On the community street.
Sen Getsusa and Yuno Gasai walked side by side. She was carrying beef, eggs, and various vegetables, while Yuno held several bottles of soda and two bags of snacks.
"Did Tsukisa leave anyone out for the gathering today?"
The two of them had just come out of the supermarket with the ingredients for the evening gathering.
Aoyama Nanami, who had already agreed, would arrive on time.
Because there were many high-end supermarkets near Omotesando, the two girls had simply strolled to a nearby one to go on a shopping spree.
"I didn't leave anyone out, right? It's just Nanami and Mariko-san?"
Sen Getsusa was dressed casually in a loose top and pants, wearing low wedge heels on her feet. Her hair was tied back with a wooden hairpin, looking both simple and domestic.
"That little girl Tsukisa used to take care of, doesn't she need to come?" Yuno Gasai was referring to Izumi Sagiri.
This little one had recently been ordered by Izumi Kyoka to change her daily routine and was planning to re-enter society. Every day, she looked like she was about to die.
"Her... hahaha." Sen Getsusa had a smile on her face at the thought of Sagiri. "She has a special situation and can't go out or meet strangers. I'll just take photos or videos for her when the time comes."
Yuno Gasai tilted her head in confusion.
She felt that gathering around delicious food and taking photos for someone who couldn't come was a rather cruel thing to do.
"A severe shut-in. If it's a stranger, she can't even meet or talk to them. She can only chat over the phone." Sen Getsusa explained Izumi Sagiri's situation to Yuno Gasai.
"And now?"
"Someone is taking care of her now, someone who will absolutely not be swayed by her acting spoiled."
When Sen Getsusa mentioned Izumi Kyoka, Yuno Gasai was very surprised. She had actually occasionally heard of this super lawyer who was known as the rising 'Queen' in the legal World.
"I heard she's a very powerful woman," Yuno Gasai mused. "I heard people talking about her at cocktail parties before; she's a real hotshot."
Sen Getsusa paused when she heard 'cocktail party' and inconspicuously changed the subject. "Ah, Sister Kyoka is indeed a very good lawyer. However, she's not some 'powerful woman'."
That Japanese beauty with narrow eyes might look serious and reserved, and everything she said was about various statutes and regulations, but she was unexpectedly clumsy when facing Sen Getsusa.
—Putting work aside, Izumi Kyoka was quite cute in her daily life.
Every time she tried to act serious with Sen Getsusa, she would always be seen through.
She was a klutz at cooking, a klutz at matching clothes, and even her sense of direction was incredibly poor.
She was probably just putting on an act for Sagiri, right?
That strict and cold demeanor.
The woman actually cared a lot about Izumi Sagiri, but she felt an extraordinary sense of guilt regarding the death of her brother and Sagiri's mother.
After all, she was the one who had arranged for her widowed brother to remarry, but she never expected the two of them to die in an accident during their honeymoon, leaving only Izumi Sagiri from the woman's side to live alone.
Because of this, Izumi Kyoka still felt a deep sense of remorse toward Sagiri even now.
This was a secret the woman had once mumbled with a flushed face after drinking.
'While worrying about Izumi Sagiri's psychological state, I also have to push the law firm I built with my own hands from Osaka to Tokyo. It's hard, Tsukisa. Can I still keep going?'
'I really have to thank you for moving in to take care of Sagiri; otherwise, I would have had to give up my work in Osaka.'
Sen Getsusa could empathize with Izumi Kyoka and immediately said it was no problem, that Sagiri was like her own sister, and praised her for being a very gifted and talented Child.
As a result, fueled by the alcohol, Izumi Kyoka looked at Sen Getsusa with a confused expression: 'You don't also draw... those things... do you...?'
Sen Getsusa: I am the one being drawn in those things... (.-_-.)
Kyoka was talking about Sagiri's drawings.
Izumi Sagiri was an illustrator. Although she couldn't speak fluently with strangers, she operated online under the pen name 'Eromanga'—you could tell the attributes of this illustrator just from the name.
Drawings with... rich colors.
It was said that this name was originally created by Sagiri's mother. The first generation had always remained hidden behind the name, with no one ever knowing her appearance, age, or gender.
After her accidental death during a trip with her husband, the name was left for the second generation to continue using.
That was Izumi Sagiri.
—Although she never admitted the theory that 'Eromanga' was Eromanga, she tried to explain to Sen Getsusa that it came from Erromango Island in the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu.
Sen Getsusa couldn't help herself at the time and told the girl about the situation on Erromango Island.
'Don't look at how "small" that island is; it still has two airports.'
She looked down at the short girl and very civilly helped her with some geographical knowledge.
Perhaps because Sen Getsusa emphasized certain words, Izumi Sagiri didn't speak to her for the next half month.
Chitose Murase said she deserved it ('へ')
After all, in order to appease this girl who looked fierce and raised her little claws like a cat to hiss at her, she had sacrificed her first modeling career.
That's right, being Sagiri's 'model' was the first step to becoming her friend, and also the first step to making Sagiri forget about strangers and enter a state of frenzy—this was a truth Sen Getsusa had summarized.
It was like this for herself, and it was the same for Chitose Murase at the beginning.
Even Aoyama Nanami, who was far away at the convenience store preparing to leave early, was also being constantly thought of by Izumi Sagiri.
—Izumi Sagiri had never met Aoyama Nanami; she had only heard Sen Getsusa talk about her occasionally.
'The girl I'm helping? Ah, Aoyama Nanami. She's full of energy.'
'If I were to use Sagiri's World as a metaphor, the little doll in her heart should be a cheerful girl with slightly wheat-colored skin, wearing cat ears, and extremely good at sports including martial arts techniques, right?'
As a result, Izumi Sagiri was excited for two months after hearing this, only to find out that this bad sister, Sen Getsusa, had no intention of inviting the cat-eared girl, Aoyama Nanami, to her house as a guest.
During that time, the girl was grumpy every day, insisting on stomping on the floor so hard it made a thunderous noise.
—Even when Chitose Murase came to visit wearing the new kimono she had been eyeing for a long time, the girl didn't give Sen Getsusa a good look.
Until this bad sister, Sen Getsusa, promised to compensate Izumi Sagiri 'again'.
What else could the so-called compensation be?
(〃?〃)
Under the picky eyes of the great second generation, on a certain quiet evening late at night, Sen Getsusa finally put on that new black... she had hidden under her clothes and struck various poses.
Why couldn't she wear an extra pair of boots?
Sen Getsusa thought as she matched her fingerprint and opened the main gate of her courtyard.
"By the way, have you decided?"
Sen Getsusa took off her shoes and socks, and with bare feet, she questioned Yuno Gasai.
With the end of the holiday approaching, the girl wanted to use the remaining time to take a Kendo course.
Sen Getsusa didn't even know how she had started becoming interested in Kendo.
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