Sky Striker Ace, But Symphogear

The next moment, before she could react, a touch from someone beside her drew her attention.

A warm, soft yet slightly hard object, under its master's will, entangled itself with its kind. Its extremely weak power, however, transmitted the master's will to the other's heart.

"Hmph... Just saying it like that, aren't you afraid that my performance just now was merely an attempt to test your thoughts and then perfect my fake acting?"

Feeling her fingers intertwined, Raye's expression froze, and she asked this question.

"If that's the case, I'll be very happy, because that's what you, Raye, really want to do."

"I just hope that, Raye, you won't be like that again, that person who lost all vitality and wanted to give up everything."

Kohinata Miku naturally explained her thoughts.

Clearly, in her view, whatever Raye wanted to do was far better than doing nothing and simply conforming to the will of others.

"Oh, is that so?"

Having heard Kohinata Miku's words, I understood their meaning and perceived the goodwill emanating from them.

"You want me to start over? Seriously, I give up."

Raye sighed, raised her head, and looked up at the sky.

At this moment, the unpredictable summer weather had changed again. Although the dark clouds had not yet dispersed, the heavy rain that had enveloped the two of them had stopped.

"Well then, since that's the case, I'll try a little harder."

Raye muttered to herself.

Kohinata Miku noticed that her rarely moving, even somewhat stiff, facial muscles seemed to show a slight movement after a long time.

P. S. It should be good afternoon.

Chapter 121 Moving Forward Again

As the clock ticks, time flows slowly, like the rotation of a planet, unchanging and almost never stopping.

Since that torrential rain, Kohinata Miku has never been seen again. Raye's expression changed, as if everything in that torrential rain was just a hazy hallucination she had when she first woke up.

However, Kohinata Miku knew that it was not an illusion. The faint flame in Raye's heart had been growing little by little, spiraling upwards, fueled by time.

If you were to ask how Kohinata Miku saw it...

"Auntie, may I help you a little? I have some experience in cooking."

Raye saw her mother cooking and made this suggestion.

"Hey, Little Raye, are you really sure you can do this?"

His mother said this with some distrust.

Although Kohinata Miku explained that her parents now believed in Raye's identity and knew that she possessed great strength.

However, because of her usual behavior, they mostly treated Raye as an ordinary child with some psychological problems and took good care of her in her daily life.

Therefore, Mrs. Kohinata was slightly surprised when she suddenly heard Raye's suggestion.

"It's okay, trust me, I can do it. I just want to give it a try."

However, Raye had given that assurance, Mrs. Kohinata allowed her to try it out.

However, she didn't have high hopes. In her mind, children of this age should be so bad at cooking that they would be kicked out of the kitchen.

Then, after a while...

"Little Raye, are you sure this is because you have some experience?"

Mrs. Kohinata said in surprise.

To be fair, the help Raye just provided wasn't anything special.

The ingredients were prepared a little faster and more neatly, the heat control was a little more stable, and the use and combination of seasonings were a little clearer. If I had to say, it was just a typical home-style dish.

However, considering her age and the Mrs. Kohinata was comparing herself to, a slight look of surprise appeared on her face.

"I just studied it for a period of time before; I've always been good at studying."

Wearing an apron that the Kohinata family had bought before, but which had only been used once and was now gathering dust, Raye said this naturally.

"Ah, anyway, Raye around is a huge help. Compared to that, ah, it's nothing."

Mrs. Kohinata spoke with a smile, glancing at Kohinata Miku, saying nothing, yet it seemed she had said everything.

In short, seeing Raye like this, even though she didn't know why she was being dragged into this, Kohinata Miku finally understood that the current Raye was different from the one before.

As for Kohinata Miku life, unlike before, Raye is much more proactive in making demands on her.

"Kohinata, you did this wrong."

Although Kohinata Miku felt that it was best not to take the initiative in some areas.

"Um, Raye, isn't this a bit too strict? Are these really things I should be learning right now?"

Looking at the homework Raye had assigned her, and the thing she called a knowledge network diagram, Kohinata Miku's expression slightly crumbled.

"Kohinata, didn't you miss several days of classes because of me? In that case, it's only natural that I help you catch up."

Raye remained expressionless as she spoke calmly, her words sounding quite reasonable.

"That's true, but isn't the amount a bit excessive? Besides, I've recently started going back to school, so there's no need for me to continue getting tutoring."

Kohinata Miku said with a hint of pressure.

Since Raye seems to be developing in a positive direction, Kohinata Miku no longer needs to neglect her studies and can resume her regular work.

"Ah, that's because your aunt mentioned before that after my tutoring, Kohinata grades not only didn't drop, but actually improved."

"So, she asked me to continue tutoring you. Since I was temporarily staying at your house, it wasn't easy for me to refuse."

Raye silently explained why she continued to tutor Kohinata Miku even after she started attending school.

"Haha, is that so?"

Hearing what Raye said, Kohinata Miku had nothing to say.

Moreover, objectively speaking, Raye's teaching efficiency is indeed very good.

She always lets Kohinata Miku rest before her study efficiency drops, and she can see through Kohinata Miku's pretense at a glance, making it impossible for her to slack off.

"Raye, can you read minds?"

Thinking of this, Kohinata Miku couldn't help but ask.

"How could that be? I can't read minds."

Raye immediately denied Kohinata Miku's statement.

"That's true. If you could read minds, Raye... I probably wouldn't be able to hide my previous thoughts Raye you."

Kohinata Miku shook her head, shaking off the inexplicable fantasies in her mind.

"So, you're saying that Raye, your advantage is simply due to your extensive teaching experience?"

Kohinata Miku was talking to herself.

"Ah, is that what you wanted to ask? No, that's not it. My ability in this area isn't actually that strong; at most, I'm at the average level."

Upon hearing Kohinata Miku's self-talk, Raye offered this explanation.

"Sigh, but Raye, you always manage to pinpoint my condition so accurately. This ability must come from your strong teaching experience, right?"

Kohinata Miku couldn't help but feel a little confused by Raye's explanation.

"It was just a matter of taking a few shortcuts."

Raye spoke, she walked to the side and picked up the black and red blade that, in Kohinata Miku's eyes, had been flashing with patterns since earlier.

"This, shouldn't this be the weapon you call the Sky Striker, Raye?"

Seeing Raye's actions, Kohinata Miku had some ideas in her mind.

"Well, to put it simply, I can roughly sense the psychological and physiological states of other people through this Sky Striker."

"Emotions such as joy, sadness, fear, and anger, or even physical problems, can all be sensed."

"That's why I can always accurately grasp your state, Kohinata."

Raye explained it simply to Kohinata Miku.

"Wow, it actually has such a useful function, even though it just looks like a knife."

Kohinata Miku was somewhat surprised, but after recalling what she had heard about the things the other party had done, she felt it was normal.

Only by combining various completely irrational abilities could Raye accomplish the kind of irrational feats she had heard of all by herself.

"Let's not talk about that. Today's teaching activities are already finished. Continuing any further would just be a waste of time and energy."

Ignoring Kohinata Miku amazement, Raye simply finished today's lesson as usual.

"Ah, okay."

Realizing that class time was over, Kohinata Miku put away her textbooks, including those for math, music, and social studies, which were slumped on her desk.

"... Speaking of which, Raye, there's a question I've always wanted to ask: why do you never teach Chinese? Is it because Chinese is difficult to teach?"

While organizing the textbooks, Kohinata Miku seemed to have just remembered something and asked with some concern.

Since asking Raye to do her homework, Raye has been teaching her some subjects, but this does not include the Japanese language lessons that Kohinata Miku is learning.

"Chinese literature... well, that's the main thing I'm not very good at."

After a moment's thought, Raye quickly explained why she wouldn't teach Kohinata Miku Japanese literature.

"Sigh, so there are things you're not good at, Raye?"

Kohinata Miku was somewhat surprised; she had never encountered anything that Raye didn't understand.

"Of course, I'm not a local, and learning Chinese from me would make your grammar sound really weird."

Raye said matter-of-factly.

"I see."

Upon hearing what Raye said, Kohinata Miku realized that although Raye usually communicated smoothly with her, her accent always had some strange grammatical usage in certain places.

"However, you're not from here... Come to think of it, I don't know where you're from, Raye. Could you tell me?"

Having brought up this topic, Kohinata Miku asked a follow-up question out of curiosity.

Although she had known Raye for some time, she still had no idea about Raye's background.

"What place? You mean... my hometown?"

When faced with Kohinata Miku's question, Raye paused, as if she had thought of something.

"It usually refers to something like your hometown, right? Raye your hair color, does that Raye you're from Europe or somewhere similar?"

Kohinata Miku continued to speculate curiously.

"Hmm... no, that's not it."

When asked about Kohinata Miku's question, Raye fell into deep thought.

"Ah, of course, if it's inconvenient for you to bring Raye, you don't have to."

Seeing Raye pondering Kohinata Miku for so long, and considering that Raye's past might contain some unpleasant things, he added this supplement.

"Well, there's nothing I can't say."

After careful consideration, Raye shook her head, denying her guess.

"To be precise, I come from another world, a place somewhat similar to China in this world."

Then, Raye concisely conveyed this information to Kohinata Miku.

"China in another world?!"

Kohinata Miku's expression couldn't help but show a hint of surprise.

Although she had some guesses about Raye's identity, thinking she might be a foreigner, she never expected that the other party came from another world.

"Well, the specific process is roughly like in light novels, where the street king, Hajime, is thrown into the sky by a near-fatal accident, and then wakes up in this world, something like that."

Raye spoke slowly.

"I always feel like, Raye, you've said something incredibly profound in such an ordinary way."