Chapter 4 Exposing myself

"Novel?"

"Yeah, actually the novel I read doesn't have many details about both of us. In the end, we were nothing but supporting characters or perhaps a much lower grade than supporting characters. It only said that by the time I came here, you had already transmigrated and you were trying to leave this house and enroll in a university in a faraway city after graduating from high school. But this is my advice, please stop this plan because it will just send you to your end. The original me also had a bad ending, so let's think together about a safe way to get out of here. Well, I'm telling you this because I feel really frustrated. At first, I was just going to help you a little because we're like partners, you know two people who know each other but both share a bad ending... it's sad. But after I saw you... how pretty you were... My resolve and determination were renewed. I will no matter what, let you have a bad ending. How can the world lose such a pretty girl? It will be a loss for all humanity. That can NEVER be allowed!!"

Did I talk too much... the surrounding is just so calm...

"So what I want to say is-"

"I... I will leave. You change your clothes."

"Ah... wait..."

Before I could even stop her, Arin has already dashed to the door and gone out.

What?

Were my words that shocking? But what is shocking about what I said? She's a transmigrator and I'm one too... is it because I'm one too? If it can happen to her then why can't it happen to me?

AHA, I think I knew why her reaction was like that... it's because I said that her ending was bad. The transmigrated Arin was working hard to change the fate of the original Arin but all of her efforts were in vain.

I was insensitive...

I thought I should find another chance and talk to her about this again.

***

(Arin's POV)

Crazy!

I felt a choking sensation and couldn't help but leave her room in a hurry.

My room was right next to hers, so it didn't take me long to come inside mine. I closed the door and the room fall into darkness, I didn't even bother turning on the lights because my thoughts were somewhere else.

Transmigrator? She's a transmigrator and Arin is one too?

Is such a thing possible?

No, it may be possible. If 'that' happened to me then transmigration can also happen.

Come to think of it, she said this world is a novel. Arin and she were supporting characters? Arin died but the Arin who died wasn't the Arin I knew? Whose funeral did I hold??

Ah, I'm going crazy!

Our fates were already set because of someone else? If that is so, can we not break free from that fate?

Was my return for nothing? So even if I try to change Arin's fate, there is always something called plot that would make her have a bad ending?

No, since I returned then maybe I was given a chance to change everything.

"I will, no matter what, let you have a bad ending."

She said so...

She also doesn't want to have a bad ending and was willing to help Arin...

But to what extent can I trust her?

We need to talk more.

Thinking so, I left my room and went back to her room.

Knock, knock-

"Aira, it's me Arin."

I knocked and informed her of my visit.

"Come in~"

As soon as her permission fell, I opened the door and was about to take a step inside but...

What am I seeing?

"Why... why are you... undressed?"

In front of me, her body was glowing under the lamp's light.

What attracted my attention more were the bumps that were quite noticeable in comparison with her straight smooth body.

'Do girls her age usually have that place that big?'

I thought as I tried to recall the girls who are studying with me.

But I couldn't.

I felt like a pervert as I thought this far so I shook my head to make my self sober up and return to reality.

At the same time, I could feel my face getting hot, and the heat spread to my ears and down my neck too.

Unable to see anymore, I hurriedly closed the still-open door and stood blankly with my hand still on the doorknob.

***

How much time has passed? I was still in a daze when the door suddenly opened from the inside.

As the door opened and I was still holding the doorknob, I staggered a little to the front.

"Ah, Arin! Be careful!!"

Perhaps she was startled by my staggering, she hurriedly reached out to me to support my body. But the way she supported me as if... hugging...

My face got hot again...

"Are you okay?"

"I... I..."

"I was planning on seeing you tomorrow since I thought you might not want to see me now and you must be agonizing over my words. But I didn't expect you to come to visit me soon. Please, come in first."

I meekly followed her into the room.

"I'm... sorry... I didn't know you... were... changing clothes."

Even now remembering that scene I feel my neck getting hot...

"Ah, I'm at fault too. I thought since we're both girls it's normal to change in front of each other. Actually, this was normal in the orphanage where I lived. Since six people share one room and it will take a long time to take turns to go to the bathroom to change we just changed in front of each other. I forgot that now my environment has changed. Sorry."

Said Aira with a bitter smile.

"Ah, no... it's just... just... Ah, just forget that. I have many questions about what you told me earlier."

"Aha. It seems like we will have a lot to talk about so please come and sit down first.'