I will swear to protect the beauty with my life.

After eating and drinking their fill, the two packed up and prepared to go home.

However, there was an inexplicable throbbing in her heart that made Rikka not want to end the dinner like this.

Looking at Yuta's back, Rikka remembered the dark flame user who once stood on the windowsill. That shining existence was like a ray of light that illuminated her dark world at that time.

Just like now, when she was lonely and helpless, he stood by her side.

She didn't want it to end like this, at least not now.

She mustered up the courage to call out to Yuta who was walking away, and said her request word by word.

"I don't want to go back"

"Clam?"

"I want to bathe in the moonlight!"

Yongtai was very surprised. It was already so late, but Liuhua ignored Yongtai's surprise and turned around and ran away to where the moonlight was bright. Yongtai only tried to stop her a little, and decided to let her go and pamper her.

At the same time, Yongtai's phone rang.......Isshiki Makoto.

On the other side, Isshiki Makoto got up in the middle of the night to find the toilet, but unexpectedly found that Kazuka-senpai also got up, so he decided to go out for a walk with Kazuka-senpai on the spot. At this moment, the two of them were shopping at a convenience store.

The situation is almost the same as Yuta and the others, but Isshiki Makoto is much more promising than Yuta, at least he knows that this is an opportunity

"What do you think? It's late at night! The two of them are alone! This is simply telling me that the stage is ready, come and confess quickly!"

Isshiki Makoto, because Anise-senpai is shopping inside the convenience store, in order to prevent Anise from hearing, he is squatting outside the convenience store, sneaking to ask Yuta for advice.

"How can I know for sure?"

I thought Isshiki called to tell me something important, but I didn't expect that Yuta was not interested in such a small matter and responded to Isshiki Makoto in a perfunctory tone.

"What?! How heartless! Have you forgotten how I talked to you on the day of the entrance ceremony because I was afraid you would be lonely?!"

"Don't keep talking about this.......It's hung up"

""Stop! Wait a minute!"

Isshiki Makoto panicked when he heard that Yuta was going to hang up. He had called to seek comfort, but he was about to be hung up. How could he not panic? In order to calm Yuta down, he could only change the subject.

"How are you and Birdie doing?"

"We just had dinner together and she forgot to bring her house key."

"Eh?......Are you two alone now?"

"I guess so."

Hearing this, Isshiki Makoto's gossipy heart began to burn a little

"I thought you guys were suspicious, but I didn't expect it to come to this."

"What did you misunderstand? How could such a plot be possible?"

"Why?"

"Still asking why? That's Rikka, she's full of Chuunibyou!"

Isshiki Makoto didn't understand. Rikka was also a beauty, and it was obvious that she had some feelings for Yuta. How could Yuta not feel anything?

And Yuta didn't understand why Isshiki Makoto misunderstood the two of them. How could he have such thoughts about a severe Chuunibyou patient?

But soon, his heart betrayed his thoughts.

While the two were talking on the phone, Rikka, who had had enough of the sun, came back and looked at Yuta with her big head.

Their faces were so close that Yuta was startled, but at the same time, something different emerged in his heart.

At this time, Yuta took a good look at Rikka's face, which was cute and beautiful.

Yuta was stunned and speechless for a moment, and was eventually hung up by Isshiki Makoto.

After Makoto hung up the phone, he looked around but didn't see the figure of Senior Anise.

He looked down and could only see a piece of paper——

【It seems like you're going to be on the phone for a long time. I'm going back first.----Fennel】

If you hesitate, you will lose.

Isshiki Makoto could only sigh and go back, but the words he said to Yuta had a huge impact. If Fang Wuwei knew, he would definitely stand up and applaud him loudly. After returning home and taking turns to take a bath, the two were about to go to bed, but Yuta began to recall Isshiki Makoto's words in his mind inexplicably.

And Rikka......

In his mind, the face that had moved his heart suddenly appeared. He shook his head vigorously to get rid of this disturbing face.

Besides, how could Rikka, who was suffering from a second-year syndrome, think about love?

At this time, Rikka walked out of Yuta's room. Rikka, who had no clothes to wear, temporarily borrowed Yuta's clothes. Although they were a little big, she didn't mind. She looked very petite and cute in a big top.

"Yuta, this is......Thunder Hammer?"

Looking at Rikka, who was shaking her hands in her clothes and still saying her middle school quotes, Yuta felt relieved.

It's impossible.

"Stop it, it will break, just fold up your sleeves."

Folding up her sleeves, Rikka felt like a martial artist at this moment, so she decided to become more like one and immediately began to perform boxing, which made Yuta speechless.

"You can always think of everything as a middle school kid."

With a slight sigh, Yuta turned around and pointed to the room opposite:"Okay, it's late, this room is for you to sleep, you need to go wash up first......"

Before he could finish his words, Yuta turned around again, and the rest of his words got stuck in his throat.

Rikka put down her sleeves, covered her face with them, and sniffed

"It smells like Yuta~"

Yuta blushed instantly. He just thought that Rikka would not have the idea of falling in love, but in the blink of an eye she did such a thing. He immediately stopped her, which aroused Rikka's doubts. She didn't understand these things.

"Why?......Mm, it tastes like Yuta......."

The rebellious psychology made Liuhua do it again on the spot, and the anxious Yuta blushed.

""No! It's too embarrassing!"

He pushed Rikka back to the bed, covered her with a blanket, turned on the light, and prepared to go to bed.

But just as he walked back to his room, he heard music outside. Curiosity prompted him to go out. When he went out, he saw Rikka squatting on the floor in the dark living room with the light off. The TV in front of her shone brightly, shining on Rikka.

"Didn’t I tell you to go to bed?"

"My heart is throbbing. I'm afraid they're nearby. We must be alert."

Yuta, who habitually ignores Rikka's daily foolishness, curiously glanced at what Rikka was watching. He was shocked to see that it was Leo's version of Romeo and Juliet, and the screen was showing the two of them hugging and kissing.

Rikka was watching intently. After thinking for a moment, Yuta decided to turn off the TV. After all, in his eyes, Rikka was still the child who lived in the past and refused to face reality. How could she understand love?

"Heart is beating"

"Just a good night's sleep"

"My heart is pounding!"

"I am the same."

Facing the nonsense of Liuhua, Yuta coaxed Liuhua like a child, with great patience.

"My heart is in ecstasy! My heart is about to explode!"

"Why!"

"I don't know!"

But, Rikka was different this time. She was not just being silly. She could feel her heart beating so fast, so violently as never before, as if it was going to jump out of her chest. It was as if there was a breath of air in her heart that was about to suffocate her.

Facing such Rikka, even Yuta could only make jokes. He turned off the TV and ignored Rikka who jumped up, told her to go to bed quickly, and then turned and left.

However, Rikka would not let Yuta leave like this. She immediately followed with a sliding tackle, causing Yuta to stagger and almost fall.

"I'm talking about you......"

Yuta wanted to turn around and scold Liuhua, asking her to stop messing around and go to sleep, but when he turned around, he saw Liuhua hugging her arms and staring at Yuta pitifully. The expression on her face was pitiful, red, and very cute.

"do not go......"

This scared Yuta. He thought Rikka would never feel like falling in love, but now he's not sure.

"Yuta......Close your eyes......

Close......Just a moment......"

Rikka's voice was softer than ever, as if she was begging Yuta.

Yuta broke out in a cold sweat, and he recalled the scene of the two protagonists kissing with their eyes closed on TV, and his body was trembling with nervousness.

But facing Rikka's blushing face, Yuta, who also blushed, seemed to have made up his mind and closed his eyes obediently.......

Hearing the footsteps approaching slowly, and feeling his left hand being held by a softer and smaller hand, Yuta's whole body froze. He was not mentally prepared to sing the praises of youth.

However, the facts were often contrary to imagination. He did not feel the imagined kiss full of peaches, nor did he feel any warm body being hugged by him. There was only a slight itch on the back of his left hand being held.

He opened his eyes and saw Rikka using���I drew a magic circle on the back of my left hand with a marker pen, that's all.

"What's this"

"Absolutely effective magic fragment, proof of the new contract concluded earlier."

Yuta sighed slightly, feeling ashamed for having those fantasies just now, and chose to indulge Rikka's playfulness.

"Find an inconspicuous place to paint it."

"This is the most suitable place, so that the power of darkness will be multiplied, and it can release a dark explosion that is more powerful than the pitch-black flame."

Looking at the serious face of Rikka in front of him, Yuta just smiled and drove Rikka back to the room to sleep. He was not angry, nor was he angry, but was indulgent and gentle to Rikka.

Sure enough, she didn't have such thoughts.......This is Rikka, what am I expecting?

That night, Yuta, lying on the bed, looked at the magic circle on his left hand, and sighed that Rikka's second-year syndrome was indeed a second-year syndrome. However, he was secretly glad that Rikka still kept her innocence and was not tainted by the filth of reality. However, he felt a little unwilling in his heart.......Is this really a good thing?

With complicated emotions in his heart, Yuta gave up thinking and fell asleep.

But on the other side, Rikka couldn't be so calm.

The throbbing in her heart made Rikka unable to look at Yuta directly. Even when drawing a magic circle, she had to ask him to close his eyes. Being looked at directly by Yuta would make her feel shy and her heart would beat faster.......She didn't know what was wrong with her.

Staring at the dark ceiling, Rikka tried her best to let go of everything, but Yuta's figure always appeared in her mind, and the bits and pieces of her time with Yuta.......

The pounding of her heart made her uneasy. She rolled over in bed, grabbing the quilt, unable to fall asleep.......

The next morning, Yuta was still sleeping like a pig. Rikka was awakened by the throbbing in her heart. She came to Yuta's room, looked at the sleeping Yuta, and gently stroked his face.......

She feels......The bond between me and the Dark Flame Master is no longer the same as before.......

At this time, Fang Wuwei, who was far away in the countryside, was standing on the beach facing the rising sun.......