Burned out constellations

-Continued from here.

“Ah… You haven’t. I was lost in my own thoughts is all. No need to fear.”

On the positive, he could relax a little. She seemed friendly enough, considering he’d thought for a long time that his eventual killer would take him on while the demon was distracted.

Well, now things seemed to be calmer now. All intensity around them had dissipated.

Uhhh...

“No. I’ll make sure to keep your name noted from here on out, however.”

Darn, he should be so much better at this. He can’t even pick her up from her scent which admittedly smelled really good right now.

“I don’t even know who this ‘Motochika” is, I just want free food and someone to brush my hair.”

“oн ι нope тнe ѕaмe. нυмanѕ cerтaιnly мaĸe тнιngѕ coмplιcaтed.” Human emotion was so odd especially on these sort of things. It was just a simple bonding of two parties, right? 

“Isn’t that about the truth.” The subject hurt a little bit, but he smiled through it. Marriage is a complicated beast, indeed.

“I don’t even know who this ‘Motochika” is, I just want free food and someone to brush my hair.”

“Of course I do! We just don’t have the resources to hope on surviving another war on the scale of the Great war. I don’t think the gods of Susano’o’s contol know how much destruction and pointless death they caused with their last visit. We were all suffering enough when Orochi was strong enough to twist the minds of several leaders into slaughtering their own men.”

He shook his head with a sigh.

“I hate killing enough as it is, I’d like to keep from increasing the number.”

“My apologies,” Yumigami uttered, her expression softening. “I did not mean to come across so stony. Perhaps my dealings with Orochi and others of his ilk has gotten to me.”

She shook her head, running a hand through her hair briefly after. She’d not meant to give the impression that she was seeking a fight. Perhaps she’d best work on how best to present herself once more… She’d certainly taken to a childish or somber sort of behavior at times as of late… and perhaps the swap back to the more serious her was enough of a change to make her offers seem graver than they actually were.

Listening to her explanation of her original intent, Aosame frowned at his own behavior regarding the situation and let out a sigh.

“I owe you my own apology, then. I have been following this cycle for so long that it must be clouding my judgment on other points of view.”

The demon looked back to the lunar rabbit and opened his mouth to speak once more. Only pausing to make sure he was to ask sounded right.