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You were collecting seashells for the latest scientific advancement Senku laid out the plan for and didn't notice how you went quite far from the village. Sun was already thinking of ending its shift of observing the humanity build it's way up to the former technological glory and land started to get painted it saturated rays of golden hour's last gilded waves warmth. You notice the air get slightly colder and that's when it hits you that you lost the track of time and space and now the mission of coming back to your usual sleeping place before sun's seat in the sky gets taken by the moon seems nigh impossible.
"At least the seashells I collected should be enough plus if I make the run for it, I'll make it back just in time" - you think to yourself and start making your way back hopefully in the right direction. Running on the ocean shore in golden sunlight would have been akin to a movie scene where everything is so aesthetic and image on the screen almost tastes like happy ending, if not for the fact that you're a small defenceless human in a stone world. Of course the movie scene is a better thing to think of so as the sand dips below your running feet you imagine the plot of the movie and all the details of your perfect happy ending. Just as you think to yourself about how the addiction of a hot male lead would be the last puzzle piece for this moment you notice a reddish orange figure somewhere afar. It doesn't take you even a second to recognise who it is.
The tall gorgeous blonde fleet captain, the man greedier than greed, the man who makes the deep bottomless pit that the greed is feel like the holiest of all virtues, the perfect lead for your newly imagined movie life, Ryuusui himself. At the sight of him the world seemed to slow down just to let you admire his features more. Perhaps, even the higher forces of this world wish to admire their creation for the world exists to be perceived. Perhaps, each piece of beauty in the world is a part of the divine. You run, you thank the universe for the existence of sight, the golden hour light, the ocean, the beach, even the petrification and of course you thank the universe for the fact that it birthed him. His already golden hair grew even richer as the gentle kisses of sun's last warm rays fall onto his head. The protein filament covering his head is almost shining, and even so you think that if it wasn't for his hat covering his head he could easily outshine the burning orb in the sky just with his hair alone. Yet the handsome existence, the Ryuusui is, doesn't end there, it has even more to offer if you dare look at his face. His thick determined eyebrows serve as a ceiling for those brown eyes full of desire, the welcoming brown colour of his eyes reminds you of fertile dirt, that one dirt, no, soil, right, soil, the giving hand of nature that feeds the humanity with its treasures of wheat and other crops. They say that "beauty is in the eyes of the beholder", so one might wonder what's it like to look at the world with those eyes of his. Perchance, this is why he wants everything in this bare world. One might wonder what do you look like for eyes so rich and alluring. And if you venture slightly lower you see his nose and mouth. Final pieces of the masterpiece that is his face. Looking at the whole picture you read his face expression. 3 parts worry, 3 parts relief of finally finding you, 3 parts hope, 10 parts greed - that's the Ryuusui you know alright.
The thought of him worrying about you and going out to find you even though there were many other people who could have gone instead heats your heart hot enough that Senku could smelt the perfect steel in there. You think how not only he thought of you but also noticed you were gone and after that even volunteered to go find you. Perhaps, even if he's greedy of his time, he's more than willing to spend it for your sake. And ah the relief in his eyes is even sweeter than worry. Just how many people in the history of humanity have had a golden haired gilded light kissed man cast all his light their way? Perhaps, none have. None before you. All these thoughts make you feel so light and the next moment you realise you do feel light as you've tripped over a random tree root as your eyes were glued to the beauty personified. And if we're going to be honest, who can blame you for that? But alas, just like Icarus who flew to close to the sun and had to face the harsh punishment of gravity, you too are getting pulled by the universal force of attraction down to the warm sands of the beach. "Laws of physics be damned" - you think as the force of attraction you feel towards Ryuusui should have out powered the natural attraction to Earth for what is even the planet in comparison to him. This makes even more sense if you think of him as the Sun instead, though then you might have really flown too close.
As entertaining as the thoughts of developing a new law of relativity that would maybe tell the world that you should be falling towards Ryuusui when you lose your footing, even though you already fell for him long ago, are, you already reached the part where your body meets the ground and the impact of the fall brings you back to reality. Time is back to normal speed, and you feel slight pain in multiple places but nothing too bad. Nothing too bad until you realise you tore your clothing apart and Ryuusui caught up to you. You look up to him and wish you could freeze the time for the view is mesmerising, but there are more important things to get back to. You explain your problem to the worried Ryuusui, and he closes his eyes and helps you get up. Then he turns around, opens his eyes and takes off the upper half of his clothes, just enough to cover all the torn parts you have. He closes his eyes and hands it to you.
You put his clothes on and tell him it's OK to open the eyes now and then you and bare chested Ryuusui go back to the camp together