Rock continued laying down on the grass and looking at the sun as it started to set, the sky going blue to orange. It gave an alien feeling to the girl, but was also setting a calming effect on her. Very much different from the constant white sky with the occasional moon.
Or even a completely black sky in certain territories. None of the skies in her world gave off anything close to warmth, well aside from those red skies that gave the feeling more of heat than warmth. Rock continued making comparisons to her world and this one when suddenly there was a low ringing sound coming from her pocket.
Rock reached into her pocket to find a cellphone shaking and giving off that sound. 'It's been a while since I last used one of these,' she thought as she gingerly flipped it open. Someone was calling Mato's phone and Rock tried to read the identity of the caller.
"Mana Kuroi...," she said out loud. 'Someone related to Mato huh,' she thought, then noticed that this person already made a call earlier. Somehow she missed that while running away...
Deciding that it was best to get this over with, before she ended up causing more chaos by not answering, Rock pressed the call receiver and put the phone at her ear.
"MATO?! Oh thank god you finally answered," a rather stressed voice came out. "I heard from your friends that you collapsed and then ran away after waking up. Are you alright? Where are you?"
"... Mother?," Rock replied hesitantly. The sound of a relieved sigh confirmed her guess. "Um I'm just doing fine... as for where I am I am just... at the top of the hill near the school," she said, trying not to sound too monotone.
"Oh good, looks like your just alright," she said back. "Your friends were telling me that you may have gotten amnesia or something..." she trailed off.
"Ah... I just felt disoriented and confused when I woke up. I was dreaming of... being a samurai in a war zone fighting... for the freedom of our country. Y-yeah I must have mixed up my dreams and reality hehe," Rock replied with a fake sheepish laugh. Yeah that was how Mato would sometimes be like.
"Oh so its another one of those dreams?" Mato's mom said. "Dear, maybe you should stop watching all those anime, or at least watch less. It is nice to have fun and relax but you're already on your way to high school..." she trailed off. "Well at least it sounds like you're fine now. Still though, its better if you head home right now so we can check up why you fainted. Are your grades fine or are you practicing too hard?"
"I'm fine mother, I... just started dreaming at that time," Rock tried thinking up of an excuse. "And yeah, I'll be coming back home now."
"Jeez Mato, what am I gonna do with you..." she said with a tired voice. Rock could imagine her shaking her head right now. "Well, get back soon now," she said before the call ended. Rock stared at the cellphone before heaving a sigh of relief.
'That was a close one,' she thought. 'Looks like I was able to fool her, hopefully she isn't too sharp to notice the difference between us when I get back to Mato's house. But first...'
Once again Rock sat down cross legged and closed her eyes. She focused back again on Mato, specifically Mato's memories.
'Mato was able to fight effectively in my body despite not having any experience herself. Perhaps it's the same and I can receive some of her memories.'
The girl stayed in her current state for a few minutes before opening her eyes again. This time now though, there was less confusion and nervousness on her expression.
"I guess this should be enough for now, I just need the memories of her recent years. I probably shouldn't try to look back into her past too deeply," she said out loud. Invasion of privacy was bad, even in her own world it was like that.
Breaking that rule often meant death to you, or them if you're a good fighter like her.
Rock took one last look at the setting sun before walking down the hill and heading to the train station. As she entered one and sat down in her seat, Rock began to start reviewing Mato's memories while waiting for the train to stop. Hopefully she could continue to fool all of them, at least until she gets back to her world.
If she ever did, which Rock tried to avoid thinking.
After several minutes, she finally arrived at her stop. As Rock was about to step out of the train, she stopped. There was suddenly a feeling of being watched, and there was a familiar feeling with this one...
The girl whirled around inside the bus, then looked to her left and to her right. Some passengers looked at her as they excited the train, but otherwise no one still seated were looking at her. She was about to step back when a hissing sound came that told her the door was closing, so she stepped outside the train instead.
Could it be her imagination?... No, there was definitely something, or someone, there who was watching her. Looks like she missed it earlier because of her focus on reviewing Mato's memories.
'... Must have been a stalker or a molester,' Rock thought. There were plenty of those back in her world, well when it was still intact.
The girl turned back her focus on getting back "home" and pretending to be Mato. She greeted the guard with a smile like Mato would, but apparently not enough since the guard looked at her a bit worriedly.
Well there was still some time before she reached the house. Enough time to practice.
well to put out some explanations, basically the way I see it the otherworld and the "real" world are connected, but not dependent unlike how the anime went by. that is cause as I already said, while the other girls had their otherworld reflect their actions and personalities, BRS basically had done nothing similar to mato. kinda breaks the rule, right?
so with the OVA, I believe that the otherworld is actually more like an AU that came to be of itself and not because of the real world. BRS and the others are survivors of that world with powers, and their world has just happened to make contact with mato's dimension, with BRS and the others ending up forming connections with certain girls.
this is also in order to make BRS and the otherworld characters have their own personality, rather than just be some reflection of their counterparts.
anyway I hope you guys are liking it so far. please review :)