It wasn't until Shizuka Hiratsuka had driven Shinka Nibutani to her front door that Shinka Nibutani's complexion still didn't look good.
Obviously, Shinka Nibutani had really been frightened badly this time. For a while, she wouldn't be able to handle assistant work.
Fortunately, Haru wasn't in the mood to create ero-manga today either.
Although his psychological resilience was strong, this was also his first time seeing such a gruesome scene. How could he have the mind to draw such things?
So without thinking, he decided to postpone it for a few days.
However, what he didn't expect was that after Shizuka Hiratsuka sent Shinka Nibutani home, she actually drove Haru to a restaurant.
"Tonight sensei is treating you to dinner, Haru you little brat. Sensei is good to you, right?"
Shizuka Hiratsuka patted Haru's shoulder and said with a laugh.
Haru looked at Shizuka Hiratsuka strangely. Why was she suddenly treating him to dinner out of nowhere?
However, he then noticed a trace of worry in Shizuka Hiratsuka's eyes, and he couldn't help but understand.
It seemed Shizuka Hiratsuka was also worried about his psychological state.
That made sense. Shinka Nibutani had been scared like that, and in Shizuka Hiratsuka's eyes, he and Shinka Nibutani were the same age. Even if his psychological resilience was better, he would probably develop some psychological trauma.
So she was specifically treating him to dinner to accompany him.
Instantly, Haru felt a bit touched. He didn't refuse, just said: "If you're treating me to dinner, Shizuka, your salary this month probably won't be enough."
"You little brat, you actually doubt sensei's salary?"
Shizuka Hiratsuka said irritably, then patted her ample chest boldly: "Go ahead and order. If you can eat me into poverty, I'll be impressed."
"Then I won't hold back."
Haru smiled slightly. You said it yourself.
At the restaurant, Shizuka Hiratsuka began to doubt life.
"Little brat, eating this much, aren't you afraid of bursting?"
Looking at Haru's mountain of plates, Shizuka Hiratsuka's face turned green.
This restaurant wasn't cheap.
She hadn't expected Haru could eat so much.
"Shizuka, you know I'm practicing the Six Powers. My physical consumption is enormous, so eating a bit more each day is very reasonable." Haru said with a light laugh.
"Reasonable my ass." Shizuka Hiratsuka was speechless. She casually pulled out a tissue and wiped the remnants from the corner of Haru's mouth. "I'm not worried about my wallet, just whether eating like this will damage your stomach."
Being touched on the face by Shizuka Hiratsuka's fair, slender fingers, Haru felt a bit unnatural.
Cute Shizuka treated Haru as a junior, so she didn't think much of it.
But Haru's mental age was completely not that of a boy this age.
Instantly, he felt that this side of Shizuka Hiratsuka was unusually charming.
"My digestive ability far exceeds normal people." Haru concealed his inner unrest, keeping a straight face as he said, "Sensei, you've also seen One Piece. You should understand what eating scenes in that world are like."
"Still talking about One Piece, you chūnibyō little brat."
Shizuka Hiratsuka said irritably. This guy was really chūnibyō, still believing in things like the Six Powers even now. It was truly headache-inducing.
"By the way." Shizuka Hiratsuka suddenly looked at Haru with ambiguous eyes, showing a gossipy smile, "Little brat, your luck with women is ridiculously good. Having intimate relationships with so many girls, which one do you actually like?"
Shizuka Hiratsuka knew just how many girls had good relationships with Haru.
Yukino Yukinoshita, Fumino Furuhashi, Rizu Ogata, Rikka Takanashi, Megumi Kato. A few days ago, Yui Yuigahama had also come to ask her how to thank Haru, so she had introduced Yui Yuigahama to the Service Club.
And now, there was even Shinka Nibutani.
Shizuka Hiratsuka had sufficient reason to suspect that her student had playboy tendencies.
She felt she should remind Haru.
"Hey, cute Shizuka, you're a teacher, yet you're saying such things." Haru was speechless. If it were Kirisu Mafuyu, she would probably be forbidding impure relationships with the opposite sex by now.
This Shizuka Hiratsuka actually brought up such topics herself.
"You little brat are still pretending to be innocent here." Shizuka Hiratsuka said amusingly, "The whole school is spreading stories about you. All the teachers have heard about it. Kirisu-sensei even hoped I could give you some advice."
"Kirisu-sensei did that?" Haru coughed dryly. He hadn't expected even Kirisu Mafuyu to have heard the rumors.
"So which one are you actually dating?" Shizuka Hiratsuka stared at Haru, saying with great curiosity.
"None of them."
Haru said speechlessly.
"Hey hey, being so distant with sensei. Sensei treated you to a big meal, yet you won't even answer such a question?"
Shizuka Hiratsuka looked at Haru with displeasure. "Even if you're not dating anyone, you must have good feelings for some girl."
"Don't tell me that after being in contact with so many beautiful girls, you don't have feelings for even one."
Haru fell silent.
Of course he couldn't possibly have no feelings for the girls around him.
However, when Shizuka Hiratsuka asked which one he had good feelings for, this question was indeed difficult to answer.
Because Haru vaguely felt that he seemed to have some thoughts about each one.
After all, he was also a transmigrator. Not having harem thoughts would be impossible.
He just hadn't acted on them yet.
So this question wasn't easy to answer to Shizuka Hiratsuka.
"Oh? That expression—you must be thinking of some girl, right?"
Shizuka Hiratsuka immediately noticed Haru's expression, her face immediately full of gossip as she quickly asked.
"Shizuka, instead of paying attention to my love life, why don't you think about how to succeed in your blind dates?" Haru said irritably.
He hadn't expected that this statement would deal Shizuka Hiratsuka a 30-million-point critical hit.
She completely froze.
Haru laughed. Let you pester me with these questions.
Now you're satisfied, right?
"But it's really strange. Cute Shizuka, you're obviously so beautiful, yet you keep failing at blind dates. This is really unscientific."
Then Haru couldn't help but say.
If it were his previous life's inexperienced self on a blind date with a beauty of Shizuka Hiratsuka's level, he would probably turn into a simp at first sight.
After all, Shizuka Hiratsuka's looks were genuinely stunning.
Her figure was also incredibly good.
Ample chest, slender waist, long legs.
She could even be a celebrity.
And she was a tenured female teacher.
This was what high-quality women meant.
Yet she couldn't get married—this was too absurd.
"You... you really think so..."
Unexpectedly, upon hearing this, Shizuka Hiratsuka's face immediately turned red, her beautiful eyes showing shy emotions as she became bashful like a little girl.
While feeling shy, Shizuka Hiratsuka felt that Haru's words sounded absolutely wonderful.
He was truly her soulmate.
If this guy weren't her student, Shizuka Hiratsuka would turn into a wolf tonight and drag him to register for a marriage certificate.
Seeing cute Shizuka's shy appearance, Haru was even more mesmerized, his heart racing.
He couldn't help but say: "Why don't you just marry me, cute Shizuka?"
"A... a proposal!"
Shizuka Hiratsuka's beautiful eyes froze.
Her entire face went blank.
Her beautiful eyes flashed with boundless joy.
Someone in this world had actually proposed to her.
This wasn't a dream, was it?
However, then she saw the face in front of her—her student.
Instantly her face flushed red as she chided irritably: "You stinky brat, I... I'm your homeroom teacher, yet you dare tease sensei. What audacity."
"I'm being serious." Seeing Shizuka Hiratsuka's reaction, Haru's courage suddenly grew even bolder. Wanting to tease this cute Shizuka more, he said seriously with a smile, "Age is completely not a problem for me."
"Little brat, that's enough." Shizuka Hiratsuka glared at Haru with shame and annoyance.
Being teased by a student, she actually felt a bit moved.
This made Shizuka Hiratsuka feel somewhat ashamed inside.
She was a teacher, after all.
"Hurry up and finish eating, I'll drive you home." Shizuka Hiratsuka snorted coldly. "At your age, you should focus on studying hard at school. Marriage topics are still too early for you."
Haru looked at Shizuka Hiratsuka with a light laugh, not continuing this topic.
He knew that continuing to tease might be overdoing it.
The next morning, when Haru returned to school, he heard students around him discussing yesterday's events.
The car accident had happened not far from the school gate. Quite a few students had seen it, causing quite a stir among Sobu High students.
Soon, Haru saw Shinka Nibutani enter the classroom, obviously not in good spirits. With Haru's eyesight, he could clearly see faint dark circles around her eyes.
As soon as Shinka Nibutani entered the classroom, her gaze seemed to be searching for something as she looked toward Haru's direction.
The moment she saw Haru, her eyes immediately brightened, as if she had found a savior, and she quickly walked to Haru.
"Haru-san, thank you so much for yesterday."
Shinka Nibutani bowed to Haru somewhat embarrassedly. Yesterday, after Shizuka Hiratsuka and Haru said goodbye to her, she realized how safe she felt beside Haru.
Once Haru left, her mind couldn't stop showing Tomoya Aki's face with eyes that wouldn't close in death. She spent the entire night in terror and unease.
When she finally managed to fall asleep, she had nightmares.
So today, her first thought upon waking was to come to Haru's side.
Because only beside Haru did she feel safe...
Just now, the moment she saw Haru, she realized that wasn't an illusion. When she saw Haru, she instantly felt as if the gloom covering her heart had been dispelled, and her sense of security returned immediately.
"It's nothing. Speaking of which, yesterday was partly my fault."
Haru didn't know Shinka Nibutani's thoughts. Seeing her frightened like this, he still felt somewhat guilty. "If I hadn't invited Nibutani-san to be my assistant, you might not have encountered such a thing."
"It's not Haru-san's fault."
Shinka Nibutani said awkwardly. Actually, she had agreed to be Haru's assistant because she wanted to steal the Dark Grimoire, so she didn't blame Haru at all.
"Ha... Haru-san."
Thinking about how safe she felt staying beside Haru, Shinka Nibutani had a thought and said without hesitation: "After school today, let me be Haru-san's assistant again."
Huh?
Haru looked at Shinka Nibutani strangely.
He had been planning to give her a break, yet she was voluntarily coming to him.
This was incredible.
"That... that, I also want to help Haru-san learn that meditation technique."
Shinka Nibutani's cheeks turned slightly red as she shyly lowered her head.
Right now, she was somewhat like grasping at a lifeline, just hoping to spend more time with Haru.
Last night's feeling had been too torturous—she didn't want to experience it again at all.
So even though Haru's method of learning meditation made her feel embarrassed, she was willing to agree.
"If Nibutani-san says so, I'm naturally extremely grateful."
Haru smiled slightly. At this moment, he vaguely sensed Shinka Nibutani's psychological state.
"She's even willing to agree to such things. Damn, could Tomoya Aki's severed head have scared Shinka Nibutani into psychological problems?"
Haru had an ominous premonition. Shinka Nibutani was a great treasure trove for developing mental-type suggestions in the future. Haru definitely didn't want her to develop psychological issues.
"Then it's settled."
Upon hearing this, Shinka Nibutani's face showed joy.
Shinka Nibutani was single-mindedly focused on getting closer to Haru.
But she completely failed to notice that her current overly enthusiastic treatment of Haru had already attracted the attention of those around them.
"Nibutani-san and Haru are definitely dating, right?"
"I suspected it during tennis class that day. Now it seems it's really true."
"Looking at these two, Nibutani-san even seems to be the proactive one. How enviable."
Class F students had originally been discussing Tomoya Aki's incident, but seeing the intimate interaction between Shinka Nibutani and Haru, their attention was immediately diverted.
For teenagers, between an unfamiliar otaku dying and a beautiful girl from the same class dating a male classmate, which topic was more interesting was obviously the latter.
"I didn't expect it to be real. I thought Nibutani-san was just on good terms with Haru-san."
Among the three-girl group, Hina Ebina adjusted her glasses with a disappointed expression. "Actually, I think Haru-san and Totsuka would be a better match. I didn't expect Nibutani to get there first. What a shame."
"I really overestimated Nibutani for falling for that chūnibyō."
Yumiko Miura's expression was unpleasant. After all, she had been taught such a harsh lesson by Haru during tennis class that day.
Seeing this pair of lovebirds, Haru and Shinka Nibutani, openly showing affection in the classroom made her even more annoyed.
She wanted to personally break them up.
"It is... a bit strange. Don't you think Haru-san and Nibutani-san's progress is a bit too fast?"
Yui Yuigahama looked at Shinka Nibutani and Haru's conversation with some concern.
Her expression was somewhat strained, her mood conflicted to the extreme.
She remembered that Haru and Shinka Nibutani hadn't seemed very familiar before, barely even speaking to each other.
The sudden improvement in the relationship between Haru and Shinka Nibutani seemed to have been caused by her commission.
Yui Yuigahama was very certain of this.
Because she had been secretly paying attention to Haru, she was very sure that the catalyst for Shinka Nibutani and Haru's improved relationship was her commission.
Thinking of this, Yui Yuigahama's mood became bitter. She had clearly wanted to get closer to Haru.
Yet she had ended up making Haru and Shinka Nibutani's relationship suddenly become so intimate.
What was this?
Looking at the packet of cookies in her bag, Yui Yuigahama couldn't help but purse her lips tightly.
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