The Lord of the Universe
Chapter 99, Broken Awkwardness!
The day of war is almost here. Everyone is training and saving as much energy as they can for the night. I trained with Liyu for about 13 hours. Which means it's late afternoon. He's training more days than yesterday waking me up at midnight. Even so, I ended up spending my time training with him.
The training continued after 13 hours. Liyu kicked towards me, but I held it with my feet. There was a hard blow there. It wasn't like this before.
Liyu and I moved away from each other and then Liyu pushed herself towards me and tried to hit me. Missed, but he took the position and attacked again quickly even missed again.
In my eyes, his attack was still slow but enough to defeat about a hundred people at once. His strength is growing rapidly. What kind of training actually led him to be this strong?
When Liyu wanted to attack me with her kick, I caught her leg with one hand. But Liyu attacked me with the other leg, even so I was still able to catch him. I smiled as he moved his teeth. But he suddenly smiled.
He strengthened his leg movements and finally slipped out of my grasp. Both of his legs attacked me before he plunged to the ground. I can't avoid both sides of the attack, I don't seem to have a choice. You passed this training, Liyu.
I teleported away from the attack and ended up squatting. I stood up while bowing my head. I raised my head while smiling at him.
The surprised Liyu started to be excited. He smiled broadly. He jumped into the air while shouting excitedly and happily.
"YOSHAAAA!!!!!!".
While Liyu was overjoyed, I approached her intending to congratulate her.
"Congratulations, Liyu. You have passed my training. It was the first stage training I had gone through while training with my father. I apply it to you hoping you'll be as strong as he is in the future or so.",
"Thank you, Brother Naka!!".
The naka? Yes whatever..
Liyu was overjoyed before realizing something in my words just now.
"Wait, "First stage"?",
"Yes. There is still second to third stage training before you pass the training completely. But with the passing of the first training, it's enough for you to go to war.",
"That's it! Yep! I can't wait!".
I smiled towards Liyu before looking up at the afternoon sky.
"Now, what about their training? I'm curious.",
"....".
I looked towards Liyu before leaving.
"Then I'll go first. His training spirit, I hope for you later.",
"Yes! I'll try my best!".
I waved my hand at him. Now, I still have time before the war. I was a little tired but I was bored too. Rather than no work, I would rather focus on breaking the awkwardness between me and Artoria, but what?
I walked forward while closing my eyes and thinking something good for my problem. But I hit someone in front of me. I woke up and apologized before seeing who I hit.
"I'm sorry.",
"I'm sorry." I said along with a woman's voice.
The voice felt familiar in my ears. I opened my eyes and saw Artoria in front of me. I looked at him while putting a surprised expression on our faces.
"Eh?", though?",
"Eh?", though?",
"HEEEEEEEHHH?!",
"HEEEEEEEHHH?!",
"N-Nakano?",
"Artoria?".
The awkwardness between us disappeared for a while and came again. Artoria and I turned their faces in the opposite direction. My cheeks flushed and Artoria's face blushed. This is what happens if there are plain people who have adult relationships with shy women.
The awkwardness is getting worse. We couldn't see each other's faces because we were so embarrassed. I was confused as to what kind of expression I wanted when I looked towards him. At that moment, Artoria asked a question.
"N-Nakano... how are you..?",
"I'm good..",
"That's it..",
".... How's you?",
"Eh? Ah. I'm good...".
Wait a minute... since when did I become more and more sensitive even to the thought of Artoria's feelings? I have never been like this. It may be good for other couples but my relationship always arises if there is a problem both small and big. That is where I can strengthen my relationship with people!
I bowed my head and called Artoria.
"Artoria?", though?",
"Y-Yeah?".
I stood up and walked closer to Artoria.
"Nakano?".
I bent my body and quickly turned my lips to Artoria's lips. Whatever the risk, no matter what people say. I have to do it my own way and this is my way.
Artoria was shocked to the point of being unable to move to do anything. After a while I kept my lips away from hers. I looked into her teary eyes and suddenly I pondered what I had just done.
"ah! Sorry, Artoria! It was too sudden... You must be surprised, right?".
Artoria lowered her head until her eyes were no longer visible.
"Yes. I was surprised." whispered Artoria.
The shot was too small so I couldn't hear what he was saying.
"What did you say?",
"I mean this.".
Artoria immediately grabbed my shirt, pulled me close and kissed me quickly. I was briefly shocked, but I let Artoria do whatever she wanted to do. I closed my eyes and enjoyed it.
After a while, we ended that lip contact. Artoria lowered her head while apologizing.
"sorry..".
I don't know what that apology means.
"For what?",
"Eh?".
He lifted his head and looked at me.
"That's. I kissed you all of a sudden.",
"I don't mind it.",
"Eh but—",
"I don't mind being kissed by my fiancee. Be it tens, hundreds, or thousands of times, I don't mind as long as it's my fiancee. You're one of them so I don't mind.",
"I'm sorry, I thought you'd be mad...",
"Why should I be angry? A pair of fiancees making lip contact like that isn't that normal?".
Artoria looked at me in surprise before chuckling.
"Hehe.." the sound of his laughter, the,
"Is something funny?" my tofu, my,
"No....".
Artoria hugged me softly and softly.
"Thank you, Nakano...".
I was surprised a little and hugged him back.
"Whatever for my beloved fiancee. whatever..".
We let each other go and that was when the awkwardness between us was gone. Finally, we can focus on our mission now which is war. It's getting dark. Just as the sun had completely set, it was his time for battle.
Artoria and I won't hinder each other's movement. We are not afraid of anything that will come to us, good or bad.
"Ready?" my tofu, my,
"Yes!" he replied while nodding lightly.
The day came. Where we all bring out all our abilities for this kingdom, the people of this kingdom and this universe.