Capítulo 9: Mikan!
"Rito!" As Mikan watched Rito talking with her friends.
She was able to see Rito from the outside—the face and expression that he did not see at home.
And yes! He was as kind as he tends to be at home, but there was a hint of confidence when initiating a chat with Mami and Sachie, her friends, without looking overly worked.
"My name is Sachie-desu!." As Rito had predicted. Sachie was really an outgoing type from the anime, and all the pieces from his knowledge about this anime were fitting perfectly.
And Rito was feeling a little excited about meeting those characters from the later part of this story.
Although he wished that those alien assassins would not attack Yami. After all, he really wished to minimize fighting in this life too.
"My name is Mami!" Mami Courtley called, her face displaying a hint of shyness.
"Sorry for surprising like this." After talking with Sachie and Mami. Rito looked back at Mikan while patting her head gently.
He looked into Mikan's eyes with a gentle look in his eyes. Making Sachie and Mami's eyes glow in interest.
"Tell me next time. Also, don't pat my head in public like this. It is embarrassing." 'Baka Rito.' She inwardly added.
But in the eyes of Mami and Sachie, Mikan's tsundere look was completely open.
As they could tell that inwardly, Mikan was really happy to see Rito caring about her like this and nodded with a knowing glint within their gaze.
'Hmph! Baka.' Mikan's thoughts were really chaotic.
Looking at Rito, who was walking with her, and her friends, who were fiddling around Rito like curious bunnies, only made Mikan more and more focused on Rito.
On the other hand,. Rito was thinking of treating Mikan and her friends as an indirect apology to Mikan for showing up like this.
Seemingly, her friends seem to be mistaken about their relationship, and from the looks of it, they were fully into backing Mikan up with her conquest, making the little girl give Rito an angry stare.
"Want to eat crepe. My treat." Rito finally saw a selling van. And taking the chance, he asked with a smile and rushed out from the group, instantly making Mikan burst into laughter seeing the hurried Rito and his inner thoughts.
[Here it is.]
[Let's make a dash.]
'Baka.'
"What happened? You just smiled." Sachie snickered. At that time, Mikan finally could not keep her appearance and blushed, given she could not tell that she was able to hear Rito's inner thoughts, like this.
"Nothing! Rito... I mean, Nii-chan looked quite clumsy. That's all." And just to be expected from Mikan's mature mindset.
She was able to pull off an explanation easily and replied to her friends.
Even though it only made them both laugh sheepishly, Mikan's easy laughter at Rito's small and hard-to-notice behaviour gave them more confidence in their suspicion of Rito and Mikan's relationship.
After seeing Mami and Sachie off...
A small silence descended between them.
"Let's go. Also, thank you for coming. Baka Rito." Mikan held Rito's arm.
With a small tone, she muttered those thoughts, as she, who had been hearing Rito thoughts, knew how Rito was concerned about her school life and was the reason why he came to visit her like this.
Something only Rito would do in such a broad style of his.
"It's alright. Let's go." Hearing Mikan's words made Rito a bit confident as he extended his hand toward Mikan.
"No way."
'Eh!'
"It's embarrassing."
'Seriously! At this point. So awkward.'
'Hehe! Stupid, Rito.' She grinned, looking at Rito in an awkward pose, as she started to walk faster, leaving Rito in dust.
'That is! What you get for surprising me.' Mikan held that iconic, teasing smile on her face. As she realizes how fun it was to tease Rito after knowing his inner thoughts.
But at that same time. Mikan also did not notice, but somewhere within her heart, her inner fear that she held toward Rito was starting to fade.
As if being influenced by something, but the sense of ease Mikan held was something really comforting for Mikan's frozen emotions that she rarely shows to others.
Back at home.
Rito put down the grocery that he had carried with Mikan. After all, they decided to have a hotpot today.
And with the heavy preparation, for the first time.
Mikan decided to ask Rito for help.
Leaving the boy stunned for a moment.
Before he started to help her out.
And a warm environment was created by two of them working out together.
'Itadakimasu.'
'I have a weekend tomorrow. Best time to complete it, and then rechanged it using the Level 2 Writing skill update.' After increasing both note-taking and high school studying levels. Rito did not notice.
But his [writer ability.] skill had levelled up too. Signifying the importance of using the active state of the skills.
Although it was only because of the starting boost that [writer ability.] levelled up like this, the gain was significant, and Rito was thinking of activating the writer ability again to complete another task that he had set for himself after gaining the memories of the previous life.
And he strongly believed that having financial freedom and independence will definitely help him out in the future.
Skills:
Note-taking Level 1 (220/5000).
Writer Ability Level 2 (5002/5000)+.
High School Studying Level 2 (4110/10,000).
'Ahh! Finally.' After working for an hour.
Rito finally finished the task and looked at the time and decided to take a nap, but before that he did not forget to level up.
While activating the writer ability, he felt a rush of information storming within his brain, but it also peaked his tired mind, and his body completely slumped on the bed with deep sleep.
After all, today was a great day, and he had learned a lot of things, though it all came very easily thanks to his great relationship system and it's self-learning ability.
Next morning.
Mikan found Rito to be extremely concentrated.
And he did not even go out for the jog in the morning, although after working for 3 hours at something, he still walked out for a jog.
But each time, Mikan took note of Rito.
He was completely lost in thought, and after worrying all morning, Mikan made the decision to storm into Rito's room, which appeared to be open.
She turned to the side and saw Rito staring intently at his computer screen while his hand continued to type and edit a file.
'What is he doing? But I think I should let him work. Also, let's prepare some ice if he end up burning his starch while concentrating this deep.' At this moment, Rito truly did not notice Mikan at all.
And it was one of the facts.
But it is a proven fact that working with the mind surely burns a lot of calories, so it is better to have something ice after a heavy task.
So, the ice was a perfect combination of starch and cream.
'Haha! Ha! Haaaha!' Mikan was humming a little song that she had recently become addicted to, and she scooped a lot of ice cream into Rito's bowl.
And later, with a smile, she walked toward his room, wanting to see his concentrated look again.
After all, Mikan had never seen anything like this before and thought that Rito now appeared more mature and driven.
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