370 Can I Call You Seigo Senpai? (1/2)

There was a moment of silence in Hiroto's study.

”Could she be a relative of some sort?” Seiji tried posing a question.

”I think so as well.” Hiroto nodded. ”If I tried to continue investigating, that's a good place to start from, but I think there's no more need. She canceled her cell phone number, and her name and identity were obviously fake. She pretended to be someone who had died ten years ago… No matter who this girl is, that's more than enough for me to forbid my son from going out with her again.

”I deleted her cell phone number and picture from my son's cell phone and told him that she was a scammer who was pretending to be someone who had died many years ago. Although I don't know what her objective is, she's definitely not anyone proper, and he's forbidden from meeting her anymore, and he is to adamantly refuse to talk to her anymore and completely avoid her.

”Hiroshi obviously doesn't want to do this, and he only agreed to do so on the surface due to my pressure.

”Aiko and I have continually been watching him, and haven't noticed anything abnormal from him recently, nor have we seen that girl around him.”

The middle-aged father looked at the teenage boy.

”Harano-kun, I'm telling you all this, not only to answer your question, but also in hope that you'll be on your guard. If you see this girl, pay attention to not have anything to do with her… don't become like Hiroshi is currently.”

His tone was filled with concern of an elder towards a junior.

Seiji smiled at this. ”Thank you for your concern, Fuuma-san. I shall be cautious.”

After Seiji left Hiroto's study, he was invited by Airi to her room.

Seiji went to her room and chatted with her just like last time.

”Onii-san, I'm going to go to Genhana Middle School starting from next year, and at that time… Can I go to the high school section to look for you?” Airi asked while hugging her large Milk Cream Bunny plushie.

”Of course,” Seiji responded. ”I'll be quite happy to have a cute junior come looking for me.”

'Cute…' Airi's heart kept pounding when she heard him call her that.

”Then… Can I call you Seigo Senpai?”

Not Harano Senpai, but Seigo Senpai.

Seiji thought about it, and felt that it was just a way of addressing him, and he didn't mind too much either way, so he answered with ”Sure.”

'Nice!' Inside her mind, Airi clenched her fist in a victory pose.

”You can call me 'Airi' as well,” she said while riding along the momentum.

”Okay, Airi-chan.”

The little girl embarrassedly covered half of her face with the plushie when she heard him calling her by name, and she was smiling in a silly manner.

Seiji looked towards her.

”Airi-chan, how's your current relationship with your brother?”

”Brother apologized to me, and I apologized to Brother as well, but… I'm still a little scared of him, and feel like something's different about him.”

”So, the relationship between you is a bit colder than before, is that right?”

Airi nodded.

After that type of incident, it was probably difficult to recover a normal sibling relationship within a short time, especially with the older brother still being in such an unusual state. Seiji thought of Hiroshi Fuuma's expression and behavior and figured that Hiroshi had probably remained like this during the entire time after the incident.

Was that girl really just a scammer? Was she someone with ”mystical” powers? Did she go out with Hiroshi and have sex with him in order to do something like absorb his spiritual essence?

He still couldn't see anything when he used [Astral Vision] to inspect Hiroshi Fuuma. At least, he wasn't cursed or anything on the surface.

That girl canceled her phone number and hadn't contacted him again, so this seemed like it was over.

”After some time passes, and your brother recovers, you can slowly work on your relationship with him,” Seiji told her. ”It was his fault for doing that to you, but maybe he's also a victim of sorts as well.”

Airi nodded once again.

”My dad told me that Brother became strange because of a bad girl's influence.”

Well, it would be good if she was just a normal bad girl.