I had promised Kushina-san that I will be helping her was judging her date partner, I had already offered enough help with her looks and stopped her features from aging anymore, thinking that by giving her enough time, she would just take her time an choose the right person for her, but it seemed that she was still hasty about finding a partner .
For whatever reason she was still in such a haste, since I had already helped here before and giving her my promise that I would help this morning, I will be playing along with her idea of me trying to give my true opinion about her partner for today's date .
As I dashing out of the Training Arena, I was reminded of the weird things that happened earlier with me and Regina and with Satsuki as well and couldn't help but try organizing my thoughts about it, I first tried to recall when those weird small amnesia attacks started, I kept dwelling on this for a while and as if a sudden inspiration hit me .
I recalled that they had only began to happen, after what I did do to Kushina-san this morning, so I was beginning to sense that those incident might be linked to the spells I casted earlier, the warning that the girl made of light continued to sound in my mind for a few times, the warning about my time power seemed to be cursed .
I was really beginning to accept that only now, remembering how empty I felt earlier being stripped from all my memories and even personality, I felt a cold chills suddenly all over my body, but just as I was beginning to lose my composure, I felt that a huge sense of relief suddenly began washing over me, that sense of relief appeared after a thought or more accurate a belief sprouted in my mind, that belief gave me a strong belief in my ability to overcome this .
It was a bizarre and crude feeling, but I felt safe and more comfortable after it appeared, whatever was happening I will be able to overcome it, no matter what or who was responsible, since someone wanted to mess with my life, then he will first need to answer my sword whether he had the permission to do so or not, Luminous sharpness was made for that sole reason, to cut all the obstacles that might come in my way .
I finished clearing my thoughts and have unknowingly reached the gates of the school where that partner of her will be coming to pick her up, it seemed that I have arrived a bit early as she was still nowhere in sight nor there was someone honking to hurry her up .
I found a seat in a bit covered spot and decided to stay there, but never would I have expected to see her sitting on that same empty seat that I was heading for, she was dressed elegantly in a well fitted black dress, her face currently had a frown as she kept looking at the sky above with an empty expression on his face .
Was something wrong with the date partner of hers, did he called it off or something, those were the questions that kept circling on my mind, after all she would be acting like that, she currently didn't look like someone who was about to go on a date .
If anything, she looked like someone who had lost all the confidence and faith in humanity, which implied that there was quite the huge issue at work here, or she won't be reacting like that .
Even though I wasn't lowering the sounds of my footsteps as I approached her, the woman seemed to be completely engrossed in her own mind that she didn't seem even aware of me closing up on her, with the same empty expression on her face, she kept looking at the sky that was beginning to get darker by the second, night was upon us after all .
I reached the seat she was on and didn't know whether to wake her up or leave her engrossed in her own thoughts, but in the end I decided to wake her up by saying :
" It seemed that I have been late on the agreed time, I'm sorry Kushina-san .
Oh, it is you Ryuu, no need to apologize, you actually came in the right time, do you mind coming here for a second .
At my words, she instantly seemed to be awakened from her trance, then without lowering her gaze from the sky, she asked me to go and set beside her, even though the guess of something bad happening suddenly become more and more like a fact, her tone of voice was also quite heavy as she said those words, which made my heart beat more quickly, but I still complied to her request and sat next to her as she motioned me to .
The moment I sat down, she suddenly threw herself at me, she sunk her face in my chest all of a sudden, if not for the fact that I felt she need to pent up some of her frustration, I might have used Paradox to evade, the reason was simple, I already have more than enough problems with my romance life, not to mention the problem with the rumors that already circling around the school about me .
There was no need to add more fuel to the fire, but even with these thoughts in mind and all of them being reasonable reasons, I still couldn't bring myself to use Paradox and leave her like this, I bit the bullet and just accepted her and all the troubles that may come out of this action and empraced all these things .
The moment she sunk her head in my chest, she began to sob, hearing her starting to cry like that, I couldn't help but say :
" Did the date got cancelled or it didn't go well from the get go, what happened that made you like this, Kushina-san .
After she seemed to cry her frustration out for more than 5 minutes straight, the t-shirt I was wearing had completely been soaked by her tears, only after those 5 minutes, did she finally stopped crying, then she looked at me and said :
He called me a catfish then he left .
" Huh, he did what now .
The situation is like this..... .
As per Kushina-san words, it seemed that she was indeed the most unlucky person on earth when it comes to dates, how can a sane person be able to expect something like this happening .
The woman learned and talked to that guy through a dating app and even though she has only cut ties with a different person just yesterday, yet she already accepted to go on a date with that new guy, she had upload her picture on that dating app, but that picture of hers was before she had that insane transformation that made her beauty and charm to skyrocket only this morning .
The guy came and was expecting a different person in mind than the picture on the dating app, for better or worse, he seemed to not be caring about that in the slightest, he just called her a catfish and that he was not longer interested and hoped that she didn't call him again .
That what made her completely lose faith in finding love and she came her to clear her mind up, then I appeared, after hearing what she had to say, I really wasn't able to understand what exactly to say about this, I just found myself blurting out an apology for being partially a culprit in this incident, after all, I was the one who made those slight changes to her apperance, so I felt a little bit of responsibility being on me .
Again, you don't need to apologize to me for anything Ryuu-san, I'm thankful for your help this morning, I'm really is, girls kept on approaching me during the day asking me about the daycare routine, I began to use to become this radiant, even the headmistress happened to see me on my way here and didn't recognize me, when she recognized me, she too asked of what I did to become like this, so please don't apologize, you had already helped me plenty, it's just my luck who is quite rotten .
After I heard her saying all of this, I couldn't help but feel that it was indeed quite irony, I couldn't imagine someone suddenly losing interest in someone else, just because that someone else turned to the date looking more prettier than his picture showed, I don't know how those dating apps worked but wasn't that something good .
" Well, I guess my opinion wasn't needed this time, that guy was the one who was rotten, you should thank your good luck that he decided to call of that date, you have dodged a bullet there, was that guy really worth 5 minutes of your precious time crying for losing a chance to go on a date with him .
As I said this, she raised her head from my chest and her cheeks were tainted with red, she looked at me with a weird expression on her face and said :
I know that he was indeed as you described him, but I'm not crying over him, I'm actually crying out my frustration at my luck, you too Ryuu-san, you too think that all this was weird right, you too think that it was one hell of a coincidence ?
Seeing that she was asking me to confirm my own thoughts on this matter, I did nod my head after seeing a determined thatexpression to get an answer on her face, I nodded my head, but then hurried and say :
" I too do think that it was indeed weird, but I also don't believe that it was purely luck that was at work here, it might be just you triggering some inferiority complex that that guy had, after all, look at you, you are indeed radiant, I believed that he was just making excuses to call the date off, due to you being way out of his league, so don't beat yourself over it, the solution to this predicament was actually quite simple .
After I said this, I saw her looking at me with a bit of disbelief in her eyes, she then said :
You surely are joking, is there really something like that ? .
" I can only suspect that he is suffering from something like that, as to say for sure whether I was right or not, that's unclear to me, but just think about it, if he were to date you, woman so beautiful and cute, people might begin to give him some unkind looks, he acknowledged that he will not be able to bear it, so yes .
" I believe that it wasn't your fault at all, but just as a percussion, update a new picture on the app you used as to show those who are interested, what are they going to deal with and once you settle for someone, I will always be there to share my opinion on him with you, I don't want you to understand this wrongly, but I do hope that you give yourself a bit of a break, before you try and decide to date, again .
" You being in so much of a hurry to pick a partner, might not be the problem, but it certainly a part of it, once you give yourself enough time to think things through and figure what do you want in a partner, you might be able to find him appear directly in front of you without you breaking a sweat, at least that is my humble opinion, as for what you want to go and do, even though I might not like it, I would still fully support you to the best I could .
Ryuu-san.... .
I heard her call my name while covering her mouth and once again tears began to roll down on her cheeks, I take out a handkerchief from my pocket and kept wiping her tears away, yet for some reason she was now getting more emotional than before .
I cursed myself for my uncontrollable talkative mouth, it seemed that living for who knows how many years, also had its own shortcomings, I'm turning into a gossiping machine, once a situation that called for that arise, I told myself that she would be soon return to her senses and think that what she was doing was inappropriate, but I was terribly wrong .
It seemed that women can indeed cry as much as they want to and whenever they want to as well, I heard a few sounds coming from the swaying trees and almost jumped from my seat, after all, I still wary against that weird guy that seemed to be able to catch me off guard and capturing my picture with someone, so I was a bit nervous, for her sake not mine, maybe mine as .
Almost 10 minutes have already passed, yet she seemed unsatisfied with all that crying and was still going for more, wanting to lighten up the mood a bit and convince her to stop crying, I no longer gave any more handkerchiefs, so I resorted to try and cracking a joke, I said :
" Kushina-san, just so that you become aware, the spell I used is weak against tears, with how many tears you have shed already, I would say that you might have wasted 10 or 15 years of the original period of the skill, the effective period of the spell is now shortened by 15 years perhaps .
Just as my words fell in her ears, I saw her suddenly freeze on the spot, her tears suddenly dried up, her eyes that were full of tears just now were now looking completely fine, the look on her face made me unable to suppress my laughter, so a few loud chuckles burst out of my mouth, looking at her touching her face to check if there was any misshapes with her face and her drying all her tears up, made me break character .
But just as my laughter came out, a glare suddenly made me return to my senses and it was my turn to shut my mouth and cover it with my hands .
I succeeded in making her stop crying, but her current glare at me, made me began to think that it was better to wait for her to stop on her own, for my sake at least, but as if she wanted to give me a taste of my own medicine, she suddenly grind widely at me with amusement seemed to be spilling out of my eyes .
I wanted to share her in laughter, but looking a bit wary of how fast she changed her mood, I still decided against it, she suddenly asked me a question that was quite baffling to me, she said :
DO YOU HAVE A GIRLFRIEND, RYUU-SAN ? .