Saiki K PeePee

Ch.6: Intrusion

Tch.

He had let his guard down today. As usual, she had beleaguered his personal space until he submitted. Why did he keep letting himself be caught off guard in the first place? He scowled. Still, she's not going anywhere so he might as well put up with her. He hadn't killed Toritsuka yet so his restraint was within acceptable tolerances. He still didn't know why he decided to say that last bit. It's not like anything would come of it. She'll probably just fade into the background eventually like the other 3.

Teruhashi had left a few minutes ago. Teruhashi had been happy as she left, so his mother seemed relieved and was able to put on a pleasant face. Her mind, however, questioned what had happened. He wasn't ready for that yet. He decided to let it go now and get some alone time.

*Ding Dong*

He didn't hear any thoughts at the door, so that could only mean one thing...

"Ou, Aibou's mom!"

Just my luck, he grimaced.

"Oh, Nendou-kun! I'm so glad you dropped by today! Ku-chan should be down soon!

"Ku-chan! Nendou-kun's here! Come say hi!" His mother called with her usual chipper attitude. Her son making friends was able to destroy any negative emotion it seemed.

Saiki groaned for the second time today and started to walk downstairs.

As soon as Saiki came within view of the front door he heard, "Ou, Aibou!"

You just said that. Come up with some better lines, writer.

Nendou's face conveyed "happy to see you" in the signature Nendou style, a subtle combination of dopey, overenthusiastic, misleading, and stupid. If Nendou's face were a dish, it'd probably be at a Michelin star restaurant; praised for its complexity by food critics, but panned by anyone who had decent taste.

"I promised Kaidou some ramen today, and I just happened to walk by your house! So I went to pick up my pal of course!" he exclaimed with childlike enthusiasm.

My house isn't even remotely on the way to his. You just got lost, Saiki said, having resigned to Nendou's antics since time immemorial.

Nendou scratched his head.

"Eh, you're probably right. Anyway, let's head out!" He pointed forward while turning all the way around only to march out, just barely missing the door frame.

I AM right, Saiki groused.

"Have fun you two!" His mother waved them out with a cheery smile.

With his mother behind him, there was no way he'd be able to avoid Nendou. He guessed it wasn't too bad because he'd avoid his mother's interrogation as well. They started to walk over to Kaidou's house. Nendou started a one-sided conversation about some bug he had caught yesterday.

"So the bug was about this big!" he said as he spread his hands apart about 6 inches.

That seems way too big for anything you'd find in Japan so Nendou is probably just overestimating its size. If it's even close to that big, the bug was probably pretty rare so that explains why he didn't come around yesterday, Saiki thought, equal parts intrigued and horrified that Nendou would have kept an insect that large.

"I still got it on me if you wanna see it!" Nendou said as he started digging around in his pockets, his tongue sticking out as if he were thinking hard about something.

What, Saiki said, equal parts flummoxed and aghast.

Nendou reached his hand into his shirt and pulled out a very large beetle that had two large horns that curved out and came together like a pincer. Saiki was gone with the wind as Nendou looked around and called out for his pal. The bug took this opportunity to fly away. Nendou tried unsuccessfully to grab it out of the air but it got away, making an odd sound that sounded like someone saying "aweigh" as it took its leave. It was probably someone down the street.