Hikari decided to give the other party a taste of their own medicine.
Sure enough, not a few seconds later, a series of hurried footsteps came from below the stairs, getting closer and closer.
It sounded like after discovering his figure had vanished, they had become somewhat anxious.
Just as those hurried footsteps reached the corner, about to turn, Hikari suddenly stepped out from behind the wall, steadily blocking the other party's path.
"Ah?"
The sudden figure made the girl greatly startled. She clearly hadn't expected him to appear so suddenly, and there was no time to brake her steps at all. Her whole body, like an out-of-control little train, rammed straight into Hikari's solid chest.
BANG!
The dull sound of collision echoed through the corridor. Hikari and this person tailing him crashed into each other head-on.
But he felt no pain at all. What came from his chest was an extremely soft, sponge-like touch, steadily dissipating all the impact force.
Not to mention him, even the girl who had crashed into him seemed to feel no discomfort.
From that soft touch alone, Hikari had already guessed that the one tailing him was a girl, and… her figure was probably quite impressive.
Hikari looked down, and sure enough, just as expected.
What came into view was a girl with an excellent figure.
She had long, straight black hair, yet she didn't have the usual obedience and gentleness of a black-long-straight girl. Instead, her whole body exuded a cold and unruly aura, and her expression was as cold as if covered in a thin layer of ice.
More unusual was that her style of dress was a rare gyaru style, forming a strong contrast with the school uniform on her body.
Her necktie hung loosely at her neck, the top two buttons of her shirt deliberately undone, revealing a hint of snow-white, deep cleavage.
For the lower half, to accentuate her lines, she had even privately shortened her school skirt by a section. The snow-white thighs that should have been covered were exposed unreservedly to the air, carrying a flamboyant allure with every step.
This kind of gyaru getup, at first glance, did indeed seem somewhat "improper," easily giving people a bad impression.
But to be fair, it was indeed exceptionally eye-catching.
Because the girl's face was exquisitely three-dimensional, her features so beautiful one couldn't look away.
Her figure was developed even more outstandingly. The full curves at her chest stretched her shirt taut, and the remaining buttons seemed as if they could pop open at any moment.
The legs beneath her skirt hem were straight and rounded, her thighs plump and fleshy yet not greasy, her calves slender with faint muscle contours, like a finely carved white jade artwork.
If it were an ordinary boy, seeing a black-long-straight gyaru with both looks and figure like this, he'd probably have long since softened his attitude, put on a fawning smile, and even directly started simping.
But toward this person who had followed him the whole way, Hikari didn't have a good impression.
So with a cold face he spoke, his voice carrying not the slightest warmth as he interrogated, "You followed me the whole way, what exactly are you trying to do?"
Facing Hikari's interrogation, the black-long-straight gyaru first rubbed her head, which had been knocked a bit dazed, while quickly thinking up an excuse.
Her face was equally cold, and her tone was self-righteous, "I wasn't following you. My home is here too, I was just coincidentally going home."
"You wouldn't be so overbearing as to not even let people walk on the road, would you?", Her tone was calm, as if stating a fact.
"Enough already," Hikari looked at her expressionless, stubborn-mouthed appearance, and felt rather speechless, "I know all the neighbors on this floor, there's no such person as you at all, understand?"
"And I've already taken photos of the evidence of you following me the whole way. Do you need me to show you?"
The air was quiet for a few seconds.
Under the ironclad evidence, the black-long-straight gyaru Kuroda Hikari lowered her eyes, and finally honestly gave in, calmly changing her tune, "Yes, I followed you back, sorry about that, Hikari-kun."
She was clearly apologizing verbally, but the expression on the black-long-straight gyaru's face remained as placid as an ancient well, like she was reciting lines, not showing the slightest bit of apology, exactly like an emotionless robot.
This disjointed picture made Hikari quite speechless. He guessed this gyaru-dressed girl probably had something seriously wrong with her.
"I can't be bothered to argue with you about why your apology is so self-righteous," Hikari got straight to the point, "I'll only ask you, following me home the whole way, what exactly are you trying to do?"
"Read manga," The black-long-straight gyaru, without even thinking, immediately gave a straightforward answer.
This baffling answer left Hikari completely bewildered, and very confused.
"Read manga? Just to read manga, you followed me the whole way, tailing me to my home?", Hearing the black-long-straight gyaru's words, Hikari felt it was a bit unreasonable.
But looking at the girl's serious, earnest expression, it didn't seem like she was joking.
He immediately pressed further, "You want to read manga, so why not go to a bookstore, or borrow from someone else? Why must you come to me, and even follow me home the whole way?"
Kuroda Hikari said with a calm expression, "I heard that Hikari-kun has been very popular with gyarus lately, and that you have a lot of manga and novels at home, so I wanted to come to your house to take a look."
"???"
Hikari was full of question marks, "This gossip, this messy rumor, where did you hear it from?"
"I discovered it through my own observation," The black-long-straight girl said expressionlessly.
"Oh, so no one told you, you just discovered it yourself. That I'm on good terms with gyarus, fine, anyone with eyes can see that."
"But you say I have a lot of manga and novels at home, how did you discover that? Did you climb through my window and pick my lock to get into my house? Or do you have clairvoyance?"
Hikari instantly exposed the black-long-straight gyaru's lie.
"Earlier when I was chatting with Sasaki Yukina and Kurumizaka Ruri and the others, they mentioned it to me a bit," After being exposed, Kuroda Hikari seemed to only then remember this, and slowly added.
And hearing these two names, Hikari was full of speechlessness, and finally seemed to understand what was going on.
He remembered that a few days ago when the Pure Love Research Club was having a party, he had given a bit more attention to Reina and the other gyaru trio.
At the time they had said they couldn't handle it anymore and wanted to find more friends to join in.
And this morning at the gathering, they had even mysteriously said they would give him a "surprise" in the afternoon.
So the so-called surprise was sending this deadpan expressionless gyaru to follow him the whole way like a stalker, chasing him to his doorstep.
This was the so-called surprise?
"Fucking hell…", Hikari couldn't help but curse.
And Kuroda Hikari, as if she hadn't heard, spoke without looking sideways, making a request, "Can I go to your house to read manga? I heard from Ruri and the others that you have the complete set of "Blade of Ruin", and also "The Titan's Counterattack"."
"You really do like reading manga, huh…", Hikari stared at the calm-faced black-long-straight gyaru, rather speechless, then casually asked, "What's your name?"
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