Pressured Smile (2)

It was the identical once I noticed him in entrance of the clinic.

He had a smile on his face when he talked with the receptionist. However the second he rotated and stepped out of the clinic, the smile disappeared from his face and he turned his face down.

He in all probability didn’t do it consciously.

Similar to what Kazuki mentioned, I believe he might need closed off his coronary heart unconsciously. His mannerism that regarded like he’s forcing himself additionally made me interested by him.

Come to think about it, I simply remembered it was for a similar motive that I ended up following him with my eyes so intently on the marriage ceremony ceremony.

He didn’t solely have a dark expression on his face.

Many occasions, he smiled to maintain his look, as a result of he grew to become anxious about others’ stares. It was so he may look pure with the others.

Perhaps he didn’t get alongside too effectively along with his household. However he have to be the type of one who obtained anxious about it… so he tried to make it so different individuals wouldn’t discover.

He suppressed his personal emotions and tried to behave regular.

—I’m wondering if he’s intelligent or if he’s awkward.

I additionally knew one other one who behaved in the identical means.

I obtained reminded of that individual’s face for some motive. The 2 of them didn’t look alike in any respect, however that expression of them regarded type of related.

The opposite individual was an alpha who was the overall reverse of Sou.

However, they had been each dragging one thing heavy about their very own gender.

I abruptly puzzled if there was something I may do to assist individuals who have such issues.

*

“Miya, aren’t you going to mattress?”

“Ah… so it’s already this hour.”

The time was already 3 am. It was nearly morning fairly than night time.

Regardless that I’ve to depart the home in three hours… It seems to be like I’d must go to work with out sleeping immediately.

It was Masago, the alpha who lived along with me, who stared at me with a sleepy face. This face didn’t imply he was truly sleepy. Masago all the time regarded like this.

He’s languid and it’s laborious to inform what he’s pondering at a look. This alpha who’s youthful than me is my pair. It’s been nearly ten years since we grew to become a pair, however that air of him hasn’t modified in any respect.

Masago and I had been seven years aside, however we had been childhood buddies who grew up in the identical neighborhood.

I used to be actually shocked once I came upon that Masago, who was near me and all the time adopted me round, was an alpha. However I used to be additionally satisfied on the identical time. He may look a bit spacey, but it surely wasn’t as a result of he’s silly. Actually, he was very quick-witted. It was simply that he typically thought in silence, which made him look just a little out of sync along with his environment.

Even after he came upon he was an alpha, Masago by no means left my aspect. We then exit with one another, and we grew to become a pair in a really pure means… I believe. I couldn’t bear in mind a lot about it now, although.

However he actually grew to become totally different as soon as he grew to become my pair.

A distance grew between us after we began changing into a pair.

“I didn’t discover you had been again.”

“I referred to as out to you, but it surely seems to be such as you had been concentrating. You appear to be nonetheless awake even after I obtained out of the lavatory so I used to be curious.”

I really feel prefer it’s been such a very long time since I’ve talked to Masago like this.

Masago and I labored on the identical firm, however we not often met one another within the workplace. It was as a result of I’m a secretary, and Masago was concerned in improvement and analysis.

Masago was a researcher at coronary heart, and when he’s centered on his work, he would keep within the laboratory even on his time without work. Even on weekdays, he got here dwelling once I was already asleep. He was unhealthy with mornings so he by no means awoke when it’s time for me to depart the home.

We had been imagined to be dwelling collectively, however our every day life was simply largely passing by one another.

This isn’t the primary time this has occurred. Our every day life didn’t change a lot from the time we grew to become a pair. After all, once we had been on warmth we’d take a time without work and cuddle one another all day lengthy, however aside from that it was all the time like this.

If I wasn’t awake at this hour, we wouldn’t even be speaking to one another at dwelling.

“Can I have a look…?”

“Yeah, positive.”

Masago appeared to be interested by what I had been writing down from earlier.

He picked up a thick bundle of papers and skim the title on the primary web page out loud.

“Digital Alpha…?”

“—I’m questioning if I may make one thing like that.”

That was what I’ve been pondering since final night, once I simply got here again from the clinic.

In the event that they couldn’t speak to anybody in actual life, what a few digital associate?

Not an actual individual, however an AI alpha. If it was somebody who didn’t truly exist in actual life, I believed possibly they didn’t must faux to be somebody they’re not, and so they may converse their thoughts.

Masago didn’t reply to my phrases.

He didn’t ignore me, it appeared like he was simply centered on the doc. He was flipping by a lot of pages, which I couldn’t even bear in mind what number of pages I had written, at a really quick tempo.

I’m wondering if he actually perceive the content material.

This was nonetheless a draft that I wrote in a single night time.

It was simply ideas that I had and I simply scribbled it down.

But when I can full this app, I’m positive there shall be many omegas who shall be saved.

I made this app in order that omegas like Kanade, who couldn’t speak to anybody near him about his issues, received’t must undergo the painful warmth alone… I needed to create an existence that they may depend on.

“—It seems to be fairly good.”

“Huh?”

“Let’s make this app.”

My pair alpha smiled, his eyes as sleepy as ever.