“Natsumi, I’m hungry.”
Natsumi poked his forehead with her finger, a bit annoyed but ultimately unable to hold back a laugh.
“You didn’t eat dinner?
Touka and that organization you mentioned…
they’re so stingy they didn’t even feed you?”
“That’s not it.” *If I’d eaten dinner there, you’d probably be even angrier.* Of course, he couldn’t tell Natsumi that.
“It’s just that the food at your house tastes better.”
“Hmph, of course…
Mom’s cooking has always been amazing,” Natsumi’s eyes darted around.
“Actually, my cooking skills are excellent too.
Next time, I can let you taste my cooking, Nagumo.”
Natsumi ‘clattered’ down the stairs.
“Kaasan, Kaasan?
Is there any food left?”
Natsumi’s mom looked bewildered as her daughter carried plate after plate of food upstairs.
*Didn’t she just have no appetite and not want to eat?
How did she suddenly get so hungry?*
Placing the plates on the floor, the girl propped her chin on her hands, watching the Tentacle Monster eat with great interest.
Seeing him eat so heartily made her hungry too.
She picked up a bowl and started eating as well.
“I went to the hospital with Mom for a check-up this morning.
When I came back at noon, you were gone.
Don’t you know how worried I was?
Besides, it’s not like I forbid you from going out,” Natsumi said after finishing a bowl of rice, putting down her chopsticks and wiping her mouth with a tissue.
“Next time, at least tell me before you go out.”
Listening to Natsumi’s nagging, Nagumo put down his chopsticks.
A tentacle shyly wormed its way under her clothes.
As she let out a soft ‘mmph’, it wandered over her skin.
Seeing her gradually become immersed, Nagumo then handed her his phone.
The ponytailed girl’s eyes were hazy, her mind blank.
She read the message purely on instinct.
“I’m going out tonight…
Huh?!
You’re going out again?!”
Natsumi snapped back to awareness instantly.
She fiercely pulled out the tentacle groping around under her clothes and flung it aside.
Hands on hips, she glared angrily at the Tentacle Monster before her.
“Didn’t you say to tell you?
I’m telling you this time,” Nagumo said, acting cute.
“You…”
This guy!
Natsumi gritted her teeth, looking at the little guy before her with a mix of amusement and exasperation.
Her resolute attitude softened bit by bit. Visit g.com for the full chapter.
“Going out late at night is less dangerous, but Nagumo, I’m coming with you!”
“Uh, are you sure, Natsumi?
I’m not going out for a stroll.
I’m going to investigate traces of supernatural beings—”
“What, do you think I’m a burden, Nagumo?
That I’ll get in your way?”
“…”
“What’s wrong with that?
If Senpai Natsumi wants to come, just invite her along,” a sudden voice sounded from the window.
Natsumi jumped, her eyes widening as she stood up abruptly.
“Touka?!
What are you doing here?!”
Matsubara Touka was leaning against the outside of the window, sticking out her tongue playfully and making a cute, moe expression.
“Senpai, I’m here to see Touch-kun, of course.
Touch-kun is going to look for those supernatural beings tonight.
I’m going with him.”
Faced with the now-dangerous Matsubara Touka, Natsumi was full of vigilance, her eyes fierce.
“What are you scheming now?
What do you want to do to Nagumo?”
“Worried more about Touch-kun than your own safety?
Senpai Natsumi, you really are…” Matsubara Touka sighed helplessly, her gaze complex as she examined the familiar yet unfamiliar senpai before her.
“Don’t you know Touch-kun is far more terrifyingly powerful than I am?
If anything, I should be worried about whether Touch-kun will kill me.”
“Of course Nagumo is stronger than you.
But when it comes to schemes and tricks, the innocent and naive Nagumo definitely can’t compare to the sinister you.”
Matsubara Touka was even more speechless.
“Innocent and naive?
Yeah, Touch-kun is so pure.
If I hadn’t just seen his tentacle go under your clothes, I might have believed it.”
Natsumi’s beautiful face suddenly flushed crimson.
While she was left speechless, locked in a standoff with Matsubara Touka, Nagumo remained sprawled on the floor, munching away, completely ignoring the battlefield between the two girls.
“Nagumo, stop eating!
What exactly is going on between you and Matsubara Touka?” Natsumi felt conflicted.
“Why does it feel like you’ve been secretly meeting behind my back frequently?”
“Touch-kun and I have a cooperative relationship, Senpai Natsumi,” Matsubara Touka said, getting down to business and putting away her unserious smile, speaking seriously.
“What happened with Hanakaya Daisuke before was my fault.
I can apologize~ Besides, since you rejected my brother’s confession, there’s no conflict between us.
If anything, we’re natural allies.”
Natsumi was at a loss for words.
She still didn’t like this personality-changed Touka, preferring the old her. Find the original chapter at g.com.
“Touka, you…
why did you become like this?
Can’t you really go back to being your old self?
That gentle, kind you?”
“Gentle and kind?” Matsubara Touka’s face was expressionless.
After a long pause, she giggled.
“That version of me was just a loser.
Why would I want to go back to being my failed former self?”
“Senpai Natsumi, if you also became a monster and gained this power, you’d make the same choice I did.”
“Touka, we’re different.
Even if I became a monster, I would absolutely never be like you!”
Nagumo continued eating.
“That’s hard to say.
Want to try?
I can turn you into my kind.
I have that ability, Senpai Natsumi.
Do you have the resolve to become this kind of inhuman monster?”
Surprisingly decisive, Natsumi didn’t hesitate for a second.
“Of course!”
Nagumo finally looked up from his meal.
“…It seems I underestimated you.
Or rather, I underestimated your feelings for Touch-kun.
Is it because Touch-kun is also a monster that you don’t mind becoming one yourself?
In that case—”
Swish—
Three of Nagumo’s tentacles flew through the air, blocking the space in front of Natsumi.
Though he said nothing, both girls understood.
Natsumi felt a warm surge in her heart, and her gaze towards Nagumo grew even softer and more tender.
As for Matsubara Touka, she sighed helplessly, “Touch-kun is unwilling, it seems Touch-kun values Sakurakami Natsumi-senpai very much.”
It really is… enviable.
Matsubara Touka didn’t know why, but a feeling of jealousy she couldn’t quite explain welled up in her heart.
Shaking her head to dispel this strange emotion, she checked the time, “Touch-kun, it’s time to go… If Sakurakami Natsumi-senpai is willing, let her come with us.
Anyway, it’s not convenient for you two to go out together during the day, so going out at night like this might even count as a date.”
A date?
Natsumi’s eyes lit up, “Nagumo, a date~”
Nagumo reluctantly put down his chopsticks and stood up, “Going out together is fine, but when you meet that woman named Izuki Shima later, be extra vigilant and careful, and it’s best not to have too much contact with her.”
“Touch-kun, why do I feel like you’re more wary of Izuki than me?
She’s clearly just an ordinary person, isn’t she?” Matsubara Touka rolled her eyes.
“An ordinary person doesn’t mean no danger.
That Izuki Shima is very skilled at rhetoric, not something you two students can compare to.”