To tell you the truth, I walked back with my head hanging the whole way.
Taking a leisurely stroll with Lin Xue through streets lit by the first lights of evening—this was the first time in history. The person I used to bicker with every day had somehow become my girlfriend, a development nobody could have imagined. Although we had already awkwardly confirmed our feelings for each other earlier on (once again, I had to marvel at Miss Lin's clumsiness and innocence when it came to romance), after that, the two of us acted as if nothing had happened. We still argued whenever we met and roughhoused whenever we had nothing better to do. Only today had I finally found even a hint of this warm, ambiguous atmosphere.
Unfortunately, that atmosphere was accompanied by someone's furious scolding and my own ear-scratching embarrassment.
...Her ability had awakened for the first time, and the first future scene she saw while unable to control it was herself getting pinned down... Even as a grown man, I found that awkward enough to think about. For Lin Xue, though, it went far beyond ordinary shame and anger.
Despite how carefree she usually seemed, our Miss was actually a very innocent girl.
A girl—a girl with basically normal values who had received a modern education—suddenly learned that some man would include her in his "harem" in a future that was already destined. And because of various screwups, she had even seen all sorts of things that made her grit her teeth... Ahem, that was indeed one hell of a shock, especially back then, when the two of us barely knew each other at all.
That was why Lin Xue had stayed in berserk mode for so long, inexplicably blowing up at me every day, verbally tearing