I did a cover for COTE's opening:
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A girl and a boy, both just woke up in the same bed, and are right now staring at each other.
Any other person would be flustered in such a situation and yell at the other about what are they doing there, however, both of them aren't normal. (they're super edg-!)
Instead of doing a movement at the sudden person in their bed, they decided to analyze in silence the other.
"Well, this is quite the situation," he says, breaking the silence.
"I must agree." she sighs.
...that's all they say?!
"Who are you?" he asks the person lying next to him on the bed.
"I'm the one who should be asking that."
"I asked first, by the rules of the street, I ow- you must answer before I do."
"That's fair. I'm Ayanokouji Kiyone, and you?"
"... Ayanokouji Kiyotaka."
"..."
"..."
"Oh my."
"Oh my indeed."
"That explains why you're attractive."
"Isn't that pretty arrogant?"
"Is it arrogant if it's true?"
"Fair enough."
"..."
"..."
They continue staring at each other, not hypnotized, but analyzing.
The silence is quite silent, don't you think~?
"..."
"We should get ready for school."
"How can we explain this, though?"
"There's a chance that everyone else also got their opposite-sex version with them, it'd actually be quite strange to think we're the only ones which get to experience this unnatural event."
"However, especially because it's an unnatural event, it'd be even stranger if it happened on a large scale."
"In the end, we won't get any information if we don't get out of here."
"But in the case we're the only ones who experience this, it means one of us is out of place, and therefore, one of us is unknown to the others."
"I certainly hope we aren't. That way, we would be able to hide in the crowd easily."
"Which trustable contacts do you have?"
"Kei, Hiyori, Nanase, Ishizaki, Keisei, Hirata, Ichinose and Horikita. You?"
"Kei, Hiyori, Nanase, Ishizaki, Keisei, Hirata, Ichinose, Horikita, Albert, Akito, Sudou, Kamuro, Koenji, Satou, Matsushita, Mii-chan, Inogashira, Onodera, and Tsubaki"
"...Are you bragging your trustable source is larger than mine?"
"Who knows?" she says it in a monotone voice, but she's both happy and disappointed in beating him on that.
Kiyotaka is in a pretty similar situation, he feels happy at being defeated and disappointed that he doesn't have that many trustable people.
"I'd like to ask Sakayanagi, but she would try to mess with us."
"Indeed, Arisu is certainly problematic."
"...Arisu?"
If Kiyone could smile, she'd be smugly doing so.
If Kiyotaka could cry, he'd fill a river with his tears.
Results of the day: Kiyone's win!!
...Oh right, this isn't that fanfic, let's forget that.
"Let's text all of our shared contacts."
"Your amount is quite small though..." she mutters.
"What?" he asks, even though he heard her clearly.
"I was saying that we should send them the same message, and see who they answer first, to check who belongs to this world."
"I see..." That's definitely NOT what you said before!!!
Kiyotaka wanted to reprimand her, but he knew that she knew that he knew that she knew... and so on.
He was amused though, at the thought of his counterpart being pretty playful.
She was amused though, at the thought of his counterpart reacting to getting tickled.
Their priorities may be different, but their feelings are the same!
And ping! the sound of a phone notification played... from Kiyone's phone!!!
More notifications appear, from different senders.
Kiyone tries to look at Kiyotaka's eyes, but he avoids her stare, giving her his back.
Then, Kiyotaka's phone starts to receive pings.
Kiyone checks the contents of the messages, they're full of important information about their current situation, and confirm that both of them are actually the only ones who got into such a situation.
Kiyotaka checks the contents of the messages, they're full of questions and insults demanding who the hell is he and how he got their phone number.
It can be quite confirmed that Kiyotaka is the intruder here.
Deciding that it was enough, Kiyotaka throws his phone through the window. The phone actually fled to a certain Student Council President, killing him in the act. No one ever found the body though.
"Now, what should we do about you, intruder-san?"
"..."
"You certainly can't just show up and introduce yourself, it'd be quite a disaster, don't you think?"
"Then what do you propose?"
"We can kidnap a background character and make you take his place, no one will notice."
"There's no way their friend won't notice."
"Well, as long as you two have your ghost aura around, no one should be able to notice the difference."
Why is she trashing my entire existence?! :(
Why am I trashing his entire existence?! :)
Kiyotaka looked like a puppet whose strings has been cut. (yaay! i finally did an overlord reference!)
For the sake of continuing the banana, both of them leave the room. As they're early birds, no one else is around. Or was it plot convenience? No one truly knows...
Once they were outside, they looked around, especially in the background.
And there he was! A plain-looking boy typing on his phone on the way to school!
They started to approach him but the distance was always the same, they didn't know if it was because the boy was so filler that he belonged to the background at this point, or just because they were walking at the same speed as he was.
After deciding to finish the game, Kiyone takes out her kamikaze shoe and throws it at his face, knocking him out instantly.
He fell next to a certain Student Council President, but none of the Kiyos noticed that corpse.
With this, their absolute and flawless plan was successful! Now Kiyotaka just needs to check his phone to know the class he'll be participating in.
"...Miyamoto from Class 2-D."
"Ah-"
"..."
"Well, you'll replace him perfectly, you two look alik- no, that was too far, I apologize." she proceeds to take a katana out of nowhere about to commit seppuku.
"Don't."
"Alright." although she was able to summon the sword, she can't unsummon it, so she decides to just stab it on the ground, however, she notices she pierced something.
"Oh, my foot is bleeding." Kiyotaka nonchalantly says.
"You're right."
"... you won't apology?"
"An apology won't cure your foot."
"That's true... unless it isn't."
"What?"
"Nothing."
In case you didn't notice, the author is actually struggling with making dialogues!!!
Should I leave this here... yeah, I'm doing that.
Happy ending: Miyamoto and Nagumo were never found, both Kiyos married each other for some reason, idk, weird kinks they have and got three children after they discovered their genes aren't similar at all.
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21/april/2022
1085 words
Well, this was one of the options in the poll I did a while ago, so yeah, I finally did this!
Ehhh, see you next time!!