Lika-chan Is Having Another Perfectly Wonderful Day

[My new novel, Has Xia Youu Successfully Courted a Cursed Spirit Today?, is now out! Please add it to your reading list!] Hello, everyone. I'm Rikka, an ordinary middle school student. My daily life is always perfectly ordinary, and today is no exception. At seven in the morning, the Evil of This World inside me wakes me from my sleep. Still groggy, I brush my teeth and wash my face. It uses black sludge tentacles to hand me my toothbrush cup and towel. At half past seven, the neighbor next door, a huge fan of Hope, rings my doorbell. We go to school in the same direction, so we often walk together. Every time we part, for some reason he marvels at how lucky I am. At eight, I arrive at school, ready to study, but the alarm goes off: a time bomb has been found on campus, and everyone starts evacuating. The bomb happens to be somewhere I can see. I take a look and realize it's a model I know how to defuse, so I head against the crowd and dismantle it on the spot. At ten past eight, the police arrive, and a curly-haired officer comes over. I tell him I have class and ask if I can skip giving a statement this time. He smiles and says no, then thanks me for saving his friend before. At eleven, after giving my statement, I take my thank-you banner back to school and start eating the lunch Emiya made for me. His cooking is delicious. I'm trying to think of what compliment to give him this time so I can get an even tastier lunch next time. At four in the afternoon, I'm walking home. It's raining, and a creature, pink and white and looking like part cat, part dog, appears in front of me. I tilt my umbrella slightly, just enough to keep the raindrops from landing on its head. It smiles at me and asks, "Rikka-chan, do you have a wish?" I don't know if this creature should technically be able to talk, but the Natsume family has a cat that can speak. I decide that it talking is perfectly normal, and knowing my name is normal too. I don't really want anything, so I think it over carefully and reply: "World peace." "Would you like to become a magical girl and save the world?" the strange but adorable creature asks, tilting its head. The rain is getting heavier. I blink, then bend down. "We can talk about that later. What I'd really like to know is whether you have somewhere to stay." "To be honest, I don't have anywhere on Earth." "Then would you like to come home with me?" I hold out my hand. Kyubey jumps onto my shoulder. Anyway, now I have a cat too. Notes: 1. Mainly told in first person, but don't worry about missing information. Third-person sections are mixed in to fill in the details. This is my take on a reincarnated Rikka, who often brings strange things home. Some Heroic Spirits appear. 2. Everyone is a Rikka fan. Mostly everyday life, with indulgent and satisfying elements. 3. No CP, everyone dotes on her. Ship whoever you like (thumbs-up). -----The new novel, Has Xia Youu Successfully Courted a Cursed Spirit Today?, is now out. Please add it to your reading list!----- After a friend recommended it, you play a full-dive romance game and become a cursed spirit who eats other cursed spirits. But just as you're happily eating cursed spirits, you run into a black-haired boy with his hair tied up in a bun. He squashes you into a ball and swallows you whole. You: ??? You restart the game on another route, but before long you run into the boy again... and he swallows you three times in a row. He must be the stage boss, right?! Furious, you swear you'll beat this level no matter what! You battle him in a contest of wits for eight hundred rounds. But as time passes in the game, the way he looks at you starts to change, and he begins to look more and more like... the neighbor who just moved in next door to you? You almost choke on your food at the thought. "What's wrong?" The black-haired man, a few years older than you, gently pats your back and hands you a glass of water. You're having a meal at your neighbor's house right now. "It's nothing." You look at your neighbor's face, which is ninety percent identical to the game character's. No matter how alike they look, how could a game and reality be confused with each other? It must be a coincidence... right? Under his smile, you take another bite of the food he cooked. * Ever since their days at Jujutsu High, the Six Eyes has sensed that something is off about his classmate Geto. Not only does Geto often stare blankly at cursed spirits, he even asks him: "Don't you think it's cute?" The Six Eyes: ? He thought this ridiculous behavior would fade with time, but instead the symptoms gradually got worse. "What do you think about dating a cursed spirit?" The Six Eyes: ?? His classmate's condition never improved. Ten years later, it finally erupted. "It turned into a human! This time, I'm definitely going to win it over!" The Six Eyes: ??? Theme: Find your own path.