It had been a little over a month since that girl had left. The girl who had saved Arene and tried to seduce him.

“Damn succubi girl!” He unconsciously shouted.

“Eh? Yukio is something wrong.” A voice asked nearby.

It was Arene, the girl who that seductress had saved. She had since regained the color in her cheeks and was back to her normal self.

Initially in the beginning she dealt with intense sweet lead cravings but those had mostly mellowed out by now.

Yukio was grateful for the girl for at least doing that much.

The girl had left as quickly as she had come into Yukio’s life. A whirlwind of illegal activity and fighting. He stilled remembering hearing the news about how she had castrated one of the Sea Lord, the one who had captured Arene. It had caused quite a ruckus and she didn’t even bother cleaning up the aftermath, leaving on her ship the very next day.

She did clean up one loose end, and that was the business with Yukio and Arene.

For one, they were protected from retaliation since they were being sheltered by the Eris Merchants in the city.

Apparently, the inn that the girl was staying at, was own by her friend and she had made a deal with the inn to house them indefinitely.

There was only one problem.

She only reserved one room!

Yukio might be young, but he was still a boy approaching puberty, and the thought of sharing a room with a girl as pretty as Arene made him panicky.

Arene didn’t seem to mind. When Yukio asked her about it she only said it’s okay “I see you as a brother!”

That hurt.

Even though. They were being taken care of, Yukio still wanted to live on his own two feet, and Arene shared similar concerns.

Arene had managed to pick up a job as a waitress a the inn. Yukio was still too young to do anything, a fact he cursed daily.

Once he was big enough, he was going to be a sailor traveling the world, and make tons of money.

Or at least that used to be his dream.

He eventually realized that such a dream would force him to leave Flare for extended periods of time. Something that would force him to leave Arene a thought, that made Yukio increasingly uncomfortable.

To be honest, Yukio had seen Arene as a mother figure for most of his life. She was an orphan herself but she was always taking care of the street orphans. Even now she was saving up money to open an orphanage. A dream that Yukio wanted to support as well. When he thought about his street life and the cozy life he has now, it makes him a little sad.

It wasn’t as if he couldn’t leave the inn, but it was still dangerous for him. He didn’t know how long Gerard would wait before enacting his revenge.

He missed his street friends.

One day he received a letter it was from that damn girl

“Dear Yukio

Here is some money, take Arene somewhere nice

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)”

Yukio didn’t know what “( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)” meant but there was a 5 silver coin folded into the paper. It was quite a sum of money for a brat like him.

*approx 500$ usd.

That was when Yukio decided.

He was going to ask Arene on a date!

Kitsura

IDK I wrote this because I felt like I didn't tie up the Yukio plotline as cleanly as I would've liked. Please enjoy this brief, POV shift and side chapter.

Also, we hit trending a lot at some point and I didn't keep up my promise on Omake Chapters for them.