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"What happens to you, Jeanne?"

The girl didn't say anything. She takes steps closer to Ilia. Agile and swift can be used to describe her actions. She throws punches at a moment she arrived in front of him.

Ilia, who didn't have an intention to run away face her directly. He parry and blocked her punches without giving counterattacks. He didn't wish to hurt her.

"Stop it! Why are you attacking me!?" He asked, didn't get the answer, again.

Jeanne continues to attack him. Then, swiftly as a chance appears, Ilia caught and for a moment later, lock her arms behind her back. He use CQC to restrain her in place, to make sure she didn't give him pains again.

Yes, his combat knowledge came from his experiences as a terrorist in his past life. He has never been involved in a fight for a quite long time in this world. So, he executes the technique poorly. But fortunately, it was enough to handle the girl's violence.

"..." Jeanne never says anything as she tries to break free from Ilia. She then raises her right leg to stomp on Ilia's feet.

"Gah! Seriously!" He screamed in pain.

He was careless and he forget that in a fight, a human was a weapon! Almost every part of the human body was dangerous.

He didn't want this but… in the end, he tackle Jeanne's feet. He pushes her down for seconds later sits on her back. With this, she got a hard time resisting and it's almost impossible for her to break free.

Still holding the struggling girl, he asked, "so, what happen to you? Why did you attack me?"

"..."

Time passed and he still didn't get the answer.

"Well… I'm waiting."

"...you lie to me."

"Lie? I never lie to you." He was confused and wondered, when, where, and why he lie to the girl.

"You did!" She exclaimed. "You said you love me but that was a big lie! I show a part of who I am and you reject it! You just want the perfect Jeanne, not who am I! Your words which is, this is not who you are, different from who you used to be, I hate it, and please stop it, was enough to be a solid proof!"

"..." He becomes speechless because of her misunderstanding. He didn't mean like that by his words.

"I thought I have been right to choose you but you just like everyone else! You just want the fake perfect me not who I truly was! And you love me? I have been a fool to believe such words again. I, I…" She starts to cry. Ilia's grip loosens up. "I can't believe that the kindness you show in the park was deception!"

"You misunderstood my words. I do love and care about you," he said in a soft voice.

"Lies!" She screamed as she give a sudden, strong resistance. Because of it, she was able to set her arms free. She does some push up to throw Ilia off her back but she can't lift her body well. She does make a little progress.

"I didn't lie to you," he told her then stand up, walking away from her to make a distance.

Jeanne back to her feet as soon as possible. She turned around to see Ilia, she observe the boy with her dead eyes and was ready for another fight. "You should pay the consequences for deceiving me!"

Her tears, her violence, her anger, her weird attitude, and her unstable emotions. Seeing all of that, he knows that she is suffering. He grieving to see her in this state and he wants to help her, to be her strength.

"I'm not doing any deception, how can you believe me?"

"...stand still, don't do anything."

"You will believe me if I do that?" As he voice the question, he knew that Jeanne will beat him up. After all, he noticed that her fists doesn't loosen up. Instead, it got tighter.

He decided not to run and accept his fate. Pain it's a cheap price to gain her trust, to lessen her suffering.

"...yes."

"Then I will do as you say."

Not long after he says the word, he lay on the floor. Jeanne was on her chest as she stepped on his arms. She raises her fist to then send punch after punch to Ilia's face.

Time passed and dozen of punches have been launched.

His face was a mess, blood flow from cuts on his face. A few times, he almost fainted as her punch landed in the right place to give a critical hit. He struggles to maintain his consciousness willingly because he wants to see the end of this episode.

If he dies, he is unlucky. He survives, he is lucky. That was his thought on this matter. He does regret not living with her and he didn't have a regret to die at the hand of beauty. He have a good life so far so he did have a little resistance to die.

"Why?" Jeanne as her arms stopped. Tears flow to wet her cheeks. Light began to fill her eyes. "Why don't you fight me back?"

"I stay still to gain your trust. I want you to believe me that I didn't want to deceive or lie to you," Ilia said in a broken voice as he try to sweep dizziness in his head.

"Then why do you say those terrible things to me!" She slams her hands to his chest, strongly.

"Gah! ...you misunderstood me. I just want you to know, I hate the act you do to seduce me. I see you as the perfect you because all of this time, I only see this side of you. And sorry, I don't know who you truly are."

Jeanne clenched her hands to made fists. "...is that true?"

"I said my pieces. It's up to you to believe it or not."

She hesitates so she wants to make sure of his feelings again before taking a decision. "...you love me?"

"Yes, I do."

"...are you willing to give me kindness?" She asks him to realize her simple wish.

"As much as you want."

"...can you accept the broken me?" She wants to run away from the demand that she must be perfect.

"I want you to be yourself so yes."

"...will-" she stopped. Her fear of rejection grows stronger.

"...will you-" her voice won't come out as she is scared to hear his reply.

"...will you forgive me?" Desperately, she holds his uniform more tightly than ever before. She didn't want to lose him, to be abandoned, to be alone again.