Chapter 40

She mentally labeled her classmate Aki Tomoya as not very polite.

"Forget it, let's go." Kitakami Yoru shook his head and cast the matter to the back of his mind.

Because of the cosplay exhibition and the release event today, Akihabara was bustling with people.

Kitakami Yoru used his large body to protect Kato Megumi, squeezing out a distance of over a hundred meters from where the cosplay exhibition was.

Finally, there were fewer people around, and it wasn't crowded anymore.

"Kitakami-san, wait a moment."

Walking in front to clear the way, Kato Megumi behind him suddenly called out to Kitakami Yoru.

Looking back, Kato Megumi was holding an off-white canvas backpack, very plain, covered in footprints, mud, and dust.

"What is this?" Kitakami Yoru looked curiously.

"A bag I just picked up, in the crowd..."

As she spoke, Kato Megumi looked back at the crowd behind her, black and heavy like a tide.

As she spoke, Kato Megumi waved at Kitakami Yoru and opened the backpack.

Her gaze entered the backpack.

Kitakami Yoru saw a book, a pencil case, and some sundries.

Kato Megumi curiously took out the so-called book and examined it carefully.

This book had a high-end leather cover, square, very exquisite, heavy, and large.

"This seems to be a sketchbook, not a book." Kitakami Yoru said.

"Is it? It looks so high-end." Kato Megumi nodded slightly and opened the sketchbook.

On this page, it was drawn with a long cylindrical object, like a stick...

At first, the two didn't recognize what was drawn.

Afterward, Kitakami Yoru reacted first and looked up with a "whoosh."

"This is... this is..."

Kato Megumi closed the sketchbook, her gaze meeting Kitakami Yoru's in a panic, feeling at a loss.

Her usual calm expression was gone, and her ears were slightly red.

"This was lost here by that doujin author, right?"

Kitakami Yoru thought strangely in his heart, and suddenly goosebumps rose all over his body.

The two remained in this quiet, silent state.

After a while, Kato Megumi put the sketchbook away and placed it in the backpack.

She whispered, "How unlucky~"

After whispering, she secretly observed Kitakami Yoru's reaction.

She was almost embarrassed to death.

"Let's send the sketchbook to the police station." Kitakami Yoru spoke up.

"Okay." Kato Megumi handed the backpack in her hand to Kitakami Yoru, unable to avoid it.

Along the way, the two who had seen things they shouldn't have remained silent and said nothing about it.

Until they sent the items to a nearby police station.

The law enforcement officer explained that if the owner wasn't found after the one-month time limit, these items would belong to Kitakami Yoru.

"Phew~ who knew that what was drawn inside would be that." Kitakami Yoru stood in front of the police station gate, looking at the golden treasure chest above Kato Megumi's head.

The progress bar seemed to have risen to 8% or 9%.

He didn't know what it would be like when the treasure chest progress bar was full.

"Don't say it, Kitakami-san." Kato Megumi felt a pause in her heart when she heard this and turned her head away very embarrassedly.

At the same time, she secretly thought in her heart: "How come it's different from the biology book? It's so realistic..."

That thing kept lingering in Kato Megumi's heart.

Kitakami Yoru, who was beside her, was a boy, making her feel uneasy.

At the station near Akihabara, Kitakami Yoru and Kato Megumi parted ways.

Their trains home were in different directions.

Kitakami Yoru came out of the restroom at the station transfer point and came to the platform to wait for the train.

Not far away, several JK girls who seemed to be taking the same train stood together.

"Hey, look over there, is that that disgusting fat otaku?"

"Huh, it really is? He's waiting for the train?"

"Should we go over and tease him?"

"I have a good suggestion; let's play rock-paper-scissors to decide the winner, and the loser has to go confess to him, how about that?"

"Ah?"

Among the JK girls, Hayasaka Ai, who had a side ponytail and the most outstanding appearance, a grade higher than her companions, was startled.

These people beside her were her friends in name only.

At Shuchiin, her persona was a cheerful gal who had good relationships with many people.

To maintain this hypocritical relationship, Hayasaka Ai had to occasionally go out and play with a few so-called gal friends.

"This suggestion is good, I'll participate, hehe."

"I'll participate too. Just thinking about the reaction of that disgusting fat otaku when a beauty suddenly confesses to him makes me want to laugh."

"You say that, and I'm starting to look forward to it."

"Hayasaka, are you participating?"

Someone called out to Hayasaka Ai, who was in a daze.

"I... I'll participate..."

Hayasaka Ai's mouth twitched slightly, and she secretly complained about the bad taste of these fake friends.

Thinking that her first confession might be given to a disgusting fat otaku like Kitakami Yoru, her eyelids jumped wildly.

Having checked Kitakami Yoru's detailed information and shopping records, Hayasaka Ai knew Kitakami Yoru very well.

Forget it, forget it, it's just a game.

I'm not really falling for Kitakami Yoru anyway.

Hayasaka Ai comforted herself in her heart.

Rock-paper-scissors!

Several JK gals were quite excited; it wasn't real anyway, just playing, just saying a sentence while holding back nausea.

"Rock!" Hayasaka Ai threw rock.

"Yay, I won."

Hayasaka Ai's mouth twitched, and the gal opposite her jumped up excitedly.

"It's okay, there's still a chance." Hayasaka Ai took a breath and looked at her new opponent.

"Scissors!"

The next second, the expression on the face of a certain blonde gal with a side ponytail froze directly.

Her fair, soft hand maintained the scissors gesture, and a feeling of wanting to cry but having no tears arose spontaneously.

"By the way, Hayasaka is so pretty, does she have a boyfriend?"

"Don't know, but many people pursue her; she doesn't seem to like boys?"

Hayasaka Ai's "friends" looked at Hayasaka Ai's back, chatting with evil smiles, and even took out their phones to film.

"Ki... Ki..."

Kitakami Yoru, who was playing with his phone, heard someone calling him.

Turning his head, he recognized it was Hayasaka Ai.

On her cute, pretty face, her expression was very stiff and a bit distorted.

Kitakami Yoru was stunned because there was also a golden treasure chest above Hayasaka Ai's head.

"Phew, hurry up, just say it."

At this moment, Hayasaka Ai gritted her teeth, shouted in her heart, and bent down quickly.

"Kitakami-san, please go out with me!"

The voice wasn't loud, but Kitakami Yoru heard it very clearly. ===== CHAPTER 42 =====