Reincarnated Into Anime World - Chapter 48

Time flew by when people were enjoying themselves. One hour and forty-five minutes quickly passed by, and 11.45pm soon arrived.

“Okay, it’s time for you to do whatever you need to do,” Shouko whispered to Kaori, to which Kaori flushed slightly but had a determined expression on her face.

“Hmm? What are you girls whispering about?” Haruma noticed that the two girls were whispering to each other and immediately became curious.

“Nothing. Kaori-chan just likes Fuu-kun, and you probably know what she wants today, seeing her dress up so nicely.” Shouko replied while Kaori just stood beside her, fidgeting slightly.

“Oh? The ever boisterous Miyazono is blushing? Now that’s a rare sight~.”

“Shut up! That’s why you have no girlfriend!” Kaori immediately lost her redness and retorted to Haruma.

“Fuu-chan teases you all the time as well, but I don’t see you yelling at him?” Haruma smirked before shrugging, “Besides, just because I don’t have a girlfriend now doesn’t mean that I’m unpopular. I just choose not to have one now.”

“Tsk…”

“So, you planning to ‘lure’ Fuu-chan’s younger sisters away for a moment so that Miyazono and Fuu-chan can get some time alone?” After hearing what Shouko planned to do, he easily guessed her intention, “No problem. You can count on us!”

“I’m not counting on you. I’m counting on Shou-chan.” Kaori stuck out her tongue at Haruma, but he didn’t have much of a reaction.

“Good luck.” Shouko didn’t say anything more and started walking towards Fuutarou and her little sisters.

“Good luck as well. Hope Fuu-chan will be able to ‘tame’ you and not the other way around.” Haruma slightly snickered as he made his way towards them as well.

“Thanks…”

Watching her friends support her, Kaori felt touched. Although their actions weren’t anything drastic, it was the thought that still counted in their small, little ways.

“Rai-chan, Yuzu-chan! Let’s go to another stall!” Haruma grinned as he made his way towards them before lowering his voice so that Fuutarou wouldn’t be able to hear, “Let’s leave your onii-chan alone with Miyazono for a while.”

“Kobayashi-nii-san, why do we have to follow you? Can’t we all play together?” Yuzuru asked him.

“You see, your yellow hair onee-san has something to talk about with your onii-chan, and she wants to talk with him alone,” Kobayashi explained patiently.

“What does she want to talk about?” Raiha asked him.

“Errr…” Haruma didn’t know how to reply to that, and thinking that he didn’t want to interfere too much with their family matter, he decided to ditch his responsibility and pushed it towards Shouko, “Why don’t you ask your onee-chan? She will tell you what’s going on.”

Shouko, hearing Haruma’s words, was stunned as well.

What was she supposed to tell her sisters? That someone else liked her boyfriend and is planning to confess to him?

Shouko looked at the two girls’ innocent pairs of eyes and shook her head.

“Fuu-kun is…” Thinking for a while, Shouko managed to find a more…suitable answer for children to hear, “Making a big family so that you have more onee-chans.”

“Hm…so Miyazono-onee-chan likes Fuu-kun?” Raiha asked.

Shouko knew about Raiha’s intelligence to begin with, but she didn’t expect that Raiha would get what she meant by ‘making a big family’. But since she had guess it, Shouko didn’t keep it from her anymore. Anyways, it wasn’t like she was deliberately hiding it from them. Judging from Raiha’s and Yuzuru’s expression, they didn’t particularly seem to reject the idea too much.

“Yes.”

“Yay! We have one more onee-chan to play with us!” Yuzuru excitedly spoke.

Fortunately for them, Kaori had already made her move with Fuutarou and had already led him someplace else.

“Why do you want so many onee-chans? Am I not enough for you?” Shouko narrowed her eyes as she proceeded to pinch her younger sister’s cheeks, gently, of course.

“I didn’t mean that! But more people equals more fun, right?” Yuzuru replied, though her words came out almost incoherently due to the fact that her cheeks were currently being deformed.

“Well, enough of your older brother’s matters. Since I’m going to be accompanying you for a while, let’s go play some other games. My treat.” Haruma said as he started making his move to another stall.

Unlike Fuutarou, who was banned in almost every game stalls, Shouko wasn’t. In fact, many stalls welcomed her to try repeatedly due to the simple fact that she could never win.

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While Shouko and Haruma were conversing with Raiha and Yuzuru, Kaori started to make her move.

Taking a deep breath, Kaori walked up to Fuutarou and spoke first.

“Fuutarou, can we talk? I want to ask you about something.” Kaori started nervously.

“Sure. What’s wrong?” He gave her a questioning look as he placed down the toy gun and received the prize that he had earned. It wasn’t anything significant, just an ordinary yellow hairband.

“Can you fol…follow me to somewhere first?” She asked nervously.

“Hmm? It isn’t like you to be so nervous about anything.” Fuutarou let out a smile, “But sure. Where do you want to go? Let me go call the rest first.”

“No!” Kaori hurriedly stopped Fuutarou from calling the others with a slight tug on his kimono and whispered, “Alone…”

“What did you say? I couldn’t hear you from the bustling around us.” Fuutarou leaned in towards her.

“Alone. I want to talk to you alone for a while. No Shou-chan, No Kobayashi-kun. Just you and me.” Kaori continued, “Can I?”

Fuutarou raised an eyebrow in puzzlement. He was confused about Kaori’s shy actions and wondered what topic Kaori wanted to talk to him with that made her so…unnaturally nervous.

“Sure. Do they know, though?”

“Yes.”

Fuutarou stared at her for a moment before nodding his head, “Lead the way then, Kaori-chan.”

Hearing Fuutarou’s nod, Kaori started walking in a particular direction, which would lead them towards a shrine.

The shrine was located at the top of a small hill. There were plenty of people at the base, but much fewer people were present at the top of the hill. And that was where Kaori’s destination is.

The way itself wasn’t long, but it was almost midnight when they reached the top.

And as Kaori had hoped and expected, there were only two couples present beside them, and each pair was quite a distance from one another.

Holding on to Fuutarou’s hand and leading him under a tree that was away from the sight of both couples, she stared directly into his eyes.

Although she had prepared for this for weeks, it didn’t stop her from being nervous. After all, as much as she practiced, the real thing would be different from a mirror or a picture.

This conversation would definitely change the dynamics of their relationship, whether for good or bad. But since Kaori had already decided to do it, then she would go through it now no matter what.

Taking a deep breath to calm herself down, Kaori then stared straight into Fuutarou’s eyes without blinking and asked without a single stutter, “What do you think about me?”

“What do I think about you?” Fuutarou leaned against the tree and started to talk.

“Well, I think you are a cute and lively girl that would bring joy to everyone except for your enemies. You are also someone who works very hard and is determined to do what she wants to do, never giving up whenever hardship comes. A girl who can brave all obstacles and still smile brightly like the sun.”

Fuutarou wasn’t that dense. Living two lives without romance apart from Shouko didn’t really give him tremendous confidence in his own love life. In fact, just the mere fact that Shouko was even his girlfriend allowed him to be stupidly happy.

And now another girl was going to confess to him before he could even focus on Shouko?

“Do you like me?” Kaori stopped beating around the bush and asked directly, her face tinted with red hues, though her gaze never wavered.

‘As expected. Still, this life is going way too smoothly, isn’t it?’

“Sigh, of course, I like you,” Fuutarou replied.

“Don’t be so quick to reject me- eh? What did you say?” Kaori was about to continue rambling on when she realized what Fuutarou had said

“I said,” Fuutarou answered, “I like you. But you also know that I like Shouko.”

“I know, but I still love you, Fuutarou! I want to be your girlfriend!”

“Why are you so adamant about being my girlfriend, anyway? Am I really that good?”

‘If you’re not considered good, then what is every other boy in the school who worsh.i.p.s you as their older brother?!’ Kaori thought to herself as she glared at Fuutarou.

“Nope! You’re not that good!” With a swish of her head, she looked towards the side, denying what Fuutarou had said about himself, “But you’re the boy that I fell in love with. So no matter what you are going to say, my answer will never change.”

“I love you.”

While they had their conversation, the countdown for the new year began.

“10…”

“Do you love me despite knowing that I am poor?”

“9…”

“That’s even better. That way, no other girls apart from Shou-chan and me will love you.”

Fuutarou was speechless hearing Kaori’s words.

“Besides, I know that you’re not going to remain this poor forever. Just playing for one competition allowed you to earn almost 10 000 yen. And that competition wasn’t even that grand either.” Kaori didn’t stop there and continued, “If you wanted, I’m sure that you could easily earn more money.”

“7…”

“As much as I want to, I know I cannot keep you for myself. I’m already intruding on Shou-chan’s love life, so I can’t say anything about other girls. You are smart, athletic, kind, and handsome. I know many girls will love you in the future!”

“4…”

“But please promise this, that you will always love Shou-chan and me the same and treat us as fair as you can….and most importantly, never leave us alone…”

“3…”

“Since you have already said this much, I’ll tell you this first then. Even if the both of you want to leave me, I will cling onto both of you, never letting both of you go.” Fuutarou shamelessly declared, to which Kaori chuckled.

“1…”

“I have never properly said it, so I’ll say it now. I love you, Kaori…” Fuutarou said as fireworks started exploding in the sky far above them.

“Happy new year!” The cheer could be heard from their current position, but both of them didn’t mind the noise.

“Let me ask you something, now that I’m your girlfriend. Has Shou-chan kissed you?”

“…” Fuutarou wasn’t sure what to reply and decided to tell the truth. Why would he bother hiding it anyway?

“Yes.”

“Then kiss me too.”

“Wow…” Fuutarou raised his eyebrows in surprise, “That was bold, even for you.”

“Nope. Now that I’m your girlfriend, I’ll do my best to not fall behind Shou-chan!”

‘You don’t have to compete in things like these, though…’ Fuutarou thought but didn’t say out loud.

But Fuutarou didn’t reject her request and leaned forward.

Under the moonlight, Kaori’s heart started beating faster and faster as she followed Fuutarou’s action instinctively. With their eyes staring into the other’s, their foreheads touched, they could feel each other’s breath from a distance between them.

“I’m glad that I fell in love with you.”

“Don’t be so glad yet.”

“And why is that so?”

“Because you haven’t even experienced what it means by being together with me. Because falling in love isn’t the most beautiful part; it’s the part where you can stay together with your loved ones for all of your life that’s beautiful.”

Before Kaori could reply to Fuutarou’s statement, Fuutarou leaned forward even more, and their lips touched.

It was not a french kiss; it was just a perfectly ordinary kiss. Even without words, they understood each other. The kiss lasted half a minute before Kaori ran out of breath, slightly panting while hugging Fuutarou as both of them sat down on the grass, leaning on the tree.

“You seemed pretty experienced in this…”

“Don’t be jealous. It’s my second kiss, you know?”

“You’re mine now, so don’t ever think of escaping,” Fuutarou whispered into her ears with a slight smile. Kaori’s face was bright red as she snuggled deeper into his embrace, but the smile on her face could not be concealed.

With the quiet and peaceful environment with no one disturbing their moment, both Kaori and Fuutarou wished that this moment would last forever.

They laid under the stars, which were like a beautiful, surreal blanket above their heads. Kaori could feel his heartbeat while leaning into his chest, while Fuutarou could hear the soft breaths of Kaori by his side.

That’s when it hit him: Sometimes, people are just like stars – they fall to make someone’s wish come true.

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Alternate Title: Confession; Second Girlfriend?!

A/N: This is cringe, isn’t it? Yet strangely heartwarming. I’m cringing myself out so much when I wrote this…

The next chapter would be the second-last chapter of this volume.

The second volume would include:

1) Setting even more foundation for the high school volume, which means more characters from different anime arriving. Saekano, We never learn, and Nisekoi will definitely be there, and as for other animes, it would include: Working, a foreshadowing of an anime movie, your lie in April (continuation), and Piano no Mori. So look forward to those!

2) Of course, more waifu meetings. Although they won’t be Fuutarou’s girlfriend in volume 2, they would undoubtedly be in the future. This is part of setting the foundation for high school.

3) His lineage reveal. I think some of you would like this part. No information would be given about this until some time in the future. Although I already have an idea about the lineage, you can give comments on the type of lineage you would like to see. And if it is interesting, I’ll try my best to include inside/merge them together. Like Assassination Classroom.

4) Gain some fame as a pianist. His talent is too high to just stay in Japan. So, why not go overseas? He won’t remain overseas permanently, though. He’ll continue attending Junior high school. This is so that Fuutarou can earn some money for his family. Not too much, of course, so that he will still get the job of a tutor for the quintuplets; that part won’t change too much. His family would just change from dirt-poor to slightly below average.

5) And possibly some action works due to Raku’s family business. Fuutarou would get some fighting scenes overseas.

A/R: Btw, I’m writing another two fanfics lol. Both only have one chapter, so do you want to read it? It won’t be my main one, though. I just like the idea I had so I decided to implement it on the spot.