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Her heart was just beating so hard from the shock, was all.
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Kurane probably hadn’t even noticed their lips touch, or hadn’t cared if she did. Obviously she was looking way too far into something that was just an accident. Tsubaki shook her head to clear her thoughts. She was also exceptionally lazy unless motivated, and even then she’d often try and get someone else to do the brunt of the work. Clearly the Professor went through some kind of education since she could read and write, as well as hold the title of the village doctor, but her Machina tinkering was all her own work. Tsubaki didn’t think she’d had a type, but when romance crossed her mind, she always thought she’d fall in love with some other hard-working, well studied Slayer. Of course, Mahoroba wasn’t a big village, and seeing each other was nearly a daily occurrence unless she actively avoided her or Kurane was working - or just too lazy to leave the house. Whenever she’d passed the older woman, whose head was barely up to Tsubaki’s shoulder, she had a hard time making eye contact. Whether that was actually true or she’d just thought of some “cool new feature” was anyone’s guess. The Professor - who usually went by her title rather than her name, Kurane - usually wanted them to come by at least once a week to check on the Demon Hands they were technically a prototype model, and sometimes they needed maintenance. Not that she really needed to go up there very often, but all the “Machina Users”, as they had been dubbed, were close friends and a Slaying squadron besides. It had almost been a week, but she was still too embarrassed to make the walk up the hill to the lab alone. Tsubaki sighed as she replayed the event in her head for the who-knows-how-many-th time that day. The younger girl had practically lit up as red as her Guard uniform and immediately straightened back up, attempting to apologize through her stammering. They’d both been startled by the contact, though the Professor seemed more surprised by how close Tsubaki had been rather than that she’d basically just kissed her- at least that was Tsubaki’s take on it. Tsubaki had just been leaning down to look at what the Professor was working on when the woman in question had turned to face her, causing their noses to connect and lips to just barely touch. Really, it wasn’t much more than a brush of their faces that caused the younger, though taller, girl to jump back.