Yuji and Regina were sitted together on a grassy floor with a river right at the middle of them and the next set of houses. Regina had her head on his shoulders with a smile on her face while she was humming "HMHMHM!". Yuji on the other hand had a nervous smile on his face "To think that I almost attacked her. Matter of fact, since when could she sneak up that well?!", he thought to himself. Yuji stretched his hand to take a piece of his chicken he was eating "Doesn't matter, I'm glad she's here.", he thought to himself before throwing that piece of chicken into his mouth. Regina raised her head off his shoulder and said to him "I haven't seen you in a couple of days, you didn't even come for the gladiator rounds.", Yuji replied "Gladiator rounds? Oh, that. Well I got tired from the fight I had against Tendra during the elimination rounds, so I decided not to come watch for the gladiator fights.", Regina pouted "Yuji, that's selfish.". Yuji laughed dryly "My bad, I just wanted to take a break from all the fighting that's been happening around.", Regina responded with a smile "I get your point.". Regina paused for a moment and asked "Wait, you said you fought Tendra in the elimination rounds?", Yuji responded while looking at her "Yeah, I did. It was pretty hard reacting to his speed at first, and his slashes were a problem. But at some point, I adapted to it and kept up with him just fine, I only lost to him coz my blade gave out..", Yuji clicked his tounge with an annoyed facial expression "Tch, horrible timing.". Regina laughed a bit, Yuji turned to her with slight confusion "Is there anything I said?", Regina stopped laughing and replied "It's the way your face just shifted moods. One second, you were pretty nuteral. The next, your face shifted unto pure annoyance.", she started to laugh again. Yuji thought to himself with a wierd smirk "That's not really funny.", Regina stopped laughing and then placed her head on his shoulder, a soft smile occurred on her face "Yuji, you didn't even ask me about my gladiator rounds or even my elimination rounds.", Yuji got startled by what Regina said "OHH! UHHH! Sorry. How was your elimination and gladiator rounds?", Regina still laying her head on his shoulder turned her head away with an disinterested facial expression "I rather not talk about the elimination rounds, but as for the gladiator rounds....?", she shifted her head forward while resting on Yuji's shoulder again, her face turned normal and barely readable "I fought Mio.". Yuji's face turned straight to Regina with shock and confusion "HUH?! YOU FOUGHT....WHO?!", he exclaimed with shock. Regina explained "MHM? You heared me. I fought Mio..!". Yuji was in shock and confusion at the same time "Mio...? My teammate, MIO MISAKI?! Wait a minute.... WHY DIDN'T KAZUMA TELL ME?!!", he exclaimed in his head. Yuji quickly brought out his phone from his pocket and went to Kazuma's chat "THAT IDIOT...! WHY DIDN'T HE TELL MEEE?!", he exclaimed with annoyance in his head before he pasued for a moment with even more shock. It turned out that Kazuma had called Yuji three times and even sent messages saying "GET OVER TO THE STADIUM, NOOOW!", "DUDE, YOU WONT BELIEVE THIS! REGINA AND MIO ARE THROWING HANDS!", Yuji became incredibly dumbfounded "UUUUUH!", he gasped, before instantly becoming depressed "I've made the worst mistake of my life.", he muttered to himself. Regina looked at him and asked "Is something the matter?", Yuji replied while being funnily depressed "Nah, it's fine. I'm just regretting some of my actions. Nothing much.". Regina just sighed "You were in all day, right? What were you doing? Did you have fun?",Yuji looked at her "Me? Oh yeah, I had fun. I mean I played a few games, read some manga, read a visual novel. Listened to some music and slept for 8 hours straight.". Regina responded while a bit confused "Hm, that sounded like you had fun.", Yuji nodded "Mhm, I did have fun.". Regina then layed on his lap, but this time, her face showed that she was more comfortable and felt warm while laying on Yuji. The wind blowed on them, Regina's long purple hair was flowing due to the wind, while Yuji seemed a bit shy and thrown off at the moment. Regina said with a warm smile "Yuji, I'm glad you and I are here. Really, I couldn't ask for someone better among our friends to hand out with like this.". Yuji's shy face turned into a soft smile, although his eyes were tilted somewhere else "Yeah, me too. I mean, I like how you hug me, and I like how you make things warm around me when we're alone. The only time I'd say it wasn't the case was when we went on a mission together, I yelled at you that time. It wasn't out of annoyance, I was genuinely worried about you.". Regina replied while sleeping on Yuji's lap "Awn, you don't have too apologise. What you did was necessary, and plus the mission was a success, so it doesn't matter.", she looked at him with a smile on her face with her purple eyes slowly shining "Yuji, I love you a lot. I'm just so happy that we get to still be alive to stay with each other. So many soliders our age are dead due to missions, hell even we could have died on our previous missions. But I'm glad we both are here.". After hearing this, Yuji took a moment to look at Regina before he smiled at her. Immediately he smiled, the distant fireworks started to bloom and illuminate the sky of the city. Yuji responded "Yeah, me too, Regina. I'm really glad we both are alive to be here.". Regina grabbed Yuji's hand and placed it on her lap, she wrapped her arms around his neck, drew him closer and kissed him. Yuji was a bit stunned for a moment, but his eyes closed, Yuji started to enjoy the kiss he and Regina were sharing while the fireworks bloomed in the night sky.
END OF CHAPTER.