Like a completely unopened gift box, you can experience a brand-new feeling."
"You boys, isn't this exactly the type you like most? A pure gyaru or something."
"So, I shouldn't be that cheap. Or is it that Hikari-kun prefers the Sayu type?"
Seeing Kuroda Hikari's expressionless explanation, even carrying a hint of counter-mockery, Hikari smiled, "That's not it. I'm even less interested in the Sayu type."
"I'm just very curious. Manga books are everywhere, they're not some scarce resource. Whether at bookstores, magazine publishers, or manga shops, they're all available."
"Even guys who collect manga at home aren't few. Why did you choose to come to my house?"
Kuroda Hikari stared at Hikari's face for quite a while, seemingly not quite understanding why he would ask such a question.
Only after confirming that Hikari was truly curious did she slowly open her mouth and explain, "Simple. First, Kurumizaka Ruri and the others mentioned you to me several times, so I had some impression of you."
"Second, going to the places you mentioned to read manga, I feel it would be very troublesome, like being harassed by the opposite sex and such."
"Then, I think you're fairly good-looking, which fits my aesthetic."
"So doing this equivalent exchange with you, in my heart I actually feel I'm not losing out, even slightly profiting," Kuroda Hikari really did seem to dislike lying. Things ordinary people wouldn't say out loud, she truthfully revealed them all.
"So that's how it is?", Listening to Kuroda Hikari's answer that didn't seem feigned, Hikari was for a moment unsure whether to laugh or cry.
"Yes," Kuroda Hikari nodded, and looked at Hikari with a serious face, "So just come directly. You can do whatever you want to me."
"That way, I can read manga with a clear conscience. Don't delay my manga-reading time," Kuroda Hikari urged.
"Even the service workers in the red-light district aren't as urgent as you," Hikari shook his head helplessly, "Of course, none of them are as pretty as you either."
"However, I still refuse your equivalent exchange. Forget it today. Once you finish reading the manga, go home by yourself. Don't come to my house again tomorrow, I don't have time to receive you every day," Hikari waved his hand, and said to Kuroda Hikari in a calm tone.
Hearing these words from Hikari, on Kuroda Hikari's pretty face that had been expressionless from beginning to end, finally a rare ripple surfaced.
For the first time she put down the manga book, her willow eyebrows tightly knitted, and with a face full of puzzlement she asked Hikari, "That's not right. I feel the conditions I offered are fair, we're doing equivalent exchange, why would you disagree? This isn't how it's drawn in manga."
Kuroda Hikari lowered her head, and glanced at her well-developed full chest.
Then she lifted her skirt, and straightened out those long beautiful legs.
"How could you disagree? You shouldn't."
After confirming that her notable advantages in looks and figure still existed.
Kuroda Hikari turned her head, and stared at Hikari in confusion, the expression on her exquisite pretty face full of incomprehension.
"Could it be that you think this exchange isn't equivalent, that the conditions I offered are very harsh?"
And seeing this series of actions and questions from Kuroda Hikari, Hikari couldn't really say whether she was narcissistic or had low self-esteem.
Facing the utterly baffled Kuroda Hikari, Hikari opened his mouth to explain, "First, you might have some misunderstanding about me."
"Although I have quite a few manga books at home, I'm not an otaku with zero experience with the opposite sex, I'm not that thirsty."
"Second, you do look decent, and your figure is good too. Compared to the conditions you just proposed, it's not harsh…"
"Then why won't you accept?", Because she truly didn't understand, Kuroda Hikari rarely couldn't wait for Hikari to finish, and couldn't help but interrupt.
"I already said it very clearly before, it's just that you might have thought it was an excuse. I said, I'm very busy, I don't have time to receive you every day after school, and I don't want you to keep hanging around my house refusing to leave."
"I still have a lot of girls who come to my house for parties. If you're here reading manga then, it would really kill the mood, understand?", Hikari spread his hands, and explained clearly to Kuroda Hikari.
"Understood. You mean, when you have your orgy with your girls, I also have to join in, and I can't kill your mood," Hikari had already explained very clearly, but Kuroda Hikari's angle of understanding was very peculiar.
Hikari was momentarily at a loss for words, staring at her face that remained expressionless even after saying the word orgy, he said helplessly, "Was the first half of my sentence swallowed? Or are you deaf?"
Kuroda Hikari shook her head, "I heard it all. But I don't need you to receive me. As long as you give me a key, so that whenever I want to come to your house to read manga, I can come over anytime."
"Hm? Didn't you say equivalent exchange? The way you put it, can it still count as equivalent exchange?", Hikari found the loophole in her words.
"It is equivalent. If I can come over anytime to read manga when you're not home, then you can also invite me over to your house to play anytime, anywhere."
"As long as you want, as long as I'm free, I'll come over and let you do whatever you want. That way it counts as equivalent exchange too, right?", Kuroda Hikari said after serious thought.
"It does count as equivalent. But I still don't agree. I don't like people being able to enter and leave my house anytime, anywhere without my permission. And then you'd bring a bunch of gyaru friends and their boyfriends in for parties, leaving filth all over the place and such, just thinking about it is disgusting," Hikari said flatly.
"My gyaru friends don't have boyfriends… Forget it, I can directly promise you, I won't bring other people into your house without permission, and I won't dirty or mess up your house," Kuroda Hikari still wanted to keep negotiating, even making promises.
But Hikari directly interrupted, "Enough, stop talking. Read your manga properly. After you finish today, leave, and don't come again."
He had many things to be busy with every day. For example, tonight he had to summon the succubus, and needed to prepare properly. He really couldn't be bothered to play house with this expressionless gyaru manga addict.
Hearing this, Kuroda Hikari moved her gaze away from the manga, turned her head, and stared at Hikari's handsome face for quite a while.
Seeming to see that Hikari no longer wanted to discuss it with her, she didn't say anything more, and moved her gaze back to the manga, silently and earnestly continuing to admire it.
After reading with gusto for another half hour or so, Kuroda Hikari finally closed the manga book with some reluctance.
And Hikari, who had been sitting on the sofa playing on his phone, saw Kuroda Hikari get up from his bed. He immediately stood up too, and walked to the doorway, "Done reading?"
Kuroda Hikari nodded, "Mm, done with this one. I didn't expect Dain and Hertlet to actually be titans. This manga's plot is too amazing!"
Although her praise of the plot got no response from Hikari, after expressing her feelings, Kuroda Hikari still very politely smoothed the pages flat, and put the book back in its original spot on the shelf.
"Thanks for the treat, Hikari-kun," Perhaps the manga's amazing plot just now had put Kuroda Hikari in a great mood, she even turned and bowed to Hikari.
"No thanks needed. Have a good trip," Hikari sat back down on the sofa, and raised his arm, signaling her to see herself out.
Kuroda Hikari lightly nodded, and stepped forward with her long legs, her skirt swaying lightly, her lotus steps moving gently.
But those unhurried footsteps did not walk toward the door in the direction Hikari had indicated.
Instead they walked to the sofa, walked to in front of Hikari.
Then, under Hikari's puzzled gaze, Kuroda Hikari slowly knelt down in front of Hikari.
"What are you doing? Didn't I tell you to hurry home?", Looking at Kuroda Hikari's strange movement, Hikari frowned.
"Equivalent exchange. Today I read your manga, enjoyed such an amazing plot, and even used your bed and ate your snacks, but I still haven't paid the compensation."
"Once I finish paying the compensation, I'll go home," Kuroda Hikari said, expressionless yet as if it were a matter of course.
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