Chapter 51 Weve Become Friends (1/2)

Back in my previous world, New Years was filled in the snow of winter, embracing every person with winter’s cold embrace, but the New Years in this world has a weather that’s supposed to be warm and close to spring, but my body is currently being strangely wrapped in an unpleasant coldness.

I don’t need to think about the cause, for the cause of this is the entity that appeared before me. This chilliness I feel is too cold, as if my soul was frozen.

On the way home from my date with Kuro, I encountered this woman with a strange atmosphere, asking me if I’m a Hero.

I have to make a reply, but my body just shakes and doesn’t move properly, even though my instincts are telling me that I have to reply and that she isn’t someone I should ever defy.

[……I repeat…… Are you…… the Hero?]

As if my continued silence was off-putting, the woman changed her tone to a slightly stronger one and asked me the same question again.

It was as if I was being strangled by an invisible hand, pushing me down with an oppressive, suffocating feeling.

[……I’m an…… otherworlder, but…… I’m not….. the Hero.]

[……I see.]

The woman nodded to the words that I barely managed to squeeze out, without showing any particular reaction.

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The silence is heavy. I feel as if the air itself has weight.

The trembling in my body grows even stronger, wanting to get rid of this hellish feeling as soon as possible.

After a few moments of silence, the woman holds out her hand to me to shake my hand.

[……I’m…… Isis…… Isis Remnant…… Nice to meet you.]

[ ! ? ! ? ]

The moment I looked at the held out hand, what rose in my hand was an intense sense of discomfort.

A feeling of fear…… Far greater than my mind can tolerate, and I feel like nausea was rising from the pits of my stomach.

I have to escape, escape, run away, run…… my instincts were intensely screaming at me.

The hand that is supposed to look white and beautiful, looks like the sickle of the Grim Reaper.

I mustn’t hold that hand. If I were to hold her hand, I would die. Don’t defy her, don’t go against her, don’t take my eyes away from her…… One after another, they resounded in my head like an alarm clock waking me up from sleep.

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[……………….]

Seeing me like that, the woman slightly lowered her eyes, and at the moment I saw that, a single emotion appeared in my heart.

Deep sorrow and intense loneliness…… A feeling of solitude so intense……

Those were the emotions that were read by my Sympathy Magic. As soon as I understood that, a thought arose in my mind different from the one I had before.

I don’t know the logic for this thought, nor do I have a clear reason or basis for it. But for some reason—— If I were to run away here, I feel like I would regret it for the rest of my life.

[……!?]

My body naturally moved…… And I found myself slapping my cheeks with both of my hands.

The bizarre fear that still assaults my body hasn’t disappeared. However, the thoughts that were coming to my mind are about to become something completely different.

Get your head out of your ass! Go think about the situation more seriously this time!

What did this person ever do to me? Did she do any harm to me or had she ever directed her hostility towards me? No, she didn’t…… She had only asked me if I’m the Hero, and then, introduced herself and asked for a handshake. She didn’t do anything strange.

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I stare into the woman’s red eyes, which seems somewhat startled, and as I reach out to accept the handshake…… an intense sense of discomfort assaulted me again.

Clenching my teeth within this dizzying fear and discomfort, I still tried to desperately move my hand.

I don’t have any basis for my actions, nor do I have any reason why. I don’t even know why I’m so desperate…… However, I feel like I have to hold this person’s hand…… right here, right now.

If I had been in the same situation before I came to this world, I would have definitely run away.

However, when I came to this world and met Kuro…… I understood that even a single goodwill could save a person’s heart. I’ve learned how glad I am to have her reach out to me, even if I’m hiding deep within the darkest depths of my heart.

For this reason, if I’m the only one who can reach into the depths of this person’s heart at this moment in time, then…… There’s no way I can run away from here.

Kuro had mentioned it before, how my body will naturally try to adapt to non-hostile magic power…… If I were to attribute this unspeakable fear I’m feeling from the magic power that the woman before me was clad in…… Then stop shaking there like an idiot, and get on with adjusting with her magic power!

I don’t know if it had been answered because of my scream within my heart…… Clenching my teeth so hard that my lips were bleeding, I desperately tried reaching out…… Little by little, for every centimeter I’m closer to her hand, I feel like the discomfort I’m feeling softens.

The trembling of my hand gradually diminishes and slowly, as if the world had been in slow motion, I reached out for the woman’s held out hand.

How much time passed? Anyway, my hand reaches the hand of the woman who had spent a ridiculously long time waiting for me to hold it out the whole time.

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Grasping her cold hand, I closed my eyes once and…… with a smile on my face, I spoke.

[……My name is Miyama Kaito. It’s nice to meet you. Isis-san.]

[……!?!?!?]

As I held her hand, the fear and discomfort I’m feeling finally disappeared, and I was able to naturally speak with her.

Isis-san looked stunned as she stared at me, and after nodding once, she spoke. Her voice sounds heartless, but it sounds like she’s trembling, and I could also feel a hint of relief from her voice.

[……Miyama Kaito…… Can I just…… call you Kaito?]

[Yes.]

[……Kaito…… “Let’s get married”.]

[Please wait a sec there, I don’t know what you’re talking about.]