Actually, he should have been able to fool her if he really wanted to, but Seiji chose to tell the truth.
And so, what happened next was simple. Chiaki and Mika left the store and met up with Seiji before leaving the Grand Spring department store together.
"Sorry …"
"There's nothing to be sorry about. I was just a little embarrassed about not buying anything after trying on the clothes for so long." Chiaki shrugged as she looked at Seiji Mukai.
"As for you, are you alright?"
Mika looked at him worriedly as well.
Seiji smiled at the two of them.
"I'm fine. I just didn't expect to run into her, so I was a little startled.
Fortunately, I had already left the store, so she didn't notice me. Otherwise, it would have been troublesome if we ran into each other in the store, haha … "
Chiaki and Mika both looked at him in silence.
Seiji slowly retracted his smile as a complex expression appeared in his eyes.
"I'm just … not ready to face her yet.
I haven't changed for long, and I haven't achieved anything yet.
I'll continue working hard until I feel like I'm ready. Then, I'll face her. "
Seiji looked off into the distance with a profound gaze.
A hand slowly rose up and slapped him on the back with a "pa" sound.
"Honestly, my sister is so beautiful, but she's been hiding it all this time!
When you go back in the future and make up with her … and your younger sister, you have to introduce her to us! "
Chiaki giggled.
"Isn't that right, Mika?"
Mika hurriedly nodded as well.
"Seiji … the two of you will definitely make up, so cheer up!" The pigtailed beauty raised her fist and made a gesture of encouragement.
Seiji smiled again as he looked at the two of them.
"Thank you."
The three of them strolled down the street in silence.
"By the way, Seiji …" Chiaki broke the silence.
"Hmm?"
"Who's that person next to your sister?"
"I don't know her. Is she her friend …?" Seiji recalled that the green-haired girl had called his sister "Grand Mistress".
"What's with your uncertain tone?"
"It's also possible that she's my sister's subordinate."
"Subordinates!?" Chiaki widened her eyes in surprise. Mika was the same.
"Hey, your sister's identity isn't that simple?" Chiaki recalled some of the discussions she had heard in the shop.
"Is your sister the Grand Mistress!? Then you … could it be that you're actually the son of a rich family!? "
Seiji blinked.
"Yes, I think I am."
He gave an affirmative answer.
Chiaki froze.
Mika also froze.
The two young girls stared blankly at the youth as if they had been cast with a spell.
"Why are you stunned?"
"What else … What did you just say!?"
"What did I say? I was just answering your question. "
"That's the problem!" Chiaki forcefully retorted, "You said … that you're indeed the son of a rich family!?"
"Yeah … probably."
"What the hell is' probably '!?' Tell me clearly! "
Seiji rubbed his chin in contemplation.
"It's like this … I think my family is quite powerful.
But I only recently heard about it from someone else. Before this, I didn't know anything about my family.
After all, I was just a useless otaku who only knew how to ask for money from my family, and didn't care about anything else. "
Chiaki and Mika listened to him in a daze.
'What the hell!?
There's actually such a person in the world who doesn't even know about his own family!? '
'You only know that my family is rich, and you heard about it from someone else after being kicked out of your own family … My god, how can there be such a strange person in the world!!?'
The two girls' inwardly retorts were as sharp and unstoppable as the winter wind.
Seiji scratched his face awkwardly when he saw their strange expressions.
"This isn't actually important, so why are you making such a big fuss about it?"
'This is important!!!'
"Mika …"
"Chiaki …"
"I really want to beat this guy up right now, what about you?"
"What a coincidence, me too ~"
'Heeheehee.' Chiaki and Mika chuckled as they looked at each other. Then, they looked at Seiji Mukai again, their eyes flashing with a sinister light that Seiji had never seen before!
"You … big idiot!!"
The girls' resentment exploded.
Some time later.
"Are your hands alright?"
Seiji calmly asked the two of them.
"They're still hurting … damn it, why is your idiot's body so tough!"
Chiaki complained as she rubbed her hand.
Mika was the same as she nodded vigorously as she rubbed her hand.
"You guys were the ones who suddenly attacked me, so why are you blaming me?"
Seiji sighed as he felt that it was impossible to reason with girls sometimes.
"Does it really matter if I'm from a rich family or not? Why do you guys mind so much? "
Chiaki and Mika exchanged glances as they sighed in unison.
"Mika, Seiji is still a boy, after all."
"Chiaki, all boys are idiots after all."
"Suddenly, all boys in the world and I are being looked down upon …"
"That's because you really are an idiot. You actually don't understand that a young master from a rich family is just like a modern prince to girls."
Chiaki sighed as she made a melancholy pose like a main character in a shoujo manga. It seemed as if she had become Nile O's daughter.
"A young master from a rich family — just the sound of it makes girls yearn for him in all sorts of ways."
"He has a noble status, is handsome, is young and rich, has an elegant demeanor, is sometimes gentle, and sometimes domineering. He dotes on and plays with girls, causing them to love and hate him at the same time. He's filled with entanglements that can't be cut off, making it difficult for them to stay together forever, but he's also unable to make up his mind to leave … something like that."
"At any rate, he's the type of person that makes girls fantasize about him. He's the equivalent of a rich Grand Mistress or a princess in your eyes. But girls are more emotional, so their fantasies are more profound and complex than boys'."
Mika blushed as she listened by the side as she nodded repeatedly.
"I'm sorry, I still don't understand." Seiji rubbed his chin in contemplation. "I know that you guys have unrealistic fantasies about this type of person, but so what?"
"You still don't understand!?" Chiaki retracted her pose and pointed at him with her hands on her hips.
"You've been with us for so long. Apart from being a little too handsome and having a great physique, you've been living like a commoner. You're an otaku, and you suddenly say that you're a young master from a rich family. It's a huge impact on us! I never expected that you're the type of person that makes girls fantasize about you!! "
"It's just as if Mika or I suddenly told you that we're actually the princesses of some country who came here to study abroad, or that we're the daughters of an extraterrestrial ruler who escaped from a marriage outside of Earth. Wouldn't you be shocked!? Wouldn't you care!? "
"Yep … I would be shocked and care, if that's really the case." Seiji looked at the two of them.
"But, should I say that your analogy is too subtle for otakus, or that my way of thinking is a little abnormal? I just feel that …"
"Even if that's the case, our relationship won't change, right?"
"Eh?" Chiaki and Mika were both surprised to hear this.
"I'm a young master from a rich family, just like you guys who're daughters of a rich family. Cosmic princesses and such are all the same to me. We'll still be good friends, so this won't change, right?"
Chiaki and Mika were both rendered speechless by Seiji's calm expression.
"At the very least, if it's me, I won't think that I'm different from you just because I'm from a rich family. I've always viewed you as important people to me, even now, and in the future."
A gentle smile appeared on Seiji's face.
"So, in the end, those things … aren't important, right?"
Under the colorful lights of the street at night, the scene of the handsome young man saying these words with a smile deeply touched the hearts of the two girls along with his words.
'Ahh! Honestly.
This person, as expected … '
After Chiaki and Mika regained their senses, they exchanged glances and saw that both of their faces were flushed red.
'What an idiot!
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