"What are you looking at!"
"I'm going to pinch you again!"
Once or twice is understandable. As a man, he should be polite and generous. This is a virtue that has been practiced worldwide for thousands of years.
But virtues are virtues, and that doesn't mean people will tolerate everything forever.
When the time comes to act, Thunder must strike!
Nino's eyes widened as she wanted to explode in embarrassment. However, the next moment, she noticed the strange stares around her and quickly buried her head in his chest.
'Just wait! How dare you pinch my waist? Don't think this matter will be resolved so easily!'
Although she thought this, Nino honestly didn't dare to move.
Suddenly, her ears twitched slightly, and she heard very faint comments.
"Damn, I'm watching a couple flirting even on the train, and I'm so angry!"
"Showing off affection is too much. They're even flaunting their love on the train. I hope you two are long-lost siblings!"
"Agreed!"
"Agreed!"
"..."
To outsiders, did they look like a couple?
Nino's face was hot, and she wanted to retort, saying that she wasn't his girlfriend at all, and she wasn't flirting with him.
Haruto's voice came through: "We're here."
Nino was confused and replied dully, "What?"
Haruto couldn't help but say, "The train has arrived, of course. Hurry and get up to get off."
Nino: "😮"
So fast! It felt like she had just boarded the train; how could they have arrived so quickly?
Haruto urged, "Quickly get up, stop lying down, it's hot."
Nino: "😡"
She was furious!
Having a super cute girl lying in his arms, and Haruto still didn't like it? How hateful!
He deserves to be single for life!
After getting off the train, a cold wind blew, and Nino shivered: "It's so cold..."
Now it's April, and the daytime temperature was fine, around 20 degrees Celsius, but at night, the temperature dropped, and it had now fallen to 13 degrees.
Of course, it felt cold when she suddenly stepped out of the warm train.
Haruto checked the time.
It was already past 7 PM and almost 8 PM, and the night had enveloped the earth.
Haruto put away his phone and said, "You should know your way back, right?"
Nino took a deep breath and calmly said, "Sorry, I don't understand what you're talking about."
"I'm heading back; you should head home soon."
After a pause, Nino flipped her waist-length hair and pretended to be calm: "Pervert Kuromori, thanks for today."
One by one, Haruto had truly helped her today.
As for him pinching her waist... she'd deal with that later.
In any case, Nino wouldn't let him off easily.
Haruto said nonchalantly, "Please just call me Kuromori."
Nino crossed her arms and looked at him with disdain: "No way. I know what you're up to."
"..."
Honestly, Haruto didn't understand why Nino was so hostile toward him.
Could it be because of what happened last time with Miku?
However, Haruto could also see that although Nino was very hostile towards him, she didn't actually hate him.
How to put it?
If you truly hate someone, you wouldn't want to say a word to them, and you'd feel disgusted even being close to them.
That clearly wasn't the case with Nino.
So Haruto didn't understand at all.
A woman's heart is as deep as the ocean, and the ancients did not lie.
Haruto bid farewell to Nino, turned, and walked toward his apartment. On the way, he glanced at the dark sky. He wasn't sure if it was an illusion, but he always felt that the large induction barrier he had just set up had been touched.
But when he carefully sensed it, he noticed nothing.
"It's been quiet for a few days; has another soul been absorbed?" Haruto withdrew his gaze, turned, and walked towards a secluded park.
Oddity.
Under the blood moon, there is sorrow and silence.
Haruto stepped into the void and carefully felt for the Hollow, but to his surprise, he found nothing.
"An illusion?"
"That should be impossible."
Haruto thought for a moment and dismissed the possibility of an illusion.
Although he was still an Esper and his body was still within the category of a human, with the blessing of his various abilities, it was impossible for such a mistake to occur.
Since maintaining the super-large induction barrier was the most sensitive and important thing he cherished.
Therefore, it couldn't just be an illusion.
And ruling out the possibility of an illusion means that something else is happening that he doesn't know about.
The erosion of oddities into the modern world has never stopped.
Therefore, Haruto wasn't surprised by this change.
He had stopped the expansion of the cracks in the sky and the appearance of monsters, but that only slowed the pace of expansion.
"Troublesome."
Haruto paused for a moment, then turned and left.
What could he do?
He couldn't do anything about something that hadn't happened yet.
After all, he wasn't a god.
Being able to set up a super-large barrier at critical points was already a huge hassle. As for the current world... there's so many people in the world, in such a large place, with many things happening every day, including youkai attacking humans. Who could handle incidents like ghosts appearing?
Of course, those so-called youkai aren't powerful and have no strength to resist in front of humans, so they have basically integrated into human society.
In modern society, even the most powerful youkai have to live with their tails between their legs.
They basically don't dare to cause trouble.
So, this is just an ordinary world.
❀❀❀
"I'm back."
Nino said something unusual, bowed to change her shoes, and walked into the living room.
In the living room, all four of her sisters were there. Except for Itsuki and Yotsuba who were seriously doing their homework, Ichika was lying on the sofa playing with her phone.
The TV was on, but no one was watching it.
The sisters looked at Nino one by one. Ichika blinked and said curiously, "Nino, you're back. What happened to your phone? It couldn't be reached."
Nino made brief eye contact with Miku and said nonchalantly, "The phone ran out of battery. I'll charge it first. By the way, did you buy the ingredients? I'll go down and make dinner later."
Since she had promised to cook dinner for a week, Nino couldn't slack off.
The ahoge on Itsuki's head twitched slightly: "I've already bought them, just waiting for you, Nino."
Itsuki was the happiest and most positive.
After dinner, Nino sat on the sofa, took out her phone, hesitated for a moment, and sent a message to Haruto.
Nino: "Are you home?"
She wasn't worried about him.
But just to remind him that today's events should not be revealed, like how she took the initiative to hug him, her hair getting caught in the door, etc...
If others found out, where would she put her face?