Chapter 18: A Necessary Change
As he was walking back to the old clubhouse inside the Kuoh Academy, he picked up the cell phone in his right pocket and turned it on to see if there were any outstanding messages to read and reply to.
However, at the moment there was no notification of any pending messages, the only messages he had were the last messages he had exchanged in the group where Matsuda and Motohama were inviting him to watch questionable content at one of their homes.
While he was pedaling to the Kuoh Academy, a tuneful sound came into his mind, which bothered Kentaro a little, and he began to tap his hand lightly on his right ear to see if the sound would dissipate.
The more he tapped his hand, the more the high-pitched sound stabilized and disappeared without a trace.
"What the fuck was that sound..." Kentaro muttered, scratching his ear as he pedaled, but a breathy voice stood out in his hearing. "Huh?!" Surprised by this, he stopped pedaling and stood on a nearby sidewalk.
As he tried to understand what had happened, the light breathing took over his mind, and she quickly uttered a direct and intimidating sentence.
"The sleeping sky will break you." A whispering female voice penetrated Kentaro's hearing as he stood on the sidewalk next to a closed bakery.
The strange voice eventually dissipated, and he tried to understand what had happened, feeling his chest tighten, weighed down by this sudden voice that frightened him.
However, he decided to put his hands on his bike and continued pedaling towards the school, twenty minutes passed, and he arrived at his destination... putting his beloved bike away by the front door of the clubhouse and entering the room to meet Rias Gremory.
"Finally in peace..." Kentaro sighed heavily and flopped down on the sofa so that he could rest after pedaling hard in the street delivering leaflets.
As luck would have it, Rias was coming out of the bathroom and went to see what was going on in the living room, using a towel on his body to cover his nakedness since he had taken his evening shower.
"You've arrived Kentaro, I wonder how many people accepted our flyers?" Rias asked enthusiastically as he wiped his hair with the second towel in his hands.
He took his last breath and put his cell phone in front of her to show how many people he had managed to deliver without him using words in front of his faithful partner.
[Total: 40 civilians who accepted the leaflets]
Rias's expression was surprised by his progress, so she ended up clapping as a way of congratulating him on his good work… even though he had to arrive exhausted at the clubroom and always showed an interest in being by her side.
"You did great Kenzin, I knew I could count on you." Rias rejoices as she keeps the towel on her body and decides to stroke Kentaro's hair a little to relieve his exhaustion.
[You got a moon with Rias Gremory!]
Kentaro receives the notice from his system that he has succeeded in meeting Rias Gremory's expectations, but this makes him worry a lot, and he quickly pulls her hand away from his head.
"I'll be right back, President!" Kentaro exclaimed, running to the bathroom to lock himself in and hide so as not to show that his arm was going to tingle because of the tattoo that the system automatically makes when it gets a Twilight Moon.
Rias's expression was confused by this, and he walked off to a closet so that he could dress quietly and wait for Kentaro to come out of that bathroom soon.
"Holy shit, man, that's unbearable." Kentaro whispered, scratching his right forearm because the system was tattooing the moon with Rias's name on his skin and in a few seconds the usual design would disappear.
"Really, there's no way of recording these bond achievements in any other way, is there?" Kentaro asks, opening the system in front of the mirror, and she begins to talk to him.
[Just updating the version of my system, though... remember what I said the day you met me. An updated version will cause some of your skills to change drastically at random, and as a result, you'll need to adapt a little more].
Kentaro's eyes widened at the situation, and he felt frightened that he might risk losing one or more of his most impactful skills that help him to get along with people in the world.
In his mind, there was only one skill that could really be modeled successfully if the system chooses it, it will be rewarding in his eyes… but it keeps getting worse in changes, and changes generate bigger consequences in his journey to his future relationships.
"If I were to consider updating the version of the Twilight Love System just to remove this weird negative point from Lua's record, it would avoid unnecessary attention and no one would find out about my technology." Kentaro spoke in his mind, looking at the bathroom stall where Rias had ended up taking his shower.
The system watched Kentaro thinking about what he would do next without regretting it later.
"Well, it will be necessary, if it's for the sake of being someone better and different, and that's what matters in the end." His eyes watched the button that would have the right to forcibly update his system to version 2.0 of Twilight Love.
The initial rule was that the system would evolve based on his personal developments, but... the owner of the system is also allowed to force the system to be updated, but the difference is that forcing it would lead to drastic changes.
> [Would you like to update your system to version 2.0 of Twilight Love?] <
"For less stress, and for a better way." Kentaro sighed slowly, his mind made up… he pressed the button, and the system suddenly shut down.