"I didn't know teasing her would be this fun."
I muttered it under my breath, a smirk tugging at the corner of my mouth.
Honestly, it hadn't started that way. I wasn't planning to tease Kiera—not seriously. But when Leona and Ryen got the ball rolling at me, I figured, why not join in and tease Kiera?
It was fun. Way more than I expected.
Still, I couldn't shake the feeling of surprise.
Kiera had changed. A lot.
Back when I first met her, all I cared about was keeping her alive. That was it. I figured she'd either stay glued to Ryen like always or keep orbiting around Leona. I didn't imagine we'd end up… whatever this was.
But now?
She was storming off with flushed cheeks because of me. Not Ryen. Not Leo. Me.
"…This must be the fate of a transmigrator protagonist, huh?"
I sighed to myself, the weight of genre-awareness settling over me like a blanket I didn't ask for.
