Chat Group: Anime Girls are Moist-Chapter 365: Shock Michiru, and The Clumsy Hero

"..."

Hyodo Michiru felt a bit dizzy. That was because Rei Ao had told her so many things that shook her worldview.

Human world, the Three Realms, other worlds, angels, demons... all of it had once been just material for amusing stories in her eyes. But now, from Rei Ao's mouth, they were realities that existed.

Fortunately, having already accepted Kanna as a dragon, her ability to handle such revelations had quietly improved. In just a short while, she managed to digest these new facts.

Just then—

Click!

A door in the secondary bedroom suddenly opened.

"Haaah~"

An utterly sleepy Emilia, wearing a loose T-shirt and short shorts, trudged out in slippers. She was so groggy her eyes were barely open. Staggering, she headed for the bathroom.

She opened the door. Entered. Lifted the toilet lid. Slid down her little shorts. Sat on the toilet.

"Swoooosh..."

All the while half‐asleep, she never noticed the group's wide‐eyed stares.

"???"

Michiru, practically holding her breath, gawked with an open mouth.

"What... is this...?"

"Sigh, looks like she still isn't used to the habit of shutting the door behind her," Rei Ao said, pressing a palm to his forehead. He called a reminder, "Hey, Emilia, the door's wide open."

"Swoooosh...!"

The sound of water abruptly stopped. Emilia froze in place the moment she heard his voice.

Her neck turned with mechanical stiffness...eyes meeting the stares of several onlookers.

"!!!"

Her face went pale, then instantly flushed beet red.

"Eeeek!!!"

Emilia shrieked, then fumbled around shutting the door.

Bang! The water sound resumed—she evidently couldn't hold it any longer.

Rei Ao gave a shrug and explained to Michiru, "That's Emilia."

"She's a Hero from another world called the Holy Cross Continent. She has nowhere to go, so she's temporarily staying here."

"H-Hero...?"

Michiru's mouth twitched slightly. Never mind that this "hero" seemed pretty absent‐minded—she actually forgot to close the door for that?!

Also...why was Rei Ao so calmly indifferent about it?!

"Rei Ao‐kun...just who are you?"

If everything Rei Ao said was true, then he had an astonishing amount of knowledge and a deeply mysterious identity.

"Me? You can think of me as an Awakened One. The Three Realms plan to set me up as the Protector of the Human World."

Rei Ao said it in such a light tone.

At one side, Tohru proudly raised her head high, chest out.

"Hmph, my darling is the strongest person in this world, stronger than any dragon!"

"Oh oh, no wonder Tohru's mating with him," Kanna said, blinking her large eyes and looking as if she'd just realized something.

When Kanna said Rei Ao was even stronger than a dragon, Michiru was already astonished. But as soon as Kanna mentioned "mating," Michiru was stupefied.

"M-Mat... M‐ma...?"

Her stunned gaze flicked back and forth between Tohru and Rei Ao, as though she'd heard something unimaginable.

Tohru didn't mind, tilting her chin up. "Of course, it's not just because Rei Ao's strong."

She wasn't one to submit to a strong being so casually; she had her pride as a dragon.

"Actually, it's because I was gravely wounded in battle with a race of gods. I fled into this world, almost died, and Rei Ao saved me and took me in."

"That's why he's the one I love more than anything!"

As she spoke, Tohru hugged Rei Ao's arm, nuzzling affectionately against him.

"Swoooosh..."

From the bathroom, the sound of water went from a raging flow to a trickle, then slowly stopped, much like the feeling in Michiru's heart, which had just turned cold when she heard this news. It was like suddenly learning the person she secretly liked already had a partner—a chill like total heartbreak.

"Swoooosh!"

But the water started again, this time from the faucet. Moments later...

Whoosh!

The bathroom door was yanked open. Emilia shot past in a blur, racing back into her bedroom.

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Bang!

She slammed the door hard enough to shake the frame.

"Emilia, no matter how embarrassed you are, go easy shutting doors. You can't afford repairs if something breaks," Rei Ao said with a note of sympathy, understanding her current mortification but still reminding her.

"Got it!"

From inside the second bedroom came Emilia's annoyed reply. And after answering, she still had to add one more jab:

"Lecher!"

"Tch..."

Rei Ao smacked his tongue in annoyance. "It's all her own clueless fault, and she's blaming me?"

"Michiru, you were right here, so you can back me up, yes?" He joked, as if not noticing the dark cloud in Michiru's eyes.

Right now, it was best to pretend not to notice, to wait for her to calm down and eventually work out their relationship in a measured way.

"Mm..."

Michiru nodded stiffly, her expression strained.

Rei Ao glanced at the time outside.

"It's late. I'll send you two home."

"You've learned quite a bit of stuff you've never seen before, so I'm sure your mind must be spinning. Get some rest and process it."

"Me and Kanna can just head back ourselves," Michiru said, rising to take Kanna's hand, preparing to leave.

"Uu, I don't want to leave Tohru now..." Kanna gave Michiru a pitiful look.

"Uh..."

Michiru was caught in indecision. Kanna had come to find her friend, and splitting them up immediately felt wrong.

Hence, Rei Ao offered a solution:

"I have a spare guest room. You can stay the night here. Tomorrow morning I can use teleportation magic to send you back. It's instant—sound good?"

Teleportation magic... Another shocking term from Rei Ao.

"... ..."

Seeing Kanna's eyes glitter with excitement, Michiru gave a helpless smile. "I guess I can't be the bad guy. Fine, let's do that."

Tohru and Kanna had a lot to talk about, so they decided to sleep on the couch. Dragons didn't fear the cold, nor cared too much about humans' bedtime schedules. They could chat for a full day straight without issues.

Michiru ended up sleeping alone in the second bedroom. Lying flat on the unfamiliar bed, she couldn't just drift off immediately. And after everything today—so unexpected—her mind was in a whirl. Merely thinking made her too alert to sleep.

It was her first time learning the truth behind the world. Her first time discovering Rei Ao's secrets. And...

Now Michiru had to admit: without her realizing it, her feelings for Rei Ao had changed from simple goodwill to a secret crush. Yet it felt like her nascent crush had already ended in heartbreak.

"What a failure..."

She shrank under the quilt, tasting the sour pangs of adolescence.

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