"No entry fee. Still can't get over it, any job I did feel useless now." I tell Touko as I eat some more of my chocolate cake.

We two decided to hang out a little today, not like we don't almost do that every day, but I needed to clear my mind to prepare myself for the two battles I will do today.

Yes, once again I am going for fighting two assassins in a row. I have gotten their names, which are Speed Buster and Bad Girl.

I will have to expect anything with these people by this point, I shouldn't be caught off-guard by what they come up with and all to fight others.

"Well, at least you can do this faster, right..?" Touko soon replies to what I said as I nod, but nonetheless look down. "Stephy..."

"T-Touko, don't worry, I am just... feeling heavy of me..." I tell her as I look up at her again, while smiling at her. "I of course want to get this over with as fast as possible too. So please don't fret, my love."

Touko smiles back at me as she giggles while blushing, looking back at me with that great look of intimacy she has begun having since me and her engaged in that sexual activity of ours the other day.

We didn't have, well, intercourse, but nevertheless we had something very intimate, making it still amazing nonetheless.

If just that made us more intimate, I can only imagine how it would feel after we actually do it one day...

Ah, I shouldn't be thinking about sex right now, gotta focus on what happens now... and on my beloved.

I look at Touko again, finding it impossible to tear my eyes of her at this point.

...This is the girl I want to grow old and have a happy family with...

No, focus on the present! The present is unpredictable right now with what I have become involved in, I've got to... relax myself with Touko...

She soon inches closer to me on the sofa, laying her head against my shoulder.

"Stephy, I think you are too relied up from all this. Take a moment and relax~!" she tells me as I hold her hand that she had laid upon my leg.

"Yeah, I am... But you know, with you I already feel more at peace, always."

She didn't say much else other than holding tighter onto me.

...There is no denying that I can't let go off Touko by this point, and I sure as hell think she won't do either with me.

It would be great to introduce her to my parents, they would love her personality as well, but I don't think they would be able to understand Japanese too much.

Luckily, I've helped Touko with a lot of English so she knows some words and sentences to use in case if we ever go out of country.

She has also wanted to learn Swedish, which I didn't mean to teach her, though it's definitely a difficult language compared to English.

But... even so she didn't give up; Even when she failed with some simple words, she kept on going.

I were able to give her as much time as she needed, rewarding her with a big hug every time she nailed a word very good, which motivated her a lot as she loves when I hug onto her as well.

One of the first sentences in Swedish she fully learnt was "I love you". That sentence has the letter ä in it once translated, but that didn't make her back down.

So now she tells me "I love you" in Swedish at times, though mostly when we are alone. But it still feels great hearing, as she after all learnt it just for my sake.

As I had all of these happenings in mind, we two keep on hugging onto each other, close as ever so I can feel her wonderful perfume she uses and the generic cologne I use.

Though she claims it smells fantastic and better than any other cologne out there. Well, even if it maybe is an exaggeration, I can't help but to love that praising~

"Want to make out~?"

"Oh, yeah sure~" I reply from Touko's sudden question as we soon do just that.

I just like taking it easy right now after all, and Touko makes everything feel much better overall.

"...Jag älskar dig, Touko..." I soon say to her after we let go of the kiss, with her giggling as she understands it after all.

More spending time afterwards before we eventually have to separate again, but then again, I will just be gone for a few hours like last time.

I am going to go home to Touko later after all to finally ask her parents if she can live with me. Not move right now, but after new year's at least, as we two have thought a lot about this decision, and we are going for it.

At home, I stretch myself, preparing myself to head to wherever I will be going.

"Ugh, wish I could've just hugged Touko some more before we headed home for now..." I say to myself as I sit down on the sofa before letting out a loud sigh.

I had a lot of confidence for the rankings when I first got involved in it all, but now? I feel nervous, and I just want to be with Touko...

I am attached to her, and so is she with me, it's hard to go through the days without being able to satisfy your addiction to a person.

Drugs is hard to let loose of addiction for, but manageable if you rehabilate early. But addiction or attachment to a person is harder, especially if you love them very much.

And well, I love Touko Kirigaya very, very much.

"Screw it, I can't sit around here forever and hold out on fighting!"

I get up and properly prepare myself, sending a message to Touko that I will be away now, so she knows where I am.

She is quick as usual to reply, wishing me luck, but also telling me to be careful. That I know I should be, but it's more than reassuring to have Touko tell me that.

Let's do this, I've got no time to lose..!

My first target for the day is Speed Buster, whom is located in the outskirts of Tokyo, so I need to take the bus there.

Goons suddenly attack me on the bus though, having expected me to come, but I fight them off with ease.

After a few more waves of goons running at me and getting killed as soon as they even approach me, I soon arrive at my stop.

Quickly getting off, I look around the place I ended up at before continuing on. I can't stand around too much, time is way too valuable right now.

As I go between the buildings, I suddenly hear an ear deafning sound, which I can only assume is the assassin I am searching for.

Arriving at the scene, I see another guy struggling- No wait, that's... Naozumi?!

"What the fuck are you doing here?!" I yell at him as the big laser he kept on reflecting soon dies down as he breaths out.

"Trying to come before you so I can be seen as the number one assassin in Japan!" he says as he grins at me. "I know I am supposed to murder your ass, but the CEO said I couldn't."

"Miu? Saying to not kill me? That's a new one." I reply as I shrug my shoulder before telling Naozumi to get out of here.

"Wha- Fuck are you on about, I will become number one, I were promised that I will be get all sorts of ladies to get laid with!" he replies to me as he holds onto his very regular looking katana. "Imagine! Hell, maybe even your bElOVeD stops being interested-"

My head went blank for a moment, before I soon found Naozumi in front of me, his pupils having shrunk from the sudden pain.

I had without warning run at him and stabbed him as soon as he mentioned Touko...

I immediately pull my beam katana out, it had luckily enough not hit too deep, but we both fall back, me from the shock and him from the pain.

I soon get up before going up to him and slapping him, but he can just still sit there, confused over what happened.

"Do not fucking ever mention Touko, you swine." I hiss at him before I soon hear something charge up, so I get out of the way.

It's the huge laser again, and within seconds, the light consumes Naozumi, a loud shriek coming out from him before immediately going quiet.

As it stops again, the result was... sort of expected but still shocking.

There, in front of me, Naozumi's lower part of his body that used to be remains, but the rest of him has disintegrated.

Naozumi is dead. Gone in a blink of the eye, all because he was too reckless.

Clenching my fist, I don't know how to feel about this, it went by so fast and I did not get any clearer answers how he ended up here... Soon shaking my head, I get myself together and head out from hiding again.

"I am coming for you!" I yell at the assassin as I can just her chuckling as she begins loading up the laser again.

"What did you say, young man?"

"I said; I AM COMING FOR YOU, BITCH!"

"Still can't hear you. Stupid men, always like this..."

"Yeah, yeah, death to all men. Look, are you ready to fight or what?" I yell at her as I see the massive laser cannon having fully deployed now.

"I am ready indeed, so come at me, if you can!"

"Oh, I will be able to for sure come up to you and claim my rank, you can bet on that!"

As I begin running towards Speed Buster, I can see that the cannon is charging up, so I head inside a nearby broken building to take cover until it has to recharge.

"Naozumi was able to hold it out by just reflecting it, so I guess I will take after him if I don't manage to get to cover in time." I tell myself as I just shake my head on the thought that I would in the end borrow a tactic from one of the worst persons I've ever met.

As the laser dies down for a moment, I run out again, and keep on running as it's a long way to go.

During the time, I repeat the process with hiding in buildings, but goons jumps at me in one of them. But I am quick to fend them off and throw them out into the active laser, disintergrating them like what happened to Naozumi.

"Huff, huff... I am so not used to having to do fights like this..!" I tell myself as I begin feeling tired from all the running, but I continue on, determined to finish this battle.

As I close in, I began realizing I haven't figured out how to stop her, so I look around the area for some thing, until I spot some electric poles lined up quite conveniently that might actually destroy the cannon if one of them falls on the barrel of it.

Taking cover again from the laser, I look to where the poles are, before I run out of hiding and towards the close by building that has the poles next to it.

I begin choping at the pole to have it fall into my wished direction, and it very well soon begins doing just that, hitting the other poles in a domino like fashion, before the final one gets hit and tilts over, landing hard onto the barrel of the cannon.

"What the-" Speed Buster says as I run out of the building and towards her, before stopping right in front of her, with my beam katana in hand pointing right at her.

-music end-

"Hope you didn't underestimate me too much."

"...Seems I quite did, but at the same time, not really." she replies to me as I lower my weapon, sorta curious what she means.

"Thought you would listen, you are more patient and valiant than you make yourself look when in battle." she tells me as she sighs. "I did my best, but you did better, that's just how it is."

"A lot of you aren't too sick of you to be honest-"

"No, no, don't think like that, young man. We are far more broken than you can imagine." Speed Buster tells me as she points at the area around us. "I destroyed all this, so I can't really say I am not sick in the head."

"...So I should just keep on going with no hesitation?"

"Yes, do that. It will be good for you to not think too much about sparing anyone." she tells me as she pats my back. "Cheer up now, you have your parents to rescue and someone to fight for to see her being the happiest ever after all."

...Touko...

"Yeah, that's true. Well, no other way to do this I suppose?" I ask her as she nods.

Without any other thoughts, I swing my beam katana at her, decapitating her as her body immediately falls down onto the ground, her head rolling across the ground for a short bit before stopping, luckily so I didn't need to see her lifeless expression.

"No use waiting around here, time to get it over with my last ranking battle for today." I say to myself as I sprint back to the bus stop to expect the next arriving bus.

The next target is back at the stadium again, which has been awhile since I fought Dr. Peace here.

Looking around the stadium, it's more quiet than usual, and no one is here either it seems.

Entering it, I navigate myself out on the field, before the speakers turns on, and music begins playing out from them.

"Another song number? What is this, a Disney movie?"

"Nah, more like a Dreamworks movie." I suddenly hear someone oddly familiar voice say, and as I turn to them...

"Travis?!"

"Sorry for leaving you on an empty note last time. Had to rush, you see." he tells me as I just look at him. "Look, I know you are not trusting me at all currently considering that I literally said in your face that I had to kill you."

"You got that damn right." I reply to him as he cracks his knuckles.

"I came back here because I realized that you were going to fight someone that I know very well in my own world." Travis tells me as he shakes his head. "...I am not letting you kill Charlotte. So the one whom sent you here did some last second modifying, so you are now at rank 91."

"What the? But I had prepared myself this whole day, and I had told my beloved I would be gone for some time-"

"Chill man, you will still get to fight a little." Travis soon tells me as he deploys his own beam katana.

"So you mean an actual fight between us two this time?" I ask him as he smirks, his sly eyes also being visible despite his sunglasses.

"I just want to see what you can go for, and I won't hold back." he tells me as he points his beam katana at me as I deploy mine as well at last.

"I don't even know what the hell is going here, but alright, if you damn say so!"

"START THE GAME!"

I had no idea what to expect from Travis, but I nevertheless begin engaging in a battle against him.

As I try distancing myself to soon run at him, he pushes me back with some kind of force from a glove like item on his left hand.

"What the, what kind of powers do you have..?!" I ask him as he wordlessly swings his beam katana.

"I've been to places you wouldn't believe-"

"No time to make movie references, just go!" I yell at him as we finally begin clashing, but he is very good of him, way better than what I could ever possibly achieve.

He even goes for drop kicking me while we are clashing, making me fly back fron the force.

His glove gives him a ton of powers, and I am next to nothing compared to him.

Every time we lock our blades, he wins the clash every time, he is just too strong...

I continue on either way with clashing with him, but he keeps on overpowering me no matter what.

"Even if I am clearly better than you, you still aren't giving up. That's admirable honestly, but nothing I can look up, sorry."

He manages to hit me several times while I barely manage to hold my ground, and as we engage into a intense duel with our beam katanas, we hit hard against each other's blades.

It really feels like I am a Jedi or something from being so extreme with my sword clashing, but Travis prevails with his own strenght and powers.

"D-damn it..!" I tell to myself as I get up, feeling more and more weak, but... I keep on going.

Travis runs at me and drop kicks me again, making me fly back once again as I land flat on the ground.

Trying to stand up again, I soon feel that my legs are giving after, so my swings gets more lazy of them, before Travis just does a single kick in my stomach, making me fall back from all the lost energy...

-music end-

Weak and bruised up from getting so beaten up by my unexpectedly strong foe, I finally give up and break down crying...

Travis silently stands in front of the collapsed and weeping little me, while looking at me with a blank expression.

"I can't, I can't..!" I utter out, feeling like a loser over crying for losing, but... had I lost in normal cases, I would have to be killed.

But Travis is apparently out for my head, so guess there is not much I can do now when I am in such a weak state.

"What are you crying for, man? I am not going to kill you, you know." he suddenly tells me as I with surprise look up at him.

"Wait, you're... not..?"

"Just wanted to get you into a fighting spirit, and honestly, you're good. Was just a little unfair due to my Death Glove." Travis says as he shakes his hand with glove on before looking at me again. "So get up, I've seen what you are capable of enough now."

"Thank you, Travis..." I say as he reaches out his hand and let's me grab onto it before I get help to stand up again.

"You have someone to come back to, so I refuse even more to kill you out of the blue." Travis says as he fiddles around in his pockets before handing me what looks like the hilt of a katana.

"I saw that you use the first prototype of the Tsubaki, so consider this a hand me down; It's the final version of it, for your information." he tells me as I grab onto it and look at it.

"I appreciate it, thank you, again, truly..." I tell him as he slightly smiles before shaking his head.

"It will help you a lot because the current one you have is kinda shit, so you will for sure perform better with this one." he replies before turning around. "This is the last time we are seeing each other, but good luck for anything happening in the future. You will need all the luck you can have."

I remain on place as Travis walks away and exits the stadium, while I am looking at my brand new beam katana, that literally looks like a katana this time.

Sighing, I realize I am done for the day with fighting, so I decide first to head home to treat my wounds a little before I go over to Touko's home so me and her can talk with her parents regarding if she can move in with me in my apartment.

Even if I know her father is very chill with me, and her mother as well at this point, Touko is still their daughter, and having her live somewhere else already now, I don't think parents are too keen on that.

I arrive at the kimono shop soon with my usual casual outfit I use during colder periods, and there she is, waiting.

"Touko..." I say as I go up to her, reaching my arms out, which she does the same, preparing for the hug.

"I am sorry Stephy if you didn't have any time to rest after that..." she responds as I shake my head.

"No need, you have already made me regain the strength I wanted, my sweet angel." I tell her as we without any other words engage in a passionate kiss once again, which is no surprise at this point that we do.

"Ah, I were wondering where you two were!" Touko's dad says as he comes up to us, before spotting us making out. "Oh my, oh my, so this is how you kiss a lot of the times, eh?"

"D-dad, I know it's a little-"

"Touko, I didn't say you can't kiss your boyfriend like that now, did I?" her dad responds as she is blushing before hugging onto me again and kissing me on my cheek, while I just sigh from feeling so over the moon from my beloved kissing me so much.

"Alright, come in when you are done! I would like to hear what's up currently." Mr. Kirigaya says as he soon heads inside.

As Touko feels content herself, we head inside, holding each other's hand. We head up to her parents and soon sit down with them.

"Alright, so we are going to be a little more serious here this time, as I have heard what this regards." Mr. Kirigaya says as me and Touko continues holding onto each other's hand, somewhat nervous.

"I do quite agree. Stephan, I trust you with my daughter, but to fully have her live with you, it's another story." Mrs. Kirigaya replies as her husband nods.

"But considering how close you two are, heck, closer than most couples, I would say it's not too far fetched to let our daughter be with you."

"I will protect Touko to the fullest if she begins living with me. Your daughter is my universe, so I would be happy if she really did get to live at my apartment, and have each other close."

Both Mr. and Mrs. Kirigaya are quiet, before they soon smile and nods.

"Then it is decided." Mr. Kirigaya tells me as we all stand up and he lays a hand on my shoulder. "She will get to live with you. Touko loves you and you love her, so it's only fair."

"Thank you mom and dad, you are the best!" Touko says as she hugs her parents before soon embracing me into a tight hug. "I will be able to be with my Stephy so much more!"

"And I will be able to be with my Touko much more than before." I reply as we continue embracing each other, before soon letting go.

"Hey, mom, dad, can Stephy stay over here a little, pleeease~?"

"No need to ask, he is always welcome here!" Mrs. Kirigaya says as Touko chirps almost as she is overjoyed from everything having just been decided.

Though before me and Touko heads to the living room, her dad stops me for a bit.

"Sorry for disturbing, but one thing I failed to mention is how in general great you are honestly." he says as he is looking at me and chuckling. "Yeah, you continuing the Kirigaya bloodline with my daughter will be great for sure~"

"Sasuke, that is way too perverted to tell him!" Mrs. Kirigaya scolds her husband as she just shakes her head before looking at me. "I know you are able to take things at a good pace, so don't listen to what my husband is saying..."

Well, I mean, I want to bang Touko and she really does desire to get banged by me, so he isn't too far off-

Either way, I soon turn around and head to living room to spend the rest of the day with Touko, not needing to keep my mind on other stuff for now.

Only have brainrot for my one and only beloved Touko Kirigaya~

To be continued.