" You are 15 years old, are you serious .
At my question she nodded having a strange expression on her face as if asking what was the problem with that .
" There is nothing wrong with that, but i thought you were older and more mature in a good way, of course .
She seemed to already aware of what i was trying to say, she once again lowered her head and stared at the ground with her face red like tomato .
Can i leave to continue doing my work, now ? .
She asked me this and i understand that she was just trying to escape from this whole awkward situation, but i still absent-mindedly nodded at her, she seeing me nodding wasted no time and hurriedly got out of the room we were in .
Seeing her like this, i didn't know whether to laugh or cry at this type of development, but i really was beginning to beat myself up for what i did .
Knowing that she was the same age at me, shattered all of my defenses, but after a few seconds standing like that in the room, i concluded that i might give her a chance to change her life, to ease my guilty conscience towards her even if it was just a little, but i will need Regina, principal Mari help in that .
As for the organization behind her, if she had information about it later, i might be interested and if there were to be a mission close to their base, i will pay them a quick visit, Suguo wasn't the only girl that had to go through all that terrible stuff, she wasn't the only one who was trained to become a disposable weapon, even though i didn't considered myself a hero, neither in this life nor in my past one .
One thing i can tell, I didn't like to stay silent when something wrong was happening in front of me, not to mention that they will consider attacking again after Suguo failed her mission, meaning that those guys were consistent threat to our lives and must be dealt with .
I was about to call the principal, but then i heard my mother voice calling for me still, i determined that i had indeed took a longer time than needed to go to the bathroom and me not responding to her after all that time only increased her worries even more .
I told her that i was just lost on many corridors that were here, she nodded at me and suggested that we had dinner together, i agreed but told her that i can only stay for lunch due to having club activities, she gave me a knowing smile and i blurted directly that i was going to train with the Strikers, she went to the kitchen and called Suguha to help her, giving me enough time to call the person i wanted to call the most .
Just as i opened my phone, i was startled by it suddenly ringing in my hand and almost dropped it on the ground, but the moment i read the id of the person calling me, the moment i saw whoever that was contact information on my phone, i stopped myself from crashing on the ground myself .
The contact information was registered under the name ' MY LOVE ', i almost cursed out loud at seeing this, i already had the most clueless person i have met who could have done this, but i still decided to answer the phone, saying :
" Hello Sophia-senpai, do you need anything from me .
Yes the girl who registered her name on my phone as such, was the strange foreign blonde Sophia-senpai .
Are you doing okay, i saw you running around the school earlier today and also heard from Tokishi that you seemed to have fell at odd with the captain this morning, is something bothering you ? .
Her voice laced with care and concern, too much care that it completely discarded the thought of berating her for the ridiculous name she registered herself with in my phone .
" It was a misunderstanding on my part, something had happened between me and the captain this morning, but it was all cleared now, i will be sure to apologize to him later for what i did .
I will be apologizing for the captain for how i behaved earlier, i didn't let him finish his talk earlier, but i still hold some anger towards him, due to the fact that he hadn't consulted with me before doing what he did .
If everything was solved between the two of you then that's good, on to the next topic, how do you feel about the name i registered myself on your phone ? .
I was trying hard to forget about that, but she just had to remind me of it herself, she seemed even proud of herself for that .
" Do you need anything else, senpai ? .
My head was already bustling with thoughts and i really had no mind to spare in dealing with that airheaded girl, so i tried to end the call as quickly as possible, but much to my surprise, she actually had something to ask me for, she said :
I had three, no two things that i wanted to ask you for, first i wanted to ask you to stop using honorifics when you are talking to me me, if it was a must you can use chan, but i really want you to be more casual with me, so i would really appreciate it, if you really just called me Sophia or Sophie.
I almost head-butted myself with the phone in hand at her soft tone of voice, i felt my body becoming more weird and weird those days, there was also a slight shift in my mind due to the things that i kept dreaming and recalling about, first Tokiko then Mari and now the airheaded girl in the phone, this situation was just too much for me to handle, i really need to sort all these things out soon, or what happened with my family might be repeated once more .
" What is the second thing you wanted to ask me ? .
I still asked her about the other thing that she wanted to ask me with a bit tired voice, i really was exhausted mentally and wanted to take a nab and ease my headache a little, but sadly there was a little to no time at all available for me to do so, today i kept on finding myself thrown into the most awkward situation, so i couldn't help but feel a bit bothered by all that happened, but weirdly i felt somehow a bit happy about how everything had turned out .
Umm, you see, i couldn't help but notice that the Light Art you used yesterday seemed quite different and much stronger than Titan Strength Link, even Sacred Strength Link might not even be comparable, so i couldn't help but be interested in knowing more about it, if was it a truly new Light Technique, can I'm able to learn it as well .
So that what she wanted, i see that it won't be much of a problem to tell her about it, but whether she can learn it or not, i can't tell, that will be completely up to her aptitude .
" I don't know the difference between Herculean Strength and Titan Strength Link you mentioned at least in the concept, but i will do my best in trying to explain it for you, whether you are able to learn it or not, is completely up to fate, i can't do much about this .
That's already plenty, i will welcome you teaching me every day .
" Every day in the training arena, i will try to explain it to you then .
But i'm not uncomfortable doing this in front of the others, i wanted to do it in private, so i wonderd if you wanted to go on a date with me .
..., i don't know how to respond to that, no it is accurate to say that I'm not entirely sure of what brought this up, i really don't know what was going on that girl brain, her tone of voice lacked of any shred of embarrassment while she was saying that, she embarrassed to be taught in front of others, but not embarrassed to ask me out on a date .
What do you say, where do you want us to go ? .
I was at lose of what exactly should i say to put some sense in that girl head, she even treated my silence as an indication of agreement to her proposal, wanting to end this before things escalate any further and before she ask my hand in marriage, i said :
" Something came up, i will talk to you later .
Before she had any chance to say anything in respond, i hanged up the phone and collapsed on the couch, i suddenly felt a stare aimed at me from behind, i was getting the chills on my back from that stare, i turned my head and what came to my vision was a happily smiling Mom with a strange expression on her face, it was that weird expression that caused me to react like that .
Who is this Sophia you just mentioned, your girlfriend ? .
I wanted to run away, but i was hungry enough to stay in place, for almost an hour, i kept refusing the allegation of me dating someone, but i couldn't provide any accurate answer to my mother asking about what exactly was the relationship between the two of us, i couldn't tell my mother that she was a self proclaimed girlfriend to me .
In that hour, i kept trying to convince my mother that we were nothing but teammates, but it seemed impossible to convince her that there was nothing between us, i resigned from trying to do so and continued to eat while absent-mindedly nodding at the questions she rained me with, she asked if she was pretty, if she was a foreign, if she was caring, everything and all things, i kept on nodding feeling that the chances of convincing her of otherwise was very much zero, so i nodded as if playing along with her to finally put an end to this episode, unaware that those answers of mine might come and bite me later in the back .
After i finished eating and chatting or more like listening to her chatting about love and marriage and on and on, i excused myself, my mom asked me to check with the principal, if it was permissable for me to stay her in this mansion from now on, i told that i would ask, but i actually felt so embarrassed to even open that subject with her, I'm already to indebted to her as of currently .
But that would maybe change if she really turned out to be My Regina, I'm really beginning to believe my mom theory about the past me taking over my body, after all that thought suddenly crossed on my mind .
I excused myself and hugged her goodbye and told her to treat Suguha-san well in a joking manner, this earned me a knock on my head, i then began to go back towards the school, i would be really glad if for the next three years i will be living in this place nothing weird happen, i already got my more than enough share of weird things happening to me .
I looked at the sky as if praying for my wish to be granted, i suddenly saw that the sky in front of me seemed to be different than the one i remembered, normally that would mean that it was a bit brighter or dimmer than before, but the sky in front of me was green, or more accurately to say filled with green like northern lights, i blinked and the scene in front of me returned back to normal, i felt my eyes burning and already understood that i might have been staring at that weird sky from before .
I sighed and just let go of even trying to understand what just happened, it will clear up in time, i continued on my way towards the training arena, i called the principal and no one picked up the call, so i just continued on my way, as i passed by the people in the streets, i saw that they were giving me weird looks, men, women, even children looked at me and their eyes lit up, as if they were seeing something cool .
I looked at myself up and down, searching myself for the thing that caught their attention towards me, but i found nothing strange enough to be the reason to that, in the end i continued on my way, paying their peering eyes no mind .
I finally arrived at the school and headed for the Training Arena and reached for the training arena where the Strikers were currently in .
As i reached the training grounds, i soon noticed that the captain wasn't there, the moment i appeared on the training grounds, one person caught a glimpse of me and come right away to greet me, it was the vice president Tokiko and just as she was about to bounce on me, she suddenly changed her whole attitude and come towards me in an elegant manner, she caught my hands and caressed her cheek with it, the scene in front of me was too familiar .
This what Evelyn would do back in our past lives, if i was angry of or about something, that was her way of comforting me, it was weird due to the fact that i currently don't believe that I'm angry, so there shouldn't be a reason for do this and here of all places .
I looked in the distance and saw that all Strikers stopped what they were doing and was instead staring at me, giving me a strange looks, similar to the ones given to me by the people in the town .
But my mind found a logical reason to why those guys were looking at me like this, i linked it to the fact that like Sophia they might have heard what had happened between me and the Captain this morning too, or so i at least thought .
Another girl seemed to have noticed Tokiko action and instead of coughing or saying something about it, she took my other hand and even though I tried to resist, refusing that gorilla of a woman was close to impossible, like how Tokiko was, she too was doing the same, but deep in her pupils i was beginning to see a green light giving quite the eerie feeling .
Hurry up and get ready, today's training session will be one of the longest we ever had, our mission on Friday will have two new members, so i hope you present your abilities as seniors to them .
Oh, Cough, what's going on here, Ryuu, good you are here, i was about to tell Tokiko to call you, i believe you have calmed down, didn't you .
I turned my head, due to my incapability to currently move my body, i wanted to greet the captain who was standing behind me, but the moment i turned my head and before i even apologize to him, i saw that his body shook slightly and he put a fighting stance but seeing me unmoving he loosened up his fighting stance and asked loudly :
What's wrong with your eyes ? .