"Hmph~"
Seeing that Gua knew better, Izumi gave a cold snort and let him off the hook.
"Gua, do I look pretty now?"
Izumi blinked and leaned in close to Gua.
This time, Gua dared not hesitate for a second. He nodded frantically.
Izumi smiled, her eyes narrowing into crescents.
"Hehe~"
"Gua, you're actually not that much of a bot, you know."
Gua: ...
That sounded awfully familiar.
It seemed Izumi had said something like that the first time he saw her being bullied.
Gua, you know, you're actually not as much of a bot as everyone says.
Gua gave Izumi a strange look.
Something about the way she was acting felt odd, and it scared him a little.
As if she might devour him at any moment.
"Izumi, what are you trying to do?"
Gua shuffled away on his backside, trying to put a little distance between them without daring to move too far.
Izumi clapped her hands, let it slide, and casually sat down beside him.
"Then why don't you tell me about your time on the battlefield?"
Oh, so that was all.
And here I thought you were up to something.
After a couple of inward mutters, Gua started telling his story.
"When we first got to the battlefield, we didn't really do much. We just patrolled the innermost perimeter. But there was barely anyone there..."
Gua held nothing back, telling Izumi everything from his arrival on the battlefield to Kabuto's capture and his own intrusion into the Land of Rain.
Finally, he told her about awakening his Mangekyo.
Izumi gazed at him in a daze.
Gua's eyes shifted, but his body remained as still as an old monk deep in meditation.
Don't do this, buddy. You're scaring me a little.
"Can I see your Mangekyo's abilities?"