Chapter 146 - #145 Newcomers (2/2)

”Pfft, no...It's training to endure being with a miserable company while constantly wearing a kind smile across your face. You women are pretty good at it, I think...But I will hold you up on that offer.” Akashi chuckled and then replied with a bit of teasing at the end.

”Y-You, what the hell do you think we are?! It's called a polite smile! You are the one here playing with someone's feelings.” Poney felt ashamed of how Akashi took her offer and used it against her to embarrass her so she blurted out in counter-attack while holding up her fist and swaying it at Akashi.

”Can you even call her 'someone'? I think better word would be 'something'. Don't worry, I also don't like playing with other people's feelings and that's one of the reasons why I also told you about Gai even though you wouldn't have a chance to discover it.” Akashi replied while opening the door to leave.

”Wait!” Poney called out before Akashi could close the door.

”Hm?” He turned at her with a confused expression and waited for her to continue.

”I didn't mean it that way...I got carried away, I am sorry.” Poney said with a regretful expression while looking at the ground.

”I wasn't offended, I understand that as a fellow girl, you think that what I am doing to that...Aria is unacceptable but this can't be compared to what she and her family had done to others.” Akashi said with a gentle smile before he closed the door.

----Night Raid recently new hideout in the outskirts of the Capital inside the forest----

*BANG* concentrated shockwave of spirit energy saw seen traveling a few hundreds of meters before destroying a smaller boulder lying between two trees.

”Nice shot, Mine! I guess you are already getting accustomed to Pumpkin, right?” Leone exclaimed with an impressed expression while looking to the distance with her hand shielding her eyes from the sun

If one imagines a girl like her description, they might think of a very cute and shy girl, generally liked by everyone but...

”Hoho, of course, I am not a Genius Sniper for nothing!” Mine replied while putting the Pumpkin over her shoulder and raising her head up while proudly sticking out her small nose.

Her attitude combined with her outfit made her only more annoying.

”...Y-Yeah, suuure...What about you, Sheele? How are you doing?” Leone replied to Mine with a forced smile before she turned her attention away from her to another girl sitting nearby, reading a book.

Sheele is also a recently new member and she is a slender woman with long purple hair and purple eyes. She is wearing a revealing sleeveless lilac cheongsam with detached lilac arm sleeves and white boots. She is also wearing a glasses and has a small scar on her right cheek. On the first sight, she appears to be a very collected and mȧturė woman with a gentle air around her contrary to Mine's bossy air.

”Hm? I am doing very well, everyone is extremely nice here! Oh? Oops!” Sheele raised her head and replied to Leone with a bright smile but while she was trying to move her hair behind her ear, she suddenly knocked off her glasses on the ground. She exclaimed and started searching for them before Leone shook her head with a smile after a short moment of watching, she took Sheele's glasses off the ground and offered them to her.

”Oh? Thank you, Leone!” Sheele who suddenly saw a blurry object in front of her thanked Leone but when she tried to grab her glasses...

”Oh no!” Instead of grabbing them, she knocked them of Leone's hand since her vision of them was blurry. She once again kneeled down and began her search.

*Slap* Leone just facepalmed herself.

”?” Both Sheele and Mine looked towards Leone with confused expressions after hearing her facepalm.

'These two...' Leone thought while watching how Mine after a while of watching her just shrugged her shoulders and helped Sheele grab her glasses and this time, she put them on Sheele herself.

”Thank you, Mine! And I am sorry, Leone!” Sheele thanked and then immediately bowed to Leone.

”It's alright, don't let it get to you!” Leone said with a smile but she also noticed Mine proudly puffing out her almost non-existent ċhėst as if to say 'That's how you do it'

A thick mark appeared on Leone's forehead so she also puffed out her 2 mountains almost bigger than Mine's head itself as if to say 'And that's how you truly do it!' with a proud smile across her face.

”Hmph!” Mine just hatefully glared at Leone's melons before she threw her hair to the side while looking away from Leone, however, she couldn't stop herself to take a last glance at those 2 jiggling melons.