The cover for Chapter 41. Get ready for a full chapter for Kurosaki X Teru!
Teru reading a text from Daisy.
Teru,
It's alright that you complain and cry at times. I know very well that you are a good person. Even though we had not met before, to me the happiest thing is you smiling from the bottom of your heart. I will always protect you.
and she thought to herself "Daisy, your gentle words sink deeply in my heart like treasures. I will convey my thoughts to you this time. I don't know if i can convey my words to you directly like how you do. I'm a little scared and i'm sure you are too. Even though so, i hope you can listen to me."
She see Kurosaki and said: "Kurosaki, Thank you for coming...
... i'm sorry i'm deceived you. I lied about meeting Akira here. I know Kurosaki will come here after saying that. By all means, i want to meet Kurosaki."
Kurosaki turns around with his back facing Teru. Teru panics: "Erm.. i... wait! Kurosaki..."
Kurosaki with his back still facing Teru: "It's worthless, don't do it. I don't plan to meet you not talk to you. Don't care about me anymore. Forget about a useless person and live a life of your choice which you like."
Scene flashes back to Teru having a meal with Riko, Andou and friends. They are worried about Teru's plan (deceiving Kurosaki) and that he's going to run away once he knows about it and is Teru going to chase after him? Which they think it's quite impossible. Instead Teru said she has a plan, she will make Kurosaki chase after her instead!
She smiles (thinking about her plan), takes out her mobile and reads text from Kurosaki aloud! (Well, it works!) Kurosaki, stunted, turns around and asks: "Oi! wait, what are you doing?"
Teru: "Ah, you have a problem? Like what you've just said, i'm living a life i like of my choice and i thought you are not going to talk to me anymore?" and she continues reading the text messages aloud. Kurosaki stands there, speechless and pissed.
Teru continues reading the text messages aloud which catches passer by's attention as those texts includes words like "I said i like you the most, the flower daisy... I think it's pretty too but... The you by my side... I think you are prettier than the flower..."
Kurosaki chases after Teru and shouts: "I tell you to stop, really stop! Since when have you become such a bad girl doing such bad things?"
Teru: "Isn't it alright?" and she continues reading the messages aloud while running away from Kurosaki.
Kurosaki stretches out his hand, jumps on Teru pushing her on the beach. (They kind of suddenly ends up at the beach, anyhow it looks romantic... haha) He finally catches her, pressing her down and snatches her mobile away he says: "How? I've caught you, you this bad girl. I will be piss if you do such things, how should you be punished? Even if you regret now it's too late, you can't get away already."
Teru gets up and hugs Kurosaki. "I've caught you, Kurosaki. I've finally touched you and i'm not letting go, not letting you escape."
Kurosaki: "Caught me? I'm the one who'd caught you."
Teru: "My plan is a success, if i don't do this, Kurosaki would have escaped. I was sad when you were gone. I've always wanted to meet you. By all means, i want to meet you." with her fingers clasped, she hugs Kurosaki tightly. Kurosaki pats her head: "I say, your method to deceive me and draws me here made me worried."
Teru stands up suddenly and hits Kurosaki. She said: "I need to first apologized for the mean things I've done to you and thus, I'm sorry. I've said what i wanted to and now it's your turn."
Kurosaki still enduring the pain from the hit says: "Ahh.. is it so...."
Teru: "Do you know that not only me, Riko and Andou included, we are all worried about you . You you know how much trouble you've caused your colleagues? What ever happens, you should at least plan it with the people around you before you act right? I already know, you plan to destroy Jack O' Frost that's why you are searching for it. It is a powerful code virus which you've created long ago. I know you feel responsible for it and do not wish to involved others, that's why you acted alone. They've probably said unpleasant things, like hurting me to threaten you. Even though so, i do not wish for you to be responsible for all these alone. This is not the correct method. You know right?"
While saying all that, Teru thinks "He knows it and that it why he is not looking at me...
... Please do not think that you are not qualified to ask for help or you are not qualified to return. It's alright even if you are weak, i will help you, no matter how many times. Thus, gather up some courage and look here."
Teru: "Kurosaki, let's continue. The date at the amusement park the other time."
Kurosaki: "Haha, you said date? It's tedious to be by the seaside on a winter morning."
Teru: "It's alright, isn't it. With the right atmosphere and no hindrance (referring to Akira) unlike then. Like how are are suppose to be riding the ferries wheel, tell me about the "important stuff" (you planned on tell me). " Teru stretches out her hand towards Kurosaki and she thinks: " Please, hold my hand. Just this will do." Kurosaki finally turns around and looks at her.
Teru smiles gently and Kurosaki stretches out his hand towards hers. He holds her hand. Teru's thoughts "Talks about the important things, about your past sins. From now onwards, i will walk together with you.
She pours him hot coffee from the thermal flask and said she learnt how to brew coffee from Takeda.
Teru recaps what Riko and Andou told her about Kurosaki's past. (Really, it's all that you've already know in the past few chapters thus, i 'm skipping them because the important conversation is coming up after all these.)
And she ends with: "... and then, my brother died.
Kurosaki: "Yah, I killed your brother, Souichiro. I've did the worst thing."
Teru: "It's not right to say that you've killed my brother. My brother did it out of his own will to help Kurosaki. He died of illness."
Kurosaki: "Even though so... if Souichiro did not help me, you will not end up not knowing about anything until the very last min and was too late to do anything about it and Souichiro might not have died. I've hurt you more than anyone else. I'm not even qualified to face you. Even though so....." and in his thoughts Kurosaki said to himself in his heart: "I want you." However he did not said it to Teru.
Kurosaki: "I'm sorry I've said things that might bored you. I was planning to speak frankly. Are you planning to be a good person? You are a good person. To be forgiven, i seems like a pickpocket. Like a fool. Thanks to those guys (flash backs of the woman whom Kurosaki questioned in the toilet) i realized that i was to naive....
... I can never erase my sins this lifetime. The me (filled with sins), however tough it will be, I don't know if it's good for me to stay by your side. Honestly, I'm scared to hear you say "I don't forgive you." and I'm scared too if you were to say "I forgive you." I'm scared thinking that i need to listen to your answer."
Teru: "Um... it's alright Kurosaki. I don't plan to say "I forgive you." (She really scared Kurosaki here! Look at him, he's frozen.) You can't forgive yourself right? It's alright. Isn't it torturous to shoulder all the sins you whole life? There is not meaning for me to say if i will forgive you or not and that is why i'm not saying it instead....
... I will say lots of 'Thank You' to Kurosaki." Kurosaki looks like he can't believed what he just heard from Teru and he's speechless.
Teru: "Why do you look like a fool who can't seems to read what's happening now?" and she smiles gently at Kurosaki.
Teru: "Rena told me the same thing (Thank You for saving Arai sensei) and the feeling of sins becomes light. It might sound absurd but i feel proud about myself and i seems to have become stronger. Therefore, Kurosaki, Thank You." and she touches Kurosaki's face.
Teru's thoughts "Don't lose to those torturous feelings of your sins and may your heart becomes stronger. I will become stronger because of these reasons."
Teru: "Thank you for coming back. Thank you for telling me all these important things. Thank you for feeling bad and becoming wore out thinking about my brother. Thank you thinking so much about me to the extend that it pains your heart, treating me so importantly. Thank you for protecting even when you scolds me and drains you. Thank you for calling me Bakero. Thank you for saying 'Bakero don't give up."
Kurosaki: "Oi, you can stop if you run out of ideas." and he turns away from Teru.
Teru: "My strength to thank you will not lose to your sins and these are not all i have."
Kurosaki with his back facing Teru: "I don't know what you are saying. I seriously don't know what you are thinking and you are laughing already. You... "
Teru pulls Kurosaki's jacket: "Ne... Kurosaki, look here?"
Kurosaki: "No, i don't want to. If i look there, i will forget about the important things i want to say. It's really very important things." and Kurosaki is tearing and covering his mouth with his hands.
Teru: "It's alright if you don't want to look here. I will listen from here. Thank you for being the Daisy i like most. Really thank you....
... I've always wanted to meet you. I hope that we will be together from now onwards. Are you going to stay by my side from now on? If yes, please hug me." and he pulls her over and hugs her tightly!
Teru's thoughts "Daisy, Thank you for always protecting me. I've finally caught you."
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Isn't this chapter GREAT! OMG! a whole chappie on just the two of them. Motomi Kousuke is really nice to us fans of Dengeki Daisy. muahaha. and he promises that there will be more of Teru X Kurosaki in the next chapter!
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