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The aftermath of the "Great Belobog Celebration" was, in Kenta's professional opinion, significantly more dangerous than the actual battle with the Creation Engine.
He lay in the center of the bed, his body as rigid as a plank of frozen Ironwood. To his left, Seele was draped over his arm like a territorial cat; to his right, Bronya had tucked her head against his shoulder, her silver hair tickling his neck. The steady, synchronized breathing of the two most powerful women in the Underworld was the only sound in the room.
How did I get here? Kenta wondered, staring at the ceiling. I feel like the IPC just foreclosed on my common sense.
"Seele, seriously, where are your keys?" Kenta hissed, shifting the sleeping girl on his back.
"ZZZ~" was her only contribution.
Standing at her doorstep, Kenta sighed. He gently leaned her against the cold stone wall. "Don't haunt me for this tomorrow. I'm just trying to get you inside before you freeze to the masonry."
He began a cautious, purely utilitarian search. Seele's combat gear was designed for high-mobility quantum leaping, which—in layman's terms—meant it was incredibly light. Between her short hot pants and the butterfly-shaped bandages on her legs, there weren't many places to hide a key ring.
Kenta tried to keep his gaze professional, but as his hands brushed the pockets of her shorts, a voice like a crack of thunder shattered the silence.
"Kenta...?"
Kenta froze. He turned his head with the slow, grinding mechanical groan of a broken robot. Bronya stood five feet away, her eyes wide, her face pale with a mix of horror and heartbreak. From her angle, Kenta was essentially cornering a semi-conscious, scantily-clad Seele in a dark alley.
"Wait! Bronya! I can explain the physics of this situation!"
Bronya didn't wait. She rushed forward, shoving Kenta aside and catching Seele before she could slump over. "Kenta! I knew you were a rogue, but I didn't think you were a predator!"
"No! It's a misunderstanding of the highest order!" Kenta scrambled to organize his defense. "Look, she was drunk at the party, so I thought I'd help—"
"Plying her with alcohol!" Bronya countered.
"No! She ran away when she saw me, so I had to chase her—"
"Stalking!"
"Bronya, listen! We had a... conflict of interests in the alley—"
"Assault!"
"STOP! You're making me sound like a weekly villain!" Kenta roared in desperation. He grabbed Bronya's shoulders, his expression intensely sincere. "Bronya! You have to believe me! I treat everyone with the same level of care! If you were the one in trouble, I would treat you exactly the same way I treated Seele!"
Kenta meant that he would help her home with the same brotherly duty. But Bronya's brain took a sharp, 180-degree turn into a different territory. Her face didn't just turn red; it reached a temperature that could have melted the snowfields.
"You... you... you want to... to me...?" she stammered, her eyes darting wildly.
Kenta saw her softening and pressed the advantage, unaware he was pouring gasoline on a bonfire. "I'm not lying, Bronya. I'm dead serious."
Bronya took a shaky step back, her hands trembling. "Kenta... are you... are you really serious about... doing that to me too?"
"Of course! Without hesitation!" Kenta affirmed, thinking he'd successfully defended his character as a helpful citizen.
Bronya's mind went into a full-scale meltdown. She bit her lip, her heart thumping like a war drum. He's so... straightforward about it. Is this how people in the Underworld propose? She looked up at him, her gaze suddenly firm, radiating the resolve of a Supreme Guardian.
"I understand, Kenta," she whispered.
"Thank goodness!" Kenta cheered, grabbing her hand. "You finally believe me!"
Bronya flinched, her face flaming. "Don't... don't be so hasty. We should... get Seele inside first."
"Exactly!" Kenta pointed to the door. "Let's go."
"Wait! Are we... involving Seele in this?!" Bronya shrieked, then quickly covered her mouth.
Kenta scratched his head. "Well, yeah. It's her house."
Bronya went silent, her face turning a shade of purple that matched Seele's hair. She nodded slowly, her logic now entirely divorced from Kenta's reality.
Inside, Bronya took over. She insisted on "cleaning up" Seele—and herself. She believed that if she was going to face this "moment" Kenta had promised, she should do so with the dignity of the Architects.
Kenta waited in the living room, wondering why it was taking so long to put a drunk person to bed. Finally, the bathroom door clicked open.
Bronya emerged, supporting a drowsy Seele. Both were wearing thin, silken pajamas. Bronya refused to look Kenta in the eye, her voice a mere puff of air. "We... we are ready. You... you can go now."
Kenta blinked. "Huh? Go? Oh, right, I should go. I have a bathroom at my own place, anyway."
The sentence caused Bronya's internal gears to grind to a halt. "What? But the bathroom is right here? Why go back home?"
"Because I'm not staying here tonight?" Kenta said, sounding genuinely confused. "I've made sure you're both safe. I'm heading out."
The realization hit Bronya like a Silvermane artillery shell.
He wasn't proposing. He wasn't being bold. He was just... being a helpful idiot.
The sheer, monumental embarrassment of her misunderstanding—of her "preparations"—surged through her. She looked at Kenta, who was already turning toward the door with a wave.
"KENTA! I REPRESENT THE WILL OF THE PRESERVATION!" Bronya screamed.
Before Kenta could even process the shift in tone, Bronya delivered a pinpoint, military-grade punch to the back of his head.
Damn... ambushed by the Guardian... not playing by the rules... Kenta thought as the world went dark.
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