After my talk with Carla, I returned home. The sky was darkening, I spent more time with Carla than I planned. It was so enjoyable that I lost track of time. Talking with Carla after a long time felt great. Now we are going on a date on Sunday too.
While walking to my house, the door of the next house opened. From the door come out a girl year younger than me. She had a tanned tan and dark hair gathered as a ponytail.
"Oscar, you're late!"
"...Huh?"
She is Sera Python. Our next-door neighbor's daughter. They moved in about two years ago, I think.
"I was going to ask for your help with my homework. But you are later than usual today!"
"How do you know I'm later than usual?"
"Oh please, auntie talks about you almost every day with my Ma. Anyway, can you help me out?"
"*sigh* Fine. Just give me twenty minutes and get your things in the meantime. I'll be waiting in my house."<
"Haah... Let's take a break. It's more than I thought.""They didn't show mercy. Who would give this much homework in the first week of school?!""Calm down. You are going to make my head hurt shouting like that."It's already been an hour since we begin doing homework. I both helping hers and doing mine at the same time. It makes my head hurt. We only completed like half of it. So much to do.Sera wore rather thin and revealing clothes. I know that she specifically wore this to tease me. She tried similar things before. There is not much to reveal so it doesn't really have an effect on me. I rather see her as a cute girl trying to crossdress like a boy. But as she grows, it's getting harder to confuse her as a boy."You are incredible you know that? I can't even understand half of what's written here.""You are in the last year of Middle School. You need to be at least be capable of doing this much
(Akane's POV)"I'm going to patrol, nibi!""Ok. Take care of yourself, Akane."I'm going to patrol across the surroundings of the church. I don't know why but I feel like something happened close by. It's already night time humans won't come inside the forest, usually.We have to stay hidden. As much as I want to show the greatness of Lady Kairi to everyone, we are not strong enough to protect Lady Kairi. Oscar and I are stronger than normal humans. He has a small number of spells he can cast right now and I only have my body to fight back.We should find a way to get stronger or maybe relocate somewhere safer. But, we can't really leave the lake behind. It's troublesome.I started to patrol around the church. The state of the church is bad. It's filled with trash and it almost collapsed. It's bad but this keeps humans away. We should add something to keep the lake hidden
Today is Saturday. The big day for Jason. And we, boys, have come to make sure his date is successful. Well, the truth is we are jealous of him. You know basic jealously of high school boys. Yes, we are jealous but we would rather watch him and learn from his success or failures. I never understand why the heck jealous boys would beat up their friends when they got girlfriends. We met with boys at the square. There is only Rick, Matt, Lucas and me. We will observe them from a distance so we moved to a spot where we can't be seen. When we arrived there we found a suspicious-looking group of girls. They are the girls in our class and maybe some friends from other classes. "Lydia? Leah?" "Fue!?" "Hue?!" They didn't notice our relatively small group. When I recognized two of them I call out to them. They let out strange voices with a surprise. That was cute. "Hi, Laurel. How are y
(Jason's POV) The movie was... not for me. I don't like the drama genre. The plot of the movie was too dramatic for me. There was a girl whose brother went missing when she was little. She searched everywhere for him but she found nothing. Years later she found a clue about his whereabouts. She followed the clue and went to another country. She did find her brother. But turns out he didn't even know they were siblings. Confusing, right? After that, there is some twist and turns. Eventually, her brother accepts her and they start living happily. But to reach that point, their father died, the best friend of the brother betrayed him then the sister fought with the brother's lover. "The movie was awesome! The sister went through a lot to achieve her dream!" "Yeah, she struggled a lot but she never gave up. It was... refreshing when the ending was so happy." Hope had a beautiful smile whi
It's already dark outside. Jason's date should finish by now. I wonder how it went? I hope he succeeded. He looked so happy before the date. Well, I should worry about my date tomorrow. Where should I take Carla to? I don't have much money on me, so nowhere expensive. Hmm, arcade? Hey, what was the date of tomorrow? It's September 28th. There is a festival in the next city tomorrow. They will be celebrating the birthday of their war hero of the previous war. We can spend time there. The name of that city is Izolis. There is a bus from here to Izolis in the morning. It takes about forty-five minutes of travel by bus. Well, now that I have some sort of plan for tomorrow, I messaged it to Carla. I know that I left the choosing part to her but I kind of felt guilty about it. But turns out she had the exact same plan. We thought the same, huh. The dating stuff is taken care of. Now it's time to st
"I can feel it!" My Aether Organ is finally completed! My body is filling to the brim with mana! It's awesome! This feeling is incredible! I woke up with a feeling that something filling my whole body. It was a difficult feeling to get used to. But I was somehow able to get used to it and get over my shock. Waking up with a feeling of something foreign filling your body was discomforting. The Aether Organ continuously loads mana into my body. It wasn't at the level of Akane. It is very much like a glass of water if Akane's mana reserves are ponds of water. It just completed, I'm sure it will grow with time. I sat cross-legged and focused on my Aether Organ. I want to understand how it works. I can perfectly and easily sense it thanks to its mana-rich structure. First of all, how does it produce mana? I can sense it does process some of my nutrients. But it also draws small amounts of Aether f
(Why did the title of this chapter sound like a light novel name?)I changed my clothes and prepared for the date. We are going to meet at the bus station. The ride from Daxhoull to Izolis is forty-five minutes. We would spend like five or six hours there. And maybe some more time when we return."I'm leaving mom!""Take care of yourself. And don't be late.""Don't worry. I won't be late, mom."I left the home and start walking towards the station. It's rather close by. About fifteen minutes of walking from my house. There are about forty minutes till the time we agreed to meet. Better be early than late.The weather is nice today, sunny and warm. We can leisurely spend our time without worrying about sudden rain or anything. When I arrived at the bus station it was filled with people. They were waiting for a different bus, I think. And yes, about a minute later a bus came and everyone
(Third person POV)"Are you okay? You are acting weird for a while now.""Hmm? Yeah, I'm okay. It's just... this is the first time I'm on a date so I get nervous. Especially with a cute girl like you had here with me gets me quite nervous.""C-cute?! *cough* C-can't be helped then. Shall we sit at some cafe to catch our breath?""That would be great."Oscar and Carla went to a nearby cafe. The festival place was huge and there were many cafes around it. There were a lot of tourists coming to see the festival and many of them were couples.The cafe they were sitting at was called White Blossom. It was one of the most popular ones around. They were able to find seats just by luck. Inside was crowded with couples. Similar to them. The reason for the popularity of this cafe was their sweets. They had a special sweet that no one else knows how to make. Its name was 'Lisamarine'. Named after the Saintess L