88 Haruna's hope and Eiji's help
[The way to cure a person possessed by a loose soul is to make that person fall in love with someone.]
[In Haruna's case, the girl had to fall in love with a man in order for the loose soul inside her to leave her body!]
"...." Haruna widened her eyes, she didn't know what to say.
[In this plot, the next few days after Haruna became more depressed because she was replaced by someone else for the inter-school tennis tournament.]
[The loose soul inside her makes her condition worse. She is often absent-minded and feels that the world is very unpleasant.]
[Not long after that, she was almost hit by a car on the road which fortunately she survived because the protagonist Rito saved her!]
[Even though it was a coincidence that Rito was there, but that situation was created because the World's Will was very cunning and made such a scenario to make a girl like Haruna's heart flutter!]
[Not only was the loose soul successfully removed from Haruna's body, but the girl also fell in love with Rito again.]
Is there such a thing?
The will of the world is scary...
Haruna felt her head throbbing, she felt sick knowing her own future.
Although she knew how to remove the loose soul from her body so that she could return to normal and be able to participate in the tournament that would be held the day after tomorrow without worry.
But...
But... The trick is that she has to fall in love with someone? And it just so happened that the plot this time was deliberately created so that she could fall in love with Rito again?
If it was her a few weeks ago where she was still stupid and blind to like Rito so much.
She was fine and would rather go see Rito so that the boy could help her.
But now? After she was so disappointed in Rito and had completely thrown away her love for the boy.
That thing called a plot wants to manipulate her.
Even her, even though she always came across as a good girl.
She could not help but be disgusted by the World's Will and even Rito who in the plot made her fall in love with him again.
Haruna certainly did not want to follow things that had been decided by someone like the World's Will or whatever it was.
Who are you to rule my life? If it's my parents, fine. But who made that cunning plot to manipulate her feelings? She didn't want to let anyone succeed!
Even so...
"What should I do? How can I fall for someone other than Rito?"
Subconsciously she certainly thought of Eiji, but she quickly shook her head.
She was indeed rather attracted to the boy, especially when she remembered his cock which made her blush again.
But the boy didn't seem too interested in her which made her sad.
[Should I help her? The truth is that I was standing here to help that girl. It's just that the way is quite troublesome. I don't mind helping her, but making her fall in love with me? Even if I tell Haruna what really happened, she will definitely think I want to take advantage of her].
"No! I won't think that way!" Haruna subconsciously said, she was certainly happy to know the other party was standing so long at the edge of the field with the intention of helping her, she was touched and it made her relax her vigilance on Eiji.
Turns out the boy was thinking of me...
Worrying about me...
Makes my heart feel a little sweet...
[No, if I tell her about the loose soul in her body, it will make it harder for her to fall in love because she's thinking about this.]
"But I already know..."
Haruna was helpless when she heard this and smiled wryly.
'I've long been able to hear your inner voice, but you didn't know this.'
Actually she had long wanted to tell Eiji that she could hear his inner voice, but she couldn't say it because her voice always disappeared when she wanted to say those things.
But still.
Now, would that boy really help her? If it was Eiji, he might...might not be that bad. Even though that boy had a lot of women, he was a good person, even to the point of being willing to stand there for so long to help her.
Haruna felt that if in order to get the loose soul out of her body she had to fall in love with someone, she felt that if that person was Eiji, she now wouldn't mind.
It was actually because the situation was urgent and the tournament she wanted to join was getting closer, remembering what she promised to the senior before.
She felt Eiji was the only person who could help her!
Before tomorrow, she must recover and be able to play tennis normally!
Although now she can also play tennis, but her skills have become so bad as if her body is not her own.
This feeling is very annoying.
From a distance, she looked at Eiji who was standing in the distance with an expectant gaze.
From another person's point of view, the two seemed to be a girl and a boy looking at each other from a distance.
With the background of the tennis court, the orange sky, and the leaves flying from the trees.
People feel like they are looking at a spring scene where they would be mistaken just by looking at it.
Oh my...
What are these two people doing?
Looking at each other for so long.
If people said it was a staring contest, they wouldn't believe it!
However, at this moment, the girl's side panicked.
"No, no, aren't you going to help me? Why are you leaving..."
Haruna was dumbfounded, she looked at Eiji's back who instead of approaching her, he just left the tennis court area and left from there.
She couldn't even see his back anymore which made her hand that was stretched out into the air, instantly fall.
She was left behind.
Eiji seemed to have changed his mind and did not want to help her.
Why?
Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?
Is she less beautiful than Lala and the others or what?
Was it because she had previously dated Rito who was the boy's enemy or what?
Haruna didn't understand, she felt desperate now and wondered if Eiji hated her? Thinking about this, she felt very uncomfortable.
I feel like this world is getting gloomy.
How about asking Rito for help? That boy might be willing to help her get the loose soul out of her body in exchange for her falling in love with him again.
Thinking of this, she shook her head, disgusted at being almost tempted.
Falling in love with Rito? Wasn't that the same as following the scenario created by the World's Will or whoever it was? No, it wasn't.
She wouldn't do that.
Glancing at the tennis racket in her hand, she gripped it tightly.
What if her tennis playing skills became poor due to the influence of loose soul? If she practiced harder while ignoring all the uncomfortable feelings in her body.
Perhaps, she could at least play tennis normally and be able to enter the tournament the day after tomorrow!
What's more important is to convince the people in her club that she's fine!
"Haruna, we're done practicing. Let's go home." The girls in the tennis club said that with their respective bags, but she stood up and shook her head.
"No, you guys just go home first. I'll still continue practicing in a bit."
"Eh, are you sure? Didn't you say you weren't feeling well before?" One of the girls said worriedly.
Haruna forced smile.
"It's okay, I'm already feeling better. I still have to improve my skills before the tournament starts.
Although the girls nodded, there were also some of them who sneered.
These girls...
They must really want to replace her.
Even so, she didn't think much of it and decided to duel with the wall until nightfall.
...
The sun has set.
The moon shines brightly.
Although at this time of the year, usually all the students and teachers at school have gone home.
But...
The purple-haired girl who continued to practice tennis alone at the tennis court did not.
The silver-haired boy who was currently watching the purple-haired girl from a hidden place was not either.
Both of them were still at school.
Now Eiji was leaning against a tree yawning and occasionally looking at his watch.
"It's almost 8pm already."
"Oh my... How long is this girl going to practice? Not afraid of breaking her hand?"
Luckily he had already told Lala and the others that he would be home late and they could eat dinner and sleep without waiting for him.
Miss System also kept watching Haruna from earlier, she was bored to death and couldn't resist asking her doubts.
¶{Host, host.}
"What?"
This woman definitely didn't understand what he was doing and he needed to explain.
¶{Yes, you need to explain what you did? You could have just gone straight to Haruna's aid and let her be moved until she fell in love with you.}
¶{That way, you managed to get the girl in your pocket!}
¶{But no, you suddenly left and abandoned the girl!}
¶{Isn't that the same as making the girl think that you don't care about her? That girl must hate you...}
"Miss System, you're naive..."
Eiji sighed, his breath looked like smoke in the night that let people know that it was quite cold tonight.
Even so, in fact he was not cold at all with his power.
His blue eyes that looked like galaxies never left the figure of the purple-haired girl who continued to train at night and beat the wall in front of him with tennis balls.
He was secretly manipulating the wind around the girl to keep her from freezing.
He's very gentle and caring, right?
¶{.....}
¶{Cough, host. When are you going to explain?}
This woman still hasn't given up!
You're such a curious baby!
Eiji rolled his eyes and said, "Miss System, you don't understand."
¶{Yes, I don't understand.}
You're not denying?
"Look, if I helped Haruna right away. Wouldn't that be too easy? I feel like I've said this before but... A person will only appreciate what she gets when trying hard or being desperate in the process."
An old saying.
Don't know where he had heard it from.
He himself had forgotten.
¶{I kind of understand, but...}
¶{But how long are you going to keep standing there?!}
"You're bored?" Eiji asked with amusement.
¶{Yes!!}
"Then play with your friends! Don't you have any friends?"
¶{You, you... Whatever, I'll ignore you and see if you make it or not!}
Well... It's good that the woman finally shut up.
But speaking of friends. Does Miss System have any friends out there? I feel like she's a loner type of woman who's a workaholic and her only entertainment is watching me from a distance.
¶{.....}
Stopping thinking about stupid things, Eiji smiled.
Why? It's because the time has come!
That girl, Haruna who saw her tennis skills not improving and instead getting worse started packing up and preparing to go home.
However, her beautiful face looked sad, she looked so sad that her eyes turned red as if she wanted to cry at any moment.
Yare-yare, girl, you are pathetic.
But don't worry, you're almost there!
Not far after exiting the tennis court.
Still at school.
Haruna walked in a daze.
She, she seems to be completely incapable of participating in the tournament and she will be replaced by someone else!
Even if she had practiced so hard.
Putting aside her increasingly bad mood and sadness that Eiji had even left her, but her tennis skills were also getting worse.
Now she can't even hit the ball coming towards her, even though the speed of the ball is not too fast and it should be easy, she can't do it and her shots always miss.
Loose soul... Is it because of that thing? Hate!
Haruna's eyes watered even more, seeing that no one could possibly see her.
She crouched down on the road and started crying.
"It's over... I can't participate in that competition... That tournament... *Hiks* I can't!"
Tears began to flow down her cheeks.
So sad...
Bitter.
Sick.
It felt like all the negative emotions filled her heart.
"Onee-san...*Hiks* *Hiks*..."
"Even though I've been practicing hard!"
"But! But! This happened!"
"*Hiks* *Hiks* Ah..."
She called out to her older sister subconsciously.
Remembering something inside her would also make her commit suicide someday.
She was getting desperate.
Why? Why did she have to experience these strange things?
Because she's a heroine?
Protagonist's mother pushed her into this desperate situation?
No one helped her.
Protagonist Rito doesn't even exist.
Eiji? That boy had already left earlier even though he said he wouldn't mind helping her.
"Liar..."
Even so, when she remembered Eiji had no obligation to help her, she laughed bitterly.
Right, who was she to Eiji anyway? She was just a classmate who wasn't even close to him.
There was no one to help her.
There was no one to help her.
No one cares for a girl like her.
Even if she is one of the heroine, unlike Lala and the others who are happy.
She wasn't, she seemed to have a bad ending...
Looking at her own blisters from practicing too much, her tears also began to fall onto her hands and touch her blisters.
It was painful.
At this moment, the sound of flapping wings was heard.
White feathers fell from the dark night sky.
"Pigeons? But it's night, why..."
Lifting her head up, she was stunned as something suddenly covered her face.
Picking up the object with her hand.
It turned out to be a handkerchief.
At the same time.
[This girl is pathetic. I still haven't gotten home from school from earlier and saw her practicing so hard that she hurt her own hand.]
[Seeing her crying so hard... I was planning to help remove the loose soul from her body, but it's not easy to make a girl suddenly fall in love, okay? And I didn't expect this girl to cry first.]
[If I go out now and suddenly appear in front of her... That's too suspicious, Haruna will probably think I'm stalking her.]
[Fortunately, I was able to conjure up some pigeons with my magic to give her a handkerchief.]
[With this, at least the girl will wipe her tears and stop crying, right?]
[Damn it! Stop crying heroine! I can't stand seeing a girl cry! I'm not far to your right!]
[Protagonist, where are you? Your heroine is crying and very sad here! You didn't come? What protagonist!]
Pufft!
Haruna who had been crying suddenly laughed at this.
Knowing that the handkerchief in her hand turned out to be Eiji's and that boy still hadn't come home just because he wanted to help her.
He didn't lie.
He was still here.
He wants to help her.
Her mood that had been cloudy was suddenly illuminated by a bit of light.
Right side?
She looked to her right, and not far away, she saw a silver-haired boy sitting on a long chair by himself.
That guy wasn't even hiding!
He seemed to be sitting there casually and probably thought he wouldn't find her.
When their gazes met, she saw those blue eyes that seemed to glow as if there were stars in them seemed to widen.
It was beautiful.
From his expression, she knew Eiji was surprised she found him which made her smile and unconsciously laugh while covering her mouth.
"Eiji-kun! What are you doing there? It's rude to peek at a crying girl."
[Peeking? Indeed. No, wait! I got caught! What should I do? Hey I haven't even started the plan to make this girl fall in love!]
[If it's like this, how can I get the loose soul out of Haruna's body?!]
On the surface panicking, inside Eiji was secretly grinning.
He walked up to Haruna awkwardly and raised one hand as if in greeting.
"Haruna, what a coincidence... Would you believe me if I said I just finished picketing and accidentally saw you crying here?"
"....."
Picket? What time is it?
Haruna certainly didn't believe it, especially when she could hear his inner voice and knew the truth.
Even so, without realizing it, she stopped crying and started laughing.
Seeing this, Eiji smiled.
[Sometimes to make a girl stop crying, you just need to do something silly to make her laugh.]
[This way, Haruna isn't as sad as before, right?]
So this was intentional?
Haruna stopped laughing, but still smiled and looked at Eiji gently.
Eiji went this far just to make her stop crying.
He, he hadn't come home from school until now because he was waiting for her.
Something like this, Rito had never even done.
No, she shouldn't have to compare a boy like Rito to Eiji because the latter was clearly better...
Looking at Haruna's gentle gaze at him, Eiji knew he almost succeeded!
"Haruna, you believe in me?"
Haruna shook her head with a smile. "I don't, the excuse you made was very bad Eiji-kun. Why don't you admit to me that you've been waiting for me?"
"What? I didn't! Haruna, you misunderstood."
"Hehe I knew it, Eiji-kun, you're very kind..."
"Haruna?"
"Unlike the others, you're so kind to me, you want to help me, and you want to do it without me knowing. Eiji-kun, you're so sweet."
"...."
Eiji felt that something was wrong here, the other party's soft gentle gaze seemed too much.
He felt this script was wrong.
No, the script was still right, it was just that he felt Haruna was starting to give off a sick girl vibe...
But still, there was no doubt that he almost succeeded.
Even now he could see---
"Haruna?!"
He didn't finish his words because the purple-haired girl suddenly hugged him!
Hey is my plan too effective or am I too handsome? Looks like I'm still underestimating myself!
¶{Didn't I already say that you don't need to go this far? You could have easily put Haruna in your pocket from the start!}
Eiji wanted to refute and he actually refuted his system's claim after feeling the girl's body tremble.
Haruna, the girl was crying in his arms.
"*Hiks* *Hiks* Eiji-kun... I've been practicing tennis so hard, but! but! Woooo! I! I might not be able to join the tournament and I'll be replaced by someone else!"
The purple-haired girl cried out her troubles, and she started crying again while sobbing.
Her tears soaked his clothes.
Eiji sighed seeing this.
Damn it.
Is he overdoing it?
He seemed to have pushed this girl too far to get into this situation...
It seems that the tennis tournament is more important to her than he thought.
Actually, he could have removed the loose soul from Haruna's body easily. With his current power, how could he not force a loose soul out of someone's body? If he wanted, he could even obliterate the loose soul in Haruna's body right now.
However, he was too shortsighted from the start and wanted to benefit from this plot.
That was before of course because he...
He hugged the girl's slender waist and said.
"Haruna... That tennis tournament is so important to you?"
Haruna raised her head, her violet eyes and Eiji's eyes staring at each other from such a close distance.
Although tears were still rolling down her cheeks, she blushed and nodded. "Un."
Then she felt Eiji's fingers wipe away her tears which made her a little surprised. But the shock was nothing compared to what Eiji said next.
Under the moonlight, the boy's silver hair seemed to shine.
A pair of blue eyes that seemed to have galactic dust in them looked dazzling as they reflected her.
Haruna was dazed, she saw the boy grinning wickedly which strangely made her excited instead of scared.
"I see... I might be able to help you right now."
"R-Really Eiji-kun? You can really do it?! But, isn't that why I have to..."
Haruna couldn't say what she knew about the loose soul because that seemed to be the same as letting Eiji know she heard his inner voice.
So as usual, there was something censoring her voice.
"What do you have to do?
"N-No! It's nothing, Eiji-kun. You can really help me?"
The purple-haired girl seemed to change the topic which made Eiji chuckle.
He lowered his head and whispered in the girl's ear like a devil wooing his prey.
"Yes and that's easy~"
"Not just being able to join that tennis tournament."
"You'll also feel better afterward~"
Hearing Eiji's voice in her ear where she could feel his breath, Haruna swallowed.
Her face was very red, especially when she also felt the other party's muscular arms hugging her tighter as if not letting her escape and she could feel something stabbing her stomach.
This! This! Isn't this...
"W-What should I do?"
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A/N 2: This World Will thing that I mentioned will only last a few chapters a person I said in the previous few chapters. This is what I meant and I know it's stupid, and this spoiler too, but I'm the kind of author who can't keep quiet on things that I think could make people misunderstand that this thing will last a long time. By the way I added that kind of AU element just to add some plot. At least before chapter 100, the protagonist and this annoying thing will die.
