"To convey our feelings to you, to understand everything about you, and to hope that you can see through everything about us without fear. I don't think that's arrogance." Lacus tilted her head slightly and offered her own unique rebuttal.
"Listening to you say that, I feel instead that this may be my good fortune. I'm very happy to be treated this way by you two."
These were Xia Ya's most sincere words. They needed no embellishment. In this world torn apart by hatred, he had gained two feelings willing to sink into the depths with him even after learning of all the filth hidden in the shadows.
If he still stubbornly shut himself away behind coldness in the face of women like them, then he would be utterly unworthy of such profound affection.
"I also hope to understand every part of you without reservation, and I hope to lay everything I am bare for you to see." Xia Ya's gaze moved once between Lacus and Jiliang. "But years of shutting myself away have left me with the habit of hesitation. Could you give me a little time? Wait until the day I am completely ready."
He frankly admitted his weakness, no longer using a calm facade to gloss over everything.
He asked them for a reprieve, and in return, both Jiliang and Lacus nodded gently in perfect unison.
They could have taken a hard line and dug out every last detail in this sealed cabin. After all, they had only just ended a deadly battle in which they had nearly lost one another forever.
But they chose to hold back their surging urge to question him and returned to a position of understanding.
Again and again, he was captured by that unreserved warmth. With every battle they experienced together