Tokyo: After years of stagnation, the heiress of the yakuza arrives.

"hiss……"

Riki Sawamura gasped.

Her shoulder hurt a little from the impact, and her nose almost hit the other person's chest. She instinctively grabbed the clothes of the person in front of her, and after regaining her footing, she frowned and looked back.

"Why are you pushing? There are so many people still rushing in..."

No one responded.

All the tourists were holding up their phones to watch the pandas, and those behind were being pushed forward by those even further back. Everyone was a victim, and everyone was also a perpetrator. The force traveled all the way from the entrance of the panda enclosure and finally landed precisely on her.

The culprit may be twenty meters away.

I can't find it even if I try.

Ritsuki Sawamura could only turn back around before realizing that she was still leaning against a stranger, her hands still gripping his coat.

She immediately let go and took half a step back.

"Sorry, someone pushed me from behind."

"without……"

As soon as Shido Kuroba opened his mouth, his vocal cords came to an abrupt halt.

wrong!

The original audio cannot be used!

He abruptly turned his face to the other side, readjusted his voice, forcibly lowered his voice, and felt a strange blockage in his nose.

"Cough... It's okay."

Ritsuki Sawamura: "???"

What's wrong with this person?

Normally, after someone apologizes, even if you don't want to say anything, you should at least take a look, right?

The boy in front of her, on the other hand, was thinking incredibly fast, as if she had some kind of incurable disease on her face that could be contagious just by looking at her, and then... she looked down her nose at people?

Ritsuki Sawamura: "..."

Ritsuki Sawamura hadn't intended to pay any more attention, but the more the other person avoided her, the stranger she felt.

Do you know her?

impossible.

She had only just arrived in Tokyo and could count the number of people she truly knew on one hand. This guy, who was over six feet tall, using a cane, and strolling through the zoo with a beautiful woman, was clearly not one of them.

"you……"

Ritsuki Sawamura moved a little to the left.

Shido Kuroba turned his head to the right.

Ritsuki Sawamura moved to the right again.

Kuroba Shido turned to the left again.

Ritsuki Sawamura: "..."

The Black Feather Warrior said, "..."

The two people, standing half a step apart, began a very strange face-to-face confrontation.

Ritsuki Sawamura turns left.

Kuroba Shido turned right.

Riki Sawamura suddenly feigned a move to the right, but quickly took a step to the left.

Kuroba Shido's prediction was successful, and he turned his head again.

Ritsuki Sawamura narrowed her eyes slightly.

Can it even predict the future?

something wrong.

There's definitely something wrong.

She suddenly stopped, pretending to give up observing, and turned her gaze back to the glass of the panda enclosure. Kuroba Shido confirmed out of the corner of his eye that the pink-haired panda was no longer chasing after him, and breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Successful.

A mere pink-haired girl like her thinks she can compete with an escape master like him who constantly teeters on the brink of death?

young.

too young.

The next second, Ritsuki Sawamura suddenly bent down and peeked out from the side of Shido Kuroba.

Sneak attack!

Kuroba Shido's pupils contracted.

There wasn't time to turn around.

There was no time to bow my head.

Ritsuki Sawamura has already looked over.

At the critical moment, Shido Kuroba fully mobilized his facial muscles, pulling the left corner of his mouth upward and pressing the right corner downward, widening one eye and narrowing the other into a slit, slightly expanding his nostrils and retracting his chin.

The movements were fluid and graceful.

After watching it, I immediately wanted to pull out two coins from my pocket to support Shido Kuroba's career and life...

Ritsuki Sawamura: "!!!"

She leaned back abruptly, nearly crashing into the crowd again.

I rely on!

Why does this person look like this?

From a distance, her profile and figure look quite normal, but from the front, they are so abstract. Her facial features look like they're all on strike on Monday morning, each with its own thoughts.

Kuroba Shido maintained his crooked mouth and slanted eyes, his voice hoarse.

"What's up?"

Ritsuki Sawamura: "..."

She actually spent a long time looking around and observing people's faces in order to get a clear look at them.

That's so rude.

Especially if the other person is naturally like that, your own reaction to being frightened might have already hurt their fragile feelings.

Ritsuki Sawamura's expression stiffened slightly, showing a rare hint of unease from having done something wrong.

"It's nothing... I'm sorry, I didn't mean to stare at you."

Kuroba Shido's lips continued to twitch: "It's okay, I'm used to it."

Ritsuki Sawamura: "..."

I felt even more guilty.

It seems that this person has suffered a lot of strange looks since childhood because of his appearance. How much bitterness and helplessness was contained in his words just now?

Ritsuki Sawamura opened her mouth, about to offer a few words of symbolic comfort, when Tsunade Onodera walked over from the side.

"Shidou-san."

Her voice remained gentle.

The movements were also very natural.

Onodera Zannen first reached out to support Kuroba Shido's arm holding the cane, then took half a step forward, standing between the two of them, and gently turned her shoulder to the side, thus separating Sawamura Rigetsu and Kuroba Shido again.

No push.

There was no collision.

There was no indication that they were trying to drive them away.

By the time Ritsuki Sawamura realized what was happening, she was already inexplicably standing to the side, while the man she had been observing was back beside Rene Onodera, his arm securely held by him.

The whole process was so smooth, it was as if I had practiced it countless times.

Ritsuki Sawamura: "???"

What happened?

Why did she come out?

Onodera Zannen didn't look at her, but simply raised her hand and gently straightened Kuroba Shido's collar, which had been disheveled by the impact.

"Are you alright?"

"no."

Kuroba Shido still maintained his strange voice, but his facial muscles finally returned to normal. However, his face was still turned to the other side, not daring to let Sawamura Ritsuki see him.

Onodera Zanne nodded, her grip on his arm seeming to tighten slightly more than before.

"It's too crowded here. Shido's leg hasn't recovered yet, so it's best not to get too close to strangers."

Ritsuki Sawamura: "..."

stranger.

Are you talking about her?

However, that statement is indeed correct; if the other person hadn't caught her, she might have already made intimate contact with the ground.

Ritsuki Sawamura did not refute, but her gaze involuntarily fell on Rene Onodera.

Just now, through the crowd, I could only see their general outlines. Now, standing close together, that feeling of being out of place among the people around me has become even more pronounced.

Very high.

With a height approaching 1.8 meters, it was the first time that Ritsu Sawamura had to noticeably raise her gaze to look at women her own age.

Her long, black hair fell smoothly down her back, her skin was fair, and her features were not exaggerated or aggressive, yet she was so beautiful that it was almost impossible to find a flaw. Her eyes were quiet and gentle, and there was always a perfectly timed smile on her lips. She seemed like a perfect woman who had been meticulously calculated to appear in reality.

The most egregious thing is the proportion.

Ritsuki Sawamura looked down at herself.

She looked up at Onodera Zannen again.

My gaze lingered for half a second on the other person's overly composed figure.

Ritsuki Sawamura: "..."

Why is there such a huge difference between people?

Height is a disadvantage.

The overall impression was lacking.

Even those with innate talents whose combat power ceiling is determined from the very beginning lost completely.

The feeling was like she had just registered a newbie account and stepped out of the spawn point, only to run into a max-level player with a full set of limited-edition equipment, maxed-out stats, and a hidden class.

There is absolutely no fairness to speak of.

Ritsuki Sawamura is devastated -1-1-1...

Onodera Zannen seemed to notice her gaze and looked over calmly.

Their eyes met briefly.

Ritsuki Sawamura did not dodge.

Onodera Zannen showed no sign of showing off, provocation, or condescension; he simply nodded politely before refocusing all his attention on Kuroba Shido.

This attitude of not treating her as a competitor at all caused even more serious harm.

Ritsuki Sawamura: "..."

What makes that guy next to me, with his crooked mouth and slanted eyes, so special?

"Ahhh! Little pink-haired girl, look!"

Yoshiko Sawamura's scream suddenly came from behind.

Riki Sawamura's forehead veins throbbed, and the feelings of shame and subtle hostility that had just arisen were instantly dispelled by the loud bang.

She turned her head.

Yoshiko Sawamura, still sporting yellow tiger ears, was practically pressed against the glass of the panda enclosure, holding up her phone with both hands, looking as excited as a country woman visiting the city for the first time.

"It turned over!"

Behind the glass, the panda hugged bamboo and slowly rolled around on the wooden frame.

The surrounding tourists cheered.

Yoshiko Sawamura cheered along, her voice even louder than that of the children.

"It flipped again! It flipped again!"

Ritsuki Sawamura replied expressionlessly, "It just rolled around once, didn't it?"

"This is a panda turning over!"

"You toss and turn in your hotel bed eight hundred times a day."

"That's different!"

"What's different?"

"No one will see you turn over."

Ritsuki Sawamura: "..."

That's true.

Yoshiko Sawamura was completely unaware of what she had said and continued filming excitedly. When the panda raised its paw, she exclaimed. When the panda lowered its head to nibble on bamboo, she exclaimed again. When the panda's butt got stuck in a gap in the wooden frame, she exclaimed even more and almost dropped her phone.

"Little pink-haired creature, look, its butt is stuck!"

"I saw it."

"So cute!"

"When you couldn't crawl out of the bed last night, didn't you think you were cute?"

Yoshiko Sawamura: "..."

Last night, she simply bent down to pick up her phone and accidentally got stuck between the bed and the wall.

It's not that my butt is stuck.

Moreover, the pink-haired girl not only failed to save her in the end, but also sat on the edge of the bed and filmed a three-minute video!

Yoshiko Sawamura turned around angrily: "Mom and pandas are not the same!"

Riyue Sawamura glanced at the panda's round belly, then at Yoshiko Sawamura's little belly, which she had developed from eating kebabs last night and which hadn't completely disappeared this morning.

"almost."

Yoshiko Sawamura lowered her head.

Inhale.

Tuck in your stomach.

The belly disappeared.

"And now?"

"Pandas also breathe."

Yoshiko Sawamura: "..."

She began to regret bringing the little pink-haired boy out for a walk to cheer herself up.

Whether the little pink-haired girl's mood has improved or not is unknown, but her mood has certainly started to worsen.

the other side.

Taking advantage of the fact that Riki Sawamura's attention was drawn to Yoshiko Sawamura, Shido Kuroba finally dared to turn his face back a little.

survived.

Although he sacrificed his image as a handsome young man in Tokyo and even made a certain pink-haired girl mistakenly believe that he might have been born with a crooked mouth and eyes, it was still better than being asked on the spot, "Who is the senior?", "Why are you at the zoo?", and "Why are you holding hands?" after his identity was exposed.

Face is an external thing.

Your life is your own.

Kuroba Shido let out a long sigh of relief and looked down at Onodera Zannen, who was still holding his arm.

Instead of letting go, the senior student moved even closer than before, placing her hand on the inside of his arm, and occasionally gently pulling Kuroba Shido closer to her as people passed by.

Please take me along.

Let me bring it again.

Kuroba Shido has almost gone from standing normally to becoming a portable accessory hanging on his senior.

"Senior."

"Um?"

"It doesn't seem so crowded now."

After the panda's somersault performance ended, many tourists began to leave, leaving a large empty space around the panda. You could easily move around and even perform a set of Tai Chi moves without bumping into Kuroba Shido.

Onodera Zannen glanced around.

"Since Shido injured his leg, his center of gravity is more likely to lose balance than normal. He was just hit again, so it's best to continue supporting him for a while."

The Black Feather Warrior said, "..."

profession.

rigorous.

Absolutely irrefutable.

He tentatively pulled his arm out a little.

Onodera Zannen moved along with it, his movements so natural that it seemed he hadn't even noticed.

Kuroba Shido draws again.

Onodera Zannen continued.

Each person moves a little bit.

In just a few seconds, the two moved from the middle of the panda enclosure to a position near the exit, their arms still tightly linked.

The Black Feather Warrior said, "..."

What kind of new locking technique is this?

She appears gentle, but in reality, she has already mastered joint control. If he dares to break free, she can easily adjust the angle and let his arm know what the limits of human body structure are.

Onodera Zanne's expression remained calm.

"Is Shido not feeling well?"

"no."

Kuroba Shido replied readily, "I'm just stretching my shoulders."

"That's good."

Onodera Zanne nodded gently and continued to support him.

Big Black sat on their shoulders, chewing on the last bit of rice ball, its beady black eyes moving back and forth between their arms.

The way humans move their shoulders seems a bit strange.

Onodera Zanne glanced at the panda behind the glass again. She had just been waiting for the panda to climb onto the wooden frame, but now that the panda had turned over and was sitting there eating bamboo again, she had no intention of staying any longer.

"Shido-kun, let's go see the tanuki."

Kuroba Shido was taken aback.

"Not watching pandas anymore?"

"I've already seen it."

"Weren't we just waiting for it to continue moving?"

Onodera Zanne's eyes curved slightly, her tone completely normal: "There are fewer tourists in the tanuki area, and the ground is flatter, making it safer for Shido's legs. Also, Big Black is probably more interested in animals of similar size."

Big Black: "?"

Similar body size?

How does it resemble a raccoon dog?

There are more than a dozen versions difference!

Kuroba Shido looked up at the top of Onodera Zannen's head; the black text hadn't completely disappeared yet.

"[Current Status: Jealousy, Accident, believes the accidental contact just now was unnecessary to continue, and wants to get the boy out of the sight of the unfamiliar pink-haired girl as soon as possible.]"

"【Salted Fish Guide: Running Away is a Yandere!!!】"

The Black Feather Warrior said, "..."

really.

Pandas are not important.

The raccoon dog isn't important either.

The important thing is to change the map.

The senior student was just now treating the crowds as an environmental benefit, wishing that the panda enclosure expansion would fail today and all the visitors would be crammed into a human photo. Now that the pink panda has bumped into him once, the crowded environment has instantly changed from a reasonable means of contact to a dangerous public safety issue.

Double standards.

That's such a double standard.

Kuroba Shido saw through it but didn't say anything, nodding quite cooperatively: "Let's go, look at the tanuki. Big Black has always wanted to find some relatives with a similar size."

Big Black: "Squeak?"

It doesn't.

It is not.

Don't talk nonsense.

Onodera Zanne walked towards the exit with Kuroba Shido on her arm. Their steps were slow but without any pause. Kuroba Shido followed beside them with a limp. Dahei sat on their shoulders. They glanced back at the panda, then at the Sawamura mother and daughter who were still arguing by the glass about whose belly was rounder.

Big Black finished chewing the last bite of rice.

Forget it.

Human affairs are too complicated; eating is simpler.

Inside the panda enclosure.

Yoshiko Sawamura continued to hold onto Riki Sawamura, refusing to let her leave.

"Wait a minute, Mom hasn't gotten a picture of the panda's face yet!"

"You just took dozens of pictures."

"It's all burnt!"

"Because your hands are shaking."

"It's because the person next to Mom is pushing her!"

"No one's crowding here anymore."

Yoshiko Sawamura looked down and flipped through the photos.

The first picture shows the back of someone else's head.

The second picture is of a panda's butt.

The third photo captured half of Onodera Zannen's figure.

In the fourth picture, a tall boy with a crooked mouth and slanted eyes has a large black rat sitting on his shoulder, holding a rice ball.

Yoshiko Sawamura looked at the photo and blinked in confusion.

"Why would this person bring a rat into the zoo?"

Ritsuki Sawamura glanced at it: "It might be a guide mouse."

Yoshiko Sawamura: "???"

A crooked mouth and blindness are not the same thing, are they?

She wanted to study it more closely, but the panda behind the glass suddenly looked up, instantly drawing Yoshiko Sawamura's attention back. She raised her phone and started taking pictures again.

……

A dozen minutes later.

Tanuki area.

It was indeed much quieter here than the panda enclosure. There were only a few tourists here and there, and low trees lined both sides of the road. Behind the wooden fence, a raccoon dog lay in the shade with its eyes closed, its tail occasionally twitching slightly.

Master Kuroba let out a long sigh of relief.

No one is crowding it.

There is no pink hair.

There are no tiger ears, old ladies.

The air has become fresher.

"We're safe now..."

"What did Shido say?" Onodera Zanne blinked and tilted her head to look at Kuroba Shido.

"I said the environment here is really nice."

Kuroba Shido's expression gradually became peaceful, and he even had the illusion that the rest of the day's schedule could finally proceed normally.

next second.

A familiar woman's voice suddenly came from not far away.

"Little pink-haired girl, hurry up! Complete the Tanuki Observation mission here, and you can get a limited-edition badge!"

The serenity on Shido Kuroba's face froze.

He turned his head stiffly, looking in the direction from which the sound came.

The Black Feather Warrior said, "???"