Hose seems so quite. Shina is trying so hard to act like she doesn't know Ryouto. She thinks if Luxender finds out that she knows him, for 100% he will think that Ryouto is the one who made mistake bringing her here by accident. It might lead him to be disqualified or even death. She thought so.

"Hose, the preparation is ready, you may go and take the portal scroll."

Hose bows once again before leaving the room to go get it. Shina seems to be nervous because only Hose knows her real identity than the two in front of her. She even prays in her heart for Luxender to not call or mention her name in front of Ryouto.

"Come here, you must be tired standing up so long."

Shina snaps out from her thoughts and nods following his command. She sits kind of next Ryouto but far a bit. Ryouto looks at Shina specious while Shina trying so hard to not make any eye contact with Ryouto.

"Have we met before?"

I'm death...

Shina looks back at Ryouto, not knowing what to answer. She doesn't want to lie, but in the same time not wanting to make any more problem or even unnecessary things. She might get killed. When she opens her mouth to say something, Luxender cuts her with his chuckles.

"Hahaha... I don't know that you like to flirt, Ryou-nichii!"

"H-HA?! I-I'm not flirting, sensei!"

Ryouto seems to be embarrassed and his face is all red. Shina seems to get hint that Luxender is helping her from the risky situation. It's like he reads her like an open book.

"Plus you know who I admire so that's no point for me to flirt with her."

Shina looks at Ryouto eyes widen. He has a crush? Wait why I'm curious about his private live? Shina looks to Luxender.

"Well, do you mean someone you lik-"

"Sensei!!"

Ryouto cuts him, making Luxender laughs so hard like there's no tomorrow. Ryouto just sitting there with a big blush on his face. he looks kind of cute when he's all embarrassed.

"And again you already know that she's gone a long time ago... there's no point to talk about her."

This makes Luxender stop laughing and smiles, it looks like he's remembering his old memory with someone, a little girl to be exact. He wipes his tears and adjust his breathing. After few seconds, Hose comes back with the scroll on some kind of a red pillow. It looks so fancy.

"Your excellency, I'm back with the portal scroll."

Luxender looks at Hose smiles again. He really smiles so much, it can make everyone thinks that he's kind and all. But not for Shina. It seems that he's hiding his true intention.

"Come here."

Hose walks closer to Luxender and gets on his knee. Luxender takes the scroll and looks at it for the last time, making sure everything is okay. Then he stands up.

"Come on, let's get both of you home."

This makes Shina and Ryouto snaps out. She then looks at Ryouto, meeting his eye in the same time.

WHAT I- I can't go home with him! If he notices my identity, how am I supposed to do?

Are we leaving in the same realm?

The eye contact kind of took long enough making Hose coughs to get their attention. Then both of them stands up to follow Luxender to some kind of big field. Before stepping in, Luxender gives Ryouto the scroll. Before Shina and Ryouto walks to the middle of the field, Hose whispers some words to Shina. She nods as an agreement.

Then Shina and Ryouto walks to the middle. He looks at Shina.

"Are you ready?"

He asked, only getting nods from Shina. He breath in and out then twisted the scroll and pulls it. They both can see the middle of the scroll, it looks like an old language on it then it shines. Like before, everything becomes blurry and then they snap back to their realm. Shina and Ryouto outfit changes back. Shina notices that Ryouto is not on his uniform anymore. He's wearing a big jacket with blue fire patterns on the back and on the hands. He also has jeans and a chain on his left waist. Shina realizes that she's starring so much then tries to run before he notices her.

"Wait-"

He holds her arms before she could run. She covers her face as much as she could from him. She doesn't want to have any further relationship with him after things she saw.

"Can I at least know your name?"

Shina doesn't answer him. She shrugs her arm out from his grip then runs away so fast, out from the garden. Ryouto just standing there looking at her figure fades. He looks at his palm again and then to somewhere else.

"Shina?"

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Not really new, just didn't post it after i finish it...
who knows?
i tried to fix some parts and maybe there're much more to fix but i didn't notice any
if there're any, please do let me know
thanks for reading btw
-vy

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