A Swimsuit’s Value: Priceless – Part 04

“What’s wrong?” I asked. “You look like something’s bothering you.”

Eu tapped the table twice and placed a note.

“Haruna hates me.”

I wanted to tell her that wasn’t true, but I wasn’t entirely sure.

“What do you think of Haruna?”

She froze with her pen in hand, like she hadn’t expected the question.

After a pause, she wrote, “I don’t know how to express this feeling, but I don’t want her to hate me.”

“So you want to be friends with her?”

“Maybe.” She stopped writing for a moment, looked me straight in the eye, then added, “I want to be friends with her.”

A powerful will burned within those clear, blue eyes.

“If that’s what you want, you can. For all her bluster, she’s actually pretty lonely.”

I chuckled. Eu lowered her gaze, looking dejected.

“Is there something else bothering you?”

“Without my armor, I can’t suppress the flow of mana.”

If she couldn’t hold it back, fate itself would change.