for this musical play"s sake.My fellow shrine maiden Ayano who"s beside Asumi-nee raised a set of the glow-in-the-dark placard for me to notice. She cycled it like an idiot board.
The first placard says: "Don"t worry, Lord Hel is the G.o.ddess of Death."
The second placard says: "She can"t die if she"s killed."
The third and last placard says: "Asumi-nee merely paralyzed her. Proceed with the play."
...
They didn"t have to kill her just for this play!
My wariness about the fallen G.o.ddess waved off when I saw her moving. She can only wiggle her limbs because of the paralyzing effect. But she"s alive. It seems that she"s immortal after all.
"Ma...Magical Idol Tiarchan… You… You are worthy of his love… I… I have nothing more to say…. Now, go… Go and follow your shouting heart..."
After delivering her last line, she died. Then the curtains closed, and the stage blackened.
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Behind the scenes, the Drama Club hurriedly mopped the blood-stained area. Asumi-nee approached me with a thumbs-up and so is Ayano, Miss Harie, and Miss Awane.
"Good job!" They all shouted.
"...Ahahaha…" I dumbly laughed as I scratched my head. "That last part though…"
"Never mind that!" Asumi-nee cheered. "The final part is about to commence! Now it"s all up to you to convey your feelings to him!"
"Go, Tiara, go!"
Everyone…
The whole Idol Club, The whole Drama Club, and my fellow shrine maidens cheered. It brings tears in my eyes that they are supporting me in this fight for love.
I wiped my soaking eyes and gave them the fierce glare of my determination as I pumped both of my fists with whole-hearted energy!
"Right! I"ll do my best!"
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The curtains opened and the stage brightened, revealing me on my ordinary school uniform. The background stage, however, has been changed to the colorful garden of rainbow flowers.
The stage is being showered by tiny specks of glowing orbs of light. Quintessences. The shrine maidens hidden above the ceiling are responsible for making this fabulous shower of lights. Just a simple glance of it makes every living person smile without fail.
The violin music came in, uttering a bittersweet romantic symphony that echoes through everyone"s hearts.
Especially Rikkun"s heart.
Slowly, his seat began to move forward until it became a part of the stage. Rikkun was surprised when he realized that only his special seat is moving. He never saw it coming. Not at all.
There were few magical and mechanical adjustments to his seat which transformed into a throne of transparent diamonds. It was Key-chan"s intelligence and efforts that made this kind of chair possible, and it s.h.i.+fted pretty well.
"...I… I don"t know what to say…" Rikkun whispered so softly that only the two of us in the stage can hear. "Is this musical play… especially for me?"
I just answered him with the brightest smile I got.
Then I proceeded to sing from the depths of my heart, perfectly syncing the symphony of the violin as I gracefully walked closer.
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This is the music in my heart;
This is what I felt for you from the start.
All of the lyrics I tried hard to hide;
They are now bursting out from inside.
So this is my song to you,
Filled with my feelings true.
I know I can"t help it but mere words won"t do.
I have once locked away all the feelings I knew,
And I have only opened my heart to you.
With just your single glance;
What they called luck and chance.
I always knew that it had to be you
They say that words can lie
But now I can"t deny.
I always knew that it had to be you
With every step, we will move on instead,
It doesn"t matter what obstacle that waits ahead.
The memories and feelings we hold dear,
We worried that they may all disappear.
But I know now that we"re hand in hand,
That our overwhelming love will make destiny understand.
I can"t say for sure how our fates will unfold,
I can"t change what our futures may hold.
But all I wish is for you to be with me in it;
For every day, every hour, every minute.
Because I am meant to be
Wherever you are next to me.
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I walked slowly to the man I love. My heart is throbbing so fast and it"s releasing overflowing life energy around me. I never realized that I"m already on my , transforming my school outfit to a pure white silk dress with magical floating white scarf and ten slim angel wings on my back."T-Tiara…" Rikkun astoundingly muttered. Tears are about to crawl to his boiling red cheeks.
This… This is the power of my love for Rikkun in all the timelines, and I"m going to release it now!
I gently caressed his cheeks first, and then I genuflected. I grabbed the most precious treasure from my back pocket and revealed to him a small square encas.e.m.e.nt that I opened.
A platinum ring s.h.i.+ned as it peeked out.
"Rikkun… No… Mister Alaric Eisenhower… I love you. I have always loved you from the start…"
Everybody was silent. The violin stops. And now, only my words and feelings can dominate this noiseless atmosphere.
"Will you be my boyfriend?"
I did it.
I did it.
I finally did it.
I have finally conveyed my true feelings to him.
Now it"s up to him to accept my love or not. Will he reject me?
…
Rikkun is silent.
I looked above and saw the man of my dreams crying. He"s trying to suppress his tears but he"s doing a bad job. Warm water fell down from his eyes like a waterfall, and he"s covering his trembling mouth with his hand. His face is too red as if it"s on the verge of exploding.
"...Yes…" Rikkun said, trying to m.u.f.fle his cries. "I do… I love you too, Tiara Hikari…"
"...R-Rikkun…" Now my eyes began to flood. I proceeded to insert the platinum ring on his finger with no problems. "Thank you… for loving me…"
Then… I jumped to him and gave him the warmest hug I could ever give.