2 Nice to meet you, my first love
"Thanks for the food," Akira clapsed his hand while saying his gratitude to the Katomother, who provided him with a free dinner where fresh, warm tamagoyaki and miso soup were served to him.
Of course, he eats it with gusto, as the sight alone tickles and enchants his empty stomach.
When Akira was busy eating the food, Megumi approached her mother, who was cleaning the kitchen. It seems that girl wants to ask something about the man who suddenly appears to be her distant relative.
"Megumi-chan? What's wrong?" Her mother asked when she saw her daughter approach her and help her clean the kitchen.
"Mom, why don't you say anything that there's going to be a strange... I mean, is a cousin going to live with us? Does dad know about this?"
Megumi actually feels quite uncomfortable that suddenly there's a man who she doesn't know going to live with her and her family.
Her mother claimed he was a distant relative, but that alone could not have prepared her to accept his sudden appearance.
She was usually ignored by her parents and surroundings, as if she possessed a natural ability to enter stealth mode due to her faint presence.
Still, being a girl, especially a teenager, had its own set of concerns and discomforts, especially since she is not used to being near people of the opposite gender.
It is not like she had any friends of the same gender to claim that girl was her best friend in front of her family.
Overall, she had her own circumstances and problems as a girl, a teenager, and an individual.
"Well, it's been a long time since her parents contacted me to inform me that Akira was going to study in Japan for a while, as he loved the culture of our country."
Megumi Mama knows exactly what her daughter is concerned about. She then washed her hands and wiped them with a dry, clean hand towel.
She then hugs her daughter while brushing her hair softly.
"Megumi, I hope you can get along with Akira. I know it's not good to say something without his concern, but there's something that happened to him not long ago.
His parents were actually already gone, and mom too was shocked when hearing the news.
Because of this, he was left alone, as there's no family nearby, and he was living in a quite distant place where there are few people in the village."
Megumi Mama cannot help but sigh depressingly and almost cry, remembering her youngest sister's face in her memory.
"Me and dad decide to let him live with us, as well as to be his guardian. Who knows what he is going to be if he is left alone?"
She then smiled before kissing the top of her daughter.
"Akira, our mother, was the youngest of our siblings. Where she was love to follow me around from we were just children, then grown up to be a fine woman."
"She also had the same circumstances as mom, where she sever with the Kato family as her husband was a poor man who was an orphan. It's just me who she occasionally calls and loves to share her stories with her husband."
"Megumi, mom once again begs you to get along with Akira. He was a nice boy, you know; also, in the past, don't you remember that you two promised to get married while their family visited us?"
Megumi, who heard her mama's words carefully from the beginning, enjoyed her embrace and heat.
Stunned by hearing that kind of information, she just fell silent while taking a peek at Akira, who was busy with his own food without paying attention to them.
She, who doesn't know well about the opposite sex, feels something weird that seems to have slowly been planted in her heart.
About her memory, it's normal for someone who cannot remember so well what happened in their childhood, where the function of the camera and photo became useful to save their memories, which are usually saved in the family album.
Still, as a girl and teenager, she can say that Akira. Her cousin was good-looking, especially those red pupils of his that seemed to have their own charm.
This made her unknowingly have a faint blush on her cheeks, and if she knew about it, all she could do was blame her teenager and the curiousity of the girl of the opposite sex.
Megumi Mama, of course, saw those faint blushes of her daughter. This made her giggle faintly, as it's normal for her to be attractive to Akira.
As that man really carried the perfect genes of her mother and her father, that made him such a natural, good-looking, and attractive man.
She glanced at Akira, especially those red pupil eyes of his that really reminded her of her beloved sister (Akira mother), and those sharp, good-looking faces reminded her of his father.
'Sigh... What a sinful man you give birth, sister.'
No one knows what she was thinking, as she also accidentally had a faint blush while quickly shaking her head and sighing at something.
"....." Akira.
Akira, who has been said to be engrossed in the food, can just be silent and act like a dense idiot.
He can clearly hear those two conversations due to the distance between the kitchen and dining table, which are separated by a half-wall partition.
He cannot help but sigh internally, as he himself just knows his background from the word that came out from Megumi Mama.
'Gaia... What kind of background story of mine you setting at...'
•••
After eating some warm food and taking a bath, he can finally sit on the bed in his room, which Megumi and her mama were cleaning while he was bathing.
Megumi's house was average in size, with three bedrooms and two bathrooms on the upper and ground floors.
The reason the Kato family had a guest room was the idea of Megumi Mama, who purposefully made the room for Akira's parents because she knew her youngest sister would visit her in the future.
That's how Megumi Mama really loves her youngest sister; for the others, she really doesn't care, as they're the ones who despise her in the first place.
It's lucky that her family didn't cause her any trouble when they already separated their ties with each other. Like you know, how gruesome those petty families are, especially those old geezers that hold grudges against they're rebellious daughters.
She leaves the family who had raised her just to live with the unknown man, who doesn't hold any good image according to their standard family.
"Sigh... It's just a few hours since I entered this world, and it's already draining my mental energy."
He cannot help but complain a little, as he never thought that the world itself, Gaia,. It really made him have a connection with Kato Megumi, where he thought it would be nice to have a girlfriend whose personality looked like hers.
Megumi was a boring heroine if one just took a glance at her character. But if you look carefully at her development,. She was the one who knew Tomoya best and was very observant of him.
She was an ideal girl, and she tried her best to change herself to be better, not just for Tomoya but for herself too.
"Sigh... What should I do from now on? It's really awkward to know that I'm going to live with her and her family, as they're cousins."
Akira lies his back into bed, looking at the ceiling while wandering.
He's grateful for what Gaia gave him, but at the same time, it's made him feel awkward to act normally while being around his first love.
Yes, first love. Kato Megumi was his first love, and he really thought in his heart that he really wanted a girlfriend with personality like her, especially all those natural looks like interaction with Tomoya, where she went from being a boring girl with a low presence to being such a lovely, nice, warm girl that enticing his heart seeing her development character.
Naturally, Kato was not the best at beauty, as she had a poisonous tongue, black silk senpai, or a gap in her personality from sweet childhood that made you want to tease her and make her angry or flustered.
"Fuck it, just act like you don't know well who she is."
Akira thought about romance in his previous life before he died and met Alaya and Gaia as wandering souls.
In his previous life, he was a normal man who wanted to experience youth and have a sweet girlfriend with whom he could spend time and do many things as a couple.
His appearance was average, or slightly above average, as he was tall like a basketball player, with a height of more than 180 cm, despite the fact that he was not even in high school.
It's not a brag, but there are so many girls who seem to have a crush on him that they find he's a cool boy with such a tall and slightly above-average appearance.
Still, if being compared to a real, true handsome man, he was nothing. Where there's a man who's really attractive in the same year as him, a real cassanova, but has a cold personality and serious attitude, those young girls with a full of curious teenagers explosive hormones seem to want to enter his world and know more about him.
All in all, Akira can seek out a girl to be his girlfriend. But at the same time, due to the influence of Kato Megumi and his mature personality, being compared to those teenagers at the same age by him made him give up, as it's just going to hurt the girl if he doesn't really love the girl with all his heart.
Genuine feelings.
He learned about the term from another complicated youth love story in the form of a light novel and anime, Oregairu.
He does not fully grasp the meaning of the term, but he can apply it to his problem.
He also wants to know about his true feelings about love, life, and even himself.
"..."
Akira cannot help but scoff at himself as he recalls how hollow his life is, as he simply follows the same routine as the students, which he does not find amusing at all.
His life was quite monotonous, and he had no dreams like everyone else.
Before, he met and entered the universe that had been built by Type-Moon. At least he finds it amusing to dive deep into every detail in the Nasuverse.
Servant, Heroic Spirit, Holy Grail, Church, Red Moon, Mystic Eyes, Mage Craft, True Magic, Counter Fource, Root, and all kinds of complicated terms that cannot be understood with just a quick look.
The first thing that he finds amusing is that, who insane person is that gender bender of King Arthur to be such a gluttonous king who loves to eat and has such a red dragon in her bloodline?
Artoria Pendragon.
The girl has always been his favorite, no matter how many characters have been introduced to him when he is diving deeper into the Nasuverse.
"I cannot help but feel excited to know that in the future I will meet the real Artoria with my own eyes."
He chuckled before grabbing his smartphone to see what time it is, as he began to plunder so many thoughts in his head.
"It is quite late," he said, seeing that it was already past 9 p.m.
He then got up from the bed to put all his belongings from the suitcase in their own place.
Well, all he had in the suitcase were his daily clothes and the uniform clothes that he will be attending tomorrow as a transfer student, which looked quite good and had such high-quality material on them.
"Tommorow, I will go to the school where all the main heroines and Tomoya are."
He read from another email from Alaya on his smartphone that he would attend the first grade of high school. His age was the same as that of his last previous life before he met death.
"Hmmm? Wait a minute."
He noticed something that concerned his mind: the school uniform was not like the original anime that he had seen in his previous life. Where the school uniform design reminds him of such a turn-based RPG game that was just released not long ago before his death.
"Isn't this the school uniform of Shujin Academy? What's going on here?"
"Don't tell me, is this slice of life world going to be an alternate universe of stories that I know from previous lives?"
He frowned for a while before nodding in sigh, as he knew that it's common for transmigrators like him to be in such an alternate universe.
After he put all his belongings in their place, he then tried to sleep fast as he still had to grind like crazy and power up himself in his <Personal Pocket Dimension.< p>
After all, the diluted time between the two spaces was 1:1, where he had at least 6 hours before waking up in the morning in reality.
"Good night," he said before closing his eyes and diving into his pocket dimension.
