Why Do We Fall In Love So Easy? ¦ Kazuha / Gorou / Tomo / Heizou x Reader ¦ Eng

❀ Chapter 7 ❀

To everyone's surprise, we returned to Liyue only to load more goods on board. Specifically, as soon as we arrived at the port of Liyue Harbor, one of the sellers asked Beidou to transport his goods, as it was very urgent and the ship he usually transported them on was damaged and would not be repaired until next week. He offered a lot of money, so the captain immediately agreed. So two days after leaving Ritou, we were back there. Of course, I wasn't going to sit on the deck this time either. I imagined the priceless look my friends would have on seeing me after such a short time.

While Beidou and the crew were taking care of everything, I sneaked out like last time and went to the place where I last said goodbye to Kazuha. I was glad to see him there, sitting and staring at the city in the distance. He looked worried. I sat next to him and he rested his head on my shoulder.

- Why are you so lifeless today? - I asked, stroking his head, because he clearly needed a moment of tenderness.

The idiot hasn't been around since this morning. I'm not going to look for him, but at least he could say goodbye or something, not run off in the middle of the night. Even though I heard him, I didn't want to stop him. I'm afraid of what stupidity he fell for this time - he complained sad, but also angry at the same time.

Before I could respond, a purple light flashed over the city. The flash didn't last long, but it was quite blinding. Kazuha opened his eyes wide and stood up quickly as if he knew what it could be. Without a word, he ran in that direction. Of course I ran after him. I quickly caught up with him. As we were running for shortcuts, it didn't take us long to reach our destination. We were at Tenshukaku. During my last stay, however, the building looked nicer. This time it was surrounded by storm clouds and a purple glow. Oddly, it was only here, the sun was shining over the rest of Inazuma and it was hot. The gusts of wind caused by the storm made me shiver from the cold. Me and the boy stood looking at this strange phenomenon. In the meantime, the guards surrounded us. They weren't too happy to see us. They aimed their weapons at us and began to approach. Then red-eyes pulled out his katana and turned to me:

- Can you fight with katana, sword or something like that?

In response, I ran over to one of the guards who was standing further away from the rest of the group and kicked him hard in the stomach, then punched him in the chin from underneath. For a woman, I had a lot of strength. For a guy, too. Before my opponent realized what was going on and the other guards got more interested in me, I snatched his weapon away and kicked him again throwing him a bit away from me and then I stood with my back touching Kazuha's back.

- I see you already have a weapon. We're going to be in trouble after this, but I have a feeling that Tomo is in big trouble, and even if he's the biggest idiot I know, I'll fight for him - with these words, Kazuha ran at the opponents and started to fight them.

He was really good with the katana, as if he had years of experience. He looked really beautiful then. But I couldn't stand staring at him, I had to help him. I did the same as him and took care of the opponents closer to me. For the first time, I found that Beidou's teachings were useful for something. It was thanks to her that I was able to fight without weapons, but also with every possible weapon, so I was not too bad at it. Guard after guard fell, though none were seriously injured. They were only unconscious. I didn't want to cause too much trouble just fighting them, so I couldn't afford to lose any lives.

The blinding purple light flashed again. Kazuha was just getting started and was fighting more and more opponents. I tried to help him by drawing some of them's attention to me.

- I'll be fine, you go see what's going on up there - the boy interrupted me.

I nodded and ran up the stairs towards the main building. On the way, I avoided a few individual guards, which I had no problem overpowering. When I got to the top, I was stunned. I saw Tomo barely standing on his feet, and in front of him some woman hovering a bit above the ground. They were shouting something to each other, but I was standing too far away to hear anything, and the loud wind and thunder didn't make it any easier. I watched from afar for a while. At some point, the woman stuck out her hand towards the blonde, and several electric balls flew in his direction, which he barely missed. Terrified, I stood right next to him, still holding the weapon of one of the guards, which made the woman pay more attention to me than to him.