I knew exactly what she was referring to when I left the house. Since she has been able to speak her mind about the contract ever since I broke off her curse, she was helping a lot with Moriko.
Frankly, it was very unnatural to hear about Moriko from Lilith because she has never been so involved with the targets.
It was quite dark outside and the area I used to live in was far from the main city so it was rather silent. With the sound of my footsteps, I was listening to so music on my earphone while looking straight ahead at in the distance.
I also realised that from the past few months, I have lost the ability to not think about anything. No matter how calm I was or my surroundings were, there hadn't been a single mont when sothing wasn't going on inside my head.
I recalled sothing that I saw in a book once.
But a person who thinks all the ti has nothing to think about except his thoughts. An illusion they reside in and lose touch with reality. And losing touch with reality makes them self destructive by nature.
Thinking a lot wasn't a bad thing, but drowning in the labyrinth of the sa thoughts, chattering in the skull, perpetual and compulsive repetition of words was a rather worse state to be in.
The thinking was like every other thing in this world, a boon when done in moderation but a curse if it gets out of hand.
Well it wasn't a big deal since our minds as I always occupied with thoughts but I was becoming way too aware of my habit of overthinking and sohow it felt like my thoughts were slowly starting to devour .
And, I felt like my thoughts were controlling .
A good servant, but a poor master.
I again found myself doing the exact thing that I was trying to refrain from doing in my thoughts.
I realised the streets were slowly starting to get busy and crowded the more I was moving towards the main part of the city. The roads were already occupied with cars and the sound of their honking was overwhelming the music from my earphones.
I continued walking towards the bistro which was next to the supermarket as Gaisen told to et with the others there. I noticed the streets being illuminated with tiny lights and all the decorations for Christmas alongside the streets.
All in all, it was quite a lively ti of the year.
I finally reached our rendezvous spot and heard the voice of Gaisen approaching , as he was waving his arm, "There he is, Yo!"
"You're early…" Tsūn said while glancing at , as I retorted, "You're earlier than ."
"Touché."
"So, what are we going to do?" I asked, stepping to the side of the street, as Gaisen put his arm around my shoulders and answered, "Let's walk around the town a bit and find a good place to eat?"
"Hmm… that sounds good." I nodded, recalled sothing they were talking about in the group chat and asked, "What about Seryoku reserving a room for us?"
Tsūn's eyes shifted towards from his mobile and he laughed, "That bitch suddenly had plans with his old friends…"
"Old school friends..."
"Kizhashi is coming with Reina." Tsūn told Gaisen, as he leaned towards his mobile screen and asked, "Where are they?"
"They said sothing about being near the tro station."
Only the three of us were standing there, conversing among ourselves. The street was quite busy, so people were passing by now and then, as we were waiting for the remaining people of our party to join us.
"And what about Saki and Kana?" I glanced towards Tsūn as he appeared to be texting them. He had this nervous smile as he opened his mouth, "About them…"
"Don't tell Kana isn't coming."
"Well… Kana is on a date with this senior." He replied nonchalantly, as I narrowed my eyes at him, "Da… date?"
"They've been seeing each other for so ti now… I think they're going out as well." He replied while continuing to fiddle with his mobile and showing no interest in the matter, as I mumbled under my breath, "You're kidding … when did this happen?"
I was astonished because this was a rather unexpected developnt. In the past few months, I've been observing the both of them and it appeared like they were genuinely interested in each other.
Even though they were not aware of it, that's a different matter.
"h… I don't know, and who cares?" Tsūn glanced up at and punched my shoulder playfully, "Let us enjoy ourselves and let her enjoy herself."
I recalled the ti when I asked what he thought of Kana and he said that he didn't mind going out with her.
But I wasn't expecting Kana to go on a date with soone on Christmas Eve rather than spending that ti with Tsūn. Though it didn't matter to who she spent her Christmas Eve with.
I was just a bit surprised.
Maybe my intuition regarding them was incorrect.
Though the fact that there was nothing going on between them was clear but then again they shared a few monts when it appeared like there was a strange tension between them and I'm sure they felt it as well.
"Well… true." Gaisen laughed even though I glanced at him and it looked like a rather forced laugh to diate the predicant from escalating further, as I whispered in his ear, "You knew about this?"
"I didn't… he suddenly told as well."
"I think he didn't…"
"What are you two whispering to each other?" Tsūn asked us as we looked at him with an awkward smile and replied in unison, "Ah, nothing!"
"You two are acting weird.. Is everything alright?" He narrowed his eyes at us but they shifted to sothing behind us as he waved his arm. Ah, there they are…"
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