Chapter 10: Painful Past
Kazuki glanced at the clock on the wall. Five minutes had passed since he’d last looked. He resumed pacing the length of the living room. Sakura told him that weekdays were regular school days, so she would be home at four rather than close to noon like on Saturday. Yet now it was after five and she still wasn’t back.
They hadn’t had a chance to talk since she’d had that attack, as she’d called it. He’d intended to question her thoroughly about her condition, but she’d slept long into the afternoon. When she woke up, she seemed so tired he encouraged her to just rest. So she’d ordered them pizza for dinner—a most delicious and efficient food—and they’d watched a movie before calling it a night.
“Master Kazuki?” Karasu sat in the doorway, watching him, as he had
