"Sakura... I..."
I honestly had no words...
I couldn't quite wrap my head around what I wanted to say. I was simply too nervous and anxious to articulate even the simplest of words...
But while my mouth remained stagnant... My mind surely wasn't... In fact, it was racing a little too fast for its own good...
'OK!!! REIKA!!!... calm down... calm down... It's just a random person you don't know... Just a random person you don't know... Just a random person you don't know...'
I was trying, unsuccessfully, to mentally prepare myself to follow-up my incomplete wording...
However... before I could even continue with my sentence, I was interrupted by the consequences of my stupid actions...
As I kept delving into my thoughts... I heard a pure voice utter a deathly sentence... I really need to learn to control my mouth...
"Do... I know you...?"
...
...
...
'I seriously messed up now...'
Immediately as I heard those words...
I froze up...
I had not quite realized, but I had just blurted out her name... mindlessly...
I'm supposed to be a total stranger to her, yet I'm already interacting with her as if I've known her for my entire life...
I had made a huge blunder...
And as silence dropped inside the room, where now everybody stood silent, I plunged into anxiety...
'Oh no... Oh NO NO NO NO!!! WHY DO I DO THESE THINGS SO INSTINCTIVELY?!?!'
I could only sulk in my stress and self-pity, as I could clearly see Sakura becoming even more confused through my reaction...
'Oh no... she couldn't have found out, right...?'
I could not even think straight as I condemned my stupidity and terrible timing skills...
'HOW DUMB CAN YOU BE REIKA?!'
I could only hold my head in desperation, while everyone looked at me with wry smiles on their faces... I bet I looked incredibly weird with my nearly immediate switch in tone and attitude...
I literally went from cutting down magic with my sword... to an emotional and uncertain MESS...
It was quite obvious everyone's sights were currently fixed on me...
But, as I was concerned and absorbed within my thoughts, I was snapped back into reality by Sakura speaking once again...
"...You... seem familiar...?"
"..."
'AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!'
I could only scream in my head as I became desperate because of her sentence...
'NO NO NO NO NO NO!!! PLEASE, DON'T FIND OUT ABOUT ME!!!!!'
I was having a mental breakdown, as I could only fathom the shock and disgust Sakura would feel from seeing me like this...
I mean, who expects their childhood friend to become a girl!? AND A CURSED ONE AT THAT!
I could only, sink in the possibilities popping in my head as I stared in terror at the confused Sakura...
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Reincarnated as an affinity-less hero, the quest to become the strongest!
FantasyReiki Ishida is someone who has endured so much throughout his life, with his parents dying, his girlish looks, bullying, and an impossible love for his classmate Sakura Kaneshiro. Everything seems routinary when the class is summoned to another wor...