Laughter

Taira awoke to the feeling of a familiar tongue in his mouth and a warm feeling spreading throughout his throat and chest.

Opening his eyes, he saw Keran kissing him from above and wearing a small stream of tears on her face.

Only when she pulled away did he see a smile form and she finally wiped away her lingering tears. "I'm glad you're both awake now. You had me really worried."

Out of the corner of his eye, Taira noticed movement and Enyo crawled beside him to take his hand in hers. 

At that moment, the last few moments of consciousness he experienced started to play back within his mind, and an annoying feeling started to gnaw within his heart. 

"Heh..."

He'd been defeated. 

Spectacularly.

Embarrassingly. 

There hadn't been a single thing that he was able to do that could catch his opponent off guard or even inflict a modicum of harm to him. 

It was so embarrassingly funny that he could almost laugh.