Chapter 90

"Am I interrupting something?"

Gabriela stood up in joy, "Yukina!" running towards her with a bright smile on her face, "I saw your battle!" hugging her tightly.

"Eh?"

"You, schemer… you spun your blade, doing nothing the whole match, all to suddenly use all that momentum to end the game in seconds!"

"hehe, I see… you two were watching?" glancing at Yuji.

Yuji waves as he makes eye contact with Yukina.

Waving back to Yuji, Gabriela suddenly hugged her tighter, "Aw! Gaby?"

Gabriela pouted, staring at Yuji holding Yukina tight, "so… is this the special attachment you told me about?"

Yukina blushed, "Eh?"

Yuji stood up, being flustered, "Huh!? Wait! I told you that was a misunderstanding!"

Gabriela let go of Yukina as she approached Yuji, "hmmm…." With a look of suspicion, she pulled her face closer to his, "was it now?"

"w…what?"

"S…stop it you two!" Yukina said, pulling both of them apart from each other in a flustered manner, "anyway, I need some explanation from both of you, what's going on here?"

"t… that's right! We need to do some explaining," Yuji said, "it might be a long talk so why don't you get her some snacks you got in your stash?"

"HMPH! You don't have to tell me, I was just going to do that," Turning around as she gets some snack from a distance.

Looking around the room, Yukina notices the two luminous balls in the corner.

"Those two…" she said in a low voice.

Yuji suddenly kicked Yukina in the leg.

"Ah! Why!?" looking at Yuji, she paused.

With a serious expression, Yuji locked eyes with Yukina, looking at each other in silence.

"what's with the serious face?" Yukina thought, "did he not want me to mention those things?"

As they both stared at each other in silence, Gabriela placed herself between them, "if you two aren't going to talk, then it's ok for me to go through this special attachment of yours, right?" walking between them, placing the snacks on the table.

"Geez, Gaby!? What's with this special attachment you keep yapping about?"

"why don't you ask Yuji?"

"Yuji!?"

"It's nothing!" Yuji flustered, "also our explanation! The explanation!" looking at Gabriela.

Gabriela let out a sigh, "Then let's all sit down, can we? Let's just take our time here now, unless you two got plans for the afternoon and evening," she said in a teasing tone.

"No, we don't!"

"Don't say it like that!"

And so, they sat down and began explaining the situation.

"I see, so it was because you were suspicious," Yukina said.

"And I still am," Gabriela said, "though in the end when I figured it's not something I'm involved with, I hardly cared anymore,"

"I see, then in that case I'm glad," she let out a sigh of relief.

"Anyway, I already took a lot of time from you both today. I don't want to bother any further so let's call it a day and pack up,"

"Hm? It's still in the middle of the afternoon,"

"I got some plans with one of my sisters today,"

"OH!? Who is it? Is it Rafaela?" Yukina said in excitement.

"I knew you'd react that way," she smiled, "yeah, it's Sis. Rafaela, she said she'd be visiting a lot more often now,"

"Really!? That's awesome! I'm so glad!" dashing towards Gabriela, hugging her tightly.

"Chill out Yukina, you seem way happier than me…. I can't breathe,"

"Oh, sorry about that," letting go of her, "Anyway, if that's the case, then let's all clean up now!"

Yuji stood up, nodding his head.

"eh? You don't have to! It's not much, I can clean up by myself,"

"That won't do, let's all do this together so it can be faster!"

"I'm getting a strange sense of déjà vu…" Yuji thought.

After some time, as they continue to clean the treehouse, Gabriela glances at the corner looking at the two luminous balls, "Oh yeah, I should clean this up myself,"

As Yukina was sweeping the floor with a joyous expression, Yuji was wiping the table repeatedly, keeping his caution, looking carefully around Gabriela.

Gabriela kneeled by the two luminous balls, looking fixated on them.

"Yukina isn't looking at her… she's trying to avert her attention from those things,"

Gabriela picked up the luminous balls, looking as if she was deep in thought, "It looks like Yukina didn't notice this, even though it was just lying down here…" she thought.

She suddenly shook her head and then grabbed the two luminous balls, "I should stop thinking! Overthinking things like this won't do me good," turning around, she glanced at Yukina, "Yukina," she called as she threw the ball on her right hand towards Yukina.

"Crap! That was the wrong ball! What am I doing spacing out like this!?" Gabriela thought, reaching out for the ball she threw in mid-air.

Catch*

Instinctively, Yukina catches the luminous ball with both of her hands reaching to her left.

"huh?"

"!!!"

Yukina glanced at Gabriela as she held out the luminous ball, "what is it?" she said, noticing Gabriela's surprised expression.

"You… saw?"

"Saw… what?"

Gabriela glances at Yuji with a dreadful expression.

Sweat drips from his forehead as he locked eyes with Gabriela's intimidating stare, emitting an aura filled with bloodlust. His body shivered as Gabriela took a step forward, with his instinct screaming danger, he stood up from the floor, putting his guard up.

"G…Gaby?" Yukina said, sounding nervous.

"you too…" Gabriela whispered.

"huh?"

"You… how long have you been lying to me too?"

"what do you mean?"

"you're in cahoots with this guy, right? You two have been lying to me… why?" she said as luminous blue lights start to emerge from her body.

"Gaby, I don't know what you're talking about!"

"SHUT UP! I don't want to hear any more lies!"

"Gaby…"

"You…" staring at Yuji dreadfully, "why did you lie about not seeing both of the balls… why did you say you can't see the one I made… why did you lie???" beginning to sound hysterical, "WHY? WHY? How much have you lied? Since when? Have you two been lying to me ever since you came here!?"

Noticing the luminous blue light spread throughout the area, the pressure in the air begins to intensify as Yuji began being circumspect about the situation.

"Gaby, calm down!"

"Liars… Liar liar! Liar! Liar! Liar! Liar! Liar! Liar! Liar! Liar! Liar! Liar! Liar! Liar! Liar! Liar! Liar! Liar! Liar! Liar! Liar! Liar! Liar! Liar! Liar! Liar! Liar! Liar! Liar!"

As the luminous blue light seemed to lose control, Yuji grabbed Yukina by the arm and jumped out the glassless window.