244 Girls Have a Lot of Secrets, You Know (2/2)

But Seiji didn’t mind; he felt that with his current level, he could deal with them easily, even if he had missed many days of class recently.

He didn’t need to worry about his grades, and he had other things on his mind.

Naturally, he was concerned about Yui Haruta, as well as Cat-loving Flying Fish.

He'd already sent his older sister Yui a message; now all that was left to do was to wait. As for Flying Fish... he supposed that he could send her a message over the internet.

But if he did that, what should he say in the message?

Did you recognize me? Could you tell me who you are? Something like that, perhaps?

It didn’t feel right to him. But doing nothing felt wrong somehow.

He hid his cell phone from his teacher’s sight and secretly logged in to his chatting app. He typed and sent a message to Cat-loving Flying Fish:

I’m waiting for you.

‘No matter if you are or aren’t the person I think you are, I’m waiting for you to contact me.’

He only sent those four words... and, message sent. Now, he could only wait for her.

After that, he needed to learn [Astral Vision] as quickly as possible while cultivating his powers and writing his novel.

[Astral Vision] was critically important for him to learn as quickly as possible, otherwise he wouldn’t even be able to take good care of Mika and her new Spiritual Creature. Cultivating wasn’t nearly as important to him.

As for writing the novel... he wanted to finish ”Brother Monogatari” as soon as he could, so that he could show it to Editor Yoshizawa and get it published quickly.

This was both Seiji and Shika’s dream, and he really wanted to realize it!

So, he decided to focus on learning [Astral Vision] and writing ”Brother Monogatari.” These were his current most important duties.

He decided to begin immediately.

Seiji ignored the fact that he was in class as he opened up his notebook and began writing the novel.

He spent all his time during the entire school day on his novel without paying attention to a single class.

During lunch break, he called Natsuya and asked to borrow a little something.

After classes.

Seiji walked to the president’s residence and met Mai, who was waiting for him, there.

”This is the manual on Astral Vision that you requested to borrow.” The maid, who wasn’t currently wearing her maid uniform, handed him the information.

”Thank you.” Seiji received it gratefully.

Mai smiled. ”On the day before yesterday, you did a great job in that laser tag game,” she praised.

”It was thanks to Senpai going easy on me,” Seiji said humbly. ”With Senpai’s abilities, if you played it more cautiously, we wouldn’t have been able to win at all.”

”Indeed,” Mai agreed, unabashed.

Seiji’s lips twitched. ‘Haha, you’re not humble at all, my dear maid.’

”I just entered with the intention of having fun, but you won in the end,” she continued. ”You definitely did a good job, Junior.”

”I only defeated Senpai with everyone’s assistance,” Seiji said. ”I couldn’t have done it by myself.”

”Indeed,” Mai conceded. ”But you were irreplaceable,” she added. ”If it wasn’t for the fact that you were the one facing me to begin with, the others couldn’t possibly have completed their encirclement.”

‘I can take care of any normal person in an instant!’ Mai emitted an imposing aura which left these words all but unspoken.

”It’s truly... frightening to face Senpai in battle,” Seiji said, sighing. A strange light flashed in his eyes. ”Could I possibly ask, Senpai, are you...”

Before he could finish his question, Mai placed her index finger on his lips and shushed him.

”Girls have many secrets, you know,” she whispered. ”There are some questions that are better not to ask~”

Mai’s smile seemingly became very gentle.

Seiji was rendered speechless.

That feeling of terror reappeared. And this time the feeling was even stronger than before!

He decided not to ask. Just like last time, it was probably better not to think too deeply about it. All he had to do was appreciate her beautiful smile.

Mai retracted her finger. ”Junior, when do you intend to use that free hotel voucher that your team won?”

”We haven’t decided yet,” Seiji said. ”My team... everyone from that time decided that we would go together, but we haven’t decided on a specific date yet.”

”Oh... well, when you guys decide on one, let me know.”

Seiji blinked in surprise. ”How come?”