You wouldn't want her to know that the Ero Manga Sensei lives right next door, would you?
Sagiri's expression froze as she looked at Rin Ito waving at her from the window. She immediately lowered her face and furiously tapped on her phone screen.
Sagiri: [Why are you there?!]
Rin Ito: [I'm helping my boss move.]
As long as Elf paid enough, helping her move was nothing. Besides... Rin Ito had always wanted to move up in the world. While drawing doujinshi provided quick money, it had a low ceiling. Elf, as a light novel author whose debut work sold over a million copies, illustrating her light novel could accumulate popularity and pave the way for his move up.
Elf writes one novel every four months, and each novel has, at most, ten illustrations. Only a few are in color; most are black-and-white illustrations that don't require detailed coloring. Not only did Elf offer a good payment, but even if she didn't offer any money and just wanted to freeload, Rin Ito would probably agree.
Rin Ito: [I'm a bit tired moving by myself. Come help me.]
Sagiri: [You want me to help you move?]
Rin Ito: [Yes. Why struggle alone? Come and lend a hand.]
In reality, Rin Ito didn't expect Sagiri's small arms and legs to help move anything. He just wanted to help her take a step outside, even if it was just to visit her neighbor.
Sagiri: [No! No! No!!!!!!!] Sagiri shook her head frantically at Rin Ito, her knee-length hair, tied with a pink ribbon, shaking wildly with her movement. At the same time, she made a big 'X' with her hands.
Rin Ito: [Are you okay if I tell her you are the Ero Manga Sensei?]
Sagiri: [If you tell her, I'll never talk to you again!]
Sagiri: [!!!]
The attempt failed, but Rin Ito didn't give up. After all, if it were that easy to get her to go out, she wouldn't have been cooped up at home for years.
Rin Ito returned to the entryway. Elf was currently marking which room each box should be moved to, box by box. Fortunately, her older brother, who was also Elf's editor, had thoughtfully labeled the contents of the boxes when helping her pack, so she didn't need to open each one to decide where to move it.
After saying hello to Elf, Rin Ito went next door. He rang the doorbell and sent Sagiri a message.
Rin Ito: [Relax, it's just me.]
After seeing Rin Ito's message, footsteps could be heard from behind the door. The main door was opened slightly, followed by the patter of bare feet. By the time Rin Ito pushed the door open, Sagiri was no longer visible, only the sound of a room door closing.
After closing the main door, Rin Ito went to Sagiri's room door and knocked. "I'm coming in, okay?"
Not hearing a refusal, Rin Ito pushed the door open. He saw Sagiri, wearing a pink frilly pajama, burying her body in the futon like an ostrich, with her butt sticking out. Rin Ito didn't know what Sagiri was thinking.
However, if Sagiri truly wanted to avoid him, she could have easily not opened the door for Rin Ito or even locked her room door. Perhaps... she wants to change herself but feels powerless to do so, and wants someone to pull her out?
Rin Ito walked to the bed, sat down, and lifted the futon to reveal her small butt wrapped in pink frilly shorts. Her little butt is quite perky.
"If you don't come out, I'm going to spank your butt, okay?" With that, Rin Ito gently patted Sagiri's butt.
"H! Pervert! Lecher!" Sagiri mumbled under the futon, but she didn't leave the futon-barrier.
Rin Ito certainly wouldn't do this to an ordinary girl. But what was his relationship with Sagiri? They were good friends who looked at ero manga together! It was okay to spank the butt of such a fragrant good friend, right? Moreover, Sagiri was a girl who knew the length of Rin Ito's equipment. Last time, she even had Rin Ito's semen shot all over her face and made a snow cookie.
"You call me a pervert, but you're no different, Sagiri. You look at just as much ero manga as I do." Rin Ito placed his hand on Sagiri's small butt and kneaded it. Unlike Suzu and Nanami, Sagiri's butt felt similar to Megumi Jinno and Ami. Although it was still quite perky, it lacked fleshiness and carried a subtle boney feel. However... Rin Ito liked both the soft bounciness of a plump butt and the delicate smallness of a boney one!
While playing with Sagiri's slightly boney butt, Rin Ito spoke. "Seriously, Sagiri, do you want to leave your room?"
"Don't talk about things like that while you're kneading my butt!" Sagiri shouted muffled under the futon.
"If you don't want me to knead it, then come out from under the futon. Mmm... a slightly boney butt also has its own unique flavor. There must be a reason why you don't want to go out, right?" Besides the very few who genuinely felt comfortable being alone, most hikikomori (shut-ins) have a reason. Sagiri had reached a pathological level where her brother, who lived with her, hadn't even seen her in a year.
"..."
"If you don't talk, I'm going to take off your pants too." Rin Ito placed his hand on the edge of her pajama shorts' elastic waistband.
"Pervert!" After insulting Rin Ito, Sagiri was silent for a while before she finally spoke. "Once I go out... something bad will happen."
"Something bad? What is it?"
"I don't know... just something bad!" Swish! Rin Ito pulled down Sagiri's pajama shorts. Unlike Megumi Jinno and Ami's pure white cotton panties, Sagiri's panties were the type with lace edges, less fabric, and could increase attack speed.
"Eek!! What are you doing, you lecher!!!" Rin Ito's thumb hooked onto her butt cheek and gently pulled it outward. This tugging caused her delicate anus, which only had a single layer of fabric for protection, to slightly open. Sagiri instinctively clenched her butt cheeks, and Rin Ito mischievously pressed his index finger lightly against it. It's fun how it contracts and relaxes.
"What kind of bad thing? Worse than being treated like this by a lecher like me?"
At this, Sagiri fell silent again. Rin Ito could feel Sagiri's body trembling. Something bad will happen if she leaves home... Although Rin Ito no longer remembered the plot from his past life about why Sagiri wouldn't leave home, thankfully, in this world, Rin Ito and Sagiri knew each other from very early on.
When they first met in the drawing group, Rin Ito thought she was some big shot in the ero manga field. Looking back now, she was just an elementary school student back then. In a way, Rin Ito had watched Sagiri grow up? Sagiri had also confided in Rin Ito a few things, like her parents' divorce, but a friend is a friend, and Sagiri didn't say too much back then.
It was possible that she stayed home because of bullying, but bullying would only make her not want to go to school, not avoid the living room. It had to be because of family issues. Coupled with the fact that Kaede had asked Sagiri's brother about Sagiri's family during their last visit. Sagiri's mother divorced, then remarried Masamune Izumi's father. At that time, Sagiri had already stopped going to school but was at least not continuously locked in her room. Then, Sagiri's mother and Masamune Izumi's father remarried and, on their honeymoon, met with the same bad luck as in Rin Ito's past life.
The high probability was that her parents' incident caused Sagiri to become a hikikomori.
Therefore... "You can call me Daddy!"
"..."
Sagiri's trembling stopped, but the next moment, the butt-sticking-out Sagiri instinctively raised her leg and kicked Rin Ito in the chest, then immediately pulled off the futon and punched Rin Ito's chest with her pink fists. "Who would call you Daddy!"
After a brief outburst, Sagiri fell silent. Rin Ito gently hugged Sagiri and softly whispered in her ear. "You can call me Daddy, friend, uncle, or brother—whatever you want. As long as you want to change, I will help you."
Although Sagiri really wanted to complain about why he used "Daddy" three times in one sentence, she couldn't... When was the last time she was hugged like this, other than by her mother? Sagiri had already forgotten. Sagiri's eyes inexplicably became wet.
It wasn't that Rin Ito was being overly saintly. After being friends with Sagiri for so many years, Sagiri had helped Rin Ito a lot, from drawing to work. Now, Sagiri was clearly in a state of pathological isolation, and if there was anything he could do to help her, Rin Ito wouldn't hold back. Besides... she was confined to her home and living with family. It wouldn't be convenient if he wanted to hold an orgy for reference later on.