Half-Forgotten Promise and the Resolve of Fists

"Karai, I forgot that no humans were in this dorm, we got here before they could."

"Ok, let's go in now!"

"Where did your trembling went?"

 

He's not shaking anymore knowing the monsters were still at school. But Meira's here though...

 

I opened the door first and got attacked by Shira and Gin, I thrown out to the outside again. They make my uniform got dirty.

 

"Shiro-kun, you got another one in just one day? Amazing..."

"This golden retriever puppy is Shira, Meira's puppy. Did you think I can handle them both!?"

"No, I doubt it. Since you're stupid..."

"Don't say it out loud on my face!"

 

They barked continuously to me asking for something, of course they are asking for food. Good thing that Meira still have some dog foods at the corner of the kitchen.

 

"Okay, Gin and Shira, wait for a bit! Karai, you enter fi..."

 

I turn my head to the right and found he's already gone.

 

"Sorry for interrupting~!"

 

He said that when he's already at the inside of the dorm, at the living room.

 

"Oy! Don't barge in without permissions!"

"It's a dorm for students, so it's fine right~?"

"...I can't deny it... but..."

"Relax~! I won't disturb the class rep!"

"How did you know that she's living here?"

"It's very simple to predict, but I won't tell you! She's absent not because she catch a cold, but because something happened, am I right~?"

"Why the average grader knows how to conclude things rightly!"

"I said it before, grades aren't all about in this world~! I also said it, I hijacked all form of the students~"

"That's a crime you know..."

 

No matter what happens, I think he won't lefts any traces of doing crimes, knowing it's a crime. I fed Gin and Shira with the dog foods that Meira brought here. They ate happily and it makes me kinda happy too. But I thought for a second, Karai's very sharp but he just in average group. His intelligent's more than enough to make him the top 10, but why he didn't show it? Why he just keeping quiet while observing people around him? This riddle sure is hard to solve. What he said to me was only concerned about one thing and that's about Meira, he really irritates me, but I can't stop wondering why’s the reason he hid his intelligent in school education.

 

"So~ let's start the duel~!"

"Bring it on!"

 

We went to my room and turns on our laptops, of course we plug the charger, it seems both of our laptops is in battery crisis.

 

*welcome to DD world!* the sounds of the game when we start the exe program.

 

"What kind of game you played yesterday when calling me, Karai?"

"This game."

 

Now... I feel I don't have any hope, but I won't believe it if I don't saw it with my own eyes, what happened in that quest yesterday, is it really this guy's strength? I want to know it as the creator member!

 

"Is it okay to use our own ID?"

"Sure, go on!"

 

An online game just I explained before, in online games, we can create our own character limited by the system. In online games, we can communicate with each other, play together, and... meetings too...

 

"The rule is a sudden death, okay Shiro-kun?"

"Okay!"

 

The rule of sudden death game, there's no time limit, the side that stood at the end of the game win, you may use your inventory and items, grenades and melees are allowed, and shuffle the map construction randomly (the normal settings in the game).

 

In online games, the nickname and ID are different, ID is to access your account and nickname is to show your name to everyone. I saw his nickname in the game and the bar shows nothing.

 

"Karai... you used software to hide your status didn't you?"

"You sure catch fast."

 

I've heard before, there's some people who hid their status but not much. The people who hid their status became larger and larger since a player that hid his status shows up. Last year, he shows up at the final floor of dungeon after making a broadcast to all players in the game. I was free at the time, so I decided to saw him battle with the boss. Many players said that is impossible to defeat the boss alone, but I saw with my own eyes, an unknown player defeated the last boss alone. Then, he declared his own nickname as...

 

"Kagerou..."

"It's an honor that you recognize me, software creator-san. As I expected, you used your usual GM ID, *Shirogane*."

 

He knew that I'm the one who was in charge of the creating the software of this game? Just who's this guy...

 

"Thanks for fulfilling your promise that you make to me last spring."

"Huh...?"

"The promise you gave me last year. I never expected you're on the same age as me. You're a genius, really."

 

This bring back my memories, I think I got an e-mail from a player on the same age as me that wants to ask some advices to me, I just remembered it now. That time, he asked that if the one that he love is died, what should he do.

 

My view's blurred to what that guy's said, I saw an image if Meira died and I don't know what to do. Just by imagining it, it was like being slashed by a guillotine.

 

I want to be useful to people who depends on me, but I can't give any answer that just pop out to my mind, this guy's really in a deep pain. A mistake just will crash his heart, one miss and it's over for this guy. Let her go is not an option to tell him, just by reading the e-mail makes me wants to cry.

 

Then, I come into a conclusion and promised him that *I will make a device that let you talk with spirits*. I know it sounds impossible, but he believed me. He must be the one who told Kazuki-sensei about my blog.

 

"After reading that you completed the device, I told sensei about it."

 

So that's how it is. Now, I remember the reason I made that *Yomi no Yubi*.

 

But, isn't that means he love Yuri? How can he says very cold thing to me...

 

*bugh* without thinking, I just punched him, if it's on the road, maybe I already go to the nearest police office.

 

"Why did you say such a word yesterday?!"

 

I expected him to punch back at me, but he didn't punch me back.

 

"Answer me! At least with your fists!"

 

He still didn't punch me back.

 

"Is this how small you love Yuri!? And you said that you love her!? Don't screw with me!"

 

*bugh* it's the double impact of my punch throwing my body into gravity rule. His hands are trembling after punching me.

 

"Even I... won't stay still if you underestimate my love to Yuri!"

 

He continuously beat my face that it makes me hard to talk for a while.

 

Then,he stopped for a while.

 

"That's good. Punch me more till you satisfied..."

 

He stopped punch me after I said that.

 

“Sorry… though you did fulfill your promise… I…”

“It’s fine… after imagining your situation, I would do the same thing as you did, except for meddling with my daily life in these two days and the thing that you deceived that your own feelings.”

“I’m sorry…”

 

He gave me a hand to stand up, and I almost can’t expect any word than what he said now.

 

“I surrender.”

 

Again… unbelievable words.

 

“What!?”

“Like I said, I surrender.”

 

Even though we still haven’t done anything duel-likely. He just surrendered to me easily, I know something though, that I can’t win against him in DD World by fair duel.

 

“That means…”

“It’s your win, I’ll do as the promise said.”

“Thanks…”

 

But sure Karai, even if you not telling me to do it, I’m sure I will confess my feelings to her one day. I don’t want to make the same mistake as you. Just imagining she would die young before she spends her youth is just painful to me, so…

 

“I’ll confess my feelings to Meira, before we graduated into the third year, before Madoka-senpai graduates from middle school. So, you must do the same thing too, before Yuri left this world.”

“What do you mean!?”

“After she already solves her regrets that she left in this world, maybe she’ll go to the afterlife, that’s the best choice that spirits should do.”

“I knew that would happen, but still…”

“Just be grateful that she’s still here! Be grateful that you still have chances to confess your feelings! Many people lost their loved one before they can confess their feelings, and you know how that felt too! So… please… don’t waste this one time chance…”

 

I know normally you won’t answer my declaration, but what did he said? I would never expect any better words than…

 

“Just like the gamble you make, I’ll confess my feelings on Christmas, I also will help you with your love.”

“I respect your choice to help me and took my advice, but please, I want to tell her my own feelings by myself without help.”

“Then, I’ll back off, good luck!”

“You too!”

 

After that, I learned what made Karai so annoying, but I still don’t get about his grades. But with this, we have enough members to make the doujinshi club as an official club.

 

If I think about it, Meira’s still here in the dorm, I hope she didn’t hear our conversation. I’m worried because the wall’s pretty thin.

 

"You know, Karai..."

"What, Shirogane?"

"I think you should go back with Shiro-kun."

"Why~?"

"Online players have to protect their privacies, and please took off the bug that you set on me, it really irritates me!"

"...sorry..."