384 The investigative report regarding Mr. Uehara (1/2)

Seiji noticed during dinner that Shika's condition seemed to be rather strange and that she kept avoiding his eyes.

'Is it because she's feeling too embarrassed about secretly looking at my ero books, or… is she finding it difficult to look at me after knowing that I look at such things?' Seiji wondered to himself.

This was a question that Seiji had been doing his best to avoid thinking about—just what his adopted sister would think of him after looking through his ero books.

Although he wasn't into anything too outrageous, having such a large sack of ero books was bad enough already!

The most common genre among his ero books was harem, which definitely exposed his true preferences. The worst would be the sis-con books… he was unable to imagine what Shika would think of those after seeing them.

'Well, she's probably just too embarrassed, she'll be fine after a day or two… I hope that she won't get any strange thoughts,' he thought to himself hopefully.

Not long after they finished dinner, Seiji received a phone call from the student council president.

When he saw on his caller ID that the call was from Natsuya, Seiji instantly imagined her again in her cosplay outfit. He also felt things were rather subtle regarding how she asked Kanna for his own cosplay photograph.

He accepted the call.

”Good evening, Seiji.”

”Good evening, Natsuya.”

”I've received a report regarding the investigation into Mr. Uehara and the origin of his collection items.”

”Oh… what does it say?”

”I haven't read it yet. I wanted to show it to Uehara-san first. Do you have time to come over to my place together with her?”

”I do.”

”I'll wait for you here then.”

”Alright.”

They ended their conversation.

Seiji put away his cell phone as something flashed in his eyes.

This investigative report… just what truth would it contain?

Seiji and Mika arrived at the president's residence.

On the way, Mika did her best to mentally prepare herself for anything she might learn. However, she was still quite obviously tensed up.

The maid Mai led them inside.

In the living room, Seiji saw two girls that he hadn't seen for quite a long time already—Hitaka Shuho and Rana Kirin!

The red-haired beauty in sports attire and the cat-eared loli wearing a down coat were currently playing chess against each other.

When Seiji and Mika entered the living room, Hitaka and Rana both turned to look at them.

”Long time no see, you guys…”

Before Seiji even finished his greeting, the cat girl flew towards him!

Rana suddenly jumped up from the sofa and hugged him, which surprised him greatly. He was pushed one step backwards by the impact.

'So cute!'

He reflexively hugged Rana back as he smiled.

”Long time no see, and good evening, Kirin-san.”

”Meow~” The cat-eared loli mewed gently.

”This is…” Mika who watched all this widened her eyes in surprise.

”One of Natsuya's Spirit-branded Retainers, Rana Kirin.” Seiji did the introductions for her. ”She's the one known as the 'legendary creature' in our school…”

The twintailed girl dazedly stared at the cat-eared girl before her and was unable to come up with any words to say.

”Long time no see, Haruta-kun,” another voice spoke up.

Seiji looked towards the red-haired girl.

”Good evening, Shuho-san. I'm glad to see that you're out of the hospital.”