A/N: Read the authors note below.
After moving away from Harribel, I went back to the human world where I ate together with Reika and Hikari.
Hikari asked me where I went and I told her that I met with some hollows.
"Met? Does that mean that they are smart like Starrk and Lilynette?" Sometimes, Lilynette would come here to play the arcade or watch a movie.
To Reika, she would be her usual personality but to me and Hikari, she would be as tame as a human child.
A/N: Get it? Cus she's a child?
I don't know what Hikari did to her but since I didn't sense any injuries on wither both of them then I just left it there
After eating, I looked at Reika who has been being shy around me ever since I've met her today so I asked.
"Is there something wrong Reika?"
"What?! N-no nothings wrong!" She said hurriedly.
"Then why are you being shy around me?"
"Sh-shy?! W-well...." Reika suddenly became quite.
"C-can you walk me home later?"
"Hmm? Sure." 'That question came out of nowhere but I still agreed.
"Then I'll tell you when during our walk."
I had a feeling that something was going to happen soon and Hikari also did.
After finishing eating, I walked her towards her home.
"So what did you want to talk about?" I asked while we were walking.
"Over here." Reika walked into the the dense trees that we were passing by and said.
I shrugged my shoulders as I followed her into the trees, where she stopped walking and turned around.
I stopped in front of her and asked, even though I already had an idea what was coming.
I mean blushing girl, closed off space, what else do you think?
"W-well I-I..." Reika stuttered, trying her best to muster up her courage, she has never been in a relationship before so she has no idea to confess, despite having been confessed in the pass, it would be her that was being confessed to.
Now she understand why her friends would be scared before confessing, because the thought that he or she might get rejected and the feeling of embarrassment coupled with disappointment is nerve wracking.
'If I don't do say it now then when will I?' She asked herself, steeling her courage as she said.
"I-I like you Claude."
'She said it.'
Hearing her confession, I started to feel bad for what I'm about to say next, but I still said it.
"I feel like an asshole for not telling you this earlier but I've been having sex with Hikari."
Contrary to what I imagined the affection in Reika's eyes didn't diminish in the slightest.
"I know."
"Huh?" Not expecting such an answer, I could only look at her confused, waiting for an answer.
"Call it a woman's instinct but in the past I started to have a feeling that you two became much more 'mature'."
"At first I just ignored it since how can I know that you two have matured when you guys already act like it?"
"Then I saw that you started to look at her differently, you guy also started to act TOO close to each other even for a friend relationship, whenever we would train your eyes will sometimes be on Hikari, after seeing that I started to get suspicious.
I started to think that you were just playing with me but even after 10 whole months you still didn't make a move on me other than taking me out of dates, and I could tell that during those times you were genuine.
"I thought for a while whether I should leave you but then I realized that you were the one that bring colors into my life." After finishing spilling out her feelings, she nervously looked at me.
After hearing her confession, all my rationality was thrown out the window as I instantly appeared infront of her and took her by surprise.
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