Seeing Kuina and Robin staring at him without saying a word, Kuta touched his face and asked curiously, "Have I gotten even more handsome?"
"Hehe!" Robin came back to her senses and covered her mouth with a chuckle. "Captain, for a moment there, I thought you were about to ascend to heaven!"
"Heaven?"
Kuta's expression changed, and he waved his hands repeatedly. "Don't curse me like that! I don't want to go to heaven."
As he spoke, Kuta reached out and gently rubbed Kuina's head with his large hand. "I did promise to stay with someone forever!"
Feeling that familiar tenderness on her head, Kuina looked up and unclenched her fists. She stepped forward, suddenly buried her face in Kuta's chest, and wrapped both arms tightly around him, as though he really might fly away the next instant.
Sometimes, the gap between people could seem infinitely vast.
For some reason, Kuina had felt a moment of disorientation just now. In that fleeting daze, she felt as though all her efforts to catch up amounted to nothing in Kuta's eyes.
That unfamiliar feeling had filled her with a panic she had never experienced before.
"It's all right." Kuta hugged Kuina back and patted her back with his right hand. "I told you I'd always be with you. Wherever I go, I
will take you with me. Even if I really have to leave this world someday, you'll still be right beside me."
Beside them.
Robin stood with her arms folded, smiling at Kuta and Kuina. Deep in her eyes lay a trace of envy that no one else could detect.
Of course, far stronger were her happiness and well wishes.
Just then, Kanal finally recovered from his shock in the distance. He cast a complicated look at the spot where Kratos