"Do you like Katsu-kun?" Kurumi raised her eyebrows slightly as if she was asking the question even though she already knew the answer.
"… …" Natsumi stared at Kurumi warily without saying a word. To be honest, she really wanted to cover her face and run away. After all, this woman had seen all her secrets… …
"Oh, I'm sorry for saying that..." Kurumi spread her hands, then looked at Natsumi who was carefully moving backwards and sighed slightly.
"Well, although it may seem like you are aiding the enemy, for the sake of our current goal, I will give you a little advice. Try to approach Katsu-kun in your true form and use the question 'need help?' as an opportunity. You will gain something unexpected~"
As he spoke, Kurumi's mouth corners slightly raised, and then she actually slowly fell into the shadow that had unfolded at her feet without knowing when---
Seeing that Kurumi seemed to be leaving, Natsumi was stunned for a moment, and then subconsciously thought about what the other party had just said, and couldn't help but say with emotion: "Don't you like him? Why do you want to teach me how to get close to him?"
"… …Hehe, when you really get to know him, you'll understand---" As the voice fell, the last bit of Kurumi's figure disappeared in the shadow on the ground—leaving only Natsumi standing in a daze in the alley under the autumn afternoon sun.
"Do you really...know him...?"
… …
At Raizen High School, listening to the school bell ringing in his ears, Katsu yawned, stretched, turned his head to look in the direction of Shidou, and said: "School is over, I'm going to the barber shop to cut this long hair that has grown for no reason, do you want to come with me?" As he spoke, Katsu pointed to the long hair tucked into his school uniform on his back.
"Hmm... I'll forget it. There's no food at home, and I have to go to the supermarket." Shidou thought about it, then spread his hands and shook his head.
Katsu shrugged and said, "Okay, then I, a lonely man, will set off alone."
"You talk as if no one will accompany you. Katsu, if you just shout in the class, there will definitely be a lot of girls to accompany you." Shidou said helplessly, holding his forehead.
"Well, that's different I am just cutting my hair---Anyway, let's arrange it this way for now. I have finished my homework in the previous class, so I will leave first~" Katsu greeted Shidou and Tohka who were packing their schoolbags, then turned and left.
"I will picked up some food for you Tohka"
"You have to listen to the teacher in class---" Shidou's weak and resentful voice came from behind.
"Love you!!! Katsu please buy a lot of chocolate cream bread for me."
… …
Just when Katsu was concentrating on the autumn scenery on both sides, he suddenly felt a pause in front of him and bumped into someone---
"Ah, sorry, are you okay?" Katsu subconsciously lowered his head and looked at the figure that he had knocked down and sat on the ground. It was a petite loli-type girl with emerald hair. She looked quite cute, but the inferiority and melancholy she exuded made people unable to help but keep a distance from her.
Of course, Katsu, who had bumped into someone, would not do that. Not only that he recognize her as the [Witch] but he pretend not to know her. He simply bent down, extended his hand to the emerald-haired girl, and said with an apologetic smile, "Are you not hurt?"
Looking at Katsu's warm smile that seemed to be able to heal people's hearts, the green-haired girl couldn't help but be dazed, and she handed her hand to Katsu in a daze.
"Hey, hey," Katsu helped her up. She still looked dazed. Katsu scratched his head in confusion: "Um, what's wrong? Are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere?"
Coming back to her senses, the emerald-haired girl blushed and shook her head: "No... not... that, I wanted to say... um---"
"Gulululu---"
Just when Natsumi was about to say something, her stomach suddenly sounded an alarm...
"… …"
Katsu and Natsumi looked at each other, and the scene was very awkward for a moment.
"Ahhhhhhhhh----" Natsumi's face flushed red all of a sudden, and she squatted down while screaming, holding her head. This was not the script she wanted---Natsumi, who listened to Kurumi's advice, originally planned to try to contact Katsu, for example, to ask for directions politely, or to be politely treated by Katsu, and then chat with him… …
Anyway, this extremely embarrassing situation is not what Natsumi wants at all...
"Um...are you hungry?" Katsu looked at the little Natsumi in front of him with a twitching mouth, squatting on the ground, holding her head and crying.
Natsumi slowly raised her head and looked towards Katsu, his eyes full of tears.
"Every spirit sure has a special quirk." Katsu thought silently in his heart, but then, considering that he was the one who knocked her down, it seemed that there was nothing wrong in treating her to a meal as an apology.
Thinking of this, Katsu sighed and said helplessly, "If you are hungry, I will treat you to a meal as an apology for bumping into you. How about it?"
"... ...Hmm---" Natsumi was a little embarrassed, looking at Katsu, her cheeks gradually turned red...
"Great... Great, as expected, he is different! Even in his true form, he didn't ignore me..."She thought to herself.
"Okay, since you don't say anything, I'll take that as your consent. Let's go. I know a great cake shop - I just don't know if it has gone bankrupt since I haven't been there for more than a month..." As he said that, Katsu grabbed the girl's wrist and began to walk towards the nearby shopping street.
Along the way, because the two were not familiar with each other, there was almost no conversation. No matter how hard they tried to think of topics, they gave up in the end because of some inferiority complex.
For various reasons, Katsu finally took Natsumi to a shop.
"Autie, can I have chocolate cream bread!" Katsu walked to shop. Then he turned to the busy manager on the other side call his order.
Hearing Katsu's voice, the auntie manager subconsciously looked up and laughed unexpectedly, jokingly saying, "Hey, isn't this Katsu? You haven't been here for a while. Are you not satisfied with out sweet."
"How could that be? Auntie's baking skills are extraordinary. It's just that he has something to do recently and has been busy---" Katsu waved his hand and smiled.
This is the shop where he brings Tohka with him a lot to buy sweets so he is very familiar with the owner here.
As a result, when he saw Natsumi next to Katsu with his head down and looking a little stiff, the auntie was stunned for a moment, and then he couldn't help but lower his head and whispered to Katsu: "You kid, why did you change your girlfriend again? Wasn't it the same... two orange-haired girls who came last time? The one before that was a red-haired one, another one was a cute blue-haired girl... As for me, the best girl was Miss Tohka who is so energetic that you brought with you when you first came to my stall to buy chocolate cream bread."
Katsu sighed and waved his hand: "Ah, things are complicated, but I take care of all of them very well"
"Hehe, you youngsters, I won't ask any more questions, auntie will just give you some delicious baked chocolate cream bread." As he said that, the auntie looked up timidly from time to time, looked at Katsu with a puzzled expression, then looked at his own Natsumi and smiled kindly.
Seeing the auntie leave, Natsumi couldn't sit still all of a sudden. She looked up at Katsu and couldn't help asking, "Do you treat me as a friend similar to those girls Auntie mentioned or am I just a garbage worthless thing that you pick up and feel pity."
Katsu looked at Natsumi who was making fun of herself, and the corner of his mouth twitched fiercely. What kind of person is this...
Katsu shook his head after seeing this. It was true that the world was so big that there were all kinds of strange things. A cute little girl could actually be so self-deprecating.