Black Knight

Inside her worlds, the no-named girls couldn't help the knock on the doors.

After a few knocks was she taken back to reality as she walked toward the door expecting to scare the visitors after they saw the aura she emitted.

Opening the doors with no expectation—she saw the four innocent children staring at her withh curious face.

Then, they talked with amongst themselves.

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"Ayme-chan, Ayame-chan. Doesn't that ghost(?) looks like you?"

He whispered to her with his hand trying to block the voice passage but his volume were rather large so it was heard by the no-named girl… although she couldn't understand it due to language.

"Kuro, Kuro. No, I don't think so?"

Ayame adorably replied back copying Kuro's tone.

"No, no. I meant her eyes looks like yours, Ayame-chan!"

Listening to Kuro's words, she compared the sunlight-like amber eyes of the girl she is facing and her own crimson eyes… She still couldn't understand what Kuro wanted to say.

So—she tilted her head in confusion as a dots of line appeared.

The other two also couldn't understand how Ayame they know is similar to the green-haired girl—well the cat kind of got the gist of it as she whispered.

"Ayame-chan was like that before?" Against Okayu's question, Kuro just nodded silently.

Confirming Kuro, the cat patted the Oni who's still confused.

Then finally did they continued their conversation with the 'ghost.' Because the only person who can speak Viran among the four were Kuro and Ayame, Kuro spoke first.

"Umm… Ms. Ghost, can we have a permission to live with you together?" The house this ghost lived was huge.

By huge—it was really enormous. At the very least, it was at least thrice as big as the Tree House and more importantly, it had up to 2nd floor.

"Hm? Aren't you afraid of me?" Instead of answering Kuro's question she asked Kuro—being as confused as the Oni right there.

"What are you saying, Ms. Ghost. Why would I be afraid of you? I am just a children!" Kuro made an unreasonable excuse and just fainted innocent.

'No, it's because you are a child that it gives you more reason to be afraid.' She thought of her past—her mere presences was enough to make a kid cry.

In fact, the two by Kuro and Ayame side felt shivering. If they weren't transformed to their humanoid form—their furs were standing by now.

They could only remain calm because Kuro was there. He gave this strange reassurance—despite being weak, it feels that anything would be fine.

At the same time the no-named girl felt ridiculous—she felt strange. This is the first time she heard an 'ordinary' person says more than 2 sentences in front of her.

Clearing her throats she tried speaking.

"Wh-" but before she even speak her first word, she bit her tongue due to her inexperience and as well nervous.

''''cute.''''

The tense in two decreased as the no-named girl spoke with reddened face once again. "Why here?"

"Because it's big!" With no delay Kuro answered.

"D-do you have money?"

"Nope!" Kuro energetically answered.

"I am sorry to break it (is this how they say it?) but to live here you need to pay for it." Copying the word she heard from someone she smugly said to Kuro.

The nervousness was now decreased as Kuro were… a children and acted like one. There's no need to be nervous when talking against it—no matter how inexperienced you are at talking.

"Yep! So… I am going to make money!" Due to his childish tone—it was easy to mistake his word as no-backing and the word of an clueless children.

"…g-good luck." She nervously smiled and cheered for them because she didn't know how to answer back to him.

Moreover, the confidences in his eyes made her lose the urge to laugh—of course she once thought of asking where his parents was but stopped herself as she felt a landmine against that question

"By the way, what's Ms. Ghost's name?" Too tired of acting and his acting has already achieved his goal, Kuro went back to his casual indifference attitude.

"I have no name." Although she was a bit surprised at the sudden changes, like the word parents was a landmine to the four—name, no, 'past' were her landmine.

Suddenly feeling awkward at how badly he messed up. His brain accelerated as his instinct came out with answer—this time, he acted like innocent children again as to brighten the atmosphere.

"Then, then! After I buy this house, I'll name you! In exchange! You are not allowed to give this house out to someone until I buy it!"

Kuro demanded his unreasonable request but it worked well as he made the no-named girl in front of him smile unconsciously.

"I'll be cheering for you." Surprised at the fact that she smiled, she cheered for him—this time, for real.

'Smooth.' Whilst Okayu taking a memo of something sacred—the groups bid farewell after Ayame introduced herself with broken Viran.

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"Kuro~! What do you mean by her eyes looks like mine?" The Oni was still confused by his words.

So confused and curious that the entire conversation-she was looking at the empty space dozing off while thinking what he meant.

And most importantly, she felt frustrated though… even herself didn't know of that—she felt frustrated that Okayu-chan understood what Kuro meant when she didn't.

Mysterious flame burned up insider her.

"I meant the ghost big sister's eyes (the emotion it is telling). You may not know of it but it was really similar to the past you, Ayame-chan!"

Since she seemed to continue pester him, he thought of answering it.

"Ohhh! I see." From then, she nodded satisfyingly while fist bumping her palm with understanding smile.