I decided to spend the next few days going on dates with Shiori and increase her affinity with me as much as possible, while Nibelcole collects information about Ellen and Isaac.
I want to use them to give the "final" blow to Shiori, making her completely lose faith in humanity, and the answer to this is simple, I will make her use her powers unwittingly, and thus make DEM or AST attack her.
Showing that regardless of what she is, humans will attack her, and so she will no longer see any problems in killing people when necessary, the same necessity that I will also force upon her so that she loses control.
These are two very simple phases for this plan, first to make her lose faith in humanity, and in the second phase to put myself in extreme danger with some severe injury to make her think that I died or am dying.
Regardless of what I do, it would be difficult to make Shiori destroy the world just by asking, she is too "morally correct" and would not accept that, so I need her to do it in some way and the easiest is to make her reverse.
So the plan begins with me increasing our affinity, so today I invited her to an amusement park and gave her money to spend in a store choosing clothes for the date and making a surprise.
I'm wearing an outfit that's not too casual, but nothing too fancy, just enough to make me look nice while not standing out too much in the crowd since the date will be at an amusement park.
I'm waiting in front of the store, wondering what she has chosen, I'm a little curious about it.
"A-Aurelio, w-who am I?" Shiori quietly comes up behind me and covers my eyes, it's kind of funny to see her struggling with it, and especially because her hands are trembling with effort and shame since she's shorter than me.
"Hmm, I wonder whose soft hands these are," I say to embarrass her a little more.
"W-Want a hint?" She really continues the joke, even though she knows I already know who she is.
"A hint, you say? How about telling me the color of your hair?"
"It's blue!" She really answers.
"Very difficult, what color are your eyes?"
"...Gold"
I'm surprised and quickly turn around looking into her eyes, they really are golden.
'...'
"Oh...Shiori...your eyes" They were amber brown, but now they're really golden, as far as I know Shido's eyes in the anime turned golden related to the use of the spirit's powers.
"Hahaha, it's rare to see you surprised, my eyes turned gold last night, but I understand why you didn't notice since I tried to hide it to surprise you! Looks like it worked."
"I see, they're very beautiful like that, your dress is also lovely." I compliment her, looking at her dress, it's a white dress with a floral embroidery on the bottom with yellow and black flowers that look very nice.
"T-Thank you" Shiori thanks me for the compliment as I form an invisible barrier around us to put the Sephira on her while we're on the date, I hope adding Mukuro's Sephira doesn't cause any problems.
"Let's go to the amusement park, do you want to go on any specific ride at the end of the date?"
"Maybe...the Ferris wheel" She thinks for a moment and chooses, then we start walking to the park which is not too far from here, which is convenient, but getting back to the apartment will take time.
We follow the path for a few minutes as I take extra care with this Sephira so that Shiori doesn't have any problems, it's a bit worrying if she gets sick from it.
And after 20 minutes of walking, we arrive at the amusement park, where I've already bought our tickets, as it's a weekday, there aren't many people, which is good since we can enjoy the rides more easily.
We go through the attendant who takes the tickets and punches them with a machine approving our entry, Shiori seems quite excited.
"Want some cotton candy?" I ask, seeing a couple buying cotton candy.
"Yes, we can go, I want whatever you choose for me," she says as we go to the booth.
"Hey, handsome couple, come closer," the attendant says with a smile as we approach him.
"We'll take two cotton candies," I say to him, reaching for my wallet to pay.
"Perfect! What flavors?"
"Hmm" I look at Shiori to see which cotton candy she is observing the most, and after about 5 seconds I decide what to choose.
"Two of the pink ones, please," I say, putting the money on the counter, the attendant quickly grabs the two and hands them to Shiori with a smile, while Shiori takes them enthusiastically.
"You can keep the change," I say without much interest in wasting time on that as I go with Shiori to a bench, she sits down and hands me my cotton candy.
"This kind of reminds me of the past, on the school rooftop, we'd sit side by side like this and just talk about random topics," she says, referring to something we no longer do.
Although we still have lunch together at school, we no longer have those reflective conversations, because there is no longer a need for them.
"It was nice, no doubt, but don't you prefer it this way? We're a couple, a milestone a little difficult for a relationship, but I'm happy with it and you?"
I question, making my opinion clear and asking a question. Does she prefer when we were just friends who talked, or prefers now that we're a couple?
"O-Of course I prefer it now, it's just that...it doesn't seem very different, you know?" She says, citing an obvious fact.
"Really?" I approach her and give her a kiss, leaving her surprised as she looks at me blushing.
"This is something that never happened before, I think it's a good benefit, don't you agree?" She nods shyly while trying the cotton candy.
"Don't worry about our conversations, they may have decreased, but it's just because we don't need them, don't you think showing love is better than just talking words?"
"W-Well, I guess so," she agrees while eating a big piece of the cotton candy, I'm not much of a sweet person so I end up not eating mine.
"Do you have any plans for the future, A-Aurelio?" Shiori asks as we get up from the bench to walk around the park.
"Yes, and you can be sure you're in them." I think she's referring to taking our relationship further or something similar.
"T-That's good" She says as we stop in front of a shooting game with an air gun, there are some plush toys and toys as prizes.
"Hmm, that necklace there, is it among the prizes?" I ask the attendant, seeing a silver necklace with a blue gemstone that's quite nice, it's clearly not an original, but I think Shiori would like it for the thought.
"Yes, it's the grand prize and is awarded if you knock down all the bottles," he says, so I take out my money and pay for a shot, but instead of shooting, I hand the gun to Shiori.
"A-Aurelio, I don't know how to use this..." She says a little timidly, but I hug her from behind while whispering in her ear.
"Don't worry, I'll help you, dear." I hold her hands adjusting the aim, she shyly accepts as I use my powers to cheat, ensuring her victory without her knowing.
But first, I want to try without cheating, I start analyzing the distance and adjusting the gun, if the booth owner isn't cheating, the shot will hit and knock down the 15 bottles.
"Ready?"
"Uhum!" Shiori says focused, I pull the trigger with her and the gun shot knocks down a bottle, causing a domino effect that knocks down all of them, in the end, there was no cheating on the other side and I didn't need to cheat much.
"Congratulations to the couple," he hands over the necklace I had mentioned, I put it around Shiori's neck, noticing that she is still wearing the other necklace I had given her before.
'She still keeps that...' She ends up keeping both, but she seems very satisfied, so I think this is great.
We go to another ride, a bumper car, there aren't many people in the park, so we don't have anyone to compete with, so we just end up talking while she drives the car, bumping into the walls.
Of course, from the gentle smile on her face, just talking seems great, she mentions several things, about her insecurity, about how much she likes our current relationship.
She also mentions how she fears everything will crumble, but she's not sure what to do or how I'll act, and I reassure her by telling her that I love her, and that I won't abandon her even if she's killing people.
Although the topic is heavy, it's quite fun, and after an hour in the bumper cars just talking, we decide to go up to the Ferris wheel, since we're the only ones, we ask the attendant to lock the Ferris wheel at the top for a good while.
And he ends up accepting, the two of us climb into the Ferris wheel as it goes up, locking us up top, which gives us good privacy to continue the conversation.
"Aurelio...do you want to spend the night at my house?" Shiori says to break the little silence we were in.
"Of course, I can go to your house, in fact, I can already live with you," I tell her, letting her know this. I hadn't mentioned it yet, but since there's no more Mukuro, there are no problems.
"Seriously? Can you live with me? I want to! I'll be waiting for you," she says excitedly with a smile, I give her a hug while kissing her, taking advantage of the good mood of the date.