The Generation of Miracles : Us ! ~Translation

Chapter 18

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When he saw that Kuroko was holding back his sobs, he still didn't manage to take him in his arms. He could only ask in a toneless voice

- Do you still love him, Tetsuya ?

Kuroko abruptly moved away and glared at the red.

- How can you ask me something like that?! he screamed, outraged.

Akashi extended his hand like Kise had done with Aomine, Kuroko quickly moved away, upset. In the dark, Akashi had not payed attention to Kuroko's eye colour but now, the moon was illuminating his face.

His eyes. One had turned black again, the other was slowly tinting in black. They had to prevent him from falling back in the Dark Zone when there was no active light around at all cost. It was dangerous.

Kuroko jumped on his feet and grabbed his t-shirt which he hurriedly put on. With the same speed he out on his pants, not embarrassed by Akashi's presence at all, Akashi who had stood up and was trying to calm him down.

The latter quickly saw the bruises who scared Kuroko's body and the bandages hiding the rest of the injuries and thought -righlty so- that Kuroko's fragility was also due to the pain he must've been feeling.

Kuroko walked through the door and said, turning his back to the red :

- You are cruel, Seijuro. It's as if I asked you if you still loved Kasshoku.

- But me, I would know what to answer, Akashi hissed. I hat him. And I hate Shirogane for what he did to you.

Kuroko turned around, his eyes now odd were shining brightly with held back tears:

- Me too. But you still doubt me.

- And that's normal, the Emperor said. The most similar feelings for a human are hatred and love. And you never knew what you felt for him.

Kuroko's face twisted in a painful grin.

Akashi was wrong.
Akashi wasn't always right. He wasn't infallible.

- You think that you are superior, Seijuro, Kuroko whispered in a broken voice. And it's true. You can predict other people's movements, see the future and change it but there's one domain where you're as blind as us simple humans it's human relationship.

The Emperor opened his mouth to answer but Kuroko smiled in such a tender way that he lost his words.

- You dare reproach me something that I do not feel because some natural law says that I should feel it. But actually, Seijuro... he started.

Akashi took a step forward, Kuroko too. He reached out his left hand towards Kuroko, the latter reached out his right hand and their fingers brushed. The shadow's face was suddenly deadpan and his eyes like steel. He was smiling softly but ... there wasn't any emotion in his smile.

The Mirror.

For the first time, Akashi some sort of fear in front of of a technique he had created himself. Because Kuroko's face was showing his and he didn't like the broken spark in his eyes, behind their coldness.