90 After That Day - Chriss Version 2 (1/2)

When lunch break came, he first made sure Clarissa Guzman was not at the cafeteria before he headed in. After all, even if he made it appear like it was just an accident, in the end, he still caused a perfectly fine phone dive into a dirty water canal. Who knows if that infamously two-faced woman already bore a grudge against him because of that?

”Better be safe than sorry”, he said to himself. Though it's shameful to admit, she was stronger than him. It was a lesson learned after their short tug-of-war yesterday.

After ordering a meat and vegetable meal set, he quietly carried his tray to a table near the corner.

He purposely chose a two-seater table. To ensure no one would bother him in his lunch, he left the tray on the vacant seat opposite his. Unfortunately, not even five minutes passed and an uninvited trouble threw that pitiful tray somewhere just to take the seat for herself.

His frowning face looked up. And there she was, the trouble he tried to save only to get himself into another deeper mess.

Who else could it be other than Wendy Gomez?

”Hi! Mister Chris Bastard! You remember how you ran away from me yesterday, right?” cheerfully greeted by the teeth-clenching girl.

The way she smiled as she said those words between gritted teeth strangely made her look cuter than usual. Sadly, her appearance was not appreciated by Chris.

”What are you saying?” he gloomily replied, awkwardly putting down the spoonful he was about to bring into his mouth.

”Didn't you leave me at the storage? What? You forgot? You dare forgot how you left the ashamed goddess, me, there?”

He stiffened for a few seconds. He took a moment to question the system whether the reasonable girl with him yesterday was just an illusion. It answered no. This made his face hardened again, realizing since the girl only remembered their conversation at the storage room as their last meeting yesterday, it means her memories had really been erased.

Facing the 'her' who went back to being bossy and annoying, he didn't know what to say. He felt betrayed, thinking he went through so much last night, yet the person he helped simply forgot it.

But not long after, he realized maybe this was for the best. He recalled, her experiences yesterday were not good memories because she had been controlled. It would be too much for her to bear. In comparison, what he'd gone through was not really comparable to hers.

He cleared his throat and set his mind to just continue his initial plan. Since the girl had successfully gone back to her normal life, he would leave it that way. And him? The transfer would continue. Maybe after class, he would inform his parents about this. After all, it was probably about time he leaves the bad memories behind.

”Hey, say something!”

His mind went back to his body due to that angry shout. He raised his head again. What greeted him was her dark face. Seeing this, he unconsciously blurted out, ”What?”

”What 'what'? Argggh! Fine, I won't pursue that storage incident anymore! But damn bloke, what do I need to do now to write off our bad encounter yesterday morning?!” she frustratedly asked.

An idiotic devil tried to suggest,

Immediately an annoyed expression crossed his face which the observant girl didn't miss. While Chris knew it was due to the system, Wendy assumed the guy was truly angered by what she said yesterday.

”Hey, I'm really sorry,” she couldn't help but utter when guilt came into her heart again.

This time, Chris was surprised, his annoyed expression vanished. But when he was about to reply, another gentle-sounding voice echoed from the front.

”Wendy, come back here already! Let's eat!”

The girl in front of him immediately turned to face the direction of the voice. Chris also looked over, and just as expected, it was that woman.

Sofony Mendez. The one who should also be titled, Savage Goddess.

Chris froze as he remembered how this woman miraculously turned things back to normal again. Of course, there was nothing she could do about the injured teacher. Still, it was amazing how both Wendy and he could return to their normal lives. His unbound system kept on telling him she was a hypnotist, and that was how she solved the attempted murder case yesterday.

Of course, he had already considered this angle. When he realized she had looked desperately for Wendy, to the point she traveled to another city the moment she received the text message, he knew Sofony wouldn't be doing anything bad to her friend.

The only problem? She was a host... So far, he saw that hosts could obtain unimaginable strength and power that also could easily lead them to the dark path. That Violent Goddess used it to murder a teacher using borrowed hands. How would he know whether Sofony Mendez was different?

He gave Wendy a pitying look, knowing it would be hard for her to not get involved if his conjectures were correct.

'Whatever. I'll transfer somewhere next semester anyway.'

Then he watched as Wendy stood up and walked back to her. The girl said she'd be looking for him again later, but he dismissed it, as speaking with her had never been in his schedule.

...

”I-I like you! Please go out with me!”

A dumbfounded Chris stared blankly at the braided-haired girl blushingly confessing to him. They were under the shade cast by a tall Acacia tree. It was near the white painted gate of the academy. It was after class and Chris was on his way home when this classmate told him she had something to say personally to him.

He only assumed that there were problems with the notes he returned earlier.

However, he didn't expect to end up in this situation.

He simply never imagined himself in this scenario.

For the very first time, Chris felt like the mysterious and unnerving voice from his mind finally did something correctly. He realized that it helped him come back to his senses again.