The white haired girl looked at me. I saw her from the corner of my eye as my stare was locked on the rhythmic movement of the gentle flames.

With an expression I couldn’t make out, she just looked at me before responding to my question “Yes. I think you are just another person… Just another person who feels lonely, gets angry, sad, happy, maybe even excited.”

I guess I really was just a dog up until now then…

“Eep!” She exclaimed as she put a hand over her mouth.

“S-sorry… I didn’t mean it like that, it just that you were so sca-”

“Quit it already, I don’t want to listen, I know exactly what you meant.” As if I’ll listen to those excuses now.

As usual the girl ignored me again and kept going on and on about this and that.

The sound of her voice just made my stomach turn and my heart kept pounding faster as I was about to snap.

“Seriously, what is wrong with you people, it was Niya, the fucking prince, the girl in the garden and now you.

Are you all just insane?! Stop trying to be fucking nice to me, just leave me alone!”

“W-what…? Why are you suddenly snapping again? I’m just being honest, I was terrible towards you and now I want to make amends!” She retorted.

I wasn’t sure why but I kept feeling the urge to make her understand that she’s not in the wrong at all. As if someone else took over my brain, Snoopsi or Dawn’s spirits were possessing me to think that way.

“Amends for what? For calling me a murderer? Fuck I don’t even know if that’s true anymore.

Who even cares if it is or not, objectively speaking, you didn’t do anything wrong to me yet I treat you like trash, it’s the same with all of you!

It took me a bit to realize it but just fucking stop already, you don’t owe me anything and this is really getting on my nerves, do you need something from me?!” It has to be a set up from all of those people, they’re trying to get me to trust them and owe them something.

“For the health of the firsts, you are so impossible to talk to! How do you keep twisting everything I do or say into something bad?!” It was her turn to snap so she stood up and started walking from side to side mumbling things to herself.

“This a…oying brat, he’s driving .. crazy! Wha.. I…do .” I couldn’t really hear the rest of her rant but it all came to a surprising halt as she stopped pacing around the room and stood in front of me with hands on her hips.

Seeing her standing over me like that made my face turn a little hot “Got it! From today onwards, we’re going to be friends. I will teach you what it means to be a normal, functioning member of society!” She announced.

What is this crazy bastard even saying…?

“Pass…” I said and averted my eyes from her towering form.

Even after trying this hard to push her away, I just can’t handle that type… I don’t know what to do.

“Hoho, you really think you have a say in the matter? Sorry but you don’t get a choice, we’ll meet tomorrow in school again. Now go back to your dorm, take a shower and go to sleep!”

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“Why do you think you can just comman-”

“Don’t want to hear it, you will do as you are told.” She retorted.

I felt oddly compelled to obey her… This situation gave me a nostalgic feeling, it was warm and nice. How strange. How irritating…

“Seems like you understand you have no choice here, great, the rain has stopped a little bit ago so you may leave now. Go.”

I opened my mouth to say something as I got up but when my eyes met with hers again, I just didn’t really feel like arguing anymore.

With mixed feelings about obeying this seemingly random girl, I left the run down dorm with Lucky chasing closely behind, I guess he did end up choosing me in the end.

Never in a million years would I have expected the night to end like this.

From a tree next to my dorm a few birds were chirping as the sun slowly started showing from over the city gates.

I guess I don’t have a long time to sleep, I really need to take a shower too, hopefully nobody is awake right now…

“By the way, little guy, are you really going to come sleep with me? Don’t you have a family to go back to?” I asked Lucky, to which he just meowed in response and rubbed against my legs.

I went inside and met with a red-haired prince sleeping on a chair in the kitchen. Did this guy really wait for me here?

He woke up as I closed the door loudly on purpose and looked at me, still in a daze, before yelling “Ah! Lifes! Where have you been?! It’s morning already, are you crazy? I was really worried about you!” The prince said before realizing something.

“WAIT! Where are your clothes?! Don’t tell me… You were with a girl?!”

“I mean, I guess, sort of…?” I answered.

He stood and walked up to me, grabbed my shoulders and started rattling at an incredible speed “What do you mean by sort of? And who is she? Tell me everything right now! Is she older than you? Is she pretty? You have no clothes so you guys must’ve had sex! Was it good? Was it your first time? Ahh I still remember my first time… How nice! Tell me tell me!” This fucking guy…

“What I do isn-...” I stopped in the middle as my head was much clearer now, I don’t want to be so rude to this guy anymore.

I closed my eyes, took a deep breath and faintly smiled at him.

“L-Lifes? Is everything alright?” He raised a brow, tilted his head and started backing off from me.

“Why are you running away all of a sudden!?” I yelled.

“I-I mean, you’re acting strange… Did you have so many pent-up sexual desires? Is that why you were so mean before? I don’t think sex changes a person that much.”

“I didn’t have sex!” I said.

“I guess there really was a lot of pent-up stuff released though, huh?” I mumbled to myself.

“Come again…? I couldn’t hear you.” Leo said.

That explains why my mind is so much clearer now.

“It’s nothing, Leo, I need to sleep a bit before school, you should also get some rest.”

He stood there frozen with an unexplainable expression on his face.

As I started climbing up the stairs to my room Lucky made a sound and reminded me to introduce him, to which Leo just said ‘S-sure’ and went into his room.

What’s wrong with this guy now…?

I went into the shower and sat there for a few minutes, contemplating the last few days.

Dawn’s voice laughing at me and saying I’m stupid for following my guts almost exclusively kept ringing in my head.

It’s true that I can be a bit flippant with my decisions but, if my intuition says something, there’s a good reason for it.

I wish I had the brains to find the reason every time but I feel as if every time I try to find the reason I just end up in a sea with endless ‘thought currents’ to go through…

When I entered my room again, Lucky was already sleeping comfortably on my bed.

I barely laid down and the fatigue hit me in an instant. You would think that I wouldn’t be so tired after sleeping so much throughout the day but, I guess I was…

It didn’t take long for me to regret falling asleep as the dreaded face of my best friend appeared before me once again.

I haven’t seen this guy in a bit now, why appear again? Didn’t I have this dream already? Isn’t that… our last mission?

Why again? Why now…?