Vol 1 Chapter 3 (1/2)

Chapter 03: Not a slave, but a maid!

—-Today, it had been 6 days since Luna cried for the first time.

As promised, I went out shopping with Luna and Nazuna.

“It’s been a while since I went out shopping with Brother~”

When I turned around on her voice, Nazuna was happily grinning while clinging to my arm.

And with her right hand around my arm, her left hand was clutching Luna’s arm. Nazuna walked in a pleased mood. Somehow we looked like parents with a child.

She was humming “Shopping with Brother~”, but I remembered that we’d just gone shopping together a month ago. My memory was so clear, since we went to a large department store two stations away, where she’d said something like “I want to see western clothes, come with me~”.

I really wished she would ask her friends for that.

Unlike me, she had a lot of friends after all. She should just invite them and go look at clothes. To be honest, I had no clue about clothes. And swimsuits are even less of my speciality.

Aww, I was afraid I’d get dragged along for a swimsuit election again this year. What a pain.

“Wah~”

When I s.h.i.+fted my gaze towards the voice, Luna was looking around the area with sparkling eyes. She looked curiously at the general store, electronics store and bookstore. Judging by this, she should be even more surprised when I show her the game centre on the third floor or the movie theatre on the fourth floor.

“Luna-san, let’s go.”

As today’s leader, Nazuna lightly pulled on Luna’s arm and headed for the elevators.

First we were to buy clothes and underwear on the third floor. Apparently Luna only had one bra.s.siere and sometimes just didn’t bother wearing it. My mother had a different size, so it couldn’t be helped, but… it was a perfect combination of and , Sensei.

Geez. Its charm comes from hiding it, not from fully exposing it. Let me announce at this point that underwear is supposed to be worn properly.

So like that, first some underwear. Then clothes. So far, Luna made do with clothes from me or my mother, but the sizes didn’t fit. Let me squeeze in, that my mother is far away from being fat and sadly boasted proportions befitting a model, but Luna was a walking art gallery. Her bust exceeded my mother’s, her waist made my mother envious and her hips made my mother resign.

Taking such a Luna with us, we went into the elevator.

“Wah, wah. s.h.i.+n.o.bu-san, s.h.i.+n.o.bu-san. Amazing. It is amazing. We are floating.”

Looking out of the gla.s.s elevator, Luna raised her voice in fascination.

She was endlessly excited, pulling lightly on my sleeves. But

“…You’re like a kid, Miss.”

The boy, who was in the elevator with us, said teasingly and Luna turned red. Seeing that, the brat lost all reservation and said “A kid~!” while pointing at Luna.

“Huh? I’m gonna eat ya, wraar.”

With a single glare, I shut the brat up. Then all the other people in the elevator increased their distance from us. And as the elevator reached our destination, I could even hear the teary voice of the brat from behind saying “A monster!”. Luna and Nazuna gave me a bitter smile, but I pretended not to hear it and quickly got off. We reached the underwear section.

“Okay, I’ll take a look at the underwear with Luna-san, so wait here, Brother.”

“No. I won’t wait. Not even a single second. That’s why I’ll go with you.”

When I said that to Nazuna in front of the underwear store,

“Geez, you have no delicacy. You fail as a gentleman.”

Gentleman, failure.

d.a.m.n Nazuna. What a heartless thing to say.

Sure, I was interested in what kind of underwear Luna would choose. My curiosity about her bra.s.siere size had no limits. It seemed Nazuna had seen through my plans.

“…I was only joking, Nazuna. I’ll go look at some super-alloy or something. Call me when you’re done.”

I turned around and left the underwear store behind me.

How regretful. I turned around to see Nazuna and Luna happily choosing underwear. If I were there, I would recommend some s.e.xy red or black ones. No, wait. White isn’t to be scorned either… Deep in thought I wandered around with no destination.

“….Mh?”

What suddenly entered my vision was: wildly swinging silver twintails. Red eyes. A fine-featured face. And a sloppy yellow hoodie.

“Oh, it’s Elni.”

I stopped upon seeing the albino girl, Elni standing in front of the ice-cream store. You might have forgotten already, but Elni was the weird girl that stole my hotdog, made me treat her to food at a family restaurant, proclaimed herself a G.o.ddess and gave me a ring as a present a few days ago.

“….What’s she doing?”

Elni was staring at the kids eating ice-cream near the store. With envious eyes, she was giving the ice-cream, the kids were licking a pa.s.sionate glare.

“Miss, you want an ice?”

A boy eating ice-cream asked that. He must have noticed Elni’s glare.

When I took a closer look, it was the same brat that made fun of Luna in the elevator. When Elni energetically nodded with a “Yeah”, the brat mockingly answered.

“I see, you want it. But, I’m not giving you any.”

What a cruel brat.

For a moment, Elni looked like she was going to cry, but then she faced away with a “H- Hmp”.

“N- Not like I wanted it anyway! I.. I don’t want an ice-cream. Not at all, you hear!”

Elni said while staring at the ice-cream.

With a “Hmm~”, the brat made a mean smile and continued to eat his ice-cream flaunting it in front of her.

Tears started swelling up in Elni’s eyes.

I could no longer watch this. Please stop it! Don’t bully this girl!

Thinking that, I drew closer to Elni.

“Gyaaah!”

The moment the brat saw my face, he screamed.

“Huh? I’m gonna eat ya, wraar.”

When I said the same stuff as in the elevator, the brat screamed “Monster~” again and ran away. I ignored the brat and looked at Elni.

“Uwaaah! A monsterrr!”

Looking at me, Elni was going to run away like the brat.

“Hey, who are you calling a monster. Have you forgotten the generous me already? It’s me, s.e.xy s.h.i.+n.o.bu-san, loved by everyone!”

“….Who are you?”

Elni looked at me with a puzzled look. She was totally doing that on purpose.

“Man, just when I thought I would treat you to an ice, since you had these longing eyes.”

s.h.i.+nomun got angry. I wouldn’t treat her to any ice now and turned away. Upon seeing that Elni showed me her palm with a “Wait a moment” and hurriedly went somewhere else.

….What was she up to.

As I waited for Elni in that moment—-suddenly my cell phone rang.

“Who is it?”

It was too early for Nazuna. They must still be choosing underwear…With that in mind I peeked at the display and it showed an unknown 11-digit number.

“h.e.l.lo?”

Tilting my head while wondering who it could be, I answered the call.

“It’s me.”

I could hear a somewhat bossy girl’s voice.

“I see. And here is me, the great.”

I retorted.

“You’re Nanjou s.h.i.+n.o.bu.”

“Mh? How do you know my cell phone number? Let me guess, you’re a stalker!”

“Hehehe. Boy, what underwear are you wearing right now?”

“Th- That’s too embarra.s.sing.”

I turned red on that shameful question.

“It’s fine. You won’t lose anything. Tell me.”

“Ehm, you know, actually… I’m not wearing any.”

“W- Wow! Now that’s serious. Very serious!”

When I lied for no reason, I heard a surprised voice through the phone.

“Okay! I’m coming over now!”

“Don’t”

“Don’t be so cold….I want to eat ice-cream.”

I turned around to the sad voice and Elni, holding a cell phone, who stood behind me.

“Yahoo~”

Elni greeted me with one hand.

Oh, I see. I remembered that I told her my cell phone number before. When I looked at Elni, she proudly showed me her cell phone while grinning.

“What do you think, cool, isn’t it? I just bought it! Now I can call you, s.h.i.+n.o.bu!”

She bought a cell phone for that, huh.

“…But, if you had money to buy a cell phone, why not just buy an ice-cream?”

I asked what was on my mind.

“That won’t do. Squandering is rad…No, I got it wrong. Squandering is bad! If I were to spend my money on luxury goods, I’d go bankrupt. And I wouldn’t have money for the train home.”

Elni answered with a serious expression.

….Didn’t she spend everything she had to buy the cell phone?

“More importantly, s.h.i.+n.o.bu. It’s a cell phone! Amazing, isn’t it?”

Since she had sparkling eyes, I nodded.

“Okay, s.h.i.+n.o.bu, save my number. Look, I already saved yours! The saleswoman showed me how, so I’ve nearly mastered all the functions already!”

Elni busily operated her cell phone.

She seemed to be in a good mood. It’s impressive that she managed to fill out the contract, but I’m better off not saying that aloud.

“Okay, okay. Let’s do that while you eat an ice-cream. Which do you want?”

“Vanilla, chocolate and strawberry!”

“…If you say so.”

I thought about telling her to have a little reservation, but seeing her smile made me lose all the will to complain. Just like she wanted, I bought her three scoops of ice-cream: vanilla, chocolate and strawberry, while I looked at my cell phone.

“Now then…”

“Mh? s.h.i.+n.o.bu, why are you saving my number under ‘Mad Dog’? A codename isn’t something you use so casually.”

I received a warning from Elni, who took a peek at my hands. I just ignored her and took a bite from the ice-cream in her hand.

“Oh, it’s good.”

which made me think that I should have bought one for myself as well.

“….An indirect kiss. *blush*”

Elni pretended to be shy while putting her hands on her cheeks.

Ignoring her again, I operated her cell phone and brought up the profile menu. I confirmed her mail address and saved it into my own cell phone. Surely, Elni as a beginner with cell phones wouldn’t have understood if I told her about infrared transmission. Giving the cell phone back to her I said,

“I’ll send you a mail, so save my mail address too.”

“Yay~ A mail. It’s my first.”

Elni seemed really pleased.

“s.h.i.+n.o.bu, what kind of mail will you send? An eloquent greeting? Or could it be a confession of love? Anything is fine, but nothing obscene please. It would just arouse me.”

I was going to send Nietzsche’s statement of “G.o.d is dead” to the excited Elni, when suddenly the cell phone in my hand rang. The display said “Nazucat”.

“Yo, jackal here.”

I put the cell phone to my ear and answered collectedly, when

“Pantheress here.”

…..Mh? For some reason, a voice that wasn’t Nazucat’s answered.

“P- Pantheress? Wh- Who are you? And what happened to Nazucat?”

“Nazucat is dead.”

“What the!”

“And you’ll be the next to die.”

“Oh G.o.d!”

“If you don’t want to die, bring the funds you got from your mother to the underwear store! If you fail to do that… e- ehm, then we can’t buy Luna-san’s underwear!”

“Th- That’s horrible!”

I replied “I’ll be there soon” and hung up.

“We’ve got trouble on our hands.”

“….What happened?”

Elni tilted her head, puzzled. I dramatically said.

“The trouble didn’t happen here at the ice-cream store. It’s at the scene of the crime! So I’m heading over there now!”

After saying what I’d wanted to say, I felt satisfied and nodded once. Then I said “Until next time” and left Elni, who still had her head tilted.

From behind myself, I could hear Elni’s voice saying “Make sure to mail me later~!”, so I waved my right hand in acknowledgement and hurried to the underwear store, when

“Whoops”

I spotted an acquaintance in the corner of my eye and stopped automatically.

Near the entrance of the game centre, stood a beauty with straight, long black hair—-It was Gogyou-san. Seems like she took a day off from her ambushes, since she wasn’t carrying her bamboo sword with her. In exchange she was holding a handbag now. And she wore a skirt. Casual clothes. Wonderful.

But what a surprise. Gogyou-san stood together with three boys.

The boys all had dyed hair, pierced ears and frivolous looks. I wondered if Gogyou-san liked boys like that.

Thinking of how unexpected this was, I watched her, as Gogyou-san talked to the boys in a nervous state while shaking her hands, somewhat troubled. Her usual sharp eyes were now clouded and kind of worried.

Could it be that she was being hit on?

Now worried, I headed towards Gogyou-san without making any noise.

“Hey, you’re alone, right? Let’s play together. We won’t bore you.”

“We’re three boys, we can surely have some fun.”

“C’mon, let’s go. I know a good spot.”

“Yeah, let’s get going already, d.a.m.n it. You got some fine t.i.ts there, d.a.m.n it. What are they packed with? Love? Dreams? Or hope?”

The boys continued with vulgar smiles.

“You’re bored by yourself, right? C’mon, let’s get going.”

“We’ll treat you, so don’t let us down, okay?”

“Whatever, just show me these t.i.ts. t.i.ts, you hear. Or if you dislike that, let me touch them, fondle and poke them.”

By the way, the one who wouldn’t shut up about “t.i.ts, t.i.ts” was me. I had just lined up beside the persistent guys and tried to join in naturally….but the boys noticed me and gave me fierce glares.

“Huh? Whatcha looking at?”

“Who are you? You know her?”

Before I could answer their questions,

“N- Nanjou-kun?”

Gogyou-san made a surprised face and called my name.

“…Hey, don’t expose my name so suddenly. I’ll be in trouble now when something happens.”

“Wh- What are you going to do….”

The worst case would be that it ends up in a fight, but using your fist for something like this isn’t worth it. The best solution was if we could resolve this by talking, but—- there was something I had to do before that. I protectively stood before Gogyou-san and shouted with my fists raised towards the guys.

“Guys, stop this at once! Kidnapping a fair lady against her will is just rude! As long as I stand here firmly, I won’t allow such a thing!”

Yeah, I always wanted to do this at least once. s.h.i.+nomun made his entrance. While acting all cool, I faced Gogyou-san and asked “Are you alright, Miss?”, when

“You’re evil.”

“Be gone.”

“Die.”

With these words from the boys, I got pushed on my chest, shoulder and back in quick succession and inadvertently lost my balance.

As I tried to regain my balance, Gogyou-san stood in front of me.

Just when I thought “not good”, it was already too late.

I b.u.mped into Gogyou-san, who was in front of me.

But instead of the expected pain, I felt a warm and soft sensation over my whole body.

When I raised my head puzzled,

“N- Na- Nan- Nanjou-kun?”

Gogyou-san’s bright red face was extremely close.

It appeared that I had dived headlong into Gogyou-san’s chest.

A warm body temperature, two soft and big bulges and the scent of shampoo.

It was a really wonderful situation, but I wouldn’t have the time to enjoy it.

“…W- Well, there are days like this, you know? Just to be clear, it wasn’t on purpose.”

I slowly got off Gogyou-san and tried to smile with a cold sweat.

“N- Nanjou-kun, you….”

Still bright red, Gogyou-san’s eyes welled up with tears and she started to shake.

“idioooot!”

Raising a loud voice that I’d never heard before at school, she pushed me away with both hands. No, she wasn’t simply pus.h.i.+ng me away. It felt more like a blow.

A twin palm strike. Coming one step forward, bending her knees to lower her centre of gravity she drew strength from her entire body. I took the blow—and flew through the air.

I jumped backwards to mitigate the damage, but it was still quite powerful. Gogyou-san must’ve performed her twin palm strike by reflex. It was quite impressive how she could bring out her warrior side automatically. Actually, a twin palm strike when she’s in the kendo club? Maybe she learned more martial arts than just kendo?

Not bad. The moment before I hit the floor, I employed a falling technique; rolling in mid-air and landed perfectly, raising my head.

I could see the three guys from earlier, running away with pale faces. You don’t see people flying through the air all that often. They must have noticed that the girl they’d tried to hit on wasn’t a cat, but a tigress.

Gogyou-san doesn’t go “Meow”, but “Gwar”. She’s strong.

When she saw me standing up, she quickly turned around and went away.

Yeah, of course she would be angry. She was bright red up to her ears.

Aww, now I had done it. Even if it was by accident, I did something unforgivable. I had to take responsibility. But I wouldn’t apologise.

As for the reason why, that blow really hurt. Not enough to cause a bruise, but it was still quite painful. If one of the guys from earlier had taken that hit, he might have broken a rib. Then my cell phone rang. When I looked on the display it said “Nazucat”. She was probably calling to urge me to hurry to the underwear store already.

I ended up dawdling without planning to.

“Sorry, Nazuna. I was flying for a bit. Ehm, CAN YOU FLY?”

I made an excuse over the phone that I wouldn’t even believe myself and mixed in some English into it.

“A cat who can’t fly is just a cat.”

An unexpectedly grumpy answer.

That’s why I unconsciously mimicked a scene from a certain crimson character and shouted “Idiot!”, then hung up. I thought Nazuna might get the references…. but I hurried anyway. I got the feeling that someone was shouting “Ah, h- hey, wait, Nanjou-kun” behind me, but I ignored it. I had to hurry.

“Here, this is for you, Luna-san.”

Having no clue what she was thinking, Nazuna suddenly said that.

After buying underwear and clothes for Luna, we were looking around in a general store, but Nazuna claimed “Wait a moment” and when she got back she said that sentence. The mug Nazuna handed over to Luna had a dog design printed on it. It was a mug from an animal print series that Nazuna liked.

Everyone in the Nanjou household had one of these mugs.

“Thank you.”

Luna made a bright smile while accepting the mug from Nazuna. Nazuna was smiling back at Luna.

And I, with a stupid face and a running nose, watched over these two— It was just too pathetic. This little girl, who was younger than me and was in her mandatory education that allowed no part-time jobs, gave a present, yet I, who was called the gentleman in the neighbourhood, didn’t do anything. I couldn’t ignore this.

“Okay. I’m going to buy something too.”

“Really? Brother, I want that.”

Nazuna pointed at the crane game at the game centre. She must have wanted that premium plush toy, but I wasn’t listening. I completely ignored her.

“Luna, I’ll buy you something too. What about a super-alloy? It’s cool.”

Hearing my words, Luna tilted her head and asked “What is a superalloy?”, when she noticed that Nazuna was staring pa.s.sionately at the crane game.

“I… I want that plush toy.”

She was being considerate to Nazuna. Probably because it was written all over Nazuna’s face.

“By the way, which plush toy do you want?”

“That wolf one—-No, not that. The cat one. Yes, the cat.”

Luna changed her target after observing Nazuna’s expression.

Oh boy.

I shrugged my shoulders and went to the game centre. The place where Gogyou-san was being hit on moments ago. Reminds me, what was Gogyou-san doing at the game centre?

Since it was in front of the crane game, she may have wanted to get a plush toy, just like me now. I took out my wallet, picked a coin and challenged the crane game.

“Here I go!”

On the right timing I pressed the b.u.t.ton and got a plush toy on my first try. It was a dog plush toy with small round eyes. White fur and a red hat. Quite fancy.

“Yes!”

I rejoiced, but Nazuna gave me a scornful look. Luna was clapping her hands with an “Amazing!”, but after looking at Nazuna she stopped quickly.

“I got it. Once more.”

I put the dog plush toy on my head and shouted “Dog power!”.

For some reason, the image of the mad dog Elni floated into my head. The Elni in my head was holding an ice-cream in her left hand and had her right hand lifted over her head while shouting “Gwar”.

“Gwaaaaaar!”

I copied that and shouted. To my surprise, I got another plush toy. A cool look. Blue fur. And the cigarette in his hands turned out to be a chocolate cigarette on closer inspection.

I caught a fantastic wolf.

“Yes!”

“You did it.”

That’s the one Luna wanted. When I handed the wolf to her, she made a happy smile. It was a really cool wolf. It was just like me.

“It looks like s.h.i.+n.o.bu-san.”

Luna said while hugging the wolf against her big b.r.e.a.s.t.s. Ohh, how insightful.

“M’kay, let’s go.”

“Yes.”

Side by side, Luna and I were about to leave the place, when

“Meeow!”

When I turned around on her voice, Nazuna made a face like the world had ended and cried “meow, meow” in front of the crane game.

Left with no other choice, I continued to play the crane game to get the cat that Nazuna wanted. But halfway through I got sick of it, so I let Luna take over. Maybe it was beginner’s luck, but Luna got the cat with sungla.s.ses that Nazuna wanted on her first try.

For a while, I watched the two of them happily hugging each other.

“So, what should I buy you, Luna?”

I said with the dog plush toy still on my head.

“E- Ehm, I already got the Mr. Wolf….”

“What? You dare to reject my goodwill? That’s quite cheeky of you. I’ll pinch your cheeks! If you don’t want that, then just honestly tell me what you want!”

I threatened Luna by lightly pinching her soft cheeks, that were like marshmallows.

“….s.h.i.+n.o.bu-san, is it really alright?”

Luna shyly asked and with the plush toy still on my head, I nodded firmly. Doing so made the plush toy fall from my head, diving into Luna’s b.r.e.a.s.t.s and headb.u.t.ting the wolf plush toy.

“Uh, that hurt.”

Nazuna added a weird voice for the wolf, then hugged onto both the wolf and the dog saying “I’ll hold onto them”. Seeing that, Luna giggled and with a “Okay then” she walked out, pullingme by my hand. There wasn’t really any reason to hold my hand, but since Luna looked so happy, I let it slide. But really, Luna’s hand was so small. And so soft. What’s more, so warm.— s.h.i.+t, I was somehow getting excited. My heart raced. While pretending to be calm, inside I was all fl.u.s.tered with “s.h.i.+nomun is so embarra.s.sed”. But when we reached our destination and Luna said “I want this”, the shock was just too great, to the point that my mind went all blank.

How should I describe this?

To put it harshly: It’s a dog collar. One designed for humans with certain ‘interests’.

No, that’s not quite accurate. Before your imagination runs wild, let me clarify. It was just a simple choker. It had a tartan checker pattern made of cowhide and cloth. For some reason it even had a metallic lock attached to it, but it was just a simple choker.

Still, quite the punk fas.h.i.+on. Too different from my image of her.

I imagined her in the service department, wearing maid clothes and saying “Welcome home, Master”, but to think she was actually a Queen that swings around a whip savagely, while shouting “f.u.c.k, f.u.c.king, f.u.c.k off”. Scary. I’m scared. s.h.i.+n.o.bu is scared.

While shuddering, I bought the punk choker that the Queen desired.

“H- Here, my Quee—Ehem, Luna-sama.”

“Luna-sama?”

Luna-sama tilted her head in confusion, looked at me and then graced me with her words.

“U- Uhm, then I have a favour to ask, s.h.i.+n.o.bu-san.”

“Please order me to do anything.”

I answered lightly shaking and averting my gaze, then Luna-sama turned red and issued me her order.

“…Can you put the collar on me?”

“Please do something like that on your own, Luna-sama.”

Respectfully lowering my head, I rejected her, then proposed an alternative.

“Please acquire the help of the idiotic Nazuna for this task.”

“But Nazuna-chan is looking at hats over there right now?”

I looked at the direction Luna was pointing at. Totally unaware of the pinch her brother was in, my idiotic sister was trying out some silk hats while still hugging the plush toys.

“s.h.i.+n.o.bu-san.”

When I s.h.i.+fted my gaze back, Luna was giving me a pa.s.sionate stare.

“Please.”

Luna said, affectionately, while looking at me with upturned eyes.

Aww, I didn’t expect that. I totally thought Luna would put that on someone, so I had not considered this possibility at all.

But when I thought about it, instead of putting it on someone, this was way better. If Luna were to tell me “Put it on me!” with a serious expression, I would shudder! Nazuna would shudder. And so would you.

Wait, who’s “you”? I scratched my head, then nodded. Luna made a bright smile. She pulled up her hair on her back with both her hands and my jaw dropped.

Ohh, what a s.e.xy pose.

It wasn’t perverted in any way, but it looked so s.e.xy. So erotic. So seductive.

I was agitated. Thanks to Nazuna’s spoiled nature, I thought I had developed a decent resistance to girls. I believed it to be on the same level as drying Nazuna’s hair when she’d just come out of the bath…. but it was completely different.

When I reached out my hands to put the choker on Luna’s neck, my hands lightly trembled. What’s more, when my hands touched Luna’s neck,

“Mmh…”

Luna let out an alluring voice from her mouth, so I quickly pulled back my hands.

“D- Don’t make any weird noises. Or else I’m also going to join in.”

“I am sorry, s.h.i.+n.o.bu-san. But it tickled.”

“Meh, endure this little bit of tickling, will ya.”

What’s with the “will ya”? I sighed in my mind and once again extended my hands that I had withdrawn before. Because I was so nervous, I couldn’t really put the choker on Luna.

Every time my hands touched her neck or ears,

“Mm…. Uhn…Mh…Hah….”

Luna was trying to hold back her voice like I told her, but that was even more erotic for some reason. Every time that alluring voice escaped through her light pink lips, my heart couldn’t help but skip a beat. Her flushed cheeks and cloudy eyes made her even more s.e.xy. Erotic Luna.

Without a doubt I was agitated. I was just putting the choker on her neck, but it took me several minutes. I was speechless, as it would have certainly gone faster if Luna had put in on herself. But Luna was really happy and dearly stroked the choker when she said.

“Thank you, s.h.i.+n.o.bu-san.”

Luna smiled with red cheeks. It was all good since she was pleased…. but there was something on my mind. Why did Luna want a choker? If she puts on a collar-like choker (moreover a strap one), it makes her look just like a slave.

Mh? Slave?

“…Hey, say. You said something about being my ‘slave’ before, but what was that about?”

“That is, uhm… for someone like me to stay by your side… that would be the only option… or so I thought….”

Luna’s eyes were trembling in a lack of self-esteem.

Mh, somehow I got really angry. Wordlessly, I chopped Luna’s head.

“O- Ouch! It hurts! Sh- s.h.i.+n.o.bu-san, you chopped me!”

No, it wasn’t all that strong. Why was she close to tears?

“….I am shocked.”

Luna’s shoulders drooped in sadness . Seems like she received a shock. But it was Luna’s fault. I sighed and this time patted her head when I said.

“You don’t really need to be slave to stay with me.”

Luna looked up at me, so I averted my gaze and went on.

“Not all relations.h.i.+ps involve a slave. So stop calling yourself a slave. …A- At least say you’re a maid. A maid. Yes, a housemaid. A long, dark blue skirt and a white hair ribbon. Also black garter belt stockings. That’s the best. It will also be on the test.”

I believe it’s one of my flaws, that I can’t be serious when embarra.s.sed. To hide my embarra.s.sment, I just babbled something about the appeal of maids, when I felt a warmth on my left arm. Followed by a softness.

When I turned around in surprise, Luna was hugging my left arm. And not saying anything, she looked up at me and just smiled.

I was glad. It seemed I could properly convey my feelings to her.

Yeah, I was glad. Really glad, but this situation was a bit exciting for s.h.i.+nomun.

Luna’s two voluptuous b.r.e.a.s.t.s were pressed against my left arm, it was outrageous. b.r.e.a.s.t.s were pressed againstmy arm, left and right. As Luna hugged me tightly, my arm was swallowed by her big b.r.e.a.s.t.s.

I forgot myself for a while due to the feeling of her b.r.e.a.s.t.s.

I still hadn’t recovered yet, when Nazuna noticed us, came rus.h.i.+ng back with a “meow” and hugged my right arm. Yeah, Nazuna was still growing. She’ll be fine. No, it was wrong to compare them to begin with. The freedom of my right arm was taken away by Nazuna and I gave Luna the honour of holding my left arm. I was dragged around by them like that, as we went around the department store.

With the two of them still hugging my arms, we looked at a pet store, music store and so on, when guys around me, who I didn’t know, accused me of “two-timing”, but I paid it no mind.

Luna was smiling. She was happily smiling while holding my arm. While calling my name, “s.h.i.+n.o.bu-san”…she was smiling.

That’s why I thought that such a day off wasn’t too bad.

Why was I so sluggish on Monday, the end of the weekend?

Repressing a yawn, I walked to school like always.

“Meow~”

Guess Nazuna wasn’t on top of her game either, as she let out a weird yawn while exposing her teeth and rubbing her eyes. Mhm, it was quite rare for Nazuna to yawn.

“What’s with you. You went to bed late last night?”

Speaking of that, out of the ordinary she woke up at the same time as me today.

“You know, I was studying very hard until 1am last night.”

Nazuna answered while puffing out her chest.

“Eh? Y- You studied!? And until 1am!?”

“Yeah. I worked hard so that I could watch the late night anime.”

So her aim was the anime. Well, that was more like her.

“I got Luna-san to help me with my homework, so I could watch all of my anime. I didn’t really get it, but Mii-chan said it was interesting.”