“Kaine.”
Einima, with her cold eyes, stood before me, blocking my path.
“Einima… what’s wrong?”
That one question seemed to make her cold eyes even colder.
“…Kaine? I told you to come to me first thing when you got to the academy. It’s been two weeks… why haven’t you?”
Crap, I forgot…
What should I do… come to think of it, she did say something like that…
“Um… I’m sorry.”
“No! I won’t forgive you. You’re buying me a crepe on the way home today!”
Oh, she’ll forgive me with just that…?
I thought Einima would come up with a harsher condition…
…
…
“I didn’t hear about this. How can a mere crepe cost two Silver Coins…”
What was with that Jumbo Crepe…
It was clearly too big to hold with both hands…
“Because I didn’t tell you. Mmm, delicious!”
Damn it, she’s eating the one I paid a lot of money for right in front of me…
And it really does look delicious.
Einima… it seems friendship can be broken quite easily…
“Kaine can have a little too.”
Saying that, she handed me the Jumbo Crepe.
Yeah, I believed Einima would do that because she’s a good girl!
…
…
As I was walking home with Einima, I felt a gaze.
Was it just my imagination…?
“Einima, don’t you feel a gaze?”
I asked Einima, who has a high searching ability, just in case.
“…Hmm… Hmmm? S-Something like five people are following us…”
“Eh… is it a Stalking thing? Does Einima have any idea why?”
If so, it’s quite a collective Stalking, I think…
“Ah! Now that you mention it, recently the contents of the refrigerator have been decreasing without me noticing, and I’ve been losing things, and my wallet’s been emptying faster…”
Confirmed. Those five people following us are definitely Stalkers.
Unforgivable, Stalking a beautiful female student…
“Then let’s go into an alley once. Once we’re in, we’ll go around with all our strength, catch them, and hand them over to the Knights Order.”
“Understood.”
Einima, who accepted my proposal, stiffened her face.
Well, yeah.
Until now, she’s been followed without her knowing, and they’ve even been entering her house…
We entered the alley and immediately started sprinting with all our might, taking the five people by surprise.
“Huh!? Hey, they disappeared.”
“Damn it! Split up and search, they shouldn’t have gone far yet.”
“…Where did they go? We have to find them, or else we’ll…”
They seemed to be panicking after losing sight of us.
“So, you guys are definitely the Stalkers, right?”
The five men, suddenly spoken to from behind, raised pathetic voices.
“Nuo! …Hmph, as expected, you noticed at that position. But, coming to an unpopular alleyway is convenient for us. You guys, get them!”
Saying that, the five burly men attacked Kaine!
…
…
Five minutes later, it turned out to be a surprisingly good exercise.
Movement was restricted in the narrow alley, and I was holding back so as not to kill them…
I asked the men, who were tattered and made to sit seiza on the floor.
“You guys have been Stalking Einima recently, right?”
Hearing that, the largest one immediately denied it.
“No, no. We had business with you. Kaine.”
…Me?
“Do you guys like me?”
“No, that’s not it. Why do all women immediately connect everything to romance or something!”
Then what is it…?
“We are the main members of the Physical Modification Club!”
Ah, so that’s why they’re muscular.
“In other words, you came for revenge because the club leader was completely defeated?”
“…Well, that’s what it is.”
“Then the reason Einima’s wallet was emptying faster was…”
“Einima-san, it’s famous even in the academy that she goes to the crepe shop every day. Of course, if you go every day, you’ll run out of money…”
…Just a waste of money then.
“The reason the refrigerator was emptying faster was…”
“The other day, Einima-san’s friend said that she called her friends over to eat because she tried making a lot of crepes at home…”
…Of course it’s fast, the decrease.
“The reason she was losing things a lot was…”
“I don’t know about that, but Einima-san often said ‘I lost my textbook’ even at the academy, right?”
…
“Einima?”
“…Forgive me.”
It won’t work even if you say it in a cute pose.
After this, I made her properly treat me to a Jumbo Crepe.
I ranked 8th in the daily high fantasy ranking.
Thank you to everyone who always supports me!