220 Amusement Park (1/2)

Seiji accidentally encouraged his junior.

Even though he was somewhat worried about Hoshi joining the drama club… it wouldn’t be a problem, right?

Seiji wanted to convince himself to not worry about it.

But it was that drama club!

There was the strange club president there, as well as Chiaki, who had already committed the previous crime of encouraging Hoshi to wear female clothing. It was also possible that there were even more strange members were lurking there. If Hoshi Amami entered that demon’s lair, just what would end up happening to him!?

‘Am… I doing something bad by encouraging him to join drama club?'

‘But that’s something Hoshi himself wanted to do. All I did was give him some encouragement. Even if I didn’t say anything, he probably would have done the same thing himself.'

‘Yep, that’s right, it was his choice. I was merely admiring his proactiveness and responded to it.’

Should he forcefully prevent Hoshi from joining the drama club?

No—no matter what, Seiji wasn’t that type of person.

Seiji decided to stop thinking about this matter.

After watching that performance, they explored the school festival for a while longer, before finishing up for the day.

After saying goodbye to Hoshi, Seiji and the ladies headed to the activity stand at the entrance and exchanged their emblems for the entry tickets to tomorrow’s special large-scale laser tag activity as well as equipment for it.

”Alright, I’ll take Mayuzumi home,” Saki said. ”Go on home, or do whatever you like, Harano.”

Her tone sounded like she was giving orders to a subordinate, but Seiji already understood the editor’s personality. He knew that this was her way of saying, ”You worked hard today, thank you very much. There’s no need to trouble you anymore today, so please go home and take a rest.”

”Okay. I still have some things I want to buy, so I’ll see the two of you tomorrow.” Seiji smiled. ”I had lots of fun today.”

”I had fun as well… see you tomorrow, Harano-kun.” Mayuzumi also smiled.

”See you tomorrow, Harano.” Saki said goodbye as well.

And so, they went their separate ways.

After Seiji watched the manga author and editor leave, he turned around and re-entered the school.

He headed for the infirmary as he'd already purchased everything that the blonde-haired infirmary nurse had requested, and he'd remembered to buy a souvenir for Shika at the school festival.

At the infirmary, Seiji and Kaede simply chatted until Kaede’s shift was over.

The two of them went back to the Uehara apartment complex together.

Kaede was secretly pleased at this, as this was the first time they had ever walked home together.

Even though she knew that Seiji was more concerned about Mika than her currently, she was still delighted.

”After dinner, I’ll go meet Uehara-san and try and see if I can help her by talking to her,” said the blonde teacher when they reached the apartment.

”I’ll leave it up to you, Juumonji-sensei.” Seiji was worried about Mika’s situation, but, unfortunately, he was currently facing quite a large problem.

Tonight at eight o’clock…

He felt some pressure from it, but when he walked in front of his apartment’s door, he forced himself to calm down and smiled naturally.

Then, he opened the door.

”I’m home, Shika-chan.”

He saw a clean house… it was incredibly clean everywhere!

The floors, the walls, the windows, the furniture, and even the ceiling… everything that was cleanable had been cleaned and every surface seemed to be sparkling.

'Shika-chan must have done a lot of cleaning today,' Seiji thought as he glanced around the room.

Seiji's adopted sister strode into the living room a few seconds after he entered the apartment, still carrying the souvenir he bought for her.

”Welcome home, Brother Seiji.”

While she was at home, Shika Kagura had only done two things: clean and write her novel.

Earlier today, the landlord had also visited and greeted her. Shika greeted Nozomi Uehara politely in return, but she assumed her usual cold personality, distancing herself from Nozomi’s friendliness.

Even though she had a family member now, her condition was unchanged. She still had the ‘Reaper’s Curse,’ so she would still keep others at a distance.

She was happy that her adopted brother brought a gift back for her, but, to her, it didn’t matter either way. She would be happy as long as he came back.

Afterwards, the two of them went to an electronics store.