"Salutations! Ladies and gentlemen it's the amazing Chouno Uryoko magic show!" I stop in my tracks to turn to who said that.

"Hey Saiki-kun look! A magic show!"

'Not interested, I can already see one of his tricks.'

"You're no fun! Come on, what ever happened your fun loving side!?" I grabbed his arm and dragged him into the crowd. 'I'll buy you some sweets later.'

'Fine.' My smile widen, knowing Kusuo-kun's weakness for sweets.

"Ah! A lovely couple joins the crowd! Excellent!" The magician exclaims when seeing us. I realize I'm still holding Kusuo-kun's arm, making us look closer than friends.

'We're not a couple.' The magician appears to ignore Kusuo-kun and bring out a box.

"As you can see this is a plain old empty box!" He opens the box to show nothing inside. "But once I do this..." He taps the box a couple of times, then opens the box to reveal a dozen doves flying out of the box. "Presto!"

"So cool! How did he do it!?" I cheered with the crowd.

'He-'

'You don't need to tell me Kusuo-kun, I know how. It's a simple trick, I feel bad for the poor birbs that were stuffed in there.'

'I feel bad for that pigeon in his hat, also "birbs"?'

'You know not to question my weird words.' I stick my tongue out at him, only receiving a blank look once again.

"You, boy! Wasn't that amazing!?" The magician exclaimed, pointing at my best friend. "Your girlfriend seems to think so!"

'It was not, also she's not my girlfriend.' The psychic blankly looked at him. 'More importantly I'm worried about that bird, it looks like it fainted.'

'Wait what!?' I try not to show my panic for the bird. 'Kusuo-kun! You have to help that poor birb!'

'Calm down, don't shout in my head.'

"Now for my main trick! Michael!" Soon a very dirty, obviously homeless, old man walked up to the magician. "With my lovely assistant, I shall teleport from one of these giant boxes to another!"

With that, the old man enters the box. The magician starting singing, before stopping after a minute. "Now I shall open the box!" He does, and Micheal came out from under the table. "Tadaa!"

No one spoke, the crowd started to walk away in disappointment and annoyance.

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"Why did you come out like that!? Geez!" The magician yelled at the old man.

"Well I'm sorry but it can't be helped, your timing was way too fast. Now where's my five hundred yen compensation for helping you?"

"Even if I wanted to, I can't! Because you messed up no one gave any tips!" The magician replied. I felt bad for ths old man, so I went to grab my coin purse but was interrupted by the magician noticing us. "Hm? Oh you're that couple from before."

"I'm sorry, but we aren't a couple."

"Oh my apologies." He then notices Kusuo-kun point towards his own head. "You want to tip? You don't have to worry about that!"

He removes his hat, "I would hate to take money from a kid-..." he then realized he had forgotten on his feathered friend. "PIKO!!"

After a little bit, the bird was back into conciousness and seemed healthy. "Thank you so much! I totally forgot I had her up there!"

'How do you forget you have a bird on your head?'

"But wait...how did you know she was in my hat?" Kusuo-kun stayed silent, before the magician seemed to have a revelation. "Oh! I know, you're a magician in training too! I bet your friend is your assistant as well no?"

'...sure, let's go with that.'

'What-'

'Roll with it.'

"I knew it! After all, these sorts of things happen sometimes." He then looks disappointed. "I see, I showed you something really pathetic huh? Maybe this isn't cut out for me."

At this point the magician told us about his life up until this point. I felt really bad now, I wanted to help while my friend just wanted to leave. Of course I bribed him to stay and listen. "Maybe I should go back to job hunting. Whoops that got gloomy for a second."

He the turns to us. "That's right! You two want to be magicians as well yeah? I can give you a few tips! I may be new as well but I can at least teach you something right?" I hear Kusuo-kun having a realization, telling me what he'll do.

He brought his school bag up so the magician could see it and pretend to do magic on. Once he was done he reached into the bag, and pulled out the homeless old man. I tried not to laugh at the blank face Kusuo-kun had like it wasn't a big deal to do something physically impossible. It didn't help that the magician had a very funny shock face.

"Impossible! H-how!?"

'I think you went overboard.'

'Oops.'

"Thank you. I my eyes have now been opened, comparing our skills is the difference of long hair and an eyelash." I was confused at the hair anagoly but felt hopeful for his future, hoping we'll make the right decision. "I'll give up on self-study! Please make me your disciple!"

Kusuo-kun just stood there in silence and shock, not expecting that. I didn't either actually. "Oh that's right!" I walked over to the old man and gave him a thousand yen. "Here! You need it right?"

"Thank you so much girl!" He was practically crying. "I'm gonna buy myself some soup!"

'Come on, you owe me.' I felt Kusuo-kun's hand grab my own and he began to drag me.

"Can be a bit nicer about it!"

"Wait! Please Master!"

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'My head hurts.'

"Oh! Are you okay? You need some pain killers?" I asked, looking through my school bag. I usually had some kind of pain reliever since I'm used to getting headaches from Kusuo-kun's telepathy. What usually happens is I have to reduce my "anti-psychicness" on my head so I can hear Kusuo-kun and he can hear me, not only does that put strain on my head but the telepathy can hurt after some time due to me not used it. 'More premonitions?

'No I don't need those, you do. Also yes it's that thing again.' I take my hand out of my bag and we continue walking, until a bird took a dump on my best friend's shoulder. He was quiet for a second before yelling in my head, 'THIS POWER IS TRASH!'

"Ow!" I whine quietly. "Geez, you trying to give me a headache?"

'Sorry.'

"It's fine." I say as I grab my handkerchief and cleaned the poop off his shoulder. "Let's just continue on." He nods and aports my dirty handkerchief for a clean one I keep at my house.

We pass by an old woman with a nice handbag. Kusuo-kun gets another premonition of someone appearing and looking at the old women's handbag, but he tells me he doesn't know the exact situation. The unknown person shows up and it turned out to be an old man seeing his wife again. The old man attempted to run to the lady before Nendou showed up out of nowhere and punched the guy in the face. Of course me and Kusuo-kun had to testify to police about the whole thing, Nendou mistaking the old man as a thief and such. Turns out the old woman wasn't the guy's wife and the old man mistook her as his wife.

"Thanks guys! You saved my back!"

"It was nothing Nendou-kun! Though, maybe you should've asset the situation before you acted?" I sweatdropped.

"Anyway!" Nendou-kun said, changing the subject. "What a coincidence! My two buddies walking home together?"

'What a pain, ow!' I quickly look at Kusuo-kun in worry, it seemed like this one hurt a lot more than the one's a few minutes ago.

"Saiki-kun! You okay?" I immediately went to grab my pain killers and a small bottle of water I keep with me. "Look just take this, please?" He tried to protest but ended up taking them anyway. He told me what he saw and we both agreed to stay with Nendou to prevent such a future.

A future of his death.

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"Yes! Another strike!" Nendou-kun brings his hand up for a high-five. I, of course, obliged him, Kusuo-kun on the other hand didn't.

'Come on! The guy might die today! At least be a good friend!' I shout at him in my thoughts.

'Might? He will, also I'm here because of that. Also he's not my friend, that's you.' I glare at him.

'Please! Just be nice and a good friend for his final moments!'

We continue on with our game of bowling with Nendou winning. We then ended up grabbing a bite to eat at a diner nearby. We ordered our food, in the mean time of waiting I was talking with Kusuo-kun via his telepathy.

'So far so good, what could cause his death? I know he's not the brightest, but to die? He's really tough, I don't understand.'

'It's gonna happen, I don't know how though...'

'Well we have to find a way! I'm not gonna let him die!' I wanted to slam my hands down on the table in front of me. But I restrained myself, I'll do anything in my power to help my friend!

'What you're saying is impossible for you.' I stare in shock at him, but then glared.

'Not for you! You're a really powerful psychic! I know you hate your powers but you can do so much with them! Just help Nendou-kun!'

'I never said I wasn't.'

'Huh?' My glare faded and I stared at him in confusion. All while Nendou-kun was downing his food like Kirby.

'If I don't help, it would cause too much attention to me. Not to mention you would bug me for the rest of my life.' I smiled, able to read inbetween the lines of his words.

'Thank you, Kusuo.'

"So, what did you think guys?"

"Huh?" We both looked at Nendou-kun in confusion.

"The date plan! Me and my date go bowling and we come here for grub! Sounds like a good date right?" That's when it dawned on us.

'Nendou/Nendou-kun has a date!?'

"Yeah that sounds like fun! It didn't dawn on me that you had a date!"

"What!? But I told ya earlier!" He exclaimed, causing me to be embarrassed for not listening at the time.

"Sorry, must've had something on my mind. But congrats! Who is she!? What's she like!?" Nendou-kun then tells me of this girl asking him out to a date.

'Not a chance in the universe.'

'Don't say that!' Then suddenly, Nendou-kun got a phone call. He answered, I couldn't hear the other end when he said the call got cut out.

"Oh? A text from her!" He read through the text before reacting. "What!? Tomorrow's date is cancelled! I won't be able to talk to her for awhile either..."

"It's fine Nendou-kun! Maybe when exams are done you two can go out!" I said, trying to cheer him up. But I was also hoping he would forget about her before exams end, Kusuo-kun had told me what her true intentions were and I was glad he helped his friend from a heartbreak. "Don't worry, I'm sure you'll find someone who loves you!"

"Thanks (L/n)." He then shows me the text that Kusuo-kun actually sent. "Look at how cute this text is!"

"So cute! Aww~" I cooed, teasing Kusuo-kun at the same time. 'Who knew you could write something so adorable~ Maybe if the situation comes up you can pretend to be my boyfriend when coming to America for my family gathering!~'

'Shut up.' I snickered to myself. We all walked together, Nendou-kun inviting us in his home.

"You got a lovely place Nendou-kun!" I complimented, looking around until I spot a picture. 'Kusuo-kun...' He looked to where I was looking at and realized what he actually saw.

"Oh? Ahh, right." Nendou-kun started, beginning to explain. "That's my pops, he died before I was born."

"Wow...you two really look alike!"

"Nah! Anyw-"

"I brought some tea!" A woman enters, what I presumed to be his mother. It was pretty easy to tell since he looks like his mom a lot too. "Oh? My, are these your friends!?"

"Don't come in without knocking!"

'The whole family looks alike huh?...'

'They seriously do...'