"Now, behold your eyes on this wonder!" Kiana excitedly says with her eyes shining as she turns on the big flatscreen television and the console in the living room then grabs a controller in between them.

"You're going to love this game Hachiman!" She passes the controller to him while grabbing another one on the ground, "I was playing it all night since I came to knew of it!

"I can see that… And that you had fun here." He blankly looks as he sees crumbs of food littering the floor while putting the controller next to him, "You couldn't have cleaned up afterwards?"

Mei comes into the room, sees the mess, and walks over to Kiana with a smile, "Kiana~ didn't I tell you to vacuum the place before we went out to school?"

Kiana blinks and laughs as she slowly lowers her controller, "I have no idea what you mean, Mei, Hachiman." She looks away from the impending doom that is Mei, "I'm just feeding the… Um, thingies in the floor!"

"…You mean microorganism."

"Yes that's it Mei! Ow, ow, ow, please stop pulling my ear."

Hachiman sighs, while ignoring Mei pulling Kiana's ear, before sitting down on the 3-seater couch facing the television, "Actually, is there a library nearby here? I want to go fact check what she said." He sinks into the couch, "…This is the comfiest couch in my life."

Mei stops her action and Kiana takes the chance to rub her ear while putting her controller down on the coffee table near her, "Ow, my ear is fragile, Mei!" The latter whines before stopping as she sees the former raising her hand again.

Mei nods at her before turning her attention to him, who has his eyes closed, "There should be a library inside the academy… But there should be books lying in one of the rooms upstairs."

Hachiman pops one eye open, "Ah… Then I'll just read the books here for now." He then opens both eyes to look at them.

"…Both of you really didn't knew any of this… Honkai business?" He quietly asks.

Both of them shake their heads, "No... My father was afraid of the outside world tainting me, so he made go home-schooled and never answering just what he does when I asked… Only like three years ago my father allowed me to go to public school."

Kiana looks at Mei while Hachiman raises his eyebrow, "How old are you actually?" He asks, prompting her to blush.

"Se-seventeen… I should be in one grade higher but my father thought it would be better to start in second grade…"

Kiana widens her eyes, "Ehhh? I thought you were the same age as us!" Before zooming over to her to engulf her in a hug, "No wonder you act like a nagging violent older sister!"

Hachiman nods to himself while ignoring the slapping sounds, "That solves one mystery." A tissue box hits him on the head, "Ow. I forgot there was a tissue box near you."

"Stop teasing me! This is not how you treat a lady!"

"…What? You want to dance under the moonlight while listening to classical instruments like those light novel scenes?"

"That is so last year, Hachiman. Try eating with your date in a romantic setting then seeing a smudge of food near her lips then you wiping it away! Now that is good!"

"…Sounds too normie for my taste. I get the appeal but in a LN setting, then dancing under the moonlight is better."

"Oh? Well then, I challenge you to a LN settings opinions!"

"…I thought you hated light novels?"

"I never said anything."

While Hachiman and Kiana banter, Mei freezes in her spot with her face and ears red, "Me dancing under the moonlight… Romantic dinner… Ha-handholding…!" Her eyes start to swirl then her body slightly sways.

He notices the condition of Mei, prompting him to look at her with Kiana following suit, "Oi. You alright there?" He asks while getting up.

Mei jumps away from them like a cat, "H-huh? Perfectly fine here!" She then runs to the stairs, though she shouts, "Remember to vacuum the place!" Then disappears upstairs.

Hachiman looks at Kiana, who also looks at him. Her face morphs into a mischievous smile, "Oh? My girlfriend is an innocently flower for these matters… I am so going to have fun teaching her."

He raises an eyebrow before grabbing the tissue box on the ground and hitting her with it, electing an ow from her, "Bad gorilla. No corrupting Mei's here."

She rubs her head, "I was just joking! Jeez, lighten up, Hachiman." She pouts at him before losing the pout as she notices his face, "Hey… How come you're wearing a mask…?"

He blinks before wryly smiling, "I would like to call it me putting a tough front right now. I am just one revelation away from just breaking down."

Kiana frowns while looking at him with sadness, "You don't need to shoulder everything… Just… Share your load with me or at least somebody…?"

"Sorry… Fine, I'll just share my thoughts on this." He takes a deep breath and exhales.

"I woke up after having a nightmare then… That happened in the hospital –"

"It's apparently an infirmary here."

He glares at her with his eyes twitching, "Do you want me to tell you or not?" Seeing her quick nod, he sighs then continues.

"Anyway, I was eyed like an animal while we were walking to the office by everybody else, then my worldview got shattered again with Mei being the first one. I was really close to just collapsing if the Principal had said anymore… Probably why she didn't say anything else after asking that last question and I was acting in pilot mode for a while... I got this gut feeling that she is far older than I think… Wait, you knew her before right?"

"Ummm… I was like a little kid back then and she looked the same back then and now. I asked when I saw her after I got here and she pulled my ear for that and to never ask again."

"…Very old then. No wonder I can't trust her, since she can see through me.. Wait, how come you didn't know any of this?"

Kiana pouts as she waves her hands like a whining child, "That's because my parents and aunt Teri kept me in the dark! They would always come back home super late and tired looking that I just didn't ask them about it… Imagine if they actually trained me… Then maybe I could have stopped Mei from –"

Hachiman puts a hand up to her, "From what? From releasing that pink gas? I saw the news on our way that said an outbreak had broken out over at Chiba Academy with a pink gas surrounding it… Then I just guessed that Mei, or whatever was inside of her, was responsible for it."

She blinks at him, "…You are scary for guessing that."

He shrugs, "Anyway, even if you had training, you couldn't have changed anything on that day… I want to know how did I turned Mei back to normal…" He then looks at the window to see that the moon is out.

"…I'm feeling hungry. Want to go ask Mei to cook for us?"

"Do you really need to ask? The answer is of course! Since she's the best cook in the world!" Though she soon grabs his hand, prompting him to look at her with a raised eyebrow.

Kiana smiles at him, "Don't worry about the future! I'll be there with you to deal with whatever comes our way!"


"Finally, I'm back…!" A female with shoulder-length red hair, styled in a ponytail and wearing a crimson coat with a white and black shirt inside, black gloves, black shorts, gray thigh highs and black boots, sighs as she steps on to the ground from the flying ship.

"I need to go hit a bar to drown that experience… But for now, I need to go see what are those brats doing…" She looks up to see the moon in full view of her.

"…Yeah those brats are asleep now. Time to go hit that bar."


*A...N*

Welp, I've been extremely inspired and motivated to write chapters for this fic and not my others (don't worry, I will never abandon my fics.). Also, Handholding - extremely lewd. Anyways on to the comments!

aiman031122 - of course, all of my fics (at the moment) are harem style romance, so don't worry, Hachiman will get his good ending (this one at least.). And yes, it will be fun when I get to that part

Alt Zero - *double thumbs up*

calderoneric758 - that... Should be coming up soon, like maybe under 10 chapters... If everything goes to plan

Dxhologram - here's a semi-explanation for you. And in regards to his thoughts... I guess I can make a 1st person view for him to show his thought process somewhere in the future. Also, while Hachiman is special, he won't be op to be one shotting beast and getting bitches left and right. If I break this promise and I admit it, even the slightest, I will commit sudoku seppuku.