91 Calming each other

Izan opened his eyes slowly, his jet-black eyes shined in the dim room, he could barely remember what he had gone through whilst staying inside of his mindscape, yet all of his muscles could remember everything. Izan felt like yawning as it only felt like that he had slept through a night – even though he had been sleeping for 28 whole days…

"Husband!" Hancock's smile radiated as she pounced at Izan, she couldn't help but snuggle in his embrace as she had felt very lonely over the past four weeks without having Izan near her side.

Izan didn't even have enough time before Hancock was in his embrace, snuggling and hugging him, Izan smiled gently as he wrapped his arms around Hancock and held her tenderly. "Hancock, thank you for staying with me…" Izan could already guess that he has been 'asleep' for a very long time, yet he tried his best into calming his wife – Hancock right now.

The room was quiet as the only thing that happened was that Hancock and Izan were hugging each other. But suddenly a small and lithe figure appeared in the room. She stared at Izan, her facial expression didn't change at all when she saw Hancock in his embrace, all she did was to raise an eyebrow.

Izan did sense that someone was in the room with them, it did also take Hancock two seconds before she also noticed it. Hancock turned around and saw Defying staring at Izan without even glancing at Hancock. "Sister, why didn't you say that you were coming?" Hancock spoke in an excited voice, she didn't mind Defying's personality or her usual cold traits.

At first, Defying didn't even speak a single word to the others who stayed on the ship, but over the passage of the weeks, Defying learned to speak to the others as they did always say something to her. "I am here for Master." That was all Defying said right now.

Hancock knew that Defying's mind was only occupied by the thoughts of Izan, therefore she didn't mind that kind of short answers from Defying. Hancock left Izan's embrace slowly with a downhearted feeling, yet she did so and turned towards Defying. "Why don't you welcome Izan back too?" Hancock's mood turned slightly better at the thought of that Izan would never 'leave' like that again as he must have become much stronger right now.

Defying didn't say anything, but her actions betrayed her 'stoic' personality, she jumped lightly towards Izan and landed on his lap while burying her head in his embrace. Still while doing all of that, Defying's expression didn't change at all.

Izan smiled gently as he hugged Defying who hugged him tightly. It did take Izan a minute before he managed to calm his mind from his long sleep, during this time, both Hancock and Defying were quiet as they noticed that Izan was deep in his thoughts.

"Let's get up and meet with the others." Izan spoke in a calm voice as he stood up, but as he stood up, Defying hugged his neck and stayed on him like a koala. Izan chuckled before he reached out his hand towards Hancock and held her soft hand.

As the three of them walked out of the room, no, more like Hancock and Izan were walking while Defying was hanging on his neck. The three of them were in a harmonious state as no grievance or saddened feelings could be felt in the atmosphere.

Izan was leading the two of them to the deck on the ship as he could sense someone up there while the rest were in the basement. It didn't take them longer than half a minute before they reached the deck, and the moment Izan opened the door, he could feel the blazing sun on his skin.

Izan's eyes squinted slightly because of the light, but he didn't think of it much before he searched for the one who was staying on the deck. It didn't even take him a second before he saw her. She was sitting on a chair while having a table near her with a glass of red wine in it.

The person was reading a book while wearing dark sunglasses when she heard the sound of the door opening, she raised her head and gazed at the ones that arrived. Her expression froze for a moment before she saw the one in front of her appeared right beside her and lifting her up from the chair and hugging her.

"Robin…" Izan whispered her name slowly in her ear, even if he couldn't remember much of the time he had spent in his timescape, he could still remember the moments he had missed his wives…

"Izan…" Robin replied in a low voice as she hugged Izan back, her eyes turned wet, but she held back her tears as she didn't want him to see her crying. Robin was glad that she had her sunglasses on, but what she heard next made her wet eyes release tears.

"Don't hold anything back, because I miss you as much as you did me…" Izan spoke in a very soothing voice as he tightly hugged Robin. Izan was very glad that he had wives that understood him and that he understood them. The newest one of them would be – Defying, yet Izan felt like that he understood her very well. Defying could act stoic and strong-minded, yet her feeling was pure. As the moment Izan came to the deck, Defying left Izan's embrace and watched them from behind.

Hancock left the three of them as she went to the basement, wanting to tell the others that Izan had finally woken up.

Robin and Izan stayed silently embracing each other in the middle of the deck, neither one of them felt that the seconds passed away swiftly as the minutes went by. What the two of them felt was only the warmth the other one was giving off. Izan felt his thoughts calming down and Robin felt her worries vanishing.