1645 Situation

Ryu sat there, frozen. It wasn't the first time he had seen a woman naked, but it was certainly the first time he had seen one not only so beautiful, but also one that he was so intimately familiar with. 

He had been noticing it more and more in these recent weeks, but she was truly a beauty. It was easy to overlook because he had always felt so annoyed by her, and her quirky personality made him focus far more on that than how she really looked. But at the moment, he truly felt that the only two who could compare to her on the Shrine Plane were his mother and Nuri. 

However, those two were women he never looked at in this way. He loved them, but only as far as one would love a mother and his sister. Elena, however… 

It was like a dam had broken in his heart, and to his embarrassment, something below stood at attention before he could control it.