The Hourglass

There was one time I invited Jessica and Mario into a poll, and of course I brought Aria too.

When I and Aria arrived there Jessica and Mario already arrived earlier, so after greeting each other we went in together.

In the poll, Aria caught me staring at Jessica and she got jealous so she sent an illusion of a giant shark that only I can see and felt in the name of training.

At first I thought it was a joke but the moment the shark bit me I felt pain in my lower body, even thought it last only one second I still didn"t want to experience it and if I didn"t dodge the shark, Aria probably will get angrier.

So I swim while sending some spiritual tentacle to whip the illusion since it was made of spiritual energy it can slow the shark down.

The whole time I was in the poll I didn"t have time to talk to Jessica or Mario since I actually want to talk to Mario in the first place when I invited them.

When we are about to take shower to wash off the pool water, she finally released me and with a satisfied smile she hugged my arm until we reaches the shower room.

In the boy"s shower room I take the shower next to Mario and suddenly I started talking to no one but hearing the content Mario knew it was for him.

"I actually liked Jessica since I was a child" I stopped and Mario looked at me but I continued showering while continuing my speech.

"I kept myself around her because I want to earn her love and to kept the bad guys from her by using the rumour that I was Jessica"s boyfriend when I actually isn"t"

I stopped once again to wash my face "actually there was a lot of guys who challenged me, tried to confess to Jessica but I hold them back because I knew most of them are playboy that just want to "get" her."

" I was happy with that status of mine as her best friend and her rumoured boyfriend, I was about to make the rumour a reality."

"but when the day comes just when I was about to told her, she asked me an advice"

I laughed bitterly and I turned my face to Mario who is shorter than me a little and he already looked at me since the first time I spoke.

"it was an advice to how to make you her boyfriend, Mario"

I took a deep breath.

"I agreed to her and I run of to vent my sadness you know but as I investigated you, you are truly a good guy and you loved her as much as she loved you"

"even so if…if you changed, made her very, very sad I will kill you and I have the capability to do so"

I said this as I stared at his eyes, his eyes flickered around for a moment but this is probably a normal reaction. To make my word more convincing I made an illusion of spears suddenly surrounding him.

Of course this made him scared and his eyes switched rapidly between my faces and the rotating spears around him but he didn"t screamed.

"well you have the courage, I mean if you make her cry or have a normal couple fight I think it"s normal but the one I am talking about is if for example you cheated on her then I will at least expose you before killing you in "incident""

I snapped my finger and the spears disappears, I took his hand and handshake with him.

"thank you for listening and please heed my warning" I smiled as I said this.

I left the dumbfounded Mario there and went to the changing room since I finished my shower.

I went out from the boy"s showering room and immediately I heard a complain voiced out.

"jezz, just what you are doing in there, making us wait so long and even Mario isn"t out yet"

Aria complained as she took my hand into hers and I smiled while saying "sorry" to Aria. I waited patiently with Aria beside me and Jessica in the other side of exit.

When Mario finally came out, he first looked at me with a weird look on his eyes.

After Mario and Jessica joined up, we went back separately and one day ended.

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My everyday life on the holiday with Aria is more fun than the last seventeen years of my life.

We sometimes went overseas exploring the mountain which is mostly full of natural wildlife, it was fun battling a lion, riding it, and taking selfie with it but of course I gift it some meat.

We catch a leopard"s child which looked like an adorable cat, of course we took it"s picture along with it"s mother.

When we are back, I sometimes wonder on the dark back alley around with a Magical Girl mask on my pocket.

Whenever I saw someone got robed or was about to be raped, I suddenly appear with magical girl mask equipped, stunning both the perpetrators and it"s victims because the perpetrators usually astonished by my mask I took care of them quickly even when their number is more than ten and not astonished by my mask.

Sometimes when the victim is a beautiful woman or girl I took of my mask for a moment and kissed her on the lips for a second before I run of after calling the police on the nearest public phone.

There was also one time when I was just escaped from one of my mischievous act with my mask still on, I saw a little girl is about to get hit by a truck and because the distance between us was a little far, I only manage to push her into the pedestrian while I was. .h.i.t by the truck and I got reincarnated into a dragon in other world.

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Of course not, I was thrown like a ragdoll and thankfully the truck didn"t hit my head otherwise it would be a K.O and I would get unconscious for a few minutes, Imagine you are weeping for your savior and suddenly the supposed dead savior of yours sat up perfectly fine, saying h.e.l.lo to you and ran off.

It"s not funny right, so just when the pedestrian was about to call the ambulance, I stood up and walked to them while they were stunned I walked to the truck driver who just get down from his truck looking worried.

I approach him and I grabbed at his collar with one hand, lifting him and I slapped him with the other hand while saying "please be careful when you drive again" I slapped him a few more times before I let him fall to the hard asphalt with swelling cheeks.

I walked to the direction where I pushed the little girl into and the crowd parted as I quickly found her crying with her hands and knee scratched.

Then I bit my finger and applied my blood into her wound but of course I shielded the act with my back and after I wiped her tears I looked at her face, with all my experience I judged this cute little girl will became a beauty and she is only around elementary school"s age.

I then stood up, I went back to the wailing truck driver and I lift him once more giving him a few more slaps before tossing him down

I want to the girl and after confirming that no one could see it, I took of my mask and said to the girl with a serious voice even thought I mean for this to be a joke.

"listen girl my name is Michael" as I said this the girl looked at my face and I told her my name? there are dozens if not hundreds person with Michael as name in this province.

"you must kept this a secret and whenever you see me, you must hugged me and say "I would want to marry oni-chan" with sincerest, all right"

She nodded with determination and as I heard the ambulance coming I ran off quickly. While I was returning home I laughed so hard that I got multiple one second chest pain.