The Handmaiden's Diary (KHR Fan-Fiction)

chapter 24

"Thanks to your healing ability, your scalded hands are not as serious as it should be."

Hibari was rubbing some ointment on my hands and I noticed that the injury was slowly healing on its own. The healing speed was slower than usual since I used up too much of my flames during the mission in the Millefiore's base. 

That was not the main issue for me. It was really surprising that my future self ended up engaged with Hibari's future self but someone was not happy about it.

Mizushima Risako, the girl who loved to keep herself updated about me and Hibari, turned out to be one of his childhood friends and she badly wanted to marry him when they grew older. Her future self took the perfect chance to tell the Millefiore soldiers to catch me so that she could get to stay with his future self. 

I asked myself. Did I actually steal someone's future husband from the beginning?

"[Name], why are you so quiet?"

I blinked in sudden and he had been staring at me after treating my hands. 

"N-nothing," I answered. "I'm just thinking."

"About what?"

I was reluctant to tell what was in my mind but his eyes were telling me that he wanted to know more. I let out a small sigh and a pained look appeared on my face.

"Do you know a student named Mizushima Risako?"

"Yeah, what about her?"

"Her mother claims that she wanted to marry you and it's been her wish since she was young. Did you and Mizushima Risako know each other?"

"Just, why are you asking this kind of question?"

"I don't know!" I snapped and I was clenching my own fists with frustrated feelings. "I feel like I'm stealing someone's boyfriend!"

"...you're thinking too much, [Name]."

He placed back the ointment and medicine in the first aid kit before he proceeded to sit on the couch beside me.

"Mizushima Risako is one of my relatives' stepdaughter. Despite she is not related by blood, she was really close to my other distant cousins. I never think of wanting to marry that student you are talking about."

"But she kept on saying that she wanted to-"

"Marry me? She's highly obsessive with the husband and wife game she used to play when she was young. Like my other cousins, she also mocked me for having no parents."

"Mocked you? Then why is she being so nice to you?"

"Who knows? Maybe after hearing that I might take over the family's clan, she decided to change. Still, I won't marry someone who disrespects my parents."

"I-I know that but what if your family members or your relatives want you to marry someone like Mizushima Risako?"

"No one can force me to marry someone."