Instant Time Mage 6
[Oy, junior of mine! Don't ignore me, I just want to hang out with you like what we did in middle school. Actually, no. I need your help! Come let's use a shortcut-- tch, bastard, are you trying to embarrass your senior here, hah?!]
Gross...
[You hang out in that expensive Cafe, too? Me too! Let's go hangout after school?]
You girls...
[Eh?! really?! Dragon Fantasy VII special deluxe edition is out on early-access?! I gotta buy that game even if it costs me my life!]
You guys...
[That junior you invited in our last karaoke was really cute and good in singing. Don't you think she's planning to become an idol? Oh bro, you gotta set me up with her next time, alright?!]
You all...
[I really hate that gloomy guy sitting at my back. He's so awkward and gross and the way he smiles is just creepy. I only talked to him out pity because no one bothers too... Worst mistake of my life!]
You people make me sick!!!
GUghhh... I'm gonna vomit...
Must... Stay away... From society...
...
Ahh...
Finally, a lonely alleyway where I can recover my eroded spirit.
Oh man, what the hell was that?
When did going outside feels so disgusting?
When did the people around me feels so hollow and dark with a sense of foreboding?
When did the world I live in turn black and white?
When did I become so aware and so repulsed at society's other side?
When did the things I like felt so empty?
When did the cake I ate taste so revolting?
When did everything turn out this way?
And why am I like this?
I lifted and look at my palms sweating from nervousness. They were shaking and trembling from anxiousness. And I felt cold and forlorn that amplified my sense of foreboding.
What is this sense of defeat?
Why do I feel so alone?
So cold, forlorn, and alone?
Does anybody realize what's happening to society?!
Innocent people are straying further from God here...
Is this happening everywhere else, too?
Why didn't I notice this before?
It was right before me this whole time but I didn't even notice...
Haah... haah...
...
What am I even doing with my life?
[Oh? Hey, it's you! Hey, what's the matter? You look a little pale. Should I call help?]
I thought I could catch my breath here but who knew my relief wouldn't last in this loneliness?
Luckily though, it's just a passing female Samaritan asking me out of concern.
It seems she knows me but I don't know her... Am I getting popular lately?
I look pale, huh? Maybe you should really call for help.
[No, thanks. Don't worry. I can't handle, without enough sleep.]
[Really? Then it must be rough for you.]
She showed a look of understanding in response to my white lie. Exuding no aura that I felt revolted off.
[Yeah, but I'm toughing it out. Don't worry.]
[Are you sure? ... Well, I guess if you're a guy then you wouldn't want to look uncool... Okay, don't worry, I'm the student council vice-president of your school now, not another girl who likes run her mouth. So, I'll keep this a secret.]
[Student council vice-president? Nice to meet you!]
Wow, to think I would be meeting an elite of my high-school in my tenth day as a freshman?
We exchange greetings, bows and handshakes.
Wow, even her hand is so delicate yet I can tell that she wields the kitchen knife like a pro.
And judging by the conversation and actions she did earlier, it seems she is indeed the vice president as she displayed manners befitting of a role model student.
Plus, she's not disgusting!
This is the first time I've felt this way about someone.
She's a sweet looking girl. Intelligence was sparkling in her eyes. And did I forgot to mention that she's not disgusting?
I... I think I've found my crush?!
[Vice president!]
[You don't have to shout. What was it?]
I'm gonna say it...
I'm gonna say it now!
[This is the first time we've met and you're so nice to me in the morning and I can tell your a fine cook after checking your delicate hand and I know you can hold the kitchen knife like a pro and you smell like vegetables so your lunch must also be vegetables too and I also have vegetables for lunch so I was thinking... Hhaah... PLEASE GO OUT WITH ME?!]
There, I said it!
I said what needs to be said!
And I bowed my head deeper than ever before.
Wow, I never knew that my head was so heavy after surpassing the limits of bowing but whatever.
I need this girl in my life, right now!
But there was only silence between us and the tension grew awkwardly suffocating. I look up to see her face. Only to see her staring wide-eyed at me with her face growing red.
[W... Wh... Wha... What? What... Did you say?!]
[Please go out with me?]
I repeat, please go out with me?
[Y-yo-you... Do you even understand what you're saying?!]
[I know what I said.]
[You do?!]
Will you take this seemingly random chick from nowhere as your partner beholded into your romantic, adolescent affair?
[I do.]
[You...]
She couldn't believe me no matter how many times I said it. And because we were too near in front of the public, she pushed me back deeper into the alleyway where we can even be more alone.
[You... You just met me... Why confess to me at such an ungodly hour?!]
[Love at first sight.]
[That's a myth!]
[I didn't believe before but I do now.]
[What... No, never mind that. Do you know who I even am?]
[The vice president.]
[Wro-- No, that's actually correct. But... What make you think you can just confess to me with these half-baked words that don't make sense?!]
[Will joining the student council members make sense?]
[You... You're planning to join?!]
Her eyes went wide as saucers at this point. And her face grew even redder.
[Yes. So, I can spend time closer with you, helping you with your duties of vice president as a member there.]
Yeah, join the student council league!
It would be fun, I say!
Make it fun, I say!
[You would what?!]
She was starting to doubt her ears at this point. And her face grew even redder.
[T-th-then... What if I say I already like someone?]
STOP!
[What did you say?]
Because my momentum was stopped here, vice president can finally catch her breath after being pushed back to a corner in our wars of words. I waited for her to answer me and she finally settled her nerves and looked at me in the eyes but she was a tiny bit anxious to do so. But after flinching, she finally said, with serious mien.
[I said... What if, I say... I already like someone?]
[...]
You... already like someone?
What... What do you mean?!
This... Thisthisthisthisthisthisthis---
I suddenly felt so many deeply ingrained components of my body malfunctioning. My brain, my heart, my blood and temperature were crumbling me at this very moment.
My mind felt hazy and lightheaded. Like I was about to lose consciousness at any moment.
Ah. But I wanted to talk some more with her. I want to spend time with her. This is what I'm wanting so why is my body... Failing...
§
Wait, what's happening?
I was talking to a girl, right? No, wait, I was confessing to the vice president!
Dammit! What happened!
After she asked me that question my vision suddenly zoomed out to black and...
Where am I exactly?
It's so dark in here... Wait? That's light over there. Huh?
What's this thing? It's glowing like star but it's so lonely out here... Can I touch it?
Woah... Wait, woah... Wait... This is?!
Yes, this is what it is! I know what it is!
This will let me exceed my limits!
Okay, since I know, I know what to do next.
Now then, enough game talk.
I want you and there's nothing you can do about it.
You may have knocked me out unconscious with one question. But I'm not gonna let my subconscious lose you.
Alright, go, me!
Exceed your limits right now!
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[Who is it?]
Just when Vice President thought that she had gain the upper hand in this battle, she was taken by surprise by the calm, rational tone of my voice.
Of course, this isn't me anymore. I have already surpassed the limits of my consciousness and entered the state of pure rationality.
My objective now is you, vice president. I must have you and you have no choice but to choose to belong to me.