"So… this is why you brought your classmate home?" Shun sat on a dining chair with his arms crossed, facing the two people with their heads lowered.
"I'm sorry, I was wrong!" Kiana lowered her head and loudly admitted her mistake.
Raiden Mei stood up from her chair and fully displayed Japanese people's inherited spirit of bowing, loudly saying, "Dōmo sumimasen!"
The matter had to be explained from a little while ago. Shun had been sitting on the living room sofa watching TV. He had just yawned when he heard the front door being violently opened in a familiar way.
Shun casually said, "Kiana, if you break the door you'll have to pay for it." But it was only a casual remark. Even if Kiana punched the entire house down, it wouldn't matter.
With the intention of greeting her, Shun got up and left the living room to go to the entrance. What he saw was Kiana still grinning foolishly on the side and Raiden Mei suddenly glaring at him furiously.
The moment he saw Raiden Mei, Shun's heart twitched. He then looked somewhat helplessly at the still-grinning Kiana.
"Kiana, your classmate?" Although he definitely knew Raiden Mei, he still had to act as if he didn't at this moment.
"Yeah, this is the Mei I've been telling you about." In Kiana's perspective, Shun had never met Raiden Mei either.
Shun sighed and said, "Kiana, it seems your friend has some misunderstanding about me. Let's go inside and talk."
At a glance, Shun could tell that the way Raiden Mei was looking at him was exactly like a wronged party looking at a homewrecker. Combined with the messy cultural traditions of Japan and Raiden Mei's somewhat repressed thoughts…
Emmm, it seemed she had already misunderstood.
Sure enough, when she heard Shun say "go inside and talk," Raiden Mei immediately became alert.
Go inside and talk? Would there be sleeping pills and computer parts after that? Then…
Oh my god, Raiden Mei didn't even dare to imagine what would happen next. At first she thought Shun was just some homewrecker, but unexpectedly… he actually looked pretty good.
"I am willing to cover all of Kiana's expenses here. Please allow Kiana to leave."
Sure enough… she really had misunderstood. These damn Japanese.
Feeling that his reputation was about to be damaged, Shun immediately clarified, "Mei, I can call you that, right? Actually… I am Kiana's current legal guardian."
"Eh?!" Raiden Mei was stunned.
"Huh? When did that happen?" Even Kiana looked completely confused. She only knew she had been freeloading and staying at Shun's place. She never expected him to be her legal guardian. When did that happen?
"This…" Raiden Mei looked at Kiana, trying to find the answer in her eyes, but all she saw in Kiana's eyes was clear stupidity and the same shock as her own.
In the end, Raiden Mei still obediently followed Kiana and Shun and sat down in her seat.
"Actually, Kiana doesn't know about this either. I should count as Kiana's brother-in-law." After thinking about the relationship between Ana and Kiana, Shun said.
"Eh? What's going on!" Kiana expressed that she really knew nothing about this. The only relative she remembered was her father Siegfried. When did a brother-in-law and sister suddenly appear?
Seeing this, how could Raiden Mei not realize she had misunderstood? She never expected that she would imagine the pure and innocent Kiana as a god-waiting girl and turn her relative into a homewrecker.
"Wait… I just wanted to invite Mei over for a meal! Why did things turn out like this!" If anyone was the most confused, it was definitely Kiana.
First Mei suddenly put on an expression like "I'm here to end this band," then Shun started dropping bombs one after another first inexplicably becoming her guardian, then turning into her brother-in-law.
Kiana Kaslana's pig brain overloaded. The massive amount of information left her unable to process it for a while.
Time returned to the present. After listening to Mei's apology, Shun's heart remained completely calm.
"It's fine. You're Kiana's friend. It's a good thing to worry about her. But Kiana is just being honest with her friends. She's not as stupid as you think."
A fool's intuition is very scary. She can tell at a glance who is good to her and who is not. On the road to finding Siegfried, Kiana had beaten up quite a few people with ill intentions toward her.
"Dōmo sumimasen!" After hearing this, Mei wished she could slap herself a few times. She never expected that she, who had always been praised for her excellent upbringing, would do something like this. She felt deeply ashamed.
Forget it. Leave her aside for now. Kiana looked like she had something to say. "What's wrong, Kiana? Is there something you want to ask me?"
"It's just… I have a question. What should I call you from now on?" If it were according to Kiana's true thoughts, she would definitely still want to call Shun by name. Changing how she addressed him felt a bit awkward, and it also felt like the relationship would become distant.
But since Shun had already revealed his identity, continuing as before might not be appropriate.
Seeing Kiana acting so hesitant and fidgety, Shun unceremoniously patted her not-so-bright head and said, "What are you struggling with? I treat you so well. It would be perfectly reasonable for you to call me 'Dad.' If I cared about such things, would I have let you remain so disrespectful all this time?"
Kiana truly lived up to her straightforward idiot nature. Once Shun said this, she immediately stopped caring.
"Shun, you're right. Then I'll just keep doing what I've been doing!" Having resolved the knot in her heart and learned Shun's identity, Kiana felt even more relaxed.
Now they were no longer merely landlord and tenant. With the added layer of family ties, even if she left Nagazora City one day, they would still be family.
Raiden Mei watched the interaction between Shun and Kiana in front of her and couldn't help thinking, "I shouldn't be here. I should be under the car."
Moreover, she started missing her father. In the end, she was still just a child. Previously, Shun had used the first-person real-version Sekiro to distract her attention, but that didn't mean she had no longing for her father in her heart.
Sure enough, even after she had killed off her weak past self, she would still break down because of "Haru no Kage."
"I'm sorry, I'll take my leave first." Although "Haru no Kage" was not playing right now, Raiden Mei still couldn't hold back and rushed out the door.
"Kiana, you go after her…" Tsk, what is all this! Although Raiden Mei had also fallen from a wealthy family, why had she suddenly gone full tragic heroine mode?
"Oh, okay." Seeing Raiden Mei already running away, Kiana didn't delay and immediately chased after her.