Guardian Angels (Saimatsu)

Cold Blood (Chapter 15.)

Kaede's POV:

What does Gonta want? I hope it's not what I expect.

Miu walks up to us, dragging K1-B0 along.

Me: "Hey, Miu! What's up, K1-B0?"

Miu: "Hey! Oh, just so you know, you can call him Kiibo from now on!"

Me: "Kiibo?"

Miu: "Yeah! He wanted a more human name, and the name K1-B0 is a mouthful and then some."

Me: "Alright, sounds good!"

Miu: "Ah! That's not what I wanted to tell ya' though. I just finished my extreme wave amplifier that should be able to broadcast a signal to Kiibo's brain. I'll increase his reflexes and hand eye coordination for a limited time, allowing him to be way better at Smash Bros! You two are going down next time!"

Shuichi: "Suuuuure. Put some meaning behind your words next time."

Kiibo: "You talk big, too. You doubt her programming skills?"

Shuichi: "You'll be upgrading from a level four CPU to a level six."

Kiibo: "Yeah, we'll see about that."

Me: "Why don't you just manually change Kiibo's code to make him better?"

Korekiyo: "Extreme amp, you say? Sounds interesting."

Shuichi: "You were eavesdropping, huh?"

Korekiyo: "Nobody was talking to me."

Me: "Maybe because you stare like a creep at all of us girls!"

He shrugs and walks away. I roll my eyes.

Shuichi: "Good riddance. Now anyways, continue. Why don't you manually change his code?"

Miu: "Because I'm... I'm too scared..."

Shuichi: "Huh?"

Miu: "If I screw something up... if I screw ANYTHING up..."

Me: "You're scared to loose him..."

Miu: "...yeah. I don't want to change his code manually unless I absolutely HAVE to."

Shuichi: "That's... really sweet... I'm surprised that you'd ever say anything like that, Miu."

Miu flashes him a smile, and she walks away with Kiibo.

As we wait, Maki and Kaito walk up to Shuichi and I.

Kaito: "So, any idea what this is?"

Me: "It's probably bugs, unfortunately."

Maki shivers for a bit, before looking into my eyes.

Maki: "You've been crying."

Me: "It's that obvious?"

She nods at me.

Me: "Um, I was playing piano for Shuichi and we just... well... had an emotional moment."

Maki: "But he didn't hurt you, right?"

Shuichi was taken aback by her question.

Shuichi: "I would never...!"

Me: "No, Maki, I'm fine. In fact, Shuichi helped me a lot in there."