KANON

#20 - A strong Impulse

Kanon

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A strong impulse

-Tsuyoi shoudou-

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DONT FORGET TO FOLLOW, VOTE AND COMMENT DESU~

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'Len! Will you finally wake up now?' Hands wrap around my ankle and start tickling the underside of my foot. In a split-second I'm fully awake.

I yawn, at which Usagi grins. 'You're supposed to go meet the count, today.'

I sigh. That's right. The count. We finished the map of the first floor thanks to my nice running around after Bakaito got himself poisoned. The map drew itself, thanks to the new technology.

'Aw man... That guy is soooooo mean... Do I really have to go?' I whine playfully, Usagi grins wider.

'I'm afraid so.' A different voice answers.

Ritsu's at the door, without hat for once. Normally by the time I wake up he's already dressed with hat on and all.

He's wearing one of his "pretty" robes again, the one's he wears every time we go meet the Count.

I bid everyone out of the room and undress. I dress into a pair of 7/8 black pants and a jacket without sleeves. When I'm done I redo my ponytail and start looking for my staff. I dropped it last night.

Ritsu got me into bed I guess. He's done that a lot since I came to live at his place. He'd always say I'd catch a cold sleeping on the floor whenever I laid down.

I still remember it was strange to sleep in a bed after months of sleeping between garbage cans and against walls. It was just weird. Nice, great even, but weird.

Sighing I pick up my staff set against the side of the wall next to the window. For a second there I though I dropped it on the way back.

Then my eyes fall onto a small bock laid on the floor next to it. A small white box tied with a red ribbon.

Carefully I pick it up, and notice the note shoved underneath it. I walk back to my bed and put my staff and the box down, then unfold the paper. A smile makes its way onto my face before it turns into a frown.

"To Shin. Here's your payment, and Ritsu's too. -Yuu"

'Ritsu's too?' I whisper out loud, putting the note down. I pick up the box and pull the ribbon off almost ripping it in half before pulling off the lid.

A collar. A black collar. And a silver ring...

I turn the collar around in my hands. A second note falls onto my lap, and I pick it up.

"The necklace is yours Shin. It's a caster's collar, as you can see there are runes scribbled into the leather. The ring is for Ritsu, for helping out. It's an RK."

I drop the note. An RK? What's an RK?

With shaking hands I turn the collar over in my hands again, looking at the runes. I don't recognize them, good, they can't be bad then. I slip it around my neck and click the silver security chain shut. It fits perfectly, but that doesn't surprise me. Yuure has a funny sense for these kinds of things.

A few short knocks at the door startle me from my thoughts.

'Len, are you done?'

I gasp, it's Ritsu.