Chapter 9 - Recognition.

Three months have passed since then.

Almost nothing has changed, I still meditate in my lessons, I train at night.

I saw Shizuka quite often on the school grounds and just chatted.

She is rather strange, as for some reason she pretends to be stupid and naive. To me, as a person with an advanced acting skill, it is perfectly clear that she is only playing a fool, although in fact she has more than good intellect.

I don't know why she is pretending, but her interlocutor is pretty good, as for me.

With Saeko, everything is fine, during this time we have become much closer, which is logical, because we train together every day. And our interests are similar.

Tomorrow I was going to confess my feelings to her, as I also see that she is clearly interested in me.

The funny thing is that, possessing this information, I still hesitate to admit it ... It's funny, right? In total, I am almost forty years old, but I am still afraid ...

Although most likely this is because I died a virgin, despite the fact that I had many friends among girls. Yes, I was that superhero - the "Girlfriends" Man.

And to confess to Saeko Busujima without worrying at all, as for me, is impossible. She is the ideal of what a man can only want in a woman.

Contagion ... Why was I given the skill to satisfy women, but not given basic knowledge about relationships?

No, I certainly know what's what, but ... But all this is just, so to speak, on paper.

Kendo Club

On one of the sites, a spectacle, already familiar to the inhabitants of the club, took place.

Saeko, like a whirlwind, energetically attacked Shiro, who in turn calmly stopped them. Yes, this bumpkin, in the eyes of people, now looked more like a huge unapproachable mountain.

But the most interesting thing is that under the helmet this mountain had an unusual, nervous expression on its face.

And now, once again the victory is for the protagonist, but he is neither warm nor cold from her now.

There was another break between their battles.

Due to the fact that this couple usually lingered, there were almost no people around. The best is possible for recognition and cannot be wished for.

Sitting down in silence, Shiro and Saeko began to rest, but even a fool would have noticed that there was tension and awkwardness in the air.

No familiar idyll.

It took Saeko a few seconds to notice all this. When the girl's eyes went over Shiro's always calm face, they noticed that the boy's pupils were dilated and tense as they looked at her.

And the way he avoided her gaze is ridiculous.

- Something is wrong? Why are you avoiding my gaze? -

- What are you talking about? - He pretended to be a fool.

- Come on, I see that something is bothering you very much. Saeko shook her head, gazing into Shiro's eyes.

"I don't understand what you mean, I have everything…" Before he could finish saying "okay," Saeko interrupted him.

"Shiro, we've known each other for three months. We spent many hours together every day, but this is the first time I see you like this. To get you out of your usual rhythm, you need a serious event. -

Shiro said nothing, but Saeko clearly saw them panic.

"I see you as my friend, Shiro, and therefore I believe that you can trust me and tell me about the problem that bothers you. She smiled tenderly, not even realizing how much damage she had done to Shiro's heart.

- "Again ... Again friend ... Maybe this is a curse? It seems that as much as I change, it will not change anything. " - Shiro said bitterly in his head, completely forgetting that the girl had been clearly interested in him all these three months.

There was silence between them.

Shiro thought about this whole situation while Saeko waited anxiously for an answer.

Finally, after about a minute, determination appeared on Shiro's face.

- "Your mother! Whatever happens! Then at least I won't regret it! " He shouted in his mind.

Exhaling, Shiro smiled slightly and looked into the girl's eyes, said - Saeko ... I like you. -

As soon as these words left him a hundred, he turned into stone, or rather froze to the envy of all the statues.

Saeko, on the other hand, opened her mouth in amazement.

- "Bitch! Now even the friendship is ruined! Why did I tell her !? Why didn't you think about it? Well done, Shiro, well done! Clever thoughts, as always, haunt you, but you are much faster than them. " - The

seconds passed like years, but what happened next surprised the hero.

Saeko's shocked face slowly morphed into a contented, confident pug.

At this moment, Saeko looked more like a cunning fox that finally achieved her long-awaited goal.

"I've been waiting for this moment for so long. -

- What ...? - fell into prostration Shiro. - I mean, I was waiting ?! - he added energetically.

"I liked you immediately, Shiro. Two months ago, I realized that you are the man with whom I want to spend my whole life. And it was clear that you were not indifferent to me. -

- A ~ ah ... why didn't you confess then? Shiro asked, still shocked.

To this question Saeko calmly answered a little, smiling - When I was ready to take a step, the thought occurred to me: "Why not first consult with people who are more experienced in such matters?" Previously, I did not pay attention to my personal life at all, so I needed advice, because in love affairs, a complete layman ... - she shrugged her shoulders - I talked with my classmates, and they unanimously said that if I take the opposite step first, then only everything I'll spoil it, because for you men, this is a strong blow to pride and is generally perceived as humiliation. They said that I, as a woman, need to wait for your step and be mysterious. "

Please don't talk to them anymore ..." wiped sweat from his forehead, Shiro.

- Why? "

They're bad for you, Saeko. And in general, do not listen to anyone and remain the way you are, the way I liked you. Fuh - the hero exhaled with relief - How I was very nervous all this week. It may not be visible on my white head, but I'm sure there are more gray hairs. -

- Hmm. - the girl grunted, folding her arms over her chest - Believe me, I was much more nervous ... -

Shiro just threw an interested glance at the girl.

- Almost every girl in this academy only sleeps and sees that you will become her boyfriend. And the only thing that prevents them from admitting is your "inaccessibility." You are calm, strong ... Only your presence is breathtaking. They don't have the courage to approach you. Every day I was afraid that one of them would decide on this ... - Saeko said with a sad smile, looking at Shiro with slight resentment.

- "And I have something to do with it ?! I didn't force you to listen to the words of your classmates! " - thought Shiro, but he said, of course, differently - I love only you. -

- Really? - She raised an eyebrow, with a pitiful smile - But I heard that you spend too much time with our nurse. But I don't blame you, Morikawa-san really has something to see. -

- Saeko, honey, she gave me a lift to school a couple of times, and we became friends. We are just friends, after all, she is a nurse at our school, she is almost thirty, and I am a schoolboy ... - Shiro quickly picked up his arguments.

Saeko, looking at the justifying Shiro with all his might, regained his sight. - "What am I doing? I have just found the long-awaited happiness and am already trying to destroy it myself ... Since when did I become such a hysterical woman? ... Oh, Shiro was right, it's better not to intersect with those girls anymore, they really have a detrimental effect on me. " "I'm sorry Shiro, I'm sorry about this circus… I don't know what came over me… I just seem to have been too nervous lately. - The

the girl was clearly upset. Shiro quickly walked over and hugged her whispered in her ear - I will never leave you Saeko. Don't worry, I only love you. -

Saeko said nothing. Only with a smile buried herself in the hero's chest.

- Okay, enough about the sadness. Now we're a couple, which means it's time for us to go on a date. How about tomorrow? -

- What time? -

- Meet me here at the school at noon. Shiro said while stroking the girl's head.

- Okay, I'll come ... And where will we go? -

- Secret. Shiro chuckled.

- I don't like surprises. Saeko said impatiently.

- It should be so. -

- Okay. -

After standing this way a little longer, Saeko and Shiro went home, eagerly awaiting a date.

Addition

(WARNING! Next comes a bunch of unscientific, fantastic and magical nonsense. It is advisable for knowledgeable people and techies not to read further in order to avoid bleeding directly into the brain. I was warned.)

That's all, The most difficult thing in the form of recognition is over.

Tomorrow I have a date and his plan for quite some time now. There was only a gift left. There are no problems with him, he has been ready for a long time and is waiting for his mistress.

Remembering from the anime that at the beginning of the apocalypse Saeko defended herself with a bokken, I decided to make her this weapon.

And she will be pleased and in my heart it is easier knowing that she has a powerful weapon in her hands.

The first thing for broken was materials ...

I myself found a tree for him, but I bought a special liquid in which he should be nourished immediately. Getting it, however, was not very difficult.

I bought a lot of this liquid and then, with the help of a skill, improved it and there was a little left, however, it was enough for me.

Now is the time to explain exactly how the transformation skill works.

It is used like this. I give energy, not necessarily prana, a command and she tries to fulfill it. I do not need to change something by a grain of sand, I just need to give the energy information, a command to desire, and she will fulfill it.

The more skill, the easier it is to change things. The speed of transformation depends on wisdom.

So I ordered prana to improve the fluid. As a result, she began to harden the wood much better than before.

One weekend I got out into the woods. Going deep into it, I looked around and when I realized that there was no one in the area, I began to transform a large tree.

And here you need to digress and tell all the difficulties.

In theory, it is impossible to make the perfect weapon. Well, let's take a sword, for example.

The ideal sword should be sharp, strong, lightweight and resilient, but here's the catch.

For a weapon to be very sharp, a very hard material is needed. But the harder the material, the more fragile it is. And vice versa, the stronger, the dumber in theory, so even the stronger the material, the higher its density, and the higher the density, the higher is usually the mass. In addition, there is still elasticity, and there are already a lot of problems.

Something like this. It turns out that the craft of the "ideal" weapon is an attempt to sit on several chairs at the same time.

For this, people came up with composite steel. In general, it is an alloy of several materials in an attempt to combine all the useful properties.

But such an ideal weapon is not enough for me, so let's return to the forest.

After filling the tree with prana, I began to transform it. As a result, the tree gradually turned into a three-meter bar, weighing about three hundred kilograms.

With him, I would hardly have been allowed on public transport, so I had to fork out for a small truck to deliver furniture.

All that remained was to process the timber and make two bokken out of it for me and Saeko.

The processing had to be complicated in theory, since after the transformation the tree had incredible strength and strength. But Transformation came to the rescue again.

For a while, I softened the timber to make it easier to interact with it.

As a result, I cut and processed two boken.

Thanks to bonuses, the initial weight of ten kilograms became one kilogram without losing density and mass as such.

Boken has become ten times more solid, more resilient, more comfortable ...

Even the impact force has increased tenfold. I love game logic. I told? Well, I'll say it again.

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