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(Rirota's Perspective)
I just want to sleep at home right now, too fucking tired of using my brain to think. Ritoxen duos should be chatting on how to handle with their personality situation and I don't have to know shits about how they will do it.
Riro looked at me with worry kinda made me feel funny and suspicious at the same time. I still don't know why the fuck she slapped my neck for and it left some kind of itch down my neck.
Regardless, I don't care. I just want to head to the 24H Gang convenience store to buy some lunch and head home with her.
We continued to walk down into the city on the way to the store, I wonder if she too... understand where we're going.
I glanced at her sneakily before keeping my eyes back in front.
I could feel sweats dripping down my cheek, why the fuck are you blushing? Are all girls like this or it's just the female me that's incredibly weird as fuck?! I'm sure it's just the genderbent me since Ayani never had random blushes whenever we walked home together a few days ago before all of this happened!
*buzz* *buzz*
I felt vibrations coming from my left's pocket as I reached down into my school pants' pocket to pull out my phone. It was a message from Roukan, someone I would call a...nother annoying friend that always tell me to stop skipping classes and whatnot.
I sighed as I checked on his messages. I decided to read my first message to him that morning.
'Hey. You good? Haven't been to school twice already.'
'Yeah, I'm alright. I just had a terrible cold for the past few days and it also spread over to my sister. Luckily, Naito was having a sleepover at her friend's house so she can very much take care of us.'
'My little sister is a great cook so I'm very happy to be her older brother.'
This fucking sis-con.
I replied to his recent message with an insult, 'Tell her to kick you out of the house if you two kept acting sick.'
And another, just for him.
'Dumb sis-con.'
*buzz*
'We ain't sis-cons! You're just jealous that you only got same aged sister instead of a little sister!'
'I have two older sisters, mind you, ya fucker.'
Fucking hell these two are exact copies alright. How did people in school admire them anyway? Especially this damn Roukan, he's like a playboy in school, always had girls from every clubs asking him out in the painter's club.
But, at home...?
"Haa... I'm too tired of this shit."
"What's up?", Riro's voice startled me. I forgot that she was accompanying me in the city and we were a few blocks away from the store.
I turn to face her while putting my phone away.
"The Mizuzaki's... I asked why they didn't come to school for two days straight now and they replied with being ill."
"Haa... them, huh?"
I could see warm breath escaping her lips, is it cold outside? We shouldn't continue chatting outside then.
"Yeah... a lost cause. Poor Naito, she's working tirelessly to take care of her hopeless twin siblings, especially Roukan."
"And Roun too, she loved chatting about her little sister to me during break, it's annoying."
I sighed.
"Rirota, aren't you going to the convenience store?"
I stopped on my tracks to look at my left and stared upwards toward the signboard of the store in front of us.
'24H Gang'
I nodded and forced a smile to her, "Right, thanks."
I could see Riro's eyes staring at me with warmth, sheesh... She's really unaware of her cuteness. Maybe this is what Gods want to bless me... by sending me and her into this odd world. Hah, I rarely speak of anything like this ever since I resented the Gods for taking away my mother.
Since I was the one who supposed to die that night... Damn it, I wonder how... wait a fucking minute.
I stared at Riro in the eyes as my mouth opened up to ask her an important question, "Do you have older twin siblings and younger twin siblings?"
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Riro looked at him, surprised by his sudden interest in asking for their relatives before leaving home a year ago to live independently, she nodded in response, "Two older brothers and younger sisters."
"Opposite.", he replied without hesitation. Then he grabbed a can of potato chips from the snack aisle. Riro took a glance of the flavour he chose and decided to go for another flavour she liked.
She then asked, "Why's the sudden question?"
Rirota muttered as he walked deeper into the store toward the cold beverages section, "Wouldn't that made your mind jolt? We're no longer a family with five siblings but ten siblings. And we couldn't say that our parents had died in public since I still have a dad, and you still have a mom."
Rirota's thoughts sent shivers down her spine, "Oh fuck... we're still stuck with our original memories from our own worlds. Same might apply to those Virgils and Ritoxens... since they shared the same name, only difference being how much influence they had in their past... or how their body used to act like."
Rirota agreed, "Like the Ritoxen's case with his original self having a split personality disorder. Now in this world, they're separated with different personality and genders.
For Virgils, Virgil back in the freshman year with me, he tried to make me teach him how to fight and I refused. He tried to get my attention on the final exam that year to find himself on third place while I stole first."
Riro added, with her own memory of Vee, "For my Virgil, or Vee right now... a couple of months ago, we had a test and she challenged me for the first ranking spot on the board. She became second and stopped coming to class, I found her smoking cigars with other delinquents and tried to..."
Riro sighed, annoyed with how that memory turned Vee to how she acted now in this world, "Well, different executions that led to the same outcomes. That's what made our lives right now."
Rirota nodded, "Glad I have a smart sister, But, we do need to see other possibilities of why we get to keep our own separate memories and not having a mixed lifestyle just as the rest of this world?"
He continued after taking out a 1.5ml bottle of strawberry flavoured milk from the display fridges, "Just like what happened to Kirigayas and Mizuzakis, what about their siblings from their original world then? Why are they still the same as if they've come to terms to this odd worlds like it was bound to be the truth?"
Riro grabbed the 1.5ml bottle from his hand as she watched him grab another bottle for himself, she thought for a moment of his questions to wonder herself, "...Hmmm, you reckon we should go visit Kero KC and Naito for questions? Or, should we talk about what's up with our family first?"
Rirota shook his head on her latter question, "Highly doubt anything's different other than the quantity of our siblings for that regard. But, we should at least question Kaeden-san... whenever he's not fucking busy with acting gigs that is."
Riro tilted her head slightly, exposing her beautiful neck, "Not Naito? We can go visit the Mizuzaki's anytime after school."
She lifted her eyes to stare at the ceiling for a moment, she took her time to detect several dust accumulated on the ceiling lights before facing him with a plan, "We can go there now, since we're off school."
Rirota sighed, "I doubt she's home, pretty sure both sis-cons are though, which is annoying to deal with."
Riro nudged her shoulder against his arm, "It's fine~ I'll handle the boy and you'll handle the girl."
He frowned at her plan, he felt something jabbing his heart hearing her wanting to handle Roukan, "... I'd rather not, I'll handle Roukan, you have your own Roukan-"
She finished his words with a mischievous smile on her face, "Roun's her name. Well, let's pay up and go home for now."
"Rog.", Rirota nodded, [Roukan is a playboy... are the same rule apply for Roun? A playgirl? That doesn't sound right... I'll just watch how Riro reacted to her first but...]
He glanced down as a tired sigh escaped his body. He felt as if they can never return back to their original world from how everything had transpired so far. He was too exhausted to think of a solution to help improve their situation in order to find a way home.
Rirota looked at the back of her head with sorrowful eyes. He was worried for their lives back in their own worlds. If they were to spent any longer in this merged world, what would really happen to their own lives back home? Will it go back to normal?
Or will... he forget anyone he's met in this merged world? He shook his head inwardly. He... missed his real family and friends back home, the ones he usually deemed as annoying friends are the ones he cherished the most. Trying to get Virgil back on the right path...
[Haa... I'm feeling desperate, I wonder if there's someone else out there wanting to go home.]