"Click—hiss."
The heavy alloy doors slowly slid apart.
Hikari escorted the tightly bound Jiraiya into the spacious Special-Grade Research Area.
"Yue! I caught a big toad sneaking in."
Hikari shoved Jiraiya forward. Her voice had regained its usual coolness, but a careful listener could still hear a trace of aggrieved tattling. "This guy—this guy is a pervert who writes filthy books!"
"What filthy books?"
His attention was completely captured by Hikari's remark about "writing filthy books."
After all, in Yue's mind, Uchiha Hikari had always been a blank slate who lacked common sense and knew nothing of worldly affairs beyond drawing her sword and cutting people down.
"Oh?" Yue suddenly felt a little mischievous.
He set down his coffee cup and leaned forward slightly, drawing out his words in feigned surprise. "Well, isn't this unusual? Our little tool Hikari actually knows what a 'filthy book' is now? Come on, tell Yue where you saw a book like that. What was in it that made you so angry?"
"I—I—"
At this lethal barrage of questions, Uchiha Hikari's pale little face instantly flushed bright red!
The blush even spread down her fair neck and up to the tips of her ears!
How could she possibly tell him?!
Was she supposed to tell Yue that she had sneaked into his private study instead of sleeping in the middle of the night, pried open the secured hidden compartment at the very bottom, and read his secret copy of Make-Out Paradise from cover to cover—a book filled with pictures of naked people fighting?!
"I—I didn't read it! He said it himself!"
Hikari guiltily averted her eyes, stammering as she forced out an excuse. "He—he was peeping through the vent at the Women's Bathhouse! When I caught him, he started shouting that he was some Toad