TEASER CHAPTER 8 PART 31
Lisa's sudden but
firmly expressed confession.
Nozomu's heart skipped
a beat, and the intense heat made his whole body boil.
Meanwhile, Lisa looked
dissatisfied with Nozomu's shocked and speechless state.
"... Why are you
so surprised? It's a little hurtful."
"No, umm..."
"In the first
place, if I didn't like you, I wouldn't ask you to go on another adventure with
me, would I? I mean, why would I ask you out?"
She was absolutely
right.
Nozomu, too, had been
aware of Lisa's unchanging affection for him, but he had not had much
experience of being confronted with a confession of love from the front like
this.
In fact, when he and
Lisa first started dating, it was Nozomu who confessed his feelings to her.
While they were
dating, they had expressed their feelings for each other, but perhaps because
they had spent so much time apart and so much time avoiding each other, her
direct words of confession had a greater impact on him than he could have
imagined.
"That's,
umm..."
"Haa, the past
Nozomu was so passionate, but now you have become such a spineless person. I
thought things were going back to normal when you pulled my hand after that
monster captured me..."
Nozomu turned his head
away from Lisa, who put her hand on her cheek and let out a sigh, as if he felt
embarrassed.
"I think it's
Lisa who's changed so much."
"It was Nozomu
who changed me, wasn't it? No, I didn't change, I reverted back, I guess. When
I was still hesitating, you came on to me forcefully, as if to say, look at me!
Forcing me to turn toward you..."
"N-, no,
that's..."
Nozomu started to get
flustered again after Lisa began to talk about what Nozomu had done to her.
In fact, his behavior
to Lisa following his decision to confront her could be seen by others as
stalking her.
Regardless of the
rumors around him and regardless of Lisa's outright rejection of him, he was
still pushing his way toward her.
"On top of that,
when I thought we were getting back together again, you just shunned me at the
very end. You're terrible..."
Moreover, despite
going to such lengths, Nozomu turned down Lisa's confession in the end.
No wonder Lisa, who
was in fact being dumped, was dissatisfied.
However, the tone of
voice and the place to voice that dissatisfaction were not right.
The people in the city
who were also relaxing in the central park were pointing at Nozomu and starting
to whisper to each other.
On top of that, Lisa
started pretending to cry, which made the stares directed at Nozomu even more
unsettling.
