Chapter 10. Merging of stars (Cyclical day. Part 2)

Chapter 10. Merging of stars (Cyclical day. Part 2)

The newly started day of the festival has changed a little.

Getting out of bed, I looked at myself in the mirror and found that instead of my usual hair color, they became closer to a brown shade, but still they remained red, and also I myself became slightly shorter than usual.

I also noticed that instead of half a star, an almost full star appeared on my hand.

After that, I went to school as soon as possible to see if anything had changed there.

Around the school everything was exactly the same as in the past cyclical days. But this time Kara didn't call me.

Approaching her myself, I asked if someone should come up today?

She replied :

— No, we don't seem to be waiting for anyone, but were you waiting for someone?

- no... I'm not waiting for anyone," I answered quietly, and went in the other direction.

What's happening? I still didn't understand... Then I decided to ask her sister Mika about Nile.

When I found her near our office, I started asking her about the Nile.

But she only replied that she did not know who she was, and where her sister came from. She said all this with such a serious face that I would like to believe in her. But still I knew that Nila existed…

Fumbling in the pocket of my shirt, I discovered that among my cards were not only my cards, but several more.

Among them:

"Transformation"

* Changes the appearance of the owner, for a few minutes.

* Owner: Nila Otsuko

"Temporary transformation"

*Changes the time structure for an unlimited amount

Owner: ???

For some reason, instead of the owner's name, there are only question marks…

Looking again at the "Transformation" map, I saw the same "???" as on the "temporary transformation" map

And then I realized that Nila was under great threat.

Rummaging through my pockets further, I pulled out two more cards:

"Light movement"

*The ability of the card gives the owner to move at an approximate speed of light

Owner : ???

And also your card "Speed. Protection. A star."

But here's the problem, my map was slightly distorted and the following words were written into it

"A cyclical day. Temporary Transformation Action"

Most likely, when I touched Nila's hand, her card began to act on me, so there was a change in my card.

But how to fix it? I wondered.

Not knowing what to do, I just started to put the cards to each other. Naturally, this was a strange decision in this situation.

But still my guesses helped me. When I attached my "Speed" card to the "Time Transformation" card. Protection. The star." Nila is back.

But the cyclical one never ended. It was clear from my map, since it still had the same inscription.

Then I asked Nila to touch my hand again to try to dispel this cyclical day.

But again it didn't work and Nila disappeared again.

Then I repeated the actions with the cards again and Nila came back again.

— What are you doing this for? Don't you see, I disappear when I touch your hand. Or rather, I become a part of you.

Then I decided to experiment more with her hand.

Then I asked her to search her pockets. Maybe she'll find some clue.

And so she took out of her pocket her main card, which was responsible for what was happening to her.

The name of this card is "Two-faced Star"

And it also had an inscription exactly matching mine.

We tried to attach them to each other, but it did not give any result, but only we flew a few meters apart from each other. It was good that there was no one in the vicinity.

- Hey, maybe we'll just try to take these cards in one hand, and join hands, maybe then something will happen? It's just that when I first touched you at the concert, I was holding the "time distortion" card in my other hand.

In principle, it didn't sound like a bad decision, and we decided to try.

And yes, it helped us, the inscriptions disappeared and time continued its normal course.

But not everything is as smooth as we would like, the teacher passing by us saw everything that was happening to us and stood in shock from what he saw. We started to prove to him that these were ordinary special effects, but he still stood and did not move from his place. Then we decided to just hide away from him.

A few days after the festival, we were called for a conversation:

- Well, Akishito Akato, what are you doing in Japan? What an outrage! - the teacher asked a question

I, not knowing what to answer, tried to get to what it leads to.

Without waiting for my answer, she began her monologue:

— The teacher, whom you and Nila brought to a state of shock, lies in the hospital and only mutters to himself: "demon Akishito, demon Nila, God forbid to meet them again."

Admit that you have done such a thing that he considers you demons.

I tried to answer with something similar: "we were just messing around with special effects"

But Nila did it faster and said the following:

— It's so simple, they didn't seem to be doing anything so strange, they didn't understand why he was in a state of shock when he saw us, because we were just playing with special effects

The teacher, nodding her head, replied:

- Okay, so be it, I'll believe you two. But if this happens again, you know, I will not let you go so easily. Tell me everything to the last one! Got it?

- Hai*! - We answered in pure Japanese ** and immediately left the classroom.

That's how the questions about Nila and me began among not only the teaching staff, but also from people who just like to eavesdrop on other people's conversations.

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*Hai!" - means "yes" from Japanese.

**Before that, they also spoke Japanese.