Christmas is a festival, Christmas is a time for bells, joys, and cheers. It’s a time of presents and warmth that can withstand even the frostiest of snows and the strongest of blizzards. The feeling of contentment that arises from being with your favorite persons, within a city full of excitement, is magical.
But what if the person you hold dearest cannot be there with you? What is a celebration with no one but yourself, confined in an apartment devoid of life, to sing songs with?Angel Taiga-sama is there to prevent it for you! She will track that person down, carry that person back to you if need be, and quietly leave you two together with a bright smile on her face. Minorin will be happy, Ryuuji will be happy, everyone will be happy. It’s Christmas afterall!
But then… who is going to help Angel Taiga-sama find the one she wants to be with? Who is going to bring that person to her? Who does she want to be with?
“Ah”, she sighs in realization, as tears roll down her soft cheeks. Angel Taiga-sama reminisces her fun times spent with a man named Takasu Ryuuji, how he’d imitated Santa to cheer her up on this lonely night, his delicious lunch boxes, and his reliableness in always backing her up. She doesn’t want those good times to end, she doesn’t, but she has to. She believes she has to because Minorin is her best friend, that Minorin she loves so much… she wants her to be happy too. Besides! Angel Taiga-sama has always been alone; what Ryuuji did for her was enough.
Nonetheless, she’d sob, and will continue to do so until she picks herself back up and sleep through this holy, holy night. It pains Angel Taiga-sama greatly, but at least she knows her feelings now.
Kushieda Minori, who’d ventured to Angel Taiga-sama’s home to ask her what her real feelings are, and instead watched her broke down, also does now too. She knows the fragile little angel needs Takasu much more; she herself can always continue being the happy and carefree Minorin she’d always been. UFOs and ghosts are nice, but… angels are better anyway. And with that, the red-haired girl decides to stop short Takasu’s confession, even if she has to pull her beanie down to hide her suddenly dimmed eyes from his confused stare.
And as for Ryuuji himself, Kushieda’s words must’ve hurt him quite a bit, considering his longtime crush on her. Maybe he can still do something to change her mind, albeit the chances are hardly auspicious. Yet there is something else nagging at his heart. The way he almost forfeited his wait on Kushieda to go back to Taiga… was Ryuuji merely fulfilling his role as Papa? Or perhaps, as the blue-haired model asserted, there is no Papa or Child or any of that House-playing, only a true direction in which feelings lay? His heart certainly knows the answer, but only time will tell through his action and choices.
And so, in this holy, holy night, the story takes a new turn into a significantly different future. Such was the tale of Angel Taiga-sama, the lonely fairy of Christmas Eve, who suddenly found herself yearning, for the first time in many years, for the company of a specific individual known as Takasu Ryuuji.
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