127. Confrontation

127. Confrontation

It took a while for Tomoka to realize what was going on, or at least have an idea of it. However, she wasn’t a hundred percent sure. If her hypothesis is right then the possibilities for the future would be endless. For now though, she needed to ask Nozomi for some information. Though she would do so later since Nozomi fell asleep.

‘Hey Kurama, what do you think is going on with my body?’

...

‘Kurama?’

...

Feeling a mixture of worry and annoyance Tomoka closed her eyes so she could enter her mental-landscape. What she saw there was an absolute mess. Torn trees and boulders everywhere with puddles of black foul smelling liquid in between. Her library looked like it had barely survived all kinds of natural disasters. Worse of all, she couldn’t see the fox anywhere.

“I am sorry.”

[No you are not. I don’t know the full story but what I learned through that whole ordeal is that you can’t feel... anything.] Kurama felt angry, betrayed, he felt like all that time he had spent with Tomoka was nothing but a lie. Yet, here he was, talking with the girl in hopes that perhaps it wasn’t.

“I... I am sorry, but you are right, I can’t feel much of anything, I am a broken mess. I will be explaining everything to Nozomi and Hinata later today. Could you please wait until then? It’s... a bit hard for me to tell the story.”

Kurama stared at Tomoka for a while. He could see the regret, the fear in her eyes. However, he didn’t know if he could trust those feelings he was seeing. After all, she admitted it herself. Thinking for a while Kurama sighed, he would give her a chance.

[Fine, but if I’m not satisfied with your explanation I will be leaving.] Kurama truly hoped that she could explain everything in a satisfactory way. He didn’t want to hate her.

“I understand.”