He stared at the blonde with surprise. He felt a nostalgic feeling of seeing the smile plastered on his best friend's face as he stared right at him. Quickly he shook off the feeling as there were many things he wanted to tell the man.
"It's great to see you, b-but what are you doing here?! Isn't it dangerous for someone like yourself to be all alone?" He asked Otto.
"Rest assured, I am all that is needed to protect myself." Otto reassured. "The way you spoke to me just now...and the look in your eyes. They're full of remembrance. You finally remember don't you?"
"Wait what? When did you hear about me recovering?"
"I have my sources."
"Well to answer your question, it's good to see you again my old friend." He tipped his hat to Otto. "Now then... Overseer of Schicksal huh? Look at you having such a position."
"Thank you for the flattery, but I need not your praise."
"Come on, it's not every day your best friend is one of the leaders of the highest power organizations in the world!"
"Yes...'best friend'..." Otto hummed as he then smiled. "Why not go for a walk?"
"A walk?" The Captain blinked at the suggestion. "Sorry, I can't at the moment. I'm busy as of now. How about just talking right here? There's still no customers so I have time to spare currently."
"Mm...that will be sufficient."
Otto sat down on a chair as silence rang between the two.
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"Cookie...?" The Captain offered.
"Do I have to pay?"
"Yes."
"That's no way to treat a friend." Otto bluntly looked at the Captain who smirked.
"You may be my friend, but I'm running a business here." He handed a bag of cookies while receiving cash in return.
"Still the same old same old..." Otto sighed. "No, I'd like to believe that you have changed."
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"Never mind my rambling, friend. All I'm saying is that even back then, you would have me pay for the bread that you've sold outside in the busy streets."
"Haha, I remember those days as if they've happened centuries ago! Of course, they did happen centuries ago!"
"Speaking of centuries...do you have any idea why you reincarnate?"
"..." His smile dropped as he noticed the serious tone that Otto was giving him. "I wish to have an answer but there's nothing I can think of... It's honestly frustrating."
"Why is that? Isn't the idea kind of...splendid?"
"Hell no!" He felt himself go defensive on the question. "I don't know about you, but something just leaves a bad taste in my mouth at the thought of being reincarnated while forgetting all your memories. In my case, I was just a different person with no recollection of who I was, the only coincidences were the fact that my first and last name were the same alongside a bit of my personality being similar in these lifetimes."
"..."
"Can I ask you something, Otto?"
"What is it, F/N?"
"Is there...uh...is there a reason why EVERYONE and I mean EVERYONE...hates you?"
"Well....truthfully, you may call it childish."
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"...Childish?" His eyebrows furrowed at the response as he saw Otto calmly bite a cookie. "I'm serious Otto. What did you do to make them hate you...even Kallen...Kallen of all people!"
"A small fight broke out between Kallen and me. Some things happened these last few centuries."
"..." He frowned at the response as he sighs. "Otto...did you ever tell Kallen how you felt?"
"Of course...and naturally...I was rejected."
"I suppose that figured... After all, she already had her heart stolen away before we realized it."
"..." Otto's mouth twitched with a frown at the words which went unnoticed.
"I wonder just how exactly you managed to live for 500 years... What did you guys do?"
"Tis but a secret." Otto replied dryly as he got up from the chair.
"You're leaving alread—"
PUNCH
"G-Guh...!" He held his cheek as he gasps with pain as he fell to the ground. He looked at Otto with shock as he stared at him with a blank face with his hand balled into a fist. "H-Hey!! WHAT THE HELL MAN?!" He yelled with anger.
"That was for making her cry..." Otto replied simply as he patted his hands against his clothes.
"..." He continued to hold his cheek with pain but he went quiet at the words, he felt a sharp pain in his chest from the words as he breathes in. "I...yeah..." He had no words to say but accept it.
"I've done many horrible things, F/N. I will admit it. However, let me ask you a question."
"..." He stared at Otto who stared at him with a serious frown.
"Do you know ALL the bad things THEY'VE done?"
"... 'They'?" He stared at Otto with confusion as he slowly got up from the ground. The blonde closed his eyes and turned around.
"You may think that you know the people around you, but those who you once knew aren't quite the same as before. There's another thing I wish for you to know..."
"..."
"Ah...I envied you for quite some time you know?"
He blinked at Otto's words as he saw a smile on the man's face.
"Envied? Me? Why?" He was confused entirely. "What did I do to make you envy me?!" He doesn't understand at all. He can't think of any reason why Otto would envy him. Wait...
"No matter what I did... I would never get the same reactions that you gave her..." Otto stared long and hard as he stared at the sky. "She never looked at me the way she looked at you... And you... You had the impudence to be ignorant of her signs."
Ignorant of her signs... The way she looked at me wasn't the same way she looked at Otto... And the reactions... He thought of the words that his friend told him calmly. "You were jealous because Kallen had a small crush on me?"
"To say a small crush is an understatement F/N. Tisk tisk, I can just imagine Kallen's heartbroken face right now at the thought of her love being simply referred to as a small crush." Otto chuckled. "Ah! But now that's a surprise, you knew Kallen loved you?"
"Slowly I've become more self-aware of those around me and their feelings... It's awkward to think about Kallen loving me you know? I know Bianka told me or spilled the beans that everyone else agreed to share me but...it's too much to process. It's so unbelievable to think about. Besides that, I feel like I'll be butting into an already existing relationship, that being her and Sakura who are already happily together!"
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