I Love You, Monster: The Blindfolded Wife x The Masked Husband

[Kaide, I need a teddy bear. Bring it to me ASAP.]

Upon reading the message he just received, Kaide who was leisurely drinking soda, choked. He coughed so hard as he cursed.

When he finally calmed down, he looked at the message again. He looked confused and at the same time, so curious.

However, Kaide had been a victim of Zaki’s many pranks, teasing and mischiefs for a while now and he was so fed up with him that he had always dreamt of getting him back one day. But now that the big boss ordered them to listen to whatever he said, Kaide was a bit down.

Thinking that the message was some sort of prank, Kaide shrugged as he texted his reply.

[Dear 4th boss. If you’re bored with your life again like always, please stop fooling around and just go marry your fiancée so you can finally have a meaningful life. Go make lots of babies and I assure you that you will never get bored again. Your loving and extremely concerned body guard, Kaide ^__~]

Zaki who just read Kaide’s message narrowed his eyes. His veins were popping. He thought that Kaide would act like he did when Sei asked him to bring him a teddy bear that night many years ago. He even thought that he was on his way now, ravaging the house to find a teddy bear. But he was wrong. It looked like this Kaide was not even taking his words seriously.

[If you don’t arrive after a minute, I’ll kill you!]

A few seconds after Zaki sent those words, a call from Kaide came. He answered it and was immediately greeted with a great big shouting session from the other side of the phone.

"What the hell, Zaki! You’re abusing the power that the big boss gave you! How could you ask me to bring a bear?! Stop bothering me just because you’re bored! Your prank is too muc-"

"I will give you. One. Minute." Zaki cut through Kaide’s words and he straightway ended the call after stressing his request one last time, afraid that Hinari might wake up.

Two seconds before exactly one minute was up, the room’s door opened and a panting Kaide with a small bear in his hand, arrived.

His gaze directed at Zaki was sharp and he was about to yell again but he restrained himself as soon as he saw Hinari sleeping on the bed.

’Err... what’s this? Th-they’re holding hands and she’s asleep... what’s the use of a teddy bear? So this is really a prank? But he doesn’t look bored at all...’

Kaide who instantly lost his anger as soon as he saw the girl on bed, heaved a sigh and he quietly walked towards him.

"Here, what the hell’s the point in asking me to bring you this?" Kaide was curious as he whispered at him.

"She’s not letting go of my hand so help me out."

"Eh? You mean, we need to use this bear as your replacement? Okay, gotcha 4th boss!"

The two chibis then started their special mission. One chibi was lying next to Hinari, holding his breath as he tried to carefully peel her fingers from his hand and the other chibi held the teddy bear, looking for the exact moment to place the bear as a substitute.

The mission was thrilling for some reason. Zaki was so unusually focused as though this was a crucial matter while Kaide was just having fun. If Zaki was the ever so serious wolf, Kaide would be the annoying fox apprentice waging his tail as he grinned.

The chibi holding the bear hovered over the pair on the bed and when he saw how Zaki planned to escape, he immediately started to instruct Zaki on how to do it better. He inched closer and whispered to Zaki.

"Hey, 4th boss... uh, that’s not how you should do it. You should use do it like this..." Kaide then moved to show Zaki how he would do it but before his hand reached Hinari’s hand, he froze because he felt the temperature go down below freezing. His eyes moved slowly to look at Zaki and he immediately jumped back as big drops of sweat formed on his forehead and he quickly realized his mistake.

"Oh, uh, 4th boss. I-Im... it’s... Your way is definitely the best. You should just keep going. Yes... yes, do it your way."

He whispered quickly to Zaki. The temperature suddenly went back to normal again as Zaki turned his attention back on the task at hand and the mission was back on. ’Whew!’

The moment Zaki managed to unclasp her fingers, Kaide quickly put the teddy bear in her hand. However, to Zaki’s surprise, Hinari didn’t fall for their trap. She didn’t hold the teddy bear. Instead, she found Zaki’s hand again as if her hand was a missile with a homing device attached to it.

Zaki was so surprised. He didn’t think that this trick wouldn’t work on Hinari. Indeed, this Hinari was always full of surprises.

"Looks like this won’t work, Zaki. What are you going to do now?" Kaide asked and Zaki was starting to have a great dilemma. Time was ticking by and he needed to leave so he could do the things he needed to do before Hinari woke up. ’Damn, think Zaki, think...!’

"Kaide, do you have any ideas?!" Zaki asked and Kaide held his chin, acting like he was thinking deeply.

"Hmm... why are you leaving anyway? She’s determined not to let you go."

"I have something important to do. I said think about something!"

"Wake her up and ask her to let go of yo- ouch!"

A light blow landed on Kaide’s jaw so he backed off. He was about to retaliate with words when suddenly, the door opened again.

The two looked at the door and upon seeing little Shin adorably blinking at them, Zaki finally seemed to have found his saviour.