The Art of Sword

Chapter 37: Date Disaster

Grace: Huh? Did I hear you right? You want to dance!

Sunz answer "Yeah!" Which makes Grace's facial expression even more confusing.

In response to her expression, Sunz said "What!","You thought that I brought us here to skate like all the other lovey-dovey couples."

Grace crosses her arm: Ain that the point of an ice skating ring! What other intention do you have that I need to worry about!?

Sunz: You know, I kinda like our relationship dynamic! We both don't know what we are doing and keep second-guessing the other person's actions.

Grace: You want to have a practice match before the real fight, don't ya!

Sunz: You guess it! So may I have the privilege to dance with you?

Right after Sunz finishes his sentence, Grace swiftly grabs his hand and pulls him close to her.

Then she said: My previous opponent was such a joke. So I hope that you can do a better job.

Sunz's body starts to heat up due to how little space between him and Grace is.

Grace: My my! Your body is rapidly heating up! I wonder, am I the cause?

Sunz tried his best to separate his hand from Grace's hand but to no avail. Then she feels that Sunz is putting all of his strength in one hand.

Which leads to him lowering his guard on the other hand. Taking that chance she successfully restrained both of his arms.

Grace: Trying to escape, not a chance! Now lets me take care of that heat for you. Don't want your suit to be drenched in sweat.

Sunz then feels that his body temperature starts to slowly cool down. Standing that close to Grace, Sunz slowly accepts the situation he is in.

Sunz regained his composure, letting his body temperature return to a neutral state. But for some reason, his body is now even colder than before.

When he looked up at Grace. He saw her blank eyes staring at their hand, not moving at all. It was like she was frozen in time.

Grace is panicking in her mind (How long had we been holding hands? Were there many people staring at us? Why can't I hear or see anything? PLEASE RETURN TO YOUR SENSE, MYSELF!)

Then she feels a shift in her body and a feeling that she is not holding on to anything anymore. That is when she returns to reality, seeing that she and Sunz are laying on the ice floor.

Grace is confused about the accident that just happened. Sunz uses that moment to get up and grabs Grace's hand getting her off the cold floor.

Sunz: Are you ok? You just blank off for a moment there.

Grace: I'm fine, just a bit messed up in the head. Did anything bad happen?

Sunz: No one got hurt, except you did make my body feel like it was frozen in ice.

Grace "Sorry about that! Maybe I just lost control of my ability." And her hand feels a bit different. When she looks at it, this time it is Sunz holding her hand and not her holding his.

"When did I release your hands?" she asked.

Sunz "When you were spacing out, I pull both of us to the ground to get your attention. After that our hands disconnect, I then stand up first and pull you up from the floor."

There is a moment of silence between them then...

"Let me release your hand! You must feel uncomfortable." Sunz said. After that sentence, he felt a strong grip restraining his hand from opening and heard a whisper.