LightReader

Chapter 42 - After thoughts

"It's been around a week since you came back to your home. Hikari, how are you?" The therapist asked.

Hikari replies, "I love being back home. I didn't expect to be able to continue my normal life again after gaining a demon. I have been doing my best at school and at home. I am still at the top of my class, and track has been going incredibly well. I might have to quit track because I feel like it's unfair."

"Why do you feel it's unfair?" The therapist asked.

"I have superpowers, and they don't. My body feels lighter than before. I'm breaking school records easily. I've always been fast, but not like this. I feel like I am disproving other people's efforts." Hikari said

"I completely understand how you feel. You feel guilty for being able to do something that others train every day for so long. But didn't you train before, too? Your efforts are being rewarded. You trained harder than everyone else before, and now everything is easy." The therapist said

"That's why I feel bad. I don't have the drive anymore for track. I want something more. My old life feels worthless because I am different. I am stronger." Hikari said

"The word you are replacing is better. Your old life is nothing. It has no meaning now. Look forward and try to achieve something else instead. You try so hard to be great. To use your talents to the maximum. Why don't you try to be more selfish? Make yourself more human as a goal." The therapist asked.

"Make myself more human. Being more human as a goal." Hikari pondered

"For example, why don't you make that boy you like yours?" The therapist asked.

Hikari blushes, "How can I make him mine? Plus, we are only family. He doesn't feel love for me. I think it is more of indebted to. He is just very grateful. That's it."

"How come he saved you? He fought someone for you. He protects you." The therapist stated.

Hikari shouts, "That doesn't mean anything."

Hikari continues, "Moon is very nice. He is showing how grateful he is for me. I am his savior and family. Nothing more, nothing less."

Umbra says, "You are going to lose him if you think about him only that way. Don't fucking lie to yourself."

Hikari says, "What do you know about love?"

Umbra says, "I know what you know. Demons are desires."

"What a way to put it. Demons know more about emotions than we do." The therapist said.

More Chapters