"I wanted to ask you who you thought of in your fantasy...But seeing as to how much you're hesitating to tell me who it was and how red your face is, almost as if you've turned into a different type of variant human with red skin, I think I already know the answer."
Kafka said with a knowing smile on his face, satisfied that his plan had gone through smoothly.
"There's also how you keep on looking away when our eyes meet, just like how you did now, so I think it's unnecessary to say any more as I already know more than enough."
It's not like Kafka didn't want to hear Nina say that she wanted a family with him in her own words, as she was more than welcome to do so.
But Kafka knew that there was no chance that someone like her, who was trying to do her best to keep a safe distance from him, was going to say something like wanting to bear a child with him.
That would be completely going against her agenda to push Kafka away from a proper relationship and ruin any sort of foundation she had built up now.
That's why he didn't give her a chance to answer and settled the debate on his own, which caught Nina off guard while she was thinking of an excuse to not tell Kafka what she was thinking of.
"What?! Who said that I want to bear your children, Kafka?!"
Nina exclaimed with an exasperated look on her face when she heard Kafka claim what she wanted on his own and steal away the chance to divert him from the topic. She then glared at him with her green eyes that looked brighter than usual because of how worked up she was and said,
"Don't put words in my mouth, Kafka!...I never said such a nonsensical thing!"
"Then why were you hesitating so much, Nina?"
Kafka asked back with an unconvinced look on his face and even smirked at Nina's horrible attempt at lying, which was obvious with how flustered she was at the moment.
"If it was your husband that you saw, then you wouldn't have hesitated to tell me about it, as it would be a great way to deter me from you and let me know that you already have a future planned with someone else."
But little did she know that even though Kafka knew that she was lying and knew she was the innocent soul she had always been, he wasn't very happy with how she brought up other men in front of him even as a joke.
"Oh, really, Nina?...So not only do you have one more person other than me and your husband, but you have a couple of them as well...What a surprise to see from you."
Kafka's cold voice was heard that even managed to frighten Nina, who was on an acting high, because of how different it sounded to his usual tone of speaking that was so warm and refreshing, compared to how unnerving and menacing it sounded now.
When she slowly turned to look at Kafka's face that she had been ignoring for a while so that she didn't feel guilty for lying to him, her eyes shrank and her throat went dry at the petrifying sight she saw before her.
There Kafka was, staring at her with a gloomy look in his eyes that made his dark pupils look like two turbid pools that went as deep as the never-ending ocean.
Even though he was simply staring at her with an expressionless look on his face, which looked paler than it already was, like he was some kind of bloodless ghoul, the abysmal gaze in his eyes felt like it was enough to swallow Nina whole and made it difficult for her to even breathe.
Nina had seen Kafka's serious face before, and she had to admit that she got scared whenever she saw it for some reason, since it was way too different from how he normally looked.
But now she knew that he wasn't simply in a solemn mood, but he was actually really angry about something, judging by the way he was looking at her like he could see all the way into her soul and was judging all the sins she had committed in her life, like the grim reaper himself.
And just when she was about to drop the whole act as she felt that the reason Kafka was acting so strangely was because of the way she acted now and was going to apologise to him for whatever she did, and even make up for what she did by giving him a bunch of kisses, Kafka finally broke the silence.
"A woman who's unfaithful to her husband that she's bound to by an oath and not only has one lover on the outside, but several of them..." Kafka uttered in a low voice as a smile slowly crept up on his face as he gazed at Nina, who gulped at the chilling sight of Kafka looking at her like she was little lamb that he was going to sink his fangs in at any moment.
"...Don't you think that such a woman should be 'punished' for what she did, Nina?"
"Don't you think that she needs a 'lesson' so that she will never repeat the same mistake ever again in her entire life?"
Nina shuddered as she knew that with the way Kafka was right now, there was no amount of apologies that could stop what was coming for her, and she hoped that the people bathing inside would come out quickly, before the beast before her tore her apart...