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Kouta's P.O.V
We saw Shiori and the Spirit running somewhere else. "I can't believe her," Kyouko stated in disbelief. "Why didn't she just go in and do the deed?"
I sighed. "Kawagoe, she's underage," I asked. "Honestly, you read too much S&M novels..."
"A girl like her wouldn't go that route anyway," Minoru added.
"Minoru's right," I said, getting a blueberry-flavored lollipop into my mouth. "Doing things the proper way is more like Shiori, anyway." The weather changed in the camera. It was raining. "Rain?"
"Strange," Reiji said. "There weren't any rain clouds in the vicinity." We all saw Shiori and Prince run to an arcade.
"True, but I guess it's for the best." Shiori's doing well so far, I hope she doesn't mess up.
Shiori's P.O.V
Tohkito looked very shocked as he looked at the machines in this arcade. I sweat-dropped once again. "What is this?!" he exclaimed. "Is this the robotic bastards' secret base?!"
I shook my head. "It isn't, don't worry." We walked around the place until he stopped and saw something. It was a crane game with food-like prizes inside. He played it and tried to get a stuffed food, but failed. He scowled at the machine. "Why did it do that?" he asked.
"Because that is actually hard," I answered. "We could play another game-"
"No thanks. I want to win this one." I shrugged and gave him a coin. He put it in and played it again. He tried to get a toy cheeseburger, but the crane let it slip from its grip. He grunted. "Will you stop letting it fall?!" he shouted to the machine. I looked around to see if NOBODY noticed that.
"You know, you can't win this without a strategy, Tohkito," I explained to him. "How about this: I'll command you where to go to get the..." I looked in the machine and pointed at a toy. "Kinako bread. Then, I'll tell you to press the button to grab it. We have one chance at this. Are you ready?" He nodded. I inserted another coin into the machine. Tohkito got his grip on the stick.
"Go forward," I said. He tilted the control stick forward. "To the left." He tilted it to the left. "A little more..." Then he was precisely at the bread. "Stop! Press the button!" He got his hand off of the control stick and pressed the "Grab" button. We looked and saw that the claw got the bread and brought it up. Tohkito's purple eyes sparkled. "Hold on, it's not over until it reaches to that hole." I pointed at the winning hole. As the crane reached to it, it dropped the bread...at the tip of the hole. I sighed.
"You did great, Tohkito," I said. "It's my thinking that went wrong. I'm sorry." He was so determined to win and I messed it up for him. I felt bad.
Tohkito's P.O.V
I felt mad. Shiori feels sad and it's all because of that stupid robotic hand thing! "Will you just give it to us already?!" I shouted to it. "Shiori and I worked so hard to get that, damn it!" I slammed my hand on the machine's glass. All of a sudden, the bread fell into the hole and appeared in a slot below us. I smiled at Shiori and she smiled back. It finally dropped.
"It finally dropped!" we both shouted in glee. We both laughed. I got the bread. I felt it.
"It feels different..." I noted.
"Well, that's because it's not actually a food," Shiori replied. "It's a pillow." A pillow, yeah, Shiori told me that pillows help people sleep. Since it feels soft, I'll definitely use this as a pillow!
...
We had so much fun at the "arcade". We were outside, looking at a sunset and the city below us. I pointed a long thing moving. "What's that?" I asked.
"A train," Shiori answered.
"Does it transform?"
"It doesn't. They're used for transportation." It was also going really fast. I wondered why.
"I had so much fun today," I said to her.
"Yeah, I did too," she replied.
"I wish we checked out Dream Park, though."
"I'm glad we didn't. It's just not for us."
I then forgot to ask her. "So, what is a date, really? It can't be food, right?"
She looked at me. "A date...a date is when a boy and a girl hang out and have fun with each other." That was it? Huh. I smiled.
"Then this date was great," I stated. "We should go on another date sometime."
"I would actually like that." I looked at her again. It was just like yesterday. Her eyes and hair glowed in the sunset's light. She looked really beautiful. My heart pumped faster again. It always happens when Shiori looks beautiful. Is this a good feeling? It has to be, since I like Shiori...
Orinosuke's P.O.V
"I can't believe it," my commander said through my earpiece. "To see a Spirit appear without a spacequake happening-and for him to be in contact with a human girl..." I was positioned with my sniper rifle, aiming at the monster's head.
"Permission to shoot?" I asked.
"Not yet. The higher-ups are still discussing it. It's an irregular situation and no one has evacuated yet. We'll have to wait and see." My finger was itching on the trigger. I want that bastard away from Shiori. He will hurt her, I know it. Spirits cannot be trusted. "Point Alpha here. What happened-" My captain got cut off. "What? We have permission to shoot?" Music to my ears. I want to kill that son of a bitch ever since I first saw him with my Shiori.
Normal P.O.V
"All the humans today were very kind," Tohkito said to Shiori.
"Yeah, no one tried to kill you," she said. "It's a great world, isn't it?"
He nodded in agreement. "I never knew the world was so fun...so kind...so pretty..." He paused. His eyes turned sad. "Now I know why those robotic bastards want to kill me...because I ruin something beautiful like this." The blue-haired girl gasped. "Maybe it would be better if I didn't exist. I wouldn't cause any trouble or harm..." He thought it would be even better to stay in the other world. All he does was sleep there. He would want to continue to sleep, so he wouldn't ruin anything or harm anyone...
"Why would you think of something like that?" Shiori asked. "With someone like you here, the world becomes a better place." He looked up, blushing. "Plus, there wasn't a spacequake today!"
He clenched on the bread pillow. "But that doesn't mean when I come back, another spatial quake wouldn't appear."
"But you didn't go back today! Isn't that saying something?" She paused as she walked closer to him. "You belong here, Tohkito. That's why you hadn't gone back to the other world."
"But I don't know everything about this world."
"I'll teach you everything you need to know!"
"But then I need food and a place to sleep."
"I'll take care of those!"
"What if unexpected things happen?"
"We'll figure out those unexpected things when they happen."
The purple-haired Spirit looked down at the ground. "Will it really be okay when I stay alive? Would you really accept me?"
"Of course it's really okay for you to stay alive! And of course I can really accept you!"
"But, Shiori...those-"
"Robotic bastards? If they won't accept you-hell, if no one accepts you...I'll accept you even more!" Tohkito felt so shocked when she said that.
Shiori... he thought.
She reached her hand out for him. "Take my hand. That's all you need to do now...Tohkito." He felt like he was going to cry tears of joy. He would never thought he would meet someone like Shiori in his life. He reached his hand out to her's. However, the blue-haired girl noticed something...a sniper rifle.
"Distance-512.15, wind direction-40.8, wind speed-0.04, temperature-24.2 degrees Celsius, R.H: 52.8," the commander of the A.S.T. listed out. "We're all clear." Orinosuke aimed perfectly at Tohkito's head and pulled the trigger.
Shiori had seconds to react. "Tohkito!" she shouted as she pushed him away from the bullet and took the shot to her head. She fell on the ground, bleeding.
Tohkito sat up from the ground and shouted, "What was that for, Shi-" He suddenly noticed her body in a pool of blood on the ground. He gasped and crawled to her body. She didn't look alive anymore. He felt depressed. "Shi...ori..."
Orinosuke cannot believe what he has done. He dropped his sniper rifle and went on his knees. He felt sad about shooting Shiori down. His commander kept calling his name, but he ignored it. No...what...have I done?! he thought.
Tohkito's P.O.V
Shiori was dead. Dead. I never wanted to lose her...not like this. I took off my jacket and covered Shiori's wound with it. I thought if Shiori was there for me, it would be hard for me to adjust, but I would stay here on my own free will. But now that she's dead, it's no use. It was no damn use! She's dead, and I know who killed her! Those robotic bastards-they'll pay!
I raised my hand up in the air. The sky warped and shot dark lightning at me. I shouted, "Adonai merek!" The clothes I wore teared off of my body and my armor was back on me. My cape and my shirt came onto me to give me my powers. I was fully dressed.
I stomped on the ground and the case for Sandalphon appeared. "Sandalphon!" I yelled as I jumped onto the case and pulled out my sword. I sliced the case, making the pieces stick to my sword, giving it more power. Sandalphon then turned into a different form. "Halvenhelv!" I shouted. I pointed to the robotic bastards from far away.
"You BASTARDS!" I yelled at the top of my lungs as I swung my sword at them. They dodged. They will all pay for Shiori's death! All of them!
Normal P.O.V
The A.S.T. commander dodged Prince's attack. "That was too damn close!" he shouted. "Orinosuke! Retreat immeadiately!" He shouted in his earpiece. "Support team, what the hell are you doing?!"
Orinosuke couldn't move, however. He was still as stone and still shocked about what he did to Shiori. Tohkito appeared in front of him, floating.
"You..." he muttered in a cold tone. "You bastard! You killed Shiori! Now you will die!"
"I...did...kill...her..." he muttered, still not believing what happened.
"She was my friend...my best friend...and now you shoot her down?!" the Spirit continued shouting. "I knew I wanted to kill you ever since I first saw you!"
Back on the Fraxius, a spacequake alarm was ringing. "Shiori's has no heartbeats or a pulse!" said Shigeru.
"The spacequake alarm is on..." stated Natsuko. "But the resident evacuation is still at 7%!"
Kouta felt distraught at his sister's death. "At least there's no houses nearby..." he said. "But at this rate, the whole town is doomed..." He couldn't stand seeing his sister dead. "Shiori did well with the prince." He suddenly saw something glow in the video of his big sister. "Zoom in on Shiori," he demanded. The camera zoomed closer and everyone saw a small lavender flame glowing on Tohkito's jacket on Shiori's dead body. "This is going to be cheesy as crap, but I think Shiori's getting revived by the power of love."
Back to the incident, Shiori felt something burning on her head. She shot and shouted, "Hot! Hot! Hot! Hot!" She suddenly realized she was alive. How did she survive a shot to the head?
"Oh, silly me, I forgot," Kouta said. "If Shiori dies, she can be able to start a new game." He looked at what Shiori was doing. She looked shocked to be in a pool of blood. "Recover her immediately. We're going to use the last method with her."
"Roger that, sir," Reiji said.
Back to the incident, Orinosuke activated his shields to protect himself from Tohkito's attacks, which were very powerful and he had limited time to live. I...killed her... he thought. How can I live now? I'm the same...as the Spirits. Halvenhelv destroyed the white-haired A.S.T. member's shield. He coughed out blood and laid down on the ground in pain. The sword was centimeters away from his face. Mom...dad...
"I will avenge you...Shiori..." Tohkito said as he raised his sword up. All of a sudden, he heard a scream up in the sky. It was Shiori! How was she up in the sky? Who cares now? She's alive! He got up to her and caught her.
Shiori's P.O.V
What was Kouta thinking?! I don't want to die again! But at least Tohkito caught me.
"Shiori, is that really you?" he asked, looking surprised.
"Yeah, I think so," I answered with a shaky voice. He embraced me.
"I'm glad you're alive..." he whispered. I blushed. I saw his sword sparking with lightning. Or was that his sword?! "Uh, I accidentally unsheathed Halvenhelv...and I had to release it! It's the only way!"
I panicked. Something like that will wipe out the entire city! "N-no! You can't do that!"
He looked at me. "Then what am I supposed to do?! It reached to it's critical state already!" That was a good question.
"Oh Shiori...remember that method I told you about..." Kouta sang through my ear piece. "The only way to save Prince..." Oh yeah...a kiss. My heart was beating fast. I've never been kissed before. I hope this is worth it.
"Um...Tohkito..." I stuttered. "K-kiss me!"
He looked puzzled. "Kiss you? What's a kiss?"
I blushed very hard and my heart was pounding. I didn't know what to expect when I say it. "It's when you...put your lips on mine and-" Then it happened. Tohkito leaned forward and kissed me on my lips. I felt like I was going to faint at any second. His lips were warm and soft...
Halvenhelv disappeared. Tohkito's armor dissolved away as well as his shirt and his cape. His tuxedo became wrinkly and his shoes fell off. He landed on the ground. I broke the kiss. That was my first kiss...
I looked at Tohkito and also noticed that his tuxedo was extending. He was blushing as I was. Then his outfit fell off of him. Like it literally just slipped off of him. I can see him naked...head to toe... I screamed and covered my eyes. I never wanted to see a naked guy! Not even now!
Tohkito's P.O.V
I tried to get my clothes back on, but then they suddenly disappeared, leaving me without anything to wear. Shiori kept screaming. I felt so embarrassed. I covered my lower part with my hands.
"D-do you have that picture on you, Shiori?" I asked.
"You tore it apart!" she answered, still covering her eyes. Why did I do that? I kinda need that picture now...
"C-can we go before anyone sees me?!"
She nodded. "I was thinking that too!" We scrambled out of the place.
"Hey, Shiori?" I asked her.
"Yeah?"
"Can you take me out on another date sometime?"
She looked back at me, still covering her eyes, and smiled. "Of course I would!" I smiled back. We still ran as fast as we can to get out of public.
Well...that's it. How was it? I feel awkward doing the end of this. xD
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