Levelmaker

I woke up.

There's Kara and Micah on the side, and Micah's holding my hand.

"That's why I told you not to be impotent on your own..."

"That's right. How many people do you think will be sad if they die?

Yes, you two are looking at this one with crying eyes.

Sure, I could have handled myself a little too hard. Until I got the Dark Matter, I took care of my... No, I've taken care of Alim's body quite a bit. Look, it's a girl for once.

But whatever it was in Dark Matter, its handling was pretty cluttered up since I could do it, or because I could make Amrita.

Because of that, you're worrying a lot of people now...

When the war is over, we need to get some rest.

Micah and I could go hang out somewhere... maybe another date or something.

Kara, you can play with the three of us properly. Anyway, I'll take a break after this fight.

Well, now let's focus on what's right in front of us.

... I don't know why, why Amrita didn't work on dizziness and headaches.

Amrita worked properly, to be precise.

But it will happen again after a while.

Why I drank Amrita but had headaches, dizziness, and felt ill.

If you assume one thing about it, was it temporary that it would heal if you drank it, and did it have the hidden effect of turning it back after a while?

Or... can't the spirit heal?

I think it's the latter.

To tell you the truth, I'm doing fine, even now, in front of everyone.

But it's so hard right now. Mentally.

This character of mine, this was even when I was on Earth... Apparently, Mika said.

I mean, MP is like mental power, so to speak.

It may have been a bad idea to use it in large quantities at a time, although it would have had no effect on the human body if I used it one by one.

Look, he says, "I'm sick."

That's why I have symptoms like headaches, nausea, and dizziness that seem to occur when I'm mentally ill, I'm sure.

Amrita, do you feel like you can heal the cuts, but not the depression?

It's all hypothetical, though.

It's very uncomfortable and I feel bad, but now I can grasp my limitations.

Let's not use too much MP all at once in the future, shall we?

"Ah!" So Kara suddenly stood up.

What's the matter with you?

"Duh... did... of?

No, I don't really have the energy to talk.

I can't talk about it well.

"Your father called me! Excuse me, I'm gonna go a little bit."

"Ah... ah, yeah. Go..."

Kara left the infirmary in a hurry.

Suddenly it will be just me and Micah.

It's not like there's anything special about just the two of us.

"... dreamy idiot"

Micah said that all of a sudden.

You don't have to say that.

It hurts a little.

... I know what you're trying to say.

So...

"Sorry......"

That's all I can say back.

Micah weeps. She stares at me with her eyes.

You shouldn't tell me you thought it was cute to be crying, should you?

From there, Micah's old story about me being unscrupulous and bothered and worried was overheard.

Tales of me attending an athletic event after I was badly injured the day before the athletic party in my first year of elementary school, and of me drowning in the pool absently trying to help a classmate who was drowning in my fifth year of elementary school.

There were also stories of sheltering Micah from a piece of glass in elementary school and a punching fight with her classmate (the most physically fit boy at the time who made Micah cry with excessive ill words) in secondary school in her second year.

After these two stories, Micah said "thank you" to Boso. My cheeks are itchy.

And then there's talking about taking exams when I was in junior high... etc.

Well, those were certainly mostly caused by my impotence, so I could only snort.

Or you remember very well, Micah.

Would they have listened?

The story of Micah was finally about when I died.

"Hey, dreams... when dreams die on Earth... what do you think I was doing?

Micah said that, slowly, as if to reveal something.

I shut up and stare into Micah's eyes.

"It was me... sad, sad... and I was going crazy. Even the rice didn't go through my throat. I haven't been out of my room in a long time with a bear doll I dreamed of.... because I didn't want to see reality without you"

Micah's shaking it. I strengthened my hand even harder.

I'll grip it back as if I can live up to it.

"After a while... around... especially when Sho persuaded me... he said, 'What would you think if you saw a dream grieving Miho? You think you can go to the afterlife in peace?'"

Right... Sho's guy, you said that.

"Well, on the way to that school, I was hit by a car and I died. If I were you now, I'd ask, what would you think if you had dreams like that?

... Sho really knows about us.

You were right.

When I think I've done a little Micah that way, I regret it even more now that I'm dead.

"I'm worried... I'm not relieved."

I answered that.

Hearing that, Micah held her hand even harder as she wet her face with tears.

"Yes... it is, I have dreams. I'm the same... It's not just how you look sad. Like right now, it's really hard just to look weak... I have dreams... really work hard on my own, don't be impotent... I... I... don't worry..."

Micah weeps even more.

A few drops of those tears fell on my gripping hand as well.

"Even this time! You're so lame! Maybe you have dreams for yourself. Because you're deceiving yourself on the inside... but you're not, you're not joining the war because you want to try hard, are you?... I know, dreams want to help Kara and the others..."

When I realized, my open hand stretched to the back of Micah's neck, crying at will.

......... What the hell am I supposed to say?

"Ah... yu... hmm?

I pulled Micah with my neck tilted, with my hands turned back.

Face and face get closer.

And as it were, I put my lips on Micah's lips.

"Huh... Ayummm..."

I'm not sure why I kissed Micah in this situation myself.

Maybe it's because I'm glad you're worried. No, to fool the crying Micah?

again, because they understood my true thoughts?

Either way, I kissed Mika...

And that's when there's a sign of someone from the infirmary entrance.

The person saw this scene for sure.

I took my lips off Micah's lips and looked in the direction of the person, thinking about how to make an excuse.

That was Kara.

Micah also noticed from my expression, hurriedly turning in the direction of Kara's presence.

"Ah... that one! Kara... this..."

Micah was trying to open and close her mouth and say something.

I was in a hurry, too. It's nothing to be offended about, but it's still embarrassing to be seen.

Kara, on the other hand, was strangely calm.

"Heh... Alim and Micah... that's what you had to do with it, wasn't it? Oh, don't worry about it. I don't think homosexuality is a particularly bad thing."

"Ah... yeah... uh... the..."

Oh, well.

We're gay when we see it from scratch, this.

Micah used to call me "Had a Dream" because of her high emotions, but she's actually still Alim.

"Pfft... that's the weakness of Alim and the others who were totally indispensable!... Rest assured, I will take this secret to my grave!

That said, Kara has an invincible grin. He seems kind of very happy.

Why are you making me look so happy?

"Ah... that's right."

Kara, who seemed happy, suddenly went back to normal and began to talk as if nothing had happened.

Scary, mainly afraid of sudden changes in expression.

"There was something I had to tell you, Alim. Your father said," Come to my room by the end of the day. "Then I'm going to let you two go."

That said, Kara's gone somewhere.