“Is she your friend?” Catherine asked. I her question while staring bnkly at the butterflies h around the pce where Natsumi had been standing. With a simple touch, I tapped one of the butterflies, and they dispersed into nothingness, the same way as how Natsumi disappeared. “I’m sorry, she left because of me.”

  “No, you didn’t do anything wrong, Catherine,” I muttered while giving her a half hearted smile. There was a block of light floating above o Catherine’s witch hat that shohe forest. Without realizing it, there were some slimes that had been creeping up on me.

  Perhaps some of them were taken off guard by the sudden appearance of the light from Catherine, as I could see two slimes falling down from a quite rge tree. I used my identification skill and saw them both at 13 health. With a swift strike, I sshed both of them and took the gems they dropped as I walked towards Catherine.

  [+20 EXP][+10 on EXP][+2 Luminous Gem]

  I g the text bubbles after defeating the slimes, and with a quick mental calcution, I figured that I would need 70 more exp to level up. However, I couldn’t care less at the moment sihe drowsiness of the night attacked me as I yawned. “Let’s go home and sleep, Mentor.”

  ? ? ?

  I took a deep sigh as I watched the person I didn’t want to see sitting on my favorite swing. Although I expected it, the presence of that silver haired beauty still gave me a chill every time I saw her. After experieng this ‘dream’ once, I stopped questioning the logic of it and simply took a deep breath to calm myself down.

  “Do you wao give you a push?” I said, as I walked towards behind her. I hid my murderous i as I gave a half-hearted smile to her.

  She turowards me and smiled after hearing my initiative. The e sun that illuminated her silver hair was glowing with beauty as her mouth spoke, “that would be lovely, thank you.”

  With her permission, I used all of my strength to push her. It was enough to flung her around three metres into the air. However, my pn of sg her from swinging too high didn’t work as she only giggled pyfully while swinging. Not wanting to admit defeat, I kept pushing even harder, but she didn’t budge.

  “More, more!” The young college girl said in her uniform as she kept ughing on the swing. If there were outsiders looking at us, they would probably think of us as two close friends pying together in a chill afternoon.

  While letting her have fun swinging around, I gnced arou wasn’t that familiar bedroom I expected, but the sery of the pyground park I used to love. The e sky gave a nostalgic feeling, which was enhanced by the fact that there was no one else besides the two of us.

  “ you stop killing me please?!” I yelled with an annoyed look as I gred at her meanly while still pushing her as hard as I could.

  My question was met by silend the occasional whoosh sound of her swinging in the park. Feeling annoyed, I stopped pushing her. She reacted by turning her head around and pouted adorably.

  I ignored her pout and walked away slowly, admiring the slides, seesaw, sandboxes and reminisg about the day when I was happy without a care in the world. I heard the footsteps of her behind me, but I paid her no attention as I sat down on the park bench.

  I let the breeze hit my long bck hair that I didn’t sider I would miss. I dropped my gaze below to see my casual outfit, the one I used to college the most. It had only been two days since I reinated into Mashiro, but I still haven’t gotteo that rid frilly dress with fshy design. This kind of pin clothing still fits me the best, I thought.

  Without any dey, she forced her way to sit o me and put her head beside my shoulder. Some part of her long silver hair touched my neck. I could feel her breathing being super close for my fort.

  “I didn’t say you could do that, you know.” She seemed to ignore everything I said a her head still on my shoulder, even though I tried to vey it in the most irritating tone. I clicked my tongue in the most annoyed, and exasperated voice I could muster, “Tch. Fine, do whatever you want.”

  I took a quick glimpse o me, and there was just a slight movement on the er of her lips. I didn’t say anything more and simply watched the sun slowly going down and the empty road across the pyground as I remihe day of when my door neighbour was ing to pick me up with tears in her eyes.

  She turned her head towards me, “hey, Mikan. Did you know? Natsumi was such a crybaby.”

  “Of course I know. I watched the entire anime of Luminous Dream after all,” I replied with a dry voice. This was something that even the most casual pyer of Luminous Dream would know. My mind shuffled its way to remember the things from the game and ahere was also a fshback of her g alone in the park because her mother didn’t pick her up.”

  “Were you also like that?” Furukawa asked with a small volume. There wasn’t a trace of pyfulness ione. Her voice was simir to the one I heard when we were simply cssmates.

  Whether it was her teasing attitude, or her actually being curious, I couldn’t tell. heless, she kept letting her head sloug on my shoulder. I took a deep breath before answering her question.

  “No, I didn’t cry when my mother didn’t pick me up, and I definitely didn’t have su airhead personality like her.” I answered truthfully. I took a go see her rea, but I could only see her snuggling her head at my shoulder. With Furukautting me in an aosition, I noticed something from my pocket. I pulled it out to see the familiar Redshift ticket in my hand.

  She smiled at me, “well, that airhead personality of hers helped you, didn’t it?”

  I said nothing and started ripping off the ticket on my hand. After doing that, Furukawa finally let go of my shoulder as the ticket turned into a beam of light and floated around wildly. As if gainiiehe light that kept rapidly switg colors of white, green, blue, purple, gold and rainbow flew everywhere in the park.

  I left the park bend chased the light as it slowly settled in front of an ice cream truck without. After rapidly switg the color for a while, it was starting to settle between white, blue or purple until it ultimately stayed as blue. That blue light turned into a small butterfly with a wall of text beside it.

  [SKILLS]Swallowtail Butterfly Lv. 1 (Rare) EXP: 0/100Cooldown: 0.5 seds.

  Description: Summon a swallowtail butterfly to deal 2 physical attacks to an enemy every time a successful attaded. P. S. The butterfly would also appear during your sleep to fort you!

  “It’s… a nice skill,” I muttered as I was reading the skill description. It’s a rare css, which is two tier better tharaining sword I had, following the basiu of the usual gacha rarity rank with on, unon, rare, epic, legendary and mythic. Or at least, that’s what I would imagine.

  Even though I used the redshift ticket which was the gacha currency from the game Luminous Dream, the game itself didn’t use the same rarity level, but used the number of stars instead, with 1 star being the least rare and 5 stars being the best at the test update.

  Sihe game was just a simple rhythm game, there were no items, just characters to pull. Right before I was transported to another world, I could vividly remember that I was trying so hard to get the new 5 stars of Mashiro. However, I wasn’t able to pull a 5 star Mashiro. I got 5 star Natsumi and other 5 star characters though.

  “Did you finally remember now?” Furukawa asked as she walked slowly towards the ice cream truck.

  I watched her take two ice cream es without any shame and offered oo me. I took it from her hand as I g the butterfly o me. She licked and even bit the ice cream without aation as some of the cream ged on her cheek.

  “Right, the 5 star Natsumi included a banner of her eating Ice cream together with Mashiro while a butterfly was sitting on top of Mashiro’s head,” I answered as I tried to recall the memory of me desperately pulling gacha for Mashiro and right before the girl in front of me stabbed me.

  With a geous grin, and the shine from the e sky that created a beautiful posite of a perfect picture, Furukawa smiled, “That’s right!”

  Looking at her, I couldn’t help but to also smile. I licked the ice cream I was holding and tasted a vanil fvor with a hint of mint that would attack my throat, making it harder to breathe. I coughed with an obnoxious loud sound.

  “ht, I fot to mention, that ice cream is poisonous.”