Kaito: "?"
The kitty didn't seem to have any intention of asking his opinion. After speaking, she had already started undressing.
The girl's outfit was simple. On top, a black ripped hoodie paired with a white undershirt. She wasn't wearing any pants on the bottom; her bare legs, fair and tender, stepped in sandals, with pearl-like, rounded toes that were crystal clear and had a healthy pink hue.
While Kaito was still in a brief moment of daze, she had already tossed the black hoodie into the basket to the side and was lifting the white undershirt underneath, just revealing her fair, smooth stomach, a waist that could be held in one hand, and a cute belly button.
He didn't feel embarrassed or shy. Although the kitty was undeniably a top-tier beauty, perhaps due to her strange behavior and relatively young age, Kaito instinctively categorized her as a pet cat or younger sister type.
Would you feel aroused by your house cat?
The answer is obvious.
Even if the girl's skin was so white it dazzled the eyes, her curves soft like spring ridgelines, and the tiny, delicate navel was spotless and clean enough to make one want to lick it
Still, Kaito found it hard to develop strange thoughts. If anything, he was more amused and speechless.
"Bathing together isn't a problem, but someone's already in the bathroom now."
Kitty tilted her head slightly, not understanding his meaning. Her pretty face seemed to be saying "so what?"
Clearly, at home, she always bathed with her mom or grandma and would help scrub each other's backs.
Kaito helplessly rubbed his forehead and sighed, feeling more and more like a kindergarten teacher.
"As a girl, you can't casually expose your body in front of outsiders, especially males. And definitely can't bathe together, understand?"
'Isn't sex education supposed to be very comprehensive?'
'Why doesn't Raana understand such basic common sense?'
Actually, the reason was simple.
Due to her grandmother's rules that only top-performing students could play guitar, the kitty had always maintained good grades.
But her personality was inherently lazy, she only had motivation for things or people she was interested in. Once she found something boring, she would immediately disengage.
Even when forcing herself to study, slacking off was inevitable.
And health class, which already sounded uninteresting, was naturally categorized by kitty as a "water class" and usually taken as nap time.
However, as a well-behaved good kitty, Kaname Raana bit her finger and thought for half a second before quickly finding the flaw in Kaito's words.
The girl stared with those beautiful heterochromatic eyes and seriously refuted, "Not an outsider."
'You can't bathe with outsiders.'
'But in my eyes, you're not an outsider.'
Just that simple and straightforward logic.
'Only met me today, isn't that a bit too trusting?'
Kaito didn't know what expression to make, 'Have today's girls become this lacking in caution?'
It's fine if she meets a good person, but if she ran into a big bad wolf in sheep's clothing, she might get tricked into bed ten times in one night.
He wanted to say something more, at least teach Raana how to protect herself, but the kitty clearly had run out of patience.
The girl quickly took off the last piece of white undershirt, then walked briskly to the bathtub, tested the water temperature with her hand, found it suitable, and happily climbed in.
The bathtub he had bought back then was large, big enough for three people. Kitty was also the petite and delicate type, so after getting in, it didn't feel crowded.
But no matter how big the tub, the area was still limited.
With two people sitting inside, physical contact was inevitable.
That said, even though Raana was younger than most girls he knew, her nutrition was clearly pretty good.
Less than Ryou, more than Nijika.
Thinking that way a certain great angel from Shimokitazawa seemed rather pitiful. Losing to Bocchi and Ryou was one thing, but even worse than a kid younger than herself?
Luckily, such a small scene wasn't enough to shake Kaito's composure. After all, when with Yumiko, he had seen more stimulating sights.
At worst, just think of it as bathing with Kirara.
Anyway, it wasn't like this hadn't happened before.
On the water's surface floated a little yellow duck, cute and clumsy in its look. It had originally been placed in there by Kaito for fun, but now had become kitty's favorite toy.
The girl's lotus root-like arms were still dripping with water, reflecting dazzling light under the warm bathroom lamp. She was pushing the yellow duck back and forth on the water surface, a childish game, yet she was having a blast.
'As expected, still just a kid who hasn't grown up'
Kaito shook his head slightly, took the bath towel from the nearby rack, wrapped it around his waist, and prepared to return to his room first.
No matter what, bathing together with a girl he'd just met that day was just too weird. Kitty might not understand, but he couldn't be thoughtless too.
But just as he got up and hadn't yet stepped out of the tub, the girl in front of him looked over curiously.
Seeing that there seemed to be something around Kaito's waist, kitty thought he was secretly hiding another toy.
She had a personality that got excited quickly and bored just as fast. She'd already had enough of the yellow duck after a short while.
Now seeing what looked like a new toy, of course she wouldn't let it go.
So she stretched out her tender little hand and lunged forward.
But missed.
Kaito's eye twitched slightly. If he hadn't been paying attention to kitty's movements all the time, he might really have gotten grabbed this time.
The girl didn't hold back with her strength. Though his physique was extraordinary, strong enough that sniper bullets couldn't pierce him, he wasn't planning to find out how that strange feeling would be.
"No mischief!", He knocked her little head in a disciplining manner. Seeing Kaito suddenly wear a rare serious expression, kitty pouted her lips but still nodded, a bit aggrieved.
However, her curiosity only grew deeper inside.
'What exactly is the toy hidden there?' [T/N: Inseminator]
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Chapter 120: Kumiko: I am five hundred years old this year!
In order to prevent the restless kitty thief's heart from dying, trying to grasp the future...
Kaito beckoned with his left hand, and in the next second, the clothes hanging not far away floated over. Just like a masked rider transforming in a tokusatsu show, in the blink of an eye, they were fully and completely worn on his body.
The silver-haired girl in the bathtub saw this scene, and her little mouth couldn't help but open into an exaggerated "O" shape.
"So amazing!"
'Is it sorcery? Or magic?'
kitty's curiosity was also very strong, very eager to figure out the principle behind it.
Before she could excitedly pounce forward, she was interrupted in advance by Kaito who had already anticipated it.
"Curious?"
"Mm-hmm."
"Then be good and obedient, and take your bath properly."
Kaito crossed his arms, speaking at ease, "Judging by your behavior, I'll consider whether to satisfy your curiosity."
Finally dealing with the clingy kitty, he returned to the bedroom. Just as he stood at the door, Kaito faintly heard a burst of intense gunfire from inside the room.
Among them, there was faintly also a pleasant female voice, seemingly explaining something.
"Mm? Master, you're finally back?"
Opening the door, the room didn't have the lights on, and the curtains were tightly drawn, appearing somewhat dim. Only the computer screen not far away glowed with a faint blue light, preventing the room from being pitch black.
Kumiko, as usual, greeted him but didn't even turn her head, her eyes still fixed on the screen in front of her.
Kaito didn't pay much attention, but seeing her so obsessed, he casually glanced at the screen.
Just an ordinary game screen, it seemed to be one of the currently popular FPS online multiplayer games on the market. One could freely choose characters, each with different skills. Aside from the abundance of cheaters and the developers not being human, the gameplay was very engaging.
'However... wasn't Kumiko always uninterested in these shooting games?'
What she played the most on a regular basis, besides gacha mobile games, were fighting games and MOBA games. Why did she suddenly switch preferences today?
'Wait a minute.'
'In the lower right corner of the screen... Is that a Live2D animated avatar?'
Coupled with the pleasant female voice sounding from time to time, Kaito raised his eyebrow, 'Is this a livestream? Or a VTuber stream?'
He increasingly felt that Kumiko was diving deeper and deeper into the otaku path...
"Is Master also interested in Teacher Alter's stream?"
Seeing Kaito constantly looking this way, the young blade girl patted the empty spot beside her and very generously said, "Come sit together, this chair is quite big. If you get tired of watching, just sleep directly, it's fine."
"Although I don't know why, I always feel like you're saying weird things again"
Kaito lightly tapped her little forehead, "Also, what do you mean by Teacher Alter?"
"Always hitting my head... if I become stupid in the future, it's definitely Master's fault", Kumiko couldn't help but mutter quietly, then pointed at the screen and said proudly, "It's this! This one!"
The virtual streamer on screen had the ID [Alto Otogi Official], with a very intellectual-looking black-haired big sister avatar. She had just pulled off a cool four-kill play, prompting a flood of bullet comments like:
[The most unfamiliar episode ever!]
[She's not even pretending now?]
[So boring, main account please unplug the USB.]
Although the number of viewers wasn't high, the interaction was very lively.
The black-haired big sister Live2D in the lower right corner moved a bit. Although bombarded by the viewers' doubts, she clearly didn't take it to heart and smugly said: ["Wanted to get along with you all as a newbie, but what I got in return was ridicule and contempt"]
["Now the main account's done pretending! I'm revealing my cards!"]
["This four-kill proves my true strength!"]
["Where are the haters in the chat? Especially that Void Snorlax. You're the one always mocking the main account for being bad, right? How do you explain this four-kill? Say something!"]
Full of strong resentment.
However, the voice was quite pleasant. Though to Kaito, it sounded slightly unnatural, likely due to a voice changer.
Also, he wasn't sure if it was just his imagination.
Even with the voice changer's cover, he still felt like he had heard this voice somewhere before.
Before he could think further, Kumiko was already tugging at his sleeve in excitement, pointing at the screen and saying, "It's starting, it's starting!"
Kaito refocused on the screen, only to see the streamer had already exited the game interface and was clearing her throat, speaking seriously, ["Alright, alright, Lord Main Account is generous and forgives your past disrespect. Anyway, now it's time for the weekly emotional counseling segment... Let's welcome today's victim... ahem, I mean, today's letter sender to open mic and speak."]
'Emotional counseling time?'
Kaito was both amused and exasperated, "Little kids nowadays, always watching such nonsense?"
At most, this young blade spirit hadn't even been born for a full month. What kind of emotional issues could she possibly need counseling for?
"I am not a little kid," Kumiko puffed her cheeks and floated up, stopping only when she hovered a head above Kaito. Then she seriously declared, "If we go by age, I am at least five hundred years old this year. Already an old woman with one foot in the grave!"
"Five hundred years old is Murakumomaru's age, not yours."
Kaito couldn't hold back and knocked her on the head again, "Also, what do you mean one foot in the grave? Who taught you to misuse idioms like this?"
"Teacher Alter... no no!"
Kumiko reflexively covered her head, then quickly corrected herself, "Murakumomaru is me, and I am Murakumomaru. Murakumomaru's age naturally is my age too, so me being five hundred years old is perfectly reasonable!"
The logic wasn't wrong.
But the former Murakumomaru had no sentience, she was merely a pure weapon. Even if she had existed for five hundred years, her entire perception of the world only came from the past half month.
Seeing that this annoying master was unmoved and still treated her like a clueless little child, Kumiko unhappily pouted.
As a sword spirit, she didn't understand many things, like what "liking" meant, or what "love" was.
She had once secretly sent a private message to Teacher Alter's account, asking some emotional questions, such as what liking was, and how one expresses love for someone...
Not only did the other party not ignore her DM, they even replied patiently: Liking someone means wanting to be with him/her for a lifetime.
Inspired by this, she thought: if she and Master were to be together for a lifetime, then naturally this feeling must be "liking."
Because of this, she regarded the [Alto Otogi Official] account as a teacher and learned many things from her emotional mini-classes.
Teacher Alter once said, the most troublesome situation between a boy and a girl is when one party sees the other as a child that needs taking care of.
Because seeing someone as needing care, one will subconsciously place themselves in the elder's role, and thus won't develop strange or romantic thoughts.
And right now, Master clearly saw her this way.
'Damn it...'
The little blade girl couldn't help but bite her finger, 'This is a bit tricky...'
[T/N: 'Alto Otogi' is from Bocchi]
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Chapter 121: Absolutely Can, Easily Can, Kouya!
However, Master Alto also said that this kind of situation isn't without a solution.
Since the other party sees you as a child, then as long as you destroy this kind of notion, the predicament will naturally be resolved.
So, the question comes again.
