"Ah, Sarah! You are soooo lucky! Waiting on him!"
Sarah Tittered. "Yeah...but he doesn't say a single thing. And he doesn't order anything but coffee."
The aforementioned Man sat in a booth in the corner. He really didn't like the way his life had turned.
He was tall, dark and mysterious. Covered head to toe in white, only his eyes showed between the mask and hood he kept pulled over his face. His skin was not skin, but blue stones, and where his hair escaped around the deep blue eyes was a metallic silver wire.
He sighed.
Zelgadis Greywyrs took another sip of his coffee. After Lina and Gourry got together, he saw no point in staying. He just felt like he was invading, and that he ought to leave them alone.
He wasn't jealous or anything. Lina was his partner, nothing more. And to be jealous of her taking Gourry....ugh, the thought disgusted him. Not a man's man in the first place, Gourry was not the type to send him changing. Nnooooooo...
So he'd left early one morning and hadn't come back. Amelia had already returned home to Seyruun, and they were so infatuated with each other they didn't notice until he was long gone.
But...now it was back to the despairing loneliness again. No one else took his curse so in stride as Lina did. No one else treated him like a person. His followers had shown respect, Amelia showed childish infatuation, Gourry...Well, Gourry showed stupidity. But Lina had been the only one to forget occasionally...most of the time, actually, that he was stone. But no one in the group treated him like a monster.
But he could deal with it. It had been like this before he met them, and he had lived with it then. He would live with it now.
He paid for the coffee and walked out of the tiny café. It wasn't as if he needed anyone, after all. He didn't need anyone.