Love?

"Wait!" Anna stopped Yumie before she could leave the cave.

"Hmm, what is it?" Yumie stopped to look at Anna and waited for her to open her mouth to speak.

"I'm sorry for what we did back there and I hope you can forgive us!" Anna knelt on the ground with her head hanging low, not daring to look at Yumie's eyes.

"It's alright, Big Sister already warned me about this kind of people that I will meet in the future. She even taught me that I should just kill them quickly, but I'm not used to killing other beings other than the brainless ones. So you can say that I'm quite weak-hearted, just like now. Don't worry, I have already accepted your apology, let's just forget that this happened." Yumie wrote in the air clumsily using her Fire.

"Isn't she a little bit harsh?" Sylvie asked curiously.

"Yes and No. I will not get into detail as she can hear what I'm saying to you guys as it is a very sensitive topic about her, but all I can say is that for you to remember why Fred died at the hands of Big Sister." Yumie answered.

The rest of them didn't understand what Yumie's words meant, but Anna was different. She clearly remembers those shivering words of Yumie.

"Now there is one thing that I hate the most in this world, other than being looked down on. What I hate the most is my mother being disrespected." Those were Yuki's exact words that rang into their minds.

'That is probably the reason why, but why is she so sensitive about that topic? I mean her mother is still gotta be alive…' Anna gasps at her words, now exactly why Yuki got so mad that he instantly killed Fred.

'Poor thing.' Anna exclaims as she silently prays for Yuki.

"Hmm, is someone talking about me?" Yuki said while she was having a massacre for her B Rank Quest in the other opposite direction of the Shadow Forest.

"Well, I don't care anyway." Yuki shrugged as she focused back on killing this monster.

"Can I ask you something about your Big Sister?" Anna said nervously at Yumie.

"And why do you want to ask about her?" Yumie squinted her eyes and remained vigilant.

"No, I mean… Okay fine. Is her mother you know… dead?" Anna asked meekly.

Yumie's bloodlust unconsciously leaked out and directed into her.

"Why are you asking this question?" Yumie asked as her beautiful purple eyes glowed dangerously.

"I mean no harm, it's just why she is so mad about that," Anna said as she gripped her staff tightly to help herself to stand under the pressure that Yumie was releasing.

"Why are you curious about it, you don't even know her?" Yumie asked as her bloodlust got stronger.

Anna was about to pass out, but she remained standing alongside Sylvie and Eren who were quiet and didn't dare to say anything, afraid that they may anger her.

"I'm sorry I should've not stepped out of my boundaries by asking that question," Anna said before kneeling to the ground under the strong pressure.

After hearing what Anna just said, Yumie canceled her bloodlust and closed her eyes for a moment before looking at Anna.

"There is no way for me to say this, but let me tell you this. Yuki hates Humans." Yumie said before vanishing in front of them before she leaked any more information about Yuki.

She even called her directly by her name and not Big Sister or Mom like what she is used to as the topic was very serious.

Anna took a few deep breaths and closed her eyes and opened them once more before looking at where Yumie was standing moments ago.

She didn't know why she suddenly got curious about someone unrelated to her, this didn't even happen in her whole life, not until Yuki came to the Guild and killed Fred.

The moment she heard Yuki talk about her Mother, she felt the pain in Yuki's words. She didn't understand it but she felt conflicted about that thus she asked Yumie about that.

Anna didn't know if it was just a reflex of genuine care about that person even though they only met once, they don't even know each other. But somehow she gets attracted to Yuki's Ruby eyes when she looks at them.

'Is this love?' Anna thought but then blushed heavily when she thought about it.

'No, I must be going crazy after all the things that happened today.' Anna denied it and shook her head furiously trying to take that thought out of her head.

'I mean she is beautiful, strong even in her Fox Form. I wonder what she will look like when she achieves her Human Form?' Anna thought as her mind started to picture a Woman who was very beautiful with pure white hair and red eyes looking at her.

'Yes, I must be going crazy!' Anna thought as her face brightened up in red color.

Sylvie got confused about why Anna was acting like this but misunderstood it as a trauma when she felt Yumie's bloodlust. She felt she was about to die even though she is not even the one who is feeling the bloodlust.

So she then went up and hugged Anna from the back and comforted her.

"Everything is fine, don't worry." She then patted her head.

Anna felt more embarrassed and was about to say that she is fine and stopped when she saw Yumie at the entrance of the Cave.

"Why are you still here?" Anna quickly asked as she jumped out of Sylvie's embrace and went up to her.

"Don't worry I'm just looking out for you guys. There still might be some Beast that wants to enter here." Yumie waved her hand and answered nonchalantly.

"Is that all?" Anna asked curiously and just as she was about to invite Yumie to go with them to go back to the Adventurer Guild to turn in the Quest, she got cut off by Yumie.

"Why don't we..."

"No, I'm also waiting for my Mom- Big Sis to pick me up." Yumie almost wrote Mom but then quickly erased it and wrote Bis Sis instead.

When Anna heard Yumie that Yuki is gonna come, her heart beat quickly, she then remembered the look of the woman she fantasized about earlier. Ashamed that she is thinking about something indecent she blushed uncontrollably.

"Hey, are you alright?" Yumie asked as she went close to her to check on her.

"Looks like the pressure was stronger than I thought, I'm sorry but I'm just being cautious because it's my Big Sister." Yumie also misunderstood Anna.

Not long after everyone heard a bang and all of them took a glance in that direction to only see the most beautiful woman they ever saw.