Three Wishes
After the early lessons of school, Konata and the gang were seated in their usual spots in the cafeteria as they began to chat about various subjects. First they talked about their lessons, but that quickly grew tiring for the otaku, so she talked about her utterly nonsensical dream instead... and then after a while, she talked about computer games. This subject led to her favourite online role playing game, which Konata then talked about a special magical staff that can cast a spell called 'limited wish'. Apparently, it was an ultra rare weapon and only four existed in the entire game. After much discussion whether the weapon was real or just a hoax, Konata then altered the conversation a bit and decided to talk about another subject. Tsukasa and Miyuki were quite talkative up to the computer game part, then they just sort of lost track and kept mostly to themselves... but they perked up a little when the word 'wishes' was mentioned.
"So..." Konata said, tapping on her chin a couple of times, "...Kagamin, if you had three wishes, and could ask for anything in the world, what would they be?"
Kagami gave the question some thought.
"I wouldn't wish for anything," she said with all honesty, "I'd likely use the wrong wording, and end up getting something completely different to what I originally wanted in the first place."
The girls didn't seem too surprised with her answer, for Kagami was normally the more 'down to earth' girl of the four.
"What a realistic statement," said Miyuki and Tsukasa nodded in agreement.
Konata turned into guru mode as she tried to decipher Kagami's answer. "Ah! I think I can relate to that!"
Kagami's face became slightly sour. "You can?"
Konata nodded. "I was playing this role playing game and this genie granted me a wish! Naturally, I could only choose from a prearranged list, so I decided to ask for my party to earn extra experience. The genie then chuckled and said 'Fight well and experience you shall earn.' Then, to my horror, a large group of golems appeared and starting slaughtering my whole party!"
"How awful!" gasped Tsukasa.
"I know!" agreed Konata, "And my last save point was about an hour ago!"
"Is this conversation taking another U-turn?" thought Kagami.
"So anyway, Tsukasa, what would your three wishes be?" Konata asked the other twin.
"Let's see..." said Tsukasa, her eyes staring at the ceiling, "I guess I would ask for good health, good happiness... and another three wishes!" she replied with an eyesmile.
"Ugh, so cliché," groaned Konata, causing Tsukasa to reply with a surprised 'Eh?!'
"Well what would you ask for?" Kagami asked Konata.
Konata placed a finger on her lips for a few seconds. "Hmm... I would like to travel back and forward in time, so I can acquire complete Manga and card collections without waiting for them to be released!"
Kagami pictured a certain scene in her mind. At a busy Manga store, a thug points a gun at the owner (who is behind the till at the time) and demands him to hand over all of the money. Everyone else has either ran away in blind panic, or lowered themselves to their knees, begging not to be shot. Then, out of nowhere, Konata appears out of the blue, no doubt freaking out everyone who has bared witness to her sudden appearance. However, Konata completely ignores the ambience around herself and grabs a super rare limited edition of a Haruhi comic book. With the sacred Manga in her hand, Konata would casually make her way to the till, say to the owner, 'here you go mister storekeeper!' whilst giving him the exact change... and then just disappear back in time again, not taking a blind bit of notice of the thug wielding the gun.
"Figures. She would use her powers not to protect the world from villainy, but for her own hobbies instead," thought Kagami.
"Secondly..." Konata continued, "...hmm... maybe I should have my bedroom extended as well..."
"You would only quickly fill it up with more of your stuff," thought Kagami, "and what a completely different contrast from your first wish."
"and my last wish..." Konata concluded, "...my last wish... would be to have a spiritual conversation with okaasan..."
The twins and Miyuki showed Konata a sympathetic smile.
"...so I can ask her why she married him in the first place."
The twins and Miyuki sweat dropped. So harsh, they thought at the same time.
"What would you wish for Yuki-chan?" Tsukasa asked the pink haired girl.
Konata and Kagami, who were sitting opposite Miyuki at the time, leaned forward a little and tried to predict what she was going to say. Konata predicted that one of her wishes would be 'world peace', whereas Kagami predicted one of her wishes would be to make her less clumsy (as opposed to not making her clumsy at all). Little did they know that underneath the table, Miyuki's hands were clenched rather tightly.
"Indestructible teeth that never ache!" Miyuki answered with passion.
The others gasped at her response.
"Wh-what about your second wish?" asked Konata, feeling a little on edge.
Miyuki thought about the second wish, her eyes still filled with seriousness.
"For every tube of toothpaste in the world to be strawberry flavoured!" she answered, with more passion then before.
The others gasped again.
"And... and your third wish?" asked Kagami.
The three girls watched Miyuki as she placed her right fist into her left open hand.
"To make sure the first wish works!!" she answered, almost as though her life depended on it.
"Incredible!" gasped Tsukasa.
"Amazing!" said a very surprised Kagami.
Konata clutched her heart with both hands. The blunette found it really difficult to breathe.
Kagami took one quick look at Konata and sighed. "Let me guess, overwhelmed with 'moé'?" she asked.
Unable to speak, Konata nodded rapidly in reply.
