Chapter 034
What am I going to do now, huh...?
"kaneki-san?"
It's none other than, my [QUIET BEAUTY], Shouko Komi... Good Grief, what a great timing...
Her black hair that flows to her lower back, are lightly blowing due to the strong winds... She is wearing her usual dress, the school uniform and black stockings on her bare legs... She is also holding a bag in her hand... What is that?
Her gaze was on me, from the start, but then she suddenly moved her gaze and now it is fixated our hands, which are intertwined with each other, just like lovers do...
Komi-san, after few seconds of ceaselessly gazing at our holding hands, again started to stare at me… Is she wanted me to say 'Come on, Komi-san… Here this free hand is for you…' huh? Is she expecting this…?
As I was thinking about Komi-san's usual behavior, once again, my ability called [CHANGE THE REALITY] got triggered… The girls who were staring at me, have got their gaze fixated on me, they stopped wavering… Oi, oi…
I tried to use my other hand, which is free, to free my restrained hand but I didn't... As when I got contact with Shikimori-san's skin, I felt a current running through all over my body… What a terrible thing, this is…
A) Good Morning, Komi-san… Shall we walk together to the bus stand…?
B) Good Morning, Komi-san… As you can see, we are holding hands so later, okay?
C) Good Morning, Komi-san… Here let's hold hands… You know friends, usually, hold hands with each other…
I will definitely choose the option A, if and only if she is not one of my heroines… But still, there is not a warning though, so I can though –
[CHOOSE CAREFULLY. IF YOU CHOOSE WRONG, YOU HAVE TO FACE CONSEQUENCES]
Hah, talk about timing, hmm… To be more specify, bad timing, as I don't want this 'face the consequences' thing, this time… Still, this is my fault in some way, as I had a hunch that this might happen, but I… Good Grief… So, let's not choose option A…
Because if I chose, then there will be awkward atmosphere between the three of us… Then I have to do something, again, the system will/ might be provide me the options to choose to get over with the atmosphere… So, 'NO'…
Option B, huh… It is just an absurd option, which is just for testing of what will happen if I have to make any heroine angry, jealous or worse… This type of option is only for the use to check how the other person will react or maybe helps me to decrease the affection of that person… But thankfully, there is no such thing like the latter; I mean the system will never decrease the affection… In the past, I think the first time, when I was approached by Himawari, the system showed me three options as well as warning, saying 'will affect the affection'… That time, this fucking system was just joking around…
Option B is also 'NO'…
Now to the option C, hah, just like what I thought, and what Komi-san wants…
What can I say? This damn system, or 'God', just wanted me to become a damn 'Womanizer' or 'Play boy', who just says sweet words to you… Well, before I got this system, I was like that but I don't flirt with anyone at any place… I don't… I really don't…
This damn system provides you three options, to let you choose the most correct one, which could help you to gain 'more' affection point, more than usual… But out of three options, there is only one which is the option I have to select, if I wanted to gain affection… The other two are only for testing purposes… This is good for me though… As I just wanted to gain affection, nothing less nothing more… I seriously wanted to make one of my heroines to reach the maximum, which is 100, and see what will happen… And the girl with most affection for me is standing beside me… But the words I am going to say will definitely make her jealous…
Good Grief…
…
"Good Morning, Komi-san… Here let's hold hands… You know friends, usually, hold hands with each other…"
As I was saying, I felt Shikimori-san's grip on my hand, just tightened a bit too hard, but it doesn't hurt… While Komi-san started to blush, while looking at my other hand...
But I continued, as I don't want to finish things like this, I have to make sure that no one gets the 'right' idea…
"… It just shows how good our friendship is… How good or best friends we are, to other people… As you can see, me and Shikimori-san, we are intertwining our fingers… We are showing other people, that how much our friendship is, we are happy that we are friends and will continue our relationship till the 'end'…"
[MIYAKO SHIKIMORI: +2 AFFECTION POINTS]
Phew, it seemed it worked… As soon as I get the notification, I turned my face to see the Shikimori-san, who have loosened grip a little; has a tomato face; fidgeting a little; her face is looking straight where Komi-san is standing, but her eyes are not on Komi-san; has a big smile on her face… Oh, it really worked. Sometimes I think why the heck I got this system for… I can do these things by myself….
Few seconds passed, nothing happened… It looks like Komi-san doesn't want to hold hands, huh…
I finally convinced myself, that this might be the case, so I tried to take a step backward but then I heard silent Shikimori-san's voice… And she surprised me…
"Shouko, come on… We are going to be late, you know…"
I can't help but 'huh' at her, because I thought she was definitely jealous just a moment ago… I just know that…
But now she is giving gestures to the quiet Komi-san, to come here and hold hands with me… No, wait maybe she meant by herself… That definitely is the case…
I was helplessly convincing myself that will be the case, until and unless, Shikimori-san raised her hand and my hand, which are together, and showed to the dumbfounded Komi-san… They both blushed at this…
Today was supposed to be my 'first time' for holding hands with one of my heroines, who is going to be my w-w-wife, in the near future…
Huh, it's really embarrassing…
Then another one came, and I don't know but maybe she also wants to do the same, holds hands with me… So, I was ready that my 'second time' is also going to be today… But for some reasons, this is going somewhere else…
…
As I was lost in thought, I just continue watching the scene going on, in front of me… Suddenly, Komi-san takes a deep breath, and then started to walk towards us… No, to be more precise, towards me, stood in front of me and starting to stare directly in my eyes… Oh, Komi-san really is different today, huh… First she called out my name, to stop us in our tracks and now, she is staring directly not wavering at all… Not bad, Komi-san…
While doing so, she put her hand in front of my chest… Hmm, what is this…?
So, I also took my other hand out from the pocket and place in front of her… She is looking surprised but, you know what I know what you are trying to do, here… You want to hold hands, right? But you wanted me to do it… Nah… Kaneki Ren doesn't do these types of things on his own initiate…
Komi-san seems to thinking about what to do, as she started to look at me and my hands, periodically… As both of our hands are in front of each other, we stood there for few seconds until… Shikimori-san, who is standing beside me, sighed a little, saying a line 'It can't be helped' and grabbed the Komi-san's hand and then put it on mine…
Shikimori-san really is behaving differently…
[SHOUKO KOMI: +10 AFFECTION POINTS]
…
Now, I am holding hands with two of my heroines, who are best friends with each other… They both are enjoying this, as the smiles on their face didn't even waver a little, from the moment I held hands with them…
The hand of Komi-san is very soft just as the feather of a bird; it also has a feeling that shows that she does some household work at her home… It must have been 5 minutes, but Komi-san is not yet that much comfortable, I think, as she is still shivering a little… Well, it will take some time for her to get comfortable with me, my touch to be precise…
[SHOUKO KOMI [QUIET BEAUTY]
AFFECTION: 80 (MY FIRST LOVE!)]
Or, maybe because I became her 'first love'… which made her to shiver a little bit, around me…
But still, I have to make sure that no one sees us, in this situation, more importantly my heroines… So I have to do something…