A Test Of Strength

It was like being caught completely naked. Out in the busiest metropolis in the world, a billion pairs of eyes laser-focused on your pathetic excuse of meat and bones of a body. And they're judging you, and they're frowning at you, and they're shaking their heads at you. Just an utterly humiliating experience overall. 

Actually, no, this ain't anything like that. Oh no, this was much worse. 

Sure, I wasn't cheating. No form of infidelity was happening here. But I still would much rather take on those judgmental billions in all my bare glory than shamelessly flaunt my affection and lust toward one girl right in front of another girl I love. 

It just feels… wrong. 

"So you were here," Irene marched right up to Adalia, crossing her arms all disgruntled and just waiting to hear an excuse. "You could have shown yourself from the beginning, didn't have to wait until the very moment I called for you, did you?"