"...Is that a bit too thorough?"
"Answer the question."
"It doesn't quite seem like an assumption you'd make."
Kiyono Lin didn't speak, her left hand playing with a strand of hair on her shoulder, waiting for Dubian Che to reply.
"People extol the intimacy between hearts and believe that love should transcend everything, but I think appearances are very important, so much so that in the vast majority of cases, appearance is the most important thing."
"So you're saying, if I weren't pretty, you wouldn't love me?"
"Before I fell for you," Dubian Che emphasized this point, "Now, because I'm too in love with you—"
"You don't care about my looks anymore?" Kiyono Lin asked curiously, peering up at him through her long eyelashes.
"—I absolutely won't let you become ugly!" Dubian Che declared emphatically.
His expression, as though he'd read "Das Kapital" and was determined to achieve social change, made Kiyono Lin feel both helpless and amused.
