Chapter 1 Her Name is Aisha
Elsword got himself on a mess.
The doll he picked up on his walk, just turned into a girl.
Also, this girl's quite a noisy type.
"Don't get near me, pervert! Don't you dare to get close!"
The girl moves backward as she glare at Elsword.
Elsword was dumbfounded by this situation.
He didn't understand a bit how and why he ended up in a situation like this.
He sighed as he look at the girl.
"Say, just who are you? How can a doll turns into human like this? No matter what, it's still very unbelievable."
No one would ever believe if someone said that a doll just transformed into a human.
That kind of thinking's just too ridiculous.
However, the girl's just staring at him silently.
She got a pair of beautiful purple eyes.
"... I don't know it myself."
"What?"
If the person in question don't even know how did she became like this Elsword will not able to get the answer he want. Hence, he just tilted his head in confusion.
"You don't know? Then, when did this happened for the first time?"
Elsword's feeling weird for digging up a girl's past, but now that thing had turned weird like this, he would've just go all out to understand the current situation.
"The first time..."
The girl tried to remember her past. But she just shook her head.
She stares at Elsword and pondered something for awhile, Elsword's about to get mesmerized by her beautiful eyes.
"I think this is the first time it happened."
"Say what-?"
If this is the first time how can he get an answer.
He's holding his head in confusion.
He tried to get an idea to get out of this mess.
Some people out there might want to get in situation like this, but when this kind of thing happened, they will just get confused of what to do.
"Oh my God... Just how did things turned like this..."
"You're being weird, stop it."
"And who's the cause of it!?"
"-!"
The girl suddenly glared at him and she put up her defensive pose again with her hands crossed trying to repel anyone who comes near. Elsword suddenly realized that he just yelled at a girl and he immediately apologize.
"Oh- I'm sorry, I don't mean to yell, I'm just confused..."
She lowered her guard, but she still kept a good distance.
"I see, even I also confused by myself. Suddenly I'm able to move around."
She tries to move her limbs.
Normally a doll can do nothing but to give up to what its owner did to it.
But now she's able to move around and able to do anything she can't do before.
"You can't remember anything? Just like how did you ended up being thrown on the ground?"
Elsword's curious of this girl in front of him.
She's just too mysterious to him.
Elsword can accept the fact that she's curious of her surroundings so she tried to find anything in his room like just now, but he want to know 'What' exactly is she.
The girl just shook her head.
Her twintail's swaying slightly.
"I don't remember anything, all I know is I just able to move today and your pervert doings, that's all."
"You don't need to spell that 'pervert' word out! I don't know that you are actually a living thing!"
"So this pervert's trying to give his reasoning? After you undressed me like that?"
"I- Arggghhh... Fine I give up, call me pervert, call me all you want."
"... But I still need to thank you for washing my dress."
She looked at the window.
Her cheeks are slightly red.
She's embarrassed to show her gratitude.
"It's fine, I just done what I can."
Elsword just shrugged it off.
He doesn't want to think about this any further.
Then he can see those beautiful purple eyes are staring at the snow out there.
"It's snowing... So beautiful..."
"It's winter, that's why it's snowing."
She glared at Elsword.
Elsword tilted his head, doesn't know what's wrong.
"You're not romantic."
"... Thank you."
It's not his first time being called like that, so it's not something new to him.
He also stared at the snow from the window. He can felt that his heart's calming down.
"What date is today?"
The girl asked him.
He look at his calendar.
"It's 25 December, so it's Christmas now."
"Christmas?"
The girl tilted her head.
She didn't know what's Christmas since she's just a doll.
"I'm surprised you don't know what's Christmas but you know words like Pervert or Romantic, by the way Christmas is the day the Virgin Mary gave birth to Jesus, and also the day when Good kids are getting presents from Santa Claus. Back then-"
She's listening to Elsword's story obediently.
She's very curious of the new world she's in now.
After telling the story for quite a time, Elsword look at the time.
"Still 1AM huh, I'm going to sleep again."
"Huh? Sleep again? No! Wake up! Tell me more stories!"
She's pouting like a child.
Elsword can't help but thinking that she's cute even though her tongue's sharp.
"Don't yell, you will wake my family, I don't want them to found out about you, so can you just be quiet and turn back to a doll?"
"I don't want to turn back to doll! I can but I don't want to!"
"Hey, if someone found out about you, you understand what will happen to you, right?"
She's not an idiot, so she understood that someone might kidnap her for a research of her unusual phenomenon where doll can become a human.
"I-I know that..."
"Then be a good girl and turn back to doll."
"I understand, but you get off the bed first."
Elsword can't help but wonder why must he get off from his own bed.
"Why must I?"
"You're going to let me sleep on the bed. You can get a spare bed and sleep below, on the floor."
"Huh? Wait, just who do you think you are?"
"So you're going to ask a girl to sleep on the floor? What a shameless boy you are."
Elsword can't say anything anymore.
"Guuh... Fine, sleep on the bed. But you must turn back to doll."
"Understood."
She grinned naughtily.
After she covered herself with Elsword's blanket, she turned into a doll again.
Finally Elsword can be at peace.
'Good Night.'
"... Good Night."
The doll spoke to him.
It seems like he's really able to hear the doll's voice.
He can't help but wish that his usual peaceful day will return.
The Next Day
Knock. Knock.
"... Guuh..."
'Wake up, shameless boy. Someone's knocking your door.'
He can hear the doll's voice.
And so he woke up and opened the door.
There stood his sister, Elesis.
"What is it, sis?"
"last night I heard a girl's voice, did you bring girl to your room?"
"... I think you misheard, sis."
'What should I do, Elsword?'
How would I know!? And don't talk! Sis will hear you!
Elsword yelled in his mind.
Elesis' looking around his room, good thing the doll's hidden under the blanket so it's not visible from Elesis' eyes, and then she sighed.
"I think you're right. There's no way my virgin and ignorant brother can hook a girl."
'HAHAHAHA! Well said, girl!'
"Hey-!"
The doll's laugh just now is really loud, there's no way Elesis didn't hear it.
But Elesis just left and said nothing more.
He closed the door and locked it.
"... It seems like only I can hear your voice when you're in your doll form."
'... I also thought that she heard me, but she just go away like that.'
It's not safe to turn into her human form since someone might get the wrong idea.
Hence, Elsword asked her to keep her doll form during day.
"Okay, don't do anything weird. I'm going out."
'Where are you going?'
"I'm going for a walk."
'Take me with you.'
"What?"
'I also want to go out.'
"... You're telling me to bring you as a doll?"
'Of course.'
The doll said like it's a matter of course.
But Elsword's thinking hard for a way to take this doll with him.
And then he got an idea.
"Alright, I'll put you inside my bag."
'I can't see anything like that!'
"I've got no choice, okay!?"
'Think of a better way, idiot!'
"Who are you calling idiot!?"
Knock. Knock.
"Elsword? Who are you talking with?"
It's Elesis again.
"I-I'm just practicing for my school project for cultural festival!"
"I see."
And then she went away.
That was a close call.
'Even though you're a hopeless boy you're pretty good at making an excuse.'
"... Thank you."
'Let's go, take me in your bag.'
"So you're not against it?"
'I have a plan.'
Not understanding what she meant, he just took the doll and put it in his bag.
He make sure to keep it quite deep inside and buried her with other belongings so no one know that he bring a doll with him.
'Hey! You put too much stuffs here!'
"Bear with it."
And then he walked outside the house.
On his way, he met Raven and Rena.
"Hello, love birds."
"Hey, Elsword."
"Sup, mate."
Maybe the doll can hear the voice of other people, so she spoke to Elsword.
'So your name is Elsword? What a weird name.'
Oh, shut up doll.
Elsword said in his mind.
"Feeling better?"
"Yes, so Raven took me for a walk."
"Taking a walk everday can make you healthier."
'Elsword, go to an empty room or somewhere that no one can see you, tell them that you want to meet someone, so wait here.'
Elsword wonder why would she told him this.
"Raven, Rena, wait awhile, I want to meet someone."
"Okay."
"A girl, mate?"
Raven grinned.
"Oh, please."
He laughed.
And then he get to an empty alley.
"I'm here, so what next?"
'Take me out of this bag.'
"For what?"
'Just do it.'
He opened his bag and took the doll out and he placed it on the ground.
Good thing that no one's around.
Or they might think he's littering.
The next moment the doll glows.
A bright light that blinded Elsword's eyes.
"Ugh!"
After the light subsided, a girl's standing there in her black lolita dress.
"Let's go to your friends."
She smirked.
"What-"
"Just go!"
She pushed Elsword backward.
"Oh there he is."
Raven noticed Elsword who just came out from an alley.
"Hey-!"
Elsword tried to stop the girl from coming out.
But he was too late, the next moment, she's already outside of the alley.
Raven and Rena also noticed her.
"Woah, what a beautiful girl."
Rena's amazed.
"Hey, mate... You'd better explain this properly."
Raven grinned as he pull Elsword to his side.
"I-!"
"Nice to meet you, your name's Raven and Rena I assume?"
"Oh, you know us?"
Rena smiled.
"Oh?"
Raven's surprised that she know them.
"Yes, Elsword told me your names."
She smiled sweetly.
Elsword honestly think that she's beautiful, if only she's not this willful.
"Um- What's your name if I may know?"
Rena asked the dangerous question.
"Eh? My name?"
The girl looked surprised.
She don't know her own name, that's why she's having a trouble answering Rena.
Elsword tried his hardest to think, and then he remembered a name that he used to give to his sister's manga character when she was asking what name should be good for her character, but was rejected by her back then.
"Let me introduce her to you guys."
The girl's surprised by Elsword's cover.
Rena and Raven are listening to him.
"Her name is Aisha. She's my cousin."
Elsword announced her name.
But she didn't seem to hate it.
"Yes, nice to meet you guys."
The girl whom name is Aisha now bowed her head toward Raven and Rena.
"I see, so you're Elsword's cousin."
Rena smiled as she bowed too.
"What a disappointment, mate."
Raven thought that Elsword finally get a girlfriend, but he still bowed too.
Aisha's looking at Elsword as she whispered to him.
'... Thank you for giving me a name.'
Elsword's surprised, so he look at her face, but she face away as she look at the sky.
Elsword smiled.
From today on, the doll's name is Aisha.
Chapter 1 Her Name is Aisha End