Chapter 9: The Promise Made Ten Years Ago 5
"Suzaku! Suzaku!" He walked too fast, and only then did I realize that I was completely exhausted. My shoulders and legs had been hit hard by Yaoyao, and they were all numb. I couldn't keep up with his pace at all.
"What's wrong? What's wrong? You damn gorilla!" He yelled unhappily, as if I had done something terribly wrong. But I really couldn't walk anymore. My whole body was in pain, and the organ in my chest called the heart seemed to have gone through a long journey and really needed a rest.
"I can't walk anymore, Suzaku... I'm really tired, so tired."
"Trouble!" The man in front of me suddenly sighed loudly, and then I saw him squatting in front of me . My brain was so confused that I couldn't understand what he was going to do. Even though he had carried me on his back, I still didn't know what was going on.
It was already dark, and the air at TK Academy, near the New Year, was filled with the smell of ice. Every breath I took in made me feel cold. But, strangely, every breath I took in was warm and had a special fragrance. That reassuring smell seemed to be called Takamiya Suzaku.
I secretly leaned my head against his back, and my cold cheeks felt warm as they touched the skin on his neck.
"Suzaku, you've worked hard." I held back my tears as I leaned against his neck and he carried me step by step through TK Academy where the ground was covered with fallen leaves .
"Are you stupid? I'm his brother! I took away almost all of his talents, and still..."
"Taller than him, more handsome than him!" I said the rest of the words along with him, then leaned on his broad shoulders and laughed happily.
"Suzaku, what do we do now? You messed up everything the dean told you to do, and you even expelled the princess. How can a great knight expel a princess? Are you crazy? Now there is another knight in the academy without a princess. What are you going to do?"
"Why do you care so much? What does it have to do with you? MR005, do you think a low-level civilian knight is qualified to care about me? Really, you should care about yourself! The princess will never talk to you again. Didn't you say she is your best friend and the only reason you stayed in TK Academy? You actually quarreled with her and taught her a lesson. A civilian teaches a princess a lesson, are you crazy?"
"Do you know that you'd be much cuter if you talked less?"
"Why should I be so cute? Why do you want me to be so cute!"
"Because I like you!"
Suddenly, he fell silent. Suddenly , I realized that I had said something very bold.
Are you qualified to like me? A beauty like me... I waited for him to say this, but I didn't hear his answer after waiting for a long time. The only sound in the air was his breathing, so heavy; only his steps carrying me, so heavy.
"Suzaku..."
"It's Suzaku-sama! Idiot!"
Lying on his back, I felt so safe, as if I could fall asleep peacefully like this, without worrying about being abandoned or hurt. Because my great knight would not abandon me, even if I was the most insignificant civilian in this academy.
"But..." When we got home, it was already dark. Zhuque put me at the door of the room and looked at the white roof of the Knight's Hall of the Red Knight Branch in the distance, and suddenly felt sad.
"I think I'm going to run naked tomorrow."
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