Disclaimer:This chapter contains an emotionally intense argument. Some words are spoken from anger, fear, betrayal, and years of buried pain, and may go further than what the characters truly mean. Neither side is intended to be completely right or wrong. Please keep their circumstances and emotional states in mind while reading.
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Erza visibly recoiled.
"Animalistic... love?"
Her voice became quieter with every syllable. Her fingers slowly curled against her chest as though Yuuta's words had physically struck her there. Of everything he could have accused her of, those words seemed to cut directly into something Erza had only recently learned to accept with pride the fact that she truly loved this mortal.
"You're calling me an animal?"
A tear slipped down her cheek as she waited for him to take it back, or at least soften what he meant.
Yuuta didn't.
"Yes."
