[You fucker! who do you think you are pushing big bro like this huuuuhh!!!]

yells the short guy while helping his so called big bro get off the ground. Hearing his provocation, Miss Mana's stature doesn't falter a bit and instead she starts saying all the words that I wanted to say to these freaks all this time

[Who are you calling "fucker" you low life pedos, trying to harass a high schooler out in open daylight. You wanna get beat up too ehhh!!]

Miss Mana's voice was filled with courage unlike mine, who froze up in the face of crisis. Unlike me, Miss Mana spoke without restraint, with no fear and confidence akin to the royal emperor. 

Annoyed by her words, the big guy rushes forward with his hand curled up into a fist aiming at Miss Mana's chest. 

[MANA!!]

Surprised by his sudden bout of violence, my heart jumps and a loud scream escapes my mouth, but Miss Mana was everything I wasn't.

She quickly pulled out a pepper spray from her pants pocket and without hesitation released it toward the approaching guy's eyes. The particles hit him straight at the desired destination and a blood churching scream leaked from his mouth. Hearing his loud scream of agony, now everyone around us actually stopped and turned to look at the situation they have so desperately been trying to ignore.

[Oi you little rascal, you want some of this too?!] threatened Miss Mana pointing the spray at the other guy and slowly moving towards him. Seeing her so fearlessly come closer, the other guy gets intimidated and leaves his big bro behind to run away. Fortunately, he couldn't run away far as someone in the crowd grasped him from behind and threw him onto the ground.

Looking at all the people now surrounding us, I wanted to voice my resentment towards them all but just like before no such words came out and I just stared at the ground below frustrated by my lack of strength.

[These two pedos are going to jail for sure but I REALLY hope that all you PIGLET MOTHERFUCKERS watching also die a horrible DEATH] she declares loudly and quickly turns back around, grabbing my hand to help calm my senses.

At this very moment, she was everything I wanted to become. 

For the first time in my life, I felt vastly inferior to a murderer.

...

After that soon the park guards arrived and after taking in our testimony and talking to surrounding people, they took away the two creeps away.

As the whole incident came to a close, we sat around a table in the park's restaurant, ordering some food and sitting about in silence.

[I'm sorry]

I don't know why, but there was this huge guilt inside me like I ruined this entire day she invited me out on.

[Dont, are you going to let those creeps ruin your entire day?]

[b-but...]

[No BUTS! Forget about them right this very second or I'm gonna have to take some very dire measures]

Was she trying to threaten me to stop feeling shitty about myself?

[Hahahahahaha]

[Oi, what you laughing for? You want me to murder you huh!]

[hahahahahaaaahaahhhh....]

maybe she's actually serious about the murder part but seeing her try to cheer me up in her own very or extremely odd way actually did help in elevating some of the tension inside my body and helped me loosen up. She really is quite awkward at normally talking to people, I wonder where this awkwardness was back there when she beat their asses up.

Seeing her trying her best, I puff my cheeks and slap them hard in order to get myself together

[You are right, I won't let them ruin the rest of the day, though most of the rides are closed let's do some shopping around here, shall we?]

Quickly she gives a single nod and we get up to leave the restaurant.

She really was the type of women I wanted to become though except for the criminal part

...

We enter the shopping center of the mall and a wide variety of shops enter my vision. Though most of them sold souvenirs and merch related to various themes and rides across the amusement park, some of them were also small snack shops from where you can get a quick and fresh bite at.

As we explore the shops, essentially not buying anything, I look sideways to see if Miss Mana was interesting in something around here

[Miss Mana, do you like anything around here?]

[No, all this stuff is a little too poppy for me, uhm you?]

oooohh, she asked a question back for the first time

[Same here, the gifts are a little too cutesy and the shirts look low quality, though I did see some ice cream, you want some?]

[uhh sure]

[Alright, what flavour?]

[Any, just pick any]

I nod and make my way to the small ice cream stand. I get a vanilla cone for myself and a butterscotch cone for Miss Mana, as there was a bit of line here it took some time for me to finally get the ice cream.

Quickly I make my way back to Miss Mana and notice her looking at something.

I wait for a few seconds observing her face and realize she looking at that something rather attentively, does she actually want to buy something? Interested, I follow her gaze and find myself quite shocked looking at her item of interest. It was a small hello kitty keychain lying outside on the display of some gift shop.

Seeing this my surprise was immeasurable, didn't she say that she didn't like this colorful and girly stuff? AH!

Quickly I realize why she probably gave me that answer. Finding her silliness quite amusing, I slowly walk behind her and call out to her

[Miss Mana, what are you looking at?]

[Huh? nothing, you came back quick]

though there was no shock in her voice or body, I did see a very slight jerk in her shoulders when I called out to her. She tried her best to hide her surprise but unfortunately, it didn't escape my gaze thus I wasn't going to let the matter escape

[So does Miss Mana want that cute keychain?]

[hmm? what keychain?]

Acting surprised she looks around as if oblivious to the item but still ends up pointing out what I was referring too.

[Oh this? Nahh, this kind of stuff doesn't fit me]

She was quite dumb when it came to social interactions, also she wasn't wrong in her observation that a serious suit wearing person walking around with a hello kitty keychain hanging around their pocket didn't exactly fit the picture.

[I mean you obviously like it, so why not buy it. Just wear some cute clothes with it and it would fir you perfectly]

[huh? ME? wearing cute clothes? th-thats a bit....]

eh? huh? what is the earlier emperor titan now seriously blushing for?

ah!

[Does Miss Mana want to wear some cute clothes?]

[N-no...]

who is this suddenly cute creature in front of me? Suddenly I also realize her reason for wearing such informal clothes to a fun outing to an amusement park. Maybe she actually just doesn't have any sort of clothes like that? making me wonder what sort of environment she grew up in.

Suddenly our talk back in when we first met came to my mind. She said something about asking favors from her dad and going up and down favorability or ranking or something like that. 

From the entire week I spent with her group and also today, it was quite clear to me that she wasn't some psychopathic or ruthless murderer, though she was a murderer there was also something else going on around her

[Alright, next week come to my house and I will get Miss Mana all dolled up!! Deal?]

[huh? deal? no deal, I mean I can't, it won't look good on someone like me]

[Alright then it's decided, I look forward to next week]

[wait what? I didn't agre-mffff]

Cutting off her rebuttals, I stick her ice cream in her mouth and go inside the gift shop to buy the keychain

[This keychain will be a gift from me to you for being my hero today, so you can't reject it]

[b-but-]

[No BUTS! this is how it goes]

[it does?]

[yes, it does]

though her face was still devoid of any expressions, her red ears and the slight panic in the eyes really made for a look I wouldn't quite forget for quite some time

A rough and tough girl like her wanting to dress a little cutish, it was a combination that I didn't know until now that I quite liked

thus came an end to our unfortunate outing turned fortunate near the end