( Chisaki's POV )
After Arata welcomed me, the girls who gave me that strange talk at school appeared behind Arata.
I looked at Sun, but unlike before, she was very happy to see me and immediately grabbed my hand.
Sun: Welcome Chisaki, I'm delighted that you could join us.
I was surprised by the genuine welcome and before I could recover from the shock, she took me to the second floor and started helping me unpack.
Chisaki: ...You're not going to tell me I should leave this place, are you?
There was silence in the room while we were unpacking, and I thought about questioning the drastic change in her behavior, Sun didn't take offense at what I said and, without her smile leaving her face, she answered my question.
Sun: I wanted to test if you really had feelings for Arata. The truth is, I resented you when I was forced to keep my distance from Arata and you could always be with him, If you had given a negative answer, I would have done everything in my power to keep you away from him, but now I'm happy that Arata had someone like you while he grew up.
Chisaki: Okay... Thanks for the honesty.
The rest of the girls came into my room soon after and with their help we finished quickly, then all that was left was the box my mother had given me.
I opened that box out of curiosity, and when I saw the contents, I let out an involuntary scream.
Chisaki: Kyaaah!!
The contents of the box were a collection of erotic outfits and sexy lingerie; the girls approached curiously upon hearing my scream and they blushed just like me.
Urara: Oh, you're ready to go all in.
Ranna: ...Arata will like me to wear something like this.
Urara: I guarantee he'll love it.
Arata: What's up! Is everyone okay?
We were making a racket and Arata suddenly appeared worried about us, that was just how Arata was but at this moment that wasn't such a good thing.
I was holding one of the erotic outfits and his gaze quickly fixed on it; besides, Arata was dressed in nothing but a towel, I think I was about to take a bath, which made the situation even more awkward.
Arata: ...nice.
Chisaki: Noooooo!
I hid the clothes from Arata's sight, and Sagiri threw some shurikens at him to make him move away from here, the shurikens flew towards Arata but stopped in mid-air as if they had hit an invisible wall, and at that moment he made his escape.
Urara: ...I told you he'd like these clothes.
Chisaki: That idiot.
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( Arata's POV )
This day has brought many surprises, but with the appearance of Chisaki, I realized something important, the girls told me that when my powers awakened, the wind I created was mostly used for defense, so I should focus my training on that.
While I was relaxing in the hot springs, I grabbed a rubber ball and threw it in the air, I wanted to activate my powers to block the ball before it hit me, but the first attempts resulted in failures, even so, I continued trying, and the wind barrier randomly appeared.
I couldn't be satisfied and kept trying; after a while, I had other realizations, I wasn't activating the wind barrier and it wasn't happening randomly; the wind barrier activated automatically after I received two hits.
I tried several more times to see if this ability had a cooldown, but it didn't; my barrier activates to block the third hit no matter how fast it came or how long I waited.
I also kept my gaze lowered to find out if the barrier would block attacks I couldn't see, and this turned out to be correct.
Finally, I tried to lightly hit myself on the arm, but the ability didn't activate no matter how many times I hit myself; It's a little disappointing that my last experiment didn't work, but it was still a good passive skill to have in my repertoire.
After finishing those experiments, I left the hot springs and as I walked to my room I was wondering where this new ability had come from, And the most logical thing is that this came from having used my pact with Sagiri for the first time, that will be something to talk about with her tomorrow.
Arata: Good night everyone.
'Good night!'
Standing in front of my room, I shouted goodnight to the girls and they responded from their rooms.
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Despite everything that had happened, I had a normal and pleasant night in our new house, and when I woke up the next day, I was drawn to the kitchen by a delicious aroma, what I saw there was Chisaki preparing breakfast for everyone.
Arata: I guess we should have decided yesterday what we were going to do about food.
Chisaki: oh Arata, you're up early, I don't mind doing this, there aren't many other things I can help with.
Arata: You cleaned the place too, it looks cleaner than yesterday.
Chisaki: No, I've just been cooking.
Arata: It must be my imagination then.
I wasn't the best at cooking, but I still gave Chisaki a hand, and then Sun showed up to help.