The World Only God Knows / 神のみぞ知るセカイ
By Tamiki Wakaki
THE REELING
A Fanfic by Takagi . Akito
Words in italic are the characters' inner thoughts
Chapter 2: "A Normal Day"
Ring… Ring…
In one dark silent apartment bedroom that only enlightened by the sunlight that slipped through the gap between curtains, a Yeskia Lumia 900 window phone rang with an ascending volume on a table which located right next to a bed where our hero, Katsuragi Keima, was sleeping peacefully. After a few seconds ringing, it reached its peak volume and successfully made its owner opened his eyes little by little.
"…"
"Oh… It's 07.32…"
The genius TokyoU student rubbed his sleepy eyes softly and yawned heavily. Then, he got up and headed to the bathroom next to his bedroom to wash his face and brush his teeth.
Keima's apartment room was divided into four rooms: bedroom, bathroom, living room, and a small kitchen. Each room had Air Conditioner and heater in it. The bedroom had one large bed that fit two people, a working desk, a large-sized wardrobe, a standing lamp by the left side of the bed and a small table on the right. On the left side of the working desk, there was a slide window where sunlight and wind could enter the room. The living room contained of 1 large LCD TV, Blu-ray player, media player, PF3, 3 sofas and 1 glassed-table. There was also a large window with a glassed-sliding-door which headed to a 3mx2m balcony. Keima often spent his time on the balcony to relax.
After finished brushing his teeth, Keima took a bath while listening to the music on his iPhone. He relaxed himself in the bath, stretching his stiff back. Suddenly, the iPhone was now playing Happy Crescent by Nakagawa Kanon.
"Happy Crescent, huh?"
Keima increased the volume and closed his eyes to enjoy the song, "It's been awhile I'm not listening to her songs, leave aside this old song of her."
Keima got dressed while continuing to listen to Kanon's songs. It seemed like he wanted to have some nostalgic memories.
"Nakagawa Kanon… She is the most famous idol of the whole Japan. She started her career since Senior High School."
"We were classmates during the 12th grade. By that time, I have conquered her heart. Kinda cool isn't it? Conquering such a big famous idol like her? And luckily, public must not found out about our relationship, so she will always hide our status."
"We hardly meet each other, but we still encourage each other via SMS or messenger. She also never calls me. Maybe because she is very busy"
"Well… That is not my concern"
Keima wore his usual white shirt and a blue-stripped vest then went to the campus by feet because the apartment was not too far from the campus. The street and suburbs had already been fully filled by people. Keima could see people had just opened their shops, there were also people who waited for taxi angrily, also a couple of students who went to school together. After walking for about 30 minutes, Keima finally reached his faculty building. He had a discrete structure class at room 207. When he got there, the class was already started.
The lecturer seemed to be irritated by Keima because of his lateness. Luckily, Keima was permitted to attend the class. Then, he took a seat next to a female student with long purplish hair who was blushing at that moment. She wore a white shirt and a maroon cardigan that tightly fitted her slender body.
The girl whispered softly, "Katsuragi, why are you late?"
"Well… I overslept." Keima answered simply.
"Could it be that you have started working on our newest project for the next competition?"
"No, Haqua. I was just playing a game." Keima was lying; he actually searched for Ayukawa Tenri's address at this city all over the internet the night before. But he failed to find it. Tenri was really mysterious, even Keima could not predict when she would appear.
"This girl's name is Haqua Herminium, a foreigner student from Europe and a freshman here at Tokyo University.
She also is my childhood friend and Elsie's, my little sister's, best friend. She was also my neighbor for about 14 years before she went back to Europe due-to her parents' job during 11th grade."
"She was a member of my team for the last competition. Her job is making the proposal and presenting our project. Unlike my sister, Haqua is very smart and skilled, but sometimes she did big mistakes and failures."
"She is… quite a beautiful girl… But … I am not interested in conquering her heart, I don't know why."
Haqua was now moving her thin small hands making notes on her pink note book about what the lecturer had presented, an activity that Keima would never do. He always borrowed Haqua's or others' notebook because he was too lazy to write. It was not necessary for Keima to make notes; it was just because the lecturer would not give her students any score if they did not give her any notes or summary by the end of the semester.
After the class was over, Keima came to Haqua.
"… Haqu…"
The foreigner cut Keima's word and said, "Here. The note book right?"
"Yes…"
"Thank you"
"Bye." Keima left her, Haqua sighed at the background.
"He really has changed… He looked more like an adult now… "
"What…? No! He! He is just my childhood friend!" Haqua yelled at herself and hopelessly stared at Keima, who was walking to the stair, from the door of the class.
The capturing god always wrote the note at the TokyoU's General Library, Hongo, just like this day. He was now heading to the Hongo Library. There, he always met one of his conquered girls, because she was a librarian. But today, Keima didn't find her, yet. Later, he sat at his favorite place in the library.
"Hmm… Where is she, I wonder? I always meet her every time I go here…" Keima said as he started to copy Haqua's note. "Is she taking a day off today?"
"Well… It is not like I need her now though."
Suddenly, a thin voice came from behind, "Cashiragi…I actually… heard your lines you've just practiced…"
"… Simone blushed like a tomato"
"Cashiragi suddenly broke his cool. They both were blushing as red as a crab now…"
"… The sun highlighted Simone's reddened face, making her even shinier... Cashiragi couldn't do a thing but also blushing…"
"… Then, he… He stood up and held Simone's shoulders with both his hands. The beautiful lady froze at that moment…."
"Simone… I love… GUH! ... Cashiragi… was punched by Simone on the stomach…"
"Simone then said …"
"I can't trust your words! I know that all your lines are from your 'cards'! I know it too well! What is your point exactl … Simone stopped talking when she suddenly felt her… her lips locked by Ca… Ca… Cashiragi's… WA!"
The girl with small ribbons on both of the side of her hair stopped talking and hide her mouth with the novel book she read when Keima suddenly patted her back. She wore a cotton white shirt and covered it with a cyan knitted sweater. Curious about who had just patted her back, the raven-haired girl turned her head around and accidentally was pecked on the cheek by Keima, who was staring at the book she read.
"AH! KAH! KA…! KA…!" Shiori trembled and almost fell from the wooden chair she sat on. She was too nervous to put out even a word.
"This is Shiomiya Shiori. She is a student of faculty of letters and a librarian girl."
"A very super shy and silent bibliophile that often scared of talking to other people. But, her personality is not a burden to conquer her heart for me."
"I always meet her here at the library, maybe she lives here?"
Keima still looked very calm even with the fact that he had just (Accidentally) kissed a girl's cheek. After a few seconds looking at the spacing out Shiori, Keima greeted his conquered girl properly, "Yo, Shiori. What is that book?"
"Uhm… This is…"
"…"
Shiori kept hiding her blushing red face from her 'boyfriend'.
"…. This… Novel… My…!"
"...!"
"Huh?"
Upon hearing Keima's reaction, she still could not say a word,
"..."
"..."
She finally gathered her courage and gave it all in a line, "I… right this novel!"
The timid girl realized about her wrong word after a brief seconds and immediately head-butted the table.
"That's okay, you know…" Keima said as he sweated.
"Shiori, can you give me a copy of your novel? I want to read it"
Shiori dazed off for a brief seconds and got up and hide her self quickly behind a big bookshelf near the studying table Keima was at now. Keima could see Shiori's small head coming out from the bookshelf slowly and her tiny thin mouth was saying a word, "Uhmmm… Ka… Katsura… gi… kun…"
"Huh?" Keima's face was full of question.
"I… you…"
"I want you to eat my homemade lunch!"
"uhmmm… Want…"
"Uhh… why is it so hard to talk to him?"
"I even put all the trouble to my roommate when making this lunch!"
"It… it is… Katsuragi-kun's fault too!"
"It's been a while since the last time I met him and he kissed my cheek so suddenly! That made me so nervous!"
"….."
"Huh!" Keima was shocked. He could feel other students in the library gazing at them at the background.
"Uhh… Shiori…?"
She still haven't realized that her inner and outer voice was awkwardly mixed up, "! W… W-hat is it?"
As he moved his sharp eyes a little and whispered to Shiori, "You have to be quiet in a library, you know…"
"Eh?"
People were talking behind them. The librarian could hear about their chattering, "You heard? She said kiss!" They were also a group of lecturers talking, "Geez, students these days…" She also could hear, "That is Katsuragi Keima, isn't it? That playboy!" or "I felt sorry for the girl…"
This atmosphere made Keima and Shiori felt uneasy and flustered.
Keima dragged his 'conquered girl' out from the University of Tokyo's library and went to a campus building. They took a breath before Keima started talking.
"I haven't finished my work…" He sighed heavily that made Shiori felt guilty.
Shiori frowned a little, "I am… sorry, Ka…. Katsuragi –kun…" she said.
Keima always took a good care of his conquered girls, so he didn't want to see her looked down. "That's okay. I still could finish this by tomorrow. Well, depends on Haqua's permission to let me borrow her note until tomorrow that is…" Keima said to calm Shiori down.
The man suddenly saw Shiori gave a box of lunch to him while bending her body. With his hand, Keima took the box from her and thanked Shiori for making him a lunch. He later told Shiori he wanted to eat her homemade lunch and asked her to accompany him, but the nervous girl with a reddened cheek shaking her head, showing her refusal to Keima's invitation. She said she had to be in the library until 2.30 PM. Without looked any hopeless, the capturing god said good bye and left the girl to the outside of the campus.
Keima went to Koikawa Botanical Garden. It was a beautiful place that located in the proximity of Tokyo University and usually not too crowded. Keima sat on one bench and began eating Shiori's homemade lunch she made for him. He moved his thin finger-tips on the chopsticks to grab the dish.
"Keima-kun, is that a homemade lunch made by one of your girlfriends?"
The god of conquest didn't pay attention to the talker and carelessly answered, "Aah… yes." He turned his head to see who he was talking to for a moment, and concentrated again on eating.
"Wait… Tenri!" Keima finally realized that he was sitting with the very girl he wanted to conquer that wearing a light-brown shirt and a dark grey knee-length skirt. His sharp eyes distended like they were going to come out from his head, "Uuh… I can explain!" He remarked as Tenri moved her sitting position away from Keima.
"You don't need to, Keima –kun…"
"So… What are you doing here, Tenri?" Keima tried to melt the freezing development of his conversation with his target.
"Umm… Nothing at particular… I'm just… spacing out."
Deep in his thought, Keima asked himself, "What's with this vague conversation? I have to do something!" He thought about 217 lines to hit on Tenri until he finished his lunch, but barely found any good lines. "Uh... what's wrong with me actually..."
The girl with braids who was shaking at the moment due-to her extreme nervousness finally broke the ice,"Keima –kun, would you mind if I'm showing you one of my magic tricks?"
He definitely wouldn't let this chance go away, so he quickly answered, "Actually, I'm looking forward to it!" However, his answer had made Tenri shivering and puzzled at the same time. It was rare, or it was more like that Keima never been looking forward to her magic tricks until now.
"O… Okay then!" Said the female student, full spirited, as she took out a deck of cards.
"Please choose one card in your mind, don't tell it to me" She requested to her audience that also playing as an assistant. Keima sighed a little and picked an Ace of Spade in his brilliant mind. Tenri asked him if he had chosen a card and then began shuffling the cards, sliced it, divided it into 4 new decks, "Keima –kun… M… May I ask you something?" She said as she assembled the 4 decks back into one deck and shuffled it again.
Keima startled but still looked as cool as usual. "Sure"
She stopped talking and used the excuse she had just gotten, "Why are you having 20 girlfriends? Wouldn't one much easier to manage?"
Upon hearing her question, he adjusted his glasses which reflected the bright sun light. "Because… having beautiful real world things is not bad at all and… Due-to my unawareness, this wicked hunger of mine went savage and before I realized, I already have 20 girls." Keima answered bluntly.
Tenri stopped shuffling cards. She seemed a little bit down by Keima's line. The magician revealed the bottom of the deck to Keima without looking at him and said, "Ace of Spade."
Keima wasn't amazed at all and Tenri still felt down. After a while, the girl turned her head and she observed, staring up at him with teary sad eyes for a moment. "Tenri? What's wrong?" He asked, but got no answer from his talking partner because his childhood friend suddenly gone along with a smoke screen.
"…"
"How impertinent I am…"
"But what's with that smoke screen? Is she a ninja too now?" Keima sighed as he put his right hand on his chin. Frustrated by failing Tenri's flag, the protagonist got up from the bench and headed back to campus again to have a class and continued his normal life as a super role-model student.
"I have failed to raise her heart point…"
"There is a chance that she hates me now…"
"However…"
"Your destiny… is to be conquered by me, Ayukawa Tenri!"
"I won't fail the conquest next time!" He thought while clenching his fist to the orange evening sky.
- TO BE CONTINUED
A/N: Happy Crescent is Kanon's cute song in the anime, and i kinda love it.
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