There Are So Many Geniuses in Omni-Anime! What's Wrong with Adding Me?

He stopped in front of a dilapidated two-story wooden house and gave it a quick once-over.

The house before him looked fairly spacious, nearly rivaling the villa in Kawasaki, and even had a small front yard, but the two buildings were in completely different leagues.

One was a fully furnished reinforced-concrete home with every amenity; the other was a cheap, shabby, aging wooden dormitory off campus, practically condemned.

—All right, to be fair, it wasn't quite that bad. At least it looked decent from the outside.

But from what he knew, its exterior was the best thing about it. Truly, all that glitters is not gold...

The wooden nameplate outside the yard bore the words: [Bamboo Qing Manor].

There seemed to be a line of smaller text beside it, but it was so faded that he could barely make it out. Something about a track club, perhaps.

Why not call it Sakurasou while you're at it... Though the pet girl was already living in my apartment.

"Woof, woof!!"

Sensing a stranger approaching, a yellow-and-white Akita charged out into the yard. Ignoring the seasonal rain pouring down on it, the dog barked furiously at him, baring its teeth in a threatening display.

It even guards the house? Good dog...

"But quiet down first," he ordered mildly.

"Whine~ whine~~!"

At his words, the yellow dog let out an aggrieved whimper and backed away two steps in fear, no longer barking.

"There, there~"

He smiled at it and offered a few soothing words, then walked into the yard under his umbrella. A few steps brought him to the front door of the building that was nearing retirement, and he knocked.

Knock, knock!

It might have been raining today, but there was no rule against going out in the rain—or running in it, for