Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything With Low-Level Spells Vol. 1 by Kaoru Shinozaki

Author:Kaoru Shinozaki [Shinozaki, Kaoru]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: light novel
Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment
Published: 2020-11-20T05:00:00+00:00

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On her way home from school one day, Kobato found a cat lying near the school gates. It was weak and injured, but everyone ignored it—the only exception was two boys who laughed and took pictures of it with their smartphones.

“Dude! If this gets enough likes on Inste, let’s rescue the cat! That’s a super inspirational story—it’ll totally go viral! We could even get on the news!”

The boys left and never came back, and Kobato was left alone with her thoughts.

What should I do…?

She took out her smartphone and searched for “cat” and “injured” with shaky hands. She was always like this, terrified of acting on her own, waiting for someone else to make decisions for her.

“N-no!” She landed on a page filled with pictures of dead cats. Her hands froze. She closed her eyes tight.

I can’t do it… I don’t want to see this…

“Kashima?”

A boy…?

“Oh… Mimori-kun…”

When she opened her eyes, her classmate Mimori Touka was standing next to her. They’d never spoken before. He didn’t stand out much—maybe that’s why Kobato felt a kind of kinship with him. He wasn’t scary like the boys in Kirihara Takuto’s group.

“That cat…is it okay?”

“Well…” Kobato explained what she’d seen.

“Gotcha,” Mimori said simply.

“Huh?”

“Let’s take it to the vet. There’s one not far from here.”

“Um…”

A vet. Of course. Why didn’t I think of that…?

“Are you hurt, little buddy?” Touka gently lifted the cat into his arms. “Stay still for me, okay?”

I’ve never seen Mimori-kun with an expression like that…

The vet told them that the cat had an injured paw and was malnourished—which explained why it’d been lying still like that. It would get better with the right treatment. Kobato breathed a sigh of relief as they walked together out of the waiting room.

“Mimori-kun… Th-thank you.”

“No worries. I like cats.”

“A-about the money…” Kobato started opening her purse—Touka had paid before she even realized it.

He shot her a wry smile.

“Nah, it’s fine. I’m the one who suggested the vet, after all.”

“B-but…”

“Really, it’s fine. I never spend much, anyway. Might as well use my money for this.”

As always, Kobato couldn’t find the right words to object, so she let her purse drop and accepted with a silent nod. She was always like that—going along with anything, avoiding conflict or kicking it down the road.

I should make conversation… What can we talk about…?

She forced an awkward smile—she was good at smiling her way out of situations.

“So…do you like animals, Mimori-kun?” she asked.

“Yeah, I do,” Mimori replied, staring off into the middle distance. “More than people, at least.”

“Huh…?”

Mimori-kun?

Touka seemed to notice that he’d upset her, though the troubled look didn’t leave his eyes.

“Oh…not like that! I just mean that when you’re with an animal, you don’t have to worry what they think of you, right? I really like my foster parents now, so—”

It seemed like an odd reply to Kobato, like he was desperately trying to cover up his real feelings. She’d read about stuff like this, though—teenage boys trying to seem cool and different by claiming they hate the world.

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