Wake Ari na Kanojo-tachi ch19: The Path That the Girls Have Chosen

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>>Flower Shop Himawari

>Good work today.
>Yeah!

>7pm...

>There's still some meat in the fridge...
>and there should be enough ingredients for side dishes.
>I'll put the laundry on,
>and then...

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>And then... I'll have to talk with Vivi about what comes next.

>Like what'll happen with the apartment,
>or Vivi's job...
>or where the cheap supermarkets are.

>...Aah.
>Honestly, Vivi... Is she gonna be okay on her own?

>Vivi and I
>are really gonna part ways.

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>...I wonder if Vivi will feel lonely...

>That confession... was meant to appeal to her
>but it probably didn't reach her...

>Well, not like it matters anymore anyway.

>Not to mention my body.

>I don't just make it more likely to be sunny.
>I emit energy from the sun itself...

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>That's probably the reason why Vivi's siblings backed off when we were in her world.

>It surely has a negative effect on a vampire's body...
>It's better that Vivi isn't together with someone like me.

>That's right.
>This is... for the best.

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>This is...

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>>Sakura Park

>...Ah.

>That's right. On that day...
>I cut through this park
>and found Vivi unconscious.

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>She was so cute that I fell in love at first sight...

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>...Vivi...?

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>...Kara.
>This park is where we first met, isn't it?

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>...Y'know,
>right now... I'm overflowing with all kinds of emotions.
>I have no idea how to put them all in order.

>But even if I don't know... I do have something that I want to tell you, Kara.
>So...
>...Don't.

>will you... hear me out?
>You can't do that, Vivi.
>Even though I've already made my decision...

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>you're gonna get my hopes up
>and make me waver.
>...Okay...

>...Hey, Kara...

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>You love me, don't you?

>Eh?
>Did she come all this way to say
>"I don't really feel that way~"
>The kind that couples have.
>That's what it is, right?
>and b-break my heart?
>Then the hopes I built up one page ago are... erm....
>Um...

>But I'm sorry.
>It seems
>I still don't understand that kinda stuff.

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>It's not... that I haven't felt love for something or anything.
>It's more that it doesn't really click for me...
>that anybody would love "someone like me".

>My parents and siblings have hated me ever since I was born...
>I could tell that my foster mother Doraia truly loved me,
>but I couldn't think to myself that I was worthy of that love.

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>That's why, when you said you "loved" me, Kara,
>I wondered if it was the same "love" I had for you, but...
>I felt that it wasn't the same

>O-Of course, I wasn't going to force you or anything...!
>And even if I was, that kinda thing...
>No longer matters now?

>Just because you're getting married to Rumilu-kun,
>you no longer have feelings of love for me?
>...!

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>Of course I do...!
>But...
>For the titan race... For my duty, I have to...

>...Yeah.
>You're doing this for the whole titan race, aren't you?

>I think that's for the best too.

>Because you love me... Because you love someone like me...
>I don't want you to do something
>like stay in this world with me.

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>...At least
>that's what the old me would've thought.

>...Eh...?
>...I wonder what's wrong with me?
>I...

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>Even though I know...
>that you should definitely return to your world...
>that nothing good can come out of staying with me...

>I don't...
>wanna be apart from you, Kara...

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>What should I do...?
>I hate the thought of Rumilu-kun taking you away...
>the thought that we can't live together anymore...

>Vivi...!

>...Vivi is probably...
>...Kara.

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>It's probably just as she said...
>My "love" and Vivi's "love" aren't the same.

>Deep in her heart, she thinks negatively about "love" directed towards her.

>The fact that Vivi
>is clashing against that with the "love" that she's feeling for me...
>makes me so happy.

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>The ways we've lived by since birth...
>Vivi, who's had to overcome difficulties.
>Me, who has gone with the flow.

>Which way is right
>is surely something only we can decide for ourselves.

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>...Vivi.
>?

>It would have to delay things for a little bit, but...
>I do have one proposal.