Kuraero

"Very interesting. So tell me what I can do." Kuro said uninterestedly as he shook off Aera by generating an shockwave downward in which similar shockwave also shook past upward.

"Oh, my bad. You can change the intervene with the destiny. An rare existences such as Pekora was able to either escape on her own out of Virturan or delay the destruction of Virturan."

Aera also said with uninterested look as he explained to Kuro.

"How old are y-… bad question. Why do you look like children? Is that one of your bad hobbies?"

"To prepare for my next fight. I have to change how I fight." Aera still explained.

'By his words, it isn't an disguise to make him look like a children, but he really is a children right now.'

'Although he can't reverse the time, he can reverse the time of his own body and even accelerate it? Accelerating his own body in the world where time passes normally.'

'By how he says change how I fight, it is not easily done so rather than accelerating his own body, he will decelerate the world around him and refine his body through time and training.'

'A monsters with enormous determination. At this rate by continuing the loop of reversing his body and training it, each tries to him, could have passes from 100 years to millions of years depend on how much time he did this.'

"So… considering by how much information you're willing to tell to me and how you're so open to me, means that you can kill me anytime you want?" Kuro said as his bruise from previous beating started to heal.

"Yes. But I won't. I haven't judged whether you will be of help to me or not."

"Are you going to threaten me whether to work with you?" Kuro asked knowing Aera's answer.

"No. You're not the type of person who'll obey on someone you're not interested to. Besides, forcing someone to work with someone who can't work with me will just bring an opposite effects."

"To make you work for me, change my gender, act cute, be likeable to you, and so on. By then will you be willing to sacrifice your life to me." Aera said making Kuro nod.

He was right. No, the first two ways aren't necessary. They just need to be likeable to Kuro. That was his only requirement.

"I'll take your compliment. So why did you come here? Just to give me some 'futuristic information?'" Kuro said with sarcasm

"Yeah. I came here to test whether you're 'likeable' to me." Aera spouted sarcastically before turning his body.

In turn, Kuro just rolled his eyes before opening his mouth to say the next sentences.

"Can you not kill Matsuri in the future? Just steal her artifact or whatsoever." Kuro asked in futile.

"Why? Just revive her. Isn't it just one or so life?" Aera's voice sounded out while his back still-facing on Kuro.

"Then kill her painlessly." Kuro's sentences made Aera stop his step before resuming again.

"If I can."

"You can. You're an omnipotent all-knowing old sage who wanders around the loop unlimitedly." When Kuro ended his sentences, Aera was no longer there as the stopped time began moving.

'About the time I began feeling suffocating.'

'Damn. I forgot to ask him whether it was the Sin of Envy who killed Hanabi or not… whatever. Not really my problem anymore.'

Kuro honestly, did not hate Aera. Not hate was already amazing compliment considering that he was angry to Aera some yeas ago.

Aera was an amazing person. After all, even Kuro wouldn't be able to live 10,000 years worth of lifetime in the same planet just to save it.

Not to mention, reset his age to children just to prepare/train himself for the next opponents. Even Chara wouldn't be willing to do that.

While resuming his step to go back to home, all Kuro could ever think was about Aera. This is the first time he got so interested in the same gender.

(Because most of the person he meet is the opposite gender)

'10,000 retries, save the world, time traveler, reset the body age, player, hero, pekora… All of these combined couldn't evade the end of world.'

'World-ending asteroid? Maou can deflect it, Pekora can teleport it. It's not really a huge of threat.'

'Catastrophe is one of the smallest possibilities to destroy Virturan. Typhoon, Tsunami, Earthquake, Flooding; Maou, Soujin, or Arin can easily solve that.'

'Apocalypse is also unlikely as it has already occurred in Umbrella Empire and was suppressed, the virus can't beat past the level 3 warriors.'

'3 possibly thinkable world-ending events.

1. An unknown godlike creatures that not even Maou can stop.

2. An Neutral Creature grow strong enough to beat Maou, winning in the next Outer-World All Out War.

3. Maou's Berserk.

Kuro couldn't see the future. Maybe all three will occurs. Maybe something completely different will bring the Virturan on it's destruction.

However he knows that he will struggle. 17 and 21 would be baffled by this and ask if he was really them. Kuro(them), struggling to live?

That's the first time.

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""Welcome home Kuro!"" The two welcomed him.

"Did someone beat you up? Are you okay? Do you need me to help you out?" The one worried for him.

"Uh, um… Kuro-kun… Would you act like the knight in black armor in this page…?" Another one were beginning to open up to him.

Peoples tend to miss it out, until the matter is brought in front of you.

They notices only after they lost it.

The first time they make it into words that they finally know what they truly felt.

"Uruha, Okayu, Korone, Ayame." Kuro paused after he called them out.

"I like all of you." Showing the brightest smile he made in this year, he moved past them.

And…

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He regretted it.

'Kill me! That's so embarrassing! First calling their name? Then telling that I like them? What is this? Anime? God, if you exists, just kill me.' Kuro rolled on the bed in shame.