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Chapter 3 - 1 Year Into the Downfall

It was one year of him living with the Todoroki family. He was now 1 year and 4 months old, and honestly, he loved it. He was now a rich boy living with a famous hero, what more could he ask for? Well, except for the fact that he is being taken care of by a nanny and the other kids in the family don't exactly like him, besides Shoto who is literally just a 1 year and 6-month-old baby. Another thing that Endeavor had given him was also a private tutor, why? Well, because he was a prodigy!

Yuki tried to act like a baby but he just couldn't act like it and he already understood what everyone was saying so it was hard to ignore all the gossip. Though it was one day when Endeavor was impressed by his 'intelligence' and that was when Rei was teaching Shoto how to count to 10. That day Yuki's mood wasn't one of the best and he was getting impatient by hearing Shoto only say "Eun. Eun. Eun" so he just gave the answers to the mom.

Now in front of him was young Todoroki eating at his feet.

๐˜š๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฐโ€ฆ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ'๐˜ต ๐˜ฌ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต'๐˜ด ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜บ, ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ'๐˜ต ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ?

"Hello, Shoto!" Fuyumi, the oldest and only daughter, had come into the room to play with Shoto. Totally ignoring Yuki.

๐˜ž๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฅ ๐˜ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต? ๐˜ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ'๐˜ต ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜Š๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ข.

Yuki didn't know why the kids didn't warm up to him because it seemed like their mom totally liked him. She would always have Shoto and Yuki wear matching clothes while taking multiple photos of them. He had to give it up to the woman because according to his memory, the woman was already under a lot of stress and her mental health was slowly degrading at this point but it seemed like his appearance had helped her a little bit. ๐˜‘๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ข ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜บ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ช๐˜ต.

Even though the children didn't like him, it seemed like only one totally hated Shoto and him. Todoroki Toya, the future Dabi.

He understands why he hates Shoto but maybe he thought that Yuki was also going to steal his dreams or that he was an experiment that his father had made to contradict his power. Either way, Yuki tries to show his cuteness to him. Why? Because he wants to survive in the future. He knew that this family's future was inevitable and he wasn't planning on changing anything just because he felt bad, as he felt that it wasn't his place to interfere especially when he is an adopted child.

His train of thought was interrupted when Rei suddenly burst into the room with Natsuo following behind. She quickly picked Shoto up off the floor and tried to protect him.

๐˜๐˜ถ๐˜ฉ? ๐˜ž๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ?

A few seconds later Toya burst in, followed by his father who was trying to stop himโ€ฆ

"Look at me, Dad!" Toya screamed out while charging toward Shoto who was in Rei's arms.

Yuki stared out in shock watching the whole ordeal happening. The other kids who were hiding behind their mother started to cry out and Endeavor stopped Toya before the worst could happen. It looked like everyone had forgotten poor Yuki but he didn't mind, as he would rather be away from the attacker.

"WHAT ARE YOU THINKING!?" Endeavor shouted at Toya in fear and disbelief.

Yuki was paying great attention. Not because he found it amusing but because he didn't know anyone's back story. He only knew the show from the surface and he never deep-dived into the story so this was all new to him, besides him knowing that the scar Shoto had was caused by his own mother.

Then all of a sudden he heard that whisper again. Loud and clear this time.

"๐‚๐€๐ ๐˜๐Ž๐” ๐‡๐„๐€๐‘ ๐Œ๐„? ๐๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ž, ๐ฌ๐š๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐ž๐ฌโ€ฆ"

Yuki suddenly jumped back in surprise and hit his head on the floor really hard, stopping the whole commotion that was going through the room. Everyone turned their heads to see the baby staring at the ceiling in a daze, before breaking into a fist.

"AHโ€ฆWaaaaaaahโ€”" Yuki's head hurt so much that he started to kick his feet in agony.

"Mommyโ€ฆYuki is cryingโ€ฆ" Natsuo said.

"Uhhโ€ฆ Go pick him up, Fuyumi." Rei gestured for Fuyumi to pick up Yuki while she pushed Natsuo behind her and held Shoto tightly.

๐˜ž๐˜ฐ๐˜ธโ€ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ถ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ฌ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ค๐˜ถ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ด ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆโ€ฆ

Toya glared at Yuki and stared back at Shoto. He blamed them for his misfortune and then ran out of the room to let out his frustrations elsewhere. Meanwhile, Yuki tried to communicate with the voice inside his head.

๐˜ž๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ตโ€ฆ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ?

"...๐‚๐š๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ก๐ž๐š๐ซ ๐ฆ๐ž? ๐–๐š๐ข๐ญ! ๐‚๐š๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ก๐ž๐š๐ซ ๐ฆ๐ž?! ๐‡๐š๐ก๐š๐ก๐š๐ก๐š! ๐˜๐ž๐ฌ! ๐…๐ข๐ง๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ! ๐Ž๐ก ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐†๐จ๐ ๐œ๐š๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐›๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ž๐ฏ๐ž ๐ข๐ญ, ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐š๐ง ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ง๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ก๐ž๐š๐ซ ๐ฆ๐žโ€ฆ ๐ก๐ฎ๐ก? ๐Ž๐ง๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐š ๐ฆ๐ข๐งโ€”๐Ž๐ค๐š๐ฒ! ๐˜๐”๐Š๐ˆ! ๐‡๐ž๐š๐ซ ๐ฆ๐ž ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ, ๐ˆ ๐๐จ๐ง'๐ญ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐š ๐ฅ๐จ๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ง'๐ญ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ง'๐ญ ๐ก๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ž๐ง ๐ง๐ž๐ฑ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž. ๐ˆ'๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐š๐ค๐ž ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐›๐ž ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐š๐ฅ๐ค ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐š๐ง๐ฒ ๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐š๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ. ๐˜๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐ซ๐ž๐›๐จ๐ซ๐ง ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ˆ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฅ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ญ๐จ ๐›๐ž ๐ซ๐ž๐ข๐ง๐œ๐š๐ซ๐ง๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐š๐ง๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐, ๐ฐ๐ก๐ข๐œ๐ก ๐ข๐ฌ ๐€๐๐Ž๐“๐‡๐„๐‘ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง๐ž. ๐˜๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ฌ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ซ๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐  ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐š๐ง ๐ž๐ซ๐ซ๐จ๐ซ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ, ๐ฐ๐ก๐ข๐œ๐ก ๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐ฆ๐ž๐š๐ง๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐œ๐š๐ซ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ข๐ง๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ง๐ง๐ž๐ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐. ๐€๐ก๐ก๐ก๐ก๐ก๐ก! ๐–๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฌ๐ž? ๐Ž๐‡! ๐๐ž๐œ๐š๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฌ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ฆ๐š๐ ๐ข๐œ, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐, ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐›๐ž ๐š ๐ฌ๐š๐ฏ๐ข๐จ๐ซ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ฌ๐ฒ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐ ๐ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐š ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ค๐ž ๐ก๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ ๐›๐ž๐œ๐š๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ง'๐ญ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐š ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ซ๐ค ๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐š ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ซ๐ค, ๐›๐š๐ฌ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐š๐ค๐ž ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž ๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ข๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ซ๐ค ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐š๐ฌ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฌ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ง๐จ๐›๐จ๐๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ ๐ž๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ข๐œ๐ข๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐š๐ฌ ๐ˆ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ž๐š๐ค ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ ๐š ๐›๐ข๐ญ ๐š๐ง๐โ€”๐‡๐ฎ๐ก? โ€”๐–๐š๐ข๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซโ€”๐."

The woman stopped spitting out words.

Yuki had quieted down a bit to try and understand what the womanโ€”who had talked really fastโ€”was saying, and when he finally put the pieces together he froze in shock. That whole thing had left him in confusion. But there was something that he couldn't get out of his mindโ€”How was he born in the wrong world? And how was that mistake ever made?

"Rei, take all the kids outside. Now!" Endeavor screamed to the group.

"Wโ€”kids l-let's go outside, bring Yuki out too."

Everyone rushed out of the house and they waited outside until the father and son finished talking.

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A week later and he was now all alone.

Endeavor hadn't allowed Shoto to go near the other kids, not even him!

๐˜ ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ'๐˜ด ๐˜ธ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ข ๐˜ฃ๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜บ ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜จ๐˜ฐ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฎ? ๐˜•๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ ๐˜ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ'๐˜ต ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜บ ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ.

Yuki rocked back and forth thinking about that voice he had heard as he tried to understand what it meant by him being "born in the wrong world" but the more he thought about it the more his head hurt.

๐˜๐˜ง ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ญ๐˜บ ๐˜ ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ฌ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ท๐˜ฐ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ฆโ€”

"๐ˆ'๐ฆ ๐›๐š๐œ๐ค~"

Yuki stopped and looked around. Trying to see if someone was tricking him or if he was actually going crazy.

"๐Ž๐ก ๐ฐ๐š๐ข๐ญโ€ฆ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ž ๐ ๐จ!"

A floating woman with wavy brown hair suddenly appeared above him. She had a full-grown white dress while a light shone around her. Looking like some sort of religious deity.

๐˜ž๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆโ€”

"๐–๐š๐ข๐ญ, ๐ฌ๐จ๐ซ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ซ๐ซ๐ฒ! ๐‹๐ž๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ž ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ž ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฅ๐Ÿ. ๐ˆ'๐ฆ ๐‚๐ฅ๐ž๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ, ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ”๐ญ๐ก ๐‘๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐Ž๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐จ๐ซ. ๐ˆ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ ๐ ๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐š ๐ง๐ž๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐Ÿ๐žโ€ฆ๐ฐ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐  ๐จ๐ง๐ž." Clematis's smile faded by the last phrase.

๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ ๐˜จ๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ธ ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ง๐˜ฆโ€ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜Ž๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ?

"๐‡๐š๐ก๐š๐ก๐š! ๐๐จ, ๐ง๐จ. ๐ˆ'๐ฆ ๐š๐ง ๐Ž๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐จ๐ซ." woman laughed at Yuki's silly question.

๐˜๐˜ถ๐˜ฉ? ๐˜Š๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฎ๐˜บ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜จ๐˜ฉ๐˜ต๐˜ด?! Yuki thought after realizing that he hadn't said a word to the woman through his mouth.

"๐–๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ, ๐ˆ ๐๐จ๐ง'๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ง'๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ค ๐ข๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐ก๐š๐ซ๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐œ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐š ๐›๐š๐›๐ฒ?" Clematis laughed once again.

๐˜–๐˜ฌ๐˜ข๐˜บ, ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ฌ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ. ๐˜ž๐˜ฉ๐˜บ ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜”๐˜บ ๐˜๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ˆ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ข ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜บ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ด๐˜ข๐˜บ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ'๐˜ต ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข ๐˜ฒ๐˜ถ๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ฌ?

The woman maintain her smile but her eyes froze.

"๐–๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅโ€ฆ๐ฎ๐ก๐ก๐ก, ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐จ๐ง๐žโ€”๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐š๐œ๐œ๐ข๐๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฅ๐ž๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐  ๐‚๐จ๐ซ๐, ๐ฐ๐ก๐ข๐œ๐ก ๐ข๐ฌ ๐š ๐‹๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž ๐๐š๐ญ๐ก, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฎ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฒ ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐๐ง'๐ญ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฌ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฒ ๐ค๐ž๐ž๐ฉ ๐จ๐ง ๐š๐ฌ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฆ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐š๐ญ ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐š ๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ฉ๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š๐ง๐ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž, ๐š๐ฌ ๐š ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ ๐›๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ, ๐ˆ ๐š๐ฆ ๐ก๐ž๐ฅ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฆ."Clematis avoided Yuki's gaze but maintained her forced smile.

Yuki stared her dead in the eye. Not bulging a single muscle in his body.

โ€ฆ๐˜๐˜ต ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ, ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ฏ'๐˜ต ๐˜ช๐˜ต?

"๐ˆ'๐Œ ๐’๐Ž ๐’๐Ž๐‘๐‘๐˜!" Clematis did a full bow of apology, covering her entire face against the floor.

Yuki sighed.

๐˜-๐˜ ๐˜จ๐˜ถ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ง๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ด๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฅ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฏ'๐˜ต ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ตโ€ฆ

Clematis fiddled with her hands, feeling bad about her mistake and pitying herself for how easily Yuki had accepted her apology before she continued to answer Yuki's second question.

"...๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐จ๐ง ๐ฐ๐ก๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐จ๐ง'๐ญ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐š ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ซ๐ค ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ข๐ง๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐š๐๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐ข๐œ๐ก ๐๐ž๐ฉ๐ž๐ง๐๐ž๐ ๐จ๐ง ๐š ๐ฆ๐š๐ ๐ข๐œ ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐ข๐ฅ๐ž ๐ˆ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ž๐š๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ ๐ˆ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐š ๐๐ฎ๐ข๐ซ๐ค."

๐˜”๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ช๐˜คโ€ฆ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜บ ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฏ'๐˜ต ๐˜ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฒ๐˜ถ๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ฌ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด? ๐˜ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข ๐˜ฒ๐˜ถ๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ฌ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ฏ'๐˜ต ๐˜ช๐˜ต ๐˜ง๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜บ ๐˜ช๐˜ง ๐˜'๐˜ฎ ๐˜ฒ๐˜ถ๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ฌ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด?

"๐“๐ก๐š๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐›๐ž๐œ๐š๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ˆ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ๐ง'๐ญ ๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ ๐ž๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฆ๐š๐ ๐ข๐œ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐›๐จ๐๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ข๐ ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐จ๐ง ๐š๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐œ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฌ๐จ๐จ๐ง ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž'๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž ๐ฌ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ซ๐ ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ. ๐ˆ'๐ฏ๐ž ๐›๐ž๐ž๐ง ๐ก๐ž๐ฅ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ญ๐จ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐œ๐ž๐š๐ฅ ๐ข๐ญ ๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ˆ ๐ฆ๐š๐๐ž ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฌ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ก๐ž๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ ๐ž๐ญ ๐š ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ซ๐ค ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ก๐ข๐๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฆ๐š๐ ๐ข๐œ ๐›๐ž๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ซ๐ค. ๐ˆ ๐œ๐š๐ง ๐จ๐ง๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐จ ๐ฌ๐จ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐œ๐ก ๐š๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ง๐ ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐š๐ญ๐šโ€ฆ"

โ€ฆ๐˜ž๐˜ฉ๐˜บ ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฏ'๐˜ต ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ซ๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ธ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ญ๐˜ฅ?

"๐ˆ ๐œ๐š๐ง'๐ญ! ๐“๐ก๐š๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐š๐ ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ! ๐€๐ง๐ ๐ˆ'๐ฆ ๐š๐ฅ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฒ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐›๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐œ๐ž๐š๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐งโ€ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ˆ'๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐š๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ."

Yuki sighed once again in frustration.

๐˜ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜บ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ'๐˜ต ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ง๐˜ช๐˜น๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ง๐˜งโ€ฆ๐˜–๐˜ฌ๐˜ข๐˜บ, ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ง๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ฒ๐˜ถ๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ฌ?

"๐–๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ, ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐œ๐ค๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ! ๐˜๐จ๐ฎ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐š ๐Ÿ๐š๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐›๐š๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐จ๐ง ๐ข๐œ๐ž ๐จ๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ซ๐ž ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ซ๐ค ๐ฌ๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ'๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ซ๐ค๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ'๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐›๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ซ๐ค ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฅ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž. ๐€๐ง๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐จ๐ง'๐ญ ๐ ๐ž๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ž๐œ๐ข๐๐ž ๐ฐ๐ก๐ข๐œ๐ก ๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐จ๐ง๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ."

๐˜š๐˜ฐ ๐˜ช๐˜ต'๐˜ด ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ญ๐˜บ ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ? ๐˜‰๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜บ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ช๐˜ณ ๐˜ฒ๐˜ถ๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ฌ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ'๐˜ด?

"๐๐ž๐œ๐š๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ซ๐ค๐ฌ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ž๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐จ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐จ๐ง๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ž๐ฒ๐ž๐ฌ ๐จ๐›๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ. ๐’๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž."

๐˜ ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ. ๐˜ž๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ธ๐˜ฐโ€”

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