➟▞ International Kiss Day || NOT ACCEPTING! ▚
Ichimatsu kept his eyes trained upon the squid for a few moments. Once he finally made the move to walk over to her, he takes notice of their hights. Something kept screaming at him that she was familiar. She felt just like HOME. Yet he could not recall her other than that he somehow knew her name and somehow gotten to her world — wait, gotten into her world. Didn’t there been a few people that he came across that felt so familiar yet so strange? Shato. Oreo. Riley. Adachi. Bella. Wait a minute — those horrible places. Now it felt like a flood of memories was hitting him in the face whether he wanted it or not.
Somewhere in a hallway elsewhere, Ichimatsu had been trying to calm the girl before him. She was quite upset that she had been nearly picked as a murderer for a crime she did not commit. She was so disgruntled despite being a PAINTING herself. He had reached out a hand to place it upon her head and a few comforting words had been said to her. Including the fact that the longer those games occurred, he had developed a resolve to PROTECT her, Shato, Bella, Life, and others.
Then somewhere else where the fog was rolling in violently, Ichimatsu remembers trying to grab Blue’s arm while he was holding onto Riley. Almost as if he was desperate to protect her. He yelled out her name, ❝ BLUE! NO!❞ But that scene was cut short by him grabbing onto her and yanking her back before the shadows violently grabbed the ground she had been standing on.
In another place, Ichimatsu looked down to see himself holding onto Blue’s body as if he was trying to keep her safe once again. He just remembers glaring down the person with Blue’s body and glowing yellow eyes before he had somehow summoned a cat-like persona to swipe at it protectively. Once she had inhaled a healthy breath, he sobbed in relief that she was still alive. Then he remembered her standing over his body when he had been losing consciousness — she was trying to protect him from his own shadow just like how he had tried to protect her from hers. What a strange tv world.
Flashed to another place in his memories, he was wearing a rather strange outfit as if he was a pokemon villain. He glanced down at Blue who was trying to play the hero. He gritted his jaw together as it felt like his heart was being ripped out of his chest. He definitely did not want to go against this wonderful blue-haired woman that stood before him. She definitely grew up the way he would want her to… the opposite of himself. He took the final blow from her pokemon and admitted to his defeat before dropping to his knee as he spoke, ❝As long as you’re alive and okay.❞
Gaming sounds emitted all around Ichimatsu as he was pulled into another long lost memory. A memory of watching this amazing friend of his playing these games as if she was a professional. It was a shame that his other friends in this place were horrible to her. No matter how often he had tried to defend her to others, she was just that one nerd and he was the popular guy like his other friends Jean and Leon. He reaches out to try to touch her on her shoulder to say the words he should had said long ago, ❝ I’M SORRY! I WANT TO BE IN YOUR LIFE FOREVER!❞
Animatronics seemed to move and attack at night time as far as Ichimatsu knew. Ichimatsu was one of the black market members as he was getting ready to stock up his inventory for the sales. He heard a yell outside of his shop before examining it. Bad choice considering it was night time — but he saw Blue trying to flee from Foxy who decided that it was a great idea to terrorize her. She wanted an escape so Ichimatsu quickly grabbed her arm and pulled her into his store as he shut the door to keep Foxy out. He let out a soft breath that he held for moments as he looked at the squid girl once again. ❝ Are you okay?❞
Now back in PRESENT, Ichimatsu snapped out of the memory trip of his various lives he had outside of this life with the squid before him. That fierce protective feeling had returned twice as powerful as it had been before. Now it was as if a spell that held onto him to forget everything, every developmental moment he had over the years, every bond he had created, and everything that made HIM WHO HE IS was lifted finally. He was now back to being the ICHIMATSU MATSUNO that everyone knew and loved with their dear hearts. He reached out with his right hand to pet her on the head like he had done many times before. Instead of an unreadable expression, there was a smile of genuine care and love towards her. He leaned in to kiss her forehead as if he was now that older brother she needed and he was back. Back from wherever he had disappeared to.
❝ Hey Blue, want to grab some ice cream that you like so much?❞
