Let's do it again, Yukino.

However, Gian was no ordinary person. The moment the saliva landed on his face, he used lightning speed to stick out his tongue and lick the remaining saliva off his face.

In his past life, Gian was a notorious delinquent. How could he be so easily defeated by a little girl's spittle? How could he possibly survive in Chiba?

"Go ahead and keep going, spit a few times, and I'll lick a few times!"

"Alas!!!!"

Ultimately, she was startled by the boy's behavior in spring, and her delicate body trembled slightly.

Instead, the little lion blushed at the boy's shamelessness and took another step back, his golden ponytail now draped loose.

This is bad; this is no ordinary danger...

This was the first time she had encountered such an unreasonable delinquent.

"This is the first time I've ever seen such a perverted person!! Don't come any closer!!!"

The little lion forgot her composure, her eyes brimming with tears of fear. In this critical moment, without thinking, she used her last resort: a threatening trump card.

"If you dare to do anything reckless, I'll definitely draw erotic comics about your girlfriend when I get back!! I mean what I say!!"

On the path at night, this curse-like declaration of evil echoed in their ears.

Chunri looked solemn, and his expression inexplicably became serious.

“Say what you just said again.”

……

………………

Ten minutes later,

On the steps in front of the convenience store,

Springtime offered the steamed bun in her hand to the blonde girl in front of her in a fawning manner.

"We only have steamed buns left in the shop, Little Lion, please make do with them."

After taking the food, the blonde girl sat down on the steps. Under the cover of night, she seemed extremely hungry, and coupled with the fright she had just experienced, she couldn't help but wolf it down.

"Hey little lion, are you an artist? A really good one?"

Looking at the girl enjoying the food she had bought with her own money, Haruhi, who was not angry at all but happy, looked at the little lion with some anticipation and said softly.

Chapter Thirty: Please, Little Lion!

As everyone knows, Haruhi is a notoriously stingy person.

Whether it's dealing with friends or even those who need help,

He tends to spend his money on worthwhile investments.

Although, to be honest, he really didn't have much savings left.

However, upon realizing that this ordinary-looking little lion was actually a doujinshi artist, for once, his brain, which was usually not big enough to perform at its best, suddenly had a rare thought of hoarding his talent.

Outside the convenience store late at night,

On the stone steps, still faintly warm from the daytime, the boy ingratiatingly handed a bag of steaming buns to the little lion in his pajamas.

"The only food left in the shop is meat buns. As for pizza and bento boxes, sorry, I don't have enough money on me..."

It was already late at night, and although the convenience store was still open at this hour, the cashier at the checkout counter seemed drowsy and tired.

As she spoke, Chunri handed the girl in front of her a can of MAX coffee that she had recently started drinking again.

The girl, who had run away from home in a fit of pique and hadn't even eaten dinner yet, accepted the food that Chunri had bought, her face flushed, urged on by her rumbling stomach.

"How can you eat such greasy food so late at night? You'll definitely gain weight..."

"I think it's actually a good thing if you gain weight."

Haruhi solemnly focused his gaze on the flat chest of the girl who refused to reveal her name.

"Will you bring it up again?"

With a raised eyebrow, the blonde girl was about to unleash her fury again, launching a biting attack.

"Gurgle—"

With a single bite, the small golden lion chewed the large steamed bun—whose filling even Chunri didn't know what it was—as if it were an enemy.

If Kasuga hadn't been certain that this little lion really couldn't fight, perhaps with such an arrogant way of eating, Kasuga would have had to redefine her as a delinquent girl.

However, judging from how she's eating it, the steamed buns seem to taste really good.

Perhaps he'd been watching too much of that late-night diner show lately; looking at the steaming buns and the girl's relish as she ate them, Grandpa Haruhi was getting a little hungry too.

Chunri swallowed hard, a groan coming from his lower abdomen. He was hungry after working all night, but there was nothing he could do; he had spent the rest of his money on this girl.

Do you want some?

It seemed as if they could hear the rumbling of spring's stomach and the boy staring at the hamburger in his hand, a glistening drop of liquid falling from the corner of his mouth.

"I'm not hungry at all, you eat."

On a spring day when something is still brewing in one's mind, even if one has some appetite, one quickly shakes one's head.

Delicious food can often make two people who were originally hostile forget the unpleasant things that just happened.

The little lion tilted its head and glanced at the fairly substantial bun in its hand. The aroma of kimchi, beef, and chicken leg filling instantly filled the air.

The cashier mentioned that if I buy something again next month, I can redeem it for items in a certain game.

"Well, it's someone like you who spent the money anyway..."

The little lion bared its sharp fangs. She'd already witnessed this guy's monstrous nature; rather than be unsure what other perverse things he might do when he was starving, it was better to—

The girl broke off a piece of the bun skin with a little bit of meat inside from the other side and handed it to Chunri.

"That's a bit too little..."

Chunri didn't take it, but just shook his head, looking at the tiny amount that wasn't even enough to fill a tooth gap, and honestly replied.

"..."

How did such a clueless guy manage to get that beautiful girlfriend? With his shameless stupidity?

The girl was slightly speechless.

Once again, a slightly larger portion was handed over.

"thank you."

"No need to thank me, it's just even with what happened earlier..."

The girl's gaze fell on the bloody back of her hand that Chunri had used to take the dumpling wrapper, and she arrogantly turned her face away again.

At midnight, as Chunri shared the steamed bun and her hunger gradually subsided, she also remembered the most important thing that she had clearly put first.

"Um, Little Lion, you really are a comic book artist—cough, no, Little Lion just said you're a comic book artist, right? You mean the kind of job where you'll draw anything for money?"

Worried that mentioning drawing doujinshi would upset the seemingly temperamental girl, Kasugano changed her approach to a more tactful one.

"Don't call me Little Lion, I don't have such a disgusting nickname."

Instead of directly answering Haruhi's question, the girl in front of him became quite concerned about the nickname.

"That blond loser?"

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"Um... you can just call me Little Lion."

So, you...

Not denying it is tantamount to admitting it, and in this way, Chunri's idea of ​​hoarding a rare commodity slowly resurfaced.

"Hey little lion, you just ate my food, so as a return favor, could you do me a favor?"

Once you've eaten my food, it'll be difficult to spit it out...

"Uh... what are you trying to do?"

As the ace of her school's art department, and an artist who has created many works of doujinshi (fan art) for adults over 18, the girl felt her heart sink again after finishing the last bit of food and drink, when she heard the voice of the boy next to her who never played by the rules.

The girl's blue eyes met the boy's wine-red eyes in the night.

"Let's get this straight, this is a public place. You're going to force me to do something—"

Immediately afterwards, the boy bowed deeply, speaking to the girl in front of him with utmost sincerity and earnestness.

"Please, may I have the opportunity to read some of the comic books you've drawn, Little Lion?"

"what?"

Everything is going according to plan.

Chunri lowered his head, a sly smile appearing on his lips.

Having lost the financial means to buy pornographic books at bookstores, and unable to steal or rob, Chunri had no choice but to find another way out on his own.

I might be a genius...

As for why he didn't borrow the erotic novel from the Hikigaya family, firstly, his taste in that big-breasted girl didn't suit him, and secondly, if Yuki found out, the consequences wouldn't be as simple as just being punished for keeping the erotic novel.

So this girl in front of me, who can shamelessly threaten delinquent boys with "drawing your wife's doujinshi," is simply the best treasure fallen from the sky.

"Please, Little Lion, please fulfill the regret I owe you for my youth, and create the best and most erotic novel ever!!"

Spring once again expresses its prayers.

What a heart-wrenching plea!

"Huh? Are you crazy? Is your youth just about collecting pornographic books?"

The little lion stopped eating her steamed bun and silently stood up from the steps.

There are already enough abnormal people around her...

"...No, you just ate my food, you can't just leave so easily."

"It's only a few hundred yen, I'll pay you back tomorrow."