The Unexpected
“Ple, please cut it out already!”
Mira, when she ordered her fourth cup of café au lait, she slammed both hands on the counter table.
“Cut what out?”
“……I am curious, how can you be continuously rejected this overwhelmingly, and remain unfazed”
“An encounter is, once in a lifetime. Such things, happen too”
The narcissistic Magician, he graciously consumes, the cocktail’s cherry.
The 36th cherry.
“……”
Rick thinks while shaking.
“That phrase, today, it’s the 36th time”
“In, in the first place! When are you going to get into the main topic!? You have been hitting on girls after girls since just now. Are you not too immodest?”
“Fuu……how boorish to call it hitting on girls. An encounter is, an irreplaceable treasure to humans. I had simply been treasure hunting”
While making a faraway look, the narcissist Magician, tips the cocktail into his mouth.
“……”
Mira, she thought.
‘There are such unrelatable words, on this continent huh’
In the middle of all that, another woman entered. Even amongst those they’ve seen thus far, she gives off the most beautiful and mature feeling.
“Now……the regular stuff to that individual over there”
“Uu……”
Rick groaned unconsciously.
The narcissistic Magician’s heart will by no means break. Therefore, he will not learn his lesson. As a result, he will by no means reflect on himself.
Emotionally, Asch was, a ridiculous monster.
In the bar he visited for the first time in 8 years, for the 37th time today, he glanced at a beauty who’s drinking a cocktail alone, in the distance.
Rick, he has already given up and has started making the cocktail.
Shaka Shaka
Shaka Shaka
“……here you go”
A blood-like crimson red cocktail.
“Oh my……I didn’t order it though”
The beautiful woman, who’s lightly tinged in red, looks at Rick.
It’s already, so similar, that one would think that it’s a deja vu.
10……9……8……
Mira, in her heart, started the countdown until the narcissistic Magician gets punched.
“……it is from that individual over there”
“Oh my……”
She’s not unsatisfied. As for why, it’s that Asch, he has a tall height and sweet looks. For a woman, who desires an encounter day after day, he’s a stimulating party.
Up until here, there’s no problem. Up until here……
“Still, this is a really beautiful red cocktail……what is its name?”
When she asks, Asch stood up, walked all the way to the mature beauty’s side, acted cool with all his might, pinched her chin, and said.
“True Love”
“……mar・ve・lous”
!?
“What―――――――――! No way――――――!”
Mira, who was looking from afar, stands up and shouts.
“Wha, what’s that……”
The mature beauty who was startled by the loud voice whispers by Asch’s ear.
“Who knows, I don’t even know she’s there”
The ill-natured Magician, he treated Mira, like she’s not around.
“Leaving that aside, isn’t it more important to talk about the mystery of the miracle that is our encounter in this vast continent, in this generation”
“Fufu……you’re smooth huh”
The woman blushes and touches Asch’s chest.
The narcissist Magician, he thought.
‘Somehow, it feels like it’ll work today’
“A, Asch-san, a minute please!”
“……”
He ignores Mira’s calls.
“Hey, hey hey Asch-san!”
“……”
Ignore at all cost.
“Erm……somehow, the child over there, is calling you”
“……excuse me, for a bit”
He gives up, stands from his seat, sits beside Mira, and glares at her.
“What is it, exactly!? I don’t want people to think that I’m acquainted with a badly-mannered idiot young girl like you!”
Asch snaps.
“It, it is strange! You are being deceived!”
“Like there is anything strange”
“It is riddled with strange things! I mean, there is something wrong with her not punching you at your words”
“……for you, as I thought, action speaks louder than words. Well, hide and tag along. I’ll show you what they call an adult’s romance”
He leaves those words behind, immediately stands up from the seat, and goes back in front of the mature beauty again.
“My apologies……it was a beggar. It seems she had heard my conversation with the bartender and learned of my name”
“Hmーm……what an adorable beggar”
“In comparison to your beauty, it’s rubbish”
“Oh my……”
“Fuu……how about we have a little change of pace, and grab another drink?”
“That makes me so happy to hear! I, know, a good store”
She, grabs Asch’s hand, stands from the seat, and starts walking.
“Fuu……that assertive behaviour……I sure don’t dislike it”
Before leaving the store, he turns to Mira, and while making a triumphant expression like never before, left with her in a pair.
・・・
She’s steadily walking in the back alley.
“Hmm……is there a store, at a place like this”
“……”
The woman, with few words, pulls Asch’s hand and walks.
Before long, the crowd steadily disappeared, and they arrived at an abandoned building that looks like nobody is staying in anymore.
“This is……quite, an interesting place――”
When he turns around while saying, a single man was standing behind the woman.
“Heyy, money! Take out your money!”
“……”
As was expected, the narcissistic Magician, had been deceived.
