The Monarch in Date a Live (Rewrite Version)

Chapter 18- Meeting Old Friends

()= Thinking/ Replacing

*= Actions

""= Phone

/= Whispers

--= Narrator

~~= Timeskip

Darren POV:

I sighed as I kept on listening to Kotori's story.

Kotori: After that happened, Rataoskr found me. When I learned about what happened to the other side of the world, I decided to save spirits.

Shido: But didn't you live a normal life after that fire? How did you suppress your spiritual powers?

Kotori: You don't remember that part? it was you who sealed my powers, wasn't it?

Shido: I did?

I gripped my fist before walking to the door.

Shido: Where are you going, Darren?

Darren: I'm not wasting my time on some sibling love stories. Where I'm going doesn't matter to you, Shido Itsuka, watch it when you talk to me.

Shido: You.

Shido stood up and walked towards me as I walked towards him.

Darren: You want to fight right now, Shido?

Shido: Tch.

Shido and I gripped our fists before Kotori stepped between us.

Kotori: That's enough, you two, Darren, you can go if you want, no one's forcing you, Shido, calm down, Darren doesn't mean harm.

I walked out of the door and slammed it before I sighed.

Darren: This is so stupid...

Reine: Was watching Kotori and Shido flirt too much for you to handle, Kiriya? Two days.

Darren: I don't know... I'm organising a lot of my feelings at the moment, so stuff comes as confusing and not confusing to me. And two days?

Reine: That's how long Kotori can hold her spirit powers inside her.

Darren: Tell that to Shido, I can't be bothered with this.

Reine: But you do care. Because after this, Kotori might not be the girl you know again.

Darren: I don't. That's Kotori and Shido's issues, I already have enough stuff on my plate to deal with.

I kept on walking and sighed.

Darren: (Man, when's the last time I've been alone like this? I cannot even remember.)

I kept on walking before sighing as Tohka walked up to me.

Tohka: Darren! There you are! I was worried about you!

I hugged Tohka close and almost cried on her shoulder.

Darren: Tohka, promise you won't leave me for a scummy bastard like Shido.

Tohka: Eh? Shido, scummy? What's that?

Darren: It's just a really bad person, basically a demon, that's what Shido is.

Tohka: Ah, right.

I kept on hugging her before nuzzling her.

Darren: I'm happy with you here.

Tohka: I'm happy too, Darren, we made a promise to each other, didn't we? We said that we would never leave each other's side.

Darren: I didn't forget, don't worry.

Reine suddenly walked up to me and patted me on the shoulder.

Reine: Sorry for interrupting a moment between you two, Kiriya, but... there's a spacequake and the results show that there might be... 6 spirits.