Kiana and the other headed into the town, they weren't standing out to be strange to the locals here as there are many people who wearing strange clothes too.

"Welcome to the Dragon Claws town, were you beautiful girls just arrived?" - An old lady standing in front of a house greets them, as she sits on a chair while staring at people walking on the street.

"Yes, we just arrived to this town. Mind if I ask-" - Theresa greets the old lady.

"Oh, cute little child, want some sweets?" - The old lady greets Theresa with a smile, then grab a bottle on the table with some candies.

"Eh.. Excuse me but I am not a child.. I am more than 40 years old..." - Theresa saying.

"Uhm... Actually we are new to this town..." - Bronya steps out and saying, getting the old lady's attention. "We are kinda strange to this place.."

"Oh I see I see... It must have been a long way to get here.. So, visitors, you came here for something?" - The old lady asking.

"No not really... we came here for nothing... Uhm.. It's, hard to say." - Theresa saying, but she don't know what to say next.

"We are wandering around from town to town, this is the first time we've get here, we wanted to explore the world." - Bronya steps up and say for Theresa.

"Ah I see I see. Welcome to this town then, young travelers." - The old lady greets them with a smile again, leaving the girls kinda awkward to act.

"Anyways... We are wondering why are there so many travelers around here? I know it's freely to be a traveler but.." - Kiana asking the old lady while looking around as she sees not just a group of travelers, but a crowd of travelers at the entrance going inside. "Why are there too many? Is this town having some trouble?"

"Not really... This town became famous recently all thanks to someone.. Ever since, everyday there are guests coming to this poor, small town once forgotten on the map, we eventually became a bigger town, more richer and powerful than before."

"..."

"And what did the person do?"

"She's the world's greatest cook... I haven't tasted food from other towns yet, but to me... every spoon of soup, or noodles, or rice is a spoonful of heaven's blessing to this mortal world... She is like a goddess... " - The old lady reaches for a handkerchief, wiping her tears came out from her eyes when she remembers the taste of the food.

'That is definitely Mei, what do you guys think?' - Kiana.

'Hard to tell, But Mei nee's cooking skill is something not anyone can take on with, she simply outclassed every cook in our world.' - Bronya.

'I think that's Mei for sure... The best way to describe her is a kind girl with God's cooking skills.' - Theresa.

"The story is a little bit weird I know, I mean it is not that convincing when people from everywhere come to this place just to enjoy food... Hahaha." - The old lady laughing. "But you should give it a try, experience it yourself is hundred times better than listening."

"Hmm...."

Later, Kiana and Bronya along with Theresa went to the restaurant that the old lady gave directions to, there are really, alot of people inside right now, all tables are full, there are people enjoying their meals while sitting on the floor or standing, that just shows how much they are willing to enjoy the food, no matter they have to sit or stand.

"Damn..." - Theresa looked around in a corner and sees people are getting in line. "We should get in line tho.... Or we will have to wait like an hour or more..."

"Wait, we don't need to check if this kind of coin is useable here? Now i'm getting nervous." - Kiana saying.

"Principal Theresa, our main duty is to buy food, although this isn't bad but I doubt there will be time for this." - Bronya saying as Theresa is getting into the line.

"No choice then, Bratnya, you get in that line with her, remember to keep a spot for me, I will go around and check if we can use these, and I'll buy some food too." - Kiana saying as she rushes around the market.

Bronya looked at Kiana running away, and getting in line with Theresa. Kiana running around, looking for some food and food ingredients, gladly, the coins she has been carried is this place's currency as well, so quickly she bought some baskets of food, and there's around 30 coins left in the bag.

"Hah...." - She seems happy knowing she will no longer have cabbage for dinner, also while running to buy stuffs she almost vomit because she saw cabbages.

After running around a little she seems to be lost, she doesn't remember where did she came from, there's too many people in this little town, and Kiana can't get the clear view. She went to some empty roads, and starting to seek for the restaurant. She went to a road at the back of the restaurant, she realized it when she smells the cooking coming out from the backyard, it seems that they are cooking outside.

'So this is where they cook.. outdoor huh, reminds me of those days having party outside....'

Kiana take a peek out of curiosity, she only sees lots of pots around with some girls cooking there, Kiana looked all the girls, there's no one she has familiar feeling with. She almost gave up on meeting Mei, or another Mei, not the one she used to know. Right when she turned away, a familiar voice showed up from the gates right behind her.

"Kiana?" - The voice called for her, to Kiana, hearing this voice again was just a dream, until a few moments ago, but now she is hearing it. "Kiana? What are you doing there?"

Kiana slowly turning back, only to looked at the person who called her surprisingly, it is Mei, she is carrying a few sacks on her hands, who is also looking at Kiana in a surprised way.

"You're planning to slack off again? Wait what are those things?" - Mei comes up to Kiana, shakes her and noticed those big bags of groceries that she is carrying. "You just bought them?"

Kiana looked so surprised so she couldn't even speak a word, it has been so long since she wanted to meet Mei again, which she thought can be only happen in a dream, but now, Mei is placing her hand on her shoulder, this is not a dream.

Kiana wanted to hug her tightly, saying how much she missed her, and how meaningless her life has become without her, but Mei grabbed her hand and drag her inside, through the gates.

"Give us a hand in cooking, Kiana. We do not have enough girls to cook them all." - Mei telling her.

(Oh god only if she knows...... Oops spoiler)

"Eh" - Kiana confused for a second, later she was standing there in front of a stone table has a cutting board on it and some tools for cooking, with some girls handing her the ingredients.

"Okay Kiana, do your thing."

"The... Thing?" - Kiana asked them.

"Yeah, the thing you always done. Your delicious meal? Today is something random right?"

"Oh nyo." - Kiana thought in her mind, and then slowly move her hands around, taking the ingredients and starts doing something. "I am so done."

"Here, let me help you, I am also in charge of decorating the dish." - Mei comes up beside her, and helping her. "Move your hands Kiana, we're not playing around."

"Uh, mhm." - Although this is kinda a terrible situation for Kiana to be in, but she still finds peace beside Mei. She remembered those times when Mei teach her at cooking in the Hyperion's kitchen, she almost burned the ship down for a few times, but after all at the end of the day, everyone just smiles.

Kiana looks at her movements while cooking, they are all so familiar, even her personality is like the Mei she used to know. But even so, she is not. Only Kiana, it is hard to describe, she remembers everything both her and Mei went through together, but this Mei is just not the same one she knew. This Kiana, is just from another world, meanwhile this Mei have no aware of it. It is like your soulmate forgot everything, but this is different and harder to resolve.

Still feeling love raising for Mei, but Kiana herself cannot do anything for her, she is afraid that doing anything stupid right now, can just repeat the same story, or the Kiana of this world have to take it all.

"Kiana? Are you alright?"

Thanks to Mei calling her, Kiana was able to get out of her thoughts. The two looking at each other. "Uhm yeah, I am alright, Mei." - She wanted to call her 'Senpai' again, but she stopped at the very moment her tongue moved for it.

Nearly 10 minutes later, Theresa and Bronya finally managed to set their foot inside the big restaurant, there are lots of people inside, luckily they managed to get a table for themselves, and saving a seat for Kiana.

A girl handing them the menu, she works here at the restaurant. "What would you like to order, young girls?" Said the girl greeting the guests with a smile.

"Young? She is younger than me." - Thought the girl in her late 40, 'disguised' as a cute little girl.

"Principal, take a look at this." - Bronya showing Theresa something in the menu, her finger pointed at the 'Special Dish, Supa delicious'. "This could be..."

"Still too soon to confirm, we have to take a direct taste. Sorry, we would like to order this for 2 persons, make it three, Kiana will come here soon." - Theresa telling the waitress.

"Anything else you wanna get?" - The waitress asked.

"No, that is fine, if we need anything else we will tell you later."

"Okay." - The waitress bows then goes away. Another waitress came, put two tea cups on the table, pouring some green tea inside.

Theresa reaches the cup, and take a sip.

"mmm.. good tea.... Even though I prefer Rita's bitter juice... But I wonder if it is really Mei's cooking." - Theresa putting a palm on her chin.

"I am also wondering, where did Kiana ran off to?" - Bronya asked.

"Probably wandering somewhere again, or she could be taking stuffs back to the ship."

Theresa just finished her line, Bronya looked seriously, making Theresa confused. "What's wrong?" She asked.

"Principal... I just remembered... Kiana idiotka... was the one keep all the money the Captain gave us." - Bronya saying.

Theresa realized it and shocked for a moment. "Oh no... this is... bad."

"What now...? I am afraid she won't make it here."

"Guess we only have one option then... Leave before-" - Theresa standing up, but before she can do anything further the waitress came back with two dishes of mixed salad with something.

"Haii! This is your orders!" - The girl placed them down on the table, in front both Theresa and Bronya.

"Uhm... Actually we are curr-" - Theresa was about to continue, but the waitress stopped her, and helping her to sit down.

"Shh... Cute girl. Take a taste. Don't worry about the disturbance from the annoying customers like those old, drunk, bald uncles drinking in the corner, if they annoy you, our special security team protecting this restaurant will take care of it. Also they will catch those who leave without paying." - The waitress saying.

"Oh no." - Theresa thought, she cannot say anything else to the heart-warming service of the waitress. She take a look over to Bronya, asking for help through eye contact. But Bronya can't do anything in the situation either, she gave up.

"Ahhh!!!!!!! Someone has collapsed to the floor!!" - A woman screaming in the restaurant, as everyone turn their attention to her, people see her shaking an adult man, who have bubbles coming out from his mouth as he was poisoned. On the table, it seems the man just tasted the special meal the waitress also served to Theresa and Bronya.

"Eh." - Theresa. "Don't tell me........."

To the back of the restaurants, where all the cookers are currently at.

"Hey! This is bad! One of our customers has been poisoned! He ate the special meal!" - One of the waitress came and telling.

"Eh."

Meanwhile, Kiana <------ ( The #1 suspect ) is shivering while holding the big wooden spoon, she is also sweating a lot, knowing this would come one day, her food's poisonous will be lethal enough to knock people out. Although the Kaslana's cooking is already capable of it.

A hand reached for her shoulder, pulled her into the building in a quick succession that no one saw what happened.

"Hmn? Where did Kiana go?"

"Toilet?"

In a storage room, which used to store some cooking tools, two girls breathing heavily inside there, with Kiana inside as well. They are Theresa and Bronya.

"I knew it." - Theresa looking to Kiana. "I thought it was this world's Kiana... but thanks to Bronya checking the names of the cooker in the menu, there is no way a restaurant will be stupid enough to put a Kaslana in charge of cooking."

"You almost killed someone, Idiotka. Luckily he is still alive by somehow."

"Anyways did you bought the stuffs??"

"Yeah, the stuffs, in the backyard near the crates, hopefully still in one piece." - Kiana saying and pointing outside.

"Okay, we're leaving now." - Theresa saying. "Main objective completed anyways."

"Eh?"

"Our only mission given by the Captain is buying food, anything else that could cause danger to the three of us must be avoided at all cost, besides, we don't belong here." - Theresa peeking outside. "We will take the bags, then using the chaotic happening inside the restaurant to escape before things calm down."

"Agree, Principal." - Bronya saying.

"..." - Only Kiana seems not happy with her decision. She don't want to leave this place so easily, even it was only mistaken, but this world's Mei interacted with her. "Principal... Actually.."

Don't know if it was Theresa and Bronya for knowing Kiana too well, or these two could read her mind, they know what Kiana was about to say, that's why they stopped her from talking.

"Don't worry Kiana, after things settle down, I might ask Captain for letting you coming here again, there is a 'Mei" here, right?" - Theresa looked back to her naughty niece, who has been guessed right through her heart, and is also really surprised.

"For the meantime, let's just get out of here." - Bronya pushes the door gently, and rushed outside, followed behind is Theresa and Kiana, retrieving the bags of groceries, and blend in the crowd gathered up to the gates in the back of the restaurant.

"Will they be alright, I wonder, since this is my fault..."

"Don't worry, there seem to be not any corrupted authority around here, so they will likely not getting any trouble, and I think there has been some cases like this in the past so yeah." - Theresa saying while running behind Bronya, who rushes ahead, straight to the main gate of the village.

"Keep running! We are going to get out of here! Principal! Kiana!" – Bronya saying to the other two running behind her, Theresa looks forward and keep running, while Kiana sometimes turn her head around, looking back to the mess she caused.

She is thinking while running, should she be taking responsible for the things she made? Instead of just let Kiana of this world taking all the responsible? There are too many things she thinks of, but the thing she thinks of most, is Mei's warm touch on her hand from earlier, she lost her Mei, and yet she have to leave her again, probably cannot meet her again in near future.

Even when she got back to the ship, she still cannot stop thinking about it, when everyone got on the ship, Bronya close the portal as Einstein's instruction, the trip for food, was successful. That evening according to the clock again, everyone was happily making new dishes and enjoying it, ever since they left their homeworld, this is the first time they can eat some vegetables, some meats, and more other things that are commonly served on mealtimes. They are grateful for being able to eat something new right now, up to their final bite.

However, while everyone is happy, because of the meals, also for the successful mission of the Three, which, can be seen as a small task, but yet, to the people on Hyperion, it was something great, there is Kiana, who is not as happy as everyone else expected, she didn't try to get some other's extra meals, she didn't said it was delicious, or overreacting about the food, she seems neutral, nothing different from her eating cabbages everyday.

The Captain and Einstein, feel strange, they went over and ask Theresa and Bronya about what happened yesterday, they learned that Kiana met Mei in that world today, they felt pity for Kiana, all of everyone else on the ship, she suffered the most when she lost Mei, to make it worst, she witnessed her sacrifice with her own eyes. Even some people on the Hyperion stopped her from suiciding, and it took weeks with Einstein to cheer her up mentally, now The Captain is afraid of her doing something stupid again, but he is thinking hard, finding a way to make things out, but it's hard for him.

That is until Rita came in and asked about what happened and fully understood everything, she gave a suggestion.

Keep a connection with that world, and sending Kiana with someone else to buy food groceries, for a long time to cheer Kiana up as a solution.

The Captain and Theresa agreed on it, Bronya and Einstein said it would only be a temporary solution to it, if Kiana grew to love Mei again, she would do something else out of their control like the food poisoning happened today, asking someone else to go with her can't fully prevent it.

Meanwhile, Kiana just gone to that world again without letting anyone know, she missed Mei, by a lot, she cannot bear letting her go away from herself again, she ran pass the old lady's house from earlier, and running to that restaurant, luckily it's still open, but there are not many people inside, only a few customers, and some restaurant's waitresses chit-chatting.

End of : One Sided Love, Also One Sided Memory Part 1

Sooooooo yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh sorry if this took months to upload since I... well, can't say I'm lazy! I also work on something else such as... uhm..

Yeahh yeahh some other parts are gonna to be published like in a few minutes, or published at the same time as this, idk. But yeah.

Also in this arc I will have to use a lighter tone for storytelling since there is not much seriousness or post apocalypse world in this world so yeah.