She lightly took Kujo Ryuko's fingertips, looking at the girl's scarlet eyes, still hazy and adorably dazed from just waking up.
Su Youzi smiled faintly. "Morning~"
The big cat after being tamed was unexpectedly cute.
Her arm had no idea how long Kujo Ryuko had been using it as a pillow. It had felt fine just moments ago, but after she took Kujo Ryuko's fingertips, a dull, tingling ache slowly spread through it.
Su Youzi's brows knitted slightly.
Kujo Ryuko noticed that something was wrong with Su Youzi.
She looked at the arm before her, its complexion slightly strange after being used as her pillow for so long, and hurriedly apologized to Su Youzi.
"Sorry..."
"I fell asleep without realizing it."
Kujo Ryuko had only just woken up and had yet to recover her dignity-maintaining "ferocious persona." Her flustered appearance was like that of a child who had done something wrong.
She looked at the red flush slowly spreading across Su Youzi's fair arm due to poor circulation, as well as... the slightly damp trace where the girl's arm had just been resting beside her mouth.
Her scarlet pupils shook violently.
D-Drool!?
No, it had to be fake.
She desperately recalled the dream she had during her nap.
In the dream... it was a honey-pomelo cake made by Youzi herself.
The girl placed the cake before her. She looked pitifully famished, yet... only allowed her to lick it once.
Kujo Ryuko jolted fully awake.
Her pupils trembled violently.
I'm finished. It's all over.
Kujo Ryuko looked at the girl's "heartwarming" smile in the warm morning sunlight and suddenly felt that there was something wrong with it.
Youzi... surely she hadn't watched her make a fool of herself for this long, had she?
Kujo Ryuko felt as though her "dignity" had