This is a multimedia webnovel with giant city-crushing monsters, a valiant man who dares to fight them, a hero who loses himself on a righteous path, and a darkness which conceives a profound love. But I suck at descriptions, so I strongly encourage...
But before Hatasuko could continue, Vaida shoved an aterpomus into his open mouth. He gave a plaintive groan as he set his hand on the fruit, but Vaida giggled quietly and then searched the sail-rana for other fruit.
"Stop, Hatasuko, you're making me blush! I was trying to stay mad at you so you would listen, but then you keep saying sweet things and knocking me off-focus," Vaida pouted, crossing her shimmering arms.
Hatasuko smiled as she said this. Her cheeks glowed slightly red from her blushing, though she tried to hide her face as she searched for the perfect fruit. The powerful wind blew through her hair so that it looked like a wave of dark string, hiding her scarred arm as she reached around the vehicle. Hatasuko chuckled lightly as he chomped through the aterpomus in his hand.
"You don't need to be mad to make me listen. You know that!" Hatasuko said with an entertained grin.
"Maybe so, but I have to be careful. You don't exactly think these things through," she mumbled, her face hidden by her windblown hair.
"Ha! What are you talking about? I'm not reckless at all!"
"Then why were you so ready to throw your fucking life away?"
The sudden change in tone caught Hatasuko off-guard. He glanced down at her grimacing face since it was no longer hidden by her hair. Her dead eye glared into him while her other eye angrily looked away.
"Whoa, Vaida, what are you talking about?" Hatasuko asked.
Vaida sat down on the edge of the sail-rana and closed her eyes so that she could not see him staring. Her little body shook slightly from a rush of anxiety. The vehicle jostled from this motion.
"In the piscileo factory... in the burning building where you found me. You threw yourself on top of me. Were you really going to sacrifice yourself to the flames? Were you really going to throw away the only chance that humankind has left?" Vaida asked.
"I had to. I can't bear the thought of losing you. I couldn't-"
"And what if you did save me? What then? If I had to watch you die like I watched him die, how could I live with that?! How could I live with that?!" she demanded.
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Hatasuko tossed the small remainder of his fruit on the ground and set his big hand on her shoulder. Vaida turned and embraced him again. At first, she hugged him tightly with her muscles flexed, but as her emotions transformed from anger to sorrow, her grip slowly loosened. Everything about the embrace seemed to loosen except for her head; she buried her face into his muscular stomach as she spoke. Her whole body was trembling again; her fingertips dug through his clothes and into his skin.
"When, um, when it first happened, when I first lost them... I watched him die. I watched with eyes burned open. He, um, he just burned up. The flames went through him. While he was on top of me. Covering me. Protecting me. The flames took my father and scarred my skin with memories. Ugly, ugly memories. If I ever had to suffer that again, like I almost did in that factory, well, I just, I know... I couldn't recover. I would never recover. There would be no more Vaida. If I lost you like I lost him. You wouldn't be saving me. I would rather be dead."
