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This is one strange friendship, although to be fair the two of them aren't exactly your average girls.

"Well...okay. If you say so." Now that he thinks about it, he'd probably have get used to not having Shiho's attention and affection all the time. Kaoru and the rest of her friends would be around, probably eager to see her and she them, not to mention there's the whole being a fugitive thing.

"I suppose, when we get to your world, I'd have to meet your parents one day." He smiles. "I'm not gonna need a kevlar vest right?" Her dad is the commissioner and if he finds out that he did more than just think of doing something 'funny' with his daughter, he may just suddenly be on Tokyo's most wanted list. The top.

It's definitely strange, but it's very precious to Shiho all the same. After all, if Kaoru can love her despite her terrible personality, she can definitely love her best friend despite her strangeness!

Besides, in the grand scheme of things, Kaoru wasn't even the strangest one so he'd have a lot to learn and she's already decided to be there as much as she can. He might not have all her attention and affection, but at the same time he'll get attention and affection she'd never show to anyone else.

"You won't need it. Papa is actually really reasonable despite how he might look."

Also Shiho would be extremely angry at her dad if he threatened her fiance. Even if she herself can't help but blush a little as she thinks about it. They'd definitely have to keep what they'd already done a secret.

"Well, if you say so." He still thinks he should be prepared. He has seen all the overprotective habits of one mister Kimura when it came to his teenage daughter and still sincerely believes that to be the standard of dads to their daughters.

He took one more look around their apartment, smiling but a touch of melancholy in his eyes. "I guess this is it, huh?" It was more than just moving out, for him it was more. It was leaving behind his world and heading in a future filled with more uncertainty than even Prismatica could offer. It was scary and anxiety inducing, or at least it would be if Shiho wasn't there to hold him together.

"W-....We'll be okay, right?" He asks, smiling but still a touch anxious and afraid but excited for tomorrow.4

The overprotective ones he really has to worry about are probably Kaoru and Aoi, honestly. Her dad would never be able to beat her best friends to Sam if he ever did something to make Shiho cry.

She sees the apartment through his eyes, their beginnings, their memories as well as his worries for the future and in reply she gently leans into him, holding him together to the best of her ability.

"...Yeah."

A hand comes up to touch his cheek as she smiles up at him with bright eyes, "...I can't promise that nothing will be scary, and that we won't have ups and downs but I can promise that I'll be there and that we'll get through it together. Okay?"

He put a hand a top hers, leaning into her palm with a soft sigh and finding the small comfort her touch brings. There is no promise that things won't be difficult, there is no certainty that it'll be smooth sailing from here, but her words and promise were more than enough for him.

"And that's all I'll ever need." He's never believed in gods or divine beings of any kind, but he can't help but wonder if Shiho suddenly appearing on his path was the work of a god and if he'll ever get the chance to thank them.

Shiho moves her hand just enough to link their fingers together.

"Good." She doesn't really believe in divine beings either, all she really believes in is herself and her friends. And now, in him, too. Smiling she leans in to kiss him again, "...Take care of me, okay? The future Mister Sannomiya-Mercer."

He holds her hand tightly, his chest swelling with so much love and happiness that he could just burst at the seam.

Her kiss is sweet, gentle and warm. This is, truly, peace.

"Yeah. Now and forevermore. This small life, will give everything to make you happy."

Shiho knows there's definitely going to be a lot of paperwork, convincing PANDRA to take him in, convincing Hyoubu not to be a giant brat about it all, getting him situated in her world, the two of them starting on a new life together that would hopefully result in something like what they had in that vision of 10 years into the future.

And hey, without whatever Prismatica had done to their bodies here... maybe that would one day mean some little Sannomiya-Mercers running around. She smiles and kisses him again.

"And me too... I will give everything to make you happy too. Through sickness and through health, with every beat of my heart."

Is she all but giving him wedding vows right now? Yes, yes she is.

"Hey, hey, save some of that for the ceremony!"

He says with a chuckle and a gleeful smile. Between the two of them, he can't tell who's more eager to marry.

He knows there's going to be many challenges when they arrive but he's more than willing to face all of then head-on for her, bratty old men included. Nothing will stop him from giving her a life greater than that fantasy, especially if that life meant the one thing missing from that dream comes true - the one thing that would have made it perfect. A child.

He picks up the bags, smiling eagerly. "Shall we? I'm sure you're dying to see Kaoru."

Shiho laughs, tucking herself closer to him, "That won't be for a while yet though?"

But she likes the idea of a better life even than what they'd been shown in a dream. This one would be real. Her grip on his arm tightens a tiny bit as he holds onto the bags.

"That, too. But there's also Aoi-chan, you know. And I'm also dying to introduce you to them as my fiancee."

There was going to be a lot of explaining to do and probably interviews with Shiho's family, all four of them from her biological one, to her PANDRA one, to Minamoto, to her BABEL family when they finally stopped being brainwashed.

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