"I'm sorry, Nina...I thought that I could tell you my true thoughts at first, since you're a mature adult and all. But after seeing how absolutely innocent you are, like an unblemished piece of white paper, I've changed my mind and don't want to say anything to you since I really don't want to stain your pure mind with my filth."
Kafka sighed like it couldn't be helped and looked at Nina with an apologetic look on his face for not keeping his end of the promise. He genuinely couldn't carry out what he said he would do, and he wasn't exaggerating in any way, as saying anything vulgar to Nina felt like talking dirty to a pure child, which he could never bear to do.
"But Kafka!~ You said you would tell me!~" Nina pouted when she heard that she wasn't going to get what she wanted, and she looked like she had been wronged, even though what she wanted from Kafka wasn't exactly something that someone would normally want to hear.
"You can't go back on your words now!~ You even made me k-kiss you on your cheeks, and there's no way I can take that back now!...I can even see the wetness of my lips on your cheeks right now!"
Nina pointed at the evidence of her end of the deal and demanded that she be compensated with Kafka's dirty thoughts about her, which was a rather strange exchange to hear about.
"I'm sorry, Nina, but I really can't tell you my honest thoughts." Kafka apologised, as he really couldn't bear to sully Nina with his own detestable thoughts as the Incarnations of Lust.
He then looked at Nina, who had folded her hands on top of one another and was sulking because of the betrayal she had gone through, and said to console her, "...But I am willing to do anything in exchange for the kiss you gave me, Nina, and also as a sorry for not meeting your expectations... Absolutely anything you want."
"...Anything? I can ask anything I want from you, Kafka?"
Nina's interest peaked when she heard Kafka's suggestion, and she warily looked at Kafka from the corner of her eyes, like she was asking if he was telling the truth.
"No matter how absurd my request is, you'd be willing to hear it?"
"Y-Yes Nina, anything you want...Anything other than the thoughts I have about you." Kafka nervously answered, as he didn't know what Nina was going to ask him, and he prayed that she didn't ask him to stand still while she beat him up for lying to her.
"T-Then I want you to do what I just did to you and return the favour, Kafka."
Nina hesitantly stated her demands with a nervous look in her eyes, like she was embarrassed to be asking such a favour.
"It's just a simple act of affection one would desire from the people they have fond feelings for...So there's absolutely nothing wrong with you asking for a kiss, Nina; absolutely nothing wrong at all."
"Y-Yeah!...I-It's just a little sign of love!...There's nothing wrong with asking for something pure, like a kiss."
Nina nodded her head while she was in Kafka's embrace, and she immediately agreed with what he said, which made all the guilt she was feeling at that moment go away.
She then looked at his handsome profile from the side and asked inquisitively,
"...S-So Kafka...When are you going to kiss me?"
"Right now, Nina." Kafka pulled himself back from the hug and smiled, making Nina look away in embarrassment. "I can kiss you right now, and I will kiss you right now...It's just that I don't know where exactly you want me to give you a kiss, so it would be nice if you told me where you want one."
"Where I want you to give me a kiss?" Nina asked herself and then started to wonder where exactly she wanted to feel Kafka's cold lips on her body.
After some thought, she seemed to have gotten an idea as she looked at Kafka with her lips curled up in a devious manner and said, "...Actually, I want to know which part of me you want to kiss the most, Kafka, since that would be the same as getting to know your inner thoughts that you're not willing to tell me...So, I want you to choose where you want to kiss me."
"You sneaky little vixen~...At the end of the day, you just wanted to know my thoughts, don't you?" Kafka gently pulled on Nina's long ear for being so mischievous and adamant about knowing what he thought, which made Nina let out a naughty giggle like she was proud of tricking someone as smart as Kafka.
Kafka also couldn't really be mad at someone who looked so cute when they covered their mouth and chuckled like they were doing something sneaky, so he let go of Nina's ears with a sigh and said, "Fine, there's no winning with you since no matter what you may do I'll still end up forgiving you if you were to show me your adorable face, which I apparently can't resist at all."
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Nina didn't struggle to accept Kafka's words when she heard Kafka call her cute like she used to do before, and she actually let out a cheeky little 'hehe' while scratching her head in a shy manner, like she was saying, 'It's only natural that you forgave a girl as cute as me, Kafka'.
Kafka smiled at this sight since he was happy to see that the girl before him, who used to feel inferior about her looks to the extent that she didn't even mind if anyone mocked her appearance since she thought it was only natural to do so, was finally having more confidence in her appearance and was starting to love herself like she deserved to her whole life for being an absolute angel.
It was also at this moment that Kafka realised that he had truly fallen for Nina, as even the simple thought of someone trying to ruin the goofy little smile Nina had on her face when she got embarrassed evoked something deep inside of him which was better off being left alone for the sake of the sanity of this world...