5 Miracle (1/2)

What could happen in a week?

For Mika Uehara, every week seemed ordinary: maybe there was a new magazine she wanted to read, or a new episode of a program she liked, or she would go out shopping once with her friends; but in her life, extraordinary events were uncommon.

However, in the past week, she had deeply ingrained into her mind that miracles could indeed happen within the space of a week.

That was right—a miracle!

It happened right in front of her, to that formerly fat otaku, Seiji Haruta.

At first, she discovered that Seiji Haruta had begun exercising.

Even on the days when he was working at his full-time job, the fat youth kept exercising unceasingly—he jogged every morning, exercised in his room each night, and he was almost always caked in sweat.

In the beginning, Mika Uehara was moved. After a while, she became impressed as it was obvious he was taking it seriously—even though it must have been difficult, he never gave up.

If she had to work a full-time job, could she still be able to keep exercising every day? She truly didn’t know the answer to that question.

However, on the fourth day, she suddenly discovered that he had changed greatly.

And when she finally noticed the change, she felt that she had been blind before for failing to notice!

Seiji Haruta, that otaku whose weight was definitely over 100 kilograms before, had become skinnier after exercising for only a few days.

Not just a normal level of skinnier—it felt like he reduced himself by almost an entire layer!

His stomach that once jutted out had disappeared.

His formerly flabby arms were now muscular.

And his chubby face and neck were now contoured.

When did it all start?

No, he was changing every day. It was just that for some unknown reason, she had been too ignorant to notice!

”Haruta-kun seems to be getting more and more handsome.” If it wasn’t for her mother coincidentally saying this, she probably would’ve stayed ignorant, lost in her own delusions.

And then the fifth day, the sixth day, and the seventh day passed…

In the evening, when she opened her door, she was greeted by a handsome guy with a shy smile. He had a cool and bright face, a strong and well-built body, a slightly messy hairstyle that seemed carefree, and wore a jacket and jeans, which caused Mika Uehara’s eyes to become completely unfocused.

This was Seiji Haruta, the fat otaku?

No matter what, she was unable to connect this clean, manly, handsome guy in front of her with the otaku in her memory, who liked to shut himself in his dark room and wear filthy clothes. The otaku who reeked of mysterious stenches, had a protruding beer belly, and unkempt, ragged hair with a dreadful expression in his eyes.

There was no mistake; this was a miracle!

It took only one week.

The fat otaku, who stood right before her, had transformed magnificently!

”Miss Uehara? Umm… Do these clothes look that bad on me?” Seiji nervously tugged on the clothes that he had bought just earlier today.

Because his body shape had changed so much, his former clothes wouldn’t fit him anymore, so he was forced to go shopping for some new clothes. Of course, they were all cheap ones.

”No… not at all!” She finally regained her senses, and her cheeks flushed deep red: ”They don’t look bad at all… my apologies for not inviting you in, please… please come in!”

Seiji nodded lightly before following her in. Although it wasn’t his first time here, since the landlord had formally invited him to eat dinner together this time, he was somewhat nervous.

Nozomi Uehara had invited him as she felt that expressing her gratitude verbally was insufficient, so she decided to treat him to a good meal to show her gratefulness.

Seiji felt like all this was rather unnecessary; if they truly wished to thank him, the easiest method would be to give him a discount on the rent. Of course, he felt too embarrassed to say that out loud.

Okay, at least he got the opportunity to eat together with the beautiful mother and daughter pair, so he couldn’t complain.

”Welcome, Haruta-kun… Oh my, you’ve become quite handsome.” Nozomi Uehara came out of the kitchen, and her eyes began sparkling when she noticed the sturdy youth.

Even if she had sharper senses than her daughter and was mentally prepared, she could only mentally exclaim at the fat youth’s magnificent transformation that was a veritable miracle.

The shadow of that fat otaku from just two weeks ago was completely gone now. Just what had happened to this young man for him to have changed so much?

”I just lost a little weight, that’s all.” Seiji scratched his face awkwardly.

Even he felt disgust at the way he was pretending how this had happened. Even though he had expected this to occur, when he actually saw his own changes, he was shocked at how strong his system really was. But there was no helping it; in front of his elder, no matter how difficult it was for him to act, he still needed to keep up the pretense that this was just ”ordinary” weight loss.

That’s just not possible!

Mika Uehara felt like yelling that out loud. Right now, there was a mishmash of emotions in her heart, and she wasn’t sure what she was feeling.

The dreadful appearance of that fat otaku, and the clean, cool appearance of this handsome boy in front of her kept swirling around in her mind. She just couldn’t decide what to make of it.

So miracles were indeed possible.

The ugly duckling was capable of turning into a majestic swan.

That was when she had appeared to realize one of life’s maxims…

Dinnertime.