During the break.
Kurosaki Ichigo leaned against the window, sulking by himself.
Meanwhile, Kuchiki Rukia was chatting cheerfully with Ichigo's classmates beside her. For the first time, Ichigo, a blond-haired cuckold, had the strange illusion that he was being cuckolded by someone else. Those were clearly his friends—he had been here first. Ahem...
"So, Rukia and Ichigo know each other?!"
With her hands behind her back, Orihime leaned close to Rukia and asked curiously.
"Of course~"
"By the way, I'm currently staying at Ichigo's house too~"
Hearing that, Rukia answered with a smile.
"Huh?! You and Ichigo are already living together?"
At Rukia's answer, the high school students all cried out in shock.
"Living together would be an exaggeration. If I had to put it bluntly, she's just some freeloader who's latched onto our house and refuses to leave~"
Ichigo, who had been silent until then, frowned tightly upon hearing everyone's words. If he did not clear this up now, who knew what those idle busybodies would spread about his relationship with Rukia?!
"Oh my, Ichigo, that's not quite right! Uncle and Auntie like me very much, you know~"
After hearing Ichigo's words, Rukia still wore a smile, though veins bulged one after another across her forehead.
"Heh heh~"
Ichigo merely sneered. He neither denied it nor admitted it.
"But speaking of my relationship with Kurosaki Ichigo..."
"If I absolutely had to describe it, I suppose I'm Ichigo's distant cousin~"
After thinking for a moment, Rukia revealed the persona she had crafted for herself.
"My father and mother passed away in an accident! For a time, I was utterly alone in the world! Fortunately, I got in touch with my uncle—Ichigo's father, Uncle Kurosaki Isshin!"
"Because I realized that, aside from Uncle Kurosaki Isshin, I had no other relatives in