Alternate Reincarnation

Interluding Date, Part III

Salutations! Let's get to chapter 13 already, shall we? "Interluding Date, Part III"

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For the umpteenth time this morning, Miku shifted in her bed.

"..."

The diva had lost count of the number of sheeps she had counted since the moment she tried to sleep. Miku didn't even know how many hours had passed since she took a bath and changed into her nightgown near the midnight.

She had to get some rest. While as an idol Miku was quite used to physically straining schedule, she had been stalking two people throughout a mall for hours, all while carrying her not-so-small amount of purchased items and clothes, which was not exactly a walk in the park.

Worse, the ones she stalked were Spirits willing to kill her- and Miku would be lying if she said that she wasn't afraid. In fact, she was terrified so much that she felt like running away. The stress had weighed on her, and she was very tired, in body and in mind.

But-

"Shido-san..."

The diva couldn't even stop thinking about the man who lapsed into a coma before her very eyes.

Was he alright? Kotori had ordered for her and the others to rest, but how could Miku do that? Shido could be dying for all she knew, how could she sleep peacefully like nothing happened?

"Is it because of me?"

The reason Shido was even there that night was because of her request. Miku knew how determined Shido was about saving Spirits, and he had failed only once, with Tokisaki Kurumi.

Although the diva was skeptical that any Spirit could reject her darling forever, his failure honestly didn't annoy her, as crazy as that sounded. When Shido was unable to do something by himself, that was when Miku and the others could help him.

Miku also had a score to settle with Kurumi. The Nightmare Spirit had helped Shido to save her from herself. As much as Miku disliked that fact, it was the truth. So the diva promised herself, she would return the favor.

"But what have I done...?"

Far from helping Shido, Miku brought him pain instead.

Kotori and the Ratatoskr couldn't identify the cause of his coma, but for some reason, Miku felt it wouldn't have happened if she didn't ask Shido to come with her.

What had she done to Shido? What had she done to the others, by hurting him?

The guilt felt like a knife stabbing her heart.

"I..."

Miku whispered, to no one in particular.

All of a sudden, Miku felt a vibration under her soft, large pillow.

"Eh?"

Her mind was tired but she was wide awake, and she knew from the short vibration, it was a message to her phone.

"Who could it be?"

She brushed her negative thoughts aside as her hand reached for her phone.

Pressing a button to turn on the display screen, it displayed herself and Shido as its background picture, a single unread message, and that it was 7.37 A.M.

"So it's already morning, huh..."

Deciding that trying to sleep was pretty much pointless at this time, Miku rose into a sitting position while rubbing her eyes. After a moment, she opened the message.