16. Sexy Claude

Xavier chuckled. Claude was taken aback by the laughter, his heart racing, not because he liked it, but because his body did.

Claude decided to drink it himself, also adjusting his clothes to be more decent in front of Xavier, as it was not appropriate for his belly to be visible.

"Your wounds can be healed by an ordinary healer, unfortunately, you can't heal yourself. Your body rejects being healed by your own power, so how should I explain this?" Xavier said, wiping Claude's wet lips.

"Because you can heal severe injuries in others, even almost healing someone who's dying, it's a responsibility you have to bear for having such a special power. Excessive use could even shorten your lifespan," Xavier explained, a worried expression on his face.

"If you're a descendant of the Immortal, you might be able to live again, but for now, no one knows." Xavier hoped Claude was immortal so that if anything happened to him, the blond could live again.

Hearing Xavier's explanation, Claude felt sad. 'Huhuhu, I, who created this character, of course, know all about my powers.'

'Because I created Claude as a trigger for conflict, I made him short-lived for whatever reason, not knowing I would transfer into his body,' Claude lamented sadly.

Although Xavier couldn't hear it, he could only encourage him.

"Cheer up!" Xavier said.

Xavier closed his eyes with his own bangs, which made Claude uncomfortable. He then moved Xavier's bangs away from his eyes; Claude wanted to see the blue eyes of the MC character he created.

"Long time no see, you're getting stronger. I came here actually to save Kane; I heard he was dying," Claude confided.

"You know? I saved Kane, can you tell him?" Claude asked. He wanted recognition and to create a scene where Kane would repay the favor in the future because now Claude had saved him.

"Huh? Wasn't it Lily?" Xavier pretended not to know.

"Lily has been taken to the King because she saved Kane and will be rewarded. She's really unlucky for wasting my efforts to kill Kane, our archenemy," Xavier said, grinning at Claude, as if he knew something.

"Huh?" Claude exclaimed.

"But I'm the one who saved him," Claude insisted.

"My fainting was due to exhaustion from healing him. How could you say it was because of Lily healing him?" Once again, Claude's heart ached.

"Hey, the news spread within minutes, everyone now knows Lily is the savior," Xavier explained. He picked up the apple he had cut and fed it to Claude.

"But don't worry—" Xavier's words were cut off as he saw Claude starting to struggle to breathe, clutching his chest. Claude felt restless, meaning he had wasted his efforts.

"Claude, calm down!" Xavier panicked.

"It was my father who instructed the three guards to meet you so you could heal Kane. He knew you had the potential, so he also knew Lily was lying," Xavier explained, then covered his mouth.

"Thank goodness," Claude whispered, trying not to panic.

"But it's possible that my father will continue to hide this fact; you know he doesn't like you," Xavier continued. There was a high probability that the King might hid the fact that Claude was the one who saved Kane.

****

Disappointment seems hard not to feel, it feels so unfair when someone else takes all the credit for his efforts, they are so cruel.

Claude couldn't help but feel pity for Claude, the character that he wrote himself, Claude clutched his blanket, and anguish soon clouded his heart.

'I know Claude was not the main character in this story. Whatever I do, they won't care, even if I admit I was the one who saved Kane, if the story goes like this they won't believe it.' Claude 's heart was hurt. Too desperate not to give up.

Xavier's hand moved slowly to touch the back of Claude 's hand. There was guilt in Xavier's heart because he couldn't help Claude even if he was asked to help, he didn't want to.

"I'll get some food for you, you're hungry, right?" said Xavier thinking that Claude was hungry too.

Claude nodded solemnly.

****

Prang

Xavier dropped a plate containing food for Claude . How surprised he was to see that Claude had been replaced by a puppet.

"Exchange technique." His hands were clenched into fists, the veins in Xavier's neck were visible, and he was biting his lip to stop himself from screaming.

Brak

Xavier punched the puppet until the puppet's head shattered.

"How dare you play with me!" Xavier was angry, even though he had tried to be a good person, he felt like he was being played by Claude .

****

"Eh?"

"Eeehhhh?!" Claude shouted when he managed to switch places, but there was something strange that he ended up swapping places with the puppet he had used to avoid Kane.

"Wow, damn why did I swap bodies with this puppet, huhuhuhu," said Claude , pretending to cry.

He knew he was now in Kane's closet because Claude could smell Kane's minty body scent on his clothes.

Claude couldn't get out of there, the cupboard was locked, and Claude couldn't open it.

Click.

Someone opened the cupboard door, Claude immediately covered his mouth with one hand, cold sweat dripping down his face. He was worried that Kane would be found and killed for being a stalker.

When the cupboard door opened, it was quite dark, Claude felt Claude 's cheeks being touched very gently. He closed his eyes, then when he opened his eyes he saw Kane's face, who had his eyes closed too.

His lips drew closer.

"Hmmph." Claude can't breathe, what the hell! His lips were kissed.

"Why is the doll soft?" Kane asked himself.

Because it was dark, Kane groped his doll, including feeling under the doll's stomach.

Claude 's face was red, he wanted to sigh.

"Aaaa!" Claude couldn't stand it and immediately screamed while pushing Kane's chest. He glared at what Kane did to him, ah, not to his doll, that means Kane kissed this doll every day?! Just like Claude.

"Claude?!" Kane shouted in surprise. He immediately cleaned his lips, he thought he was kissing a doll with Claude's face but why was it the person himself?!

Claude immediately closed his eyes, he ran to look for a door, but Kane grabbed Claude 's arm very roughly. He pulled Claude 's body into his arms. This meeting is what Kane has been waiting for a long time.