After lunch, Sakuta dragged Ryuji to the kitchen.
He said he was helping with the dishes, but he was actually talking about Kaede's situation.
"What do you think about Kaede's situation?" Sakuta asked.
"She looks very sweet and has a good personality. She must be very popular among her friends," Said Ryuji.
"I think so too," Sakuta continued naturally, "But that's not what I want to know."
Ryuji rolled his eyes, "Do you think I'm a god? I can tell his condition just by looking at her?"
He really knows quite a bit.
Through physical touch, Ryuji injected magic power into Kaede's body, and he could feel that his mind seemed to be blocked.
It sounds very metaphysical, but explaining it in more scientific terms is... Amnesia.
But what's interesting is that the memories sealed by the shackles seem to be starting to loosen, will Kaede get her memories back?
Kaede suffers from a type of amnesia called dissociative disorder. Different from ordinary amnesia, in the more than two years since the previous memory was lost, a new personality was born in the original body.
If her memory recovers, where will Kaede's current personality go?
After thinking about it, Ryuji didn't tell Sakuta about this speculation for now.
Even though he knew it, there was nothing he could do, at least for now.
After putting away the tableware and chatting with Kaede for a while, Ryuji left the Azusagawa house.
Kaede's condition wasn't serious enough to restore her memory immediately.
Sakuta was one of his few friends, and Ryuji wouldn't be stingy with his power in such a matter.
"Hyakki-san, are you leaving?"
After Ryuji left, Kaede's expression darkened slightly.
"I would invite him to my house if I had the chance," Sakuta comforted her.
"Too bad. I should have let Hyakuki-san have dinner," Kaede said.
Sakuta's mood was subtle. He called Ryuji here, but he distracted his little sister. This feeling of difference... Could he really be a siscon?
On his way home, Ryuji met a girl dressed in white holding an umbrella.
"One person?"
There was no one else nearby, so Ryuji could only think that the girl was talking to him.
But Ryuji didn't want to answer such an understanding question.
"Ah, do you think I am a strange older sister?" The girl looked embarrassed.
Ryuji looked at the girl and frowned.
Because the girl looks familiar, not a stranger.
"Shoko?"
The girl in front of him is very similar to Makinohara Shoko who is in the first year of junior high school, to be honest, she looks like an adult version of Shoko.
"Does Ryuji-kun recognize me? This is indeed a fateful meeting.." The girl took off her umbrella and showed her face.
"Let me introduce myself again, I'm Shoko, please give me your advice," Shoko smiled.
The streets are not suitable for chatting, so Ryuji becomes curious about Shoko and invites her to a cafe.
At the coffee shop, Shoko orders.
"I want a cup of mocha, and for Ryuji-kun, it should be a cappuccino, right?" Shoko asked with a smile.
"Yeah," Ryuji nodded.
He had already guessed about Shoko in front of him.
This Makinohara Shoko probably came from the future or another time and space, and was the same person as the little Makinohara Shouko who was in the 1st year of junior high school, so she called his name and knew the coffee he was drinking.
When the coffee was ready and served, the waiter left.
Ryuji asked straight to the point: "Are you Shoko from the future?"
Shoko was stunned for a moment, then sipped her coffee slowly, as if stung by the bitter taste, then stuck out her tongue.
"Is Ryuji-kun so straightforward? I never noticed it before," Shoko said.
"So you admit it?"
Shoko nodded, "I have no intention of denying it."
"Very weird. According to convention, isn't it to avoid the paradox of space and time that we usually deny that we come from the future?"
Shoko twitched the corners of her mouth, "As expected of a novelist, Ryuji-kun has a very rich imagination."
"But that has nothing to do with the paradox of time and space. As long as I exist naturally in the present, those theories will not come to pass."
Ryuji nodded, not worrying too much about this issue.
"Then why did you go back to the past?" Ryuji asked.
Shoko smiled and said, "Because of you, I went back to the past, Ryuji-kun."
"Um."
"Eh, you're not surprised?"
Ryuji rolled his eyes, "Didn't you come looking for me? I'm not a fool."
"…That makes sense." Shoko looked defeated.
"Then I will tell you directly, I… want to be Ryuji-kun's bride!"
"Poof!"
Ryuji took a sip of coffee and dreaded the topic of Shoko.
"I am just kidding."
Ryuji's expression changed slightly.
"Actually, I will be Ryuji-kun's bride in the future!"
"Poof!"