"So, did anything else happen?"
"I was flirted with, I got angry, and I blew him up" said Mashiro with indifference.
Given the atmosphere, most chose to leave, in the room only Kaito remained sitting with Mashiro, Koneko, Ai and Charmcaster, and finally an unconscious Kaguya floating.
Even so, with Ai as second in command only after Kaguya, Kaito could still obtain all the information without problems.
"You blew him up?"
"Actually, that was a small problem" Ai began to explain knowing Mashiro would not explain anything "With our group constantly expanding, it is not an exaggeration to say that we ended up controlling almost the entire world when it comes to information.
Such a large group would obviously have many factions, but the fact that the creators are all alive and united, in addition to having special abilities, made all the other factions not really matter. Despite this, one faction was foolish enough to try to break the status quo, for that, they wanted to try to use the power of one of the creators, and since Mashiro was the most naive, they chose her.
As you can imagine, as soon as they approached and the leader tried to flirt with her, the entire faction was destroyed by a meteorite"
"I still do not see the problem?" Kaito asked.
"The situation itself was not the problem" said Ai "It is just that, coincidentally, after that, people close to the annihilated faction also began to die slowly. Although it did not really affect us, suspicions began to increase within the group.
Fortunately, the killer's modus operandi was very obvious and it was easy to connect it with who you told us about before. It turns out that when we first searched for Light Yagami, he did not exist yet, but twenty years later he had already been born and was a teenager, one who for some reason wanted to cause us problems. We located him and obtained his object easily.
According to what he told us, it was given to him by a former user of the notebook, who died and fused with it, who after years got bored, so he decided to give it to a new host and follow him to see the fun he created.
It was a kind of ghost that even tried to take revenge for Light Yagami later, Mashiro killed him with a simple sacred attack"
"Are you okay?" Kaito asked looking at Mashiro, knowing her personality she probably would have wanted to leave as soon as that happened.
Exactly as he thought, Mashiro hugged him tightly upon remembering this.
"When I killed him... I thought I was angry. But I was not.
I was sad, I missed Kaito a lot, but they still needed my help, so I stayed, besides... I made a friend" said Mashiro and, as if remembering something urgent, without giving explanations she stood up and took out a card from her inventory.
"Right, when we gave all our points to Kaguya in the end only a few remained and they turned into a mid level character summoning card, we decided to give it to Mashiro so she could summon her friend" explained Ai.
"Good for her, a friend" Koneko nodded and Kaito agreed.
"A new member to the crew, what is her name?" Hope asked curiously.
"It is Miyano Shiho" Ai replied
"What?!" Kaito reacted immediately.
[Warning! Someone used a character summoning card on a character that is in your list of possible summons.
Since she is your Sub-Lord you can use 30000 points and a low level summoning card or a mid level summoning card so that the character has the memories of both worlds]
[Do you wish to use 30000 points and a low level summoning card?
Yes/No]
'Damn, I cannot use 30000 now or I will die, and I cannot ask them for some points like I had planned because none of them have any right now, what do I do?'
[If you do not choose an option in the next 10 seconds, the option "No" will be selected automatically]
'A countdown?'
Finally, to Kaito's dismay and without him being able to do anything, the time ran out.
In front of the group appeared an adult woman with long brown hair tied in a low ponytail, with glasses, and wearing a lab coat over her clothes.
Seeing her like that, Mashiro reacted and looked at Kaito.
"Can you make her young?"
"...I can" Kaito finally said with helplessness.
Using only 5000 points, Shiho returned to the age of 19, with her short light brown bob haircut and a young face that seemed to try to look more mature by force.
Gently, her body descended to the ground before slowly opening her eyes and waking up.
What followed was the usual, first she looked at everyone with confusion before remembering everything and greeting them with joy.
Everyone except Kaito, whom she did not recognize at all, after all she only had the memories of the world where Mashiro's group was.
Mashiro whispered something into Shiho's ear, making her look at Kaito with some fear and curiosity at the same time.
"Mister Kaito, it is a pleasure to meet you" she said, making a slight bow with a bit of nervousness.
After all, unlike those close to him, anyone who felt Kaito's aura would feel in danger, much more someone like Shiho whose body is at the level of a normal person.
But even knowing that, upon seeing this, Kaito reacted by frowning, which made Shiho shrink back in fear instinctively.
'Damn, do not do that, I would never hurt you.
So... so this is what you meant by punishment' Kaito thought to himself, despite the system's warnings and knowing Shiho's stubborn personality he still underestimated her punishment, thinking it would be something simple.
"Yes, it is a pleasure" Kaito finally said, although he could not help adding "...do you have to be so resentful?"
"What?" Shiho said confused.
"Nothing, it does not matter, treat this place as your home" Kaito said.
"Kaito, are you okay?" Koneko asked noticing his state and the rest also looked at him worried, except Shiho who only observed him with curiosity.
Kaito was about to say that everything was fine when an idea came to him.
'Good, I see what you want?' Kaito thought.
Kaito spent so much time with Shiho that probably, besides the Lords and those who created the Gaia system, Shiho is likely the person who knows the most about the whole situation of Gaia and the Tower of Worlds.
Because of that, Shiho knows that even if this Shiho does not have her memories she is still her soul, she is still the one he fell in love with, but she also knows that Kaito knows that, that is why she did this, because she knows that despite everything Kaito will find a way to be with her again.
Although Kaito does not consider himself unforgettable or irreplaceable, he knows that with Shiho's stubborn personality, if she really believed that Kaito would not try to make her fall in love again then she would not have done this, Shiho would not let go of something that belongs to her.
"It seems you want us to start over, so I will tell you" said Kaito "Actually..."
Right after that, Kaito simply told them everything that happened in his world without hiding anything.
"So I was your girlfriend or something like that?" Shiho asked without really believing him.
"That is right"
"You revived my sister? I adopted a child?"
"That is right"
"And then I am punishing you for not summoning me first instead of continuing my simulation?"
"That is right"
"...Yeah, that sounds like something I would do" said Shiho.
"Nn" Mashiro nodded, also believing that it is something her friend would do.
"I know, is it not stupid? I gave you the life you wanted so much, why am I the one getting punished?"
"I do not think it is stupid" Shiho said unexpectedly "being with my sister and even adopting a child sounds like I really value a family and wanted to enjoy a life with it"
"I know, that is why..."
"But..." Shiho interrupted "you are forgetting something, as Shiho, I can assure you that is not my original personality. Which means something influenced me to desire that, and that something... is you.
With you being the center of my dream of living a peaceful life with my family, with you being the center of the family I want to have, how dare you simply abandon me and on top of that, after doing so, even when you could, not think of bringing me with you first?"
"No, but I did think about you, I wanted to give you the life I promised you" Kaito said.
"I do not care about a life where you are not with me, with your power at some point you could simply summon Akemi and Eleven in the future and my family would be here, but instead you made me wait eighty years to see you again? Of course I would be angry, if I tell you that a promise is above everything else then you just have to listen to me, you do not have to think about anything, not even about me"
"No, what you are saying is nonsense, what kind of person would not think about the happiness of the person they love and would not want to give them the life they dreamed of?" Kaito replied "First of all, why are you so angry?"
"Of course because... huh? Why am I angry?" Shiho realized that for some reason she was too agitated without reason, not really understanding why, she replied "I guess I tried to put myself in the role of the Shiho you betrayed and broke her heart and I got too into character"
"I did not do that"
"Yes you did! You traitor!"
"I am not going to argue with you anymore" Kaito said frustrated, arguing with a Shiho like this was much harder than with the one he knew.
"Mashiro, I am right, right?" Shiho asked changing targets.
"Why are you asking her..."
"Nn"
Kaito did not finish speaking when he heard Mashiro's soft nod.
"You agree with her? Why?"
"Eighty years without Kaito, I do not want that" said Mashiro.
"Not even if I give you your dream life?"
"My dream life... has Kaito in it"
"...I see" Kaito finally nodded.
"Then Shiho, I guess I owe you an apology"
"Of course you do, but I am not the right Shiho so it is useless to me" Shiho said.
"Arghh, seriously... it does not matter, I will not argue with you anymore, it has been a long day so I am going to sleep" Kaito said frustrated, he said goodbye to Shiho and left.
Koneko, Ai and Hope followed him, leaving the room almost empty.
Shiho watched him leave and sighed, somehow this person she had just met made her react as if she had known him her whole life, although she knew that technically it was because part of her soul had been with him, even so her soul should have been divided into thousands of simulations, she did not understand why this one would be more special than the rest.
"Shiho, do not argue with Kaito" said Mashiro as she approached.
"But he started"
"Arguing is bad, Shiho is not angry"
"I am very angry" Shiho replied, but she was still smiling as she said it, so Mashiro did not believe her.
"Come, you can sleep in Koneko's room, or Ai's, or Hope's"
"Are you sure? Where will they sleep?"
Mashiro blushed and her steps faltered for a second before recovering "It does not matter"
"You are not going with them?" Shiho asked with a mischievous look as she realized the situation.
Mashiro stopped for a moment before frowning and showing an extremely conflicted expression while thinking about something, finally, she chose to simply ignore it, both her problem and the question.
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