[INDEF. HIATUS] Regrets and Wishes: One More Chance

Chapter 12 - Accidents

For the second time, I write a part of story from Ciel's perspective.

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第12章　事故

(Ciel's Perspective)

My five senses gradually come back as my [Sleep] begins to deactivate. A hand is wrapping my back and something is pressing against my body. They both feel equally warm, calming, and comfortable.

I slowly open my eyelids. The first thing that greets me is the sight of Master's peaceful sleeping face just less than twenty centimetres from my face.

Seeing his face up this close, I just realized something. My face feels so hot. I—I didn't know that Master's face can be this c-c-cu-cute? 

I'm reminiscing the emotional moments that happened last night.

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I finally dared myself to ask Master why he felt a need to do all of that just for me. I was willing to do everything for his sake. I never wished for a single reward. He should've known that. Why did Master bother to do that?

But I never expected Master to react that way. He was so disappointed by my question.

"Ciel-san, now I ask you: are you not feeling happy when I gave you something special? Is that it?"

Those words were so simple, yet were so sharp. Yes, I did never wish to be given something special. But I would be lying if I said I wasn't feeling happy when I received it. 

It was the first time I couldn't find an answer to Master's words. I couldn't find a single reason to back it up. The only thing that I could do was stuttering.

Firmly holding my shoulders, he stated out loud in front of my own face that he didn't want to hear me saying those things again. Then suddenly, without me expecting it at all, he wrapped his hands around my waist, taking me into his embrace.

That was the first time I felt this. I could feel a warmth from Master's body, even though our bodies were supposed to not emit any heat due to their nature as slime body. That warmth got into me, spreading all over my body, reaching the deepest part of my chest.

"Even though you do see me as your master, Ciel-san, I never consider you as my servant, nor as my skill. I consider you as my partner and only as my partner. Nothing else. What kind of horrible partner am I if I didn't show any care for my partner?"

Ah, right. How can I forget that fact?

Even when I was still a mere unique skill, he already considered me as his partner.

"Remember the first time we got thrown into this world's past? When I asked you to keep accompanying me?"

Of course, I remember it all. But why would you ask that?

"You are the one and only companion whom I had and whom I could trust at the time. Had you not calmed me down, I doubt I would then keep pushing forward in the midst of all that sadness, madness, and anguish.

"I'm so grateful that you came into my life, accompanying me on my very long journey from the very beginning of my second life. I feel like I am the luckiest person in this world, and even in the entire worlds, to have you as my partner. Without you, I would've never achieved anything big back then."

Master is the greatest person alive. There is no way he wouldn't achieve anything.

Just when I was about to rebut it, my words were already cut by his index finger on my lips.