35. Have To Keep Pretending

"Who said you'd have a short life, who dares to talk like that?! I'll punch them!" Kane snapped angrily. He gripped Claude's shoulders, causing Claude to grimace in pain before laughing at Kane's concern.

Upon reflection, Kane wasn't so bad after all.

"Are you cursed?" Kane asked whilst examining Claude's forehead, thinking Claude still wasn't fully aware because of his rambling speech.

"No," Claude replied, removing Kane's hand from his forehead.

"I thought you were cursed," Kane sighed in relief.

"I don't know," Claude replied, unsure if this was a curse or not, but he knew there were times he would die again and times he would get sick again.

Claude ran his finger on the scar on Kane's cheek, and Kane felt comfortable being touched like that, but soon he realized something.

"Hey, who told you to heal my wounds?" Kane panicked, but he didn't let go of Claude's hand from his cheek; it was rare for Claude to touch him first like this.