Date a Live:Date Under The Moon Chapter 164 164: The Rooftop

The rooftop was not locked today.

Having no will to attend class, Shido lay on the floor, staring at the white clouds drifting through the sky.

His mind was full of Mikoto.

Did Mikoto hate him now?

How should he apologize?

How should he face Mikoto from now on?

Countless questions filled his head, yet he could not find a single answer.

[...]

His worries drowned Shido like a tide, and in the end, the boy gave up thinking.

"Yakumo... Senpai..."

Calling the girl's na, Shido closed his eyes.

He did not know how much ti had passed before his consciousness gradually cleared again.

He had not expected that he would actually fall asleep. It seed the matter with Mikoto had truly placed too much pressure on him, Shido thought.

"Mm?"

With his eyes closed, Shido felt a strange sensation different from before he fell asleep.

If he had to describe it, it was a "pillow."

At so point, the hard floor beneath his head had been replaced by sothing soft and warm. It was so comfortable that it even made him want to go back to sleep just like this.

"Ugh..."

He reached out, wanting to confirm the source of that feeling.

"Ara, ara, you mustn't be naughty."

"Eh?"

The girl's voice made Shido open his eyes.

What entered his sight was a familiar figure—Kurumi.

In other words, he was currently using Kurumi's lap as a pillow.

"Ku... Kurumi..."

"Ara, what an adorable sleeping face, Shido-san."

Hearing Kurumi's words, Shido's face turned red and he quickly jumped up.

Perhaps finding Shido's reaction amusing, Kurumi gracefully stood up and said,

"I never expected to et Shido-san, who changed the world together with , in this kind of way. How pleasant, how very pleasant."

"Kurumi... don't tell you..."

Kurumi's words made Shido realize sothing.

That was...

"Yes, I rember. The things from the original world, and Origami-san's matter as well."

Kurumi smiled elegantly and said.

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After school, Origami returned ho, then ca back to Raizen High School again.

The reason was simple. After returning ho, she realized that the hair clip she usually wore was missing. Although it was only a small hair clip, it was sothing her parents had bought for her before they passed away, so she absolutely did not want to lose it.

However, Origami had no clue where it was. She could only carefully search every place she had gone today, little by little.

"Ah... found it."

In the end, she found that tiny hair clip in the stairwell where she had spoken with Shido at lunchti.

While putting the hair clip away, Origami subconsciously glanced toward the rooftop.

And then...

Through the window, she saw Shido, as well as the Spirit speaking with Shido—

Nightmare.

The instant she realized that, Origami's consciousness cut off.

On the other side, to Shido and Kurumi, what they saw was Origami opening the door and walking onto the rooftop, then transforming into an inverted Spirit—

Devil.

Pitch-black spirit power turned into countless dark wings, rcilessly piercing Kurumi through and burning her to ash.

After doing all of that, Origami knelt on the ground like a puppet with its strings cut. Her Astral Dress vanished, revealing Raizen High School's uniform.

It was almost as if—she had only transford into a Spirit to kill Kurumi.

After a short while, Origami raised her head.

"Oh my, Itsuka-kun, what are you doing here?"

The girl's expression was nothing like soone who had just blasted Kurumi to pieces.

That was right. It was as if nothing had happened at all. She was rely greeting a classmate she knew on the rooftop.

"What exactly is going on?"

Origami looked around, completely unable to understand why she was standing on the rooftop.

Her mories only went as far as the mont she found her hair clip. She had no mory at all of what happened afterward.

"Origami, you..."

"Ah... don't tell I again..."

"Again?"

Looking at Origami's innocent expression, Shido had no idea what exactly was happening to her.

"Actually, starting a while ago, I occasionally lose consciousness. It should be sothing like anemia."

Origami said.

In truth, if she had to trace it back, the source of this "anemia" should have been the Tenou Festival, when she had gone to the DEM's Japan Branch to save Mikoto.

At the ti, she seed to have suffered a very serious injury and had also experienced missing mories. She had thought that the anemia related amnesia had been cured with the Realizer, but before Halloween, it had started acting up again.

[That's right, Mikoto...]

Following the source of her lost consciousness, Origami naturally thought of Mikoto.

Then she also rembered the awkward scene at lunchti.

[Perfect... I must refuse Shido's invitation here.]

She could not let this misunderstanding continue. Otherwise, it would have a bad effect on herself, Mikoto, and Shido.

That was right. As long as she refused Shido, then told Mikoto about the matter, the misunderstanding would be cleared.

Thinking that, Origami raised her head and said to Shido,

"Actually... I happen to be free this Saturday. If possible, would Itsuka-kun be willing to go with ..."

[!!!]

By the ti she ca back to her senses, the words of refusal had turned into an answer to his date request.

[What... what exactly am I saying?!]

Origami was completely confused. She could not understand why she had beco like this. It felt as if there was another person inside her body answering on her behalf.

"I see. I understand. Then I'll see you on Saturday."

Although the matter with Mikoto had left Shido with no desire to go on a date, the scene on the rooftop just now forced him to pull himself together and face all of this—

Origami had killed Kurumi in front of him, and she had done it while completely unaware.

He had to figure out what exactly was happening.

"Mm... mm. See you Saturday, Itsuka-kun."

With her mind in chaos, Origami jogged off the rooftop. She had a feeling that if she stayed any longer, she would only beco stranger and stranger.

"Kurumi..."

After Origami left, Shido called Kurumi's na.

A shadow spread across the ground, and Kurumi walked out from within it.

As expected, the "Kurumi" who had died earlier had only been a clone temporarily swapped in.

"It seems things have beco troubleso."

Kurumi said while looking in the direction Origami had left.

The conclusion the two of them had reached earlier regarding why Origami had inverted and beco Devil was this—

Kurumi would fire Yud, the Tenth Bullet, at Origami.

The Tenth Bullet could transmit the target's mories to Kurumi. As long as she shot Origami with it, they would be able to learn everything Origami had experienced over these five years, why she had beco a Spirit, and even why she had beco an inverted body.

"Yeah."

Shido nodded.

However, now all of that had beco impossible.

Facing Devil, who unfolded countless wings, hitting her would not be such an easy thing.