Date a Live:This is not the date I wanted! Chapter 294 294: Glimpse into the Future

"Phew... we're here."

"Ah~ So fluffy, this bed~."

Placing Nia onto the large bed in the bedroom, Yutsuki couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief.

"Honestly, it hasn't even been a few days since I was last here, and it's already a ss like this again. You really keep your word."

Looking at the ssy room before her, Yutsuki couldn't help but say, feeling ntally exhausted.

"Ehehe~ It's nothing much~"

Nia smiled and scratched her hair, acting a bit like she was receiving undeserved praise.

"I wasn't complinting you."

Flicking Nia's forehead in exasperation, Yutsuki said helplessly.

"I'm very tired today too, so I won't help you clean up. Just so you won't miss the doujinshi event tomorrow, I'll set your alarm clock."

After setting the ti on the cartoon alarm clock by Nia's bed, Yutsuki stood up and prepared to leave.

"W-Wait a minute—"

Suddenly, Nia grabbed Yutsuki's sleeve.

"What is it now?"

Yutsuki couldn't help but frown at Nia. Why is this person so troubleso?

"I-I—feel so sick, I can't hold it anymore."

Saying this, Nia's flushed drunken cheeks gradually turned a sickly pale green. She covered her mouth with her hand, seemingly trying to hold sothing back.

In an instant, Yutsuki understood her situation.

"Hold it in! I'm carrying you to the toilet right now. If you dare throw up on , I'll make you sleep forever right here and now!!"

———————So 'Blerghhhhhhhh—Splash splash splash splash' later—————————

"Ah... I feel terrible... I'm never drinking that much alcohol again."

Walking out of the bathroom with unsteady steps, Nia lay down on the sofa in the living room, whining in pain.

"Many hungover people say the exact sa thing, but very few actually keep their word."

Yutsuki mocked with a smile. She placed hangover dicine and water on the table in front of Nia.

"Here. It's a miracle you actually have sothing like this in your room when you have absolutely no food ingredients."

"Ahaha, sorry about that..."

Nia smiled bitterly, sat up from the sofa, took the hangover dicine, mixed it with water, and swallowed it.

"Feeling better?"

"Mhm... A little better."

"Is that so? Then I'm really heading back this ti. You shouldn't stay up either, go to sleep quickly."

Seeing that Nia's complexion had indeed improved considerably, Yutsuki felt relieved, turned around, and prepared to go ho.

"Ah—Wait a minute, Biri-chan?"

"Oh co on, you're really high-maintenance, aren't you."

Seeing Nia stop her again, Yutsuki looked at her with an impatient expression. Did this idiot think she was a nanny to order around?

Although she said that, Yutsuki still stayed.

"What's wrong? Don't tell you can't sleep and want to sing you a lullaby?"

"No, no, I'm not a child. And I have no interest in baby play either."

Nia hurriedly waved her hands in denial, smiled bitterly, and asked:

"Um... that request I made on the way back... you haven't given an answer yet."

"Request?"

Yutsuki thought for a mont, then understood what she was referring to.

(Oh, she ans the drunken nonsense about wanting to 'rge' with her.)

Honestly, if she hadn't been worried that Nia would just lie there and sleep until morning without waking up, Yutsuki would have definitely left this idiot on the street without hesitation.

Taking a small breath, Yutsuki looked at Nia and answered with a serious face:

"If you want your drill to pierce the heavens, do it yourself."(more gurren lagan ref let's goooo)

"I wasn't making an ani reference!"

"Sorry. I understand your feelings. But I'm not that kind of easy girl. Also—you're a good person."

"That's the second ti! Biri-chan, this is the second ti you've handed a 'good person card' without permission! And I was even misunderstood as a frivolous woman making a 'friends with benefits' invitation.Nia-san's heart has suffered unprecedented massive damage right now!"

Nia clutched her heart, leaned back heavily against the sofa, and groaned dramatically as if she were dying.

Watching Nia's exaggerated acting, Yutsuki rolled her eyes in exasperation.

"If it wasn't a reference or a hookup attempt, then what did you an by that?"

"Well, my way of expressing it had so issues." Nia coughed sowhat awkwardly and asked seriously, "But, what did I want to say? Biri-chan, you should have guessed it already, right."

"...Well. How would I know what you wanted to say."

Her eyebrows raising slightly, after a short silence, Yutsuki said flatly.

"Biri-chan, don't you think it's very strange?"

Lowering her voice slightly, as if afraid of being overheard, Nia spoke with a mysterious tone:

"Your Angel Ratziel, and my Angel Rasiel, are both pronounced similar."

"...."

Yutsuki looked at Nia with an extrely subtle expression. After a mont, she nodded, pretending to be struck by sudden realization, and chid in.

"Mhm. Ah—now that you ntion it, that really is the case. What a coincidence. So, is there a problem with that?"

"Biri-chan, there are no coincidences in this world. I think there must be so secret hidden in this."

"A secret? Like what?"

Yutsuki asked tentatively. Nia adjusted her glasses, the lenses flashing. Like a certain 'death god' grade-schooler who sees through the truth, she spoke seriously.

"For example, Biri-chan... you are actually my long-lost younger sister. We were both kidnapped and brainwashed by an evil organization when we were young, lost our mories, and were thus separated—"

(I'm going ho.)

"Wait! I was wrong! I was wrong! I shouldn't have thought about joking around in such a serious setting! I know I was wrong, so please don't just turn around and leave without a word, Biri-channnnn"

Nia grabbed Yutsuki's coat, desperately begging without a shred of dignity.

Left with no choice, Yutsuki could only let out a long sigh and sat back down on the sofa.

"If you joke around again, I'm really leaving."

"Mhm, mhm!" Nia nodded hurriedly, took a deep breath, and after organizing her words, she said:

"Actually, after experinting a few tis, I confird one thing. Rasiel—cannot look up any information about you, Biri-chan."

"Cannot look up?" Yutsuki frowned and asked in confusion, "Are you sure?"

"Mhm."

Giving a firm answer to Yutsuki's doubt, Nia summoned her Angel. The heavy leather book floated in front of Nia.

"Although it's an omniscient Angel, it can't find out absolutely everything. There have been two cases of failure. One is the Spirit you call Phantom, and the other is you, Biri-chan."

"Is that so..."

Although she was quite curious that Nia had actually looked up Phantom's identity, that wasn't the main point of discussion right now, so Yutsuki didn't ask further.

At the sa ti, Yutsuki noticed a sense of incongruity.

"That's not right. Since Rasiel can't look up information about , how did you know my information?"

During their first eting, Nia acted completely familiar, calling her "Biri-chan," an attitude that suggested she already knew her.

When Shido and Nia were on a date, she also knew that Yutsuki had given Shido advice.

Today's eting as well. If she didn't know her whereabouts beforehand, Nia couldn't have ambushed her at a food stall she chose randomly.

If these things weren't done using Rasiel, it would be completely impossible to know.

"About this. It's a bit complicated to explain."

After thinking for a mont, Nia asked,

"Biri-chan, can you do sothing like this? Touch the back of your right hand with the palm of your right hand."

"Without even needing to think about it, of course I can't."

Yutsuki answered quickly. Palm touching the back of the sa hand. That's as stupid as asking a weightlifter if they can lift themselves up.

"Right. The palm and the back of the hand are inherently the front and back of the sa hand. It's impossible to touch your own back with your own front, that's a matter of course. However, what if it's like this?"

Saying this, Nia extended both hands, and then placed the palm of her left hand on the back of her right hand.

"...I think I understand what you an."

Looking at Nia's cheating action, Yutsuki suddenly realized.

"You an, although you can't use Rasiel to look up information about directly, you can indirectly learn things related to '' through information about the people around , right?"

"As expected of Biri-chan, understanding it in a second."

Nia said admiringly.

The inability to look up Phantom's information was because the inquiry suffered incredibly strong interference. The desired information was blocked by an extrely solid wall. In other words, "cannot enter."

But Ryougi Yutsuki's situation should be described as "cannot be seen."

If she directly commanded Rasiel to look up Ryougi Yutsuki's information, the Angel would ultimately find nothing. But if she took a slight detour, for example, looking up "Who did Itsuka Shido go out with on December 26th," or checking the eyewitness reports of a patrol cop or holess person on the street: "Saw a high school girl with long brown hair walk towards XXX street," she could still trace Ryougi Yutsuki's whereabouts.

"...Couldn't you just say 'keyword blocked'."

After figuring out the cause and effect, Yutsuki couldn't help but retort.

"Eh? If I say it like that, wouldn't it be completely uncool?"

Nia said in a matter-of-fact tone. Should we say that being unnecessarily mysterious is a common trait among shonen manga artists?

"And then, what I want to talk about is this, Rasiel."

Following Nia's call, the book in front of them suddenly spread open. The pages flipped rapidly, finally stopping on one page.

"Uh..."

Seeing the contents on the page, Yutsuki's expression instantly beca very complex.

The image drawn on it was a manga segnt. In the manga's content, a boy who looked very similar to Shido experienced a 'flat ground fall' that would make Newton climb out of his coffin, lunging towards a girl with long brown hair, and then the two beca entangled.

Erotic! Extrely erotic!

That was Yutsuki's first impression upon seeing it.

In the manga, the boy pounced on the girl just like that. His right hand, through so unknown maneuver, pulled the girl's coat down to her shoulders, exposing her tender armpit and breasts.

The boy's face buried itself in the girl's armpit. His extended tongue accidentally licked the girl's sweet sweat. His fingers slipped through the gap in the tank top to grasp her highly elastic breast. His left hand unzipped the girl's pants and panties, invading her private area. His knee pressed between the girl's legs, pushing the boy's fingers from the outside through the fabric of the panties to explore deeper.

And the girl, because her sensitive areas were constantly being touched by the boy, wore an irresistible, dazed flush on her face.

It had to be said, even though there was absolutely no nudity, the eroticism it exuded made one's mouth go dry and unable to look away.

Objectively speaking, this scene, on a technical level, could rival Yabu-sensei.

However, due to a certain unavoidable elent, Yutsuki couldn't appreciate this work with a frank attitude.

Because—weren't the characters in this picture herself and Shido!??

"This is the content I created using Future Entry back then. It was clearly effective on the boy. But Biri-chan wasn't affected by Rasiel at all."

"You an to say... if I hadn't resisted back then, Shido and I might have ended up in the position shown in the manga?"

Yutsuki widened her eyes, and a terrifying killing intent emanated from her amber pupils.

Seemingly realizing she was digging her own grave, Nia hurriedly defended herself.

"Wait! That was just an accident! I originally just wanted to exact a little revenge on you and give the boy so fan service along the way. Who knew that as I was drawing, the inspiration would take over—Right! It didn't actually happen, did it? This is an attempted cri! Attempted!"

—Pong! A large bump swelled on Nia's head.

"And then? The omniscient Angel can't investigate my information, and Future Entry has no effect on . What do you intend to do by telling these things?"

Yutsuki crossed her arms and asked with a cold face.

"Ugh... Actually, I called Biri-chan here to do an experint."

Gently rubbing her head, Nia spoke pitifully with tears in her eyes.

"An experint?"

"Mhm. Through so investigation, I've also learned about the abilities of Biri-chan's Angel.Ratziel analyzes and calculates gathered information, and can even predict the future, right? While my Angel can know everything about the past and present, and sowhat decide the future. Don't you think it's incredible?"

"Well..."

Yutsuki answered vaguely.

Indeed, when she learned about Rasiel's abilities, Yutsuki had noticed this.

Ratziel could highly analyze and calculate information, but its ability to gather information had a limit. Although it couldn't be called poor, compared to its calculating performance, it was clearly a shortcoming.

On the other hand, Rasiel possessed all information of all creation in the world, and could write the future, but it couldn't predict the future, nor could it effectively process the information it held. Although it had flaws, its strengths were excellent enough to make people overlook them.

The strengths of both seed to be exactly the weaknesses of the other. It was so coincidental that it made one suspect it was deliberately arranged.

(Author: "It really is a coincidence. When I wrote this novel, Nia hadn't even debuted yet.")(TL:yes this novel start around 2015 and just end back in 2024,it's an almost 10 years old fanfic, crazy huh?)

"Is this what you ant by rging? Ratziel and Rasiel?"

"Yes." Nia nodded excitedly and said, "Knowing everything and predicting the future, the two complent each other perfectly. Combined, it's not as simple as one plus one. When the two rge into one, what kind of power will it give birth to?"

Saying this, Nia suddenly leaned close to Yutsuki, her erald eyes shining dazzlingly.

"I am—very curious."

"I'm not curious."

Yutsuki pushed Nia's face away.

"Eh? Why, Biri-chan? If you rge with my Angel, maybe we could instantly beco unfairly strong. We could easily and preemptively drive away DEM's wizards and whatnot in a flash. It would be a good thing for both you and , right?"

"That's just a 'maybe'."

Yutsuki unceremoniously poured a bucket of cold water over Nia.

"There's no such thing as a free lunch in this world. You think it's a treasure chest full of riches, but in reality, it might be Pandora's box."

"Biri-chan, you're being too pessimistic!"

"I'm just being realistic. You're being too optimistic." Yutsuki shrugged and answered, "Anyway, I don't want to agree to this."

Originally, Yutsuki thought that after saying this, Nia would give up obediently. However—

"Hehe, I wouldn't be so sure about that."

Standing up and stepping back a few paces to create distance from Yutsuki, Nia chuckled lowly like a villain. At the sa ti, Rasiel fluttered open, and she twirled her quill pen, looking ready to start drawing at any mont.

"What? Future Entry? Didn't you say that thing doesn't work on ?"

"True, my Future Entry doesn't work on you, Biri-chan, but it's a different story for other people."

The corner of Nia's mouth lifted slightly.

"Can you imagine it? The boy suddenly bursting into your room, burning all your thick photo albums, then digging out several USB drives and formatting the data on them—"

Before Nia could finish, Yutsuki's hand gripped Nia's neck.

"Between the ti it takes you to draw and the ti it takes to snap your neck, which do you think is shorter?"

Yutsuki asked with a smile. Behind her, Nia saw the chilling killing intent seemingly manifest into countless Asuras and Rakshasas.

"I yield! I yield! I give up! Let go, you gentle, generous, and understanding Goddess-sama!"

With an extrely strong will to survive, Nia imdiately abandoned her threat plan and raised her hands in surrender.

"Phew..."

Finally, Yutsuki let go. In an instant, Nia, having narrowly escaped death, exhaled heavily.

(Th-That was close! I was almost finished off before DEM's wizards even arrived.)

Nia thought with a pounding heart. She could feel that the Yutsuki just now had absolutely no intention of joking around.

Compared to curiosity or whatever, her little life was definitely more important.

"...Ratziel."

Just then, Yutsuki suddenly summoned her Angel. The dark blue chanical longbow appeared in Yutsuki's hands, sparking with faint flashes of electricity.

"Biri-chan?"

Seemingly not quite understanding the current situation, Nia asked uneasily.

"I don't know how to 'rge,' so anyway, let's try doing it like the feeling I get when I hack into computers."

"Eh?"

Nia felt a bit dazed.

"Biri-chan, this is... are you agreeing to it?"

"Who can guarantee that you'll really give up once I leave?"

Yutsuki looked at Nia in exasperation and said,

"Rather than having you let your imagination run wild later, it's better to just settle this now. It also saves from having a thorn stuck in my heart when I go back."

"Biri-chan, the tsundere attribute is the best!"

"Which eye of yours sees as a tsundere? I've just given up because of your relentless pestering."

Unceremoniously delivering a punch to Nia's head, Yutsuki said with a helpless look,

"Let be clear first, I won't take responsibility for whatever results occur."

Ratziel, Rasiel—both were unique miracles that surpassed human common sense.

Whether the result of their contact would be good or bad was an unpredictable unknown.

(Rather than saying it's opening Pandora's box, it's more like opening Schrödinger's box...)

After marveling at so irrelevant things, Yutsuki issued a command to Ratziel. The electrical flashes on the bowstring materialized into a long, transparent silken thread, which made contact with the pages of Rasiel.

"Ah... there... no... it's, it's so deep... please, please be gentler."

"If you keep making noise, I'll seal your mouth with duct tape."

Glaring at Nia, who had started dubbing lewd voiceovers out of boredom, Yutsuki cald her mind and observed Ratziel's reaction.

[Extension accessory detected, apply for connection request?]

Just then, a familiar electronic voice rang in Yutsuki's mind.

"Eh? What's this voice? Is there soone else here?"

Nia looked around like a startled animal.

Correction, it seed Yutsuki wasn't the only one who heard it.

"It's nothing, it's the voice of my Angel. Well, Nia, shall we connect?"

"Oh... I see." Looking curiously at the Angel in Yutsuki's hand, Nia nodded and answered, "Since we've co this far, if I back out now, I definitely won't be able to sleep for a while. Let's do it, Biri-chan."

"Although I want to say it's fine to hesitate a bit more... well, I actually quite like your decisiveness."

Sighing with a light laugh, Yutsuki ntally confird the connection.

[Understood—Connection Comncing!]

—!

In an instant, Nia felt like she had suddenly fallen into the ocean.

No, more accurately, she should have fallen into the universe.

Vast, boundless, and expansive.

Even though she was in her familiar apartnt, everything before her eyes was so foreign and eerie.

As if losing gravity and a sense of direction, there was no solid feeling of her feet stepping on the ground. Her body floated uncontrollably, and her sense of distance beca very ambiguous. Sothing seed infinitely close to her, yet at the sa ti, infinitely far away.

She wasn't moving.

But the world, the entire universe, was changing every single mont.

English, Chinese, Japanese, French, Spanish, German...

Science, magic, the bizarre...

Economics, art, religion...

Astronomy, geography, history...

The formation of the universe, the death of stars, the birth of the Earth, the differentiation of the Tree of Life, the reproduction of humanity...

From the fluctuation of a quark to the undetectable universe. The knowledge of all creation in the world was like countless stars surrounding Nia, dancing according to so wondrous rhythm.

(TL:lmao Nia got hit by unlimited void or sum shit)

(So beautiful...)

Nia couldn't help but marvel. She reached out, wanting to touch this sea of stars. However, before she could, her fingertips suddenly touched a barrier resembling an electric grid. The tingling sensation instantly jolted her awake.

[Warning! The amount of information before you exceeds the receptive capacity of the human brain. Forcible reception has a 100% chance of causing the collapse of the host's personality.]

Hearing Ratziel's warning, Nia was instantly startled. She hurriedly pulled her hand back, not daring to court death any further.

(Is this the true essence of Rasiel?)

Nia thought in astonishnt. Before, she had only used her Angel as a convenient search engine and surveillance monitor. It wasn't until today that she understood the weight of the phrase "knowing everything in the world."

Just then, the electronic voice rang in Nia's mind again.

[Connection complete. Passive probability upgraded to active skill—Future Glimpse, activate.]

In an instant, everything before her eyes was shattered to pieces with a loud bang.

Filtering, gathering, shattering, filtering again, gathering again, shattering again...

After repeating this cycle countless tis, the next second, the shattered powder gathered together, forming a picture that presented itself before Nia's eyes.

Finally, sothing I can understand appeared. Nia couldn't help but sigh in her heart.

However, after clearly seeing the contents of this picture, Nia couldn't help but freeze.

The person in the picture was none other than Nia herself.

Pitch-black Spirit power sloshed onto the ground like sludge, spreading everywhere, corroding the earth like a deadly poison. From the sludge, bizarre creature continuously erged.

Nia was situated right in the center of the sludge. Wounds appeared on her forehead, limbs, and all over her body, bleeding profusely. It looked like the stigmata carved into a devout believer. Her originally holy nun outfit had also beco tattered and was entangled in ominous evil aura.

Nia was crying, wailing, screaming. Like a beast that had lost its reason, shedding tears of blood, she looked up at the sky.

(What... is this?)

Nia couldn't understand anything before her.

But even so, her body very honestly transmitted a rejection reaction. An indescribable sense of incongruity stung her skin like a rasp. A wave of nausea, completely different from drunkenness, surged from her mouth, as if she was going to vomit out the blood in her body. She wanted to throw up, but didn't dare to.

However, this wasn't the end.

Just then, from a position Nia couldn't see from her perspective, from behind 'Nia', like an insect breaking out of its cocoon, a blood-soaked hand pierced through her chest.

(Could it be...)

Seemingly understanding sothing, Nia's breathing stopped at that exact mont. Like a rusty machine, she stiffly lowered her neck.

At so point, a blood-soaked hand had appeared in her chest.

(No, no, no... don't kill .)

Unable to suppress her fear, Nia pleaded continuously.

"Ratziel, sever the connection!"

[Understood!]

—!

The solid feeling of stepping on the floor returned to the soles of her feet.

Nia abruptly raised her head. Manga, sofa, lights, TV... Without a doubt, this was the apartnt she lived in.

Looking around in shock, suddenly, Nia seed to rember sothing. She hurriedly touched her chest. There was no hole, nor was there any blood-soaked arm. Her heart was beating clearly, seemingly proving the fact that she was alive.

"...An illusion? Haha... hahahaha..."

Nia couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, letting out a sowhat hoarse, dry laugh from her throat.

"No, it's not an illusion. But similarly, it's not reality either."

The voice ringing in her ear made Nia snap her head up. She saw Ryougi Yutsuki lying prone on the sofa, her clothes completely soaked in sweat.

Pursing her lips slightly, after hesitating for a long ti, Yutsuki spoke the cruel answer that Nia did not want to accept.

"That is the unavoidable future for you—Honjou Nia."