Chapter 105 Kiss

After coming to know the hard life she had lived, Zavier developed a strong sympathy for the unfortunate girl. He could see his own shadow in her, a life that lonely wasn't very worth living. He had already experienced it and he wanted to save her from it.

Her tragedy had invoked a protective instinct in him that made him want to shield her from all kinds of harm. It made him want to be the wall that kept her away from the fierce winds and the shelter that prevented her from getting wet in the rain.

Zavier looked at her with more and more tenderness like he wanted to give her all the good things in the world to make her realize that she was not alone and that she deserved to be happy as well. He wanted to tell her that her life could be more than some tragedy and a revenge story that she had to follow through to the end.

Zavier didn't want to hold her back from taking revenge for her family but he didn't want her to make it the sole purpose of her life that prevented her from enjoying all the good things that she so obviously deserved.

Shiranui on the other hand was going through a whole other lot of emotions. While Zavier was full of empathy and tenderness for her, Shiranui's heart was pounding out of her chest. She could feel her heart throbbing past the normal elastic limits. It was so obvious that she could hear it out loud.

As Zavier's hold on her got stronger along with his desire to protect her, Shiranui too continued to burrow deeper into his chest. She had never felt so pampered in her life; not after the death of her family at the very least.

She wasn't used to feeling this vulnerable but for the first time since the death of her family, she felt like opening up to someone; to lay herself completely bare with nothing to hide and nothing to gain. She wanted to rely on someone other than herself; someone who could make her feel safe and could let her feel the emotions that she thought that she had lost.

She felt her burning face with both her hands and managed to sneak a peek from behind her hands and saw the smiling and somewhat teasing face of Zavier who was happily watching as she made the transition from being a maddened avenger to a lovely girl who was more than just that; from someone who was alone to someone who was loved and pampered and just happy.

Shiranui took a deep breath and decided to take the final leap. She took off her hands from her burning face that was beet red by that time and looked Zavier straight in the eye; albeit for a moment before she had to look away because there was nothing that had ever looked more dazzling to her than Zavier's laughing face at that moment.

She took up the courage to look again but this time she succeeded in making the eye contact last longer.

As she looked into his eyes, time seemed to have slowed down. Everything fell into its rightful place like it had always belonged there, like pieces of a puzzle that had finally found their proper position.

Shiranui didn't know if their surroundings were really as silent as she felt at the time but all sounds around her had disappeared. There was absolute silence in that tree trunk and amidst the darkness she was being held by the one guy who made her feel the safety of home.

Tears were forming at the edge of her eyes but she kept them in for fear of getting even more embarrassed in front of Zavier who had already seen her face dyed the hue of blood.

Zavier had witnessed every expression on her face; from the moment she had thought of taking the first step to the moment that she did. He couldn't help but root for her in his heart.

He still remembered the first time he had seen her during the class competition. He had thought that Shiranui was slightly shameless for she was wearing such exposed clothing. The fact that she looked absolutely seductive like a minx did nothing to tone that impression down.

But now that Zavier was seeing her blushing red face and her shy demeanour, he couldn't help but think how wrong he had been in her assessment. He had never looked past the clothing and the obvious charm to take a look at how cute and innocent this girl truly was.

At least at this moment, Zavier was sure that a cuter girl could never exist. He wasn't able to look away from her and her cute antics no matter how hard he tried. And when she looked him in the eyes, Zavier finally felt it for real that he had been caught in an inescapable net. His soul had been marked and locked on. It was useless for him to try to escape; not that he wanted to escape from her in the first place.

Zavier watched her adorable eyes flutter with excitement and when she eventually closed her eyes and leaned in towards him, Zavier lost the feeling in half his body as if his brain had short circuited right there and then.

Zavier was slightly nervous because he already had a girlfriend. At the same time, he didn't want to disappoint Shiranui for she might never trust somebody enough to open up to in the future because of his refusal today. That coupled with the fact that Shiranui was extremely beautiful made him want to give in. Her slightly parted lips were calling out to him and he wanted to heed the call.

If it had been his previous world, Zavier would have definitely refused her since such an act was disgraceful and against convention there. But in this world there was no such restriction. On the contrary, polygamy was quite common with various nobles having multiple wives.

In his previous life Zavier had never been in love. In reality he was the furthest thing from it because of his sickness and the fact that he could hardly ever leave his hospital room. He had never experienced the tender emotions and the feeling of absolute devotion to someone.

Now that he had come to this isekai, he wanted to fill in all the gaps left in his life from the previous world. Beautiful moments like these were exactly the ones Zavier had been chasing after. Sadness and depression had been the constant part of his life over the course of his previous life. He wanted to break away from it in this world. Zavier needed these tender feelings and sweet moments like these to fulfil the purpose of his transmission into this new world.

Owing to the custom of polygamy in this world that allowed men to have several women, Zavier finally let go of the last shred of hesitation that had been left in him and leaned in as well.

As he moved in for the blissful kiss, Zavier saw the usually aloof and cold girl look like a normal adolescent girl who was filled with anticipation and soaking with happiness. Her cheeks were flushed like a bleeding tomato and her slightly parted cherry red lips were trembling slightly as if expecting something from him. Zavier could hardly keep his eyes off of her. He had never felt that this girl could appear to be so cute. Her shyness coupled with her simplistic behavior made her look more endearing than seductive despite her way of dressing and her overly exaggerated body.

There was a slight furrow in her brow and her nose cutely scrunched up a bit since Zavier had taken quite some time in coming out of his moral dilemma. Just before she was about to open her eyes when Zavier finally made contact.

He closed his eyes and slowly began to kiss her lips with as much tenderness and care as he could. From the level of her shyness, Zavier was sure that this was her first time kissing someone. So he made sure that it would be memorable for her too.

The softness of her lips took him by surprise. Zavier felt as if her lips were made of water. He couldn't help but devour them greedily. He sucked on them with all his might and tightened his grip around her back.

He pulled her in for an even tighter embrace. Shiranui relented to every single one of his advances. After her family, she had finally met someone she could trust with all her heart. She wanted to give him her everything without hesitation. As a result the kiss had turned into a fierce battle.

The two heated bodies were twined into a tangled mess. Shiranui could hardly keep track of whether she was on top or bottom; whether her leg was twined around him or the opposite. She could barely understand what was happening but she didn't want it to stop. She had never felt happier than she had at this moment.