“Fine…” Hachiya Uchida smacked his lips in annoyance. “By your aesthetic standards, she should be sidered quite beautiful. By the way, I have her photo here. Take a look and judge for yourself.”

  He pulled out his phone, opened a certain social media site, pulled up his list of followers, and found a beautiful profile picture, clig on it.

  “You didn’t just randomly pie blogger you follow and send it to me, did you?” Shuichi Chiba asked, a bit cautious to avoid being deceived.

  Hachiya Uchida looked hurt. “What happeo trust between people? Do you really think I would follow bloggers other than loli ones if I wasn’t forced to?”

  “That makes sense.” Shuichi Chiba suddenly found it credible. “I wrongly suspected you; I shouldn’t have doubted your preferences.”

  Hachiya Uchida rolled his eyes and scrolled quickly through the pages. “See? It’s all her selfies.”

  Shuichi Chiba leaned in to appreciate them for a moment—no, he was examining them with a professional attitude for work—and found they matched the system's standards quite well.

  For instance, in one of the did photos, she wore a light blue sleeveless body sweater that beautifully outlined her curves, and there was a strong alluring aura in her eyes.

  She even deliberately posed with her body arched, creating a striking S-shaped curve, her red lips slightly parted, revealing a hint of her tongue, evoking endless fantasies.

  She looked somewhat like a seductive vixen, truly captivating. It felt like if he were t her in to open a shop, he would end up pletely ed by her charm.

  Shuichi Chiba pohis privately and then asked, “Your sister is so beautiful; how is she still single? How old is she this year?”

  “She’s 29 years old and currently sihough she has been married once. Are you sure you want to introduce her to your cousin?” Hachiya Uchida seemed a bit hesitant.

  “A married woman… that’s not an issue,” Shuichi Chiba said, pletely uned. “But you seem to want to say something. Is there something wrong with your sister?”

  Hachiya Uchida hesitated for a moment and whispered mysteriously, “I’ll tell you, but don’t spread it around, or I’ll get killed by her.”

  “Sure, I won’t spread it.” Shuichi Chiba thought to himself, knowing that not spreading it doesn’t mean not telling.

  “My sister has had three boyfriends in total in the past—don’t think that’s a lot; she’s actually quite devoted, and each retionship was serious and sted until the end. It’s just that… the first one suddenly fell seriously ill and passed away while they were dating. The sed one died in a car act during a date. The third one was strong and lived to get married, but less than a month into their marriage, he went bankrupt after a failed iment and jumped off a building…”

  Hachiya Uchida had a look of lingering fear. “Are you still pnning to introduce her to your cousin?”

  Shuichi Chiba gasped upon hearing this. As young people of the new era, they naturally believed in sce, but having entered such strange occurrences, he couldn’t pletely dismiss the possibility…

  Hachiya Uchida’s cousin was indeed a bit frightening. No wonder she was so beautiful, well-dressed, and alluring, yet still single.

  After all, Japan still has plenty of space for various gods and spirits.

  “Do you have her taformation? I’ll take it for now. I’ll ask my cousin ter if he wants an introdu.” Shuichi Chiba decided to make a wasn’t in a hurry to decide.

  However, he felt there was not much of a problem. He didn’t pn to date Uchida’s cousin et married; he was just looking for a rental…

  At most, they might have some deeper exges.

  Hachiya Uchida, feeling somewhat kied, was a bit worried for Shuichi Chiba’s distant cousin. As he shared his sister’s LINE number, he asked, “Does your cousin have a stable job?”

  “Yes.” Shuichi Chiba nodded.

  “Does he have as?”

  “No.”

  “Does he have a history of domestic violence?”

  “No.”

  Hachiya Uchida suddenly felt fused. “Then why ’t he find someoo marry? Nowadays, women have such standards for partners; his situation is pretty good, so it doesn’t make se all.”

  Shuichi Chiba patted his shoulder and said early, “Because, like you, he’s a homebody with no social life. He doesn’t even know any suitable women, so how he get married?”

  “Aren’t you the same?” Hachiya Uchida shot back.

  “We’re different…”

  Shuichi Chiba didn’t finish his sentence, and Hachiya Uchida immediately reacted, “If you mention my loli obsession again, I’ll cut ties with you!”

  “Aren’t you a loli enthusiast?”

  “I am…”

  “Any issues with that?”

  “None…”

  Cutting ties was impossible. In css, Hachiya Uchida could only talk to Shuichi Chiba.

  “By the way, I almost fot to ask, what’s your sister’s name?” As the gym teacher arrived and was about to start the exercises, Shuichi Chiba hurriedly inquired.

  “Haruka Igawa.” Hachiya Uchida said zily, getting up and showing no desire to participate in the exercises.

  “Her name suits her…” Shuichi Chiba murmured under his breath; at least from the photo, she looked very beautiful.

  In Japan, gym css is quite simir to the calisthenics done during breaks in other pces, and students tend to be just as zy, casually swinging their arms ao get through it.

  However, today Shuichi Chiba was especially serious about it, and… because he was too serious, he ended up twisting his ankle.

  “Teacher, I actally twisted my ankle. I go to the nurse’s office?”

  Shuichi Chiba preteo twist his ankle when the gym teacher looked over, so he didn’t have to worry about being questioned.

  “Go ahead, but be careful.” The gym teacher allowed it without hesitation.

  “Teacher, I’ll take him there!” Hachiya Uchida eagerly volunteered.

  “It’s fine, I go by myself.” Shuichi Chiba decisively refused.

  “Please don’t be polite, Chiba-kun!” Hachiya Uchida kept exging gnces, clearly not wanting to attend gym css.

  sidering that he had just tricked Hachiya Uchida into giving him his sister's taformation, Shuichi Chiba softened and agreed. After all, he would just be taking a brief trip bad forth; there was no way he would end up staying in the nurse’s office like he usually did.

  In the crowd, Tsuki Akiyama saw that Shuichi Chiba really was going to the nurse’s offid felt a rush of excitement, eager to ask for a leave of her own immediately.

  However, asking for leave secutively would attrauch attention, so she had to hold back for now.

  She quietly g her younger sister, hoping she could be of use ter.

  Shuichi Chiba was led out of the gym by Hachiya Uchida, and as soon as they were out, he walked normally, no longer pretending.

  “You, pretending to be injured? You’ve got some nerve!” Hachiya Uchida excimed in shock. “What will you do if the nurse finds out?”

  “I really did twist it a bit; it doesn’t look serious, but it hurts a lot. Is that not okay?” Shuichi Chiba said without a hint of panic.

  “Fine…” Hachiya Uchida had no response. “Why do I feel like you’ve ged a bit this semester?”

  “People grow with time.” Shuichi Chiba said, not worried about him notig anything unusual. Their retionship was just familiar enough to chat about their shared is in anime and manga.

  Upon hearing this, Hachiya Uchida suddenly fell silent. After a long pause, he said, “If I had the choice, I’d rather not grow up.”

  “Oh? It seems you have a story there.” Shuichi Chiba raised an eyebrow slightly.

  However, Hachiya Uchida didn’t eborate further, and the two walked in sileo the nurse’s office.

  “What are you two doing here instead of being in css?” A familiar voice rang out.

  They turo see Sumire Nagase.