#akaoi

Just before he died he really wished he could stop time.

So that’s why he ended up being a Clock Keeper.

They met again in Aoi’s next life when he saved her from that truck, and he was shocked when she could see him ‘cause … y’know.

Only those who are running out of time could see the clock keepers.

Akane made up an excuse about how she owed him for saving her life, so in return she had to be his assistant (lies! he just wanted to be close to her and protect her from her fate).

Just imagine Aoi hanging out with Kako and Mirai wherever the giant clock is ain’t that adorbs?

Mirai loves her.

“Ne, ne, Akane-nii! When’s Aoi-nee coming?”

So yeah, the equivalent of bathroom cleaning duty in this one is babysitting Mirai, more or less … which sounds a lot better.

Aoi’s still popular in this one and Akane’s still that protective psycho we know and love.

Many of her admirers claim to be haunted after they tried confessing to her.

If they got really lucky Akane would freeze the time in the entire school aside from said admirer, leaving them running around confused and thinking they’ve gone crazy.

Akane gets reprimanded about that a lot.

“Honorable No. 1, we scare students occasionally, not every time someone makes a move on your assistant, and definitely not to make students require therapy.”

Who’s our exorcist in this one, you ask?

Lemon. Our boy Yamabuki Lemon of the infamous Yamabuki clan.

The whole school thinks he’s a delinquent, because he’s got creepy piercing eyes or whatever. Comes with being able to see supernaturals, probably.

Aoi used to like him for his bad boy, masculine charm. It made her heart race and all.

So Akane tried to murder him.

Only to find out that 1) he’s an exorcist, 2) a pretty capable one.

They fought on the rooftop until Lemon managed to convince Akane to just talk it out.

Lemon said he didn’t like Aoi (he’s not into prepubescent bodies). But that only made it worse.

Luckily Aoi found them before Lemon could get killed.

“Ah, you’re so lucky to be friends with Yamabuki-kun …”

“No I’m not! He’s not even that cool. He said you have prepubescent body!”

RIP Akane.

See Lemon is the laziest exorcist ever. Capable, but lazy.

He doesn’t really wanna be one, but his parents insist he tries the family business until at least he graduates before letting him make his own decision.

So Lemon made a deal with the pitiful ghost. He wouldn’t pursue Aoi romantically and would try his best to make her not like him like that, in return Akane had to let him help with exorcising rogue supernaturals around school to get his parents off his back.

After spending some time with Lemon, Aoi could see that he wasn’t a delinquent and decided she didn’t like him like that anymore.

She does like him as a friend and that alone is apparently still enough to get Akane jealous.

So Akane still gets murderous sometimes but it’s a little more chill because Lemon’s his friend now.

Yay they’re a trio!

On the flipside, enter your local supernatural-obsessed, rumor girl best friend, Nene, and her friendzoned childhood friend Amane.

Like, it’s public knowledge that Amane likes her, and that Nene’s in massive denial, and that Amane is sorta constantly shifting between being in and out of denial about her denial. Y’know, teen drama.

At the beginning of junior high his twin Tsukasa dragged him to try summoning Hanako in the 3rd floor bathroom. He thought his brother’s love woes were in dire need of ghostly intervention.

Voila, it worked! They summoned Hanako-san, who turned out to be an upperclassman who just graduated.

He wished for the ability to make Nene like him.

Nene liked supernaturals.

So Hanako-san was like, “Oh perfect I’ve been looking for a successor!”

Amane: Dafuq? Tsukasa: Tell me more, tell me more~

Amane refused to be a wonder, but Hanako-san threatened to hurt Nene if he didn’t accept.

She wants to go to college, okay, and she’s had enough dealing with supernatural shit for 6 years.

Tsukasa was on board from the start.

And thus toilet boys were born.

Still works more or less like in the manga. Amane grants wishes for the living, Tsukasa grants wishes for the dead.

Tsukasa’s not as insane in this one but he still causes trouble.

Which is why Akane hates the twins.

“No. 7 please control your brother. I only ask for one (1) peaceful day.”

So between granting wishes every now and then, keeping his wild brother in check, getting jealous of Nene’s crushes, and protecting said girl who keeps running into supernatural trouble due to her supernatural rumor investigations …

Amane is fucking TiredTM

The wish granting isn’t that bad, actually, not many people could summon him after all. Only those who are close to the far shore.

His most frequent client is Lemon, looking for a place to hide from murderous Akane.

“She gave you the cupcake she made in home ec. Therefore, you must die.”

“YOU GOT ONE TOO FFS!”

“Akane-kun, leave Yamabuki-kun alone!”

Both boys were too busy chasing/running to notice Tsukasa had stolen the cupcakes.

“Amaneee, you want one?”

He wants to retain his human side and not crossover completely due to his boss’ murderous spree, thank you very much.

So yeah Amane and Lemon are pretty good friends.

One time in class Lemon let it slip that he could always depend on Hanako-san.

“She’s a very reliable wish-granter.”

Aoi tried not to laugh.

Tsukasa didn’t even bother.

If Amane wasn’t too tired with his life in general he probably would’ve punched Lemon.

Someone heard them, though.

One day, while waiting for Nene to be done with gardening club so they could go home together, Amane is summoned.

So he calls Hakujoudai, teleports to the girls’ bathroom, and answers.

Wish-granting has never been the worst part of his job until he sees who’s on the other side of the door this time.