My Love For You

Thank god for the fast thinking skill cause If I didn't let, me, tell, you, I would be freaking out.

Firstly, I WAS JOKING ABOUT THE FIFTY-FIFTY! What?! I'm not allowed to make jokes without them magically becoming real?!

'Is this the part where she says I'm the weirdest, worst guy ever or when she confesses her love to me? It's a fifty-fifty.' I think it was, right? Well sorry but no I had no intention of her actually confessing!

OH God, she confessed!? Why the hell am I freaking out so much?! It's just a confession! I'm not 5! Chill out and breathe ya, baby.

Is it because it's so unexpected? Is it because of how cute she is? Is it because I haven't dated anyone since… a while ago? All three? Maybe. Hard maybe.

Ok. So. What do we tell her? Well, so far I've only looked at her as a friend. So that means I haven't had any romantic feelings for her. However, after this confession, who's to say I won't?

The only reason why I friend-zoned myself so hard was that I never thought anything like this would ever happen and now that it has I've decided to use a skill just to figure out what's going on!

I have to tell her something that's truthful but indirect. It might be disappointing but It has to be something I can back up. 'Starting relationships with lies isn't good' yada yada.

Let's give it a try!

"Uhh," I say!?

Now is not the time to be socially inept! Just say anything literally other than that!

"I see. That's. Interesting." I say…

Hey, good job me you literally picked the second worst thing to say in that situation. My chance to get a girlfriend has now been squashed.

"Wiggle." I hear.

W-Wiggle? Who? Oh right, Kira! He's come to save me from this horrible situation I've found myself in. Thanks, buddy.

I see as Kira jumps into the air and lands on Mara's head. The perfect diversion! Kira is able to mess up Mara's hair while Mara tries to repeatedly remove Kira from her head.

Even though this is the person that just helped me destroy an entire village of goblins with little effort even she is having problems properly catching Kira. He is able to somehow move faster than mara, barely escaping her grasp.

It's not until I intervene and remove Kira does the scene in front of me come to a close. By this time Maras, hair is in a total wreck, and Kira and Mara have entered a terrifying staring contest while she tries to fix her hair.

"Welp, I guess we can call it a night," I say hoping Mara won't remember what happened just before.

"Ya whatever, I don't want to hang out with that thing anyway," Mara says as she still tries to fix her hair.

With restraint, I stop myself from doing a victory pose and get the heck out of there. Once again I leave Kira behind but also Mara. I don't bother to slow down to let her catch up.

You know I was actually planning on letting Kira stay with us after this. So its kinda upsetting that this event happened so close.

Now I'm not sure how well that will go with everyone but I was hoping to convince everyone by tomorrow and surprise Kira, by letting him come over tomorrow too. Hopefully letting him stay with us.

Since… well you know… I won't really be going to slime fields that often anymore. The main reason why we went there now was that it just so happened to be in the way to the goblin forest.

So when I get a new quest it will probably lead me somewhere away from the fields. Sure I would go see him every once and a while but I feel like this way is better. Heck, maybe even Mara might become better friends with him.

"Hey…" A certain cat girl says out of breath…

Speaking of.

"Yea?"

"I know you're not good with this type of stuff but even so I still want an answer from you. If you need, I can give you until tomorrow."

I sit in the opening of my window. I had decided to use this entrance to my room since I thought it would be faster but I guess that didn't stop Mara from catching up to me. Since you know. I kinda speed walked here and all.

Or kinda raced over here.

"That… would be appreciated."

"Ok, I'll be waiting tomorrow then… Night…" She says as she disappears into the darkness of the night.

"Yea, night…" I say as I hide in the darkness of my room, closing the window as I do.

I lay down on my not-so-comfortable bed of mine.

Dam a confession, huh? It's been a while since one of those happened…

Even so, I wonder if my reaction to it is normal.

Hah, and my reaction to one is to run away and hide? Man, I guess I'm just really bad with women.

I mean what reason do I have to act like this? It should be the man's responsibility to ask the girl! Yea!

You know what, I'm going to go to her right now and tell her how I feel! Hah, and to think I would act like a child! When there is an opportunity to date a cute cat girl I should take it right away!

I get out of my bed and get ready to open my door but before I do I feel something on my face. Quickly I wipe it away but when I realize what it is I immediately stop myself from opening the door.

I stop. Wait for a second. And let go of the door handle. I can't do it.

"I guess it would be better if I take this more seriously," I say as I hold my head to the door.

"If that's truly the case then maybe you have changed" A voice is heard from the edge of my bed.

"Hah, well should've thought so…" I say as I lie down.

I slowly watch as both Akari and Mara walk away into the forest and once I can no longer see then I disappear from the body I was impersonating and disappear leaving nothing behind.

Once I arive in my realm I quickly decrease the mental space incredibly small while also removing the small number of items that were there beforehand. This indeed helps with my current situation but that doesn't stop me from feeling horrible.

In this state I can't help but feel like an idiot, however, the fact everything went the way I wanted it to I guess I can feel some solace in that. It truly was expensive to do everything I did, but I still did it and now I'm paying the price.

Even though I already spend a tiny amount on maintaining this space, this seemingly meaningless action is to try and squeeze as much energy as possible.

The sooner I can stop feeling like this the better.

Huh?

"Oh great, just who I wanted to talk to. Truly your timing is impeccable."

I find the strength to stand up from my kneeled position.

"With the completion of the quest, your time here is limited. As soon as I have the strength I shall make sure you're just a bad memory."

Once again I hear the Anomalies' questions.

"Understandably it's fine to question my motive indeed my determination is questionable. Just to play with you I shall answer your question. The answer is that you're not supposed to be here so I shall make it so you're not. Simple really."

Again they question me.

"You have no right to question me in the first place and to have the audacity to argue is even more laughable. Did you forget my name for you? The anomaly. Abnormality, irregularity, oddity. Do you not get it? Your role is not here so why play it?

…

"The chances of something like you messing things up are too great. My one purpose is to raise Akari to the highest he's ever been and you can so easily ruin that. Just look how great things are going so far. I shudder to think what would happen if he only had you."

Just then the anomaly says something incomprehensible.

"What? That couldn't possibly-"

Cutting myself off I open a window into Akari's eyes and what I see terrifies me to the core. Why did this have to happen now? It shouldn't. It couldn't. This is most likely the worst possible thing that could totally stop all progress has just occurred.

"It's, a confession"

Almost as soon as I opened it, the window disappeared and I fell to one knee. Breathing heavily, I hold one hand to my face.

"Damit. If only I had something left I could have concluded that situation so easily."

The possession of a body is already taxing. In a state like this, there's no way I could do anything. It's possible I could appear for a few moments but I still need time. Sadly it looks like I'm going to have to try and deal with the aftermath of the issue.

Wanting to deal with this as soon as possible I restrain from using anything that may be causing a leakage of energy and bide my time. After waiting until I felt I had just enough I left the realm I was just in to go into another one.

At the edge of a bed, I find Akari standing at his door. He looks defeated. This is going to be a total repeat of what happened before he came here if I don't do something. Before I'm able to do anything I hear him say something surprising.

"I guess it would be better if I take this more seriously."

Ha if that's true…

"If that's truly the case then maybe you have changed," I say.

Shocked, Akari looks around but it only takes a moment for him to calm down, probably realizing it's only me.

Oh, it's only him. This guy really has to work on his introductions. Even I know sneaking up behind someone isn't the best way to start a conversation.

"You come here often?" I say jokingly.

The dubious double that had appeared in my room gives me an annoyed face after I say that.

"I thought you were going to take this more seriously," He says repeating what I had said a little bit ago.

"Oh, you heard that."

"Of course I did and if you wish to act on it I compel you to listen to me closely. I don't have much time."

He doesn't have much time? What's that about?

"Tomorrow I want you to go up to her and tell her how dumb you were and apologize. I need you then to start going out with her." He continues.

He makes it sound so easy.

"What if I can't do it?" I respond.

"Hmm? You like her don't you?" He says ketching me off guard.

"Ah well, it's not that. It's well- you see- I-" I get cut off.

"I know"

He what?

"You know what?" I question him.

"I know this situation is one you have dealt with before and I know how hard it is for you to handle it. However, I also know how important it is to move on from that."

Wait is he talking about?

"Wait, how do you?"

He grabs me by the shoulders. Now that he's so close I notice how exhausted he looks. Did something happen?

"Just promise me you'll do what I said." He says seriously.

"Uh ya sure I promise," I say reluctantly.

"Good as long as you do everything I said you'll be fine. That's something I can promise."

Before I can say anything else he disappears. There was a bunch I still wanted to ask him but I guess I'll have to wait for that.

Hmm…

Tomorrow, huh?