The Meeting [Page II]
Sunday, January 27 | 0 comments
THE MASTER &MAID.
“Nyaa~” Kazena groaned as she raising her hands up in the air after closing the door of her room. Lately, he has been very tired in daylight thanks to the mansion’s master named Irino because he is making her playing with him all the time, resting only in eating and after eating. However, it’s night time now. Thank god she can finally rest now. That… Irino… He able to make Kazena plays with him by using his puppy face. She just couldn’t resist it but she could see that Tsubasa never fall into the trick like her.
Talked about Tsubasa… why is she always staring at her like seeing her enemies? She has been looking at her like that since she stayed here which is a week ago. Is Kazena has connection with her or she did something wrong that made Tsubasa made of her? Maybe she shouldn’t stay here but where can she goes with his amnesia of her? She didn’t even recall anything after a week staying here. Is it the wrong choice staying here?
‘Never regret of the choice you made…’
Kazena blinked and looked around. She titled her head as she tried to figure the owner of the voice she just heard. “Never regret…” she mumbled and sighed silently. She has probably thinking too much about these things. She shakes her head repeatedly from side to side as a sign of refusing to think about the same thing again. This is the choice she made so, she shouldn’t feel regret of the choice she made, right?
Finally able to snap herself from the thought, she started walking toward the lower floor to the kitchen because of her dry throat. As she taking a step, she looked around remembering the way of the mansion. This mansion has two floors. The first floor has kitchen, guest room, ballroom, living room and dining room while the second floor only have bedrooms, eight of them with completed with bathroom in each room. Of course the master room is Irino’s, the second is Tsubasa’s and the third one is hers while the other five rooms with same size room as hers and Tsubasa’s are empty, filled with dust and spider webs. However, since there’s only three of them in the mansion, they sometimes stayed in the same room together inside the master room especially when—
“AAaRghh!!!” yelled a familiar voice, catching Kazena’s attention. Cancelling her main objective of going to the kitchen, she quickly climbed back to the second floor only to found something standing in front of the master’s room. It’s the young blond boy, warping himself in a blanket with tears flowing from his emerald eyes.
“IRINO!” Kazena called the person’s name as she ran toward him.
The blond fall down on his knee and looking at his trembling hands, “Okaa-San… Otoo-San… Onee-Chan… Where did you guys go? Why can’t I found you? Why are you leaving me?” he began to cried once again.
“Irino…” Kazena uttered as she hugged the crying boy, patting his back so that he stopped crying. It’s really hard to believe that such a happy blond could cry desperately like this. It’s an unusual scene but she already saw it yesterday. Tsubasa-san said Irino sometimes will dream of his past for a few days and stopped suddenly and comes back again. She doesn’t know what triggered it and there’s nothing she could do to stop it. She could only hug him and hearing him calling for his family desperately till he falls back to asleep. Is there really nothing Kazena could do for him?
“I’m scared… I saw them… dying again... my families…” Cried Irino as he showed the side he never shown to anyone else. Then, Irino clenched Kazena’s clothes and deepen his face into her clothes. “Nee, don’t leave me… Don’t die… again… Kazena.”
His words made Kazena shocked because he is calling her name, right? Although it’s just an alias name but somewhat she felt like she saw this scene before. Yes, she knows this scene. It has happened before. Unknowingly, Kazena’s arm already hugged Irino with her head on top of his, whispering something or more like a spell for the blond who having a nightmare.
‘I’m right here…’
“I’m right here…” Kazena repeated.
‘I won’t go anywhere. I will…’
“… I will always stay by your side.” She whispered as Irino stopped crying completely and only a soft sleeping sound can be heard. She felt like he is just small child, sleeping in her arms.
‘Kaze-Chan! Arigatou!’ a voice ringed inside her head and she knows the owner of the voice because she already heard it for a week now. “It’s Irino’s voice.” Kazena stated. So, the conclusion is, she definitely been in situation before and could it be possible if she actually has a connection with Irino in her past? If so, this place is the right one for her to recall the forgotten past. However, why does she felt somewhat weird when recalling it? She could see and felt familiar about the scene but she just couldn’t feel that she is actually inside the scene. What is that supposed to mean? The images… are—
“Kazena.” Tsubasa shakes Kazena’s shoulder, waking her up from her stupor. Kazena snapped right away from her stupor and then blinked for a few times, looking at the maid of the mansion. Tsubasa sighed as she lifted the small blond and steps away from Kazena. “Did he do it again?” she asked coldly.
Kazena just kept quiet especially when noticing Tsubasa is glaring at her again like before. Has she did something wrong to her before? If she is connected with Irino then perhaps she has a past between her and Tsubasa. That’s probably the reason for Tsubasa to gives such a cold looks at her. She knows this question may annoyed by her question but she just couldn’t stay silent, so here goes. “Tsubasa-San… Have I did something wrong before? Do we… had some arguments in the past which I have forgotten?” she asked bravely.
The question successfully made Tsubasa stopped her movement as she turned to the ember-brown girl. “Where did you get that idea? Last week is our first time meeting.” She answered.
“B-but why are you acting so cold to me?” Kazena asked.
Sighing, Tsubasa gave a signal to follow her toward the master’s room for her to place Irino down on his bed which Kazena followed without any objections. After that, Tsubasa sat down and began to brushes Irino’s blond hair gently as if touching something precious to her. Kazena just watched Tsubasa’s action patiently before the maid answered the previous question. “It’s because I don’t know who you are and what you capable of. You are the person who will change this mansion into a different place in the future.”
“Changing this mansion into a different place in the future? What… do you mean by that?” Kazena asked with a question mark on her head because she doesn’t understand at all what Tsubasa is saying.
Still brushing the blond’s hair, Tsubasa began to explained, “what I meant by the future is the ‘future’ of what will become soon or years later. Irino-Sama… he can see the future but after seeing the future, he sometimes will have a side-effect like having a nightmare of his past. Or so whatever, he can see the future and it’s really going to happen someday. I know you who have ember-brown hair will come to this place but I don’t know will you bring misfortune or happiness in this mansion.”
The ember-brown titled her head aside as she sitting on the bed in front of Tsubasa and the sleeping Irino before staring both of them. “Irino… He can see the future? Is he… a magician?” she asked out of her curiosity on the mansion’s master.
“I can say this many times, you can never change the future he sees. Only miracles can do it. For the second question, the answer is true. Irino is a magician from another world but that was a long time ago before both of us reached to this world. I heard he sealed away his magic skills for unknown reason. I don’t know what happened in his past but thanks to him… I am alive.” Tsubasa suddenly smiled. “He saved my life and I owned him a lot. I made stupid mistakes but he still accepted me for the way I am. That’s why I stayed by his side, always and forever. But if you going to make his life miserable in the future… I won’t forgive you.” Tsubasa threaten Kazena.
Kazena could only blink and amazed by Tsubasa’s straight forwardness. She really looked like could kill her if she did something bad to the mansion’s master as if Tsubasa is… “Tsubasa-San… you love him?” Kazena asked directly without realizing.
“Yes, I love him. He may acts like a child or a kid but sometimes can be a gentleman however for him; I am nothing more than an older sister. Nevertheless, staying by his side is all what I wanted.” Tsubasa replied and then, silent fell in between them. Kazena nor Tsubasa just remain speechless for a few minutes until Tsubasa breaks the long silent. “So, you have your answers… Kazena.”
“I’ve just thinking…” Kazena suddenly began to speak up, ignoring Tsubasa’s new sentences for her. “When Tsubasa-San talking about love, Tsubasa-San looked truly beautiful.” She stated her words and continued when her sky-blue eyes meeting the ember eyes. “If I were to make people’s life miserable, then please do kill me because I… don’t want to live just to hurt others.” She said as a smile appeared at her lips. “If I were to choose between my life and other happiness… I will always choose others happiness because it can make me feel calm and happy. So, please do stopping me from destroying other happiness… including yours Tsubasa-San.”
“Huh?” sounded Tsubasa, wanting more explanations.
Gently, Kazena held Tsubasa’s hand and continued her words, “I hope both of you and Irino-Kun can live happily in the future.” She smiled once again and the words have melted Tsubasa’s cold heart as she began to blushes by her words.
“T-thank you… Kazena.” Tsubasa continued to blush. “You… aren’t such a bad person… as I thought you were.”
“Well, it probably because… I just wanted to be your friend, Tsubasa-San.” Kazena said straight forward from what her heart speaks. “Can I?” she asked.
Suddenly, Tsubasa giggled and smiled happily, signing that she agreed to be friends with the ember-brown hair. “Thank you… and sorry for thinking bad things about you.” She thanked and apologized in the same time. Then, both of Kazena and Tsubasa become silent again before laughter filled in the room, making the dark night somewhat become bright to both of them.
The situation has made Kazena felt really happy because she has gained a friend to believe even though she doesn’t know what will happens in the future but she hoped nothing bad happen. If it does… like she said before, she doesn’t mind to sacrifice herself for the sake of other people’s happiness. Everything she said back then was from the words of her heart without looking or referring to her missing memories. This is what she truly feels for now and in the future as well.
“I’m glad both of you are friends right now.” a familiar voice suddenly entered the conversation.
Both of the girls blinked to each other before turning to the voice owner who is looking at them from right to left and then right again, waiting for their reaction. “IRINO-SAN/SAMA!” the girls said in the same time.
“Stop calling me san or sama… please, call me Irino-Kun.” The blond gave a mischievous smile.
“Si-since when did you started hearing our conversations?” Kazena asked nervously while Tsubasa’s face already turned red when remembering she just confessed her feelings to the mansion’s master. “SINCE WHEN DID YOU HEAR?!” Kazena asked nervously and still in state of shock.
The blond blinked and gave the same smile as before to the girls, “From thank you Kazena. What made you girls become close anyway? I can’t hear it clearly~ Share with mewww~” Irino speaks in childish tone like he used to.
Kazena calmed herself before smiling and place her finger on her lips, “It’s a girl’s secret. I’ll tell you if you are a girl.”
“No thanks.” A quick reply from the blond and began to ignore his curiosity on the girl’s previous conversations. Then, he stretched his hands up in the air before looking at Tsubasa. “NeeChan~ I’m THIRSTY~ me want some juice, can I?” he asked childishly.
“Oh, okay.” Tsubasa nodded as she began to stand on her feet. Before she leaves the room, Tsubasa turned to Kazena and smiled softly at her. “Do you want something to drink as well, Kaze…Chan?”
With just a few words made Kazena smile at Tsubasa as she suddenly jumped off the bed. “I would like to have some milk but can I come with you to the kitchen?” she asked as their eyes meeting with each other.
“Teehee. Alright.” Tsubasa agreed.
However, before they could leave the room, they were interrupted by the blond again. “Nyaa~ why milk? It’s gross! Yuck!” He complained as his tongue stick out from his mouth and jumped off the bed to follow the girls toward the lower floor.
“Irino…kun” Kazena called his name. “If you don’t drink milk, you will stay chibi or short forever.” (Note// Irino is the shortest among the three of them.)
-Page II Ends-
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