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Chapter 172: Earrings, huh?

“It’s alright.”

Liz raised her head off his chest and lay on the pillow by his side.

“There will probably be… Some things to deal with on Wor.”

“We’ll deal with them.” He answered confidently.

“We…” Liz moved her gaze towards him for a moment. “And after that… What will we do?”

“Something fun and exciting.”

“Haha…” Liz chuckled despite the sleepiness. “It’s stressful, deciding to follow someone.”

“Is it?”

“No, not really…” What was stressful was the sense of novelty. “I’m sure it’ll be okay… Since we’ll be together.”

“Yeah.” The Paru nodded as he whispered in a low voice, noticing that Liz was falling asleep.

“You’ll go back to her?” Liz asked as she yawned.

“Hm?”

“To Lith… Since I’m… Going to be asleep soon…”

“Maybe…”

“You can go now.” Liz whispered as she closed her eyes and curled up while facing away from him. “It’s fine.”

He asked himself whether it being ‘fine’ wasn’t actually true, but quickly realized that that wasn’t the case. Liz wasn’t the type to mean something and mean another, especially when not feeling flustered, shy, or embarrassed. He would, indeed, go to Lith. She, just like him, needed less sleep than the Worka, so it made sense. Still,

“No…” He whispered as he turned towards her. “I want to stay with you for a bit longer.”

“You do?” Liz chuckled while keeping her eyes closed.

She felt his body and warmth approach her back. His arms wrapped around her.

“Goodnight, Liz.” He whispered while gently caressing her arm.

“Goodnight… Cero…” Liz remained silent for a bit after whispering that. “As you said… It is a… Peculiar name. Do you think…”

Her words trailed off as a hand lay on her head, slowly stroking her hair.

“We can think about that later.” He whispered, and Liz let out a sigh of relief.

“Yes… We can…”

The Paru stroked her hair, revealing her ear. His fingers gently moved down the slope of her ear.

“You said you don’t like jewelry… But your ears are pierced…” He noted in a low and calming tone.

“It’s not… That I don’t like jewelry… It’s… Anyways, they’re pierced but… That’s mostly because… My mother wanted me to have them pierced…”

“She wanted you to wear jewelry?”

“I guess… It was mostly the weird kind of jewelry…”

“What kind is that?” The Paru chuckled, which caused her to chuckle as well.

“Well, my mother is… Weird. I mean… She’s kind of a man-eating whore…”

“Damn.”

“Yeah…” Liz chuckled. “She always talks about… All of these weird things she does… To attract guys… You know?”

“Sure…?”

“Anyways…” Liz’s yawn was interrupted by a chuckle of hers. “She used to talk about this… Peacocking thing or whatever? Always acting like I needed… Help or advice… When really…”

“When really…” While keeping her eyes closed, her hand slowly moved towards the hand stroking her arm. “There just wasn’t… Anyone that I… Anyone… That I…”

Liz was starting to fall asleep, and he didn’t want to disturb her.

A couple of seconds later,

“The peacocking thing… I don’t know…” She yawned. “Mom wanted me to wear weird earrings… And apparently the goal of that… Is making guys ask about them… To strike up a conversation… Or something…?”

“Oh…” The Paru chuckled. “That… Doesn’t sound like a bad move.”

“I guess.” Liz chuckled as well. “It’s… Not really my thing though.”

“Yeah, I can see that.” The Paru’s hand moved back to her ear and caressed it, causing a shiver to move down Liz’s body. “How about nice earrings then? Instead of weird ones?”

“Yeah… Nice… Earrings… I think… I think I would like that…”

“Alright. Sleep well, Liz.”

“Yeah…”

Liz fell asleep a couple of minutes later with a slight smile on her face, and the Paru remained by her side, holding her closely.

It was only once over an hour had passed since her falling asleep that the Paru slowly and quietly got off the bed. He turned around once standing in front of the door, watching the sleeping beauty that was peacefully resting for a moment, then left the room.

‘For earrings, I would need to make the threads harder. As hard as they can be, actually…’ The Paru thought as he walked away from Liz’s room.

The idea had come from seeing the Chino Crystal on her cupboard. A crystal she had been given by Lith.

‘I can’t really use that one though, can I? Giving her something made by using Lith’s gift would be… I don’t know about using the same kind of crystal as well…’

The Paru suddenly stopped walking, scratching his head.

“Since when do I care about stuff like this?” He whispered to himself.

From the time he had spent with both Lith and Liz, the Paru felt a sense of satisfaction much stronger than his previous desires and urges to simply “Have fun”. Having fun, of course, was still a big part of it, but…

“Huh.” He chuckled while standing still for a moment.

There were plenty of things he could still do now.

Going back to Lith was one option.

He could also enter Raya or Roka’s rooms, and see where that goes.

‘I do feel weird about Roka now though… After our time on Serolia and seeing that soft side of her…’ The Paru sighed. ‘I thought she was a closeted pervert… Which she is. But now, I do feel differently about her. Entering her room just like that wouldn’t feel right. Even though I once did, and even…’

His appreciation of every one of the female Workas had grown tremendously. Affection for both Liz and Raya, respect and admiration for Roka… There was only one that…

“Guess I’ll go see her for a bit.” The Paru whispered with a smirk as he started walking. “I’m sure we’re going to get along, since we’re so alike.”

Alike, as the object of their lust being asleep hadn’t stopped either them.

“Y-You’re back.” Rea whispered, a nervous expression on her face, as the Paru entered the command room.