Then they saw him—Senba Gari, fishing.
"Hm?" Hearing the noise behind him, Senba Gari turned his head in confusion, and two familiar faces came into view.
"Waaah—!"
"Waaah?!"
Unable to stop, Yazawa Nico and Rin Hoshizora crashed headfirst into Senba Gari's arms before he could react.
"Bwoof?!"
In that instant, time seemed to shift into slow motion.
In Senba Gari's mind, a thousand words became only two.
Holy shit!
—Splash!!!
A clear column of water shot up in an instant, and then... there was no then.
"You two..."
His hair soaked, his entire body changed into clean clothes, black aura kept surging from Senba Gari's back, his expression turning extremely dark.
Looking at Senba Gari like that, Rin Hoshizora and Yazawa Nico trembled as they knelt on the sofa cushions placed on the floor, clinging tightly to each other, their eyes as if they were looking at a demon.
"S-Sorry..."
"Um, Gari, why don't we just leave it at that? Nico and Rin have both admitted they were wrong already, and besides, it was my fault for not keeping an eye on them," Eli Ayase advised from the side.
"Eli, this isn't about whether they admitted they were wrong or who's right and who's wrong." Senba Gari spoke to Eli, then turned his head toward the two girls in front of him, only his expression had become stern. "Maybe you're thinking this was just an accident anyway, and it definitely won't happen next time. But have either of you thought about it? This is a mountain. What if there hadn't been a river down there? What if it had been some rocky ground or something? You'd both have gone off to meet Jesus by now! Do you even know how dangerous that was? If anything had happened to the two