CHAPTER 194: KASUMIGAOKA UTAHA TERRIFIED BY A GIANT OBJECT

Chapter 194: Kasumigaoka Utaha Terrified by a Giant Object! Hiratsuka Shizuka Encounters a New Anomaly!

The three packed up and left. Ren-kun held the last doujinshi in his hand, unsure whether he should put it away. Just as the three walked to the entrance, a questioning voice called out to Ren-kun.

"Ren-kun?"

Ren-kun turned his head. "Utaha?" The person who called Ren-kun was none other than the black-haired senior. It was Kasumigaoka Utaha. "You came to the doujinshi exhibition too?"

Kasumigaoka Utaha stepped forward curiously, walking towards Ren-kun. Ren-kun raised the book in his hand. "Came to sell books."

"Sell books." Kasumigaoka Utaha’s eyes lit up; she thought Ren-kun had started creating again. She still hadn’t understood Ren-kun’s previous words. It was his own work, yet he said it wasn’t. She had thought about this behavior for a long time but still had no answer.

Soon, she calmed down again. How could Ren-kun’s light novel creations need to be sold at a doujinshi exhibition? They could easily be published in any publishing house. Holding her doubts, Kasumigaoka Utaha lightly brushed her hair aside and asked, "Can I see what kind of work it is?"

Ren-kun: "..." Ren-kun glanced at the doujinshi in his hand. "This... isn’t good, is it?"

Kasumigaoka Utaha lowered her gaze and said in a deep voice, "Ren-kun, have you forgotten how we used to communicate? Can’t we discuss works like before?"

"..." Ren-kun really wanted to say that this wasn’t about discussing works.

"!!!" Eriri squeezed Ren-kun’s hand hard. From her eyes, Ren-kun had already understood; she was saying she was hungry. Ren-kun nodded, placed the book in Kasumigaoka Utaha’s hand, and then said, "I’m going to eat with my girlfriends, see you later."

After saying that, he took Sayuri’s hand with his free hand and led the two to find a restaurant. Since it was already noon, eating out occasionally wasn’t bad.

"Girlfriends?" Question marks popped up in Kasumigaoka Utaha’s head. She saw Ren-kun holding one woman’s hand in each of his. Both figures were very petite. The key was that Ren-kun’s hands and the hands of the two women were intertwined! "Isn’t his girlfriend Benio?" If she remembered correctly, she had personally seen Ren-kun and Benio kiss two days ago.

So what was going on with these two girls? Kasumigaoka Utaha fell into confusion... Could Ren-kun actually be a scumbag who was two-timing? After a brief, silent brainstorm, she looked at the book in her hand. The cover seemed to be a beautiful girl manga. She unconsciously flipped through it.

After only a few pages, "Ah!" Kasumigaoka Utaha let out a startled cry. Immediately drawing the attention of those around her.

Realizing she was drawing too much attention, she quickly covered her mouth, closed the book, tucked it into her bag, and hurried away with her head down.

"Who was that just now?" In a restaurant, Eriri sat to Ren-kun’s right, enjoying Ren-kun feeding her while curiously asking him.

"Kasumigaoka Utaha, a third-year senior from our school."

"Oh." Eriri said "Oh" and didn’t ask further. The old Eriri might have dug for answers. The current Eriri understood how to trust Ren-kun better. Sayuri was quite relieved to see this; Eriri had learned how to be a good wife.

Initially, the three were just eating and chatting normally. Eriri suddenly looked around slyly. "My chopsticks fell on the floor!" Then, to the puzzled gazes of Sayuri and Ren-kun, Eriri ducked under the table to pick up her chopsticks.

Sayuri twitched the corner of her mouth. She vigorously rubbed her temples. What on earth made Eriri so clumsy? Ren-kun didn’t want to be disturbed while eating, so he simply created a new space.

Eriri’s appetite was truly enormous. A meal at the restaurant took five hours. They ate so much their bellies were distended, and they couldn’t walk. Even Sayuri, who initially didn’t have a very good appetite, had her cravings stirred by Eriri’s eating habits. Both of them were now too full to walk. He had originally planned to take them shopping, but it seemed impossible now.

Ren-kun had no choice but to send them home via spatial movement. As soon as he put them back in their own bedrooms, both of them collapsed and fell asleep. Just as he was about to return to his own home, an unexpected call came in.

"Shizuka-sensei?" Shizuka-sensei calling him at this hour? He answered the phone.

"Ren-kun?"

"It’s me. Is there something wrong with calling at this hour?"

"Uh... I seem to have encountered something strange again!"

"...Another Ghoul or something?" If he remembered correctly, Hiratsuka Shizuka had only recently encountered a Ghoul, right?

"No, it’s a bit peculiar. Can you come over first?"

"Alright."

Ren-kun had just hung up the phone. "What’s going on?"

"Wah!" Hiratsuka Shizuka, sitting on the sofa, almost dropped her phone. Because Ren-kun suddenly appeared in front of her. "How are you so fast?" Hiratsuka Shizuka looked incredulous. She had just hung up the phone one second ago, and he appeared the next.

Ren first glanced at her sideways. "A man can’t say ’fast’!" Then he said, "Spatial movement, understand?"

"..." She pretended not to hear the first sentence, and then retorted to the second, "Your Psychic ability would make a lot of money delivering food."

Ren was noncommittal; delivering food would indeed be profitable. He looked around. It seemed to be Hiratsuka Shizuka’s bedroom, and it was quite tidy. There was just one thing. Where was the anomaly?

He rolled his eyes at her and said, "Stop chattering. What’s the situation now? You don’t seem anxious at all. I thought you were in some kind of danger."

The speaker had no intention, but the listener took it to heart. Ren’s words, to her, meant that he was worried about her, which was why he rushed over so eagerly. Hiratsuka Shizuka’s earlobes felt slightly warm. Being cared for by a man like this, other than relatives, was truly a first.

This thought was too terrifying; Ren was her student! She quickly dispelled the thought and got to the point. "This is the anomaly I encountered." She took out a red iron box from a cloth bag on the bed and handed it to Ren.

"A box?" Ren took the iron box.

"Not the box. I put the anomalous thing into the box, afraid it would run out," Hiratsuka Shizuka shook her head, explaining quickly.

"Oh?" Ren was even more curious. What kind of anomaly was it that wasn’t dangerous and could be contained by an ordinary person like Hiratsuka Shizuka?

He gently pried open one side of the iron casing and lifted the lid. What Ren saw was a white paper, with a drawing on it. The drawing was a black-and-white young woman outlined with crisp lines, wearing a single ponytail and a summer dress. Below the portrait was a string of English letters: "Cassy."

Just as Ren was puzzled, the woman on the black-and-white lines on the paper actually turned her head, seemingly looking at him. Hiratsuka Shizuka rubbed her forehead, her expression troubled. "This is the anomaly I found, a human figure that can move on paper." She was telling the truth. Now the line-drawn woman on the paper actually started waving hello.

"Oh!" This was the first time Ren had encountered something so bizarre.