Mahiru and Kuro raced from shop to shop in a hurry. Well, Mahiru did all the running, since Kuro was jogging at most. It was a pain that his Eve had to shop for more items for school. This happened often since Mahiru had a terribly annoying habit of deciding to help with everything that no one else would do. This had meant that at the ungodly hour of 7:00pm, where Kuro was supposed to be napping, they had to run in a hurry before the stores closed. If Kuro remembered correctly, Mahiru needed a variety of things, from food ingredients to fabrics. Unfortunately, in the ingredients needed, there were no potato chips or cola. Naturally, this annoyed the Servamp a little. The Sloth Pair had more spare time now that Tsubaki had quietened down and gone missing, so all Kuro really wanted to do was laze around.
Oh, and there was one small detail that the Servamp had forgotten.
It was typhoon season.
They had been lucky so far, and there was not a single cloud in the sky.
But as soon as they finished gathering all the things that Mahiru had needed and left the shop- It all began.
The clouds were black and stormy like shadows, and thunder rumbled like a lion’s roar. Mahiru froze and stared at the sky, realising, that he did not have an umbrella. Nor did Kuro, who at least, had his hoodie. However, the hoodie wasn’t the best to wear in rainy weather. The water soaked into it like a sponge and made the clothing heavy and uncomfortable.
And the first droplet of rain fell.
Instantaneously, millions of raindrops fell like an army rushing in to fight its enemy. Large bubbles of water crashed down on the Sloth Pair’s heads, like a bucket of water had been tipped on them. Mahiru was soaked in the first few seconds of the downpour, and it wouldn’t take long before Kuro’s coat became waterlogged too. After the two had got over the initial shock of the rain starting, they rushed towards a shop overhang and were safe from the storm. Excluding the bigger raindrops that splashed back at their shins.
“I told you we shouldn’t have gone out…” Kuro complained, trying to squeeze some of the water out from his coat tails. Mahiru felt a small twinge of anger towards the Servamp but rolled his eyes instead. He couldn’t help it if it was simpler to take on the jobs no one else wanted to do. But, Kuro did have a point. He knew that a typhoon was going to happen at some point, and it didn’t help that the shops were going to close soon anyway. This meant that Mahiru didn’t even get everything he needed. So, he did feel a little guilty.
“Thinking simply, we have to find a way to get back home without getting completely soaked. So, any ideas, Kuro?” The young Eve questioned his Servamp, who shrugged before asking,