3 Monster Friends [Voice] - Content Warning

[wildlittlegirl]

[ The thing about having stunted growth, being raised by monsters, and then subsequently raised by a boy around your age, is that sometimes you miss out on being informed about key parts of life.

Arietta sniffles a few times before she manages to address the journal. ]

Is there a doctor... um... Can a doctor come here? A lady would be better... I think.

[ She takes a few unsteady breaths. ]

I don't know what happened. It won't stop bleeding...

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[Action!!!!!!!!]

[distressedude]

[...]

[Stronger...]



[Well gosh, that probably gets the most genuine smile out of Ion he's had all day! He's even laughing a bit.]

A-Ah, I'm sorry. I probably shouldn't be laughing. You're right, I'll be getting taller as well. But as for getting stronger... well. I suppose I just can't imagine that. You're already so much stronger than I am, after all.

[Action!!!!!!!!!!]

[wildlittlegirl]

[ Ion is laughing! She doesn't quite get why, but he's laughing! That's a good thing! ]

That's not true! You're the Fon Master. You can do lots of things that I can't. You're really strong, Ion.

[Action!!!!!!!!!!]

[distressedude]

Perhaps there are things that only a Fon Master could do. But if I were stronger, I wouldn't need people to protect me all the time...

But I suppose in that way, I'm actually rather blessed to have so many people who want to protect me. [See dat smile? Dat smile is for you, Arietta. For all that Anise may call Arietta dangerous, there was no denying that if anyone would be willing to protect him, it was her.]

[Even if he's not quite the person she really wants to protect.]

[Action!!!!!!!!!!!!]

[wildlittlegirl]

[ 8D

SHE WOULD GIVE HER LIFE FOR YOU, ION ]

I protect you because you're important to me! Even if you can protect yourself, I don't want you to get hurt. So I'll protect you as long as I can so nothing else bad happens to you.

[Action!!!!!!!!!!!!]

[distressedude]

[It's a strange feeling, to be simultaneously made happy and sad by her words. That's... not something he's ever really heard someone say to him before. After all, Arietta wasn't one to disguise her words, so he knows when she says something like that, she means it. And there's a small part of him that's... happy that she feels that way.]

[But there's still an even stronger part of him struggling to remind himself that those words aren't really meant for him.]


[But is it really so bad to wish that they were?]

Thank you, Arietta. That's very kind of you to say.