Reunion

(A/N There won't be more chapters this week. Sorry.)

(Ryoto's pov)

Finally, I can take my phone from the repair shop. It took longer than I thought it would, but they said it was because it was difficult to get some of the parts.

The strange thing is that I had the feeling in the back of my mind. It wasn't spider-sense, but my instincts were telling me that trouble was incoming. Not danger, but trouble.

Never mind that. I have my phone back and now I am going home. I'm not taking the risk of taking a walk right after I got a newly repaired phone. I may have quite a sum of money saved up, but it's annoying to wait. The next time I would probably just buy a new phone since Spider-man manga is starting to sell more and more and so the money keeps coming.

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Shortly after, I returned home. Lala was at Haruna's place, and Rito was at school playing football with his friends.

Before I announced my return, I noticed several pairs of shoes at the entrance.

Mikan's friends? Maybe.

Ryoto: "Mikan, I'm home."

I walked into the living room as I heard noises from there.

Karma: "Here Ryoto was kissing Bitch-sensei. She really tried here to make him unconscious with pleasure, but he was too experienced, so he counterattacked."

I recognized the voice instantly, and my instinct was to rush into the room and shoot the web at the phone to get it away from Karma.

Ryoto: "What the hell are you showing to my sister!?"

I quickly looked at the phone to see me having tongue wrestling with Irina.

Karma, not discouraged by the lack of a phone, didn't stop his antics.

Karma: "Since the mean Mister took my phone, let's switch to photos since I have a few good ones too."

He took out photos from his uniform.

Does he have them there all the time?

Karma: "In this one, Ryoto is wearing a dress as a punishment for sleeping in class. Koro-sensei took a lot of effort and not a lot of time to change him into it."

Ryoto: "How do you have these!!? I got out of them almost instantly!"

Karma: "Don't underestimate me."

Ryoto: "And give me these photos!"

I grabbed all the photos he had in his hands, and looking through them, they were indiscriminating. I didn't even know how he got some of them.

The stranger thing was that he didn't resist and just smiled.

Karma: "Don't worry, I have copies."

...Of course, he does.

Wait, what are they doing here?

Seeing my confusion, Rio decided to tease me a bit.

Rio: "Surprised to see us?"

Ryoto: "Honestly, yeah. What are you doing here?"

Kaede: "Rio and I are going to live here since we are going to start our first year at Sainan High."

To the people around me, I looked like my brain had stopped working, but in truth, it worked overtime.

Rio, Kaede, Karma, and Nagisa are here. They don't look older, and they are starting their first year in high school.

Wait!!!

I took out my phone.

Ryoto: "Ritsu, are you here?"

Ritsu: "Yes, long time no see Ryoto. What can I do for you?"

Ryoto: "Call Irina."

After a short moment of waiting she picked up the phone.

Irina: "Hello?"

Ryoto: "Вы пропустили меня. (Missed me?)

There was silence. Probably I was the last person she expected to hear.

Irina: "What do you want?"

Ryoto: "What? I can't call my favorite teacher without any reason?"

Irina: "You're talking like I don't know you."

Ryoto: "...You know me well. Just because you couldn't find me doesn't excuse you from not delivering my promised lollipops. I expect them to be ready in a week."

Irina"...Are you serious? You can't be..."

Ryoto: "I wouldn't joke around about something so serious. See you soon~."

I ended the call knowing that she'll deliver them. I was pretty satisfied that I'll have a stable supply of lollipop income again.

I was so happy, in fact, that I forgot what situation I was in.

All the eyes were on me. Mikan was rightfully confused, while the others had a nostalgic look on their faces.

Mikan: "It seems that you have a lot to talk about, so I'll leave you alone, but..."

She turned to me.

Mikan: "...We'll talk later."

Are you my mother?

Karma: "Is she your mother?"

Karma said out loud what I was thinking, and Mikan didn't know what to do. On the one hand, she should be respectful to her seniors, but on the other hand, Karma is annoying, but in the end, she ignored it and left.

Rio: "So, any explanation? You vanished about a month ago, and even Ritsu couldn't find you. Now that we finally met, you look older."

Now the question is how much should I tell them. I had already told Karasuma and Koro-sensei about my origin before, but I wasn't in my best state at the time. I just wanted to vent to someone. And if I tell them, their worldview will be destroyed entirely, but since they'll live here in this town, their lives will already be weird, so what's there to lose.

I explained the basics about multiple worlds, what happened before when I went to middle school with them and why I am older right now. I may have some ideas for that, but why did it happen? I have no answers for why it happened. I left, of course, my system out of this, and how I traveled

At that, everyone stayed quiet. No one knew what to say, and they all tried to digest the newly acquired information.

Karma: "Does it affect us in any way?"

Ryoto: "It shouldn't. You may, however, meet some aliens. Some are more dangerous than others, and hopefully, you won't meet Lala's dad. I'm speaking from experience."

Karma: "Then I didn't know what we were thinking about so hard."

It seems that Karma's words helped the rest accept their situation.

Shortly after, Karma and Nagisa returned to their new home, and Rio and Kaede stayed.

It looks like we won't need to search for a new place to stay for them.

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