After rebirth, I confessed to the losing heroine - Chapter 80- Compliment

After they were done shopping, which lasted for an hour, Nene asked whether they could eat something in the cafeteria.

Hiroto didn’t have anything urgent to do so he nodded in an assent and the three of them headed toward the third floor where the eatery was situated.

Miyuki’s mood wasn’t as good as it initially was but she somehow masked her displeasure from earlier.

Getting disturbed by her cousin at such a time was anything but pleasant. She apologized to Hiroto for her sister’s behavior and decided to scold Nene once they returned.

“It’s quite lively here…” Nene voiced her thoughts regarding the number of people seated inside the cafeteria. It seemed like more than the mall, people were gathered here.

“I think they sell good chicken sandwich here. I have read online somewhere about it…” Miyuki spoke with uncertainty as she walked along the other two and halted before an empty table.

The trio naturally attracted many gazes, mostly because of the silver-haired beauty but it didn’t bother her. If anything, Hiroto seemed to be more wary than the person herself.

Miyuki giggled at how Hiroto was glaring back at everyone who kept on looking at her.

“Ignore them, Hiro-kun. They are not worth it….” The reason her voice trailed off near the end was because her eyes caught a group of girls glancing at Hiroto and one of them even took his picture!

Miyuki immediately got up from her seat but before she could move toward them, Hiroto held her hand. With a smile, he said something she should be familiar with, “They are not worth it, Miyuki. Just let them be.”

Nene has long gotten accustomed to this flirting couple which helped her to keep her composure even when they were getting all possessive, so openly.

Once they sat down, Hiroto rested the bags on the table and said, “What would you guys like to eat?”

He was about to get up and go get the food, when suddenly Miyuki held his hand and shook her head, “You must be tired after following around us. Please sit down and let me order the food.”

The determination in her eyes momentarily left him speechless. However, Nene understood why her Nee-san seemed to be so stubborn.

‘Haah…’ The little blond sighed and wanted to shake her head in weariness.

The table where that group of girls sat was very close to the counter—which explains the reason behind Miyuki’s determination.

Hiroto didn’t argue with her and after nodding, he sat back down.

Miyuki asked what the other two wanted to eat before she made her way to the food counter.

Once Miyuki was away, Nene slumped in her seat and asked after heaving a long sigh, “How do you tolerate her?”

Hiroto raised his brows hearing that, but Nene’s following words left him speechless, “Fortunately now she has completely lost interest in Yuichi.”

“….how do you know about Yuichi?” Hiroto asked with his brows knitted. Once again he was high on alert about her range of knowledge.

Previously she called that name which in this world, no one should have been aware of, and now Yuichi—someone who shouldn’t have met Nene before.

In response, Nene grinned and propped her elbows on the table, “Do you really not remember me?”

Hiroto kept on looking closely at the girl when suddenly an image of a young woman overlapped her face.

“Goddess?” Hiroto asked in slight disbelief.

In response, the blond young teenager grinned with her eyes closed and said, “Young and beautiful as ever.”

Hiroto rolled his eyes and leaned back on the chair. He has been somewhat relaxed now since the Goddess knew his secret wasn’t much of a reason to get stressed over.

“Why did you suddenly come here?” Hiroto nonchalantly asked while he went through the recent events that might have been regarded as a huge canon diverter. However, he couldn’t remember anything regarding such.

In response, the younger one was a little displeased with the mundane response.

However, she didn’t cling to that for long and answered him, “I just came here to congratulate you. Despite your reluctance to support Yuichi, you have been doing a great job so far. Not only did you keep that crazy bit-” The glare from Hiroto made her pause for a moment before she coughed and continued, “Not only did you keep Miyuki away from him but also helped the beloved ones of my hero. Truly, you have done a great job.”

If only she hadn’t intended to say Miyuki that, Hiroto might have felt a little content.

But now, he coldly stared at the Goddess—making the latter feel slightly uncomfortable.

“Gah! Okay I apologize. I shouldn’t have called her that but you won’t disagree with the fact that Miyuki is crazy, right?”

“What’s wrong with being a little crazy? I am also crazy for her.” His immediate response assured the Goddess that Hiroto was the best candidate to choose.

With a wry smile, she leaned forward and said, “Can you imagine how many times she has thought of getting rid of Yuichi in these past few weeks just because he spends a lot of his time with you?”

Hiroto smiled at that, “That’s her love for me. You can’t do anything about it.”

The Goddess exasperatedly sighed and said, “Forget about that…the main reason why I came here was because I wanted to give you something.”

She snapped her fingers and a silver box appeared in the center of the table.

Hiroto picked up the box and asked, “What is this?”

Inside the box, there was a transparent small pill—like a capsule.

His attention went back to the Goddess as he heard her saying, “This is a magical tool used to change one’s identity,” she explained, summoning one of the capsules into her hand. “You place someone’s hair inside it and consume the capsule. You will take on their appearance for a certain period. But be careful—only consume the red half.”

To demonstrate, she plucked a strand of her hair and placed it inside the transparent capsule. As soon as the hair entered, the capsule’s top half turned red, while the bottom half turned blue.

The Goddess broke the capsule in half and continued, “The red part allows you to assume someone else’s identity. The blue part should be given to the person whose identity you’ve taken. Once the effects of the red capsule wear off, the blue capsule will absorb all the memories from the person who consumed the red half.”

Hiroto frowned before asking, “So once the timer of the red half is gone, I should feed the blue part to the person whose identity I stole, right?”

“Right~Quite intelligent you are.”

Although her explanation was half-baked he made sense of it.

Let’s assume Hiroto plucks someone named XYZ’s hair strand while the said man is unconscious (to not let any confusion occur). Putting the hair inside the capsule would produce two colors. If Hiroto consumes the red side he would become identical to XYZ until a certain period.

Now impersonating XYZ, Hiroto goes to a cafe and eats a sandwich before returning to the still-unconscious XYZ. The effect of the red capsule wears off and Hiroto returns to his original form. Once he feeds the blue capsule to XYZ, XYZ would think that he went to a cafe and had that sandwich.

Hiroto didn’t sway at her compliment and asked further, “And what if I don’t feed them the blue half?”

“They won’t receive the memories of you living as them….and also, feeding someone else’s blue half to someone else won’t work. And also, you can use this only once a week.”

Hiroto somehow understood the application of the magical tool as he asked again, “You are giving me this because of the upcoming event, right?”

The Goddess smiled like an innocent child and said, “Who knows~”

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A/N:- If you don’t understand the theory then comment down.