I entered the school cafeteria and as always there was no one there, but for some reason the Kushina-san seemed to be quite less bothered than usual at me appearing, she even waved at me as if greeting me .
I found that disturbing a little, even though we have solved the misunderstanding between the two of us yesterday, but it was still a bit difficult for me to believe that she was this happy to see me, but i still waved at her back .
I get the usual meal after greeting her and all, she responded and asked how have i been and whether did i get a chance yesterday to see the fight, i was in a hurry to see, i was surprised at the fact that she was able to reach that conclusion and even though the topic irked my sore spot a little, i still told her that i was sadly unable to do so .
I was reminded that she wanted to talk about something yesterday just as i stormed out of the cafeteria, so i couldn't help but ask her about this, but she just handed me the tray of food and frustratingly began to wave her hands in front of her, telling me that it was nothing important, i accepted this and went on to sit in my usual spot .
I finished eating and just as i was about to leave the cafeteria and to the principal office, i was suddenly stopped from doing so, by the red haired woman kushina, she approached the table i was sitting on a bit hesitantly and i couldn't help but wonder why was acting as such, so i ended up waiting for her to say what she had to say .
Um, i have a favor i wish to ask of you .
" Go ahead,i will try to help if i can .
Ummm, well it's like this... .
I finally understood what with her weird behavior, she was her asking for my advice on someone who asked her for a date, she was here asking if i had an opinion on him, she wanted me to get an opinion on him in the evening when he comes to pick her up .
I looked at the woman in front of me and only had two word in my mind to describe her, too fast .
She moved on too fast, just the day before yesterday she was supposedly going on a date with someone else, so what was going on with her, why she was so hasty to find a partner, is she pressured by her family or something like that, i really can't tell, wanting to confirm what she wanted me to do one last time, i said :
" You want me to give an opinion on your date partner of tonight, isn't that correct .
Her face flushed with embarrassment as she understood what i was implying, but she still nodded her head at my words and didn't say anything more at first, but after a few seconds more, she began saying :
I know what you are thinking, you probably think that I'm a bit hasty with deciding to date once again after the last date failing .
But believe it or not, i already got accustomed to these looks, I'm not hasty, but I'm a bit unlucky with picking my partners, i had went on over 30 dates, what's worse was that they all either end up in failure similar to the last one, or the partner i choose was pretending to be somone he is not, sometimes there were even problems happening with the place we were going to have the date in .
All the made me a bit desperate thinking that there might be a universal intervention that keep getting on my way in acquiring a partner, so you being right about the last guy i dated after only meeting him once, finally allowed me to see a chance that could help me securing success this time with my date, you have no problems in helping right ? .
I looked at her and saw that even though she said that she already got accustomed to the looks in the eyes of people, she seemed to be still holding some pain and keeping it to herself .
Finding about her reasons and seeing that it won't be that much of a problem to help her, i nodded at her and she directly gave me the accurate time that date partner of her will come to pick her up, but i still had a question that kept coursing in my mind and just decided to blurt it out, i said :
" I'm sorry if my curiosity annoyed you, but i just wonder about the reason why you are so desperate to find a partner, why are you hasty about it ? .
She seemed to have already anticipated me asking this somehow as she shook her head and said :
Time wait for no one, I'm already 30 years old, still single, all my dates went horribly as i previously mentioned, if i didn't find a partner soon, i might end up dying alone, i don't want to do that .
I wanted to be loved, if i waited any more longer, i might really end up being the only one among my whole family who still wasn't able to build a life for herself, that was the reason to why i resigned from my position as a Savior and accepted the job in this school, as you get older, you might begin to feel desperate, i hope you never need to feel that horrible feeling of being running out of time .
Look at me burdening a student with my own love life, sorry if i had been a bother, you probably had other things to do, i will leave you to it then, but please be there at the gate in the designated time, again thank you so much for agreeing to help .
She said this while bowing her head and tried to retreat in a hurry, but i held her hand and stopped her from doing so, she looked at me and i saw that her eyes were beginning to become red, she was almost on the verge of tears, her face was completely flushed, his face was frowning, her teeth were biting her lips, she was in a complete mess .
" Kushina-san, you are this hasty due to you racing against time, i don't know what you are so afraid of, if you hadn't said you were a 30 years old, i would have easily mistaken you as a 20 years old, or even being of the same age as me, but since you are afraid of time that bad, allow me to help you then .
I finished saying this and she looked at my eyes and i saw the reflection of words, the syllables of the spell that i was currently trying to cast, Fixed Period, that was the name of the spell .
Your eyes, what had hap... .
Just as she was about to say something about finally noticing the difference between my eyes from yesterday and my eyes from today, the eerily green glimmering of them was still there, it even shone more brightly when I'm spellcasting, something that had completely stunned her, but that was only when her surprises begin .
She was suddenly engulfed in a coat of green energy, then that coat began to cover her face as well and after 3 seconds of time it began to dissipate into particles of light, revealing a new and completely different person from within, the woman in front of me was a beautiful girl with deep red hair that was styled in a curly way, her hair was more charming with before, so was her face, her body, everything around here seem to have changed, she seemed to be a heroic fare maiden, that was capable of turning heads just simply by her looks .
Her clothes even shifted and she was now wearing a silky yellow dress, that helped in making here look even more brilliant .
What did you.... ? .
I conjured a mirror out of Mana in front of her before she said anything more, she was directly flabbergasted and was staring at the mirror in front of her for quite long time in shock, i wonderd about what her current thoughts were, seeing her past self in the present like this .
Yes, that was the effect of the spell i just used, Fixed Period, it was a Spell that allowed someone to Regain the life of the past in the present and keep it that way forever, it was supposedly to return her younger to make her look 20 years old, but instead it seemed that the past in the spell effect wasn't working in the same way as it intended, instead of her returning to her 20s, she completely regained her former life apperance and from now on she will keep looking like this forever .
Seeing that i made a mistake with my judgement, i bowed and apologized to her and told her that i will fix it, i had away to remove the effect of the spell by using Paradox, but she stopped me from doing so and just started crying, luckily the whole cafeteria was empty, no one was there but us, i was thankful to that, nothing good will come from someone witnessing what was currently going on here .
The woman in front of me, or more accurately to say the girl in front of me cried for so long that i was beginning to curse my decision of doing what i did without asking for permission first, i was thinking that she didn't like the way she currently looked .
Even though the spell acted as keeping a person facial features and body young forever or until the spell effect is willingly removed, that was completely different than just her regaining her younger looks on her previous life, after all this was unprecedented, i can't help but think that i might have matters worse for her, seeing her crying like this .
She might have also remembered some of her past life memories with me doing this, there were a lot of uncertainties around this whole situation that i still don't know anything about .
I raised myself up and looked at her, she was still staring at the conjured mirror with tears that kept flowing down on her cheeks, her face was so fair, that I was beginning to believe that she came out of a comic or something, i also couldn't help but sigh at the fact that she had stopped me from removing the effect of the spell, which made the uneasiness that i was feeling in my heart, increase even more .
I really shouldn't have done what i did just now, i had a good intentions, yes, i wanted to rest her a little from her race against time and I successfully did, but i seemed to have done more than just stopping her race against time, i had completely transformed her back to what her former self looked like, making her allegedly turn to a complete different person than she previously was .
I wanted to remove the mirror and gain back her attention, but seeing the adoring and worshiping expression on her face as she looked at her reflection filled me with enough guilt to let her be like that for as long as she wanted to keep standing there, but me willing to give her the chance to do so, didn't mean that her job would allow her that much of time .
I was already beginning to hear the loud noises of the students that were about to go through the door and enter here, so i wanted to urge her up, but when i turned around, i saw that she had a natural and a pleasant to the eyes smile on her face as she looked in the mirror, which allowed me to completely let go of the guilt i was feeling, i instead decided to give her another gift .
My eyes once again began to lit brightly and went and stood next to her and held her hand once more, then a massive green waves of green energy were released from me into the air, the building, the trees, the sky, the ground, the world came to still .
A complete still world, Fixed Point, that was the name of this spell, it had only one problem, due to currently being able to limit the range of the area, i want Time to stop flowing in, it costed quite the severe amount of Mana, if not me keep using Heal to allow me to keep feeding it Mana without collapsing on the floor, me and the person who i was holding, are the only ones that can currently move in this world, this law was Absolute .
But this state we were in was quite taxing mentally on the person I'm holding hand with, after all that person perception of time was being constantly shattering and rebuilding itself over and over, so we at most have 30 minutes, before her mind collapse on itself and she will pretty much, die .
I'm currently engrossed in trying to keep the spell effect on, but i can't spare enough time on hand to use Healing Reverse on here, if she died then that will allow me to use it on her, since there would be more need to keep this cursed state in effect any longer .
The moment i held her hand, she was jolted awake from the state she was in, she looked at me weirdly and asked :
Is this an illusion ? .
I shook my head and said with a bit forced smile on my face :
" You said that you are short in time, so i tried to give you all the time you need, but it ended in a way that i had never expected it to end like this, i hope you are satisfied with the results, just a heads up, you will now look like this for the rest of your life, so if it isn't to your li... .
Just as i was about to finish saying this, i was suddenly stunned due to her suddenly embracing me, or at least she tried to do so, but just as she was about to engulf me, she was fixed in place, due to her time also stopping, i once again reached her hand .
She wonderingly looked at me with stars in her eyes, unable to even utter a single word, but somewhat i was able to tell that she already understood what was going on, i was the one who spoke, telling her that the students should be in front of that door .
What is wrong with them being outside ? .
" Didn't you notice what you are wearing ? .
As me pointing this out, she looked at the yellow elegant dress she was wearing and frowned upon what she saw, then she said :
Ugh, i can't get rid of that ugly dress, but i guess you are right, don't worry about me, i will be fine, i will be able to change my clothes in the backroom .
" I'm in a bit kind of hurry so i will be leaving early, Good Luck on Your Date, Kushina-san .
I said this and let go of her hand, she seemed to be taken aback at my words, she was standing like a statue mouth wide opened and had astonished expression on her face .
I said that and negate the effect of Fixed Point, then instantly used Paradox and moved her to backroom and continued to head towards the principal's office .