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Bam!
"Another dead-end." Punching the wall which caused cracks to appear, Fushiguro gritted his teeth in irritation.
He has been waiting for so long to finally have a mission without his annoying mentor's supervision, only for the said mission to end abruptly because the Cursed Spirit he has been trailing suddenly disappeared with no traces left except for two thugs who had amnesia during the event.
"Dammit!" He clicked his tongue.
He has been investigating the alley and the places around it and so far, he hadn't found any crucial details.
'Did Sensei purposely kill the Cursed Spirit before me? For the sake of laughs?' A memory of his white-haired teacher joyfully jumping around with a dumb look on his face flashed before him.
'Yeah, he'd definitely do it alright. But he knows how important this mission is to me. It's a test of my independence.' Fushiguro sighed and pushed his hair back upwards, revealing his dark eyes and forehead.
'Was it a Curse User? After all, those two thugs' memories about the same day the cursed spirit disappeared were wiped. Only a Curser User is capable of doing that after all.' Fushiguro leaned his back on the wall and silently analyzed.
"How troublesome…." With a sigh of defeat, Fushiguro turned around and was about to leave when his eye caught a CCTV from the corner of his eye, glued in a nearby wall facing the entrance of the alley.
'How could I miss that? Sometimes I forget that technology can also be reliable in a sorcerer investigation.' He muttered under his breath before sauntering towards the building.
***
"It's….nice to meet you too, Kuronuma-san. My name is Kenshin. Kuroki Kenshin." Shaking her hand, I couldn't help but stare directly at her eyes.
'How could she let her bangs hide such beauty?' I muttered under my breath.
"Kenshin…" Sawako repeated the name as if trying to familiarize herself with it.
'Dammit. What do I say next?' Panicking inside my mind, I was trying to come up with how to continue our conversation.
In the end, I decided to follow those romance movies.
"…Can we exchange numbers?" My face turned grim when confusion settled in on her face.
"Numbers? You mean LINE?" She asked me with a tilt of her head.
"LINE. R-Right, I meant LINE, I must've misspoken." I scratched my cheek and found an excuse.
"H-Here." Perhaps Sawako was too starstruck as she ignored the blatant lie and instead, handed me her phone.
'Thank god, Kenshin has LINE.' I sighed in relief and added myself to her LINE.
"Here." I gave her phone back and watched as she stared at the screen of her phone with twinkling eyes.
'Is this her first time?' I muttered to myself in curiosity.
Suddenly, I remembered I had dinner to catch up back in my home.
So with a wry smile, I had to part ways with her.
"I'm sorry but I have to go now. Let's have a chat later, okay?" Waving my hand at her, I turned around to leave.
***
After Sawako got home, she wasted no time and jumped on her bed, grabbing a pillow and locking it between her long legs.
All while still clutching her phone that is still on the same main screen of LINE.
If there's something that Sawako wasn't expecting to happen, that is getting to know another person aside from her parents, especially a male.
Staring at the screen on her hand, Sawako couldn't help but keep her eyes glued on the three contacts on her LINE.
First is her mother, then below her is her father, and then finally, a new LINE contact under the name Kuroki Kenshin.
'I-I made a friend. A new friend!' Sawako dreamily placed her phone next to her and closed her eyes. Releasing a sigh of happiness.
However, soon a dilemma consumed her.
'I wonder….what should I say to him? Should I chat with him now? But wouldn't that annoy him? We just met earlier after all…'
'Maybe just a small hi? He wouldn't find it annoying, right?'
***
After getting home and taking a shower, I sat down on the dining table where a bowl of Chicken Curry sat in the middle.
"Thank you for the meal." I did the traditional Japanese custom of cupping my hands before eating.
'Delicious….' Mentally, I was crying. This was the first time I finally ate a modern dish with normal ingredients.
Back in the world of Fantazio, people there barely explore the realm of cooking, preferring simple cooked meat with no seasonings.
Even having my cooking skills maxed out wasn't enough to make my food delicious due to my lack of knowledge about food.
It's like this. With my cooking maxed out, I can make a simple dish as delicious as it can be. However, that is if I know how to cook the dish first.
There's a big difference between having a maxed-out cooking skill and cooking knowledge.
Having a maxed-out cooking skill just makes me better than everyone else but still have to learn how.
Unable to hold myself, I started munching on every piece of chicken in the bowl, rice upon rice was quickly piled on my plate before getting devoured.
My parents were surprised at first before smiling while my sister, on the other hand, couldn't even get another rice as her small tummy made it so she was unable to eat to her heart's content.
In the end, the entire dish was easily consumed by me and I had to clean the table by myself.
While mom went back to her gardening and dad with his office paperwork, my sister, as usual, was holed up in her room doing god knows what.
As for me, I also went back to my room to settle some things first.
During my absence from the household, nobody bothered to clean my room or anything, so I had to do it myself.
"Also a good way to start practicing my magic," I muttered to myself as I cast a spell.
[Clean]
A spell that without a doubt, cleans any surface of dirt, dust, grime, and anything that is considered as dirty.
However, although it removes the dirt around the room, the room itself is still messy.
Posters from some anime in this world, piles of clothes stacked on the corner of the room, and much more.
There are even stains in the ceilings for reasons I do not wish to know.
I didn't use my hands when cleaning them.
Instead, I allowed my mana to pour out of my body, forming small strings that were invisible to the naked eye.
Each string attached itself to the pile of clothes, crumpled papers, and anything messy in the room before it all floated around me.
My other skills may have been nerfed due to my weak stats but the same can't be said to my Mana Control.
What I'm doing is basic mana training back in the world of Fantazio. Using your body's mana to create shapes using nothing but your mind.
Sure, it's considered basic to mages but to newbies who just recently started to learn magic? It's a nightmare fuel to them.
For the next few minutes, countless mana strings were formed from my fingertips, each having their respective jobs.
At the same time, I'm casting [Clean] spells on the sheets, pillows, and everything in the room.
After almost an hour with small breaks to recover my mana, the room was finally sparkling clean.
Of course, my hard work wasn't without its reward.
[Magic +5]
Only then did I proceed to take a shower.
Getting in the bathroom, I realized that Japanese people prefer baths over showers.
'It's not like I'm not used to baths but okay…' Placing my clothes and towel on top of a table just outside the bathroom, I proceeded to walk inside naked.
I did the bath like how the original Kenshin from my memories did before settling in the bathtub.
"Ahh~" I let myself relax along with my muscles, letting out a sigh of satisfaction.
Just when I felt myself drowsing to sleep, the door suddenly slid open.
"Wh-!" I opened my eyes and quickly turned my head to the side.
'What the fuck is this now!?' My eyes widened in surprise as my blushing little sister stood in front of the door, wearing nothing but a towel.
"I-I'm joining in!" She announced loudly.
"Didn't you just take a bath earlier?" I deadpanned.
"I-I feel sweaty again and need a shower. W-What's it to you?" With a harrumph, she took the stool and sat on it.
As for me, I looked anywhere but her.
All while praying in my mind.
'FBI, don't arrest me. Please.'
***
'It's working! Hehe!~ it's working!' Inside Tomoko's mind, she was celebrating, thinking that she had finally grasped the situation in her hand.
This is, after all, one of the most potent techniques that a woman can do to a man. Very lethal and effective. A technique that hailed from an ancient Succubus.
Based on her several Otome Games that she has mastered and completed 100%.
'Now! Now! Fall under my charm! Muwaahaha!'
"I'm finished now." Only for her brother to suddenly get up and leave the bathroom in a hurry, as if he wanted to take a piss, leaving her alone in a bathroom she didn't intend to use.
"Eh?"
***
'Finally! I escaped a disaster!' Having gotten to his room, Kenshin sighed in relief.
Although he was actively looking for his first girlfriend, that doesn't mean he'd take advantage of his own little sister even if he just met her, not to mention, that they're siblings!
Aren't siblings being in love frowned upon by society?
'Thankfully, she was too distracted to notice me leaving.' After wearing new and fresh clothes, Kenshin jumped on the bed.
Ding!
Coincidentally, his phone rang at the same time.
Picking it up, Kenshin wondered who it could be.
{Sawako: Hi! (๑ > ᴗ < ๑) }
Seeing who it was, Kenshin unknowingly smiled and tapped his reply.
{Kenshin: Hey there! I was just thinking of messaging you, didn't expect you to message me first. Lol (╯°□°)╯︵ }
{Sawako: Oh! I'm sorry! Should I delete my message? (ó﹏ò｡) }
{Ken: Haha, no, you don't have to. I'm just glad I'm finally able to talk with you. I'm sorry I had to leave earlier, I just had something urgent. (◞ ‸ ◟ㆀ) }
{Sawako: No! It's okay! I can totally understand!}
***
In her room, Sawaka had half of her face buried by her pillow while her eyes were glued to her phone screen.
Her thumbs shivered slightly while waiting for Kenshin to reply.
When she saw three moving dots appear, which meant the other side was texting, Sawako was filled with anticipation, getting herself prepared to respond to whatever Kenshin would say, not wanting to be the one to cause the conversation to end.
However, after a whole minute of the same three dots, she grew slightly impatient and flipped over the bed.
Now, she's lying on the back and raising her arms in the air, her hands still holding the phone.
"I wonder what's taking him so long…" She muttered to herself with a small pout.
Just as she pressed on the sticker section and was about to send a sticker of a waiting bear, someone suddenly knocked on her door.
Knock!
Knock!
"Kyah!" Surprised, Sawako accidentally lost control of her fingers and the phone fell to her face.
Bam!
"Sawako! It's time for dinner! Come down here and help me set the table!" It was her mother, Yōko, who just spoke from the other side. From the looks of it, she didn't hear what just happened to her daughter.
Back in the room, Sawako was rubbing her forehead, which her brick-like phone just fell into.
When she grabbed her phone again and saw what was on the screen, she immediately panicked.
It was a sticker of a white bear sending heart emojis through the blowing of a kiss.
***
While Sawako was facing the greatest challenge in her entire life, the same can be said to Kenshin, who was trying to kick his little sister who just barged in, out of his room.
"Get out of my room, Tomoko!" Kenshin angrily yelled while pushing her face out through the door.
However, Tomoko was gripping the frames of the door too tight, a contrast to how thin her body is.
"No! No! I'm sleeping with you! As your sister, it's my job to warm up your bed!" She dramatically whined
"What in the holy god's name are you talking about, Tomoko!? Not to mention, it's still morning!"
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[Next Chapter: Ch. 8 - Fushiguro's lead!]