Mikey! (Manjiro Sano x OC) [Tokyo Revengers]

VI. Like

He's handsome—the boy whose hand is on Karina's mouth and whose body is pinning her to the wall of the fitting room. But unlike when she was too close to Sano-san, she is repelled by their close proximity. Karina doesn't want anything else apart from freeing herself from the stranger before her.

She wriggles out of his grasp, not able to use her hands because of the number of dresses she is carrying.

"I'm sorry," the red-haired stranger apologizes, "but I'm afraid you'll tell them where I am if I let you go." As the footsteps outside disappear, only then does the boy slowly release his hold on Karina. "Ha! At last, they're gone!" He widens the gap between him and the girl, smiling. "Forgive me, but I might say I'm rather lucky today, meeting such a pretty lady despite encountering some... difficulties. Oh. No. Don't look so alarmed. I'm not being chased by the police. Just by two equally beautiful ladies who claim that I am the father of the child they're bearing." He sneers.

Karina does not know how to react. The boy doesn't seem to be an evil person or someone scary, but her instinct is telling her not to be at ease with him.

"The name's Sam, by the way, my lady." He bows at her. "And do continue what you need to do." He gestures at the pile of clothes in Karina's hands. "After I get out of this room of course. But oh!" He eyes the dresses and, from the pile, takes a V-neck long-sleeved light brown dress which is tight on the body but has a flowy skirt littered with white leaves and vines as its design. A thick white ribbon hugs its waist. "This one will look perfect on you," Sam suggests.

Karina just stares at him.

"Go on. Try it on."

"U-uhm..."

"Try it." The good-looking tan stranger takes the other dresses away from Karina and places them on the seat inside the fitting room. "You'll believe me," he says pointing a finger at the girl.

After the boy gets out of the room, Karina does what he says and slips into the light brown dress. No harm in doing it anyway. She looks at her reflection in the mirror. Magical how someone could easily transform with just a little thing. Like a change of one's clothes.

Can she really be... just a tiny bit pretty?

Karina gets out of the room.

She is welcomed by a series of claps from the stranger, looking at her through his dark sunglasses. "Perfect! Told you so."

"T-thank you, Sam-san—"

"Just Sam is okay."

"Sam. I think I'll show this to Emma first."

At that exact moment, they hear Emma's voice getting closer to where they are."Karina-chan?" The beautiful blonde is calling her.

Sam stands up and unconsciously rakes a hand through his thick red hair. "Oops. That's my cue to go." But before leaving, he dangles something in front of Karina—her cellular phone. Grinning he says, "I took this earlier. I'll just insert my number here like this... and yes! That's it. Now, just call me whenever you want to." And as he walks away, he takes Karina's school I.D. from his own pocket and waves it in the air. "That is if you want this back." He faces her again and winks. "Bye-bye. And see you again, Ms. Pretty Eyes."

Then, he's gone, disappearing when he goes through a horde of customers.

Karina tries to go after him but he's nowhere in sight. Somebody holds her arm.

It's Emma.

"Were you with someone, Karina-chan?" Emma didn't change her clothes back to her uniform. She looks absolutely gorgeous in her off-shoulder peach floral dress.