✿ | Yuzu can be seen sobbing on the stairway.
"… Yuzu?"
What…should he do? He’d wanted to be with her as soon as possible, but now that he was here…Kazuya realized he hadn’t become better at comforting another at all in the few minutes it’d taken for him to arrive. Would it be best to say something? Or—?
"…"
The teen settled down cautiously and quietly beside his friend, tentatively wrapping an arm around her shoulders before eventually tugging her closer with just as much care.
Maybe…he should give her time to compose herself…?
✿ | She didn’t pay attention to when Kazuya had called her out.
Yuzu just felt hollow, and her heart sank endlessly into an abyss, dulled from despair. It’s the same feeling that she experienced in the Lockdown, except that the guilt that she had thought to have pushed away from a year ago–had suddenly came back.
Feeling the warm of an arm wrapped gently over her shoulder, she looks up, removing her hand from covering her face. Cheeks were stained with tears, and her face was a bit pale. Yuzu sniffled, but she manages to lean against him slightly.
“H-Hey…”