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Asta and Finral were walking down Main Street in town running errands for Black Bulls when they rounded a corner and spotted a very attractive woman talking to Yuno—or at least that’s all Asta saw.
Finral whistled and then cursed. “That bastard, I want a woman as beautiful and fine as her to flirt with me!” Finral shook Asta while complaining petulantly. “What does he have that I don’t?”
“Flirting?” Asta asked dumbly, completely confused.
Finral stopped shaking Asta and looked at him incredulously. “Do you really not know?”
“Aren’t they just taking?”
“No! No! Look it’s so obvious! She’s twirling her hair, she's smiling cutely, her attention is all on him, see how her hip is cocked to show off her ass, she’s playfully biting her lip and see how she’s touching his arm like that!? She’s full on seducing him.”
Asta looked at the woman thoughtfully. He didn’t really understand what Finral was talking about but he did find himself feeling irritated at the sight for some reason.
“Hmm well, I don’t get it but Yuno doesn’t like to be touched by strangers. I’m going to say hello to Yuno.” Asta said before speedily walking toward Yuno.
“Wait! Asta don’t interrupt! You’re about to cock block Yuno’s hot date!”
As Asta approached, the woman sent him a nasty glare but Asta didn’t notice at all since all his attention was on Yuno.
“Yo Yuno!” Asta greeted brightly with a cheerful smile.
Immediately and without hesitation, Yuno diverted his full attention to Asta. His expression remained passive except for a slight uptick of the corner of his lips and a warm mirthful twinkle in his eyes.
Asta turned towards the pretty woman. “Hello Miss! I’m Asta? Are you friends with Yuno?”
The woman suddenly felt a feeling of malice in the air causing shivers to go down her spine. It was gone in a flash and she couldn’t pinpoint the source. Even though she dislikes Asta for always bothering and irritating Yuno, she knew that sense of malice didn’t come the short young man in front of her; he had asked his question with utmost sincerity. So then, was it Yuno? His face remained neutral and he looked the same as he always did: a mature and collected ice prince. It couldn’t be him . . .
Yuno responded to Asta’s question in her place. “No she was simply asking for my help with something.”
“Oh!” Said Asta. “What do you need help with Miss? I’m a magic knight too, so I can definitely help fix your problem!”
“It’s uh a—“
Yuno cut her off and once again answered Asta’s question in her place. “She needs help with her cat, at her apartment, there’s something wrong with it apparently.”
The euphemism went soaring over Asta’s head.
“I can help with that!” Asta confidently exclaimed, “I’m great with animals— I have to feed my Captain’s magical beasts everyday! I mean they try to eat me— but I swear it’s not like that with smaller animals.”
The woman stood in silence unable to get a word in. She was completely astonished by Asta’s dense personality. She heard a strange puff of air and looked and saw that Yuno’s head was turned slightly to the side. His shoulder were quivering a bit . . . Wait! Is he laughing?
She woman was mortified and she felt embarrassment all the way down to her bones. He knew what she had been implying but pretended not too. She had thought he was just a bit dense and had went on and on trying to get him back to her apartment.
“So where’s the cat you need help with?” Asta asked.
The embarrassed woman wanted to leave this situation immediately. “It’s okay . . . I don’t think I need help anymore.”
“Are you sure? Both of us could help you if you want?” Asta asked with the utmost concern.
“No.” She replied hastily. Seriously why did he have to phrase it that way? She quickly scurried away before Asta could ask anymore questions.
“She left in hurry, I hope everything’s okay.” Asta worried.
“She probably ran away in fear because of your face.” Yuno quipped.
“Hey! What’d you say about my face you handsome jerk!”
Their conversation devolved into playful teasing and bickering followed competitive boasting of their recent achievements. Asta said they should grab lunch and Yuno groused that he didn’t want to but followed Asta anyway.
Finral was left forgotten.
The woman was absolutely stupefied. She was part of the Clover Kingdom Yuno fan club and everyone was sure that Yuno disliked the small man who always hung around him. He always looked irritated when Asta was near. She thought back on all the evidence the club had collected: Asta and Yuno on a mission with the royal girl Mimosa, that obnoxious loud Leopold causing a scene with Asta in front of Yuno, Asta and Yuno with Noel, two drunk members of the Black Bulls with Yuno awkwardly standing nearby . . . Oh. The fan club had completely misread the situation.
The woman left the fan club and started her own called the ‘Yuno and Asta Fan Club’. The club was for people who stan both Yuno and Asta and for people who ship them. Her first member ended up being a weird old lady who sells questionable snakes on a stick.