"W-What's wrong? Are you hurt?"
Yukina suddenly fell silent. Chiba's brow immediately furrowed. Then, through the contact of their bodies beneath their clothes, he felt Yukina's heart pounding rapidly and her body growing somewhat hot. Unable to help himself, he turned to look at her.
Her heart is beating so fast? Her temperature seems to be rising too?
Could something really be wrong with her body? Was it some complication from her blindness? Or had some illness caused her to lose her sight, and was this rapid heartbeat and rising temperature a sign of it acting up? Or had those two bastards' outrageous actions caused her emotions to surge and crash, leading to this? A string of anxious thoughts flashed through his mind.
At the same time, Chiba's turning motion halted. Yukina was holding him too tightly. He had released the arms he had wrapped around her, intending to lean back slightly so he could examine her, but he could not move any farther.
In fact, because Yukina was hugging him so tightly, his movement only pressed him even closer to her.
The faint fragrance of a young girl slowly drifted into his nose, and the soft sensation of Yukina's body seeped into his heart. For no apparent reason, Chiba's face grew slightly hot.
Yukina...
His heart trembled slightly, and his heartbeat inexplicably sped up by half a beat.
All this time, although he had lived with Yukina, because of training, the Fate Alteration Plan, the age gap between them, his complete lack of experience with romantic feelings between men and women, and the various unpleasant experiences he had had around girls in his previous life, he had never regarded Yukina as anything more than a companion.
But now, with the two of them pressed so tightly together, almost skin-to-skin