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          I'm sitting at the edge of the island thinking about when Amaryllis tried to seduce Senku by 'confessing her love to him. I know that Dear Senku could care less about romance, but it's hard not to fall in love with him, for me to fall in love with him, that is. When I first met Senku-chan I thought he would be nothing more than the leader of Ishigami village, and the savior of earth. I never thought that I'd have any kind of attachment to him. But then, I started noticing the little things, like how cocky he can be, but at the same time kind, or when he doesn't know something, he'll always persist, trying to figure it out, or how pretty his face is...

         "Hey Gen whatcha up to?" Dear Kohaku asks, sitting down next to me.

         "Nothing, just thinking," I sigh.

          "Oh, I'm still trying to figure out how to be 'cute'. I just don't understand how Amaryllis does it."

          "All I have to do is act," Amaryllis says, walking up to us.

          "This is going to be hard, we only have till tomorrow. We better get to work, or else I'm afraid Senku will be angry with us." I say. We should be working on getting Kohaku 'cute'.

           "Why are you three slacking? get back to work." A familiar scientist's voice says. Kohaku and I stand up and I motion for her to follow me; Amaryllis decides to tag along.

          "Right, Let's get to work. Kohaku I want you to..." The day passes by slowly, and by the end of it, Kohaku is as cute as Amaryllis and I can get her. Senku watched from a distance the entire time. I smile softly to myself; All in all, today was a fairly good day.

          "I wonder what would happen If you two tried to make Senku cute." Kohaku comments.

          "That wouldn't work at all." Amaryllis sneers. "Your thoughts, Gen?"

          "I don't now-kay" I reply. I desperately want to say that he's already cute, but that would give off a large hint that I love him; and who knows what people think of gay people in the Stone world, it's not worth the risk. As far as I know, the entire Ishigami village is homophobic.

         "I just hope that we can de-petrify the people on your ship," Amaryllis says, worried.

          "Yeah." Kohaku agrees, and I nod.

          "We should probably get some sleep, it's getting late," Senku-chan says. All three of us say 'yeah!' at the same time. So, about ten minutes later, we've all found positions to sleep in, I choose a spot next to Senku, and Kohaku and Amaryllis are just a little further away. after a while, it seems everyone has fallen asleep, but I lay awake, unable to sleep.

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          I'm laying down staring at the sky, I'm sure it's almost midnight by now. I turn to the side and see Senku laying in the opposite direction of me. "Senku-chan, are you awake?" I whisper, hoping he is, I've never really been able to talk to him one on one.

          "Yeah," he says. I smile, his voice is soothing.

          "Can't sleep either? What time do you think it is?" I ask. Senku probably has a good idea of the time.

          "It's 11:56:23 p.m.." He says turning around to face me.

          My eyes widen, "I forget that you're such a good ounter-cay!" he smirks nodding. He did count the seconds for three-thousand-seven hundred years after all. Sometimes I forget what a asy-cray man Senku-chan can be. his smirk goes from a smirk to a smile, we both start laughing, and honestly, I'm not sure why.

          "It's unlike you to laugh, dear Senku," I say, grinning. He rolls his eyes.

          "Everyone laughs, you of all people should know that, being a mentalist and all. It's common knowledge." He says, watching me smile more if that's even possible. Being around Senku is all I need to be in a better mood, Even if I was in a good mood, to begin with.

          "We should probably get some sleep now, dear Senku, tomorrow is an important day," I say, trying not to sound very disappointed, talking to Senku-chan is nice, but it is important to sleep. Nevertheless soon, I find myself dozing off, into the wonderful world of dreams, I'm happier now, I have a feeling I'll have a good dream tonight. I feel the ends of my mouth curl up, for about the fiftieth time tonight.

          I feel something shaking me awake, someone, as I start to wake up. "Top-say, I still haven't gotten my eight hours of sleep~," I say, my eyes still closed.

          "And what were you five minutes off of that? Get up gen." Kohaku says, angry as ever. "Everyone else is awake but you." I open my eyes, slowly lifting myself, feeling my head spin into complete awareness. I give Kohaku a bit of a glare.

          "I thought you were supposed to be cute, my dear gorilla." She rolls her eyes. I smile and get up for the day.

          In about fifteen minutes we are all heading towards the center of the city in silence, but it isn't awkward. we're perfectly fine until we suddenly we're stopped by none other than Mozu and Kirisame?! this can't be anything good, what are they planning to do? Do they know that we're from the ship? That's definitely possible...

         "Stop there, or else," Kirisame says.

         "Or else what?" Senku asks, staying calm. I take a deep breath. The calmer the better, Kohaku looks fine but dear Amaryllis seems a bit shaken, just a bit. Her acting skills are helping tuns. I look back towards Mozu and Kirisame.

         "We know you know that we can petrify you, so don't act so clueless." Mozu says, with a stern look he continues, "I don't want to hurt either of the hotties behind you." This is bad, I can only hope Senku stays safe.

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          "We know you know that we can petrify you so don't act all clueless," Mozu says, "I don't want to hurt either of the hotties behind you."

          "Don't worry, you won't have to. If you'll just let us pass we'll be fine. I don't really care for your petrification powers, since we have the miracle fluid." Senku says. I see what he's doing, we don't actually have the nitric acid, but we can pretend.

          Mozu seems a bit taken aback, but calms down when Kirisame says, "You're bluffing, aren't you? You don't really have nitric acid, but you're pretending you do, so we let you go. And even if you do have it, you can't pull it out in time to save everyone else, then we can just petrify you, and it'll be game over. Plus there's always... other ways we could stop you." She wouldn't really, right? But to my surprise, Mozu pulls out a knife and twirls it in his hand, smirking. Kohaku instantly runs and jumps on Mozu strangling him; Mozu fights back pushing her to the ground. Dear Kohaku... I frown as Kirisame suddenly aims her petrification whip at Senku, he manages to dodge, I glance at Amaryllis, who's petrified in fright, I run towards her and pick her up, running to a nearby patch of forest, finding a place to hide, underneath a fallen tree.

          "G-gen," Amaryllis says, calming down a bit, "What should we do?"

          "I can't leave Senku fighting out there alone, Kohaku is a skilled fighter, she'll be okay, but Senku, he's not like that. I'll go after them, you stay here, I don't want you getting hurt." I'm usually more on the selfish side, but I can't imagine a world without dear Senku. I'd rather die

          "Gen, you're brave, I'm sitting here too afraid to move yet you chose to fight. Please for me, and everyone in Ishigami village, don't die."

          "Yeah," I say, running off back to where Senku and Kohaku are fighting. I hide behind the bushes.

          "You still haven't gotten me to have you?" Senku says, out of breath.

          "Senku... you're still here..." I hear myself whisper. I stand up, revealing myself, walking closer to Senku. "maybe you should try to get me instead." Both of them look up at me.

          "Gen?" Senku asks, obviously confused, and I don't blame him, I usually do anything I can to avoid events like this.

          "Hey Senku, I'm here to help, and don't worry about amaryllis, she's safe."

          "Well since you seem to be good at dodging, I guess I'll just go for you instead," Kirisame says, pointing her whip at me, I dodge. "This doesn't seem to work on either of you," she says, pulling out a crossbow and aiming it at me. "I don't have all day, so I'll just resort to this" I try to dodge but it hits my stomach, and I fall to the ground, feeling the numbing pain hit me.

          "GEN!" Senku cries out, Kohaku looks in confusion, sudden realization hitting her. Senku runs over, "Gen..."

           "Senku..." I feel tears forming in my eyes, I'm suddenly sobbing.

           "Gen... you can't die on me... " I see Senku is crying also. everything's a blur now.

           "I love you Senku..."

           I feel myself slipping away, and the last thing I hear is, "I-I love you too, Gen." than something, warm, and soft hits my lips. I slip away completely.

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          I hear Gen say three words I never thought I'd hear, and I reply, "I-I love you too, Gen." Then I do something I never thought would happen. I kiss him. he's still alive now, just unconscious, he only has a few minutes to live. I hope he heard what I said. I hope he felt the kiss.

          "Wow what an interesting twist!" Mozu says, now tied to a tree thanks to Kohaku.

          "No time for that, it's time to petrify you two, and the third one if she shows up."

          "ARE YOU SERIOUS?! YOU JUST KILLED A MAN, A MAN WHO WAS LOVED, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW THIS BUT YOU JUST BROKE THE HEARTS OF AN ENTIRE VILLAGE! DO YOU NOT CARE AT ALL!?" Kohaku screams, her eyes staring at him, like daggers. I'd normally stop her, but not today. I wouldn't really care if Kirisame died right here and now. Kohaku runs towards her, a knife in hand, the one she got from Mozu. She stabs Kirisame's arm. Kirisame cries out in pain, "Imagine that but way worse. that's how Gen felt when he... d-died." She said, faltering at her last words. Kohaku picks Kirisame up and throughs her on the ground, next to Mozu. Trembling she walks up to me and asks, "Is he... is he..."

          "Y-yeah," I say, now sobbing.

          "Y-you loved- love him."

          "Yeah," I say, my voice cracking.

          Kohaku, Amaryllis, and I are all sitting together; It's the anniversary of Gen's death. "Hey, guys?" The two of us look up at Amaryllis, "I um... never told you this but before Gen left to help you guys, I made him promise he wouldn't die... it was an empty promise, obviously, but I thought you should know." She said, breaking the silence that had surfaced in the room.

          "Gen it's been a year, I still don't get it, I should've died, not you, yet she shot you first. It's not logical. I still find myself crying over you every day. Corney, right?." I say, tears tracking down my face.