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"….Will you hate me….?"
A request that Nozomi never wished to hear, came out from the blonde…
She is certain that this is just another dream—she wished to wake up right now, but the idea was still too unclear for her to let go of this dream…
She could see—everyone… everyone in this world…dying and disappearing one by one…
But then the crossroads she currently stood on is already one big mystery. She needs to contemplate it before everything else—what does this crossroad mean to her? Is it the crossroad where she always passed through when getting herself home?
"….will you move on from me…?"
Once again, another request was put out, one that is the most painful request to have ever been said…
"But….why? Are you going to die for something?" Nozomi tried her best to smile,
"….I want you to say that I've died in your life… I want you to stop caring about me…"
"….I hope this is not just because I'm happy with someone else, remember…that I told you… we will always be a best friends…"
"I don't want that…I don't need you to try being so kind to me…. All I want from you is for you to tell me that you hate me…"
"But I really don't hate you, Ericchi…how could I tell you that I hate you if I truly don't?"
"Soon, you will see….that I am the person you hate the most in your entire life….you don't want to be my friend… you want to be my enemy…."
"That's weird… I believe I told you that I want to be your friend….or… your girlfriend if possible…"
"You haven't seen who I truly am… you didn't know about what I truly want for the world…"
"I know that you hate everyone… but…didn't we promise to learn to love ourselves?"
"….love will never exist in me… I am full of hate…and as for what I seek…" the blonde pauses for a moment…
Nozomi remains silent, trying to be as calm as she could…
"…I'm just seeking for knowledge about myself… and it was granted by someone else…who I don't even care about…."
"That's strange, Ericchi… why don't you just tell me that you love someone else? Less pain…" Nozomi replied with a bitter smile…
"I don't love…. That's what I have to remind you over and over… I hate everyone… I hate this world…. And I hate you… that's why… you have to hate me…."
"Toujou-san!" A voice came up from nearby woke her up from her own nightmare.
When she looks up, she could see the face of some student council members looking at her with a frown on their faces…
"Wake up! The Council President will be announced soon, you need to be there because you're going to be the vice president for Ayase-san, right?"
Nozomi doubted for a moment, should she still call herself as the vice president?
"Get up! Toujou-san! Don't keep everyone waiting for you to make a move!"
For some reason, hearing that… Nozomi felt something firing her up, telling her to make a move on that specific person today… but…how? She figures that almost everyone she knows encouraged her, even from a stranger that she met last night…
But still...What about the dream—or the nightmare she just had?
Is that a sign of anything?
"Toujou-san!" the members called her again.
"O-oh! Ok! I'll go ahead!" Nozomi said as she quickly stands up from her seat, heading to where she should be…
The Auditorium,
All students are gathered in the very place. While waiting for the time of the announcement, Honoka, Kotori and Umi has been talking about the news that made today's newspaper…
"Did we meet this person before?" Umi asked
"I'm not sure myself, but Maki-chan keeps telling me that we need to be aware of this news since it took place when we were searching for Eli-senpai…it could be a sign for something since we didn't get to find her anywhere last time... "
"Did you see Eli this morning?" Umi asked.
"Uhm…not really…" Honoka replied.
"Yeah, I know, and it's weird since I always see Eli-senpai coming to school with Nozomi-senpai…" Kotori said.
"This might be turning ugly…" Umi said.
The microphone is being turned on, an announcer walks up to the stage…
"Everyone…" she started.
"….today, we will announce the winner of the student council voting…"
And the students start to whisper to each other…
"Is it Ayase-senpai again this year?"
"Probably…and the vice president will be Toujou-senpai…"
"Ahhhh—I'm so jealous! Toujou-senpai always has her heart!"
"They've been inseparable… it's almost impossible to not see them together…"
The trio remain quiet as they listen to the conversation, wishing that it was also what truly happened between them right now.
For about ten minutes, they listened to the speeches that were mostly ignored by half of the auditorium…
When they have finally reached the point of the speech….
"….and the winner is…!" a drumbeat from the speaker…
"Urgh…should this be exaggerated like this…?" Maki said—she seemed to be troubled.
"C-Calm down, Maki-chan… we're sure that we can always speak after this ceremony is over…" Hanayo said.
Rin remained silent, she keeps looking at the newspaper, making her wonder—what exactly happened that night? How didn't she know and how could she not know before the newspaper made it into a breaking news…?
It's so strange and it's so surprising for her…
She swears, she was just playing chase with the now-in-coma-person last night…
"…Ayase-Eli!" the announcer said plainly—it's like it's no longer a surprise even after the sound effect did its job.
Either way, everyone claps their hands , some started to scream her name like it wasn't just a simple student council president announcement.
The blonde walks up to the stage—last night's team could've sighed in relief that they could see Eli again, but… something stopped them from doing so…
Something is definitely wrong…
Eli is now surrounded by dark fog—perhaps those are only seen by their sixth sense, but still…
What exactly happened to her?
Eli walks to the microphone confidently… with a smug smile and yet cold eyes. It's hard to tell what exactly she is thinking right now, but it's pretty visible for some, that maybe—she is planning for something mischievous.
"….Good afternoon….everyone…." Eli started with a somewhat satisfied yet cold voice…
"….it's nice to see you all in this stage…again… thank you so much for trusting me for another year…." She continued again.
"I could just say all vision and mission—like every other year, but… after some nice brainstorming and thinking…I decided to just go ahead with the good news…."
"Good news…? What good news? I somehow feel like it's just another bullshit scene she is going to cause…" Niko mumbled.
"Shush! Niko-chan! don't be a bitter jelly!" said her classmate.
"Huh-what? Bitter jelly?!"
"Quiet!"
Niko pouts at her for that.
"….at this end of the week, we're going to hold another school festival—other than to welcome the new students, it is also purposed as my way to express my gratitude…."
Maki falls into a state of thought, as she hears the school festival being mentioned…
"So—…." Before Eli was able to continue, the auditorium door suddenly opens, causing a loud sound among the silent audience.
The audience turns their attention to her as well as the blonde who stood on the stage.
Nozomi stood on the very spot, right next to Principal Minami and a few other teachers who are standing next to the door.
"Sorry I'm late…." Nozomi said.
"Toujou… you could've used the back door…." Principal Minami said.
"Ah—you're right….I forgot!" Nozomi replied with a playful smile before she goes ahead and walks down to the stairs. Not paying much attention, she slipped on one of the ladder, straining her ankle and losing her balance and falling down from the stairs, causing almost all of the audience—including Eli herself, to be panicked.
She landed on the lowest ground, at first, everyone stayed silent—trying to know if everything was fine…
When she got back up on her feet, most of the audience sighed in relieve… Eli has to bite her lips, she really wanted to say all the hateful comment about the scene…she wanted to hurt her feeling as much as possible…but….
"Sheesh…I thought she was cooler than that…" said one of the students, it wasn't loud, but it reached the blonde ears…
"She really looked like an idiot…" said another student.
"I wonder why she is our vice president when she is just a retard…I mean, really? Entering from the front door, saying sorry that she is late and then falls down from a stairs?"
"It's just not her day…I suppose, but I heard she was slacking a lot…"
"She is just a lucky girl to have Ayase-senpai as her best friend…else, she could've just become that one girl who sits in the back and reads some random books all day…"
"I bet those nice marks she gets were also from Ayase-senpai, she must be nagging her to study a lot…"
"I wonder if she will ever graduate without Ayase…"
Hearing the commentary, Eli cringed. She doesn't know how her ears suddenly became much sharper towards such a thing…
She looks down to the purplenette who walks up to the stage, limping because of her injured ankle….
"Sorry I'm late, Ericchi…." Nozomi said with her cheerful smile—it's like she didn't hear all the cruel words that were said towards her…
"Go on continue your speech, I'm here now to help you…!" she continued as she quickly stood behind Eli.
"No one is getting your help here…." Eli said coldly—off her microphone to prevent anyone from hearing, other than themselves.
It hurt, but Nozomi always remembers to just keep going—make her face as thick as possible. She has to do it if she wants to make her move on her.
"….to continue what I said before…." Eli started her speech again.
Umi and Kotori look at each other as they sat on either side of Honoka, who has been holding the newspaper as well, she seemed to focus on what she wanted to talk about after and not on anything else…
"Uhm…Umi-chan, don't you think it's weird for Nozomi-chan to act that clumsy? She kind of reminds me of someone else…" Kotori said.
"Should I just say, 'bad things happen'? Maybe she is still trying to recover from the previous incident… I don't know if their relationship is getting any better from that day…"
"You mean, she's probably still anxious about it?"
"Maybe… I tend to get nightmares when I stumble into trouble…maybe she has that too and overslept…"
After the event,
The student council members started to tidy up all the equipments, Eli remained in the place to takes notes on objects that have returned to their rightful places, while Nozomi seemed to be very active on helping this time. She was even being much more communicative towards others—and also being super talkative towards Eli, who has been extremely quiet...
"…is this is it, Toujou?" the student council members asked,
"Yep—that's right! Everything minor has to be in the box and ones we often use has to be on the side of the room. Don't leave the microphone on the stand though! Keep it in the case!" Nozomi replied.
"Got it!"
They continue to move around again.
"Alright, that's done for the audio system, note them, Ericchi!" Nozomi said cheerfully. Eli still remained silent as she writes down what needed to be written.
They usually did it another way since Nozomi was always too lazy to pay attention to all details…but that wasn't even noticed by the experienced council members, since all they know is that Nozomi and Eli are always working together.
"Next object!" Nozomi said energetically.
But before she was able to say the details that need to be done, a group of girls ran in to the backstage…
"Nozomi-senpaii!" they shouted.
Nozomi turns her sight to them,
"Ah…what's up?" she replied.
"Here…check this out…" Maki said as she shoved her the newspaper.
The news is about the manly girl, who said to be the owner of the pool they visited before, falling into a coma and hasn't yet found a cause. Some doctors suspect that she tripped and fell in shock, leading to the unconsciousness.
"Ah…this…. hmm…I wonder why we didn't see this happening before…?"
"That's what I wonder too… we should go check it out…" Maki said.
"Y-yeah! We should-nya!" Rin said.
"Me too-me too! I think so!" Honoka said.
Kotori and Umi seemed to be quiet, they don't know if it's a good idea to ask…
"….maybe we can save her if she happens to be still around the Inn…" Hanayo said.
"My car will be ready in an hour, we're just going to do a quick check around the place and that's it… no more staying there for nothing…" Maki said.
"Yeah…I have to admit, what we did before was such a waste, the mystery wasn't even serious…but, that person needs to be saved…and I know someone here will not want to join so let's just ignore her and go ahead to do this actual important stuff…" Niko said.
Nozomi smiled wryly to what Niko stated,
"Well…I'll have to pass this time. We both have a lot of things to do… why don't you all go on ahead and solve it…? I'm sure you all can ask for the Snow Girl to help as well…"
"But—…" Maki tried to reason,
"That's right, we should just go without them. I'm sure we can do this with our own power…and there's Aiko-chan too, remember? Maybe she will help us too!" Kotori cuts in.
"I'll do my best to help as well… even though I believe we wouldn't need any violence this time…" Umi chimed in.
"Fine then, let's just go like this… I'm sure it will be a good chance to test our power…" Niko said.
"Our power? I'm pretty sure you're not included in that…" Maki said.
"Shush! You'll be surprised if I tell you what power I possess! I had some experiment done last night, thank me and my genius brain…" Niko said proudly.
"Or maybe you were just doing things wrong and luckily ended up figuring out another ability instead—just like Rin…." Maki said.
"It's more epic than hers, I assure you…" Niko replied.
"Niko-senpai is so arrogant-nya!" Rin said energetically.
"O-Oi! Don't say it like that!"
"Putting that aside, we should leave earlier… we can't waste too much time!" Umi said.
"Yeah…let's just…leave now?" Kotori said.
The team hesitated for a moment, but eventually decided to wave a good bye and leave.
After all the council activity is over,
Each of the council members began to patrol around the school to make sure everyone has left. Eli still remained silent as she keeps walking around the school with the keys in her hand. Nozomi also decided to remain silent, but she keeps following her tirelessly, waiting to be talked with...
Why am I waiting for her to talk with me….?
Shouldn't I be the one to try first?
It was my fault after all…
To make her feel left out….
She thought.
Ah—I'm really thinking too much, I should just go ahead with this!
"Ericchi!"
Eli didn't respond, she just keeps going without a pause.
Uh…crap…what should I say next?
"Let's get some nice parfait after school, I miss doing that with you!"
The blonde still silent…
"Or maybe we should just go to my house and write the things we experienced from the previous adventure? I know you were not there for the whole time, but I understand… and I think everyone is fine with that too!"
No response… Eli keeps walking by herself.
"Ericchi….!" Nozomi decided to quickly block her way.
Eli finally comes to a halt, but she is looking at her very coldly.
"Are you mad at me…?" Nozomi asked.
Eli averted her eyes,
"…..I'm sorry, ok? Let's make up…" Nozomi said as she grabs Eli's hands, but as soon as she tried to lift it up, Eli retorted and quickly moves away from her.
"Ericchi! I promise I won't leave you alone again, but please…talk to me… Don't shut me out like this!"
Nozomi held her hand, but Eli once again pulls herself away and keeps avoiding her.
"Ericchi!" the purplenette didn't give up yet, she ran to the blonde and embraced her from behind.
This time, Eli stops, creating scar in her heart as she hears the purplenette sounds like she was crying.
"I don't want us to be like this…please forgive me…."
Eli was still unresponsive.
"Please…." Nozomi begged, making sure every word spoken was filled with sincerity. Holding her tears which, to no avail, began to pour out of her eyes.
"Leave me alone…" Eli finally spoke, with her cold voice.
Nozomi swears, the wound in her heart deepened drastically,
"I'm not someone you want to be with…" she continued as she gently releases herself from Nozomi's embrace, then continues to walk away from her.
What should Nozomi do now?
Is this truly the end…?
To be brushed off completely like that, she believes that no one will continue trying…
But she has made it for three years to be with her… they got to be so close as well…
And it was ruined with that one spontaneous act she made…
Three years of effort for nothing…
Why did she cry though? Shouldn't she be used to this kind of situation?
Being brushed off by this specific blonde…
It's not that it was a rare thing…
Perhaps it was that thing…
That thing that she calls as her fear of losing someone…
And the sole reason why she made distance from everyone else before she met Eli…
One that made her go for more than she could ever achieve…
Will she stop trying…?
Will she stop striving for her?
Will she let her go like that?
No…
She is not going to do that…
Despite what happened before, Nozomi decided to run to her once again—she will not try to engage a conversation with her…she will do it like how she did it before.
Just following her, pretending that she has always been close with her. Her cries were still on hold, but no one will notice that—maybe….
While she was doing that, Eli could feel her heart aching worse than ever…
She knows well that she is up to something that the purplenette will hate…
She has a mission of her own—and it's not that she's completely obeying that specific soul, she just thinks that she has her own purpose…
Her hate towards everyone else…
Her hate towards her own life…
And her hate towards everything else inside her…
She could've just killed herself instead…
Less effort…
Less trouble…
But that specific someone has always stopped her from doing so…
And she will also be broken because she is still in love with her…
That's why…
That's why she wants to be hated…
That's why she wants to please herself with expressing her hate toward others…
Before all that decision, she always thought…
Why… did this person's feeling become more important than anyone's life…
Why she would rather be called selfish for such a thing than be called selfish because she wanted her all for herself…
What's so different between those?
Because, either way…
She will always be the bad one…
Eli keeps her feet moving towards somewhere—anywhere…
Anywhere her heart wanted to be…
Meanwhile….
Maki's car has never gone as fast as now, but thank god that Maki's driver is a professional and he knows a lot about the road.
The group is tense—not only because of the speed, but also because they're going to do something without Nozomi. Not that it's their first time, at some points, they had to do the work by their own, but Nozomi's presence made them feel confident…now without her, they feel like if anything happens, they won't have any back up.
They have tried to call the Snow Girl and Reiko to help as well, but the two seemed to be left behind somewhere because their car moved too fast for them.
Once they arrived at the Inn, everything seemed to be working as usual—other than the old woman who have taken charge of the Inn, replacing the manly woman who was said to be the owner.
Maki came down from her car—while some of the team still seemed to be in a daze by the swiftness. The red haired girl quickly approaches the old woman…
"Excuse me…" she said—not so politely, but she tried…
The old woman turns her eyes to her, quickly noticing the resemblance with someone she knew….
"Ah—Is this Nishikino's daughter?" she said.
"Heh—guess I'm just that well known…" Maki replied.
"Of course…anyhow, do you have anything you want to do here…?"
"I'd like to tour for a few hours with my friends, if thats permissible…"
"Just a tour? Then you can go ahead…no need for any sort of permission…"
"Well, thanks…. I'll go ahead…" Maki replied before she beckons to her friends, heading in to the hallways to start their mission.
While they walk, Umi decides to ask the question she wanted to ask before…
"…so what is this power you have, Niko-senpai…?" Umi asked.
"…..He-he-heeh!" Niko smiled arrogantly,
Everyone seems to be very curious of what she might have…
"You see… when I was trying to do some nice focusing last night…" she started as they keep moving…
"I somehow was able to acquire the history of the object I focused on…"
"The history….?" Umi tried to confirm what she heard.
"Yep, it's sort of like a video game hero ability…!" Niko replied proudly.
"Huh….alright…. so… what's the use of that kind of power in this case…?" Maki asked sarcastically.
"We can just find something that relates to the incident, maybe… the place where she fainted?" Niko replied.
"The problem is… what is the range of the history you see…? Do you assume that you will get the exact needed information? I don't think so…" Maki replied again.
"I'm pretty sure I can adjust the time!" Niko replied.
"Alright, then, we should go around and ask where they found her last time…"
Somewhere near the Inn,
The snow girl and Reiko still on their flight to the inn,
"Hey, Yuki-chan…" Reiko said.
"Hmm…?" she responded.
"Is it just me…or… is it a little too quiet around here…?
"Maybe they're not in the mood to show up on the surface?"
"Can't be… I mean…it can't be all of them at the same time…" Reiko said.
"Do you happen to know someone around here…?" Yuki asked.
Reiko tried to think, but then she shook her head,
"Only Aiko-chan…and no one else…"
"Hmmm… any place that might be the hotspot for souls?"
"Should be the abandoned temple in the mountains… a few priests had tried to recover the place but none were able to survive in that mountain….They said, the wild are too strong and furious… it's like evil spirits are controlling them…"
"Do you think we should just change our track and go there instead?"
"I don't think so, Nozomi-chan isn't here… we should help those kids…"
"Ah—you're right… maybe we should head there after that…"
Back to the Inn,
The group has started to ask around— while some decided to ask the staff, Hanayo and Rin decided to approach Aiko who has been sitting around the pool.
"Oh—You two! It's nice to see you again!" Aiko said cheerfully when she sees the two walking to her calmly.
"What are you doing here now-nya?" Rin asked as she notices that Aiko has been sitting on the poolside with her legs dipped into the water.
"Hehe, just reminiscing some part of my life…" she replied.
"Ah, you're right, we haven't heard your story at all…" Hanayo replied with her sweet smile before she joined Aiko by sitting right next to the soul. Rin also decided to join as well, she is very curious about what story the girl might possess.
"Hehe…it was just a simple story, not much excitement…." She replied sadly.
"How come-nya…?" Rin asked.
"My life is just a life of a dull school girl, I never had any friends to hang out with because—I was just… too quiet for them…and too shy to come out for them…"
"Ah….I can relate to that…" Hanayo replied.
"Really…?" Aiko seems to be surprised,
"Yep, except, I had Rin-chan overwhelming me and…because of her… I was able to get a little confidence in myself…i think…."
"Hehe! Kayo-chin! You're giving me too much credit-nya! I think Kayo-chin is the source of my energy too! Like a charger!"
"W-what?" Hanayo flustered to that statement,
"Yep! She is the charger I'm the battery-nya! Maki-chan can be the wheel since she is noisy and hyperactive-nya…!"
"U-uh….." Hanayo nodded, wondering what Maki will say about this.
"So how did you end up to be like this-nya…?" Rin asked.
"I was drowned, had a little muscle problem and there was no one to help—because I was the one who decided to do things on my own…Everyone was partying in the lobby and I went to the swimming pool because I didn't get the chance to do it in the crowd during the afternoon…"
"Oh-Oh! I've heard this somewhere. It said that, one soul will take the element from what they're going to die in-nya!" Rin said.
"W-what do you mean?" Aiko flustered.
"Like, if you die from water, you'll take the water element itself into your soul…and you become a soul with water element!"
"R-Rin-chan…did you hear it from a game?"
"I don't know-nya! But I heard, if you die from drowning, you will make some puddle messes everywhere!"
"Uh…I'm sure I know what game that is, but…Rin-chan...I don't think—…."
"Ahhh! So that's why people always complain about puddles!" Aiko suddenly exclaimed.
"W-wait, what? It actually happened?" Hanayo asked.
"I don't know! But…every time I try to walk up to the lobby or something, some staff often complains about puddles! That other night, they complained that there are a lot of water everywhere around the hallways! I wasn't sure where it came from, but then I realized it all came from me!"
"T-that doesn't make any sense!" Hanayo tried to reason, not being able to believe what she heard.
Aiko giggled,
"I'm joking… there's no such thing…" she said.
"Oh…." Hanayo put her palm on her face.
"Hehe… that was funny though, puddles from souls…"
"That's impossible-nya?" Rin asked.
"Hehe, I know that some souls could influence one emotion, but never about causing a real mess… They also could form into how they looked when they died, but not really about giving out what caused them to die…"
"Influencing emotion….?" Hanayo wondered.
"Yep…like, when you're around the Snow Girl, you'll feel a bit lonely… not many are able to feel that because some souls have always been lonely… then Reiko-chan… when she is into scaring people, she will turn into how she looked when she died! Then everyone will surely escape in fear!
"How did Reiko die-nya?" Rin asked.
"Oh, I think I know about her—but I believe you don't want to hear about it, Rin-chan…" Hanayo said.
"Eh…? Why? I'd like to know-nya…." Rin replied again surely.
Hanayo and Aiko look at each other…wondering if they should tell her the story, since Rin seemed to be insisting them with her innocent looking face, and sparkling curious eyes….
A moment passed while they kept deciding, until….finally…
"Well, Rin-chan…Long ago in the Meishin Railway….." Hanayo started…
At the building,
Maki and Niko has tried their best to look around, Honoka, Kotori and Umi as well, tried to ask around, yet none of the staff wanted to speak too much off it. Other than because they're busy, they're also bound to a promise with the old woman, that they will be silent about the incident—especially towards the journalists….
No more information is to be leaked, no more evidence is going to be submitted, they all will just pray for recovery…
"Heh—this is really hard…" Maki said.
"Yeah… we can't even get the information of where she was found…." Niko said.
"Hnnn…. It's too bad…. I wonder if we can use our own deductions instead…"
"Deducting…? We don't even have that many clues…" Umi said.
"I heard from Kayo-chan, the last time they met her was at the time she was chasing her, Rin-chan, Maki-chan, the snow girl, Aiko and Reiko…."
"Yeah….I remember that…but I was separated from the team along with the snow girl, and then we remember they returned, but they had no one chasing after them… that time, I thought she got lost…. So we all returned to the room—thinking that we couldn't do anything about finding that troublesome senior number two…" Maki said tiredly.
"Number two? Who's the number one?" Niko asked.
"You, of course! Who else could be trouble other than you? Even if you're just standing here, you're already a big problem!" Maki said.
"Huh? Is it because I'm cuter than you?"
"Heck No! You're not even cute!" Maki said loudly.
"Putting that aside, I think we should start searching from where we were before… I mean…remember the two women we met before—ones that stayed in the room next to us…maybe they would know something if we happen to meet them…" Umi said.
"It's already been a few days, Umi-chan…I doubt they are still around…." Kotori said.
"Then maybe we should look for more clues around the area, Niko-senpai will have to work it out though…"
"Hmmph! I bet it will be an easy task for me. Bring it on!" Niko said proudly.
The Toujou's apartment, afternoon;
It's so strange for Eli—who has been thinking of nothing but walking to where her heart told her, ended up to be where she wished to not show up.
She can't believe herself…
She can't believe her heart told her to come here…
While the purplenette was also confused of the reason as to why they ended up here….
..and it was the blonde who lead her here….
"Ericchi… why are we at my apartment now?" Nozomi asked—holding up the other question that she wanted to ask, since maybe, if she offered to have some tea, she will be upset and think that she isn't serious…
Eli couldn't think of anything to say right now, her heart was still aching from the embarrassment…
Adding onto the fact that Nozomi was following her up until this point….
If she complains about Nozomi following her, Nozomi could always say that this is her home and where she is supposed to be…
They were quiet for a moment until Eli found an excuse….
"I knew you were following me… that's why… I want to take you back home—and hoping that you will not follow me any further…."
"But why….? Why can't I follow you? I want to be with you…and it was what you wanted too, right?"
"I said—!" Eli turned around, with a serious frown on her face.
"Stop following me!" she shouted.
Nozomi shook her head,
"I refuse! I want to stay with you…I want to spend more time with you… it's a sign that I truly want our friendship to be unbroken…"
Eli clenches her fist,
"Why….Why can't you hate me after all I did to you? Why are you so insistent upon befriend me to begin with? A jerk like me…. someone who doesn't even think about your feelings…." she said out loud…
"Lies, you were thinking of me all the time, I've felt it myself that you care about me… I have always known that you like me!"
"Wh-Where is this confidence coming from? How could you be so sure about what I feel for you?!"
"A lot of people has told me the same… I even heard the same thing from a stranger! And it's not just my feelings…or my confidence….! I know you love me—and I love you too!"
"Haven't we gone through in this kind of conversation…?!" Eli retorted,
"I'm not playing around with this feeling….I truly feel that way…" Nozomi assures.
Eli bites her lips…
"Stop denying, Ericchi….I know—we all know…so…show me anything you want to show me….show me what you truly feel for me…"
The blonde once again feels her heart aching from the sentence…
Can she truly show what she feels?
After what she decided to get into….
She feels like she has made herself worse—worse than what she has always been….
Will it be worsen if she tells her the truth?
"Ericchi…. please…. Tell me..." Nozomi begged her…
Perhaps….
She can grant what she wants…
Even if…
Even if she will actually hate her later…
…and perhaps she can finally put an end to the torment from falling in love with someone that is better than herself….?
Eli has nothing more to hold…
She grabs her collar, and pulls the latter close, shoving her against the door of her own apartment.
Their eyes met…and just for a second after the azure closes—their lips met with each other….
It wasn't the first time for the purplenette, not in her memory…
But has she ever thought of feeling that touch—not from her doing…and not from the chocolate that turns out to be unused because she didn't get to meet the other her…?
Can she call this as their first actual kiss?
Will it be a sin if she takes a pleasure from this…?
Will Eli feel pissed if she shows how much she enjoy it…?
What is the reason behind this kiss?
Once their lips parted away, Nozomi tried to call her name to make sure of who she is with right now…but before she was able to say the first word, the blonde pushed her deeper—and it's just almost impossible for that to happen, not for her senses..
She sank into the door along with the blonde—ending up on the floor of her own room with the blonde sitting on top of her.
The room is still dark and door still remained locked as well, but those didn't matter much as all her attention was placed on the blonde's tentative hands, groping onto her breast before it picks her button…
When her eyes set on the azure eyes…
There's only one word that could describe her mood right now….
Lust….
Should she take an advantage or try to understand the whole feeling she is trying to show….?
Ok! That's it for now!
And yes! Lewd chapter is next.
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