“Please, don’t go.”

Kunikuzushi pleaded, tugging on the hem of your top. His eyes welled with tears as he realized you were going to abandon him after he finally decided to be comfortable around you.

His lips quivered as he looked up at you. He couldn’t risk losing you, not after his own mother abandoned him. Now you. You were one of the people who accepted him for who he was, understood him and was there at his lowest. Were you abandoning him because he wasn’t useful like he thought?