I am Yukinoshita Yukino, a lovely girl.
Today I was sick, but fortunately, I have friends.
He came to visit me and even cooked me some porridge. My stomach felt full, warm, and very comfortable.
Although he did something quite perverted when he left, seeing how much he cared for me, I chose to forgive him.
Because he is a good person.
Not only my friend, but even my family, whom I don't usually contact much, came.
She is my older sister, an exceptionally outstanding person, and I have always yearned to catch up to her.
Although I showed a look of disdain on my face, I was actually very happy about her arrival.
Now, at their suggestion, I am preparing to rest.
This should have been a beautiful day, but until my sister said that sentence… Yukinoshita Yukino, who was originally quite compliant and being pushed along, stopped in her tracks, looking as if she wanted to speak but hesitated.
She didn't want to leave; she wanted to know what Yukinoshita Haruno really intended to do.
Feeling the resistance from her hand, Yukinoshita Haruno tilted her head, feigning ignorance.
"Yukino, what's wrong with you?"
"Sister, you should know what you really want to do."
"Oh my, is Yukino jealous?"
"No, I'm not."
Yukinoshita Yukino looked a bit displeased.
"I'm just worried that you, Sister, might do something strange to my friend."
Tanaka Masao: Huh? Do something strange to me? If it's Sister Haruno...
Yukinoshita Haruno pretended to be a little resentful.
"Really, Yukino, what kind of person do you take me for? How could I do anything strange to Tanaka?
Or could it be..."
She drew out her words, looking back and forth between the two of them.
"Is there some unspeakable secret between the two of you that you're afraid I'll uncover?"
Hearing this, Yukinoshita Yukino said decisively and with great certainty.
"There is no unspeakable secret between us."
"Oh, really?"
Yukinoshita Haruno's gaze was playful, and her finger pointed in one direction.
"Tanaka doesn't seem to think so."
Following Yukinoshita Haruno's gaze, Yukinoshita Yukino saw Tanaka Masao, whose eyes were somewhat evasive.
"I... I am innocent."
Yukinoshita Yukino was almost speechless because of Tanaka Masao.
"You don't look innocent at all."
"There's clearly nothing between us, we're completely innocent, so why are you acting so guilty?"
"Are you afraid that what happened earlier will be exposed?"
"Oh, really, I don't even care about that kind of thing anymore, so why are you, the culprit, starting to feel guilty and scared?"
"If that's the case, why did you do it in the first place?"
Yukinoshita Yukino's eyes were full of disappointment, but she was still somewhat happy, because...
"Although Tanaka-kin is a bit perverted, he still has a sense of shame, and that's commendable."
"After all, people without a sense of shame are truly terrifying."
On the other side, Tanaka Masao's guilt wasn't just because of what happened earlier.
The shame from that incident was trivial to him.
He was worried about other things now.
"By the way, my identity as a doujinshi artist shouldn't be exposed, right?"
Before, because he only interacted with people his own age, he thought that as long as he didn't actively say anything, no one would know.
But now, seeing Yukinoshita Haruno, he suddenly remembered some lines from TV dramas and films he watched in his previous life.
"Three seconds, I want all the information on this man."
"Yes, Young Lady."
Yukinoshita Haruno was trained as the family heir, so she should be very skilled at such things.
"What... what if she discovers my identity as a doujinshi artist...?"
Tanaka Masao couldn't help but tremble all over just thinking about that scenario.
"I finally understand why Eriri works so hard to hide her identity. This kind of thing really can't be exposed."
"If I'm discovered, I might only be able to live a boring life of drawing doujinshi every day with Eriri from now on."
"No way!"
Eriri: Hey, hey, why do you make it sound like I'm a backup? You better not let me find out.
Tanaka Masao' wailed internally. At this moment, he deeply regretted stepping into the abyss of being a doujinshi artist.
If he could start over, he would definitely be more secretive and not be discovered by others.
"I should have entrusted the sale of doujinshi entirely to Little Baihe-jie back then, and not created any social media accounts, as that makes it easy for others to track."
"Is it still not too late for me to delete my account now?"
"Oh, that's right."
Tanaka Masao suddenly thought of a good idea.
"Oh, don't I also have the identity of a light novel author? I'll subtly reveal it later."
"That way, even if the other party knows I have works, they'll subconsciously think of novels and not anything else."
"After all, under normal circumstances, how could someone be both an evil Bull Warrior doujinshi artist and a pure love novelist?"
"This is called human cognitive inertia."
Thinking of this, Tanaka Masao breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the two people watching him, smiled, and said somewhat awkwardly.
"Really, it's really nothing."
Yukinoshita Haruno: I don't believe you for a second. Tanaka is so obvious; I saw right through him.
Yukinoshita Yukino: You were sweating cold just now, weren't you? You're usually quite bold, so why are you so nervous now?
I should stay and help you. Sure enough, Tanaka-kin can't do without me.
Such an incompetent Tanaka-kin is surprisingly a little cute.