"Who will see this through?"

She realized that he knew nothing about her. About why she wanted so much to keep all things related to her memories, about why she desperately needed some proof that she ever existed, about her remaining time which less than two weeks.

She shouldn’t have been acting like that. Exhaled a small sigh, she behaved herself back. I shouldn’t requested something that would bother him. She thought so.

She turned her head when he asked about computer and lobby. Come to think of it, she hadn’t been paid much attention towards the surroundings of lobby. She always went straight to her room and start charging.

But fortunately his small suggestion wasn’t shot down negatively, Squinted eyes peeking up a bit at the white haired frame in front of him, Leo felt a rush of heat to his cheeks caused by a feeling of happiness sneaking in. So he hadn’t completely screwed up the situation then, after all, huh?

Cole couldn’t help but smile as the man took the child and the boy instantly attacked the goggles. Anything that caught his attention was for him to grab it seemed and Cole was completely happy with that. Actually, more than happy now that he got his hands on them. Cole was just waiting for him to try and put them in his mouth or lick them.

Cole arched a single brow, confused as to if something was actually wrong or if the man was pretending nothing was. It was hard to tell with some people but it was best to not push someone who he had no real inclination of who they were. The city was fairly large and everywhere Cole turned he was meeting someone knew though his roommate still had yet to show themselves. Hopefully they wouldn’t mind him practically running the apartment.

“E-eh?! Hold him?!” Was this really how you usually went about it? Leo himself hadn’t even considered having children of his own any time soon if at all, so all of this was foreign land to him. Heck, he didn’t even have a lover. Wasn’t there some kind of order you had to do this in? Someone like him couldn’t just walk around picking up other people’s toddlers!

It wasn’t that he didn’t like children or anything. He had grown up as an elder brother although it had been an awful long time since Michella had been as young as the toddler in this man’s arms seemed to be, and Leonardo couldn’t really remember that far back. He however wasn’t entirely sure of what to think of handing over his goggles to the tiny human. While they had no actual function, he always wore them and they did kind of help covering his eyes when he needed it.

One moment she was hard to convince, later she was pretty easy. But what he said did make sense. After all, not only Kazuki who loves this somehow delicious liquor pretty much. Yasutaka always being scolded by Sherry, and somehow looked…no good as well?

She nodded in understanding of his lecture. Thankfully it did work, though not completely rid her curiosity off from her mind.

“Eh? Me?” He however hadn’t expected for the question to be turnt back his way. How was he supposed to look good to her now? He would feel bad about lying over a matter such as this after all. So hopefully he wasn’t being too much of a hypocrite.

She spoke nonchalantly, but didn’t make any effort to take it away from him. Isla didn’t felt wrong, she wasn’t drunk and she was completely okay, so why he looked so panic?

“That’s not the point, Isla-san! You might end up liking it and then your life will only start going downhill as you become a hopeless drunk who spends all the time gambling and hitting on women! Uh... men?”

“Eh?! Even you, miss Isla?!“ No really, how did people know? He was starting to get scared now, because if this rumour was running rampant then he really needed to do something about it. Certainly he wasn’t expecting this white haired girl to want them for her own sake, but other residents of Koi might not share the same sentiment. The worst thing he could imagine was if they fell into the hands of some evil person. No, as much of a pain as they were, it was also his duty to protect them.

“Worry not… I wouldn’t do anything…”

The twintailed blonde ghost whom she just befriend with, told a lot of things. About someone with blonde hair who had big round glasses, about a boy who had a pair of beautiful blue eyes, and about herself who’s a ghost.

She knew it might be something confidential. After all there’s no one who would reveal their special power to the other people, especially in this Koi City, which she still considered as remote place she had recently moved to.

A ghost, huh? Why did that make him think of one particular person? Nah, couldn’t possibly be. After all, he hadn’t told that person about everything that had happened yet. Maybe it was for his own convenience, that he could pretend that everything was normal -- that he was just your ordinary guy who had an ordinary girl for an ordinary friend.

That was also what he had hoped to achieve in this city. A life where he could live believing himself to be just your average guy.