Yutsuki was tracking Shido and Mukuro from about fifty ters away.
At first, Yutsuki was worried about being noticed by Mukuro and hid her presence. But after seeing that Mukuro was completely lost in her own two-person world with Shido, Yutsuki simply stopped hiding. She put on her earpiece and contacted Shido.
So... what should we do now?
Yutsuki quietly watched Mukuro. This girl, with her beautiful long blonde hair and a small but curvy figure, was currently just holding Shido's arm and walking down the street. It seed that to her, the plan or destination of the date did not matter at all. As long as Shido was with her, she was perfectly happy.
I have to admit, a beautiful girl who listens to everything you say and is happy just being by your side is absolutely a dream co true for any guy.
Yutsuki looked down and opened her phone. Marina had already helped her secretly get access to so functions of the Fraxinus EX. The phone screen was showing Hoshimiya Mukuro's affection and mood levels.
Yutsuki admitted that Kotori's affection tracking system was a really great invention. Being able to see soone's affection and mood changes to decide what to do next was amazing. If the multiple-choice system that ca with it was not so stupid, the success rate of n getting girlfriends worldwide would go up by at least twenty percent.
But sadly, Yutsuki found that this great function was not very useful right now.
Why? Because Hoshimiya Mukuro's affection for Itsuka Shido... was basically already maxed out.
Honestly, they did not even need a date. Yutsuki felt that even if Shido took Mukuro straight to a love hotel and asked, "Want to do it?", Mukuro would gladly help him take the stairs to adulthood.
If kissing is the condition for sealing, Shido could actually just seal Mukuro's Spirit energy right now.
Yutsuki thought helplessly in her heart.
By the way, even though she believed Shido was her family, Yutsuki was still half-doubting the thod Shido ntioned for sealing Spirit energy. After all, if it was true, did that not an she had already kissed a guy?!
Because thinking too deeply about it was too scary, Yutsuki decided to put that question aside for now and just use it as a base to think of a plan. As for what the truth really was... she would leave that to her future self when she got her mories back.
The problem is how to get Shido to convince Mukuro to restore our mories.
Yes, this was what was really bothering Yutsuki. Even if they sealed Mukuro's Spirit energy, everyone's mories would not just co back on their own.
Although they still had the option of asking Natsumi to copy Mukuro's Michael to unlock everyone's sealed mories, if Mukuro noticed everyone getting their mories back and lost control of her emotions, her Spirit energy might flow backward and she might use Michael to lock them again. Then everything would be useless and an nothing.
Let's take a small risk and test the waters.
After thinking for a mont, Yutsuki pressed the call button and gave an order to Shido up ahead.
"Shido, first pretend to look sad and space out. Wait until you get Mukuro's attention, then..."
...
"...Nushi-sama?"
Seeing Shido suddenly go quiet, Mukuro spoke up in worry.
"...Ah? What is wrong, Mukuro?"
Hearing Mukuro's voice, Shido suddenly snapped out of it.
"Nushi-sama has been silent for a while now. Do you have sothing troubling your heart? Can you tell Muku a little about it? Or did Muku do sothing to make Nushi-sama unhappy?"
"No, nothing like that. I am very happy, Mukuro."
Shido smiled bitterly and waved his hand. He looked up at the sky, his voice carrying a bit of sadness.
"It is just... how should I say it? I have lived in this city for a really long ti. Kotori, Tohka, and... the Spirits I know, as well as everyone in this city, I have feelings for them all. Now, seeing my existence completely forgotten by them... it feels a little..."
"Does Nushi-sama still have lingering attachnts to them?"
Mukuro asked uneasily.
"...Well, I am not really sure myself."
Shido gently patted her head and said softly.
"But, maybe I am just a little lonely."
"I see. Nushi-sama is truly a person with sensitive feelings."
Mukuro smiled slightly and said very firmly.
"However, Nushi-sama is not alone. Muku will spend the rest of her life by Nushi-sama's side, so Nushi-sama will never feel lonely again."
"Mhm, yeah. Thank you, Mukuro."
...
"Did it not work..."
Listening to Mukuro and Shido's conversation, Yutsuki scratched her head in frustration.
She originally wanted Shido to act pitiful to try and bring out Mukuro's guilt or sympathy, but it did not work very well. She did not know if it was because Shido's acting skills were not as good as hers, or if there was just a gap between reality and her ideal plan.
Well, thinking about it carefully, it was not strange. Mukuro believed from the start that Shido liked her, but he just could not express his feelings honestly because he cared about the other girls. So naturally, she did not think she did anything wrong.
"Sorry, Yutsuki." Shido's voice ca through the earpiece.
"It is fine. You did a good job. Keep this montum going and stay with Mukuro."
"Got it. By the way, Yutsuki, can I ask you a question?"
"What?"
"In your eyes, what kind of person is Mukuro?"
"What kind of person is Mukuro..."
Hearing Shido's question, Yutsuki fell into thought. She thought back to everything Hoshimiya Mukuro had said and done so far, plus Shido's descriptions from earlier. Although she could not say she knew everything, Yutsuki had indeed started to understand this Spirit a bit more.
After thinking for a mont, Yutsuki answered.
"I won't say Mukuro is a bad person, but I think the world she can accept is too small."
Having drifted in the empty universe for a long ti, maybe to Hoshimiya Mukuro, interacting with people was sothing completely unnecessary.
Towards Itsuka Shido, the first person to break into her world and show her the beauty of emotions, Mukuro might have developed a strong sense of dependency.
However, Shido's appearance only added one empty seat to Mukuro's world. Aside from that, she had no intention of accepting anything else.
Could it be...
Yutsuki thought of a possibility.
"Shido, what I am going to say next is just my personal bias. Maybe the reason Mukuro sealed my mories and everyone else's was not just out of goodwill. Maybe sowhere in her heart, she is afraid that one day you will leave her world and never co back. So she locked our mories, trying to trap you in her own world."
She is just a child who hasn't grown up yet...
Thinking of this, Yutsuki couldn't help but sigh helplessly.
"Is that so..."
Hearing Yutsuki's answer, Shido went quiet. After a while, he finally spoke.
"Yutsuki, I want to confirm your guess with Mukuro, and ask her the reason she sealed her own emotions."
"...Alright. It is true that if we do not know the reason, it will be hard to find the right cure to conquer her."
Realizing what Shido planned to do, Yutsuki weighed the pros and cons, then nodded in agreent.
...
"Be careful how you ask. I will keep an eye on her affection level for you, and I will warn you if sothing goes wrong on Mukuro's end." Yutsuki said over the comms.
"Okay, I got it."
After answering quietly, Shido bought a bottle of juice from a vending machine and walked toward the bench where Mukuro was sitting.
"Here, Mukuro."
Taking the juice Shido handed her, Mukuro asked curiously.
"Thank you, Nushi-sama. Speaking of which, was Nushi-sama talking to soone just now?"
"Ah, it is nothing. I was just thinking about what Mukuro likes to drink and ended up talking to myself."
"I see. Nushi-sama is very thoughtful."
Mukuro nodded, not suspecting a thing.
"Um... Mukuro, can I ask you a question?"
"Ufu? Nushi-sama may ask anything."
"Why do you like so much? Honestly, when I saw how much you hated the idea of unlocking your heart back then, I thought you would definitely be very angry. And even though I saved you, I am also a big reason why you ended up in danger."
"Hm... Muku did not think about such complicated things. I simply acted according to the feelings in my heart. If I must give a reason..."
Opening the bottle cap and taking a small sip of juice, Mukuro hesitated for a mont before explaining.
"Muku feels... Nushi-sama and Muku are very similar."
"Similar?"
Shido asked in confusion.
"Mhm. When Nushi-sama protected Muku and landed on this planet, Muku had a dream, which made Muku care about Nushi-sama for so reason."
Then, seemingly recalling the dream, Mukuro smiled sweetly.
"A child who had been alone since he could rember, was adopted by a family and tried hard to beco a part of them. A slightly sad, but also comforting dream. Even though the person in the dream was not Nushi-sama, when Muku woke up, for so reason, Muku felt like old friends with Nushi-sama and felt a strong sense of closeness."
"Eh..."
Shido opened his eyes wide in surprise. He realized that the dream Mukuro talked about was very similar to the dream he had been having these past few days.
"Itsuka-kun!"
Hearing soone call his na, Shido was stunned. First, he had already confird that everyone had forgotten him. Second, this voice was strangely familiar.
Looking toward the voice, Shido saw Origami hurrying toward them.
"O-Origami? Do you an, you rember ?"
Shido asked in confusion. After all, when they t this morning, Origami was just like everyone else and did not know him. How did she escape the range of Michael's power?
Then, Shido suddenly noticed that she did not call him Shido, but Itsuka-kun. And the aura she gave off was much calr and softer than usual.
"Could it be... you are the Origami from 'this world'?"
"Mhm... Sorry, Itsuka-kun. I am really sorry about this morning."
Nodding to confirm Shido's guess, Origami said with a bitter smile.
"How did you get your mories back?"
"Um... simply put, even though the 'surface' had her mories locked, the 'inner' can still read mories properly. It feels like tuning a radio frequency."
"I-I see."
Shido answered awkwardly. Even though he had no idea what Origami was trying to say, having soone who rembered him was still sothing to be happy about.
However, Mukuro's mood right now was not as good as Shido's.
"You are... the girl who was next to Shido. Strange, your mories should have been locked."
Looking at Origami with displeasure, Mukuro sighed and reached her right hand toward Origami.
"Well, it does not matter. I do not know why Michael did not work, but I just need to use Segva one more ti."
Saying that, a glowing staff appeared in Mukuro's hand.
"Wait, Mukuro!"
"No!"
Just as Shido was about to stop Mukuro, Origami suddenly waved her hands in a panic. She looked around and said nervously to Mukuro.
"If you show your Angel... that person will find us!"
"Who?"
"That person...?"
Shido and Mukuro tilted their heads in confusion at the sa ti.
But right at that mont.
"Get down, Shido!" Yutsuki yelled over the comms.
"—!?"
Hearing Yutsuki's voice, Shido did not hesitate. He imdiately pulled Origami and Mukuro down to the ground.
The next second, a pitch-black crescent moon slashed through the air above Shido. Right after, Shido felt the ground shake violently, and the panicked screams of people passing by reached his ears.
What happened? Shido looked up in confusion. The ground in front of them had sohow been cut open, leaving a clean, bottomless crack.
What would have happened if that hit him? Thinking of this, cold sweat broke out on Shido's forehead.
"Hmph—you dodged it."
A cold voice rang out. Shido looked up in the direction of the voice.
He saw a girl holding a giant pitch-black sword standing on top of a streetlamp.
Her night-colored long hair blew in the wind. She had eyes as deep as black crystals, and a pitch-black skirt that looked like it was made of shadows. Under the bright sunlight, the girl's presence was incredibly striking.
"...Toh...ka?"
Shido held his breath and called out her na in confusion.
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