I stared at Ben-sama, still sitting on his lap, with my eyes wide and sparkling as if I was looking at the god of gods. "Ben-sama… Who are you?"
"Eh?! What kind of question is that?!" He got flustered, waving his hands. "Is it a riddle or something? Uhm, uh… I am a guy, uhm, a man—I mean—from the… Uh…"
"Pfft! Ahahaha! You are so silly, Ben-sama!" I burst out laughing at his disorientation; the way he got so serious trying to answer my rhetorical question. But then he pouted and snapped his head away, like a humiliated princess.
"Thank you, Ben-sama," I turned to face him fully and hugged him tight, with my face buried in his chest. "Just like this… you became the most important person in my life…"
Since then, I would sneak around with him, hiding to do my thing; then I would recommend books and scripts to him from my thousands of years of collection.
