Currently in the kitchen in my apartment, me and Touko are preparing the last stuff to bring with us on the picnic.

"I can take care of cutting up the beets." I tell Touko as I take out the beetroots from my fridge and put them at the cutting board, while my fiancée is preparing the meatballs we made the day before

But as I cut up the beets we will use for the beetroot salad, a specialty from my country that my beloved wanted to try out, I can't help but to... stop in the middle of cutting it up.

Red juices pours down the kitchen knife as I stand there, looking at it in silence.

"Stephy, something wrong-"

As soon as Touko begins speaking, I jump and accidentally slam down the knife so it hits my finger.

"Ah shit-!" I swear to myself as I drop the knife and take my finger under the sink tap to wash of the blood.

"O-oh my god, I'm so sorry!" Touko says as she rushes to fetch a bandage for me, running to the toilet and back to the kitchen. "My sweetiepie..!"

"T-Touko, it's okay. I were the one who messed up with the knife, not your fault at all."

"But you accidentally wounded yourself as soon as I spoke, I definitely caused-"

"Touko, you didn't! Please... don't beat yourself up over it..." I tell her to comfort her. I wipe of my wet finger before putting the bandage on it.

Touko immediately goes up to me and holds my hand with my sliced finger close to her chest while looking at me in the eyes.

"Stephan, what even happened?" she asks me, as I divert my eyes from her, unsure how to really tell her. Hell, I can't say that I am just fine either, she literally said my name normally, so...

"Can we sit down for a minute?"

"Of course! Come, we will sit on the sofa, and have your favorite spot on it..!" Touko says as we head to the living room and we sit down on the sofa, though she makes sure I am extra comfortable on it with an extra pillow at my side.

"Touko, there is no need to stress to fulfill my dumb special needs..."

"I know, but... I want you to be comfortable, Stephy..."

"I appreciate it so much though, Touko, you are the best ever..."

Touko smiles at me, most likely very happy from what I said, before she goes back to a more concerned expression.

"What happened really, Stephan?"

"This might sound... strange, but..." I begin as I recall why I stopped midway with cutting up the beetroots. "...the red color flowing out from the beets down the knife began reminding me of the people I have hurt... and killed..."

I can barely look at my beloved in her eyes, but I could still see how in absolute shock she is, covering her mouth with both her hands and her eyes tearing up.

"O-oh god, Stephan..! Do you mean..?"

"T-Touko..." I can just say as I lose it and just fall down on her lap and begin crying uncontrollably...

Touko lifts me up from my laying position, before she embraces me into a tight hug, trying her best to calm me down.

But I just keep on crying, not even my beloved Touko Kirigaya makes me able to calm down. I had too much guilt at this point that I had to let out all my feelings.

I'm so sorry Touko, I wanted this to be a completely normal day between you and me, but instead, I am suffering the consequenses of how damaged you get from killing people...

I just kept on crying like a baby, Touko holding me so close to her as possible, showering me with affection.

"I am here, Stephan, I am here..." she tells me as soon as I begin calming down some. "Ssh, ssh, it's okay... You are safe here with me, my angel..."

Gradually I begin calming down, coming back to my senses after crying so much. I soon hear Touko again, comforting me with her lovely as ever words.

"I'm sorry I suddenly broke down like this..."

"No, Stephy, there is no need to be sorry, especially because you did state your reason why." Touko tells me as we release a little on the hug to look at each other in the eye. "I am not surprised you have gotten affected by it all. And again, I am probably the worst ever partner for just letting you do something like that..."

"Touko, you are not the worst ever, at all. Don't say that, please." I reply to her as I caress her hair while I still sniff from all the tears, while she is caressing my cheek.

I feel like such a coward for getting affected by something like this, but I am just a human for god's sake. Why should I take the life of others even if they are psychopaths..?

"God, I just want this ranking bullshit to end or just having never happened in the first place..."

"I'm so mad myself that they targeted you out of all people to have your parents suddenly being abducted, dragging you into this!" Touko says as she for the first time genuinely looks extremely angry.

She is not messing around either, she really is fucking tired of the UAA as well at this point.

"Calm now, my love. At least they don't interfere with our normal daily lives, so we don't need to give a bat about them." I tell her as I hug her, hugging her so tightly to me, I love feeling her close to me...

"Aww, Stephy... You are so adorable, do you know that~?"

"Eh, how? I just love you so much, my wonderful beloved Touko..!"

"That's what I mean, barely any guy as far as I know tends to be so cuddly with their girlfriends, or well, fianceé in this case." Touko tells me as she begins having me lay down on the sofa, with her on top of me. "But you truly love me, and I truly love you back. So let us be true lovers until we grow old and beyond~"

"Yes..! I really want to marry Touko!" I say, joyful over thinking about the future I can have with her. After all, we have secretly gotten engaged with each other, so we already have our promise with each other in a way to marry one beautiful day.

"I really want to marry Stephy too~!" she replies as she grins before kissing me on my lips. "I will always be here for you, Stephy, just say the word~"

"You can depend on me as well, my beloved." I reply to her as I hug her, feeling happier and happier again. "I love you Touko, you are my everything..."

"And so are you to me..." she says as we two just end up cuddling for a while.

Afterwards, we decide to finish up with the rest of the food for the picnic, as we do want to head out and take our time with it before we later will head back and head up to Chiyu's penthouse for the pool party.

With the food wrapped up, we head down and head up to my bike.

"Man, I really should get myself a moped or something at least. Bicycles aren't too convenient when taking long trips like these." I tell Touko as I get on the bike and she sits down soon after behind me, holding one arm around me and the other holding onto the picnic basket.

"Ah well, off we go then!" I say as Touko giggles before I start pedaling.

We decided for a spot somewhat outside Shinjuku, just so we really can get some time for ourselves.

Stopping by a hill, I balance the bike with my legs as I let Touko get off first before I get off myself, kicking up the support for it, before we hold each other's hand and head up the hill.

Spreading out the blanket so we can sit on it, we sit on our knees on it as we begin taking out what we packed.

"Yum, meatball sandwich done with baguette bread! I love this sorta shit!" I exclaim as I take a big bite out of my sandwich, enjoying the ever so lovely taste of bread, beet salad and meatballs mixing in my mouth.

"Aww, it's so great that you are already cheering up~!"

"Eh? But Touko, you are the one who always cheer me up so much, you know."

Touko blushes and giggles upon my reply before taking a bite out of her sandwich as well.

"Oh wow..! This actually tastes great!" Touko says as she takes more bites out of it. "Aah, my sense are tingling..!"

"Wait, you mean this could be the next big thing?"

"Absolutely! It's just so great of it!" Touko says before taking more bites out of the baguette meatball sandwich. "Man, you really have great stuff over in Sweden~!"

"Heh, well, I am glad to share them with you." I reply to her as I take more bites out of my sandwich. "Kinda hard to find beets though honestly here..."

"Then let's do this a trend when we grow older and are married!" Touko says as I raise my eyebrows.

"Wait, like, starting a business?"

"Yes, the Klausch business!" Touko says as she is soon already done with her sandwich.

"Ah, think you forgot Kirigaya in there-"

"Nuhu, I didn't~" Touko says as she hugs onto me. "Touko Klausch, what do you think about that~?"

"I-I, uh..! Oh my, that..." I try replying, unsure what to even say.

I mean, duh, of course Touko would be getting my last name when we marry each other. But hearing it come out of her mouth just feels so strange, but yet very nice..!

"Well, for now I will be a Kirigaya. But once I marry the cutest person in the world, I will for sure be a Klausch~"

"Heh, perhaps Touko Kirigaya Klausch? Both the name that I got to know the light of my life by and a name signifying our wonderful future."

"Stephyyyy, stop being so cute..!" Touko says before she lays her lips against mine in a very fast manner, with it quickly turning into a passionate kiss...

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"Darn it, these two just keep on making me cry with all their fluffy love..!" Sothis says while she is sniffling.

"...Are you really sure I have to go out of my way to fight this kid?"

Sothis turns around, having almost forgotten about the other person that is present with her currently; Travis Touchdown.

"What, you suddenly doubting about doing your job?"

"No look here, little girl!" Travis replies as he gets up from where he was seated. "Kiddo's having the best time of his life, why should I run into him and suddenly challenge him?!"

"Weird to hear, coming from you." Sothis says as she crosses her arms while looking at the renowned assassin.

"Fuck it if it sounds weird or not! I am always up for challenges, but what do I even get out of this?"

Having said that, Travis takes a look around, trying to see if there is an exit available.

"...You will get to see Jeane and Hunter again." Sothis suddenly says, making Travis instantly turn to her.

"The hell do you think you are, involving yourself in family issues?!" he replies, anger fueling him.

"Well, looking a lot into you, you certainly would need to see your kids again soon enough."

"So you are throwing me into fighting a scarred kid just so I can see and talk with Jeane and Hunter again?" Travis says as he activates his beam katana. "The fuck kinda sick shit is it you are roping me into?!"

"Well, you won't be the only one I have set to challenge Stephan." Sothis says as she smirks.

"Is this your answer to the frequent failing of the 'Isekai' program? Throwing people from other worlds to fight off the people that has arrived to our worlds after their deaths?!" Travis asks Sothis as continues smirking at him.

"I can do whatever I want after all." she soon says as she begins laughing, louder and louder. "You won't come back home until you battle Stephan."

"Ever since your world got dormant, you have been a fucking pain in the ass." Travis berates her as he deactives his beam katana. "Fine then. But even if I lose, send me back!"

"No problem, I had fully in mind to send you back. I just want to test his strength really."

"Maniac." Travis solely replies to her as a doorway appears, which Travis enters.

Sothis looks again on the projection she has, seeing that Stephan and Touko are still under the tree, basking in the sunlight.

"I'm sorry Stephan, but I couldn't help it." Sothis says as she closes her eyes, before opening them again and turning around. "Ah, I have been waiting for you."

"You! You are interfering with my plans with this ridiculous invitation-!"

"Now, now, calm down. You will find a much better place to invade." Sothis says as she smiles at the new visitor. "Doesn't that sound good for your world domination plans, Zim~?"
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After having spent an hour or so under the tree on the hill, just more or less cuddling with each other, we decide to head back.

Though as we arrive back at my home, we just leave off the basket so we can go by Touko's home to fetch her bikini.

Then we head back to my home once again. Kinda a lot, but it works with me having a bike and all, heh~

"I will change in your bathroom if that's okay?" Touko asks as I nod, telling her it's all okay.

Admittedly, I wouldn't mind her changing in the same room as me, but at the same time, I can't force her to show herself naked to me by any means.

Touko decides herself if she want to show her body more to me or not, I have zero influence in such matters, and shouldn't have that either way. If I do, I would just be a manipulative jerk.

I put on my swim trousers, and also prepare a plastic bag with new and clean clothes, as of course I will be showering and all. I rather not be feeling dirty afterwards, feels disgusting to walk around like that.

As I walk out of my room, I see that Touko is done already, taking a few selfies with her wearing her bikini.

She immediately spots me and lays down her phone at a nearby table before skipping up to me.

"Oooh, Stephy, you look so nice in your swimming trousers~!" she says before striking a... very sexy pose in front of me. "Ta-da~! I went for designing my own bikini, do you like it? Hehe~!"

"I love it..!" I reply as a tent in my trousers quickly gets pitched. I look down on it as I raise my eyebrows from how fast that went as Touko giggles... before she decides to go for a hug on me..!

Holding onto the hug and making sure to press herself tight against my body, she soon let go and lays a big kiss on my cheek.

"Mmmwah! Alright, I will just fix some extra things before we head up, just a moment~!" she tells me as she heads inside the bathroom again for a moment while I'm still standing in place.

...Yeah, some of that definitely came out during the hug...

We soon head up to the penthouse, and are the first ones besides RAS to be there. But it isn't long until everyone starts coming in as well, packing up the rooftop very, very fast.

I look at everyone as I scratch my head while Chiyu comes up to me and Touko.

"God, are you really sure we all will be able to be here? There are more than 35+ people here, for heaven's sake!" I tell Chiyu as she just snickers.

"Perfect way to try out the capacity of the pool!" she replies as the other girls can be heard aweing at the massive pool Chiyu has up here. "Alright everyone, just go ahead and do your pool activities now! Snacks will be served soon!"

At her signal, almost everyone walks up to the pool and finds a suitable seat while some are already going into the pool at once after putting on sunscreen before coming here.

The keyword is "almost" with what I just observed, as Touko remains by my side, clinging onto me and anticipating what I will be doing.

"I kinda just want to relax before going into the water, are you okay with that?" I ask Touko, getting a nod and smile from her as she clings even harder on me. "Right, relax for a little while then it is."

Walking up to a pair of sun stools that conveniently are right next to each other, we sit and lay down next to each other as we see a lot of the band and DJ girls already enjoying themselves a lot.

"Ah, this is just so great..." I say loudly to myself, before I sit straight up again, realizing something. "Shoot, sunscreen-"

"Don't worry sweetie, I have some here~" Touko tells me as she digs around in her hand bag. "There we go, sunscreen! Oh, and I almost forgot these!"

As she hands me the sunscreen bottle, she also takes out some stuff such as diving googles and a lipstick.

"...Wait, why even taking with you some lipstick here..?" I ask her, as she just giggles.

"Well, it's a new one I bought, has a flavor and scent to it even! So when I kiss you, a scent of strawberry will come from those places~!"

"Strangely... detailed there, my love. But hey, I don't mind it."

"Perhaps we can sneak of somewhere inside Chiyu's place later to try it out~?" Touko says as she giggles and I can just blush.

"Well, for now the pool is what we are going to be at. I do look forward to seeing what snacks they will have though!" I say as I apply the sunscreen lotion to my arms and legs. "There we go, done."

"Nice! Oh yeah, Stephy, want to help me apply the sunscreen~?" Touko asks me as she looks at me with half lidded eyes while gently dragging her finger across her very smooth and fair skinned legs, dragging it all the way up to her thighs.

She soon lays the finger on her lower lip, still with a very seductive look smiling and winking at me...

My god, her legs are obvious from a lot of her outfits, but I still can't get over how amazing everything is about Touko.

"Ahem, yes, definitely!" I reply to her as I stand up and go up to her, kneeling down on one knee so I can easily grab onto her legs to apply the lotion on them.

"Don't worry about taking your time with the applying~" Touko tells me as she winks at me before giggling. Oh god, she knows...

Gently squeezing out a fair amount of lotion in my hand, I rub my hands together a little to even out the lotion, before laying my hands around Touko's left leg first.

Oh my god, it's so smooth..! The appearance isn't just smooth looking, it really is so smooth of it..!

As I begin first with going down her leg, I carefully make sure to rub in the lotion I have in my hands, all the way to her foot. I am by no means a person that looks at feet at some sexual thing, but Touko's are so smooth of them as well...

Finishing at the bottom of the leg, I soon go upwards, and soon around her thigh. It's so smooth, soft and squishy of it, no wonder I feel so relaxed when laying my head on her lap..!

After that, I repeat the process with her right leg, before I help with her arms as well, even if she said I really didn't need to if I didn't want to, but hell, I can do this all day!

"Oh, Stephy, almost forgot!" she says as she adjust the sun stool to be completely flat, before she turns around and lays down on her stomach. "I would need a little help with my back as well, it's hard to reach after all~"

As I look at Touko's body now from behind, I can just see more features I don't normally think looks sexy, but holy shit, she... she is so sexy all around..!

I accidentally squish the bottle too hard, making a lot of sun lotion squirt out of it while looking at Touko kicking her legs back and forth and soon undoing her bikini bra as well so I can more properly do it on her back.

"Yes, of course!" I simply reply, though in my mind, a very strong thought surges through:

As I apply the lotion, I amp up the pace I do it in, even deciding to sit down and be on top of Touko, all while she is still giggling from the cold but nice feeling lotion.

"Oh, your hands feels so nice going over my back, Stephy~" she tells me as I press myself even closer to her, which she responds with locking her legs around my waist.

"Touko..!" I say as I continue applying the last of the lotion in my hands.

"...Go for there as well if you want to~" she says to me in a teasing but yet inviting manner.

Not hesitating, I reach my hand around Touko, feeling a little on the side of her breast..!

...Oh my lord... Oh my god, so soft! S... S-s... SEEEEX-

"What in the world are you two doing..?!"

I get shocked and fall off Touko and the sun stool upon hearing that, with her quickly tying up her bra again as she looks just as shocked on who suddenly said that.

As I sit up from lightly hitting my head on the brick floor, I look at the one who caught us, and it's Chiyu... and literally everyone else looking at us as well, all shocked on what they saw us two doing.

"Uuh... I were just helping Touko put on sunscreen!" I say as Touko nods in response to my explanation, strenghtening my story.

"Well, alright..." Chiyu just says before she and everyone else goes back to doing their activities. Though I can spot that Kurumi, the DJ girl from Lyrical Lily, looks at me with a smug smile before going back to playing with her friends in the water.

"...Stephy, did you hit hard when you fell..?" Touko suddenly asks me as she sits up to inspect if I got an possible wounds from that.

"Oh no, I'm fine, Touko. I am worrying more if I accidentally hurt you anything while going at it..."

"I'm fully fine, Stephy!" she replies as she giggles while I feel relieved from the news. "Well, let's play in the water as well, or what do you say~?"

"Yeah sure, my beloved, let's do that." I reply as we soon get inside the pool, playing catch with the DJ girls.

"Alright, snacks are ready!" Chiyu says as almost everyone gets up from the pool, though we try grouping in so each band and unit has their turn to get some snacks.

I get grouped in with my beloved's band, Morfonica. When it's our turn, we go up and see all the goodies they have.

"Oooh, popcorn, potato chips, Oreos, chocolate chip cookies and even more!" I say as I with excitement look at all these options. "How much is one allowed to take?"

"We have three more batches of snacks as much as on this table, so don't hold back!" Chiyu says as I look back to the table with even greater excitement..!

Touko and her band mates are already done picking what they wanted, and my beloved tells me she will head back to our seats for now but also telling I can take my time with deciding before kissing me on my cheek.

Though while I'm deciding, Kurumi goes up to Touko and strikes a conversation with her while she is walking back to our seats.

"Hey, you have a very cute boyfriend!" Kurumi says as Touko giggles and nods in agreement.

"He's the cutest and sweetest cutiesweetiepie ever! I love him so much!" Touko chirps as Kurumi laughs, before smugly smiling again.

She says her goodbye to Touko for now as I catch up to my beloved with my large selection of snacks.

"I took so much, but it's all so good!" I say as Touko giggles at my enthusiasm before we arrive at our seats and sit at them.

While eating the snacks, we talk with each other about different things, both past and future stuff.

"Phew, I think I will go shower and such, I am feeling satisfied enough for today. You joining~?"

"Ah, I think I will finish up here for now, so probably not, sorry..."

"Haha, it's okay, darling~! But you know where to find me if you need me!" Touko replies as she does quick peck at my cheek before she collects some of her belongings and head inside the penthouse.

As I continue eating the snacks, I have one last chocolate chip cookie left. I grab onto it and look at it while licking my lips.

"I love these sorta cookies so much!"

But suddenly someone snatches it from me, which turns out to be Kurumi. What the, why is she stealing my cookie?!

"Hey, thief!" I yell out as I begin running after her.

"Catch me if you can!" she says as she continues running, with me tightly after her.

"What the, leave my friend alone and give him back his cookie!" Chiyu angrily says as she tries catching Kurumi as well, but accidentally slips and falls into the pool water. "No, water, help!"

I quickly jump into the pool and help Chiyu up before I am soon running after Kurumi again.

"Kurumi, come back with the cookie!" I loudly beg the prankster as I am still chasing her around the pool while the others try to also stop her, but to no avail.

She soons runs inside the penthouse and towards the bathrooms, which Touko is at, most likely having finished showering.

"Oh no, what are you planning-" but before I could say more, Kurumi quickly opened the door to the bathroom and ran to the side, while I still ran straight ahead. What kind of Looney Tunes shit is this..?!

"Into the lion's den! Watch out, the female might be in heat~" Kurumi says before giggling and closing the door, locking it from outside.

"You darn prankster-"

"Stephy, something going on?"

"AH!" I almost yell out before I turn around and see Touko, just with a towel around her body, just having finished showering. "Oh, no it's nothing- WAIT, WHY AREN'T YOU BOTHERED BY ME BEING IN HERE?!"

"E-eh? But Stephan, why would I be bothered, we are lovers!"

"Oh, true… But uh, maybe you want to have some peace. Even if we are together, I don't want to disturb my beloved-"

"Oh no, you aren't disturbing me in the slightest~" Touko says as she… suddenly opens her towel, showing everything on her body. Holy... shit..!

"Wait, no, don't tempt me like that, Touko! We are in someone else's house-!"

"Aww… But you are right." Touko says as she nods before wrapping the towel around herself again. "However, I guess we can do something else that you like~"

"Huh, what's that..?"

"Well, I did actually apply that lipstick I showed you earlier today, sooo~"

Without further ado, Touko reaches out her arms and puckers her lips as she starts going up to me, and not long after, grabs onto my arms, all while inching closer to my face with her lips.

Well, here we go again, but I ain't complaining~

Meanwhile outside, Kurumi is laying her ear to the door, before soon hearing loud giggling and kissing from within, which causes her to laugh loudly.

"You two are such horndogs, hahaha!"

After the pool party wraps up, we all feel pooped and decided to say our goodbyes. I take Touko home, as we all have school tomorrow after all.

"It was great today~" Touko says as I nod and smile at her.

"Yeah it really was." I say as I hug onto her. "I'll see you tomorrow, my love."

We share a kiss on the lips before we wave goodbye to each other, before we both see something fly over the sky and land further away from us.

"Huh, most likely space junk. Hope no one got hurt." I say as I smile an extra time at my beloved before I head back home.

As I come home, I lay down on my bed, thinking about everything that happened.

All from me breaking down, to having a great time with Touko Kirigaya, my beloved. I love Touko so damn much...

I soon bring up my phone, scrolling through my messages:

Touko: I NEED cock Stephy ;)

Kurumi: You should kill yourself, NOW (jk)

Chiyu: Thanks for helping me today... Love you, but as a friend of course

UAA: You know the drill.

I sigh at the last message, making a mental note that it's time again.

"Alright, you next upcoming assassin, whoever you are... I'll show you what I can go for to reach my goal!"

To be continued :P