"Click~"
Kurumi turned on the living room lights and walked step by step toward the entryway.
After casually glancing through the peephole, Kurumi cracked the door open slightly, exposing half of her pretty face.
"Senior Kojou, what brings you here so late at night?"
"Um..." Akatsuki Kojou scratched his head. "Kurumi, there are some things I want to ask you."
Kurumi narrowed her eyes. "Isn't it a little inappropriate for you to come to the shared home of two middle school girls in the middle of the night instead of resting properly at home?"
"Eh? I hadn't considered that. But if I don't learn the truth, I'll feel terrible. I haven't slept well for days because of this."
Kurumi raised her eyes to meet Akatsuki Kojou's gaze. Sure enough, thick bags had accumulated beneath the Fourth True Ancestor's eyes, and he looked exceptionally worn out.
While speaking with her, Akatsuki Kojou occasionally glanced toward Himeragi Yukina's room next door... Kurumi immediately formed a guess.
"Come in. Go straight to my room."
"Huh?" Akatsuki Kojou said in surprise. "Wouldn't that be inappropriate?"
"What is this perverted senior thinking? Keep it down. Don't wake Kanon."
"Yes, yes, yes!" Akatsuki Kojou nodded furiously. Once he entered, he noticed that Kurumi's long hair hung over her shoulders and that she wore an adorable cat-print pajama set, giving her a distinctly different charm.
Kurumi took two steps back and crossed her arms over her shoulders. "Perverted senior, Nagisa-chan and Yukina-chan are next door. If you try anything perverted, you'll die horribly."
"I... I don't have thoughts like that!" Akatsuki Kojou defended himself with a red face.
After saying that, Akatsuki Kojou, dressed lightly in shorts and a T-shirt, tiptoed into the apartment, then carefully turned back and shut the door.
Kurumi pointed toward her bedroom