In the early morning, Leon awoke to a gentle sensation at his front.
The lovely touch of skin made him unwilling to open his eyes that were closed; he only tightened his embrace around the girl in his arms, that cozy laziness making him yearn for the messy bed behind him.
Olivia's eyes still held pity as her fingers gently brushed across her lover's solid, taut chest, her fingertips afraid to hurt the scars.
On Leon's body, the dark bruises, stark against his skin tone, looked like dye splash clearly on the canvas.
"Does it really not hurt?" Olivia carefully caressed them.
Those were injuries caused by Leon's jousting duel with Canis.
Despite armored heavily and the resilience from the Boiling Heart, the head-on charge had still dented their chest armor, transferring a part of the terrifying force to each other.
The jousting spears collected after the battle had their blade tips crushed into lumps of crude iron.