“You… you don’t come any closer, okay…”
Su Ruanruan pointed at the figure in the entrance with a trembling finger.
Her legs were shaking uncontrollably as she slowly backed away.
Kanzaki Yoruha?!
Even though she didn’t know why she had turned back into a child, there was no doubt that this was her!
Why was this person here?! Had she chased her all the way from the Witch World?
Wuu meow, could she please stop pursuing her so relentlessly?
Did she really have to drive her to extinction?
Besides, cross-universe teleportation should be prohibited without a legitimate reason.
What the hell were those bastards in the Federation doing!! How could they let this person come over?
Even though she was scared to death, Su Ruanruan still forced herself to raise her chin and put on an extremely fierce expression.
“Ha~ wuu! I-I’m not scared of you at all! You—you better behave yourself, meow.”
Her voice wavered, carrying an obvious crying tone. It had zero intimidating power.
At the entrance.
Kanzaki Chiaki looked at this inexplicably bristling and huffing little catgirl, her eyes filled with confusion.
She tilted her head slightly, showing a trace of puzzlement.
But in Su Ruanruan’s eyes, Kanzaki Yoruha was clearly threatening her!!
Who knew what kind of evil 108 ways of tormenting her she had already planned in her mind—ways that could turn her from this into that kind of rolled-eyes, peace-sign plush ball.
Kanzaki Yoruha that bastard was definitely capable of doing something like that!
Eek.
No way!!
Run.
She had to run!
The tiny bit of bravado she had just now vanished in an instant.
Su Ruanruan’s petite body spun around with a shua, wanting to run back to the bedroom and hide inside the closet.
But her legs, soft as noodles and shaking, didn’t listen to her.
The moment her left foot stepped out in panic, it tripped over her own right ankle.
“AAAAAAAH!”
A dull thud.
Su Ruanruan fell straight toward the floor.
“Ruanruan!”
Hoshino Haruka’s heart sank.
She took one big step forward and reached out, steadily catching that slender waist that could be held with one hand.
Her body was very light.
Her silver-white hair also spread out across Hoshino Haruka’s arm.
But the sensation in her palm made Hoshino Haruka feel as if she had fallen into an ice cave—
………
What was going on!
Ruanruan’s body was ice cold!?
Hoshino Haruka lowered her head in panic.
She saw that Su Ruanruan’s eyes were rolled back, her small mouth half-open, and a section of pink tongue was limply hanging out at the corner of her lips.
Hoshino Haruka didn’t have time to observe carefully.
Her trembling fingers reached toward Su Ruanruan’s nose.
No…
No breath.
An indescribable panic instantly gripped Hoshino Haruka’s heart.
“Relax. She’s entered a feigned death state.”
Kanzaki Chiaki stood there quietly, her gaze sweeping over the two of them.
“This is an instinct left behind by Witches in ancient times. When they encounter danger, they play dead. If left alone, they’ll wake up in about an hour.”
Kanzaki Chiaki paused. Her gaze landed on the unconscious Su Ruanruan, and her tone carried a deeper meaning.
“During this period, she won’t feel anything. In other words, you can do whatever you want to her. For a couple, this is actually a very rare experience.”
Hoshino Haruka expressionlessly pulled the thin blanket from the sofa and covered Su Ruanruan’s exposed fair thighs tightly.
“I… I don’t have those kinds of thoughts about her.”
Hoshino Haruka coldly rejected the idea. “As a Magical Girl, I’m only providing her with shelter.”
However, the tips of her ears, faintly red beneath her black hair, betrayed her current guilt.
“Oh—”
Kanzaki Chiaki deliberately dragged out her tone. “Then I’ll just wake her up directly.”
As she spoke, a faint glow of magic power gathered at her fingertip.
Buzz—!
Hoshino Haruka instantly locked down the entire space with her enormous magic power, like a protective beast, forcefully interrupting the other party’s action.
Realizing what she had done, Hoshino Haruka’s cheeks flushed with embarrassment.
“She’s already this scared of you. If she wakes up and sees you now, she’ll have a stress reaction. I’m not in a hurry here, so let her sleep a little longer.”
She lightly coughed and smoothly changed the topic. “Have you met her before? Can you tell me what exactly happened to Ruanruan?”
“I haven’t met her.”
Kanzaki Chiaki shook her head.
“And it has nothing to do with your little girlfriend either…”
Hearing the words “little girlfriend,” Hoshino Haruka’s heart skipped a beat.
“N… not a girlfriend…”
Hoshino Haruka looked away, her voice so small it was almost inaudible as she weakly refuted, “We… we’re just… friends.”
Were they even friends?
The moment she finished speaking, Hoshino Haruka muttered to herself in her heart.
To hide her embarrassment, she quickly handed over the two registration forms on the coffee table.
“Where is the person who came with you? These registration forms need to be filled with the person’s own magic power and soul information, so the actual person has to be present.”
Kanzaki Chiaki thought for a moment, took out her phone, and dialed a number. “She seems to be visiting a friend right now. Should I call her over?”
A long busy tone came from the other end. No answer.
Kanzaki Chiaki looked a little puzzled.
She put away her phone and said to Hoshino Haruka, “She seems a bit busy. Can I come visit again another day to register?”
“That’s fine.”
Hoshino Haruka nodded.
With that answer, two small black bat wings extended from Kanzaki Chiaki’s back and she flew out along the corridor.
The door clicked shut.
Kanzaki Chiaki’s presence completely disappeared, and the living room finally fell quiet.
Hoshino Haruka turned around and walked toward the sofa.
Then, her footsteps suddenly stopped.
Su Ruanruan’s two fair, tender little feet were hanging defenselessly over the edge of the sofa.
Probably because she had been frightened after seeing Kanzaki Chiaki just now.
Even though this little catgirl currently had her eyes rolled back and her pink little tongue limply hanging from the corner of her mouth…
Her right foot, which was raised and suspended in the air, was still trembling slightly in midair, completely out of her control.
The fair-with-a-hint-of-red instep was stretched into a beautiful arc.
Her ten round, pink-tinged toes were curling uneasily because of the lingering fear. From time to time they would twitch cutely, giving off a strangely erotic and bullyable aura.
【During this period, she won’t feel anything. In other words, you can do whatever you want to her.】
For some reason, the strange words Kanzaki Chiaki had said earlier suddenly surfaced in her mind.
Hoshino Haruka’s hand holding the charm froze in midair.
The most important thing right now was obviously to use the charm Ha Niu gave her to seal this little one’s “authority.”
But…
Hoshino Haruka’s throat bobbed. Her gaze seemed glued to those trembling little feet and couldn’t move away.
She just kept staring.
Then, as if possessed, Hoshino Haruka slowly reached out toward that slightly trembling little foot.
She didn’t even react herself.
By the time her brain came back online, her palm had already grabbed that slightly cool, soft little foot and pulled it into her hand.
The moment she touched it.
Cool. Soft.
This feeling…
“Mm…”
When Hoshino Haruka’s warm palm wrapped around it, the feigned-death Su Ruanruan let out a faint, soft whimper from her throat without any defense.
Not only did she not wake up, but because she felt the warmth, that little foot that had been trembling in midair actually rubbed against Hoshino Haruka’s palm and then obediently relaxed, going limp and letting her do whatever she wanted.
Could she endure this?
The string of reason snapped with a click.
Hoshino Haruka’s mind went blank as she slowly lowered her head and leaned closer…
Hiss…
Not enough.
This alone wasn’t enough at all.
Hoshino Haruka’s fingertips slid upward along the smooth arch…
Ten minutes later.
Hoshino Haruka was bracing both hands against the back of the sofa, breathing heavily.
Her entire face was so red it looked like it was about to bleed.
Her eyes were still filled with lingering moisture and haze.
She looked at Su Ruanruan, whose clothes were somewhat disheveled and whose whole body had been touched by her until it glowed with an alluring pink, and her brain finally restarted after completely crashing.
What the hell… was she doing!!
Had she been affected again at a time like this?!
Damn it!!
She really was a beast! Hoshino Haruka, and she still called herself a Magical Girl!
No… but she couldn’t completely blame herself either.
Ha Niu had already said it.
She couldn’t resist Su Ruanruan’s authority.
That’s right, this was all force majeure!
Su Ruanruan was also at fault!
Hoshino Haruka’s hands trembled as she quickly pulled the blanket over and wrapped Su Ruanruan’s alluring body tightly into a cocoon.
Pa.
She slapped the golden charm onto Su Ruanruan’s smooth forehead.
