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"Where's no.93?" Samon asked as they were in the game room of Uno. Everyone else was there besides Mira. And the inmates seemed nervous too

"Oh? She's fetching her chocolates" Kiji said "It's hearts day you know. I just invented it. And she actually made two boxed chocolates with a ribbon on it! The others are just chocolates wrapped in some plastic"

"So that's why the inmates were like that" Samon said as he looked and saw the inmates betting on who will be getting more chocolates "I haven't thanked her for requesting the recontruction on my building to be faster. And the apology for getting involved in the mess. I have a gift but I don't know if she'll like it"

"What is it?" Kiji asked

"Some various popsicles in a special container"

*whack!*

"Hey!" Samon said as Kiji just got mad at him and hit him all of a sudden

"You said you were going to buy a dress!" Kiji said

"I was! But I didn't know her measurements! And I don't know what style she likes! She's tasted popsicles before and I picked the flavors she likes!" Samon said "And some limited edition flavors"

"Popsicles as a gift!? You are so not elegant!"

"Kiji?" Everyone's head snapped to the direction of the door and saw Mira with a bag in her hand "Are you ok?"

"Oh I'm fine!" Kiji said as Mira walked to him and gave the first wrap of chocolated "Thank you~ happy valentines no.93~"

Mira looked at Samon and shyly smiled at him before pulling out a boxed chocolate with a ribbon "Here... for you"

This was their first interaction after Samon got back. Samon thought she was just gonna greet him when she walked towards him

"....M-me?" Samon asked in disbelief as everyone stared in shock. Everyone assumed those two boxes would go to Honey and Trois but it didn't seem so. It's not a friendship chocolate either since she seems to understand valentines chocolate

"Yeah" Mira said as she gave the box to Samon

"...Thank... you" Samon said as he blushed and accepted the box

Mira shyly moves away from Samon as she went to the other inmates. Uno, Jyugo, Nico, Rock, Liang, Upa, and Qi got normal chocolates. Honey and Trois.... also got normal chocolates wrapped in plastic. Basically everyone right now was in shock but they didn't show it yet. Insteaed they smiled and just accepted it

"What happened? What go everyone so quiet?" Kenshirou entered the room followed by Musashi

"I thought Valentines is today? Did someone get a heartbreak or something?" Musashi asked since no one was talking

"Oh. Good thing you came" Mira gave Musashi a boxed chocolate with a ribbon then gave Kenshirou a normal one

"Thank you no.93" Kenshirou said

"Thanks Miracle" Musashi patted Mira's head

"...Uh Kiji gotta go to the bathroom real quick" Mira said as she went ahead anyways

".........."

"WHY DID THE MONKEY GET ONE?!""WHAT HAPPENED?!""THIS IS FRIENDSHIP CHOCOLATE! NO!""MUSASHI GOT ONE TOO!?""IS SHE DELUSIONAL RIGHT NOW?!""WHEN DID SHE GOT ALONG WITH MUSASHI!?"

"HEY! QUIET!" Hajime said as he sat there with no single chocolate

"....uh.." Kiji started "I was with her when she was making it. She clearly understands what it means to give a specially made chocolate... in this case the boxed chocolate... which means... she likes... Samon.. and no.634"

"......huh?" Honey and Trois asked "Repeat that"

"Oh no no no. She doesn't like me" Musashi said as he shook his head "She came over to our building yesterday remember? She came over to hang out with our lessons. WOn break we talked about chocolates and I mentioned something about not having tasted chocolates in a long time. She told me she'd make me a boxed one"

"So then.. that means.." Everyone looked at Samon who was now blushing hard

"N-no way.. maybe this is thanks for something?" Samon asked Kiji

"Thanks for what?" Kiji asked "She already did a lot by requesting the reconstruction on your building to go faster"

".........This is....real?" Samon asked

"Have you never received chocolates before? Or even have a girl confess to you?" Hajime asked "If not then by this point you should kneel down and ask her to marry you if she comes back"

"Ha?!" Samon asked

"Look who's talking! Like anyone would want to give you chocolates!" Honey said

"And although monkey guard may be having a once in a lifetime experience. Maybe we should ask Mira to confirm" Trois said

"What do you mean once in a lifetime?!" Samon asked

"Let me handle the confirming. I have an idea" Hajime said "Leave this to me"

"Oh there she is" Uno said

"MIRA!" Almost everyone said in unison which actually startled Mira

"W-what? Was it too sweet? Did I add too many sugar?" Mira asked

"No uh... we just wanted to know what does the boxes chocolate mean?" Trois asked

"Well for Musashi. I promised to do it... well ..for Samon.....uh... what it normally means-"

"Eh?" Hajime asked  "Does it perhaps mean a confession? Cause that monkey is married you know"

A look of shock and confusion went to Samon's face but weren't seen by Mira

A short flash of shock came over to Mira before she looked down. Kiji had glared at Hajime knowing that he must be angry that he didn't get chocolated "No.93-"

"Well I sorta knew he was taken" Mira said. Everyone stared at her curiously at why she came up with that "Samon is such a great guy. Hardworking. Nice. Caring. He's very cheerful too and he's handsome. With someone like him I'm pretty sure he must've already found the love of his life"

"Then.... why?" Kiji asked

"Well.... Despite the possiblity that he's taken... I wanted to be confident for once and... say what I feel.." Mira sighed as she smiled at Samon "But even if he wasn't I'm a prisoner and he's a guard. We can never be together. We're just far apart"

"That's so cool of you" Musashi said as he patyer Mira's head "Want to come by building 4 to read some books? Heartbreak must be hard"

"I'm pretty sure you must've broken some hearts too if not by accident since you were former handsome college student with honors. Ladies must like you" Mira chuckled and walked away with Musashi and Kenshirou

Kenshirou doesn't really mind Mira in his building especially since the other people in the room seemed the need to talk with Mira away

".....So she thought that about me" Samon blushed a little before covering his face with his hands

"She sorta got rejected" Hajime said

"No thanks to you" Kiji said "But I'm impressed she was actually quite confident this time"

"......Mira and the monkey always got along pretty good" Trois spoke up and sighed "Despite being cellmates she actually took a bigger liking to him"

"I can't believe it" Honey crossed his arms

"B-but I never knew she like me in that way! I only thought that she was improving and becoming more expressive" Samon said

"....You like her too" Liang said

"Huh?" Samon asked

"The first few days on training her sure you watched the whole thing. But it was unecessary keeping watch and training with her all the time when you could've just made her train in view of your office" Liang said "You even had me train her and not the other guards since you knew they were a bit more.. noisy"

"When she had heart pains in that incident with Enki in your building... there were some physical contact such as a hug and a kiss on the head... you even called her by her name" Qi said "We heard that you know"

"You looked so sad at that time when you saw her state" Upa said

"You stood close to her most of the time we meet you know" Kiji said "Especially when we're here in the game room.... and you visted her in the clinic more often than her cellmates"

"......well" Samon blushed as he tried coming up with any excuse for those but in truth.. he didn't have any "I uh... yeah.. I was just trying to not make her jump to that panicky state at first but... she's pretty decent to talk too.. and pretty in general"

"Oh just say you like her so we can get over it!" Honey said

"Ok fine! I....like her... but she thinks I have a wife and she even says that we can't be together because of our status!" Samon said

"Why are you so worried about that? It was a bit inapproriate but not like it's forbidden. You'll get scolded or suspended at most but not like you'll get fired. Just defend it" Hajime said as the others looked at him in bewilderment "What? Just because it's my fault everyone assumed I wouldn't do anything about it?"

"Well.. yeah" Kiji said

"Well she's proven to only be quiet impulsive sometimes but she saved us guards and even protected the inmates. The warden doesn't seem to frown at what she does" Hajime said

"Anyway" Kiji said "Once that girl decides on something it's kinda hard to make her change her mind. She doesn't like changing her decision one after the other, it scares her of what might happen"

"Then what am I suppose to do?" Samon asked

"Go on and kiss her" Hajime said

"Maybe that's too much" Kiji said "How about saying that you don't really have a wife first and you're actually single?"

"If you don't convince her we have back up plans" Honey said

"He probably won't convince her'" Trois said