He greeted them with a frivolous tone, politely lowering his head.
Then, amid the couple's relieved expressions, he lifted his face with delight and flashed a mischievous grin.
"And then, there's a pervert, desu!"
After saying that, he tapped his forehead with his index and middle fingers, then flicked them outward in a playful salute.
Then he swiftly turned around, ran past Ryo, wrapped an arm around her waist in her blank stare, and took off in a cloud of dust with lightning speed.
And so, the couple could only stare dumbly as their daughter was carried off by a pervert.
After running for quite a while, Ishikawa Hayato finally put Ryo down.
Under Ryo's unbroken gaze, he let out a pleased sigh.
"Successfully abducted someone else's daughter right in front of her parents and did another perverted thing. I'm so happy. I need to write this down when I get home."
Ryo did not seem particularly resistant to having been forcibly carried away.
She looked at Ishikawa Hayato for a while, smiled faintly, and said something rather suggestively.
"My family runs a hospital. It hasn't been around for that long, but it was passed down from my grandfather's time."
Ishikawa Hayato understood the implication hidden in her words.
A hospital—one that had been operating for a long time, too. The connections her parents had were probably terrifying.
Yet Ishikawa Hayato said without a care.
"Accomplice, you'll pretend to be my hostage, right?"
Ryo did not answer. She turned to look at the leisurely, relaxed weekend street.
Ishikawa Hayato was not frightened by her words at all and simply watched her leisurely.
Her slightly loose black shirt, with its somewhat long hem, made the girl look pale and slender. Paired with her gray umbrella skirt, she seemed utterly out