Chapter 132 – Gifts
Originally, it was something I was just trying to ignore. But now that Rin was following along, she became curious.
And why was Bonnie Lin there?
If Netoru hadn’t shown up at the right time, he could have been badly beaten by the outcasts.
. . She may have experienced the worst of being a woman. Even though she looked like a child, she was also a grown-up like Rin. If you look closely at her, she has a body that has everything a woman should have.
What can men thirsty for sexual desire not do?
However, she herself was walking in front of the four toru with her light steps, as if she had no idea what she was about to face just before her.
Is she in a good mood? Or is it like this normally?
Just looking at her from the back like that makes me wonder if she is the girl who just shuddered around surrounded by her bums.
Just like that, she was following her after Rin said she had a nice trinket store. Netoru asked Rin.
“So why were you there?”
“Yes? What?”
“No, why were you there with the pickpocket boy?”
“Uh… That, that?”
Rin, who was walking in front of her, stopped her abruptly and scratched her cheek. She muttered as she rolled her eyes away from her as if she was trying to hide something.
“Bee, it’s a secret…”
“Secret?”
“Yeah, yes! What do you want to know? It’s already over anyway!”
Netoru smiled at Rin’s reaction. She doesn’t seem to have any intention of telling me. But she said if this guy is trying to hide like this, she has other ways for Tohru.
“···Okay. If you don’t want to say that, you can ask someone else.”
“Others···? Who, who?”
Seeing Netoru’s meaningful smile, Rin’s eyes tremble slightly. Netoru looked her in the eye and said in a confident voice.
“Who is that? Of course it’s Ran. You couldn’t have come here alone, right?”
“Ugh…!”
Is it correct? With a puzzled expression on her face, Rin stepped back from her, sweating profusely. But even in the middle of it, Lin turned her head away and lied.
“What are you talking about… I didn’t bring my sister…”
Who the hell is this lie trying to deceive? It’s too clumsy. But, pretending to be her gullible nephew, Toru shrugged her shoulders.
“Yeah, that’s right. By the way, did Ran know that you almost got into trouble with bums today?”
“…!”
Rin’s complexion deteriorated.
She is the best sister to anyone. If Ran finds out what happened to Rin today, she will have a pretty funny reaction.
‘…My sister must be nagging me a lot.’
As Netoru expected, Rin didn’t want to tell Ran what happened today. It was something that happened when she ran out of her own way. She was sure to nag her a lot if she found out.
But now that she thought about it, she wondered if she would be able to hide what happened today. When she goes back, it’s obvious that Ran will immediately pry on what happened.
She is caught by Ran when she lies clumsily. She’d never lied to Rin and Ran so she didn’t get caught. So, she needed Netoru to speak well for her.
“Excuse me···. Yellowy… As for her older sister… How can she not explain? Me···. If she heard that today was dangerous, she would definitely hate it…”
“It doesn’t matter…”
Seeing the weakened Rin, Netoru grinned. Come on tell me
Rin let out a moan at that nasty expression.
However, she finally decided that she couldn’t hide it anymore, so she sighed deeply and confessed everything that had happened today.
She had nothing to hide anyway. Anyway, from Rin’s point of view, it was an action (?) To help Netoru.
Rather, she was in a position that Netoru should be grateful for. So, she decided to be confident as opposed to Rin.
“…So you’re trying to catch the pickpocket boy instead of me?”
“Okay! So go ahead and thank me.”
Ran, who had finished changing her posture while she was talking, proudly pushed her chest out and placed her hands on her waist.
The way she had been perplexed until just now was the look that would evoke admiration from the perspective of Ne Toru, who was watching the process where she went.
To be honest, she wasn’t really helpful…
Well, it seems like Rin was trying to help anyway, so Netoru smiled lightly.
“Okay. Thanks.”
“Yes? That, yes…”
No way did you know Tohru could honestly say thank you, so Rin scratched her cheek with her embarrassing face.
* * *
Indeed···. The shop she arrived at after being guided by Rin wasn’t too bad. There were quite a few accessories, so it was a pleasure to look around.
However, this was the first time she had been looking for something to give a woman as a birthday present, so the choice was not easy. What is the right thing to give to a child who becomes an adult in the first place?
Netoru stared at the items in the store for a while.
As she thought about it for a long time, Rin, who was watching from her side, seemed to be frustrated, so she poked her side and said.
“… You fool. Don’t try to buy something too expensive. Karen, I hate that. Last year, Natsuo tried to give me something expensive, and I hated it.”
“Hmm···. Is it?”
Certainly Karen is not the type to like luxury items.
Then what would be a good gift?
“How about something like that instead?”
Instead of the troubled Netoru, Rin pointed with her finger. Looking for something, there were hairpins gathered there.
“A hairpin? Did Karen always wear hairpins?”
“Hmm···. I don’t normally use her, but don’t you think it would suit Karen well?”
“…Mmm.”
Rin’s four Toru imagined for a moment Karen wearing her hairpin.
. . . Surprisingly, it wasn’t too bad.
No, rather, it seemed like it would go well with Rin’s words.
To be honest, she didn’t expect Rin’s help much… She seems to be of great help.
“Then let’s do this.”
Netoru nodded her head as if she had found a satisfactory option, and picked up her hairpin. And he looked to the side.
But suddenly, Rin is nowhere to be seen.
Where did this guy go again?
She looked around for a moment and saw Rin looking at other objects not far away.
In her gaze, her hair ties were displayed.
“·······”
She wondered if there was something she liked. Rin, who was looking at her hair tie, took out her wallet from her bosom. She had her cute purse with a picture of a fox.
But Rin, who was looking inside her wallet, tilted her head slightly and sighed as if she realized something.
——Ah, that’s right… I wrote everything before…
Lynn closed her purse with her sullen face and put it back in her arms.
Even so, as if she was regretful, she glanced at her hair tie that was on display, and finally turned her back.
“·······”
Netoru, who was watching that, tilted his head.
What on earth did I spend all my money on?
Since he had been in Area 39 for a while, he probably wouldn’t have much money to spend. The salary of a holy cavalry pilot is by no means small. At least, unless a 19-year-old girl spends it on the wrong place, there won’t be a big shortage of money.
Soon after, Lin, who had been trudging along, opened the door to her shop and walked out, she said.
“I will go out first.”
“Okay.”
That’s when Rin went out of her store.
The gray-haired shopkeeper, who had been watching Rin from earlier like Netoru, said with a smile.
“Your lover seems to be very sorry about that, so why don’t you buy that one as well?”
“···Lover?”
Did we look that way to the store owner?
Wanting something, I looked at the store owner’s face, and there was a sinister smile to sell even one more item.
Netoru, who laughed for a moment at that appearance, looked at the hair tie that Rin had been looking at.
······Well, at least one isn’t bad.
* * *
I looked up at the sky and saw that the sun was setting. The red light of the sunset falls on the street. Lin frowned at the sunset in the distance.
“Ummm… Are Ran and Karen still at the plaza?”
What if you are looking for me?
All of a sudden, a thought began to creep into Lin’s mind.
Anyway, I’ll have to join Ran and Karen before dinner ends.
That was when she was thumping her feet in her nervousness.
“Why is Yellowy so late?”
Waiting for the four toru to come out of the store, Rin narrowed her eyes. She must have even looked at picking out things and came out, but why is she so late?
Are you choosing a gift again?
It was the time when I was about to enter the store again because I couldn’t wait any longer. Netoru came out of the store with the sound of a bell on the door.
In his hand was a small paper bag that was supposed to contain Karen’s gift.
“What. Why are you so late?”
Rin glared at him with one of her eyes.
But Netoru didn’t care about Rin’s gaze and spoke.
“Lynn. Give me your hand.”
“···Hand? Why all of a sudden?”
I don’t know what it is, but as I was told, Rin tried to give her hand.
Then Netoru held out the small paper bag she was holding in his hand. Thanks to this, Rin, who naturally received the paper bag from him, tilted her head.
What. Why are you giving this to me
This must be a present for Karen?
“…?”
He didn’t say anything as Rin walked beside Netōru with her question mark floating above her head.
Rin was taken aback by Netoru’s indifferent appearance.
Are you telling me to give it to Karen as a gift instead? Doesn’t she give it herself?
No···. That’s probably not it.
Wanting something, Rin stopped for a moment and carefully examined the inside of her paper bag.
And her eyes widened as she checked the contents.
“·······”
What was inside wasn’t Karen’s gift.
Inside the paper bag she handed over was the hair tie that Rin had just been looking at in the store.
Could this be… Did you buy it for me?
To answer that question, Rin raised her head.
However, at some point, Netoru is getting farther away, casting a long shadow with his back to the sunset.
Left alone thanks to her, Rin frowned.
Is that guy really thinking of leaving me?
“Yaya! Go with me!”
Rin, who was standing in a daze at the unexpected gift, came to her senses belatedly and ran busily to catch up with Netoru.
At that moment, the nervousness she felt about what would happen if Karen and Ran waited for her just now changed into something else and began pounding inside Rin’s chest.
