Crossover Anime: How a Shameless Person Lives

Early the next morning.

Mercury woke up in bed.

The moment I touched it, I felt something soft.

With a cool and silky touch, it feels like a piece of silk wrapped in a thin layer of ice, yet it also has a warm and elastic feel.

"What the hell?"

He groggily opened his eyes, the headache from the hangover making him furrow his brow.

My heart skipped a beat when my gaze focused on it.

Tomie lay on her side beside him, her long, black hair scattered on the pillow, with a few strands clinging to her smooth forehead.

Her face, which usually carried a mocking or seductive air, now revealed a rare tranquility, having let down all her guard.

The beauty mark under her eye made her look like a sleeping beauty.

It's just that someone must have punched her in the eye, ruining some of the aesthetics.

His hand was resting squarely on her waist, and he could feel the delicate skin beneath her clothes.

"Holy crap? I slept with her?"

Rubbing his temples, Mercury subconsciously picked up the water glass next to him and took a sip.

What happened last night?

Fragments of memories flooded her mind: the circus... the mother-and-son restaurant... the sake cup after cup in the tavern... and... the punch she threw, the size of a sandbag, and the stupid thing she did: spraying water on her with a water bottle.

"Damn it..." Mercury cursed under his breath, startling the people around him.

Tomie slowly opened her eyes, still drowsy from just waking up.

"Awake? Do you remember what you did last night?"

"Did I... um... do you... that thing?"

"Get lost!" Tomie sat up abruptly.

"I think you're delusional! You really should quit drinking! Yesterday you even sprayed water on my expensive clothes!"

She gets angry when this is mentioned.

I kindly took care of him once, but all I got in return was a barrage of insults, calling him evil and referring to me as an old man.

Finally, unable to hold back, I punched him, nearly breaking my own hand and triggering an automatic counterattack.

He ended up getting punched in the eye.

Even so, she dragged the drunken guy onto the bed instead of letting him sleep on the floor all night.

So I must have gone crazy yesterday.

That's why they take care of this guy.

"I should really throw you in the trash."

"So that's why I didn't do *that* with you?"

"You don't deserve it."

"Then what are you talking about? No wonder you haven't changed your clothes."

Upon learning that he hadn't been able to join Tomie, Mercury's last remaining sense of responsibility vanished without a trace.

Get up quickly and get dressed.

Luckily, I hadn't changed my pants, otherwise my innocence would have been in jeopardy.

"I really don't know why you insist on drinking this lousy wine." Tomie also got up and tidied her clothes, looking at him with disdain.

I don't know where he got such a strong drinking problem; he's not like a normal person.

"Who knows? Maybe it's homesickness, maybe it's fear of death, maybe it's despair for the world," Mercury said nonchalantly.

Although he drinks, fights, and commits fraud.

But he is a good person.

"What kind of third-rate novel setting is this? Is your brain filled with shit?" Tomie buttoned up her shirt, sneered, and the bruises around her eyes were particularly glaring in the mirror.

They also despair of the world.

Why not say it's the end of the world?

Mercury, with his back to her, also looked in the mirror and saw his right eye, which had been bruised and red.

"The more you know, the more afraid you become. Maybe your mental resilience isn't even as good as mine."

The air fell silent for a moment.

"Hey, you don't actually believe that, do you?"

Seeing Tomie suddenly fall silent, Mercury chuckled and said, "There aren't that many disasters in this world. I just like the feeling of being drunk. This feeling fascinates me."

"Hurry up, you'll be late for school. You don't want to get punched by Hiratsuka Shizuka again, do you?"

"cut."

As Tomie watched his retreating figure, she suddenly felt as if the punch she had delivered last night had hit a piece of cotton, leaving her feeling utterly stifled.

"Hurry up, Tomie, I don't have any money to buy breakfast."

"I'd rather you starve to death!"

The two of them were quite tacit, neither of them mentioning why they were sleeping in the same bed.

Perhaps to them, this is just a trivial matter.

……

"Why aren't they here yet?"

The entrance to Zongwu High School.

Kasumigaoka Utaha watched the students coming and going, waiting impatiently.

I glanced at my phone; it was 8:15.

In other words, she had been waiting here for an hour and a half.

She wouldn't have waited this long if it weren't for the opportunity to interact with Professor Takatsuki Sen!

The original plan was for Machida Sonoko to contact her friend at Sobu High School and get Mercury's LINE.

As a result, even Machida Sonoko's friend didn't have any of his friends.

As a result, all I can do is wait here foolishly.

"Honestly, this kind of inefficient behavior is like something a heroine in a light novel who wanders into the wrong classroom would do," Kasumigaoka Utaha complained in a low voice.

Just then, a commotion arose in the distance.

"Damn, so you didn't leave any money at all? And you're going to go hungry."

"Shut up! As long as you go to school, there will be plenty of sycophants who will fawn over you."

"And then you're making offerings to me?"

"Heh, dream on. Go eat air then."

Kasumigaoka Utaha looked up and saw Mercury walking side by side with the girl from room 504 that day.

One person was giving the middle finger with impeccable manners, while the other had a cold expression; the air seemed to be filled with static electricity.

Strangely, there was an eerie familiarity in their argument, like that of long-time, estranged couples.

The resentment in one's heart.

However, she didn't care about that at the moment and walked straight up to block the two of them.

"Hello, Mercury, and this student too."

Mercury, who was in the middle of a laning phase, froze in mid-air, then turned his head and saw a beautiful woman in black stockings.

"Kasumigaoka Utaha? What are you doing here?"

"You haven't forgotten our deal, have you?" Kasumigaoka Utaha said with a forced smile.

She waited here for over an hour.

It was all so that I could have the opportunity to communicate with Professor Takatsuki Sen.

For this reason, she even prepared the money.

"What kind of deal?" Mercury asked, puzzled.

Did he promise anything?

I don't remember at all.

Tomie scoffed from the side, saying mercilessly, "You actually got caught up in your romantic entanglements at school. Good luck."

After saying that, she ignored Kasumigaoka Utaha and left.

"I remember we've met before."

Kasumigaoka Utaha stared at Tomie's retreating figure with an unfriendly tone.

What does "romantic debts" even mean? It's as if she's selling herself.

Unfortunately, Tomie showed no intention of stopping.

They completely ignored her.

"Don't waste your energy, she probably doesn't even remember who you are," Mercury reminded her from the side.

Based on what he knew, Tomie probably had forgotten about Kasumigaoka Utaha, whom she had only met once.

"..."

Upon hearing this, Kasumigaoka Utaha withdrew her gaze and said, "It doesn't matter if I forget, my target today is you."

She pulled a thick envelope from her bag and slapped it directly into Mercury's hand.

"Here are 500,000 Japanese yen. You promised to help me meet with Ms. Takatsuki Sen."

"Oh, so that's what it is. You should have said so earlier."

Mercury remembered it when he saw the 50.

I remember everything!

With the money in my own pocket, the campus looks much more pleasing to the eye.

"Go back and wait for news. I'll get it sorted out for you in a week."

"etc!"

Seeing that Mercury was about to leave, Kasumigaoka Utaha quickly grabbed him.

"Let's add each other on LINE first."

"Okay, perfect timing. Keep an eye out for me to see if that guy named Aki Tomoya is at school today."

"An Yilun too?"

……

"Hmph hmph hmph~"

After adding him as a friend, Mercury hummed an unknown tune as he entered the classroom.

"Hey, dead fish eyes, you're all healed?"

"Thanks to someone, it's still not healed."

Hachiman Hikigaya stared at the guy with dead fish eyes, feeling helpless.

Despite possessing the power to easily resolve everything, they watched him fight to the death as if it were a spectacle.

What a terrible personality.

"This is your chance to prove yourself. Get used to it; things will only get tougher in the future."

Hikigaya Hachiman: 「←_←」

"I don't know why, but hearing you say that gives me a bad feeling."

"I just asked you to go and catch snails."

For some unknown reason, Mercury burst out laughing.

With a strange smile on his face, he sat back down in his original seat.

What followed was a whole day of boredom.