12. LOVE FAIL (1/2)

yu-gi-oh! owned by kazuki takahashi and konami

fanfiction and characters with * by: emerald sonata

yu-gi-oh! (duel monsters):dark magician girl, alice

=12='love, triumph, failure'

jack o'donnell eventually calmed down to sit in a chair at the long study table of the li

ary. in large empty commons, as school was over, he asked dark magician girl a very important questions.

"are you alive?"

"… master. i'm sitting right in front of you, no?"

"how's your wound?"

"… oh, sorry, i didn't mean to hurt you like that. i-i mean…"

"how's your wound?"

"…. i'm fine… thank you. luckily, my magic was able to support my life energy, and thanks to masters quick thinking, the horn of the unicorn was able to erase my injuries in time before they became critical."

"…"

"…. m-master? why are you glaring at me? d-did i say something wrong."

"the next time you want to play hero – don't throw away your body so recklessly."

"…. yes. i understand, master.

hearing those harsh words spoke in a harsh tone from a harsh voice, dark magician girl smiled. she watched as the boy she called master turned away with a grumble, his one finger on the table tapping in a steady beat.

(he's thinking of a strategy… one where if the next time i'm in danger, he knows how to avoid me getting hurt… that's his habit whenever he tries to think of a solution to

eak his opponent's defenses.)

dark magician girl, who her master recognizes as his alice, grinned even wider as she gazed at his hand that tapped at an ordinary steady pace.

(ah. he's tapping it a bit faster. he's really frustrated in not being able to come up with a sure fire way to protect me… that's probably what he's thinking right now.)

the spellcaster's eyes were dancing with a lovely light in her cornea, just looking at that one finger moving up and down, over and over.

somehow, she could stare at it all day.

"i just don't get it."

dark magician girl snapped awake, but her smile never