She's That Knight Known as Zero 37 Casual Talk

"Shut it will you Kaoru?" Eureka replied as she sat down.

"I was away for an official business when I heard that this happened to you, are you hurt? Where? Where are you hurt? Do you need something? You want fruits? Water, yes that's right you must need water, wait here-"

"Kaoru, breath," Eureka instructed as Kaoru starts fretting over her.

Kaoru followed suit, inhaled all the air he could and exaggeratedly exhaled.
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"I'm fine, I was exhausted and that's all. It's in the middle of the night, don't disturb those who are already asleep," Eureka sighed.

"Still," tears welling up his eyes.

"The last time we talked you were imprisoned and we separated on bad terms, then I would suddenly hear that you were injured in a mission, you can't do that to my heart Eureka," Kaoru complained.

"Kaoru, I'm fine. You should be resting yourself, look at those bags under your eyes. Get some sleep."

"Can I stay with you here tonight?" Kaoru asked.

"Don't look at me like that I just want to watch over you."

"*sigh* Then rest, don't be anxious cause I am completely fine, if you start getting anxious in here I'd end up not getting enough sleep" Eureka answered defeatedly.

"Eureka?"

"Hmmm."

"What's wrong?"

"What do you mean?"

"Normally you would have kicked me out of the room already, why are you being nice right now?"

Eureka glared at him. Before he could react again he was suddenly kicked out of the room.

"I'm just asking," *knock knock* "Let me in," Kaoru pleaded.

"Go home and rest," that's all he heard.

"You're so mean," Kaoru complained but smiled afterwards.

he thought before turning around and he walked away.

*****

"Are you here to berate me again?" Akihiro asked when Kaoru knocked on his office.

"No, I'm..." Kaoru started not looking at him and went straight to his books.

"Hmm?" following his movement with his eyes.

"Thank you," Kaoru said barely a whisper.

Akihiro's eyes went wide, "What did you just say?"

"Th..." this time the words are no longer audible.

"What?" Akihiro asked once again.

"I said thank you, when you found out that she can't be in the hospital, you offered a room in here to let her rest, that's why I am thanking you. That's all, goodbye," Kaoru said before leaving in an instant.

Akihiro smiled,

*****

"What do you mean?" the five of them looked at Raven outrageously.

"Just as I said it," Raven replied.

The six of them are currently on their way to Eureka's room.

"It's what I want to ask her yesterday, but she just woke and the king told us to let her rest," Raven said as they reach her room.

Opening the door, they found her outside, standing in the balcony watching over the kingdom. Approaching her,

"Eureka, we..." they started before looking at Raven.

"Seeing how you have difficulty on starting a conversation with me, I'll assume that Raven have already told you," she faced them, "That…. I am blind."

"Then, all this time?" Mamoru said in a low voice.

"Is there something wrong with not having your eyesight?" Eureka asked.

"No, it's just….. But were you always blind? I mean were you blind ever since you were born?"

"No, I was blinded instantly when I was 10."

"What happened?" Feena asked this time.

"It's my choice. That's what happened. I chose to be blind," Eureka replied.

"You were that strong, even though your a zero, even though you are blind?" Hideyoshi couldn't help but ask.

"Physical strength is not in born, you have to strengthen yourself on your own. You can't rely entirely on your ability or the people around you."

"Just how much have you trained?" Feena asked, feeling her emotions taking over again.

"As long as I can remember I suppose, it was not that I was not allowed to play, but playing is not fun to that place."

"I thought you have no memories?" Raven asked.

Eureka looked at him, "My past does not exist."

Everyone was baffled. Her past does not exist, what does that really mean? She would sometimes tell them an experience of hers, or something from her childhood, just like today, but all she says is her past does not exist.

"Are you from this place?" Raven asked once again.

"What, do I look like I came from the outer space?"

This sentence caused the others to laugh. They knew what Raven meant and obviously Eureka does too. And yet for the second time since she woke up, she actually made a joke. Yesterday it was the king, today it's Raven.

"I am from this place, I was born here," everyone once again fell silent.

She was born here but her past does not exist? Just what does that mean?

"I think I've said too much already," Eureka once again said before returning her attention to the surroundings.

"Then how were you able to fight the way you did all this time?" Azusa asked bringing their conversation to the real reason they visited her this time.

"Auras, each person's aura is different from the other," she replied seriously.

"But why are you not hitting any inanimate objects?" Mamoru followed.

"Even those have their aura, an aura that tells you, that such a thing won't move but it's simply just an object," she answered.

Come to think of it, their academy had no written examinations. If they ever have, they never saw her take it.

"Then those exams?" Feena asked.

"Why do you think I'm not the top of the class when I kept on defeating the instructors?"

"Ah, You weren't taking them?!?!" Karen exclaimed.

"I'm not, we barely had them anyway so it does not matter to the instructors whether it's a zero or not," she nonchalantly replied.

"But how did you know the line up of our battle with Kyro's group back then?" Karen after remembering asked.

"You guys were talking about it, all I have to do is to listen right?"

"Then why were you always in the library?"

"If I want to expand my knowledge I could only stay where a lot is reading or studying, some of them love studying while reading aloud, did you know that?"

"But you were blind since you were 10, how did you?"

"Oh, my companions helped me out."

"Companions?"

Eureka was taken a back, she didn't expect that this casual conversation of theirs would reach this point.

"Where are they?" Raven urged.

"They're..." Eureka paused.

"They're?" this time it was Feena.

"They're not with me."

"Where are they?"

"Who knows."

"In the end, how did you appear here?"

"By the time I realized it, I was already here."

"Before that, where were you? You were gravely injured they said."

"I was, indeed I was."

They waited for her to continue but she didn't.

"You're not going to tell us?"

"Tell you what?"

"More about your past."

"My past does not exist."

"Then what do you call all those childhood of yours?"

"Childhood."

"But-"

"Okay that's enough. We've asked more than what we should," this time it was Raven who stopped them. Seeing how she started avoiding the questions again, he chose not to pry any longer.

Eureka sighed, "Maybe there'll come a time, when all stories could be said. When all questions could be answered. When all things could be revealed. But that time has not yet come, not just yet."

They couldn't react, cause this time when she looked at them for the first time since they met her, she was smiling not bitterly but instead sadly, she was actually smiling at them sadly and apologetically. Seeing this they knew that she had started accepting them as more than acquaintances.

"I guess, it's more than enough," Feena tearyly said.

"Yes, this… is more than enough," Karen followed as she walked closer and hugged Eureka.

"Thank you," Feena added before hugging Eureka as well.

Karen then pulled Azusa who was just close by.

"I can't breath," Eureka said when they hugged her tighter.

The other guys were genuinely happy, cause Eureka finally accepted them as friends. She finally accepted them in her life.

*****

"Could you help us then?" Raven asked, after the girls calmed down.

"I guess I can, I can help you train your senses to be stronger."

"I still can't sleep properly, admittedly," Hideyoshi clenched his hands.

"We were defeated so easily even with the special abilities that we had practiced so hard. It's like were fighting a forest fire with just a pail of water."

"That's what I have been telling you all those times, you can't just train and rely on your abilities. You have to train your physical and mental strength as well," Eureka lectured.

Hideyoshi have no rebuke, she did tell them but just because they were one of the strongest among those of the same age as they are, they thought they were already plenty strong.

"Then this time, we will really train as hard as we can," he said with conviction.

"Train then try your hand with the generals," Eureka added.

"Eureka, how are you against the generals?" Mamoru suddenly asked.

"Who knows, I never tried myself."

That's what they thought.

Chapter end