Chapter 100. While You Were Gone (2)

Several hours later

It was just after noon when Aaron’s eyes opened to a manga laid out on her pillow. Following the trail of manga and picking them up as he went along, he found Keira sitting on a rug by a coffee table, flipping pages hurriedly. They really were everywhere. On the coffee table immediately in front of her, on the rug she sat on. On the couch, the chair by the bedside table. Even the dressing table wasn’t spared. She really was such a slob.

“This is fast, even for you,” he said, picking up a few manga on the couch directly behind her to add to his collection. “Something on your mind?”

She was by far the most transparent assassin he had ever met. Keira brought out her entire manga collection for two reasons. One was their sword training sessions, so that she wouldn’t get bored, she’d always say. The other was when something was bothering her. He put the stack of manga he had collected down and searched the cluttered table for yesterday’s newspaper.