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All of my powers have drawbacks. It's a lesson I refuse to learn. But why should I, when all they have brought me is happiness?
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I am Kokomi Teruhashi. I’m a psychic. I have a whole comedy anime’s worth of powers. In other universes, I’m not a psychic. Other people are there to keep the peace.
Without me, my world would’ve collapsed about thirteen times in various ways. I won’t ever let it happen, no matter the cost. I deal with every problem before its inciting incident even has a chance to occur.
I don’t mind that there are places where I don’t have powers. I can’t imagine how life would be for a powerless version of myself, but no matter what, life will go on.
Every universe has someone to keep it safe.
Every universe has a main character.
I am the main character in mine.
I keep my world safe. I keep my manga series going. I am a perfect, pretty girl. I deal with annoyances when they can’t be prevented, and I do it looking my best. I won’t take the easy way out. No psychic would, when the threat of cancellation is like a raincloud, always looming ominously overhead.
‘’Did you hear? There’s a giant raincloud outside PK Academy!’’
‘’Yeah! It’s looming ominously overhead!’’
Huh?
Is this what happens when you try being serious in a comedy show? Seriously, I was just monologuing for the fanfiction!
Don’t tell me…
There's a plot?!
The raincloud of doom and cancellation is looming ominously overhead. Of course it had to be real. Is Shuichi Asou giving up on me? Come to think of it, who even is Shuichi Asou?
I need to figure out the cause of this, and fast. Nothing has changed drastically over the last few episodes. Mera is hungry as always, Nendou is still stupid enough to be the perfect gag character, and Chiyo remains the main-characters-love-obsessed-friend that she always is. What’s wrong?
Why is The Delightful Life of Teruhashi K. getting cancelled?
I’m entertaining, aren’t I? The episodic routine of something going wrong, and my perfectly beautiful and intelligent self fixing it with my amazing psychic powers, is funny! Right?
I’m sure. Nothing is different. I should have just as many readers as always. So there's only one possible conclusion: the very evil and scary raincloud isn’t from this dimension at all.
So, where? Where has it come from? And why, of all main characters, did I have to deal with it?
Knowing who is affected by this development lets me know who might be important to the next few episodes. Characters who are important in the next few episodes must have something important about them that can help me save my Manga.. Perfect!
I sit in my perfectly chosen seat in the middle of the classroom, staring out the window in the practiced way I always do. No, not staring, gazing. Because I’m perfect.
Who, out of the main cast, has noticed the raincloud?
I’m sure my sidekicks have already. But that's a given. Who else?
I listen to Chiyo’s thoughts. She isn’t hard to find, especially since I know her voice so well. She’s my closest friend, after all.
‘I haven’t had any screentime this whole episode! I guess I’m not doing anything interesting, haha!’
Her ability to track her screentime is really weird. But that's normal, I guess.
Who else might have noticed a change?
‘Hey, why are there so many thought bubbles above Teruhashi’s head?’
That's probably Kaido. He’s just a guy with intense middle-school syndrome. According to him, he's a superhero called the jet black wings
I move on.
Mera is thinking about food. Aren is having a dramatic monologue about his old gang leader. Saiko isn’t even here today… That’s probably not important; he’s not in every episode anyway.
That's pretty much the whole main cast, other than Saiki.
I should’ve known this had something to do with him. Saiki is sitting in the seat behind me, beside another window. It happens to be conveniently placed so that the light always hits him just right, even when the seasons change and the sun doesn’t even rise that way anymore.
Saiki noticed the raincloud before me, it seems.
‘Why is there a big, giant, ominously looming raincloud over there? Is it going to rain?’ He thinks.
He’s already changed his entire path home, for the third time today. The thing about Saiki is that he just so happens to be the most perfect, pretty boy in the entire universe. And that’s not even an exaggeration.
Personally, I’ve never seen him for more than five seconds. Looks don’t matter for me, except for when the looks are mine.
He has a whole dedicated group of admirers, essentially tracking his every move. Saiki hates attention. So, you can see the problem there. Being perfectly pretty isn’t always a perfect paradise. He hangs around with the most unpopular kids in class 2-3 just to make people think worse of him.
It doesn’t work. It makes people like him more.
I might just be the only girl in the entire year to not have a massive crush on him at any point in my life. I want it to stay that way. Love interests might ruin my perfect image. Also, it's a comedy anime. I can’t get too serious.
It seems I might have to, with a raincloud on the loose. Wow, that makes it seem like I’m scared of everyone getting caught in the rain without an umbrella.
Anyways, I’ve gathered a few things from this chapter. In another universe, someone's manga got cancelled. Now, the threat has moved on to my world. I need to stop that from happening. After all, what's the point of my powers if I can’t do some good with them?
I know Saiki will have something to do with this. But, for some reason, I get the feeling that I’ll have to do this alone.
(imu isbestcharacter)