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"It's time to train your mind control over them."
It was just a wish on a wimp by me and Nicole but in the end William actually make them.
"Yours are red, which is your trademark color. I've already taken a sample of your blood and mix it with the others. Meaning…"
"Only I, William, you and our five other friends can control them! In other words, all of those are exclusively for us!"
William stares at Nicole; tired of the American's habit of cutting his lines but the Swedish boy only sigh rather than complaining in words because he knows that it won't do him any good.
"You're the greatest boy alive."
The older boy only shook his head, being as humble as ever. "I'm not that great. I just do what you guys wanted and after all, I wanted to try making them if that is actually possible and in the end it turn out that it is possible."
"Dude, dude, don't be so humble! Here, solve this!" Nicole throws a Rubik cube at William which he quickly catches before it falls down to the grown.
The blonde leans to me and pulls out a timer, she smirks at me before looking at the brown-haired boy again. "Watch this." She told me and then told Willam to start solving the Rubik cube.
1.
2
3
4
5
10…
"Done!"
"Thirty-five seconds, what do you say about that, Will?" she shows him the timer and his eyes widen in delight. "Finally, a new record!"
New record?!
New fucking record?!
"And you say you're not a genius!" I point at him while he flinches from the raise of voice from me and just look from me to the Rubik cube in his hands and then look at me again. "Anyone can do it… really…"
"No, no, no… That's the game made by someone who wants us to suffer in calculation! And you solved it in a matter of seconds! You son o-" I quickly cover Nicole's mouth to avoid having William offended.
"It's fine, Michiko… I have gotten used to hear her curse." He pats my shoulder which later on I release Nicole who panting from anger and envy. "A consequence you need to face if you are in one team with her."
"I did not agree to it! Fuckboy!"
"I am not that!"
Its fun watching them fight but I need to stop this before…
"Hah! You're not even a virgin anymore!"
"Well, it's good because you don't even have someone to do it with you!"
Before it gets to that…
Nicole is silenced; William's comeback shocking her more than when he announced that he is not a virgin anymore. He is an eighteen year old boy, not something to be so surprised of but Nicole takes that news as if she has seen a ghost.
"Um… I think we should focus on my training. Actually, what is the purpose of this training?" I change the subject to avoid any more shock taken by Nicole. "It is to avoid the making of dangerous imaginations and actions that will cause harm or the making of… indecent images."
"You should be the one who makes those limitations!"
"Do I need to make list thousands of things? I don't have the time for that… I still have finals to do back when I write them."
"Oh yeah…"
It was a nice time when I don't need to care about finals. Fun. Fun…
"Just our luck…."
"Ahahaha! I still need to wait another year!" Nicole finally came back to her usual mood after the shock and starts to laugh at us out of anything she could've do. "But still, you will still meet the horror of the monster named final tests." Again, William is successful again in making her shut her mouth.
((Please understand, I do not understand what they are talking about or why they are talking about this in January.))
"Anyway, let's start."
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Karma wakes up again from a nap, tonight he needs to go back to school. Like always too, he takes a bath, eat breakfast but this activity is newly added; opening and checking the girl's room if there is any sign that she has come back.
Today too, he sighs when he finds no sign that the girl has come back or at least taken something from the room so he just takes his school bag that has been filled with some things that Korosensei asks him to bring.
"When is she going to be in Germany actually?"
That information is what he doesn't know.
He's too worried that he doesn't question why he has to bring a yukata, he doesn't question why he has to bring these things that are associated with celebrations that are done in his country and instead he thinks of where the girl could be.
Once he arrives at school he finds a rather annoying thing.
"It is Christmas!"
Korosensei, it's February. He wanted to tell the octopus.
"So, it is Karma's birthday!" Nakamura said it cheerfully but Nagisa seems to be forced to say that and need to go along with the weird planning, it's not that the boy doesn't want to celebrate his redheaded friend's birthday; the weird timing is what bothers him.
"Happy birthday and Merry Christmas!"
Confetti is shot up and Karma steps back from the surprise of hearing the loud noise of the popping as the confetti almost cover his vision and the smiles from his friend in a way warms him and his worries washes away for a second.
"Yeah… thanks?" he pulled off a smile but his confusion is still there but Korosensei just push food on him and make him slice the big cake and give it to the others too. Soon, he has a big party though belated.
Once the belated Christmas also birthday party ended, Korosensei looks at a paper.
"Next is…" Korosensei stopped but just look at his students.
"Time to bed boys and girls!"
Though, they somehow guess that the octopus will pose as Santa Claus though they are too old already for that so out of annoyance and irritation, they attack the 'Santa Claus' who swiftly avoid their attacks.
Holidays and celebrations they do in a fast pace and though belated, the octopus doesn't seem to care until all the way to the final one and Fuwa clears it up with her usual pointing finger like a detective pointing at the murderer.
Then, the next subject makes him more depressed than before.
Coming back home, he finds a rather weird… girl?
Straight white hair, eyes red like blood and height just about his waist. He looks down at the girl who stares at him with eyes devoid of any emotion. "Are you lost and just went into the house or is… mother are you here?"
If his mother is home then the girl is just someone his mother brought with her but a minute pass by and no answer but instead, the white haired girl responded.
"I am sent by the girl whose feelings are like waves, beauty like flowers and eyes like the midnight sky. I am here in her stead to give you this." She explains with a monotone and expression never changing, she hands him an envelope.
"Thank you… I guess?" she only nods before starting to change.
It amaze the redhead watching the girl body being parted one by one and all of that turn out to be metal or the like that then pieces together to form birds that later on flies out through the open glass sliding door and he rushes to Chiko to calm the puppy down. He carries the puppy up around his hand.
"This is all trippy…" he can only say so much after the fast paced celebrations back at school and now this…
He flips the envelope which was handed by the probably robot girl. Walking to the sofa, he put down Chiko who just watches the redhead open the envelope to see one simple card with someone's number.
He shrugs and fish out his phone from his pocket and open the dial. "It's probably her number…"
"Hello…?"
He is being cautious, that's all
1BitHeart ED © Miwashiba
{In this view of the town from a window up, high,
I'm not there and nobody gives a care about me.
Even so, the world is turning still,
Someday I'll just fade to gray,
and even if I go away, so what?
That's how I always thought.
My tiny little heart, I pretend wasn't there;
I avoided hurting others, to avoid hurting myself…
But though I secluded and suffocated in my shell;
you offered me your hand,
and that changed me…
No matter when,
I can hear your happy voice;
it's fine if I screw up,
so I shouldn't be afraid,
and venture into the unknown!
Every new experience, every time I learn,
all the more do I come to love
this world you love myself…
"I'll never forget it!"
"There's you, there's me, everybody's here,"
"each time I realize, I adore it even more…"
"And I think that by now,"
"I've come to like myself a little…" }
A pause but it's not yet cut…
{You will find another envelope in one of her books. Find it and read it.}
Beep… beep… beep…
That was a man's voice… maybe not a man but a young male's voice that has a voice that made him guess that maybe the other person is a singer or something though the song was definitely sung by her.
"Another envelope…"
He sighs lightly, all of this pressure just doesn't fit well with him and the idea that the world is ending in 39 days just makes it even more stressing than ever. The countdown is already on and if they can't kill Korosensei before that, they just need to preserve his life until the chances of exploding are no more.
The boy can only obey what the call tells him but then he thinks of the song when he finally sits down on the fluffy bed. "Did she really sing that by herself?" he asks himself as his hands search for the recording of the call.
It was just to be cautious too… Okay! He misses her!
Hearing it again, he can feel that she sings the song with her feelings much like how Nagisa has told him and he… "I've been an idiot!" he exclaims and groan into the pillow, her scent invade his nostrils that he just need to sit back up before any weird thinking came to him.
Opening his phone again, he searches a certain boy's number and calls it. "Akio, how are you?" he asks.
{Hmm~? I'm okay, how about you?}
"You sound like a drunken girl."
A loud laughter came from the other line and Karma has to put his phone far from his ear to avoid hearing trouble that he would like to avoid right now. "Yeah… do you know where she is right now?"
He can hear a gasp coming from the other like and just chuckles. {Wow, she really did it. She lives with a friend from America, they are childhood friend so don't worry but Nicole can be a bit weird sometime. Anyway, she's in Germany.}
"Well… fuck her."
{Ahaha, even if it's you, I wouldn't allow it~}
"You… We haven't even dated for that long yet…"
{Sheesh, you sound depressed! Actually, I have her number if you want to.}
"I'll ask for that later on."
He ends the call and sits back up, putting his phone anywhere on the bed. "This means… this room is a guest room again."
Oh yeah, the envelope…
He jumps up from the bed and start searching the books left on the bookshelf. It sometimes makes him think that his parents really do actually love her, it's just that they don't express it well. They encourage her to achieve her dream as a writer; he guesses from all the original copies of well-known and famous novels.
They encourage her to use her imaginations, the books lack of pictures helps her imagine the scenes and people while she learn more and more words and how to use them. He remembers how she spends her day in and out with only reading but…
Whenever her depression came back because of the stress and pressure the future is giving her, she would write than read. Sometimes, he would read the things she types on her laptop and without him realizing it; he actually cried… a little. Sometime. Shut up.
Her dream is to convey her feelings through words and tell other people that they are not alone, to tell them that 'Hey, here's someone like you so don't think that you are all alone. Talk to me.'
She wants to live on because she believe that even a single act that might not earn a lot of attention will someday help someone who seen it.
Michiko believes that literature has feelings hidden behind them and it is just the reader's decision whether they want to find the meaning deep behind them.
Maybe those sad stories are made based on the author's actual experience or feeling.
Maybe those happy stories are based on the author's actual experience or feelings too.
Even if it is happy or sad, she wants to save a person through her writings and words.
Karma just thinks that surely with his future job he will be occasionally stressed, pressured and find many high walls trying to stop him but he wonders if Michiko becomes his future wife…
Even through high walls, she will show him the gate and her words will help him shape a key to open the once locked door. Even she knows that a human's progress is not fast; a seed doesn't turn into a tree overnight and so she won't start beating him with a whip that came out from between her lips.
She will instead make a silky path for him and makes signs for him whenever he becomes lost.
"Michiko would make a kind and encouraging wife…" he chuckles softly and put back the book between the other books and takes another book.
When he starts to feel bored, he accidently hit another book which makes it fall down and making him have to pick it up, again he thought it's just a normal book but really it is a normal book. What he didn't notice all along is the sticky note under the desk if only he didn't crouch down to picks the book.
His hand takes it, careful not to rip it apart.
"If you find this after going through all my books… you're joking with me." He laughs at how the insult is felt very real. "Now, you're calling me an idiot!" someone would've thought that he is someone crazy but really, Michiko knows a way to insult him in a way.
So… by book… a story in her laptop or rather the oh-so-obvious flash disk lying on the desk!
"I wasted so much time."
And finally, he found the so called envelope or rather e-mail from someone named… He doesn't tolerate boys… he doesn't.
Karma opens it anyway, wanted to see what she wrote for him.
I'm depressed so don't expect much from me.
I never learn to love and but I do learn that people will love me if I obey, succumb to their wishes and it will make them happy and like me if I grant their wishes.
I avoid hurting others because I believe in what they call karma.
But…
I never realize that I was lying to myself, I was lying to myself about how I was okay with being the genie in people's life, I was lying to myself about how I was okay with people… hurting me and I never fought back because I thought of it as a joke.
I spent my days in an achromatic life.
I thought I will continue to spend my life like that and honestly I thought of actually ending it back then…
But, again. You kept on freely showing expressions-something that I cannot do- that tells me that what I do will make an impact on you and then I thought of the people whom actually cared for me.
I know that some people do care about me, love and are proud to know me… it's just that I was stubborn to think that I am alone in this world and nobody will help me even if I help them.
And then I thought about how I feel. What will I feel when somebody I love and cared for just suddenly died from suicide?
Nicole once asked me that and do you want to know what my answer was?
'I would cry because you're my closest friend ever. You're the only one who knows me in and out, others do to but they don't exactly understand how I feel but you do… I am in debt with you and I will mark myself as a useless friend if you do that… so, please don't.'
Well…
To the point, I always forget about the past to forget my pain too but you taught me something, I can't run from them and they will always come to get me and my way of dealing on my own has always been wrong.
I needed someone to know, to help and to understand. So, that's why… this time I won't forget.
Sorry for leaving so suddenly but… you do know my social media accounts, don't you? I'll give you my other contact details from there.
Karma sighs heavily, at least this time she happily gives him her ways to contact her, not like how she disappeared for three days and it turns out that she didn't bring her phone with her!
Again, he sighs. "I need some sleep after all of this…"
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He is irritated…
He doesn't know where she is going to school there, how is her day, just… nothing! Sometime she even doesn't answer for hours and days.
"She's going to make me crazy…"
But, Nakamura only laughs loudly while Nagisa only sighs and worried about the blonde's fate after laughing at the redhead.
"You sound like an abandoned girlfriend rather than a boyfriend!" the blonde girl laughs more after seeing the redhead's expression.
"Karma, maybe we can ask Ritsu-san?"
As if a he has found a glimpse of hope, his eyes twinkle like a child's that it almost make Nagisa takes a photo but the fear for his life came to him faster before he can reach for his phone.
{The one thing I couldn't do for long is to sneak into Karma-kun's phone against his permission! Now, I'm able to go in again~?}
Karma somehow was able to find a way to avoid having the AI sneaking into his smartphone and the AI is just thrilled to find good gossip subject in his phone.
{Searching in Progress}
.
.
.
{Search Done.}
The AI's main body turns on and the screen is static but soon an image is seen though…
[I did not help in programming you for this.]
[Ritsu. Shut down.]
But she was soon shut down under someone's command; that is what they guess for the language used was not a language that they understand.
"Oh my…" but they have someone who might understand the language in the class and in which she likes how her students look at her but not liking how Ritsu seems to have almost cross an invisible red line.
"It was Swedish but…"
The redhead can see clearly his blue-haired friend's worry. "Ritsu was made by Norwegian scientists."
What has they invited into their already growing problem?
Waiting for the AI to 'wake up' again took a long time which is felt like a long and painful silence filled with curiosity. The AI is looking different though…
{I understand.}
What does she understand?
{Apparently, my 'parents' don't like having me prodding into other people's life and told me to stop.}
Even though the girl is an AI but her expression was clear enough for Nagisa to read and when Sugino asks a careless question; guns came out from the machine with a message coming next.
[I will not tolerate anyone tainting my daughter more than this.]
It was solid and Nagisa's ears pick up a tone of irritation and anger for having one of your creations used so easily against ones' permission.
"I will not tolerate anyone tainting my daughter more than this… that was finally Norwegian." Professor Irina doesn't take long to translate it to her students.
{My mother is actually easily offended… I would not recommend angering her because… people call her a prodigy.}
"Someone who can program an AI from so far…?"
It feels very off knowing that someone can do that but with how the world growing; it's not that surprising.
But… why did they find that when they clearly try to track Michiko down…?
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