Chapter 16: The Matchmakers

We both tried some serious convincing to get my brother to defer from this kind of ludicrous activity. My brother basically shut us down by telling us that Hayate is too focused on CX to ever be in a relationship before. I am just ugly, and Sayaki has a crap personality. And then he said I also have a crap personality but no man ever finds out because he's too put off before talking to me.

Also apparently what happens is people come in for like 5 hours and then you get 3 hours to figure out their match. And then they come back and you show who you recommend.

We are currently inside the small hall thing. The whole place is set up in a blue ocean color scheme. Different people were setting up different stalls. The people didn't give off a love person vibe. Well there's a few full-figured women that give off the kind of motherly love matcher stereotype.

But then there's people like "is that guy homeless"

Sayaki says maybe slightly too loud. But I do have to agree, the guy's face looks rugged, his clothes don't really look very clean. His hair sticks out in every random direction there is, with quite a beard like a westerner

"Hey" my brother says sternly.

"That guy is one of the seven heavenly love matchers." my brother whispers to us.

"His arch enemy was Hershey's Goldman, you know one of the most famous actors. Apparently in his heyday he had a harem of a hundred girls. Even when he was homeless. But he was too powerful so decided to set out on a quest to find his next successor for his amazing abilities to be imparted to." I find a lot of what my brother says to be very untrue. I think Sayaki is also quite baffled.

Well we find out that we have a stall, but it's at the very far back which we both think is good. However on the opposite side is a boy like a ten year old boy.

"That's the prodigy. Zackaratist" my brother whispers after noticing us looking in his directions.

"Okay you guys have 20 minutes to ask these professionals about what they do."

So we've been given 20 minutes to learn how to be a matchmaker. I guess we just go around asking for advice. We both mutually agree to go over the ladies who are kind and caring.

"What would be in it for us?" They both ask simultaneously. They want us to give them something for their advice.

"Is there anything that you want?" They smile at each other as we say this.

"four Double McBurger"

Well That's why they have their figures I guess, from giving out all advice in return for food. We do what they say and bring them sixty dollars worth of food. We sat down at the table in front of them.

"We advise you to go over there to that guy. He's pretty amazing and he loves giving people advice in hopes someone can learn his secret technique." she says eating the burger.

Consider myself not pleased, and that's not just because she used us but also having to get advice from that guy. The guy was currently sitting there writing random stuff.

We brace ourselves and walk over.

"So you guys got caught in their scheme." The guy says, still looking down at a bit of paper.

"Yes we did, so that happens often"

He nods. He then pulls out a pretty good drawing of Sayaki way over sexulised, and with a boost to certain areas in size.

"You piece of shit"

Naturally she slaps him. He then proceeds to crumple the piece of paper and drop it into the bin.

"How did that make you feel?" he says, not paying attention to the red hand mark on his face.

"Annoyed? correct "

Sayaki nods. He now stands up.

"Emotions can always be controlled, If it's by your personal actions or by a drug which I don't really recommend by anything. My actions will create emotions in you, And sometimes if I force emotions into you it will create the lackey band effect. I force you to run everyday for a year. You will feel resentment until you see the improvements that it does to everything. If a doctor was to tell you that your dad died, you would feel sad and then if I said it was just a joke you would be angry. The longer that he didn't tell you that your Dad had died the greater the anger. Like if he didn't tell you for 20 years you would probably kill them. Especially you." he says pointing to Sanaka.

"Isn't it wrong to manipulate someone's emotions like that?" Sayaki says skeptically.

"Haha yes onto the second point. Love at first sight is a facade." he says looking like minds will be blown. We both expect him to say something more.

"So?"

"That's all you need to know. Well I will give you a third tip then."

"If a man never talks to a girl, Any girl that's relatively nice to him will make him fall in love with her. This is really just a biological thing that makes you become less picky after you get no female interaction. But nevertheless this is very important when matchmaking. You want two people who have been out of love for a similar time, well it's a factor. A ugly man can score a hot woman if he finds her at the right time."

Did that guy just make sense? We both think in bewilderment.

"Your brother told me about you guys anyway before. I have given you my number 1 tips, now move onto another stool. Also the name is Han"

"Okay thank you, Hopefully not like the first people" we say looking over at the annoying ladies.

"So you didn't pick up on that lesson either." He says, sighing. What lesson?

"You will need to figure that out yourself." he says, shooing us away.

Both confused by the oddly fast paced conversation we just had.

We walk over to a skinny man. Like this guy is way too skinny for anyone to like him.

"Oh hello, So your Sabiti's younger sister. my name is Isamu"

"Yes" I say a bit hesitantly.

"So you're looking at competing against us in the great matchmaking competition." he says with an oddly comforting look.

"I guess that's what my brother said we were doing."

He shakes his head

"You need more passion than that. Think about it, these people are trying to find a special one for them. You need to fulfill their desire, for a lot of people they are coming here as somewhat of a last resort. "

He talked calmly yet it made me feel really guilty for not caring much about this.

"Okay, where sorry." we both say quickly before we come across as bad people.

"That is the spirit isn't it. Okay I actually have two lessons for you. Did you understand how you felt manipulated then into feeling guilty. Well there are a lot of people like that, You need to make sure they do not go with someone who can't handle that sought of pressure."

We both nod in agreement.

"Now for the second thing you need to learn, is someone's look preference. Now this may seem quite simple. Just ask them, am I right? But for most people they will say their ideal, or the standard type of person that most people like. You need to be able to understand that person's real need when it comes to looks."

"How do we do this."

" Easily, we will do practice."

We sat down across from him. I do not like this, But at least I know that I am not weak willed and will not give up any of the real important information.

…

Well as some may have expected.

"So you want a man about five foot ten, not too tall because your scared that you will be powerless. You don't care about eye color except when you have seen a couple of handsome people with green eyes. You don't need a gym body but at least for them to do running 5 times a week, nose length of 2 cm, circumference of the nostrils to be about 9mm….."

this went on for a while

Somehow this guy picked up stuff that I didn't even remember happening or even thinking. But the biggest problem is I just said 'I don't know' for every answer. This should honestly be criminal activity, this guy could figure out everything about someone without them even knowing. He should be hired as a detective or something.

"Sayaki's turn." I say standing up defeated.

However he shakes his head.

"Sorry, I need to get ready."

"Oh okay, We greatly appreciate your help." Sayaki says in an oddly kind and happy manner. She then shoots me a smug look. I have to hold myself from pulverizing her into the ground. We start walking to the next store.

"Okay you saw me getting interviewed, could you pick up anything on what he was seeing?"

"How the hell would I have known? You said 'I don't know' the whole time. Think about it, he knows you better than you know yourself."

Sayaki was right, that guy has too much information. Next time Sayaki's taking the interview.

"Did you understand what I was looking for in each question?" he asks expectantly.

"Not really."

"They will explain it better, just remember to find out what the person feels is attractive, for them." the guy says pushing us to the next table.

The next lesson wasn't really that much help, they were twins that seemed to keep and keep on talking. We didn't even really get to even make notes, the session thing is going to be starting in 5 minutes.

"Oh look that guy has green eyes, do you think he's cute?" Sayaki says smugly as we walk to the last stall.

"Hello, is it alright to ask for some advice?" Sayaki says walking over to Leroy he is fairly young must be early twenties, it seems that there is an odd mix of ages and types of people.

"Yes This will only be short, Sabiti's sister and her friend right? " he asks hesitantly.

"Yes we say" frowning at each other".

"Don't worry I knew you weren't friends. But I didn't listen to my gut instincts."

This guy may be as odd as any other.

"You guys are Idols right?" he said in an almost disgusted look.

We nod hesitantly.

"These guys have all abilities but the main thing is that they are liquid with their choices, they don't put that much emphasis, they always trust their gut instincts."

"Will I even get a gut instinct?" I ask, confused.

"Of course. I now need to remember how to set up this weird table. I forget how to do this thing every bloody month" he says, laughing slightly. He now sends us on our way, he is an oddly smiley guy.