Chapter 1: Who Here Isn't a Problem Child? (Continued)

"Wait, wait!! Please, just wait a moment."

After the four had gone their separate ways, a mass of unidentified blue matter suddenly burst out of the small woods by the lake, shouting loudly.

The instant that panicked voice rang out, all four problem children stopped in their tracks.

It was a girl.

She looked to be only seventeen or eighteen, with long ears atop her head that resembled Sakura's donkey ears, yet were distinctly different.

She had waist-length aqua-blue hair and wore a rather provocative miniskirt with thigh-high stockings. Her eye-catching outfit matched her strikingly gorgeous appearance.

Her name was Black Rabbit. In order to save her once-glorious Community, she had summoned Sakaigami Todoh, Hisui Asuka, Kasukabe Yao, and the others to the Hako niwa World. In the future, she would earn the title of "Hakoniwa Aristocrat (shame/lol)."

"May I ask what you need from us?"

The ever-polite young war god turned around and asked Miss Black Rabbit.

"Um, I'm Black Rabbit. I was the one who invited three of the four people here, and I hope you can all become my companions."

Black Rabbit had expected the summoned problem children to be more flustered before making her dazzling entrance. Yet the atmosphere had been so calm that, by the time the four were about to part ways, she still had not found an opening. Unable to keep them guessing any longer, she began to explain.

"Next, please allow me to introduce you all to Hakoniwa—"

"So you're the culprit who turned me into a drowned rat." Before Black Rabbit could finish, Sakaigami Todoh cut her off sharply. He wore a frivolous smile, but there was no amusement in his eyes.

"So you were the one who sent us plummeting from the sky."

The other two girls had not become