Shota is surrounded by monsters!

Although she was a bit green and her drawings lacked any real skill, Shota could still tell she was putting her heart into them. So he stopped paying attention to the teacher on stage and focused intently on watching Mashiro draw.

But why is it a gluttonous beast licking a slime girl?!

"Hmm, Kousaka-san, answer this question."

"Ah, yes. Yes."

Shota stood up and answered the teacher's question, who had a displeased expression.

After wasting some time, it was time to go home from school.

"Can I go home to get my wallet first, and then go out to buy juice and milk?"

"Ah."

Hearing Shota's words, Mashiro nodded happily.

Holding Mashiro's hand, Shota picked up his schoolbag and started walking home.

In the end, something unexpected was discovered.

For example, a girl suddenly falls down the stairs of your apartment building.

"..."

Shota pulled Mashiro's hand and took a step back.

The purple-haired girl in the school uniform leaned back and swung towards him, a look of astonishment still lingering on her face.

However, Shota had no intention of catching her. As a yokai capable of taking human form, even a slime girl shouldn't be injured from falling diagonally from a height of several meters. Besides, physical contact between yokai is strictly forbidden.

But things often don't go as planned.

For example, the girl fell straight into Shota's body.

In that instant, Shota thought of many things, such as whether the monster harbored hostility towards him because he had picked up her stationery, and therefore wanted to take this opportunity to kill him. Who knew if the monster would manipulate its weight to crush him to death, so it might take this opportunity to get close and then use its many crab legs to lock him in place, or something like that.

But by then it was too late. Shota could only open his mouth on instinct—the instinct of a glutton, not a human instinct.

Unfortunately, I couldn't bite into it in the end.

"..."

Shota caught the weightless crab-like monster, Hitagi Senjougahara, presumably because she had prepared for the landing and reduced her weight.

However, before he could speak, Senjougahara broke free from Shota's hand and ran up the stairs.

"Strange guy."

Mashiro sighed on Shota's behalf, then tugged at Shota's hand and said, "Juice."

"Okay, okay. Let's go back too."

Shota shrugged and walked up the stairs toward his room.

I found a banana peel on the road.

"Ah, I'm finally home."

Shota tossed his backpack aside, then took out a box of compressed biscuits from his storage box, tore open the wrapper without a word, and started munching on them.

"So comfortable..."

After finishing a whole box of compressed biscuits, Shota finally caught his breath. Mashiro then handed him her wallet, looking at him with innocent eyes.

"OK. Mashiro, you stay home and be a good girl. I'll go to the convenience store to buy you something, okay?"

Shota patted Mashiro's head, put on his shoes, tucked his tail back into his pocket, and went out to the convenience store to buy food.

Because convenience stores and supermarkets mainly sell sealed packaged food that doesn't emit any smell, Shota can control his desires by simply closing his eyes and not looking at the food.

"Welcome to visit again..."

As he walked out of the convenience store, Shota picked up the two bags of milk and juice in his hands and found that the money in his wallet was even less. It seemed that he really had to find a way to work and earn money.

Are you curious about me?

Suddenly, a female voice that Shota didn't recognize came from behind him. After judging the person's scent, Shota said without turning his head, "No, not at all."

"……Do not move."

Shota ignored the other person and continued walking forward on his own.

Then, a box cutter grazed past his cheek. Shota stopped, somewhat annoyed, turned around, and was about to say something…

A paper cutter was shoved into his mouth.

The opponent is... Senjougahara Hitagi.

Image: "Senjougahara", Location: "Images/232957-85384.jpg"

Chapter 10. Monster? Human?

Location: On a path leading from the convenience store to the apartment.

Characters: Shota Kousaka, the gluttonous boy, and Hitagi Senjougahara, the crab girl.

Condition:……

Hitagi Senjougahara skillfully inserted the box cutter into the left side of Shota's mouth. Although she didn't hurt him, with just a slight movement, she could cut a part of his mouth open. Moreover, her gaze was as if she were looking at a dying person, without any hesitation or pity, her eyes piercing into Shota's eyes as he looked at her like a sharp blade.

Being provoked by a monster, especially one he could defeat, was an unbearable humiliation for a descendant of the Taotie. Sensing the monster's hostility and feeling the cold stationery in its mouth, Shota returned her gaze, his eyes growing even colder. Like eyeing a plate of meat, there was no hesitation or confusion; it seemed the monster would become his energy in the next second.

They looked at each other...

Shota didn't know where this little monster got the courage to attack him, while Senjougahara didn't know why this sudden transfer student dared to show such an expression in the face of this situation—not resentment, but rather a feeling that he was completely incapable of hurting him, like a tiger looking at a mouse, as if he was already his meal.

This kind of gaze made her very uncomfortable. It even made her vaguely aware that she had been subjected to this kind of gaze before.

So she spoke up, as if to bolster her own courage, using vicious language: "What's wrong? You depressing, disgusting bug, are you lonely on the right too? Just say it."

Shota remained silent, pondering how to devour the crab monster before him without leaving a trace—in his human form, he had no desire to swallow it whole, as that would make him feel like he was actually eating a human.

"Shh."

Senjougahara inserted the stapler in her left hand directly into the left side of Shota's mouth, with the firing pin inside, while the other part was on the right side.

Image: "A crab courting death", Location: "Images/234055-23524.jpg"

With just a press, the staple will be firmly anchored to the soft flesh inside Shota's mouth.

Yokai are those creatures that will fight at the drop of a hat. If a yokai kills someone, the exorcists might notice, but if a yokai kills another yokai, the Nura Clan will at most investigate.

Furthermore, Shota didn't think the Nura Clan would waste any effort on a yokai who had just smuggled themselves in. As long as they left no trace, most yokai deaths would be blamed on human exorcists.

"You actually came to the place where you found the stationery on the first day? You have a pretty good sense of smell, just like a little puppy."

Senjougahara continued to attack Shota with her sharp tongue, emphasizing, "I was really careless. I never expected there to be banana peels in a place like that, and I never expected that I would have a classmate living in the same building as me, that perverted man who drools over girls."

Seeing that Shota didn't reply, Senjougahara glanced at him, noticing something bulging out of his trouser leg. With a hint of mockery and disgust, she continued, "As expected of Mr. Pervert, even with a high school girl stuffing something in his mouth, he can still get hard. Should I give him a compliment? Mr. Huge Penis Pervert? Ever thought about entering the Guinness World Records?"

"..."

"You should have noticed by now, right?" Senjougahara ignored Shota's emotional fluctuations and said in a light tone, "I have no weight..."

"Even so, it's not like I'm completely weightless—judging by my height and build, my average weight should be over forty kilograms. But my actual weight is... five kilograms."

"Ah, it's okay if you don't need to understand, but it would be very annoying if you kept asking around like a curious cockroach, so I'll just tell you directly. Kousaka-kun... Kousaka Shota-kun. Kousaka Shota-kun, the giant-penis pervert."

Senjougahara stared at Shota expressionlessly for a few seconds before continuing her threat: "Alright, so what should I do to keep this a secret? What should I do for myself? If I ask you to swear that you won't tell anyone even if your huge penis is cut off, how can I shut you up? All I want is silence and indifference. If you're willing to stay that way, nod twice. Anything else, including remaining still, will be considered hostile. Make a decision, Shota-kun."

"Oh? You did all that so I would keep it a secret that you're a monster?"

"A monster? Hmph, if that's what you want to think of it..."

This guy, his mouth is stuffed full and he can still speak so clearly... Senjougahara, realizing something was wrong, subconsciously pressed the stapler in his hand.

Snap—

With a crisp sound, Shota bit into the two stationery items that were half-stuck in his mouth, while Senjougahara, with a surprised look, lightly jumped back a step.

It felt like being on the moon, where gravity had minimal effect; with just a light jump, you could leap several meters away.

"What an overly self-conscious monster." Shota spat the crumbs in his mouth onto the roadside and looked at Senjougahara Hitagi, who was staring at him warily. "You aroused my desires and then just want to leave as if nothing happened?"

"Oh? To be honest, I'm quite surprised." Senjougahara placed her hands at her sides, somewhat surprised by the other's teeth, but still said, "I didn't expect that even at this point, you'd still be thinking about that kind of thing. What, are you going to force me? You huge-penis pervert, let me make this clear first, my body is more valuable for assault than it looks, but..."

"Shh-"

HB pencils with sharp nibs, compasses, three-color ballpoint pens, mechanical pencils, instant adhesive, erasers, paper clips, clips, tissue clips, oil-based magic pens, thumbtacks, fountain pens, correction fluid, scissors, transparent tape, sewing kits, paper cutters, isosceles triangle set squares, 30cm rulers, protractors, liquid glue, various carving knives, paints, paperweights, ink...

Various stationery items appeared in her hands.

Image: "Classic Scene - Infinite Stationery", Location: "Images/234330-71912.jpg"

"Let your body experience the consequences for you."

"laugh--"

Shota chuckled coldly, then licked his lips. Today was incredibly lucky; he'd only managed to fill his stomach with compressed biscuits, but he never expected a midnight snack to be delivered to his door. He had no idea what the other person meant by that long string of babbling…

However, they must have all aroused their own desires.

It's too late for them to shut up now!

Ignoring the threat posed by the other person's stationery, which could be described as a murder weapon, Shota lunged straight at the other person!

Senjougahara Hitagi frowned, threw the stationery in her right hand as a throwing weapon at her opponent, and thrust the sharp stationery in her left hand directly at Shota's chest.

"Are you underestimating me, Miss Monster?"

Shota easily swatted away the stationery that was shooting towards him with the tail hidden in his pants, and instantly rushed in front of Senjougahara. He grabbed her shoulders with both hands and tackled her to the ground, staring at Senjougahara's surprised face with his vertical pupils filled with desire.

"Tail……"

Senjougahara's eyes were only on the strange tail on Shota's back that was completely not human...

"Heh, envious? Crabs don't have tails." Shota nuzzled Senjougahara's neck and sniffed. The strong smell of crab stimulated his sense of smell. He swallowed and said to the astonished Senjougahara, "If you have to blame someone, blame yourself for choosing the wrong target."

"Behave yourself and become my food, you plump female crab. Speaking of which, it's been a long time since I've tasted delicious crab roe. Although this season isn't suitable for eating crabs, I suppose you're old enough to be considered old enough?"

"You... are not human..."

Senjougahara Hitagi completely ignored Shota's actions, only staring at Shota's tail and muttering, "You are... a monster?"

"Oh~ I forgot." Shota suddenly remembered that his ability to conceal his presence seemed a little too advanced, so he gradually revealed his true form as a Taotie, opening his enormous mouth, which was even larger than the other's head, and spraying his scorching breath directly at Senjougahara's face, saying, "I am... Taotie. So, show your true form. Of course, I can also choose to kill you first and then eat you, but that wouldn't be fresh."

"Taotie... which means... monsters really do exist in this world..."