Vol-05 Ch 1 – Life With Yuti

Part 1

"W-what should we do now…?"

"Woof?"

"Fugo."

We managed to hold off the attack by a girl named Yuti, who has the same "Evil" power and the same "Holy" technique as Master Usagi. The words of Master Usagi, who appeared as our helper, revealed that the Evil had tricked Yuti.

As a result, Yuti didn't attack us anymore, but Master Usagi told us to take care of her.

However, Yuti herself has been holed up in the room by herself to clear her mind, and she can't be approached for discussion. Well, I'm sure a lot of things are messing up in her head right now…

"It can't be helped, I'll just do my daily training routine or something, and then I'll make some dinner."

"Woof!"

"Fugo."

Night and Akatsuki also answered adorably, as if they agreed with my words.

"Fuh! Fuh!"

Before coming to the other world, I used to do general push-ups, sit-ups, back-ups, and squats, but I never lost weight for some reason. I didn't skip it, but I continued to do it every day…

It's not just that I've become more slender due to leveling up in the other world, but also that I've suddenly gained muscle mass. Really, the other world is so strange.

After finishing the muscle training I've been doing since before I came to the other world, I was training with Night when I suddenly felt a gaze other than Akatsuki's. When I turned my eyes in that direction, I saw Yuti standing there.

So Night and I stopped our training once and called out to Yuti.

"Um, what's up?"

"….."

I'm also confused by Yuti, who doesn't say anything when I call out to her, but──.

Grroowwlll~~~~.

Suddenly, a sweet sound rang out. The sound comes from Yuti's stomach.

"Uhm… could it be that you're hungry?"

"…Mmm."

Yuti nods a little.

Indeed, I've been moving since then, and Yuti just finished fighting me, too. Besides, it's also lunchtime.

"I understand. I'm going to prepare a meal now, so just wait a bit."

"….."

Yuti nodded again at my words and quietly went back to her room. As I saw her off, I called out to Night and Akatsuki.

"Well then, let's go make some food."

"Woof."

"Fugo."

However, this time I'm tired from the battle with Yuti, so to be honest, it's too much of a hassle to cook. But I need to eat something to get my strength up, and since I'm hungry, I decided to make a simple pasta dish. It's just a matter of boiling it.

The pasta is indeed from the Earth. The sauce is also made by Japanese companies, so I am very grateful for the Earth's… or even Japanese food technology that makes it easy to eat delicious food.

Night and Akatsuki can eat the pasta… just like me, or rather the human thing, so I prepare the same thing. Hmm… thinking again, the other world's monsters are still a little different from the creatures of Earth.

While thinking about this, the meat sauce pasta was successfully completed. Then, perhaps caught by the smell, Yuti came over before I could call out to her.

"It smells good."

"Eh? Oh, that… dinner is ready, do you want some?"

"…..Mmm."

"…Oh, by the way, how's your condition?"

"No problem."

"I-I see."

She should have taken a decent hit from Master Usagi's attack, but she's just fine. That's amazing.

While surprised by Yuti's reply, we sat down at the table.

"Uhm… then, itadakimasu."

"Woof!"

"Buhi!"

"Mm? Itada, kimasu?"

At my words, Yuti tilted her head, and then she tilted her head even more, when she saw the pasta placed in front of her.

"Oh, don't Yuti and the others have a culture of saying itadakimasu… and, come to think of it, you haven't even seen pasta, too?"

"Affirmative. How do you eat it?"

"This is…"

I show her the gesture of eating while rolling up the pasta with the prepared fork, but Yuti is still tilting her head at it. Then, she nodded with some kind of conviction and, for some reason, offered me the fork.

"I don't know. So, you feed me."

"Huh?"

I almost dropped my fork at the unexpected words. F-feed her, she said? …I think I just showed her how to eat it.

"I was always fed by my mentor. So, feed me?"

What does she mean that she was fed all the time? …No matter how much I think about it, it's just wrong… She's not a baby anymore. Or was Yuti's mentor that overprotective? It's a big difference from my master's. No, it's just uncomfortable to be treated overprotectively by Master Usagi.

I can't help but be confused, but there's no sign of Yuti starting to eat it herself; she looks at me with pure eyes and opens her little mouth.

"Aaann."

"Ugh…"

I finally let Yuti, who by all appearances didn't seem to be eating herself, eat the pasta, losing my patience.

"Here."

"Mm…mm!"

Then Yuti's eyes widen, and she looks at me in surprise.

"Astonished. So delicious. Are you actually a chef?"

"N-no, not that kind of thing, but…"

"Indeed… if you're a chef, that strength is inexplicable. It's a wonder."

She looked at me curiously but continued to eat her pasta at the same pace, and I found that she finished it in no time.

"It was delicious."

"That's good to hear."

Well, it's a victory for my skills, or rather my corporate efforts.

With Yuti's meal finished, I'm about to start my own meal once again when Yuti looks at me with a serious expression on her face.

"Hmm? What's wrong?"

"Demand. Introduce yourself."

"Eh."

Now? And you're just making some pretty crude demands!

"I know you're a disciple of that Kicking Saint. But as for the rest, I don't know much about you."

"Now that I am thinking about it…"

She attacked me out of the blue. From that point on, I didn't even have the air to introduce myself, so… No, I'd like to know what kind of mental structure you have if you can introduce yourself carefree in that situation.

"I'm Yuuya Tenjou. As you know, I'm that Master Usagi's disciple…"

"Understood. I'm Yuti. The disciple of the Bow Saint."

After I introduced myself, Yuti briefly said so too. And after other brief introductions, I ask her about the current situation where she can't postpone.

"So, that… has that made you feel better…?"

"…Complicated."

"I see… I was asked to talk to you by Master Usagi…"

As I was pondering how to explain it, Yuti's face turned down slightly.

"…The one who killed master was human. …But I never knew that there was an "Evil" behind it. Even now, I can't forgive the humans who killed my master. But if the Usagi story is true, then those humans are no longer around. So I will defeat the Evil that is the source of everything. That's all."

"….."

When Yuti said that, she looked straight at me again.

I'm not the one involved in taking revenge or anything like that, I wouldn't be able to say anything about it, and I wouldn't have the right to stop her, as well.

"By the way, do you have any guesses as to where you will be going from now on?"

"No."

If that's the case, what can I do for her? I thought about it a lot, but being just a student, there was no way I could come up with a good idea, and I sighed heavily.

When I look up, I suddenly notice that Yuti's outfit is covered in mud.

Ah… she fainted after fighting us, and she stayed in the room as soon as she woke up. That means she doesn't have time to change clothes or anything. This would have been a good idea to prepare a bath for her before dinner…

As I was thinking about that, I noticed Yuti looking down at her body.

"Hmm? What's going on?"

"I'm covered in mud. Wish. I need to wash my body."

"Oh… I know you fought us and stayed in the same place. But instead of just washing up, why don't you take a bath?"

"? A bath? Question. What's that?"

"Eh? You don't understand bathing, huh? …But, you do understand washing your body, right?"

"Affirmation. I used to do that with my master."

"If the water's warm, it's a bath."

"Understanding. It's interesting. I'm going to take a bath or anything like that."

"All right, well, I'll get it for you in a minute."

I could have used a portable open-air bath, but I didn't want to go out of my way to prepare one, so this time I prepared a regular bath at the Earth house.

"Look, it's ready."

"Hmm."

"…Hmm?"

Then, for some reason, Yuti raised her arms and looked at me.

"? If I want to wash up, I need to take my clothes off."

"Y-yeah, that's right."

"Yuuya, undress me."

"Why?"

She's going to take a bath, and she needs to take her clothes off. But I'm not going to help her with that!

"Am I wrong? Master, she always helped me to take it off."

"Your master?"

She isn't just overprotective! How far did she dote on her!

I don't know how old Yuti really is, but she's probably in middle school from the looks of her. And yet her master fed her and undressed her, was she going to let her stand on her own…?

Be that as it may, it's usually a bad idea for me to take off her clothes, so while I managed to convince Yuti, I took Yuti to the bathroom. When I explained about the shower and shampoo in the bathroom, Yuti's eyes widened.

"This place is full of strange tools. Are they all magic tools?"

"No, it's not really a magical tool…"

"Because when you twist this obscure thing, water comes out. Amazing."

I hadn't imagined it at all, but there would indeed be no such thing as a shower or faucet in the other world. Turning on a faucet to get water coming out is definitely a nice thing to have.

"This soap is pretty impressive too. It certainly was more bubbly than the one my master used."

"I-I see. Well, at least you know how to use it, right?"

Yuti nodded quietly at my words.

"Alright, then──."

"I will be in immediately."

"Eeehh!?"

Yuti took off her white dress on the spot despite my being present.

Hey, for someone who was talking about wanting help to take it off earlier, you can do it so easily! …Wait, that's not the problem here!

Yuti's actions froze me, but ignoring me, Yuti took off her clothes on the spot and went into the bathroom.

It was so shocking that I froze in place, but….

"…For now, let's do some laundry."

Normally I would have dithered over whether I, as a man, could wash a girl's clothes, but after the tremendous shock I received earlier and the lack of replacement clothes, I mindlessly did the laundry.

As I started to run the washing machine, I felt even more mentally exhausted than I did when I fought with Yuti.

Part 2

Now, I need to get a place for Yuti to sleep or something while she's in the bath…

Besides – though it's okay for now – if she's going to stay at my house permanently, I'll have to get her a change of clothes or something. We have not discussed it properly yet, but if I were to part ways with Yuti here, she will only pursue her revenge…

Alone, with no place to rest and no place to go.

I hoped that my house could at least be a place for Yuti to rest. Well, if that's really what it means to live in this house, then I guess I'd better get some clothes for Yuti, and, if anything, make sure she can live on Earth…

No, she hasn't really decided to live here, but if she's going to spend time at my house, she needs to know not only about the other world, but also about the Earth that we're on now, in case something goes wrong.

"What's going to happen now?"

"Woof?"

"Fugo."

At my question, Night and Akatsuki tilted their heads in the same direction.

At that moment, the Earth's house doorbell rang.

"Hmm? What is it? Maybe a newspaper salesman?"

I don't remember asking for anything in particular, so with that in mind, I headed to the front door…

"Hello, Yuuya-san."

"Eh, Kaori?"

To my surprise, it was Kaori who came to my house.

"Why are you here?"

"Err, I happened to be passing by Yuuya-san's house, um… Yuuya-san, I was wondering what you're doing…"

"I-I see."

Kaori's words made me unintentionally startled. It's not that Kaori has any other intentions, but I couldn't help but be surprised by her visit.

When I was thinking about that, Kaori made an apologetic expression.

"Umm, was it a bother?"

"Eh? That's not true!"

Kaori looked relieved when I hurriedly told her so.

"Thank goodness… Oh, by the way, do you remember what I asked of you before?"

"What you asked of me?"

"Yes! I asked Yuuya-san to take me sightseeing in the other world before, didn't I? At that time, Yuuya-san said it was too dangerous to do so, but I am still curious about it…"

"H-hmm…"

Sure, it's natural to want to go there when there's a strange place like this other world in front of you.

But…

"But it's still dangerous──."

"──Yuuya. I'm done."

"Huh?"

Suddenly, a voice called out to me from behind, and I turned around without a second thought…

"Yu-Yuyu-Yuuya-san… that, that girl is…"

While still wet from the bath… a naked Yuti was standing there!

"T-that's! Err, a lot is going on!"

"Yuuya. I'm done. What should I do now?"

"No, don't do anything, just get dressed!"

"Don't have, clothes."

"That's true too…!"

I was in the middle of getting ready for that!

"Yu-Yuuya-san! Why is this girl naked?"

"? Yuuya, this woman, who is she?"

I wanted to look up to the heavens as both of them pressed me at the same time.

"S-someone, please help me…!"

＊＊＊

"I-I see… so that's what happened…"

After that, I managed to gather up my energy and desperately tried to explain to Kaori about Yuti, ending her misunderstanding. When I imagined that if the misunderstanding had not been cleared up, Kaori would recognize me as a pervert and I would feel dreadful. Thank goodness the misunderstanding has been straightened out…

As for Yuti – thanks to the fact that I had used my magic to dry her clothes that I had washed – she has finished changing her clothes for now. And while we're at it, I also talked to Kaori about Yuti in the form of a consultation. In fact, it was complicated for me, as a man, to prepare a change of clothes for Yuti.

"Well, just to confirm one thing, does that mean she's going to live with Yuuya-san from now on?"

"Hmm… it depends on what Yuti wants to do…"

"No, you can't! How can you and a girl be under the same roof?"

"Ugh, that's…"

Kaori has a point.

When Kaori is at a loss for words, Yuti opens her mouth with a serious expression.

"I, I like this place."

""Eh?""

At Yuti's unexpected words, Kaori and I shouted at the same time.

"You like this place, you said?"

"Yuuya, the food is delicious. The bath feels good. Conclusion. It's a good place."

"Is that why?"

"I don't know where to go anyway. And if he refuses, I'll have to go somewhere else for sleep."

"T-that's not good!"

"Yeah!"

Not only me, but Kaori immediately disagreed with Yuti's words.

She's a girl, and more importantly, it's too dangerous to sleep outside in a world where there are monsters… No, maybe she's stronger than me, so I don't need to worry about it.

"Don't worry. I was living in the forest with my master."

"I-in the forest?"

"Affirmative. So I'm used to being in the wild."

"No, Yuti may be used to it, but it's just that we feel…"

I sighed at Yuti's words, but I told her again.

"Well, since Master requested this of me, let's live here together. There's plenty of room for you."

Fortunately, thanks to the [Door to Another World]'s exchanging function, I'm not in need of money, so there's no problem with one more person, and this house is actually too big for just me, Night, and Akatsuki.

"It's a relief. I would be troubled if you said no to be honest. Evil power, it's calmed down now, but it's not completely gone."

"Eh."

"It's okay; I can keep it in check now. I still feel like I have a little "Evil" left in me though."

Wait a minute. This is indeed a story that I can't get past…!

While I was anxious with Yuti's unexpected statement, Kaori, who didn't know what "Evil" was, tilted her head.

"Then… what is this "Evil"…?"

"Eh? Ah… err… I don't know how to explain…"

Honestly, I still don't have a proper understanding of it. Master Usagi said that they are like a mass of negative aspects of the world…

As I fumbled for an answer, Yuti answered for me.

"The "Evil" is the negative aspect of the world itself. It's hard to explain in detail. It's just something bad."

"I-I see…? Um, does this mean that these bad things are in your body, Yuti-san?"

"Affirmative. I am only temporarily restrained by the power of the pig there."

"Buhi!? Fugo, fugo!"

"C-calm down, Akatsuki."

Akatsuki didn't like the fact that Yuti called him a pig there, and he protested by stomping the ground on the spot. However, his appearance was just too cute for a complaint.

"Oh, I see… then, will that "Evil" power go out of control again, or…"

"It's possible. Now that I've decided to turn against the "Evil", I may be unable to control my powers as well as I had before."

I suppose that's true. If the "Evil" guys can accurately control the power they themselves have given out, they'll recover that power from those who could be an enemy.

"Fortunately, there is that pig here. So there's less of a risk of that running amok."

"Really…?"

If that's the case, I can't afford to let Yuti leave even more.

As long as she decided to challenge the "Evil," Yuti would be unwilling to harm other humans.

"As I thought, it would be best for Yuti to stay here."

"Affirmation."

"…I can't blame you for all of this… But, Yuuya-san, you're getting along with a lot of women without my knowledge…"

"Uee? I-it's just a misunderstanding! It just happened by chance!"

"I wonder if that's true…"

Sure, Lexia-san, Luna, and all the other people that Kaori has met have been women, but that's not true! …Probably. Huh, but she knows some men too, right? Like Owen-san, or Arnold-sama, or… Uhh, I'm getting a little uneasy.

Kaori has some kind of a complicated expression on her face. Indeed I'm going to live together with a girl, but I'm not going to do anything strange. Or rather, I would get beaten back in terms of ability.

More importantly, am I that untrustworthy…? It's a bit depressing.

Although somewhat complicated, the decision to accept Yuti in this house has forced me to look at other issues.

"However, if this arrangement is done, what will you do while I'm at school… it frightens me to leave you alone…"

"School?"

She tilted her head as if the word was unfamiliar to Yuti.

Night and Akatsuki are good kids and can stay at home properly, but I'm not sure about Yuti. She's pretty naive, just like the food and bath incidents earlier, and I'm afraid of what might happen. The safest thing to do is make sure that she can't travel between the worlds while still having her stay in the other world home… That would be a tight situation, indeed.

I've been pondering over it for a while now, and Kaori has unintentionally opened her mouth.

"If that's the case… why don't you go to school too, Yuti-san?"

"Eh?"

Responding to the unexpected words, Kaori continues.

"How old are you, Yuti-san?"

"? Age, I don't know."

"You don't know…? But by your appearance alone, you look like a middle schooler, so what about transferring to middle school?"

"That's…"

I'm honestly scared to take her into Earth's school out of the blue, but if it gives Yuti a chance to look at things other than just the "Evil" things, I think it's a great idea.

However…

"I would be grateful if we could get Yuti into a middle school, but it would be hard. In Yuti's case, there's no household registration, and first of all which school…"

"If that's the case, then Ousei Gakuen will do just fine."

"Huh?"

"There's a school building on the grounds of the school we attend that we don't use, remember?"

"W-well…"

I mean, Ousei Gakuen is still too big to keep track of all the facilities, so to be honest, it doesn't ring a bell when she talks about the school building that wasn't used.

"At that school building, the middle school students are taking classes. Have you not seen them? It's hard to tell because the uniforms are the same as in high school…"

"So that's it…"

When I thought about it, I felt like I saw many students for the number of people per grade level. That's because there were kids from the middle school as well.

"If it's the middle school of Ousei Gakuen, Yuuya-san can rush right over when something happens, isn't that a relief?"

"That's really reassuring, but would it be difficult to transfer or anything like that?"

"If you're in high school, it's going to be hard to transfer if you do not belong to any high school, but if you're in middle school, you can still get by."

After saying that, Kaori gave a reliable smile and then turned her head directly to Yuti.

"Yuti-san, is it okay with Ousei Gakuen?

"? I don't know if it's okay or not. But with Yuuya around… I'm safe."

After nodding with satisfaction at Yuti's words, Kaori clapped her hands.

"Then let's go buy some clothes or something for Yuti-san now! And if we go directly to my father and explain the situation to him, we can complete the process right away."

After all that, thanks to Kaori, it looks like she can work out the situation with Yuti.

"Well, thanks. To be honest, I didn't know what to do on my own…"

"No, I'm glad I could help."

"If there's anything I can do to thank you for this, or rather, if there's anything I can do to help…"

"Hmm… Ah! Then I'd like to go to a city in the other world!"

"Eh?"

"Is that a no?"

"Ugh…"

Since she's been helping so much with Yuti, I would make it happen if I could, but…

While I'm at a loss for words, Yuti gave me a strange look.

"Question. Why don't you take her into town?"

"Eh? I-I mean, it's dangerous…"

"Dangerous…? Yuuya, strange. Danger to Yuuya, a person that reached the realms of "Evil" and "Holy," that kind of opponent doesn't come up often."

"I haven't gotten that strong, though…"

Although I've gained experience in actual battles against the monsters of the Great Devil's Nest, I don't feel like I'm getting stronger at all. I guess it's because I'm comparing myself to Yuti and Master Usagi…

Regardless, I can't help but have such high expectations…

I sighed and made one condition.

"All right. But we have to get Kaori's equipment first."

"Eh?"

Kaori gives me a puzzled look at my words.

"Yuti says it's okay, but if something happens, it would be a disaster. That's why, in order to make sure we're prepared, we should get Kaori's equipment first. As long as you have this equipment, Kaori will be able to protect herself in case something happens…"

"O-okay! That's okay! Umm… How do I get the equipment?"

"I'll get it for you by next week's holiday at the latest. I'm thinking of going straight to the other world's royal capital on my day off… Is that okay? I'm sure I will give Kaori's equipment directly to you that Saturday, and we'll just leave immediately."

"Next Saturday or Sunday will be fine! Besides, probably Yuti-san's transfer will be after that holiday, so this is perfect."

Kaori nodded happily at my words and once again told Yuti and me.

"Well then, since you have promised to show me the city of the other world, let's get going, shall we?"

Kaori took Yuti and me out while Night and Akatsuki stayed at home.

Part 3

When we left the house, Yuti froze at the scenery outside.

"Astonishing. Are these… buildings?"

"Yeah, these are all houses."

"Houses… of nobility?"

"Huh? Not nobility. Just ordinary common houses."

"Common!?"

Yuti's eyes widened even more at my words. It's not that surprising… no, I recall I've seen the houses in the other world, but they certainly aren't as big as the ones you see in Japan. And many of them are more like an extension of a log cabin. Some of the houses were made of stone or brick though.

As soon as Yuti looks around in awe at the houses and streets of Earth, she finds…

"!? Monster!?"

"Yuti?"

Yuti reacted quickly to a car that happened to be passing by and jumped away from the spot in a big leap.

And then she tried to use her bow, which was Yuti's weapon. She realized that I still am holding onto it, and she looked impatient.

"Demand. You must give my weapon back to me. Otherwise, that thing can't be defeated."

"No, you can't take that down!"

"There's no car in the other world, after all, right?"

Kaori seemed to notice this as well and managed to explain the car together with a bitter smile at Yuti's reaction.

"…Partly, I understand. I understand that it's similar to a carriage. But how is it working? I can't feel any magic."

"It does not work with magic. It's with gasoline."

"Gasoline? …As expected, it is unknown."

There's no way to explain all of this. How do I give an explanation of gasoline?

Once she understood that the car was just like a carriage, we once again headed out to buy clothes and other items for Yuti. But after all, Yuti, who is still unfamiliar with Earth's environment, began to act discordantly.

"Yuuya. What's that pillar?"

"That's a telephone pole."

"Telephone pole? …Climb it."

"Don't climb it!"

Why would she be climbing it?

"Yuuya. What is the point of this fence? This isn't going to stop the enemy from attacking."

"No, there are no enemies… so you shouldn't climb it as well!"

Yuti seemed to have lived in nature with her master, the "Bow Saint," so she wanted to climb up as soon as something went wrong. Is she a monkey?

When we met in the other world, Yuti was only focused on fighting. But now, she was curious about everything and was distracted by them. We walked around in such a state, but most importantly, Yuti's appearance was quite conspicuous, and the people around us were whispering something to each other when they saw us.

"Hey, look at that…"

"Wow… she looks like a doll…"

"Is she a cosplayer?"

"No, that hair is too natural for that. The color of her eyes looks different, too…"

"I mean, the other girl is so cute too, isn't she?"

"…The guy with those two is the one who's been in the news for his previous photoshoot with the model Miu, too, right?"

"Damn it! Being with two cute girls like that… I'm so jealous!"

As I was exposed to all sorts of curious eyes, Yuti, who had been looking around, turned to me.

"Yuuya. Humans, they're staring at me. Uncomfortable. Can I shoot them?"

"You can't do that, please!"

You shouldn't shoot people for that kind of reason in the other world. Eh, it's terrible, right?

Yuti was somewhat unconvinced by my words, but she was still anxious about the eyes in her surroundings, and she was shrinking away. Then, she ran out onto the roadway.

In the other world, there were no distinctions between a roadway and a sidewalk. Rather, there was only a road, so it was not surprising that Yuti would jump out onto the roadway.

"Oh, look out!"

The moment I heard someone's shout, I hurriedly held Yuti in my arms and jumped back from the roadway.

"O-oohh!"

"What the hell was that?"

"I didn't see that one coming…"

"That's cool…"

While the people around me were shouting in amazement at my actions, Kaori rushed over to me with an anxious look on her face.

"Yuuya-san, Yuti-san, are you alright!"

"Yeah. I'm fine, but…"

I looked down at Yuti, who I was holding as I replied. She looked up at me curiously, too.

"Unnecessary. Even if you don't help, it doesn't matter. Above all, it's the car that will break if it hits me."

"That's not the point! I don't think it's okay to get hit by a car and end up wrecking someone's car!"

"…It's difficult to comprehend. I'm not that soft with my training."

"First of all, I need to adjust that muscle brain mindset of yours, I guess…"

I followed Kaori even though I was already exhausted at this point. We finally arrived at the vicinity of our destination. It's a shopping district located close to the school. Some buildings are still under construction, showing that the area is still developing.

"I think some of the clothes from this store would look good on you, Yuti-san!"

"R-really?"

I don't know if a girl's clothes are good or bad, so I have to answer that. As I was thinking about how I'm completely helpless here, I suddenly realized that Yuti was staring blankly into the sky.

"Hmm? What's going on?"

"Falling."

"Eh?"

Yuti pointed to the building under construction and continued in a matter-of-fact tone.

"Falling. That pillar over there, it's going to fall."

"That pillar, you said? …No way!"

Yuti was referring to the steel rebar being lifted up using a crane in a building that is currently under construction. However, when I tried to ask again how she knew that, Yuti continued.

"Parent and child. Dying."

"Huh?"

"Yuti-san, what's wrong?"

Kaori asked when she realized we weren't following behind her, but I was now stupefied by the Yuti's words which I couldn't afford to miss a word of.

I immediately looked around the vicinity of where the rebar was being lifted up from and saw…

"Seriously?"

A woman with a baby in her arms was now trying to pass through under the rebar.

And──.

*Clank*

When a tremendous metallic sound rang out, the rebar began to fall on the parent and child in its path!

"Kyaaaaaahh!"

"O-oyyy!"

"Shit, get away!"

The woman, who was at the spot where the rebar would have hit her, seemed to be petrified by fear and couldn't move, while those who saw the falling rebar hurriedly tried to put as much distance as possible.

"Damn it…!"

I rushed out as fast as I could and grabbed the frozen woman in my arms. But I intuitively knew that the rebar would hit me more quickly than I could jump away.

Seriously, what am I supposed to do!

If I'm going to use magic, it's not going to be in a busy place like this… no, that's not the case!

I quickly tried to activate my magic, but before that, my body moved instinctively. This should be the result of the training with Master Usagi and my everyday training. In a very natural way, I swung my leg up and kicked the rebar up.

The kick from Master Usagi's direct teachings, coupled with my status, could easily shatter the rebar, but if I blew it up ridiculously, honestly, it would cause damage to those around me.

Therefore, I tried to put the rebar in place instantly by receiving the rebar's impact using a soccer trick.

"Eeehh?"

While everyone was expecting a direct hit, there was no sound or impact as expected, and the people around me were baffled.

While ignoring those around, I called out to the woman who was still frozen in place.

"Are you okay?"

"…Eh? Y-yes!"

When I called out to her, the woman came to her senses, but she was shocked again when she saw my face, blushing.

"H-hey. What happened?"

"W-well…"

"For a moment I thought it looked like that guy kicked the rebar…"

"No, no, no. Kicking the rebar… That's impossible, isn't it? Look at them; they're still alive, you know?"

"I-it looked like that to me too…"

It was more conspicuous than I expected, but this was all I could do.

When I parted from the woman who was bowing quietly and joined Kaori and the others, Kaori had a complicated expression on her face.

"Umm… I know that Yuuya-san is amazing, but when you go to such a dangerous place without hesitation like that, I still worry about you."

"Oh… well, I'm sorry,"

"? Why? No need to apologize. Yuuya will be fine."

"That's not the point."

Yuti was told by Kaori to admonish me, but she just tilted her head in question.

Even though I just came to buy some clothes for Yuti, I was already impossibly exhausted, but we finally arrived at our destination.

──But even here, I have an ordeal ahead of me!

"U-um… Kaori-san? Do I have to stay here too?"

"? Of course."

It's a women's clothing store, so it's no surprise that they have a lot of female customers.

But… I'm the only male in the store!

"Hey, hey, that man…"

"Isn't that the guy in the magazine with Miu-san before?"

"No way, I thought they edited the pictures, but he's actually handsome in real life, too…"

"Is he like tagging along with his girlfriend on her shopping trip?"

"I'm seriously jealous!"

I believe it's just my imagination, but I feel like there's a lot of attention around me…!

In this very uncomfortable situation, I could only wait for Yuti, who was looking at the clothes with Kaori.

"Oh, customer-san, please wait!"

"Yuti-san, you can't be like that, you know!"

"Hmm?"

Suddenly the store became noisy and I couldn't help but look in that direction…

"Yuuya. How's this?"

"Huh? Bufuhh!"

And there, Yuti was standing in a daunting pose with white underwear!

"Yu-Yuti-san? Put your clothes on!"

"? Question. I want you to check my underwear. Then no clothes, unnecessary."

"Do not make me, a man, check your underwear like that!"

"Why?"

"Why you ask?"

What kind of logic is that?

I desperately looked away from her, but Yuti came towards me and used her physical abilities as a disciple of the "Bow Saint" to forcefully show me her appearance.

"Dissatisfied. Why don't you look."

"Do I need to look at you?"

"? Yuuya's going to buy it. Then you need to know."

"I don't care about that…!"

You don't have to show me because I'm the one buying it…!

While I was struggling desperately with Yuti, I managed to escape thanks to Kaori and the shopkeeper who came to us. And even though we bought Yuti's underwear and clothes without further troubles, Yuti still didn't seem to be convinced.

"I don't understand. Yuuya, bought it. Then you need to check."

"That's not the problem…"

"…It looks like there's a lot more to teach you than I expected…"

We bought all the other daily necessities, and as Kaori suggested, we directly went to the headmaster of Ousei Gakuen, who's also Kaori's father, Tsukasa-san. The decision was made to transfer Yuti into the school.