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Wh-What’s with Mika suddenly coming on so strong?

I didn’t know when it happened, but she and Rir had become friends at some point, so she was probably planning to tell her what I said.

Moreover… she’s not wrong that I still make comments ’bout her and Ayumu.

“R-Right, that’s… that’s true. Well, if I’m being frank… I mean-”

Recently, I’d gotten better at communicating my feelings to Rir… at least I thought so. But stating those feelings in front of others was it bit embarrassing.

“Sh-She’s cute…”
“I know that,” Mika commented.
“Same here,” Ayumu added.
“Ugh…”

Now even that jerk Ayumu jumped on the bandwagon. Damn it, there’s lots of people around right now.

“D-Do I have to tell you right away?”
“Yeah. Make it quick.”
“Come on already.”

They pressed me as if there was a reason I had to tell them something.
Do I have to…? I don’t wanna… But if I don’t talk, Mika will tell that to Rir… God damn it.

“Alright, I’ll talk. For me, Rir has become extremely important… Just seein’ her smile is incredible…”
“”Incredible?””
“She makes me… happy.”

Gah… I said it in front of others. So embarrassin’… I’m not Ayumu, so sayin’ this stuff is seriously painful.

Mika and Ayumu looked at each other and then started to show overbearing grins. I probably grinned at them in that manner before, too.
Nah… looks like there’s also a good deal of mischief in there.

“I see, I see! Shuu, could you look behind you for a moment?”
“Wha-, behind me?”

I did as Mika asked and turned around.
Since when has she been standin’ there?

About one meter from me, wearing a grey-ish attire and pulling a trolley, stood a fair skinned girl I’d both seen often and was also seeing for the first time.
Crap, was she listenin’?

I couldn’t see her face since she was looking down for some reason, but the hair peeking from her cap was blueish white… blueish white. Ah… no way.

“Th-Thank you… Sh-Shuu.”

She turned to me, her face, which was still cast down, now tinged with a blush that made her light skin stand out.

I see… that’s the cause of Ayumu’s and Mika’s abnormal grins. Ah… damn it!

“Rir… how long have you…!? No, more importantly, did you hear what I said earlier?”

She nodded wordlessly. Although she had turned into a normal human on Earth and her animal ears and tail shouldn’t be visible, right now, I saw an optical illusion of the latter wagging wildly.

“Y-You guys…”
“Well… my intuition told me that Rir would arrive soon,” Mika explained.
“I noticed her coming our way when Mika started with her prank,” Ayumu added.
“”Right?””

These damn… Especially Ayumu; if he didn’t look like he did, I’d throw him with a joint lock right now. I feel like I’ve been had.

“Ah, Shuu. Uhm, I-I’ve arrived,” Rir finally spoke, still with a blush on her face.

Yep, she’s speakin’ Japanese fluently with nothin’ at all sounding off. She must be smart, after all¹.

Well, leavin’ that topic aside, there’s somethin’ I gotta say to her.

“Welcome, Rir.”

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“Everyone, thank you for coming to welcome me!” Rir was quickly bowing her head.
“It’s fine, you know. We’re friends,” Mika replied with a smile.

No matter how cute she looks, you guys from the media stop aimin’ your cameras at her. I’m pretty sure she’s not the one you came to take photos of.

“Right now, I’m most surprised about how you look on this side, Mika, Alim.”
“Ah-ha-ha, what do you think?” Ayumu asked. “Though it’s only our hair and eye color that’s different.”

No matter how cute he looks, you guys from the TV stop pointin’ your video cameras at him. I’m pretty sure he’s not the one you came to film.

“Heh-heh, somehow, you’re how I imagined you. The two of you… no, it’s three if you include Sakura, could easily make it into this world’s ranking of the 100 most beautiful women.
“I-I’m not… that pretty…” Sakura mumbled while holding Kanata’s hand.

That’s why all the men are turnin’ their attention on ’em.

“More importantly, with how you two look, I’m rather surprised that Ayumu is a boy.”
“Shhhh, please keep quiet about that. Don’t ever tell anyone in Anazumu. I’ll give you the details another time.”
“Understood.”

Well… it was unavoidable that she’d be shocked when learnin’ that tidbit. No matter how you look at him, his appearance doesn’t say “boy”.

Apart from her missing animal ears and tail, Rir looked the same as always… Still. She was from Norway, so she had a certain European² air to her. Well, that was also to be expected… Not sure, but she seemed a bit like a foreigner who came out of a Japanese anime. As if she had been pulled out and put here. That’s how it felt.

Well, as her boyfriend… right, that’s what I am, so how do I put it? If there were 100 people, all 100 of them would for sure call her cute, that’s how pretty she is! And that’s without my personal bias.

“Shuu… is there something different about you? Somehow, you look more muscular.”
“Y-You think so? I’m just as always.”
“Okay? Maybe my muscle fetish is getting worse?”

Well, after she went and told me about that fetish of hers, I stepped up on strength trainin’, but let’s keep that a secret.

“In any case… I’m glad to meet you again. Shuu… Nice to meet you in this world, too³!”

As she spoke those words with a radiant smile, all the people around us turned their attention on her.

1. Or she just got the ability to speak the language when first arriving on Earth, like for the others when they came to Anazumu.
2. The original is Grand Britain and Italy. The UK is one thing, but Italy?
3. Should they really talk this much about different worlds in front of the friggin media?

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