I want him back alive, too, Nonny-Mouse!
I can’t breathe. Naki gags. He claws at his throat. He’s going to die because – because he’s dumb and his body heals too fast!
Miza frowns. “You okay?”
Naki gags again, and then, to his relief, he vomits out mucus and a kagune shard.
Miza shrieks. “You were choking?”
“I couldn’t write it down,” Naki cries. “The skin healed over where their kagune stabbed me so I couldn’t breathe.”
Tears roll down Miza’s cheeks. “Don’t you ever almost die again.”
Naki starts to sniffle. “Why are you crying?”
“Because I love you! I love you, I love you, I love you, silly.” Miza grabs an arm and hands it to him. “Please heal yourself.”
Naki bites into it gingerly, but opts for sucking the blood over chewing. “Hurts to swallow.”
“I love you,” Miza says again.
“I love you, too.” Naki’s throat begins to feel softer, and now he’s ready to kiss her.