Chapter 8: Chapter 8: Plot…!? What is that?

Sio doesn't want to stop after punching the MC in his face. Sio steps forward and attempts to communicate with the MC using his fist again.

At the same time, the MC glares at Sio with spiteful eyes.

"You! You dare to hit me ?!"

I have no choice but to stand between the two to stop them from fighting.

"Do you think I scared the two of you? What can two punks do to me? If you have courage, then fight me one on one like a genuine man!"

Ah! I almost forget that I am currently dressing like a boy now. He must have mistaken me for a boy like him. I don't need to clear the misunderstanding for him, though.

At the same time, Miao moves to my front and growls at the MC.

"Two punks and a kitten! I'm not afraid of you guys at all."

Then why do you back down if you are not afraid? I try to hold my laugh as much as possible to not hurt his self-esteem.

"Boss, let me punch that ugly thing to make him shut up."

"Sio, it's no good to solve everything by force."

"But..."

The boy points his finger at us while shouting out loud.

"Remember my name! This Higita Satou will pay back this humiliation by ten folds."

The original MC, no Higita, runs off after he declares that.

I look at the running Higita and can't help but sighs in my head. The boys at this age are so energetic...

The Higita inside the Magical Academy is calmer than the present him. After all, he had gone through that terrible incident in childhood, which left a big scar on his heart. I want to stop that 'incident', but I don't know when it will happen since he only mentions it briefly on a heroine's route.

"But Sio!"

I turn to Sio and attempt to scold him for this incident.

"Boss..."

But seeing how down Sio makes me lose the motivation to do that.

"Can you at least tell me why you hit that boy?"

Sio turns away from me and looks reluctantly to answer my question.

"I have to go...See you later, boss."

Sio runs away and leaves me alone behind with Miao. I pick up Miao and sigh helplessly.

"It's just you and me now."

Sio is always like that...When he doesn't want to answer something, he will choose to run away. It's understandable because of his circumstance. It's hard to get him to open his heart to me, but I'm not going to give up just because of this.

Miao uses his fluffy paws to pat my head while meowing softly.

"Are you trying to comfort me?"

I tighten my hug and rub my face against Miao's fluffy fur.

"Nyaaaaa! Nyaaaa!"

Miao angrily growls while scratching my face.

"Stop! Stop!"

I need to teach him a lesson once I get home.

And Miao really lives up to its name... On the other day, Miao put a giant cockroach on my bed as a gift. Because of that, I have Miao drinking 'Steak sauce in the can' 10 days in a row as the punishment. With that, Miao runs away whenever I pull out 'Steak sauce in the can'.

Even though I still have a lot of pages inside the grimoire, I don't rush to summon another familiar. Unlike the game, you can't rank up your familiar by feeding it with experience books. More importantly, you can't treat your familiars as a tool since its emotion heavily affect the process of ranking up.

I decide to keep visiting Sio at the mall until her problem is fully resolved. In the meantime, Higita keeps showing up at the mall to "revenge" us. Whew, his revenge doesn't harm us by any means.

For example, if I try to buy an item in the mall, Higita will show up and try to buy the same thing in a large number. In the end, he will never attempt to steal or take away our item but come up with that kind of roundabout revenge.

Aside from his poisonous tongue and habit of wasting money like that, I don't think the current Higita is a bad boy. Moreover, I feel like he just uses "revenge" as an excuse to play with us.

After all, I play the game and know a few things about his childhood. In Magical Academy, Higita had no one to play with until he became an elementary schooler.

His mother passed away when she gave birth to him, which made his father depressed. His father tried to escape reality by immersing himself in research while neglecting his child.

Not to mention, Higita's father remarried while Higita was only five years old. Higita couldn't stand the fact of having a new mother. He thought that woman was the reason his father didn't love him and care about him. Because of that, he tried every possible method to make her get out of the house.

Unlike his horrible father, his stepmother is a very kind woman. She cares about Higita and loves him like her own child. But it was too late for him when he learned about this.

Since Higita's father got hold of the meteorite's fragment, he and his family had become the target of uncountable forces. The stepmother and Higita got caught in that vortex and became victims of terrorist attacks.

Those terrorists demanded that Higita's father must give them the meteorite fragment. But his father never showed up until the end and let a terrible accident happen. The stepmother was killed while she tried to protect Higita from the terrorists. If not for the special force showing up in time, Higita would also have lost his life.

This incident would change Higita a lot. From that moment, Higita promised himself that he would always treat his loved ones kindly and spare no effort to protect them. That incident left a wound inside his heart, and it wouldn't be resolved until the heroines healed his trauma.

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It has been one month since I first met Sio, and he has now become more open to me. I turn to Sio, who is walking beside me.

"What do you want to eat for today, Sio?"

"Anything is fine, boss. You always feed me delicious food, anyway."

"How about hamburger then?"

"We just ate hamburgers yesterday..."

"Umuuu...Fried chicken?"

"I don't have the appetite to eat fried food today, boss."

"Hey, Sio! Your "anything" is so weird to me!"

Sio lets out a soft smile as he hears my statement. For a moment, I feel the smiling figure of Sio is so adorable. This also proves that Sio has accepted me and relaxed his guard around me.

Wait! Wait! Why do I feel Sio sometimes looks so girly and cute when he is a boy? I feel so weird about this...

"Boss?"

Sio taps on my shoulder while calling out to me.

"What's wrong, Sio?"

Sio points at Higita, who is running in our direction.

"That thing is here again, boss."

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Well...Even though we unofficially play with Higita for a long time now. For some reason, Sio still holds a grudge against Higita.

"Hey! Two punks! Wait for me!"

"Our names are not punks, you know..."

"Shut up! Your names are officially punk from now on."

I hold my head as I give up debating with the cheeky Higita.

"Should I hit his face again, boss?"

"Hey! You should control your underling properly !"

These two make me feel so tired...

"Higita!!"

In the direction that Higita runs from, a woman approaches us while calling Higita's name out loud. The woman is not an incredible beauty like mother Haine and Mama Selene, but an ordinary woman that gives off a calming atmosphere. This must be Higita's stepmother!

"Please wait for me, Higita. You run too fast..."

"You are just too slow, auntie."

Even though Higita calls her auntie, she doesn't look angry in the slightest.

"I told you not to go with me! Why are you still following me?"

"Ma...I want to meet the two friends you told me about~."

"Hey, auntie! Who are friends with these two punks? Instead, they should be grateful to have a chance to play with me!"

Sio stares fiercely at Higita is having a conversation with his stepmother and mutters in a small voice.

"Ungrateful bastard..."

Higita's stepmother then turns her attention to us. She bends down and apologizes to us.

"You two must be his new friends. I'm so sorry to let my son...No, Higita has troubled you so far."

Sio looks troubled at the stepmother's sudden apology. I have no choice but to step up and answer in his stead.

"It's not your fault, madam. And he is not like you thought! We have quite a fun time while playing with him."

"Huh, boss...?"

I blink at Sio and give her the signal to play along with me.

"Yes, that's right..."

"You see! I told you, auntie..."

Sio starts shaking as if she is holding the urge to hit Higita. As the stepmother turns up, she looks surprised when she finds Sio in front of her.

"You are...the crying child at that time."

"I..."

Eh! I never know these two have met each other before.

The stepmother bends down and hugs the stuttering Sio.

"It's great that you look much better now..."

"It's all thanks to the boss..."

It takes me so much effort to make him open up with me a little. But the MC's stepmother can hug Sio right away... The stepmother releases Sio from her arms after a while.

"And you must be his boss."

"Yes, madam..."

The stepmother softly laughs as she hears my answer.

"You don't have to call me formally like that. After all, you are Higita's friend."

"Madam, you look so young! Should I call you a sister instead?"

"You are such a good talker from a young age~."

"Ehehehe~."

"Ma~Why do you wear something like that?

"Yes?"

The stepmother bends down and whispers in my ear.

"A cute girl like you and Sio shouldn't wear these clothes."

Wait, she has already found out my true gender in a glance. But, wait! Sio is a girl!!?? That news shocks me even more because I've been with her for one month.

So suddenly, a loud voice coming out from the mall's speaker interrupts our conversation.

"I repeat, this warning is not a drill! Our mall is under the attack of an unknown force! Please take the cover while waiting for the police to arrive. I repeat, this...Arghhhhh!"

The warning ends abruptly with a scream on the other side. This...

"No way..."

"Boss...?"

My body keeps shaking as I realize this incident is the one that was mentioned in Higita's past.

"This drives me crazy..."

Higita's stepmother takes our hand and screams out loud.

"Let's go! We need to find somewhere to hide!"

Until the end of her life inside the Magical Academy, the stepmother will put the safety of Higita over her own life. Even at the last moment, she just asked MC one thing from him...

She asked if he could call her a mother...Higita would spare no effort to call her, but his action was not enough to bring the dead back. It was too late for him to do something for his dear stepmother.

Should I naturally accept that result and let history repeat itself in this real world? Hell, no! Screw the plot! Screw the character development for the MC. I will save both of them!