Ch 56 - Abrupt End

And as the trio finished the song, the magical mind field that they were in previously disappeared as Melody's quirk only works when she sings while both Rintarou and Nari heaved a breath of relief.

"Phew!" said Rintarou while going for a high five with Nari.

"Whew! Good job!" said Nari while clapping hands with Rintarou as the both of them just sat on their chair to recuperate from the singing but then notice the weird messages from the chat.

'Third singer? I recognize that voice? That voice sounds familiar? What?' thought Rintarou while looking at chat and scratched his head in confusion at what they are talking about until he heard a cough behind him... when nobody was supposed to be behind them.

"Who!" shouted Nari and Rintarou as the both of them turned around and surprise, Melody was standing at their door with a smile with both of their eyes widening in shock.

"Cough, sorry chat, but something happened," said Nari as she instantly went to turn off the mic and camera and put on the outro video.

"Hello, guys," said Melody as she didn't know that the both of them were streaming while Rintarou took off his mask.

"Wait! Weren't you the guy who said they love cock!?" said Melody in shock the moment she saw Rintarou's face as her memories of the event just come flooding in.

"Wait what?" said Nari in confusion while she took off her face mask and looked at Melody with a raised eyebrow.

"Melody?" asked Rintarou in confusion.

"Wait, you know me?" asked Melody with wide eyes.

"Yeah? It's me, Rintarou from Seoul High" said Rintarou while putting on his glasses leaving Melody in utter shock.

"What!?" said Melody while rubbing her eyes and Rintarou was still there.

"Shush, answer the question first, why are you here?" said Nari as a void black ball soon appeared on the palm of her hand.

"Wait! I can explain!" said Melody who went to sit on her bed while Nari deactivated her quirk.

"So basically, I live at the other apartment over there," said Melody while pointing in the direction of the other apartment that wasn't occupied.

"Okay, not that surprising, but why are you inside my room? Did you barge in?" asked Nari.

"Nope, the door was just left open," said Melody.

"Huh," said Nari while glancing at Rintarou.

"Hey, I just... forgot to lock it okay," said Rintarou as he decided to take the blame even though he never opened that door in the first place and it was entirely Nari's fault.

"Fine, so why are you even here?" said Nari to Alicia with questioning eyes.

"I just decided to say hello to my new neighbors, I promise I wasn't going to do anything malicious," said Melody while crossing her heart.

"Sigh, okay, Rintarou, do you mind introducing her to Yuki and Alice?" asked Nari.

"Mmm," said Rintarou while he stood up from his chair and indicated Melody to follow him out of the room.

Melody nodded in response and walked outside of Nari's room along with Rintarou towards his own house leaving Nari alone with chat.

"Okay, sorry guys but it seems like the stream is canceled today," said Nari with a sigh and put on her face mask, opened up the camera and mic, and looked at the chat.

"Why? Well... It's a secret, but yeah, sorry guys, the stream is canceled, but at least we got to finish half of the songs so that's great, we're probably gonna finish this next time so see you guys, bye bye!" said Nari to the chat while waving goodbye and finally close off the stream.

And as the stream finally ended unexpectedly, she glanced around the room with tired eyes and stood up with a yawn and headed towards Rintarou's house and heard the voices of Yuki, Melody, Rintarou, and Alice.

And with a sigh, she entered the house with her face mask taken off and was greeted with the sight of the quartet talking with each other in the living room.

"Oh, what's up Nari," said Rintarou from the couch as she slump down on one of the several couches inside the living room and listened to them talking.

"So you were here since a few hours ago and was just asleep?" asked Yuki to Melody.

"Yep," said Melody with a smile.

"And why are you here exactly?" said Yuki.

"You mean why I live there or why I am in South Korea?" asked Melody.

"Both," said Yuki.

"Well it's because this was the house my a- father found for me and I went here because of some stuff," said Melody while she stop herself from saying whatever that a word is.

"Hmm... well whatever, it's nice to meet you, you already met me from school and goodnight, we still have classes tomorrow," said Yuki with deadpan eyes and instantly said her goodbyes and went back to her room.

"Goodnight," Nari said with a loud yawn and slowly walk back to her room and felt the mental and physical drain from work and school as the chemicals in her brain that kept her going wore off with nothing else to do.

"Goodnight," said Melody as she went back towards her own house at the same time as Nari leaving only Alicia and Rintarou in the living room with Rintarou still having energetic eyes due to some of the quirks he has.

"Goodnight Rintarou," said Alicia with an exhausted yawn and before she knew it, her eyes were closed shut in exhaustion and slumped down on Rintarou's shoulders.

"Sigh," said Rintarou and lifted Alicia up from the couch and carried her back towards her room princess style and was surprised to see how drastically different it was compared to his simplistic room.

With cute animal plushies, posters on the walls, some new lights, nearly everything became different, even the floor as there was a pink carpet put on the ground.

"Phew," said Rintarou as he slowly put Alicia down on her bed while not disturbing her from her sleep and achieved it without difficulty.

"Goodnight," he said to Alicia preparing to go off back towards his room and go to sleep but as he turned around, he felt a hand grasping his arms and saw Alicia muttering some things in her sleep.

"Rinta... sleep... beside me," said Alicia with a soft voice as he chuckled in response and decided to give her a little surprise when she wakes up and slowly lied down beside her on her large bed and hugged her while she was sleeping.

AN: You will not expect what the next chapter has in store, it would be a literal, Abrupt End ;)

Yes, I am playing mind games with everything, the story, the AN, the chapter title, the Novel Title, the Novel Cover, holy fuck I'm actually a bit insane.

The Sword of Damocles hangs above each and everyone one of you with its ever present threat of despair, so send me some power stones with your power of friendship and save the thousands perhaps even millions to come who will read this masterpiece immortalized in the tunnels of time.

(March 13, 2022 - 109th day of writing)