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"For tonight let Luca decide... let him choose whom he wishes to marry: Nera... or Bianca..."

Ei paused as she stared at the TV's screen at the video game's text dialog box. The giant super Famicom controller resting on her bent legs, as her right hand hovered over the large red 'A' button without pressing it down. She knew that the video game was leading up to a moment like this. however she was still in an impasse, one that was probably the toughest in her new life...

who to choose?

"Hmmm"

Ei raised her left hand off the d-pad to hold near her chin, to think. It was in the middle of a Tuesday day, and like usual she was sitting on the top of the bedroom's giant wooden desk. Perched near the bottom right corner, she was within arm's reach of the edge. Behind her and pressed up nearly against the wooden desk was Akio's dresser drawer, close enough that she could rest her back on it. Just passed the drop was the rest of their bedroom, the folded futon in the far left corner from her, the giant blue rolling chair of Akio's. that casted a shadow over the flat screen TV, blocking out the sun's light from shining on the picture. Something Akio had purposely made sure to do, at her request before heading to school everyday. maybe soon he would relent and close the curtains of the window, if she asked again tomorrow, since playing video games in a dark was the best way.

*reach, crack, snap *

Reaching down towards the giant white TV remote near her right foot, Ei dug her right hand into the chocolate piece bigger then her head. digging her fingers into the still hard delight, before easily snapping off a chunk in her fist. Bringing it towards her mouth, Ei bite into the milky chocolate while staring blankly at the TV. Long accustomed to her size of five and a half inches tall, since she had been in 'the real world' for two months already.

*soft exhale *

Ei lightly scoffed as she closed her eyes, she had mentally called this place the real world again. That was still something she was adjusting to, this was Kawaguchi city, apart of the Saitama Prefecture in Japan. Her home wasn't Inazuma or some fake plane or domain from a video game. it was here, in an apartment apart of a complex. This bedroom wasn't just hers, this apartment was her home.

*shaking, as her hair rubs her kimono and the desk *

Softly swaying her head side to side, Ei still didn't smile as she swallowed the melted chocolate bite. Granted not much had change from her fake life's life style, she mostly spent all days of the week coupled up here in the room. Instead of mediating or reading and snacking, Ei had more things to do now. From browsing the internet, watching TV and movies, playing video games, and snacking on sweets. of course there were times she was dragged or more fittingly forcibly carried out of the apartment by Akio, to go out, not listening to her 'protests'.

*shift *

"aah-"

Ei softly raised her sitting body, and leaned her head upwards towards the nearby small cup filled with soda and a bent red straw for her. Forced to open her mouth wider, Ei gently bite down on the plastic straw with a plain tone 'ah' getting cut off. She didn't like having to bite with her teeth on the straw as it felt unmannerly for some one of her-

*bite *

But she had to since it would hurt her mouth if she didn't force the straw to be smaller in girth. Usually Ei would prefer to use the slim black coffee straws that were still giant and long to her, that were MUCH smaller in girth then normal straws. making it easier for her to drink, without having to bite down. But Akio had forget to get her some on the way home the other day, so Ei had to bite down on the straw.

hoping he remembered today to pick some up at the convenience store's utensil station.

*large deep inhale *

Ei shut both her eyes as she sucked in air through her mouth, making her chest to raise from the amount of air. That was another reason why she hated using normal sized straws, it was a lot harder for her to take sips form her cola. However Ei stopped sucking as she felt her soda greeting her mouth, stopping before the liquid could rush into her lungs and induce a coughing fit. After exhaling through her nose, Raiden took a quick sip from the soda. She didn't know rather to be proud she was getting better at the timing, or if she should be embarrassed by that fact.

*the sound sipping ends *

"Hmmm"

Pausing she moved her mouth away from the red straw, letting the plastic to bounce to normal with new mini bite and tooth marks on it's rim.

Embarrassed.

Swallowing the drink she loved, Ei had never thought of being in such a state in such a long time, so much that she had forgotten the last time she had been flustered. Despite the past life and memories being nothing but fabric woven by people, ever since everything that had broke her happened, Ei hadn't thought of such an useless emotion.

Was it because she was here and not-

Ei mentally raised her eyebrows as her eyes drifted down to the cellphone across the desk near the TV stand. Without fully thinking about it, Ei lifted the giant controller from her lap to place down on top of the TV remote, making it easier for her to put back on her lap later. Her mind to forcing her thoughts to the dark corner of her mind out of habit, and instead be replace by another.

*shift *

Crawling on all fours, Ei quickly made her way to the purple cased smart phone. the device big enough to be the size of a bed to her, Ei reached down to press on the right side power button to awaken the device. Tilting her head to the right, she was on all fours and on top of the phone, staring down at the cellphone turning on from it's dark screen. She quickly scanned her eyes over the notifications that the phone wanted her to read, and possibly click on later. But that wasn't her intention for turning on the smart device, instead she looked at the time.

"12... 37..."

Ei whispered to herself, and moved her head to the left. Was she supposed to bite her lip at this moment, she didn't know. But she still tried to remember the schedule of Akio during his school days. Wondering if her memory was correct, as she swiped her tiny hand across the phone screen. Getting rid of the background picture of the dragon quest picture Akio had once had on his own phone, that he had replace it with a photo of her; and replacing it with her home screen and little apps.

*press *

Pressing her hand down on one of the app icons, Ei wasn't trying to open YouTube, or one of the two games on her cell phone. Nor did she open the web browser, or pictures app. Instead she opened the Line app, forcing her cell phone to obey her will and take her to her contact's list.

*tap *

Moving to the first of the only two contacts she had, Ei clicked on Akio's name. Once again making the smart lifeless device obey her order, as it took her to their... chat? where she didn't pay attention to their last chat the phone had remembered happening.

*shift... tap, tap, tap, tap, tap *

Scooting backwards a bit, she brought her tiny body to sit on her knees, back on to the giant wooden desk. Allowing her face and chest to lean over the image of a digital keyboard for her to type her message with. Letting her see how much her lifelessly device was smart, since it somehow knew what she wanted without her orders. Ei remained serious as she moved her right hand to press her index finger down on to the digital buttons of the chat's keyboard.

*Tap *

"We talk now"

Ei stared at her plain message, after tapping the send button. While she was a plainspoken person, it didn't help that her hands had to reach and spread out just to form one of the Japanese language's characters. However the question must have came off like she was ordering him to speak or rather text with her. So not waiting for a response Ei thought it best if she sent a follow up, to show she wasn't commanding him to drop whatever he did in school just to humor her.

*slowly tapping sound *

"Have you finished eating"

Figuring it would best to start with small conversation before her reason for interrupting his day, Ei sent the follow up text message. Knowing it could be a while for him to respond to her, Ei started to move her little body to sit crossed legged in front of her obedient phone.

*ding *

"yeah i just finished and i was just talking to the class representative"

Content with the fact she had gotten the timing of his schedule right, Ei didn't have much time to sit improperly before a reply was seen. Her eyes quickly scanning the message in what appeared to be in a strange white bubble, that contrasted her messages' green bubbles. Only the contents of the text made her furrowed her eyebrows as she rose off her rear to get back on all fours over the laying phone to reply back to Akio.

*tapping, tap *

"we will talk later"

Lowering her head, Ei was by no means imposing her will on him. Even more so since he was discussing with the voice of his class, who she didn't personally know. But Ei at less knew that the class representative was a fellow class mate of Akio's named Endo Itsuki. Surely a discussion with Itsuki would be one of importance in Akio's school life. Besides compared to that Ei wasn't the main focus of his life, why would someone like-

*ding *

"no it's fine, it wasn't anything important other then stuff about the upcoming school festival and what our class is doing"

Ei tilted her head, she knew what festivals were. but she had figured the process of planning one would be important, that went double if it was a discussion with the class head. While she would disagreed since she believed talking to one higher is important, Ei lowered her hands to type once again in a slow pace.

"I see"

What should she say other then that? 'No, I'm not as important?', or 'Continue your planning, for I can wait'. what about 'would you require help', no she couldn't say that last one, even with her fake past, Ei was never suited or meant for such activities that required one to be outgoing. But with the condition of her life, should she perhaps offer words of support?

"What did you want to talk about, Ei?"

But she didn't get the chance to find words to send, fore Akio had already beat her by sending his own. Reading the text, Ei didn't notice her left thumb coming up to press sideways into her closed lips. She didn't know if she was meant to refute him allowing her to continue, so she simply bowed her head and did as he asked.

"I seek counsel"

It was the reason, why she texted him. of course she could have texted Kaori, but Ei didn't want to disturb Akio's older sister while she was at work. And she didn't want to encourage Kaori's... personailty and teasing.

"Okay, what about?"

Pushing all other thoughts aside, Ei forced her tiny hands to move faster to send a longer reply.

"I must choose a bride to take, in Doragon Kuesuto V, who did you pick"

It wasn't as important as planning a festival stall, but it wasn't like Raiden Ei had much in her life. Not that she had anything of grande before when she locked herself away for an enter-

"you there already? If I remember I wanted to choose Nera at first, but i went with Bianca in the end"

Ei lowered her hands to hover over the digital keyboard, was she glad that he was humoring her? It was just a video game, but since the two were already talking about it. Ei decided to continue seeing what Akio had done in his play through.

"why"

"I don't know i was more... drawn to her if that makes sense. her personality seemed more endearing then that of Nera's. plus i liked her design, while Nera was more eh for me"

Ei turned her head to the side slightly while reading the message, why did he seemed more drawn to Bianca over Nera? Bianca wasn't as proper and more unruly then Nera was, the two were different. Nera more polite and mannered, Bianca not so much.

"Is that so"

Is all she could type, her mind trying to look at the two women video game characters rationally since she was judging which would be the best for the hero.

"I guess i just liked Bianca more wwww"

Ei lowered her head as she reread the message Akio had sent her. He liked Bianca, or rather, did he like the type of girls that were like Bianca? Ei curled her fingers as she stopped moving her right hand and index finger. as she plainly blinked her eyes and moved her lower jaw to the left when she felt a weird feeling upon her inner right cheek, causing her to stop moving her jaw.

She was biting her cheek and lower lip.

"Though the girl you pick also is the one, who goes with you for the rest of the game. Bianca is a strong offense mage, and Nera if i remember was a strong healer. So it can also just come down to how you want your play though to be like"

She had considered that, since Bianca mentioned leaving the party if she wasn't chosen. But she hadn't considered the chosen bride could have an different move set. She also didn't considered was Akio saying he liked Bianca, not just for her moves, but for her design and her personality.

all which were different then Ei's.

"I see, I will pick for my team's fighting ability then."

"was that all Ei? i still have time before classes start again"

While she had his advice, Ei was left with a different question now. that didn't pertain to the video game, but she couldn't find the reason to ask Akio, since the question was about him... and her.

"Yes"

"Okay, well i guess I'll talk to you later when classes are over"

Ei kept it to herself, just because she wasn't the Electro Archon anymore, didn't mean she could ask him. So the question would remain bottled in her head, for the time being, despite her wanting answers about it.

"Very well"

Ei was about to reach down to allow her phone to go back to sleeping, when she remembered something. Causing her hands to return to the keyboard to continue typing before Akio could go back to talking with his class head.

"Remember. Coffee straws"

She didn't want to have to continue biting down on the large straws as if she wasn't mannered. It didn't matter she wasn't the shogun or Achron anymore, she didn't want to bite down on the current straws that barely fit in her mouth. She was opposed to straws that forced her mouth to stretch to it's limits, just to permit her, her drinks.

"Got it, coffee straws after school. do you wanted anything else from Lawson, Raiden?"

Ei didn't have to think about the offer before her hands started to type for themselves.

"Dango"

It was one of her favorite sweets, a food that could be made differently with different flavors and tastes. and it was her favorite even if in her size she couldn't fully eat it all by herself. Always needing to give the remaining, like the rest of her unfinished giant sweets, to either Akio or Kaori.

"There are other stuff you know, you shouldn't be getting the same stuff all the time"

"I see"

Ei lowered her shoulders, not from sadness, but she would have enjoyed eating a her preferred food. Of course she wasn't going to dwell on it, or ask him for it one more time. She was above that, a simple joy was something she could go without. She had already gone hundreds of years without it, and she was in no position to be asking or demanding stuff from Akio. She had to remember her place, and why she was here.

"I get it... I'll get you a Sanshoku Dango, Ei"

Tilting her head, Ei was about to move on from the thought of eating the sweet. When Akio's newest message appeared in the Line chat, letting her read what he was thinking so far away in the city. And despite only knowing him for a mere two months, Ei could mentally see his head shaking with a small smile as he sighed.

"My thanks"

Politely responding to him, Ei knew he didn't have to go out of his way to humor her wants. She couldn't even eat all of the snack, and he would be forced to finish it for her. yet he was still getting it again for her to have... why?

"Well, talk to you later?"

swaying her head to the sides, Ei focused back on the phone as she returned her own proper farewell.

"Yes, luck in your studies"

"Thanks, have fun with your gaming"

Seeing the final text Akio sent, Ei didn't know why she properly nodded her head, since her phone didn't have eyes. nor could Akio see her doing such an action for him. But she didn't think much of it, since her right hand was already reaching to the right side of the laying device to reach for the power button to plunge it into slumber once again.

*stand *

Was she curious about what Akio was getting up to in his school life? He had mentioned a festival, something that Inazuma used to have the last time she hear- That was the thing about this world. Try as she might, some things were to much like her fake life and the nonexistent Inazuma. Even the shrine, Akio had taken her to three weeks ago, reminded her of the shrine back-

*step, step, step *

Ei pushed those useless thoughts away to some dark corner in her mind, the stuff of make believe should be forgotten no matter the damage it had over her. But as she stepped over the large TV remote, Ei couldn't help but pause with her left foot in the middle of the air, hovering over the large buttons.

There was one thing she could never forget, since it would never let her forget it. The hurt, the wounds, the words never spoken, something she buried deep within to try and wall off and never feel again, still found it's way to torment her, despite the fact it went against how an archon was supposed-

*rush steps, shift, tapping *

"Bye."

Ei slowly rose back to her feet after dropping to her knees and forcing the phone to awaken one last time. to command it to send a plain one word message to Akio.

*ding *

"See you soon, Ei"

It didn't take Akio more then a ten seconds to respond to her, and it took less then that for Ei to read the text. Saying what she had wanted, Ei moved to turn off the phone and continued her walk back to gaming. Not looking back as she stepped over the TV remote, and reached the place where she usually sit in a nice distance from the TV. that allowed her to see all the screen without needing to twist her head around.

*kimono shifting, sit *

Sitting back down and bending her knees nearly up to her chest, EI didn't need to question why she HAD to send that message. because how would she live if the same thing had happened again and she never got the chance? It destroyed who she was the first time, there would be nothing of her left if there was a second. The only question in her mind as she adjusted her kimono wrinkles, was should there have been more for her to say? Ei knew what she wanted to do in the video game, now thanks to the small talk. but still she couldn't stop thinking.

why couldn't she find the words to say more then just that one word?

Was she reserved? Scared? What did that feel like again? What did this feeling feel like? Was there more for her to say? There had to be, if she sent the final message without thinking.

*grab, lift *

Ei slowly raised the video game controller back up to place on top of her bent thighs. Letting the bottom side of it rest on top of her kimono covered pelvis, and turning her attention back to the video game she had started playing five days ago. Rereading the text box, she pressed down on the 'A' button. Causing the next dialog box to appear as she resumed playing the Super Famicom Jrpg, passing time until Akio's sister would come home from her morning shift.

Maybe then she could seek more con- advice to sort out her thoughts just a hair.

But was she allowed? She was just a mortal now, but could she?

"Ei, I'm home!"

Ei was in the middle of stretching her tiny body with her arms held above her head, when the bedroom door opened. Turning her head to face towards the bedroom door that was showing a bit of the outside narrow hallway that was bigger then a city block to Ei. But that wasn't what Ei was focusing her eyes on

*shift *

"Hello"

Nodding her head slowly, Ei lowered her hands back down to grab and move off the controller from her lap. Watching how Hayashi Kaori walked across the room still wearing her waitress outfit from the diner restaurant she worked at. The outfit was made of a tight button up black shirt with the logo upon her right chest, while her leg wear was a simple pair of beige jeans. Even her smooth well taken care of black hair was still in it's tight bun, letting Ei figure that Kaori had made checking on Ei, the first thing she did after arriving at the house. While Ei didn't wave her right hand back to mimic how Kaori was waving hers in a slow friendly manner.

"no, no! not 'hello' it's 'Welcome home, big sister!'"

Lowering her shoulders, Ei realized that the motion the big sister of Akio's was doing; wasn't one of greeting. but rather a playful dismal at Ei's greeting as she teased the five inch tall woman. Giving Ei a feeling of nostalgia as thoughts of how Yae would also teas-

*LOOM *

"Oh... Welcome home, Kaori"

Ei stopped the line of thought before it could get out of control as she once again plainly nodded her head as Kaori reached the wooden desk. Letting the newly 20 year old girl loom over Raiden as she smiled happily down to Ei. But due to the immense size difference Ei had to crane her body back just to look up past Kaori's massive chest to see her face.

*pat, ruffle *

"it won't kill you to call me 'Big sister'... but- ah! fine!"

Hearing the playful Kaori's voice grow softer, Ei felt her head being gently pushed down. By Kaori's right index finger coming down and placing it's large face sized fingertip on top of Ei's purple hair. Ei didn't voice any complaints as she simply allowed Akio's sister to ruffle and pet her head as if Ei was a simple hamster or something. Of course Ei knew that wasn't the case but the comparison was stuck in her head ever since Kaori had told her that in Ei's first week of life. or rather when Ei was eating a grain, Kaori had told her, she looked like a 'cute little hamster'

She still didn't know why Kaori insisted on being called Ei's older sister though. Should Ei be angry about that? sad? glad? How should she react to such a thing, when her real- when her fake sister Makoto was dead? Did Kaori know about Makoto and she simply wanted to tease and insult Ei? How was Ei supposed to react?

"Are you hungry, Ei? I brought some egg and bacon from work if you want we can share?"

Ei felt the giant finger with blue nail polish leave her head and ruffled hair, allowing Ei to readjust her head. to avert her eyes from the sight of Kaori's slender waist that was far larger in scale then Ei's, that she could lay sides ways on it. and still have enough space for another tiny Raiden Ei-

not wanting to remember the other her somewhere out there, Ei turned her eyes and craned her neck to look back up at Kaori's gently smiling face, before answering the younger yet also older giantess. Who wasn't as tall as her younger brother but still utterly massive like all the single handful people of this world Ei had encountered.

"I have eaten already"

it may have been her lunch for the day, but Ei hadn't finished eating the chocolate chunk after filling her belly. So when the remaining seventy five percent melted, it melted in Akio's trash can besides the desk that faced the room's closet door. No one was there to finish it for her at the time, so now the sweet was a dark brown puddle of chocolate on a paper ball.

"aw that's a shame, I like watching you munch on normal food!"

"Is that so"

Ei didn't react much, since when ever it was just her and Kaori and it came time to eat. She always wanted Ei to be seated near her plate to munch on the oversized foods that Kaori gave her. All while watching and talking to Ei about random things. Of course Akio was nearly the same, only the difference between the two siblings, was that Akio was more considerate for Ei compared to his sister while Ei was eating. Such as cutting up the food for her to eat somewhat normally, and not like a 'cute little hamster'

"Anyway I got four hours to kill before my college classes start, so i guess I am going to be bugging my sweet little neet sister!"

"I see"

Ei replied normally and blankly as she watched Kaori move her massive body to plop down on top of Akio's rolling chair with a small 'pomf' when her rear and legs landed on the cushion. Not paying mind to the words spoken to her, since it was normal for Kaori to tease and say stuff like that to Ei on the daily. And from what Akio told her, 'Neet' was apparently a proper label for Ei.

"How..."

Ei paused as she lowered her her body to sit on the desk's ledge and to hang her legs off the edge. She couldn't finish speaking as the words got lost in the middle of her throat. Despite the person she wanted to talk to being right in front of her, Ei still struggled to talk about it.

*roll *

"What is it, Ei?"

Ei wanted to continue looking at the floor so far below her heels, but found she couldn't any more. Not because the giant body of Kaori's rolled Akio's rolling chair closer towards the desk, replacing the sight of the floor with that of Kaori's enlarge thighs and waist. Ei turned her head to look at Kaori straight in the eyes as she moved her tiny hands over her own thighs to tightly hold.

"What... what type of women does Akio... prefer?"

slowly forcing her words out without truly thinking about them, Ei questioned Akio's older sister. Since the chat with Akio just twenty minutes ago was still fresh on her mind. Since why would he want such a broken person like her when he talked so highly of Bianca?

"e-...eh...?"

Without her emotionless face changing, Ei tilted her head slightly at Kaori's confused state. The black haired giantess blinking her green eyes once, twice, five times while staring at Ei.

"The type of wome-"

Ei started to repeat the question since it seemed like Kaori possibly hadn't heard her.

"I heard you, Ei! It's just-.. why are you asking that?"

"He had mentioned liking a girl in our text messages"

Ei pointed to her phone and as she picked her legs up off the ledge in order to crawl towards it, she was stopped by Kaori picking her hands up to the left of her body as it holding an invisible object.

"wait, wait, wait, slow down... let's put going through your phone and texts aside for now"

Ei tilted her head as Kaori then moved her hands from the left to the right of her body, as it moving the unseen object with them to put somewhere else. Causing her to wonder if that was an expression of this world she had yet to learn. but since she was asked to wait on awakening her phone and show Kaori the text messages, Ei nodded her head before moving her body to sit down on the ledge again.

"Very well. it is put aside"

fixing her head with a nod, Ei watched Kaori moving to sit on Akio's rolling chair. her face growing less playful and more serious, letting Raiden know Kaori was ready to listen to Ei. just like how she would listen to Kaori whenever she wanted to vent or just speak her mind.

*squeak *

"Why are you asking about his interest in girls? wouldn't you already know?"

"I would?"

Ei pondered aloud, since she couldn't think of a reason why she would know of such a thing. Despite she and Akio living in the same room, and sharing the same pillow. Ei didn't really know much about his life other then small snippets. So stuff like that was unknown to her, made worse since she was inexperienced in that regard due to her fake life's certain lifestyle.

"Well duh, he got you and is intimate with you so surely you already know!"

Ei closed her eyes, now understanding what Kaori had meant. while a certain unspoken incident had happened, it was only between Ei and Akio. The two had never told Kaori, and that incident was in the beginning of Ei's new life here.

"He hasn't been intimate"

Ei didn't want to tell Kaori how Akio had forced a one time action on her. Since she didn't want to stain the relationship between the two, since Ei knew what it was like to lose a-. Ei shook her head as she placed her hands on her lap, before watched Kaori's jaw drop slightly more.

"Eh? Really? I thought you and him were already a thing?"

Ei paused as this was a new term or possible expression of this world for her. So she lacked the knowledge to know what the giantess meant.

"Meaning?"

"Well... A- a couple!"

Watching Kaori moving her finger to rub at her face's enormous left cheek, that was big like a blanket to Ei. Who now knew what Kaori had meant. Despite the incident and the fact Akio had brought Ei, it was far from the truth.

"we aren't"

"Well now i know! but really? you sure had me fooled!"

Ei wondered if she was supposed to somehow let Kaori know about her and Akio. there wasn't nothing there expect the two living together, since Ei had made sure to shut Akio down. of course he had relented when he didn't have to, but he still respected her protests during the incident. ever since then the two had remained... what ever it they are in the moment. But should have Ei been telling Kaori that? was she accidentally leading on Kaori who believed Akio and Ei were together when the opposite was the truth? but what did Kaori mean by them fooling her?

"I see. that was not intended."

"Haa.... that's not what i meant... and this whole time i been trying to get you to see me as your sister"

she wanted to press about what the giantess sister had meant by her words, but before Ei could open her mouth. She watched Kaori start talking in a almost whisper while slumping her shoulders and moving her hands as if trying to steady her mind. All while her humongous body slumped back into the chair, and her head lowered to press her chin on her collar.

"okay... okay... so you want to know about his type, there is another girl he is into, you and him haven't done anything despite living in the same room for two whole months and with the way he looks at you and treats you!... honesty... you two are hopeless!"

"Bianca, she is-"

before the tiny Ex-archon could mention the fact Bianca was from a video game, she was promptly cut off by Kaori roaring in shock. so loud that the apartment next door possibly heard her, even though Akio and Ei's room was far from the wall that divided the two apartments.

"- and you KNOW her!? Okay! we are so talking about THIS!!!"

Leaning back, Raiden looked up at Kaori's body raising up like a tide from the chair and quickly rushing towards the bedroom door. Letting Ei see the back of Kaori as it bounced with a hop in her step. not giving Ei the chance to explain that Bianca wasn't a real person and simply a character from a video game-

Ei lowered her shoulders as she remember that she as well was from a video game, Akio played. since she would watch him controlling the puppet she had made in game everyday when he wanted to play Genshin.

"Give me a second to change out of my work clothes, get my plate of food and we can talk while eating! and you better tell me EVERYTHING you know about this Bianca! No brother of mine is going to break my soon to be tiny sister's heart!"

At 4:32pm in the afternoon:

"Oh? you choose Bianca?"

Ei turned her head towards the TV where the paused game was displaying. Letting Akio see the retro game and how Bianca's sprite was with the party as a member along with the boy child of Bianca and Luca. Whom she had named Dango, while his sister was named Tricolor. the two named after the type of Dango Ei- the Tricolor Dango from the Genshin Impact video game. A Dango that looked slimiar to the one She and Akio had eaten together when he arrived at home ten minutes ago.

"yes"

Nodding her head, Ei turned back to look up at Akio's looming body as he slightly bent his massive head down to look at the TV. despite just coming home from spending the day out, he wasn't much tired, unlike how she would be if she spent hours out with him.

"I guess you are going with a heavy hitter party huh?"

Ei nodded her head, despite him being dead wrong about her choosing Bianca. Using her hands, Ei adjusted the Super Famicom controller as she turned her focus back on the game.

"I am just 'grinding' right now, to make sure everyone is leveled properly"

Ei paused the game as she remembered the talk her and Kaori had done just an hour ago, before the giant sister had to go to college. She shouldn't be playing video games, she had to be following the plan, that Kaori had scolded her to follow.

"Akio? may we watch a movie?"

Ei closed her eyes as she didn't face him, she didn't have to worry about her emotions giving away it was a plan she was following. since her face never should emotions other then a serious stern face.

"Sure, i guess if you want?"

"I do, permit me to save first"

Ei opened her eyes as she started to manuever the video game character party towards the nearest town. only then she had to stop as she heard the voice of Kaori in her head scolding that Ei was playing a video game again and not following the plan.

Ei turned away from the TV and the controller resting on her thighs and knees. Looking up to the person who was the reason she existed in the moment, she stared blankly up at him for a moment. Thinking how he had mentioned Bianca was possibly his type. if that was true why didn't he buy her instead? Why did he choose Ei to be created and given to him, she was nothing like Bianca. she couldn't even remember if she was ever like Bianca before her moment of breaking.

"Akio"

Ei despite her plain tone called up to him as he moved to sit on his rolling chair to wait for her to save the game so the two can watch a movie.

"Yeah Raiden?"

Ei forced her teeth to bite down on her cheek and bottom lip again, after her talk with his sister. Ei didn't have a clear thought of what to do, but she was going to break her shell of not showing her emotions even if she had to force her body to obey. After years of killing her emotions and urges for the sake of eternity and being a proper archon, Ei was doing to try to reverse that at least.

"Remember how I told you never to do IT again?"

Ei lowered her face while keeping her eyes dead set up at Akio, watching him slump his shoulders as the memory came back to him. it was the second night of being with her, when he had attempted something, that was only meet with her dead tone and voice telling him never to do it again. Something he had honored after he recovered from the emotional hurt from her harshly putting him down.

"Y-yeah... sorry"

Ei didn't shake her head, she didn't snarl, she didn't change her serious expression as she moved the controller off her lap to place down beside her sitting body.

"Do it again"

Ei spoke firmly without a flatter in her voice, slowly raising her small sized body up to her feet. Letting her stand just near the edge of the desk as she placed her hands to the sides of her body. Closing her purple eyes that had a faint trace of life in them, she didn't take a deep breath. She wasn't nervous, or worried, but she didn't know if she was excited or anything. After 500 years of the person she once was dying slowly in order to be enteral, Ei didn't know her own emotions that were bottle away somewhere in her.

"r-rea... are you sure?"

Ei opened her eyes to stare dead at his, as he was obviously gulping and growing nervous. Something Ei barely understood anymore, the last time she possibly felt nervous was when she was birth in this world and greeted with the different scale of things.

*shift, place, stand *

"do it"

Placing the controller down and standing up, Ei wonder if she was supposed to say it in such a way, was it meant to be a question to see if he wanted to. Was she forcing him to act, was she supposed to be reacting the same way as Akio? The way she said it wasn't in a way to show he could if he wanted to do it. But rather her voice was one like a ruler ordering, was that how she was supposed to approach this? She wanted to text and ask Kaori, but she couldn't at the moment.

*shift *

But it worked as Ei watched Akio's body move closer to the desk she was standing on like a mere doll. She didn't react as the shadow he cast with just his body grew nearly until it was big enough to cover all of her. His giant face moving closer and closer down to her, until his face took all of her view, his giant nose within arms reach of her. His enormous eyes staring everywhere but hers, his giant mouth softly closed while his nostrils breath gusts of wind out and onto her body. brushing her purple hair and kimono softly as she stared blankly up at his drifting eyes.

*step *

Realizing he wasn't going to do what she... wanted and was about to back out. Ei took a step forwards towards his giant face, before placing her right hand on the tip of his giant nose, before bending her body softly down. Since he wasn't going to do it, Ei decided to do it for him in the best way she could.

*chu *

Placing her lips softly onto his upper lip in the middle Ei closed her eyes. As she felt the air from the nose openings above her brushing down on her head, she lifted her left hand up to gently place on his right cheek to steady herself. Unlike how he forced a kiss on her in the second night of her life, this kiss wasn't unwanted. That night she was trapped in his giant fist as he forced her face to be pressed against his lips as he lay on the futon in the middle of the night. Only for her to shove her hands on his giant face as she tried to force them apart causing him to back off, when she deadpan told him to 'never do it again'.

*breath hitches *

Only now she wasn't trapped in his giant fist, she was standing on her own two feet. trying and awkwardly parting her mini lips to try and bite his lip before going back to awkwardly kissing it. Despite how awkwardly her body was trying to give out the second kiss of her life, Raiden wasn't being forced upon or forcing herself. she was only hoping she was kissing him properly like how Kaori told her kissing was like.

she was doing it, because SHE wanted to.

"hmm"

Raiden Ei pulled her closed lips from the upper lip of Akio's, while her cheeks won't blushing like his. Standing back to normal, Ei was once again at level with his enormous eyes, letting her stare into them. She wasn't smiling as her right hand gently trailed the side of his warm nose skin and down to her side. But that didn't mean she hated the moment, she just wasn't able to smile. Though she wasn't alone in not smiling, Akio's own face wasn't plain in a expression, instead it looked like he had just saw lighting strike the same place not twice but a mere hundred times without pause.

*recline *

"Woa- ah um sorry, that it wasn't... good, Raiden Ei"

Tilting her head, Ei blinked her purple eyes once. Akio had moved his body away from her and back against his large chair. as if he was trying to put as much distance from her as possible, even going as far as to turn his face away and use his left hand to cover his mouth. Making her question why he acted as if he was in the wrong, and she had reacted like how she did when he forced a kiss on her.

"No, it was"

Shaking her head with closed eyes, Ei moved her own right hand. Where much like Akio's left hand, Ei covered her own mouth. not from embarrassment, but because as her fingers traced the lips of hers, she could still feel... him on them. She only replied with what she thought was the truth, for she didn't regret kissing his lip or biting it like how Kaori had told her to. Of course Ei still believed Kaori couldn't help but tell her to do the bite as a simple tease, but still the ex-archon didn't hate it.

"oh... t-thanks"

Ei had stopped herself from nodding her head, for she realized why Akio had reacted to her action in such a way. it wasn't just from his nerves waning, but also because he had assumed she had disliked it. All because her face was still cold and blank, devoid of showing how she possibly felt.

"You're welcome"

While she had properly replied to his thanks, Ei couldn't help but lower her head. the two falling quiet, Akio unable to speak as he was still riling from the shared kiss. And Ei not muttering a word as she blankly stared at his gigantic knees that blocked the floor below from being seen. she knew that she should be blushing, smiling, defensive, flustered, pleased, overjoyed, surprised, or any other emotion or reaction she was supposed to be doing at the moment. Only instead she stared blankly with her heart pounding in her chest like a drum, only she didn't understand why it was. she hated that, she had to know why, she needed to-

*pause *

Ei hated it.

"I see"

Ei whispered to herself, it wasn't beating for hatred at the kiss. She hated that she didn't know why she didn't know how to react. She loathed it, she wanted to be filled with rage that she was no longer the archon she was forced to be and yet, she wasn't allowed to express herself. Moving her left hand to hold over her heart Ei listened to the sound of drumming, feeling it's beat against her palm and fingers. She wanted to be told what this was, shouldn't she know? It made her be filled with fury at the fact that she was broken to such a point, that she couldn't even understand why her heart was pounding so intensely.

she wasn't in danger, nor had she fought an intense battle, or strained herself.

so why? why couldn't she react, why couldn't she understand this feeling?

"Ei?... the movie?"

Ei raised her head as she pulled her hands from her lips and from her chest. Ending the feeling and song of her heart as she plainly looked at Akio. Only unlike all the other times she looked at him since the two had met, she didn't want to be with a blank stern face and lifeless eyes. So she only looked at him for three seconds before turning to the side and looking at the TV still displaying the video game.

"You can turn it off, I saved about half hour ago. and I only went up three levels since then... I can do it again tomorrow."

Ei didn't mind having to replay the last thirty minutes of her grinding, but despite that, she remained staring at the TV. she didn't want to look at Akio, because she wanted to look at him... with a smile.

to show that she meant what she said about how their recent moment was good one. but she didn't do that, because believed if she forced a smile to appear, it wouldn't look pleasing to him.

*reach *

"You sure?"

Seeing the giant left hand of his entering her field of view, and reaching towards the console near the TV. Ei nodded her head, showing him that she truly didn't mind as she stared blankly at the hand that had carried her some many countless times by now. The same warm hand that lifted her, gripped her, dwarfed her, do stuff she couldn't do, Akio's right hand as it hovered over the power switch of his- THEIR Super Famicom. He didn't need to ask and make sure his action wasn't frowned upon, but still Ei... liked that he was also considerate of her despite the fact that he didn't have to; since after all he could do whatever he wanted to her.

"It is fine"

*click *

"so what movie should we watch then, Ei?"

Seeing the TV picture faded to a blue screen with the words no signal displayed on it, Ei closed her eyes as she loosened her tensed body. Before reaching her right hand towards the TV remote nearby her feet that was the same size of her body. Once her palm made contact with it, Ei pressed roughly down on the button labeled 'HDMI 2' to switch the channel for the ps4 channel. It wasn't much but at her size, it was the best she could do for him.

*beep *

"The movie you mentioned five days ago, Evangenlion... 1.11?"

Hearing the sound of their ps4 turning on, Ei heard the squeak of Akio's chair. but she didn't turn to face him as he went towards the bookshelf to grab the blu-ray from it. instead she slowly lowered her body down to sit on the wooden desk, forgetting to ask for the pillow again, as she stared at her knees in deep thought. Of course she wanted to see the movie with him but Ei continued to stare at her feet as her head bowed down. She wanted to at least think about and try to sort out her thoughts before hand, since she only had about a minute for him to finish prepping the movie. maybe five minutes if he decided to go to the kitchen for something for the two of them to-

"May I request, Tokyo Bannana kit-kat?"

She wanted the snack, but she also wanted a moment to gather her thoughts. Already planning to ask for more of Kaori's advice the tomorrow when the two got a chance.

"You don't need to ask, Ei... Though I think Kaori is hoarding the last one in her room"

"Never mind"

"Just don't tell her, i went in to her room if she asks"

Ei turned her head to face him, not noticing her own eyes slightly widening by just a few hairs. But Akio was already in the middle of opening the bedroom door to go raid his older sister's room for the candy, Ei was craving. so even if she wanted to stop him, it was already to late as his slender yet massive body left her view and entered the hallway. Leaving her alone with her thoughts, and to wait for him to return with the sweet treat Kaori wouldn't mind much being missing since it was Ei who wanted it. Though Ei wonder if the thought of Kaori taking revenge and sneaking into Akio's room to 'steal' a snack with Ei was one she was supposed to smile at.

It felt like it was.

three minutes later:

Raiden Ei was a broken woman, but she didn't want to be broken anymore. She wanted to express her emotions again, she had things she found pleasure in now. she wasn't forced to do anything anymore, she could heal. Here in not just Akio's bedroom but hers too, she could do that. She couldn't properly smile unless she forced herself too, she couldn't cry anymore, and it was only worsen once she awoke in this world and learned about the truth. But now she was going to learn how to be the person she once was. Here Raiden Ei wasn't the Archon she was forced to be, she was simply Raiden Ei to Akio and Kaori.

"Do it again"

Ei turned away from the TV as the movie was in the middle of booting up, looking up at the person she wasn't just being healed by. But the person that she wanted to be with, the person who let her escape everything that broke her.

"I... um..."

"again, but YOU do it"

Raiden Ei didn't stand up from his desk as she softly turned her body to face him once again. however she did cross her legs and place her hands upon her lap, while puffing her chest up with a straight body. Tilting her head up, in a manner she had only read in book, to show herself offering up her lips to him. While she had still a blank face and emotion... inside she felt something stirring.

She didn't have to be broken anymore and she was going to force her face to once again show her emotions. To make them escape the bottle inside her, the first thing she intended to do tomorrow would be to ask Akio's sister to help her smile again to not force smiles but a real one.

"o...okay"

Even if she could only muster a small smile, it would be enough for her to always show to the person who liberate her and showed her the new stuff she loved. Then perhaps she could smile when she asks to be taken to this 'festival' his school was having next month. It would be draining for her, but the thought of riding in his shirt pocket and looking out at the stalls... wouldn't it be the perfect place for her to show him that her face wasn't a blank emotionless one anymore?

The end?

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"For tonight let Luca decide... let him choose whom he wishes to marry: Nera... or Bianca..."

Ei paused as she stared at the TV's screen at the video game's text dialog box. The giant super Famicom controller resting on her bent legs, as her right hand hovered over the large red 'A' button without pressing it down. She knew that the video game was leading up to a moment like this. however she was still in an impasse, one that was probably the toughest in her new life...

who to choose?

"Hmmm"

Ei raised her left hand off the d-pad to hold near her chin, to think. It was in the middle of a Tuesday day, and like usual she was sitting on the top of the bedroom's giant wooden desk. Perched near the bottom right corner, she was within arm's reach of the edge. Behind her and pressed up nearly against the wooden desk was Akio's dresser drawer, close enough that she could rest her back on it. Just passed the drop was the rest of their bedroom, the folded futon in the far left corner from her, the giant blue rolling chair of Akio's. that casted a shadow over the flat screen TV, blocking out the sun's light from shining on the picture. Something Akio had purposely made sure to do, at her request before heading to school everyday. maybe soon he would relent and close the curtains of the window, if she asked again tomorrow, since playing video games in a dark was the best way.

*reach, crack, snap *

Reaching down towards the giant white TV remote near her right foot, Ei dug her right hand into the chocolate piece bigger then her head. digging her fingers into the still hard delight, before easily snapping off a chunk in her fist. Bringing it towards her mouth, Ei bite into the milky chocolate while staring blankly at the TV. Long accustomed to her size of five and a half inches tall, since she had been in 'the real world' for two months already.

*soft exhale *

Ei lightly scoffed as she closed her eyes, she had mentally called this place the real world again. That was still something she was adjusting to, this was Kawaguchi city, apart of the Saitama Prefecture in Japan. Her home wasn't Inazuma or some fake plane or domain from a video game. it was here, in an apartment apart of a complex. This bedroom wasn't just hers, this apartment was her home.

*shaking, as her hair rubs her kimono and the desk *

Softly swaying her head side to side, Ei still didn't smile as she swallowed the melted chocolate bite. Granted not much had change from her fake life's life style, she mostly spent all days of the week coupled up here in the room. Instead of mediating or reading and snacking, Ei had more things to do now. From browsing the internet, watching TV and movies, playing video games, and snacking on sweets. of course there were times she was dragged or more fittingly forcibly carried out of the apartment by Akio, to go out, not listening to her 'protests'.

*shift *

"aah-"

Ei softly raised her sitting body, and leaned her head upwards towards the nearby small cup filled with soda and a bent red straw for her. Forced to open her mouth wider, Ei gently bite down on the plastic straw with a plain tone 'ah' getting cut off. She didn't like having to bite with her teeth on the straw as it felt unmannerly for some one of her-

*bite *

But she had to since it would hurt her mouth if she didn't force the straw to be smaller in girth. Usually Ei would prefer to use the slim black coffee straws that were still giant and long to her, that were MUCH smaller in girth then normal straws. making it easier for her to drink, without having to bite down. But Akio had forget to get her some on the way home the other day, so Ei had to bite down on the straw.

hoping he remembered today to pick some up at the convenience store's utensil station.

*large deep inhale *

Ei shut both her eyes as she sucked in air through her mouth, making her chest to raise from the amount of air. That was another reason why she hated using normal sized straws, it was a lot harder for her to take sips form her cola. However Ei stopped sucking as she felt her soda greeting her mouth, stopping before the liquid could rush into her lungs and induce a coughing fit. After exhaling through her nose, Raiden took a quick sip from the soda. She didn't know rather to be proud she was getting better at the timing, or if she should be embarrassed by that fact.

*the sound sipping ends *

"Hmmm"

Pausing she moved her mouth away from the red straw, letting the plastic to bounce to normal with new mini bite and tooth marks on it's rim.

Embarrassed.

Swallowing the drink she loved, Ei had never thought of being in such a state in such a long time, so much that she had forgotten the last time she had been flustered. Despite the past life and memories being nothing but fabric woven by people, ever since everything that had broke her happened, Ei hadn't thought of such an useless emotion.

Was it because she was here and not-

Ei mentally raised her eyebrows as her eyes drifted down to the cellphone across the desk near the TV stand. Without fully thinking about it, Ei lifted the giant controller from her lap to place down on top of the TV remote, making it easier for her to put back on her lap later. Her mind to forcing her thoughts to the dark corner of her mind out of habit, and instead be replace by another.

*shift *

Crawling on all fours, Ei quickly made her way to the purple cased smart phone. the device big enough to be the size of a bed to her, Ei reached down to press on the right side power button to awaken the device. Tilting her head to the right, she was on all fours and on top of the phone, staring down at the cellphone turning on from it's dark screen. She quickly scanned her eyes over the notifications that the phone wanted her to read, and possibly click on later. But that wasn't her intention for turning on the smart device, instead she looked at the time.

"12... 37..."

Ei whispered to herself, and moved her head to the left. Was she supposed to bite her lip at this moment, she didn't know. But she still tried to remember the schedule of Akio during his school days. Wondering if her memory was correct, as she swiped her tiny hand across the phone screen. Getting rid of the background picture of the dragon quest picture Akio had once had on his own phone, that he had replace it with a photo of her; and replacing it with her home screen and little apps.

*press *

Pressing her hand down on one of the app icons, Ei wasn't trying to open YouTube, or one of the two games on her cell phone. Nor did she open the web browser, or pictures app. Instead she opened the Line app, forcing her cell phone to obey her will and take her to her contact's list.

*tap *

Moving to the first of the only two contacts she had, Ei clicked on Akio's name. Once again making the smart lifeless device obey her order, as it took her to their... chat? where she didn't pay attention to their last chat the phone had remembered happening.

*shift... tap, tap, tap, tap, tap *

Scooting backwards a bit, she brought her tiny body to sit on her knees, back on to the giant wooden desk. Allowing her face and chest to lean over the image of a digital keyboard for her to type her message with. Letting her see how much her lifelessly device was smart, since it somehow knew what she wanted without her orders. Ei remained serious as she moved her right hand to press her index finger down on to the digital buttons of the chat's keyboard.

*Tap *

"We talk now"

Ei stared at her plain message, after tapping the send button. While she was a plainspoken person, it didn't help that her hands had to reach and spread out just to form one of the Japanese language's characters. However the question must have came off like she was ordering him to speak or rather text with her. So not waiting for a response Ei thought it best if she sent a follow up, to show she wasn't commanding him to drop whatever he did in school just to humor her.

*slowly tapping sound *

"Have you finished eating"

Figuring it would best to start with small conversation before her reason for interrupting his day, Ei sent the follow up text message. Knowing it could be a while for him to respond to her, Ei started to move her little body to sit crossed legged in front of her obedient phone.

*ding *

"yeah i just finished and i was just talking to the class representative"

Content with the fact she had gotten the timing of his schedule right, Ei didn't have much time to sit improperly before a reply was seen. Her eyes quickly scanning the message in what appeared to be in a strange white bubble, that contrasted her messages' green bubbles. Only the contents of the text made her furrowed her eyebrows as she rose off her rear to get back on all fours over the laying phone to reply back to Akio.

*tapping, tap *

"we will talk later"

Lowering her head, Ei was by no means imposing her will on him. Even more so since he was discussing with the voice of his class, who she didn't personally know. But Ei at less knew that the class representative was a fellow class mate of Akio's named Endo Itsuki. Surely a discussion with Itsuki would be one of importance in Akio's school life. Besides compared to that Ei wasn't the main focus of his life, why would someone like-

*ding *

"no it's fine, it wasn't anything important other then stuff about the upcoming school festival and what our class is doing"

Ei tilted her head, she knew what festivals were. but she had figured the process of planning one would be important, that went double if it was a discussion with the class head. While she would disagreed since she believed talking to one higher is important, Ei lowered her hands to type once again in a slow pace.

"I see"

What should she say other then that? 'No, I'm not as important?', or 'Continue your planning, for I can wait'. what about 'would you require help', no she couldn't say that last one, even with her fake past, Ei was never suited or meant for such activities that required one to be outgoing. But with the condition of her life, should she perhaps offer words of support?

"What did you want to talk about, Ei?"

But she didn't get the chance to find words to send, fore Akio had already beat her by sending his own. Reading the text, Ei didn't notice her left thumb coming up to press sideways into her closed lips. She didn't know if she was meant to refute him allowing her to continue, so she simply bowed her head and did as he asked.

"I seek counsel"

It was the reason, why she texted him. of course she could have texted Kaori, but Ei didn't want to disturb Akio's older sister while she was at work. And she didn't want to encourage Kaori's... personailty and teasing.

"Okay, what about?"

Pushing all other thoughts aside, Ei forced her tiny hands to move faster to send a longer reply.

"I must choose a bride to take, in Doragon Kuesuto V, who did you pick"

It wasn't as important as planning a festival stall, but it wasn't like Raiden Ei had much in her life. Not that she had anything of grande before when she locked herself away for an enter-

"you there already? If I remember I wanted to choose Nera at first, but i went with Bianca in the end"

Ei lowered her hands to hover over the digital keyboard, was she glad that he was humoring her? It was just a video game, but since the two were already talking about it. Ei decided to continue seeing what Akio had done in his play through.

"why"

"I don't know i was more... drawn to her if that makes sense. her personality seemed more endearing then that of Nera's. plus i liked her design, while Nera was more eh for me"

Ei turned her head to the side slightly while reading the message, why did he seemed more drawn to Bianca over Nera? Bianca wasn't as proper and more unruly then Nera was, the two were different. Nera more polite and mannered, Bianca not so much.

"Is that so"

Is all she could type, her mind trying to look at the two women video game characters rationally since she was judging which would be the best for the hero.

"I guess i just liked Bianca more wwww"

Ei lowered her head as she reread the message Akio had sent her. He liked Bianca, or rather, did he like the type of girls that were like Bianca? Ei curled her fingers as she stopped moving her right hand and index finger. as she plainly blinked her eyes and moved her lower jaw to the left when she felt a weird feeling upon her inner right cheek, causing her to stop moving her jaw.

She was biting her cheek and lower lip.

"Though the girl you pick also is the one, who goes with you for the rest of the game. Bianca is a strong offense mage, and Nera if i remember was a strong healer. So it can also just come down to how you want your play though to be like"

She had considered that, since Bianca mentioned leaving the party if she wasn't chosen. But she hadn't considered the chosen bride could have an different move set. She also didn't considered was Akio saying he liked Bianca, not just for her moves, but for her design and her personality.

all which were different then Ei's.

"I see, I will pick for my team's fighting ability then."

"was that all Ei? i still have time before classes start again"

While she had his advice, Ei was left with a different question now. that didn't pertain to the video game, but she couldn't find the reason to ask Akio, since the question was about him... and her.

"Yes"

"Okay, well i guess I'll talk to you later when classes are over"

Ei kept it to herself, just because she wasn't the Electro Archon anymore, didn't mean she could ask him. So the question would remain bottled in her head, for the time being, despite her wanting answers about it.

"Very well"

Ei was about to reach down to allow her phone to go back to sleeping, when she remembered something. Causing her hands to return to the keyboard to continue typing before Akio could go back to talking with his class head.

"Remember. Coffee straws"

She didn't want to have to continue biting down on the large straws as if she wasn't mannered. It didn't matter she wasn't the shogun or Achron anymore, she didn't want to bite down on the current straws that barely fit in her mouth. She was opposed to straws that forced her mouth to stretch to it's limits, just to permit her, her drinks.

"Got it, coffee straws after school. do you wanted anything else from Lawson, Raiden?"

Ei didn't have to think about the offer before her hands started to type for themselves.

"Dango"

It was one of her favorite sweets, a food that could be made differently with different flavors and tastes. and it was her favorite even if in her size she couldn't fully eat it all by herself. Always needing to give the remaining, like the rest of her unfinished giant sweets, to either Akio or Kaori.

"There are other stuff you know, you shouldn't be getting the same stuff all the time"

"I see"

Ei lowered her shoulders, not from sadness, but she would have enjoyed eating a her preferred food. Of course she wasn't going to dwell on it, or ask him for it one more time. She was above that, a simple joy was something she could go without. She had already gone hundreds of years without it, and she was in no position to be asking or demanding stuff from Akio. She had to remember her place, and why she was here.

"I get it... I'll get you a Sanshoku Dango, Ei"

Tilting her head, Ei was about to move on from the thought of eating the sweet. When Akio's newest message appeared in the Line chat, letting her read what he was thinking so far away in the city. And despite only knowing him for a mere two months, Ei could mentally see his head shaking with a small smile as he sighed.

"My thanks"

Politely responding to him, Ei knew he didn't have to go out of his way to humor her wants. She couldn't even eat all of the snack, and he would be forced to finish it for her. yet he was still getting it again for her to have... why?

"Well, talk to you later?"

swaying her head to the sides, Ei focused back on the phone as she returned her own proper farewell.

"Yes, luck in your studies"

"Thanks, have fun with your gaming"

Seeing the final text Akio sent, Ei didn't know why she properly nodded her head, since her phone didn't have eyes. nor could Akio see her doing such an action for him. But she didn't think much of it, since her right hand was already reaching to the right side of the laying device to reach for the power button to plunge it into slumber once again.

*stand *

Was she curious about what Akio was getting up to in his school life? He had mentioned a festival, something that Inazuma used to have the last time she hear- That was the thing about this world. Try as she might, some things were to much like her fake life and the nonexistent Inazuma. Even the shrine, Akio had taken her to three weeks ago, reminded her of the shrine back-

*step, step, step *

Ei pushed those useless thoughts away to some dark corner in her mind, the stuff of make believe should be forgotten no matter the damage it had over her. But as she stepped over the large TV remote, Ei couldn't help but pause with her left foot in the middle of the air, hovering over the large buttons.

There was one thing she could never forget, since it would never let her forget it. The hurt, the wounds, the words never spoken, something she buried deep within to try and wall off and never feel again, still found it's way to torment her, despite the fact it went against how an archon was supposed-

*rush steps, shift, tapping *

"Bye."

Ei slowly rose back to her feet after dropping to her knees and forcing the phone to awaken one last time. to command it to send a plain one word message to Akio.

*ding *

"See you soon, Ei"

It didn't take Akio more then a ten seconds to respond to her, and it took less then that for Ei to read the text. Saying what she had wanted, Ei moved to turn off the phone and continued her walk back to gaming. Not looking back as she stepped over the TV remote, and reached the place where she usually sit in a nice distance from the TV. that allowed her to see all the screen without needing to twist her head around.

*kimono shifting, sit *

Sitting back down and bending her knees nearly up to her chest, EI didn't need to question why she HAD to send that message. because how would she live if the same thing had happened again and she never got the chance? It destroyed who she was the first time, there would be nothing of her left if there was a second. The only question in her mind as she adjusted her kimono wrinkles, was should there have been more for her to say? Ei knew what she wanted to do in the video game, now thanks to the small talk. but still she couldn't stop thinking.

why couldn't she find the words to say more then just that one word?

Was she reserved? Scared? What did that feel like again? What did this feeling feel like? Was there more for her to say? There had to be, if she sent the final message without thinking.

*grab, lift *

Ei slowly raised the video game controller back up to place on top of her bent thighs. Letting the bottom side of it rest on top of her kimono covered pelvis, and turning her attention back to the video game she had started playing five days ago. Rereading the text box, she pressed down on the 'A' button. Causing the next dialog box to appear as she resumed playing the Super Famicom Jrpg, passing time until Akio's sister would come home from her morning shift.

Maybe then she could seek more con- advice to sort out her thoughts just a hair.

But was she allowed? She was just a mortal now, but could she?

"Ei, I'm home!"

Ei was in the middle of stretching her tiny body with her arms held above her head, when the bedroom door opened. Turning her head to face towards the bedroom door that was showing a bit of the outside narrow hallway that was bigger then a city block to Ei. But that wasn't what Ei was focusing her eyes on

*shift *

"Hello"

Nodding her head slowly, Ei lowered her hands back down to grab and move off the controller from her lap. Watching how Hayashi Kaori walked across the room still wearing her waitress outfit from the diner restaurant she worked at. The outfit was made of a tight button up black shirt with the logo upon her right chest, while her leg wear was a simple pair of beige jeans. Even her smooth well taken care of black hair was still in it's tight bun, letting Ei figure that Kaori had made checking on Ei, the first thing she did after arriving at the house. While Ei didn't wave her right hand back to mimic how Kaori was waving hers in a slow friendly manner.

"no, no! not 'hello' it's 'Welcome home, big sister!'"

Lowering her shoulders, Ei realized that the motion the big sister of Akio's was doing; wasn't one of greeting. but rather a playful dismal at Ei's greeting as she teased the five inch tall woman. Giving Ei a feeling of nostalgia as thoughts of how Yae would also teas-

*LOOM *

"Oh... Welcome home, Kaori"

Ei stopped the line of thought before it could get out of control as she once again plainly nodded her head as Kaori reached the wooden desk. Letting the newly 20 year old girl loom over Raiden as she smiled happily down to Ei. But due to the immense size difference Ei had to crane her body back just to look up past Kaori's massive chest to see her face.

*pat, ruffle *

"it won't kill you to call me 'Big sister'... but- ah! fine!"

Hearing the playful Kaori's voice grow softer, Ei felt her head being gently pushed down. By Kaori's right index finger coming down and placing it's large face sized fingertip on top of Ei's purple hair. Ei didn't voice any complaints as she simply allowed Akio's sister to ruffle and pet her head as if Ei was a simple hamster or something. Of course Ei knew that wasn't the case but the comparison was stuck in her head ever since Kaori had told her that in Ei's first week of life. or rather when Ei was eating a grain, Kaori had told her, she looked like a 'cute little hamster'

She still didn't know why Kaori insisted on being called Ei's older sister though. Should Ei be angry about that? sad? glad? How should she react to such a thing, when her real- when her fake sister Makoto was dead? Did Kaori know about Makoto and she simply wanted to tease and insult Ei? How was Ei supposed to react?

"Are you hungry, Ei? I brought some egg and bacon from work if you want we can share?"

Ei felt the giant finger with blue nail polish leave her head and ruffled hair, allowing Ei to readjust her head. to avert her eyes from the sight of Kaori's slender waist that was far larger in scale then Ei's, that she could lay sides ways on it. and still have enough space for another tiny Raiden Ei-

not wanting to remember the other her somewhere out there, Ei turned her eyes and craned her neck to look back up at Kaori's gently smiling face, before answering the younger yet also older giantess. Who wasn't as tall as her younger brother but still utterly massive like all the single handful people of this world Ei had encountered.

"I have eaten already"

it may have been her lunch for the day, but Ei hadn't finished eating the chocolate chunk after filling her belly. So when the remaining seventy five percent melted, it melted in Akio's trash can besides the desk that faced the room's closet door. No one was there to finish it for her at the time, so now the sweet was a dark brown puddle of chocolate on a paper ball.

"aw that's a shame, I like watching you munch on normal food!"

"Is that so"

Ei didn't react much, since when ever it was just her and Kaori and it came time to eat. She always wanted Ei to be seated near her plate to munch on the oversized foods that Kaori gave her. All while watching and talking to Ei about random things. Of course Akio was nearly the same, only the difference between the two siblings, was that Akio was more considerate for Ei compared to his sister while Ei was eating. Such as cutting up the food for her to eat somewhat normally, and not like a 'cute little hamster'

"Anyway I got four hours to kill before my college classes start, so i guess I am going to be bugging my sweet little neet sister!"

"I see"

Ei replied normally and blankly as she watched Kaori move her massive body to plop down on top of Akio's rolling chair with a small 'pomf' when her rear and legs landed on the cushion. Not paying mind to the words spoken to her, since it was normal for Kaori to tease and say stuff like that to Ei on the daily. And from what Akio told her, 'Neet' was apparently a proper label for Ei.

"How..."

Ei paused as she lowered her her body to sit on the desk's ledge and to hang her legs off the edge. She couldn't finish speaking as the words got lost in the middle of her throat. Despite the person she wanted to talk to being right in front of her, Ei still struggled to talk about it.

*roll *

"What is it, Ei?"

Ei wanted to continue looking at the floor so far below her heels, but found she couldn't any more. Not because the giant body of Kaori's rolled Akio's rolling chair closer towards the desk, replacing the sight of the floor with that of Kaori's enlarge thighs and waist. Ei turned her head to look at Kaori straight in the eyes as she moved her tiny hands over her own thighs to tightly hold.

"What... what type of women does Akio... prefer?"

slowly forcing her words out without truly thinking about them, Ei questioned Akio's older sister. Since the chat with Akio just twenty minutes ago was still fresh on her mind. Since why would he want such a broken person like her when he talked so highly of Bianca?

"e-...eh...?"

Without her emotionless face changing, Ei tilted her head slightly at Kaori's confused state. The black haired giantess blinking her green eyes once, twice, five times while staring at Ei.

"The type of wome-"

Ei started to repeat the question since it seemed like Kaori possibly hadn't heard her.

"I heard you, Ei! It's just-.. why are you asking that?"

"He had mentioned liking a girl in our text messages"

Ei pointed to her phone and as she picked her legs up off the ledge in order to crawl towards it, she was stopped by Kaori picking her hands up to the left of her body as it holding an invisible object.

"wait, wait, wait, slow down... let's put going through your phone and texts aside for now"

Ei tilted her head as Kaori then moved her hands from the left to the right of her body, as it moving the unseen object with them to put somewhere else. Causing her to wonder if that was an expression of this world she had yet to learn. but since she was asked to wait on awakening her phone and show Kaori the text messages, Ei nodded her head before moving her body to sit down on the ledge again.

"Very well. it is put aside"

fixing her head with a nod, Ei watched Kaori moving to sit on Akio's rolling chair. her face growing less playful and more serious, letting Raiden know Kaori was ready to listen to Ei. just like how she would listen to Kaori whenever she wanted to vent or just speak her mind.

*squeak *

"Why are you asking about his interest in girls? wouldn't you already know?"

"I would?"

Ei pondered aloud, since she couldn't think of a reason why she would know of such a thing. Despite she and Akio living in the same room, and sharing the same pillow. Ei didn't really know much about his life other then small snippets. So stuff like that was unknown to her, made worse since she was inexperienced in that regard due to her fake life's certain lifestyle.

"Well duh, he got you and is intimate with you so surely you already know!"

Ei closed her eyes, now understanding what Kaori had meant. while a certain unspoken incident had happened, it was only between Ei and Akio. The two had never told Kaori, and that incident was in the beginning of Ei's new life here.

"He hasn't been intimate"

Ei didn't want to tell Kaori how Akio had forced a one time action on her. Since she didn't want to stain the relationship between the two, since Ei knew what it was like to lose a-. Ei shook her head as she placed her hands on her lap, before watched Kaori's jaw drop slightly more.

"Eh? Really? I thought you and him were already a thing?"

Ei paused as this was a new term or possible expression of this world for her. So she lacked the knowledge to know what the giantess meant.

"Meaning?"

"Well... A- a couple!"

Watching Kaori moving her finger to rub at her face's enormous left cheek, that was big like a blanket to Ei. Who now knew what Kaori had meant. Despite the incident and the fact Akio had brought Ei, it was far from the truth.

"we aren't"

"Well now i know! but really? you sure had me fooled!"

Ei wondered if she was supposed to somehow let Kaori know about her and Akio. there wasn't nothing there expect the two living together, since Ei had made sure to shut Akio down. of course he had relented when he didn't have to, but he still respected her protests during the incident. ever since then the two had remained... what ever it they are in the moment. But should have Ei been telling Kaori that? was she accidentally leading on Kaori who believed Akio and Ei were together when the opposite was the truth? but what did Kaori mean by them fooling her?

"I see. that was not intended."

"Haa.... that's not what i meant... and this whole time i been trying to get you to see me as your sister"

she wanted to press about what the giantess sister had meant by her words, but before Ei could open her mouth. She watched Kaori start talking in a almost whisper while slumping her shoulders and moving her hands as if trying to steady her mind. All while her humongous body slumped back into the chair, and her head lowered to press her chin on her collar.

"okay... okay... so you want to know about his type, there is another girl he is into, you and him haven't done anything despite living in the same room for two whole months and with the way he looks at you and treats you!... honesty... you two are hopeless!"

"Bianca, she is-"

before the tiny Ex-archon could mention the fact Bianca was from a video game, she was promptly cut off by Kaori roaring in shock. so loud that the apartment next door possibly heard her, even though Akio and Ei's room was far from the wall that divided the two apartments.

"- and you KNOW her!? Okay! we are so talking about THIS!!!"

Leaning back, Raiden looked up at Kaori's body raising up like a tide from the chair and quickly rushing towards the bedroom door. Letting Ei see the back of Kaori as it bounced with a hop in her step. not giving Ei the chance to explain that Bianca wasn't a real person and simply a character from a video game-

Ei lowered her shoulders as she remember that she as well was from a video game, Akio played. since she would watch him controlling the puppet she had made in game everyday when he wanted to play Genshin.

"Give me a second to change out of my work clothes, get my plate of food and we can talk while eating! and you better tell me EVERYTHING you know about this Bianca! No brother of mine is going to break my soon to be tiny sister's heart!"

At 4:32pm in the afternoon:

"Oh? you choose Bianca?"

Ei turned her head towards the TV where the paused game was displaying. Letting Akio see the retro game and how Bianca's sprite was with the party as a member along with the boy child of Bianca and Luca. Whom she had named Dango, while his sister was named Tricolor. the two named after the type of Dango Ei- the Tricolor Dango from the Genshin Impact video game. A Dango that looked slimiar to the one She and Akio had eaten together when he arrived at home ten minutes ago.

"yes"

Nodding her head, Ei turned back to look up at Akio's looming body as he slightly bent his massive head down to look at the TV. despite just coming home from spending the day out, he wasn't much tired, unlike how she would be if she spent hours out with him.

"I guess you are going with a heavy hitter party huh?"

Ei nodded her head, despite him being dead wrong about her choosing Bianca. Using her hands, Ei adjusted the Super Famicom controller as she turned her focus back on the game.

"I am just 'grinding' right now, to make sure everyone is leveled properly"

Ei paused the game as she remembered the talk her and Kaori had done just an hour ago, before the giant sister had to go to college. She shouldn't be playing video games, she had to be following the plan, that Kaori had scolded her to follow.

"Akio? may we watch a movie?"

Ei closed her eyes as she didn't face him, she didn't have to worry about her emotions giving away it was a plan she was following. since her face never should emotions other then a serious stern face.

"Sure, i guess if you want?"

"I do, permit me to save first"

Ei opened her eyes as she started to manuever the video game character party towards the nearest town. only then she had to stop as she heard the voice of Kaori in her head scolding that Ei was playing a video game again and not following the plan.

Ei turned away from the TV and the controller resting on her thighs and knees. Looking up to the person who was the reason she existed in the moment, she stared blankly up at him for a moment. Thinking how he had mentioned Bianca was possibly his type. if that was true why didn't he buy her instead? Why did he choose Ei to be created and given to him, she was nothing like Bianca. she couldn't even remember if she was ever like Bianca before her moment of breaking.

"Akio"

Ei despite her plain tone called up to him as he moved to sit on his rolling chair to wait for her to save the game so the two can watch a movie.

"Yeah Raiden?"

Ei forced her teeth to bite down on her cheek and bottom lip again, after her talk with his sister. Ei didn't have a clear thought of what to do, but she was going to break her shell of not showing her emotions even if she had to force her body to obey. After years of killing her emotions and urges for the sake of eternity and being a proper archon, Ei was doing to try to reverse that at least.

"Remember how I told you never to do IT again?"

Ei lowered her face while keeping her eyes dead set up at Akio, watching him slump his shoulders as the memory came back to him. it was the second night of being with her, when he had attempted something, that was only meet with her dead tone and voice telling him never to do it again. Something he had honored after he recovered from the emotional hurt from her harshly putting him down.

"Y-yeah... sorry"

Ei didn't shake her head, she didn't snarl, she didn't change her serious expression as she moved the controller off her lap to place down beside her sitting body.

"Do it again"

Ei spoke firmly without a flatter in her voice, slowly raising her small sized body up to her feet. Letting her stand just near the edge of the desk as she placed her hands to the sides of her body. Closing her purple eyes that had a faint trace of life in them, she didn't take a deep breath. She wasn't nervous, or worried, but she didn't know if she was excited or anything. After 500 years of the person she once was dying slowly in order to be enteral, Ei didn't know her own emotions that were bottle away somewhere in her.

"r-rea... are you sure?"

Ei opened her eyes to stare dead at his, as he was obviously gulping and growing nervous. Something Ei barely understood anymore, the last time she possibly felt nervous was when she was birth in this world and greeted with the different scale of things.

*shift, place, stand *

"do it"

Placing the controller down and standing up, Ei wonder if she was supposed to say it in such a way, was it meant to be a question to see if he wanted to. Was she forcing him to act, was she supposed to be reacting the same way as Akio? The way she said it wasn't in a way to show he could if he wanted to do it. But rather her voice was one like a ruler ordering, was that how she was supposed to approach this? She wanted to text and ask Kaori, but she couldn't at the moment.

*shift *

But it worked as Ei watched Akio's body move closer to the desk she was standing on like a mere doll. She didn't react as the shadow he cast with just his body grew nearly until it was big enough to cover all of her. His giant face moving closer and closer down to her, until his face took all of her view, his giant nose within arms reach of her. His enormous eyes staring everywhere but hers, his giant mouth softly closed while his nostrils breath gusts of wind out and onto her body. brushing her purple hair and kimono softly as she stared blankly up at his drifting eyes.

*step *

Realizing he wasn't going to do what she... wanted and was about to back out. Ei took a step forwards towards his giant face, before placing her right hand on the tip of his giant nose, before bending her body softly down. Since he wasn't going to do it, Ei decided to do it for him in the best way she could.

*chu *

Placing her lips softly onto his upper lip in the middle Ei closed her eyes. As she felt the air from the nose openings above her brushing down on her head, she lifted her left hand up to gently place on his right cheek to steady herself. Unlike how he forced a kiss on her in the second night of her life, this kiss wasn't unwanted. That night she was trapped in his giant fist as he forced her face to be pressed against his lips as he lay on the futon in the middle of the night. Only for her to shove her hands on his giant face as she tried to force them apart causing him to back off, when she deadpan told him to 'never do it again'.

*breath hitches *

Only now she wasn't trapped in his giant fist, she was standing on her own two feet. trying and awkwardly parting her mini lips to try and bite his lip before going back to awkwardly kissing it. Despite how awkwardly her body was trying to give out the second kiss of her life, Raiden wasn't being forced upon or forcing herself. she was only hoping she was kissing him properly like how Kaori told her kissing was like.

she was doing it, because SHE wanted to.

"hmm"

Raiden Ei pulled her closed lips from the upper lip of Akio's, while her cheeks won't blushing like his. Standing back to normal, Ei was once again at level with his enormous eyes, letting her stare into them. She wasn't smiling as her right hand gently trailed the side of his warm nose skin and down to her side. But that didn't mean she hated the moment, she just wasn't able to smile. Though she wasn't alone in not smiling, Akio's own face wasn't plain in a expression, instead it looked like he had just saw lighting strike the same place not twice but a mere hundred times without pause.

*recline *

"Woa- ah um sorry, that it wasn't... good, Raiden Ei"

Tilting her head, Ei blinked her purple eyes once. Akio had moved his body away from her and back against his large chair. as if he was trying to put as much distance from her as possible, even going as far as to turn his face away and use his left hand to cover his mouth. Making her question why he acted as if he was in the wrong, and she had reacted like how she did when he forced a kiss on her.

"No, it was"

Shaking her head with closed eyes, Ei moved her own right hand. Where much like Akio's left hand, Ei covered her own mouth. not from embarrassment, but because as her fingers traced the lips of hers, she could still feel... him on them. She only replied with what she thought was the truth, for she didn't regret kissing his lip or biting it like how Kaori had told her to. Of course Ei still believed Kaori couldn't help but tell her to do the bite as a simple tease, but still the ex-archon didn't hate it.

"oh... t-thanks"

Ei had stopped herself from nodding her head, for she realized why Akio had reacted to her action in such a way. it wasn't just from his nerves waning, but also because he had assumed she had disliked it. All because her face was still cold and blank, devoid of showing how she possibly felt.

"You're welcome"

While she had properly replied to his thanks, Ei couldn't help but lower her head. the two falling quiet, Akio unable to speak as he was still riling from the shared kiss. And Ei not muttering a word as she blankly stared at his gigantic knees that blocked the floor below from being seen. she knew that she should be blushing, smiling, defensive, flustered, pleased, overjoyed, surprised, or any other emotion or reaction she was supposed to be doing at the moment. Only instead she stared blankly with her heart pounding in her chest like a drum, only she didn't understand why it was. she hated that, she had to know why, she needed to-

*pause *

Ei hated it.

"I see"

Ei whispered to herself, it wasn't beating for hatred at the kiss. She hated that she didn't know why she didn't know how to react. She loathed it, she wanted to be filled with rage that she was no longer the archon she was forced to be and yet, she wasn't allowed to express herself. Moving her left hand to hold over her heart Ei listened to the sound of drumming, feeling it's beat against her palm and fingers. She wanted to be told what this was, shouldn't she know? It made her be filled with fury at the fact that she was broken to such a point, that she couldn't even understand why her heart was pounding so intensely.

she wasn't in danger, nor had she fought an intense battle, or strained herself.

so why? why couldn't she react, why couldn't she understand this feeling?

"Ei?... the movie?"

Ei raised her head as she pulled her hands from her lips and from her chest. Ending the feeling and song of her heart as she plainly looked at Akio. Only unlike all the other times she looked at him since the two had met, she didn't want to be with a blank stern face and lifeless eyes. So she only looked at him for three seconds before turning to the side and looking at the TV still displaying the video game.

"You can turn it off, I saved about half hour ago. and I only went up three levels since then... I can do it again tomorrow."

Ei didn't mind having to replay the last thirty minutes of her grinding, but despite that, she remained staring at the TV. she didn't want to look at Akio, because she wanted to look at him... with a smile.

to show that she meant what she said about how their recent moment was good one. but she didn't do that, because believed if she forced a smile to appear, it wouldn't look pleasing to him.

*reach *

"You sure?"

Seeing the giant left hand of his entering her field of view, and reaching towards the console near the TV. Ei nodded her head, showing him that she truly didn't mind as she stared blankly at the hand that had carried her some many countless times by now. The same warm hand that lifted her, gripped her, dwarfed her, do stuff she couldn't do, Akio's right hand as it hovered over the power switch of his- THEIR Super Famicom. He didn't need to ask and make sure his action wasn't frowned upon, but still Ei... liked that he was also considerate of her despite the fact that he didn't have to; since after all he could do whatever he wanted to her.

"It is fine"

*click *

"so what movie should we watch then, Ei?"

Seeing the TV picture faded to a blue screen with the words no signal displayed on it, Ei closed her eyes as she loosened her tensed body. Before reaching her right hand towards the TV remote nearby her feet that was the same size of her body. Once her palm made contact with it, Ei pressed roughly down on the button labeled 'HDMI 2' to switch the channel for the ps4 channel. It wasn't much but at her size, it was the best she could do for him.

*beep *

"The movie you mentioned five days ago, Evangenlion... 1.11?"

Hearing the sound of their ps4 turning on, Ei heard the squeak of Akio's chair. but she didn't turn to face him as he went towards the bookshelf to grab the blu-ray from it. instead she slowly lowered her body down to sit on the wooden desk, forgetting to ask for the pillow again, as she stared at her knees in deep thought. Of course she wanted to see the movie with him but Ei continued to stare at her feet as her head bowed down. She wanted to at least think about and try to sort out her thoughts before hand, since she only had about a minute for him to finish prepping the movie. maybe five minutes if he decided to go to the kitchen for something for the two of them to-

"May I request, Tokyo Bannana kit-kat?"

She wanted the snack, but she also wanted a moment to gather her thoughts. Already planning to ask for more of Kaori's advice the tomorrow when the two got a chance.

"You don't need to ask, Ei... Though I think Kaori is hoarding the last one in her room"

"Never mind"

"Just don't tell her, i went in to her room if she asks"

Ei turned her head to face him, not noticing her own eyes slightly widening by just a few hairs. But Akio was already in the middle of opening the bedroom door to go raid his older sister's room for the candy, Ei was craving. so even if she wanted to stop him, it was already to late as his slender yet massive body left her view and entered the hallway. Leaving her alone with her thoughts, and to wait for him to return with the sweet treat Kaori wouldn't mind much being missing since it was Ei who wanted it. Though Ei wonder if the thought of Kaori taking revenge and sneaking into Akio's room to 'steal' a snack with Ei was one she was supposed to smile at.

It felt like it was.

three minutes later:

Raiden Ei was a broken woman, but she didn't want to be broken anymore. She wanted to express her emotions again, she had things she found pleasure in now. she wasn't forced to do anything anymore, she could heal. Here in not just Akio's bedroom but hers too, she could do that. She couldn't properly smile unless she forced herself too, she couldn't cry anymore, and it was only worsen once she awoke in this world and learned about the truth. But now she was going to learn how to be the person she once was. Here Raiden Ei wasn't the Archon she was forced to be, she was simply Raiden Ei to Akio and Kaori.

"Do it again"

Ei turned away from the TV as the movie was in the middle of booting up, looking up at the person she wasn't just being healed by. But the person that she wanted to be with, the person who let her escape everything that broke her.

"I... um..."

"again, but YOU do it"

Raiden Ei didn't stand up from his desk as she softly turned her body to face him once again. however she did cross her legs and place her hands upon her lap, while puffing her chest up with a straight body. Tilting her head up, in a manner she had only read in book, to show herself offering up her lips to him. While she had still a blank face and emotion... inside she felt something stirring.

She didn't have to be broken anymore and she was going to force her face to once again show her emotions. To make them escape the bottle inside her, the first thing she intended to do tomorrow would be to ask Akio's sister to help her smile again to not force smiles but a real one.

"o...okay"

Even if she could only muster a small smile, it would be enough for her to always show to the person who liberate her and showed her the new stuff she loved. Then perhaps she could smile when she asks to be taken to this 'festival' his school was having next month. It would be draining for her, but the thought of riding in his shirt pocket and looking out at the stalls... wouldn't it be the perfect place for her to show him that her face wasn't a blank emotionless one anymore?

The end?