The following day after school, Koremitsu received a call on the cellphone from Shioriko, who seemed to have waited for his dismissal time.
"Come over right now, dog."
After giving the instructions, she hung up.
"Did you really teach that brat any etiquette on being a lady? She's not showing any manners at all!"
"Of course I did treat her as a fine lady. Whenever we walk, I would stand at the roadside, and I put a handkerchief on where she sits whenever we sit on a bench. I carry her up the stairs, I bring her to the arts museum or the theater during the holiday. Also, Shiiko looks cute in whatever she wears; there was that one moment when I bought five dresses for her. Shiiko said that she never ate any Japanese Spiny Lobsters before, so I requested a chef to prepare a full course for her. I wanted to order some personalized stationery for her—but well, it was refused because many stationery shops could not finish the order in time."
"That's not educating her, that's pampering her. I think you were just irritating her, you bastard."
Koremitsu grumbled softly as he walked down the corridor, headed towards the shoe locker.
Over there, he found Honoka who left the classroom earlier standing alone in front of the shoe locker.
(Ugh.)
Just as Koremitsu was unable to voice out,
"Well... about Upperclassman Tōjō,"
Her voice was shrill as she looked around slightly, frowning as she said so. And then, she became fidgety,
"I-I-I-I-I don't really care at all either way."
She hurriedly said, but her face was completely flushed red, and her irises were rolling about.
"It's good after all!"
"Ah, Miss Shikibu!"
She did not respond to Hikaru's call to stop (naturally), and hurriedly stumbled off.
"Ah-Ah, she is going to fall down if she walks like that again. I have never seen her walk like that before."
"~~~~~Tch, let's go."
"Is it alright not to follow her?"
"She definitely ran off like that because she doesn't want to talk to me."
"I do not think that is the case however..."
Hikaru showed a worried look, and Koremitsu frowned his lips in a scowl as he quietly put on his shoes and walked out.
(Damn it. I don't know what to say to her even if I chase her now.)
He muttered quietly in his heart.
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"Seriously~, you're too slow, dog!"
Shioriko, carrying the school bag on her back, was at the meeting spot located at a bus station on a bustling street, stamping her little feet on the ground angrily.
Koremitsu glanced over, and saw that her black hair was bundled into twintails, a light grass colored pochette slinging diagonally.
"Ahh, you don't have the collar on you! You have to have the collar on you. You are my dog after all."
She puffed her cheeks unhappily.
"Did you bring the collar along? Put it on! Right now!"
Who in the world wants to put on such a thing!? Koremitsu wanted to roar back, but he recalled that he decided, with an open heart to become her dog.
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"Waka Murasaki" - Hikaru ga Chikyuu ni Itakoro......(Volume 3)
Romance> The story starts with the death of Hikaru Mikado. That guy was a natural charmer, a "harem king", but had no real male friends. After he died, he became a ghost, a soul, but Koremitsu Akagi can see him. Koremitsu though, isn't really like Hikaru...
