Hearing Uchiha Hiko's words, Bulma still did not look completely reassured. She looked at Uchiha Hiko with suspicion still on her face. "Is what you said true? You really won't force Miss Kobayashi?"
Seeing that Bulma still had not let go of her suspicions, Uchiha Hiko helplessly curled his lips into a smile. "What, you don't even trust me now? If even you don't believe me, then who in this world would? That would make me very sad."
Uchiha Hiko had already put on such an innocent expression that even Bulma felt her suspicions toward him had gone a little too far. She hurriedly said, "No, no, Hiko, I didn't mean that I don't trust you. It's just that I know how worried you are about our village and this world, so I was afraid that, for a moment, you might think you couldn't protect us and resort to extreme measures."
Seeing that his complaint had worked, Uchiha Hiko stopped pretending to look hurt. He gently pulled Bulma into his arms, smiling as he stroked her cheek. "Bulma, we've lived together for so long. Haven't you figured out what kind of person I am? Although I may not be able to protect our village from those aliens for the time being, and I truly am anxious about it, no matter how anxious I am, I would never hurt others and then claim how noble I was, how everything I did was for the village and humanity. If I did that, I would never be a true gentleman. And then you wouldn't be able to fall for me, would you?"
Hearing Uchiha Hiko say such things, Bulma felt a faint sense of guilt. She felt that she had pushed Uchiha Hiko too far. They had weathered so much together over the