manga artist Kirito

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"So, what's your name? -- If you dare tell me it's Pear, Green Pear, Orange or something, I'll sell you off like a persimmon right now."

"Chewing, chewing"

Yes, there was no answer.

The girl was chewing on a candy, her adorable big eyes blinking.

Because it was so cute, Kiritani-kun didn't feel any dissatisfaction.

Instead, he took the remaining two pieces of trash back into the convenience store and said to the clerk, "Give me a box of those candies."

With a forced smile on his face, the shop assistant's expression was something like, "Holy crap, they actually started chatting!" But he didn't stop what he was doing and handed Kiritani a box of the same brand as before.

"Thanks... Oh right, could you do me a favor?" While paying, Kiritani handed the trash to the clerk, his expression at the time was incredibly smug.

"Now, take it."

"Hmm, arigato."

"name."

"...Quiz."

"Hmm~?"

"Ayano... Geiko."

"age?"

—Legal Lolita!

Ideally, she should be a legal loli!

Kiritani-kun's gaze, which had been filled with anticipation for a long time, met the girl's big eyes.

The girl hugged the box of candy, looked around, and slightly shook her leg. "I won't tell you—a lady's age is not something you can just tell anyone."

“That makes sense.” Kirito nodded in agreement, so he wouldn’t be disappointed because she wasn’t a legal loli.

The girl looked at Kiritani with a rather appreciative gaze, "It's good that you understand."

"Would you like to sit in the middle of the road or go for a swim in Tokyo Bay?"

"I'm... twelve years old."

"Damn it! It's not..." With a disappointed expression, Kirigaya rubbed his forehead. But then he thought it made sense. He hadn't seen a legal loli in all these years. It would be strange if he could just run into one on the street so easily.

"Never mind, are you hungry?"

“I…I just saw you coming out of that ramen stall over there.”

Kiritani's expression turned somewhat grim. "So, you mean I was kicked off the bus by that woman...you saw it all?"

How embarrassing... I haven't even managed to raise the favorability rating yet, and I've already embarrassed myself.

The girl took a barely perceptible step back and said softly, "I...I didn't see it."

“You’re very smart. I’ve never seen a child your age who speaks so well—ah, except for me.” Kiritani looked at the little girl with her head down. “I feel like you know me very well.”

The girl answered without hesitation, "An illusion."

How could someone as blatantly malicious as you not understand?

"No, I mean it." Kiritani looked at her seriously. "Were you worried that I would hit you if you told the truth?"

"Don't you think so?" The girl looked up and met Kiritani's eyes, then immediately lowered her head, looking very scared.

Do I look like the kind of person who would shamelessly hit elementary school students?

"...Hey, you have the nerve to say that?"

"What do you think this is?"

"These glasses look familiar."

Kiritani-kun took a deep breath; this girl was completely different from what he had expected.

“Since I didn’t take off your panties and put them on my head, nor did I intend to take off your stockings, why should I be ashamed?” Kiritani-kun reached out and pressed his hand on the girl’s head. “In life, honesty isn’t the most important thing. The most important thing is to understand the times, for example…”

"For example, what if I shouted 'Is there a pervert?'"

"……you win."

227

[NO.224 is not about kidnapping a little girl]

Not right.

It's not right.

This girl is completely different from the loli player named Silica that I remember.

Although I gained her trust very easily... no, I didn't gain her trust at all this time, I was just taken advantage of.

However, the cute and cuddly dragon rider I remembered was nothing like this...

At least, in my memory, she wasn't that good at languages ​​at all.

Um... to correct myself, I didn't want to gain her trust so I could seduce her, I just simply wanted to be friends with her.

Yes, I just want to have a cute little girl friend so that I can confidently say I know a very cute little girl when I brag to others in the future—that's all.

…………

"Do you know me?"

"do not know."

"...You know me?"

"There's a really strange guy at Soubu High School. Last week, he punctured her tires in front of the teacher."

“I didn’t do this,” Kiritani shook his head. “I didn’t have any tools at the time.”

“My cousin said you had a screwdriver in your hand at the time.” The girl pursed her lips. “I saw it. That teacher was the one whose tire you punctured right in front of him.”

"...She wanted to lock me in a dark room, but I was just a little annoyed. I was just joking with her when I punctured the tire."

"Ugh... cough, I see now, that teacher wasn't really going to hit you even though he was carrying a brick."

Holy crap! Jing Ke was holding a brick at the time?

Kiritani was instantly shocked; he had just escaped a disaster.

"I don't think you should go close to look at this kind of thing."

"I was looking for my cousin when she went to get her car to take me home, so I saw it by chance, not intentionally."

"I believe it." Kiritani believed it wholeheartedly, after all, there was really nothing worth watching about this kind of thing, since students puncturing teachers' tires was all too common.

The girl… Ayano Keiko nodded slightly, “Mmm~”

"Your cousin is a teacher?"

"Student, a first-year high school student."

"What's your name?"

"Kiritani Kazuko".

"Bullshit, that's my... cough, my sister."

"...Asada Shino."

"Huh! Asada Shino is your cousin?" Kiritani was a little confused. After all, none of the black-clad swordsman's memory fragments revealed that Silica and Asada Shino were related. If they were, then they could only be considered rivals.

Speaking of which, why didn't I discover this person's existence for a whole semester?

“My cousin’s cousin’s cousin… um, cousin!” Ayano Keiko opened her mouth and uttered a string of words with the same pronunciation, and wrinkled her cute nose. “Kiritani Kazuko… is a name that my cousin said she saw on the internet, along with a picture that looks a lot like you.”

Blinking her big eyes, the girl was a little curious about whether the person in front of her was a man or a woman.

After all, many people can imitate their voice these days.

"It's fake, it doesn't exist." Kiritani waved his hand. "Kids should play in the mud quietly. Your sister's thoughts are a bit impure, so you should associate with her less in the future."

“Compared to my cousin, I think you’re worse.” The girl patted her pocket, seemingly looking for her phone, but found nothing. She looked somewhat troubled. “At least my cousin doesn’t talk badly about others behind their backs.”

"But it's not good for me to say that to my face now."

"Sorry, I'll be more careful." The girl nodded vigorously, as if she had really remembered.

I admit it!

...Sigh, this child is even more troublesome than my neighbor Yukinoko.

You can't mess with little girls! If it were Yukino-chan, I would have pinned her down right away.

"Okay, let's get down to business and see if you should go home." Kiritani-kun decided to talk to her about something serious. After all, being squatted here and watched by people was a bit awkward, especially since the onlookers seemed ready to call the police at any moment, just waiting for the little girl to scream.

"Yes, I really should go home."

"So, what's your address?"

"Hey, Kazuko-nii, do you have any money—give me three hundred yen?" The girl asked, looking at Kiritani-kun's glasses with a hint of expectation.

“It’s ‘to’, not ‘to’.” Kiritani pushed up his black-rimmed glasses, his face blank. “Tell me your address first, then tell me what you need the money for, and I’ll consider whether to give it to you or not.”

"I can't tell you my address." The girl shook her head vigorously, very firmly. "My cousin said that I can't just tell perverts my address."

Kiritani pushed up his glasses again. "Correction: I'm not a pervert."

"If I need money... of course I'll take a taxi home," the girl said matter-of-factly.

"You're really not being polite," Kiritani-kun said with a rather mysterious smile.

"After all, isn't that why you came to talk to me, Kazuko-nii? Besides, if I yell, you'll be pinned to the ground by those eye-catching onlookers!"

"It's not Kazuko, it's Kazuto!" Kiritani-kun was a little angry. This was the first time he had ever met a girl who wouldn't listen to reason.

"Forget it, I can't talk to you anymore. What's your cousin's phone number? You should have come out with her, right? I'll have her come pick you up."

Kiritani took out his phone, but immediately felt the girl's disdainful look.

"Are you trying to get my cousin's phone number this way? Or... does Kazuko simply not want to spend that little bit of money?" The girl paused, seemingly feeling that the girl's matter-of-fact tone was inappropriate, since the other party had no obligation to help.

"...Um, I'll have my cousin return it to you."

Speaking of which, the last time I got lost, I also didn't have my phone or any money with me. I think I ended up taking a taxi and only asked someone to pay for it when I got to my doorstep... I was worried halfway there that I might be discovered and kicked out of the car.

"What else?"

"Pay back the money... Huh? Cousin!" Slightly startled, the girl suddenly turned around to look behind her. There stood a girl with thick glasses... who looked like a bookworm. Her pretty face had a slightly worried expression, but after seeing that the girl hadn't experienced anything bad, she relaxed.

Reaching out, she ruffled Ayano Keiko's hair and smiled slightly at Kirito-kun. "Thank you so much, Kirito-kun."

"Uh, Asada-san...?" Kiritani looked at this girl who was not only like a bookworm but also had a lot of alluring charm. He slightly twitched the corners of his mouth. She was clearly pretty, so why had he never heard of her name at school?

"Yes, I'm this child's... um~ cousin, I just left the meeting and I can't see her anymore, it's so worrying."

No, I'm the one who's getting impatient. Why can't we wait and come back later?

...I was so close to achieving the feat of chatting with the little girl for ten minutes!

“Kids will be kids, they just like to wander around.” Kiritani-kun said with a straight face. “After all, people in this society are treacherous. This child stood here for so long, looking like she was about to cry, but no one dared to come up and ask what was wrong! — Sigh, in today’s materialistic society, people are cold and heartless. Only a caring older brother like me can bring some warmth to these little girls.”

The little girl opened her mouth as if to vomit, feeling a bit nauseous.

To be honest, she had never met a guy who loved to brag so much.

Sinon's smile grew even wider and more pronounced. "Just like always... Kirigaya-kun."

"Hey, you seem to know me pretty well?" Kiritani was a little surprised. What was this... running into several people who knew me after eating ramen on the street?

The original quote was—"Even when I go out to buy a pack of cigarettes, I encounter ten people who have been with me..."

—Shut up, you can't say any more!

Shino smiled faintly, "Well, I'm a student in Group J. Yuki's boyfriend, Kirito, is quite a topic of conversation in class, especially since your hair grew longer after you came back to school on the weekend... It's become even more of a topic of conversation. Plus, I often go to the office, and I often see Hiratsuka-sensei talking about you with other people."

Well, as far as Kiritani-kun knows, both the first-year and second-year J groups are dominated by women, and the male students who make it into the J group are real bookworms... Kiritani-kun heard from Asuna that, this semester, apart from her and Kiritani-kun, no one in the J group has found a boyfriend.

Incidentally, Asuna probably faced discrimination for bringing Kirito-kun lunches—discrimination against single people is similar to the mentality of wanting to burn down people who walk their dogs.

"I see. I really thought I was so famous at school that I could run into several girls who had slept with me just by going out on the street."