Precious beast

20.

Riki slowly opened his eyes, and what he saw was a tall dome that was different from the laboratory. The familiar pattern on the edge of the dome clearly told him that he was lying in the EOS house, his current home.

Riki sat up quickly, and then found that Iason was sitting on the sofa beside the bed, quietly looking at a stack of paper materials in his hand.

"Iason, you're back!" Riki said in surprise, "When did you come back?"

Iason did not show the same emotion, he raised his head and looked at Riki expressionlessly, without answering, let alone getting up to approach him at all.

Riki was a little confused, Iason was serious, but he hadn't been so cold to him for a long time.

Riki suddenly remembered what happened before he fell into a coma. Could it be... Was the experiment successful?He twisted his arm... It hurt a little, but the pain seemed to be separated by something, and it was far away and a little unreal.

Riki lowered his head, and for a split second he understood.

"I'm sorry." Riki said softly.

Iason's lips moved, he knew that Riki had misunderstood something, but he finally chose to remain silent.

"Are you...disappointed?".

"……Yes."

Riki was taken aback for a moment, and then his body trembled slightly.His head was down, his hair hanging down so that Iason couldn't see his face clearly.

In the suffocating silence, Iason recalled a conversation with Raoul before he came back, when he was holding Riki, who had just been injected with thaw fluid and was still in a coma, and was about to get into the car.

"Iason, humans are really strange creatures."

"?"

"Human beings are selfish and greedy, but sometimes they can give up their lives for others. Selfish but selfless, greedy but generous, isn't it strange that such completely opposite traits appear in the same creature?"

"Why are you sighing like that all of a sudden?"

"……nothing."

"..."

"Hey, what's that expression on your face... Well, I tell you, although I know you will be angry... Riki wanted to contact you before the experiment, but when I said that he would not participate and Katze would replace him, he voluntarily gave up."

……

voluntarily gave up...

Until now, Iason still remembers the anger burning in his heart at that moment, and the pain that was spreading in his chest.

What is he, Iason Mink, to Riki?

"...if you don't want to see me again, kick me out of EOS."

Iason came back to his senses, at this moment Riki's face was only calm.

"You have long wanted to leave EOS."

"No……"

"So you don't care about the experiments, and you don't care about what you will become."

Riki's eyes widened in surprise, "No...why would you think that?!"

Iason stood up and squeezed Riki's jaw with one hand, forcing him to look up at himself, "Riki, what am I to you?"

"You are……"

You are my love!But after meeting Iason's gaze, he found that he couldn't continue talking, because that was not the Iason he loved... Such cold eyes seemed to gradually freeze his hot heart.

[harmonious dividing line]

The Riki in Iason's memory has always been as strong and stubborn as a beast. He tried every means to make him submit, but he never saw a single tear from him.

Such Riki, cried in front of him.

Only then did Iason realize that the person he swore to double protect not long ago was personally hurt by him.

Riki...his Riki...

Iason reached out to wipe Riki's tears, "Riki, what am I to you?" Iason murmured.

Riki didn't open his eyes, but the tears on his face couldn't be wiped away.

Iason bent down, buried his face on Riki's neck, and said in a hoarse voice, "In your heart, am I ranked behind Katze... Am I... a dispensable existence?"

Riki opened his eyes suddenly, he didn't understand why Iason said that suddenly, but he could feel the pain in Iason's voice, he turned his head instinctively, but still couldn't see Iason's face.

He stared blankly at the dome as Iason continued, "Riki, have you ever wondered what would happen to me if the experiment worked?"

Riki recalled the mood before the experiment started, and he roughly understood why Iason was so abnormal tonight.

"I will always be with you, as long as...you want."

"What if...you die?"

"I……"

Riki was silent, he really didn't think that much at that time, he only thought about being sorry for Iason if he became a cyborg, but he didn't think about what would happen if Iason died if the experiment failed.

For some reason, the lonely Blondy in DanaBurn's sea of ​​flames appeared before Riki's eyes again, and his heart suddenly began to ache.

But Iason's voice continued: "Because of Katze, have you given up on me?"

The trembling arms holding Riki got tighter, and Riki replied loudly: "No! No! I didn't!" He started to panic, he was eager to see Iason.

Iason seemed to hear the voice in his heart, he finally raised his head and stared at Riki, the sadness in those blue eyes seemed to overflow at this moment.

Riki didn't know how to comfort Iason. He straightened his upper body and tried to kiss Iason. He only prayed that his mood at the moment could be conveyed to the other party through the intertwined lips and tongue.

It wasn't until their lips parted that Riki said seriously: "Iason, in this world, there is no one more important than you. My greatest wish is for you to be happy."

"But Riki, you forgot that the key to my happiness lies with you. But you gave up on yourself."

"So... I'm sorry." Riki's voice choked, he knew the answer clearly, but... "Because even I have something I want to protect!"

"Trust me so much, okay? I'll protect Riki along with what you want to protect."

Riki stared at Iason deeply, and he turned back to the man he loved, the most gentle man in the world.

"So promise me, protect yourself, don't put yourself behind anyone, don't put me behind anyone, okay?"

"Okay...Iason, untie me."

The next moment Riki raised his arms and held Iason tightly in his arms, and his lips were pressed together again, as if nothing could separate them...