Make-up~

After waking up from my slumber, the first thing I partook in was sending a whole ass text to Keisuke complaining about his behavior and how if he by chance dared to run away from me once more, like yesterday I would seriously beat his sorry ass.

But my treat seemed to be futile since I was left on read once again. So I used another strategy and asked him to meet me up, so we could simply talk it out instead, yet was ignored.

"Let's give him a call instead." Once again nothing was achieved. What was the real purpose of this attitude? Did he believe that with only a few words of mine he would be swayed to rejoin Toman? Was he convinced my say had such tremendous power on him?

But screw that, I understood he wouldn't be easily persuaded, because I was aware how badly he wanted to beat Kisaki's ass. I just wanted to make sure he was carrying around the health pill I gave him at all times.

"Maybe I could visit his place." But then I remembered how usually he was avoiding coming home early, maybe I could ask his mom to join my alliance. And once he comes back earlier one of those days, she can give me a call so I can scurry over. Because showing up in the middle of the night would have been deemed strange. I knew that with this foolproof plan he couldn't possibly escape me.

I started to cackle like a villain rubbing my hands together, yes Keisuke would fall into my trap sooner or later.

I went out of bed and realized my inner dialogue gave Kazutora the chance to arrive at the breakfast table first, I was about to descend the stairs, but the fish tank caught my eye. I walked inside Tora's room and seeing all those posters of women in bikinis felt strange like usual. So I gave my fish friend my full attention and tapped on the glass while saying.

"Sunny, my dear, can you talk some sense into my big brother?" I only got some responses in form of bubbles, perhaps it wanted me to know that I was off the rails to give such a heavy responsibility to a fish that couldn't speak.

"Yeah, I guess you're right..." I sighed heavily but felt something brush against my legs. Cupid looked up while meowing. Causing me to swoop him off the floor.

"Yeah, I don't feel that good." I guess taking my mind off the things didn't make it any better or easier for me.

I walked to the kitchen while holding my cat, after taking a seat, I felt my dad patting my head gently.

"Michi, you seem worse by the day, how about taking a day off school?" I guess following thru with his suggestion was for the best, I could engage in building that contraption, letting the creative progress go.

"Sure, let's do that." After we ate breakfast and I bid goodbye to both dad and big brother, it was time for putting my hands to use. When I was building my booth mom came over from time to time to engage in some conversation.

"So what is this for exactly Michi?" She asked after cutting up some fruits for the both of us.

"The system gave me a mission to build a kissing booth, and use it during the festival," I explained quickly.

"Does it involve actually exchanging kisses for money?" She questioned as I nodded my head.

"What can I do, it's better to go that route than beating up some kids in my class, right?" Mom seemed to have agreed.

"I hope Souya, that boy will participate then."

"Mom!" She just laughed at my reaction. We chatted some more, but she wasn't amused when I explained how the other kids were treating me in school.

After I finished my project, like building and decorating the booth and sewing a white eyepatch decorated with some lace, I went out for a walk to get some fresh air. Yet for some reason, the system indicated that I needed to carry with me a bunch of hair accessories.

"Something will happen... I can tell." As soon I passed a beauty store a mission popped up.

'Would you rather run across the whole neighborhood or buy some make-up?" At this point I was keener on spending money on make-up, I could always purchase something while having Senju in mind, because I knew I would be too lazy to even apply it on my face, hence it would be rotting away in my room.

Not only did the mission give me two points, but it presented me with a shopping list, it wanted very specific products.

"Let's see, one mascara, eye shadow palette, and lipstick." I was first looking around, but then I discovered something amazing about this world. Since there were people here with different eyelash colors they actually did have other colors in stock.

It should have been something obvious, but this never even crossed my mind before.

"Wow, amazing," I said staring at the pink mascara that surely would fit Senju nicely. This also begged the question, would it work on my eyelashes? Suddenly I was excited, who would have thought.

I bought the items I needed and walked out of the store while giggling, but that's when suddenly I felt like the universe was on my side, I saw a glimpse of Keisuke once again. This time I made sure to keep quiet, I tried to creep closer, without making any sudden movements.

But his sixth sense must have been really good because he noticed me and began to sprint.

"Not again," I muttered under my breath and started to chase after him, yet this time after 5 minutes of constant pursuit I did actually trip for real.

And was so disappointed that he didn't come to check up on me I just lay on the floor and refused to move. But my smooch with the pavement didn't last long because I felt someone kicking me lightly.

"The hell are you laying on the ground for?" I knew the person behind the voice. But why did Sanzu even care to talk to me? I looked up and noticed Muto was here as well.

"You okay?" He asked, looking kind of unsure as to what to do.

"Keisuke is a jerk..." I mumbled while Sanzu was quick to say.

"What are you two having a couple's fight?" I just ignored him.

"I just want to hang with him like we usually do, but he's been avoiding me since he joined Valhalla, I'm not part of Toman why he gotta exclude me too?" Also, I was part of his gang too, how dare he?

"Just ignore him, how about hanging with us instead." I guess Muto didn't know how to deal with this besides offering up his own company.

"No, why would you?" Sanzu asked, but got quiet when his captain send him some kind of signal.

So once again I was hanging out at Mucho's house.

"So guys, how exactly are you preparing before the fight? Are you like hitting the gym or something?" I asked as they just mentioned they do stuff like usual.

"What are you gathering intel for Valhalla?" Why was this pink-haired guy so mean to me?

"You saw Keisuke running away from me, didn't you? Like I would help psycho giraffes achieve their goals." He didn't seem convinced.

"How do we know you're not secretly helping your brother?" I guess coming here wasn't such a good idea, this pinky guy was making my mood worse.

"You see, you're not saying...wait the heck are you crying for?" Warm tears were coming down my face, and Muto took it upon himself to scold Sanzu while giving me a hug.

"Play nicely." Wait why did he suddenly sound like a preschool teacher?

It took some time to calm down after that but imagining Mucho as a preschool teacher sure helped.

"Sorry." Was the simple apology I got in return, he did in fact look a tiny bit guilty. I stayed there for some time and decided to take it upon myself to make dinner. At some point, Sanzu decided to proclaim to be going upstairs to take a nap.

"Isn't that a more Mikey thing?" But who knows maybe this guy didn't get a good sleep last night. Mucho then conveyed he had to go somewhere quickly and that's when the system hit me with a challenge.

'Would you rather draw a mustache or something offensive on Haruchiyo Akashi's face or give him a full make-over?' So that's where the need for make-up products came from. I decided to make him even prettier, but would he really not feel me working on his face?

Strangely enough, he was sleeping pretty heavily.

"Gurl you gonna look fabulous," I whispered and started his transformation. Some amazing glitter on the eyelids, mascara, and lipstick. And to finish the look, hairclips on the top of his hair.

"Perfect." Since I already received my point I left it at that, but of course, mayhem broke loose once he woke up and Mucho asked what he had on his face.

"MICHI!" I covered my ears when he yelled at the top of his lungs and ran to the toilet to check his appearance.

"You like it? I put a lot of effort to make you this stunning. I bet you can charm a lot of guys this way?" I send him a wink agitating him even more.

"You will pay for this!" Was his response and I was quick to hide behind Mucho's big structure.

"But I did it of the goodness of my heart." I tried to make it look like my feelings were hurt.

"Mucho my bro, back me up here a little. Isn't his beauty shining even more?" The bulky guy seemed deep in thought.

"I guess you did a good job of defining his pretty features even more." I cheered as Sanzu was ready to get me.

"It's not that bad you can always remove the make-up." Mucho pointed out as I nodded.

"Yes, I didn't take any photos... because this glorious memory needs to be archived in my brain library instead." Yep, yet he didn't seem too happy, because I phrased it weirdly, but hey I didn't take any blackmail material.

It took some time to calm him down, but it somehow ending in us playing shogi, after I received some explanation on how to play this board game that is.

"Please go easy on me." My opponent just shook his head while admitting.

"I will destroy you in this round." Causing Venus to appear with a notification.

'He's not keen on helping beginners? Then we will give him a shock of the century.' Was Venus going for his ass in a game of shogi?

At first, I was planning to use my own wits, but because Sanzu was sometimes sneering at me making it feel like I was looked down upon, I decided to accept Venus's guidance.

"You lied didn't you?" Sanzu asked once the round was finished and it ended up in a draw.

"No, it was my first time playing it for real."

"Then how did you grasp the rules so quickly?" I shook my head.

"I didn't the gods just assisted me and guided my hand." He took it as me mocking him and it ended up in another fight.

"I had enough! Go play somewhere else you two." We were suddenly chased away from Muto's house.

"I blame you for this." Rather than being angry myself I just asked.

"Would you like a goodbye kiss, pretty boy?" He just huffed and left, so I decided to give Keisuke's mom a visit next.

At her place, I was offered a cup of tea that no one seemed to have touched except me.

"Please can you do me a favor and let me know when he's at home?"

"I didn't know something like this was going on... I will give him a proper lecture once he decides to come back home."

"No please let me handle this." I already saw her methods and they were too extreme.

"Okay, I will give you a message on a day he will come back early." Yes, I wouldn't want to get in between her sleeping schedule after all.

"Thank you for helping me out." Yes, it was over for you Keisuke. I left after finishing my tea, but that's when I got the usual message.

'Would you like to proceed?' I guess I hit the 70 mark like I wanted to, so I agreed and returned back home feeling the pain.

But my troubles didn't seem to be over, because upon returning another mission made its presence.

'Would you rather visit Keisuke Baji at night or break into Wakasa Imaushi's house?' Excuse me both choices were horrible, so I decided to accept the punishment instead.

"Let's spin the wheel." And then it landed on something I haven't seen before.

"No System Service?" I looked it up and the description basically said.

"You won't be able to access the system's functions for the next 24 hours." It asked if I wanted to accept, yet it's not like I could refuse.

'Warning! Because the system is undergoing muscle transformation right now, the procedure will be cut short!' Hold up, wasn't that a bad thing? Could I somehow stop the process?

But suddenly I was hit with a wave of unbearable pain and before I could even react to the awful sensation everything went black.