"Ruri, has something happened to you lately?" Gokou Hinata stood up from the carpet and looked at Gokou Ruri with a hint of hesitation, like a little adult.
"What? Nothing's happened, I think."
"If there has to be something, maybe it's that there seem to have been a lot more people sneaking looks at me lately."
"Ohoho, I understand! They, too, have been corrupted by the dark power of my Night Demon Queen!"
"Ruri, there's a manga with you in it!"
Faced with Gokou Ruri suddenly slipping into her chuunibyou mode, Hinata calmly interrupted her.
"A manga with me in it? I haven't bought any manga..."
"I misspoke. It's like you became the heroine of a manga, although you don't seem to be the main heroine. And... you even went on a date with a strange boy. Ruri, do you have a boyfriend?" Gokou Hinata stared curiously at Gokou Ruri. Although Hinata was much younger than Ruri, she often seemed more mature than her sister, like a little adult.
She had originally been worried that her sister, who was obsessed with the two-dimensional world, would be unable to make friends. She had even been considering how to help her make some.
Who would have thought that the sister in the manga already had a boyfriend?
"A... a date with a boy...?"
Gokou Ruri looked at Hinata and began to stammer slightly.
"What are you talking about? How could I possibly have gone on a date with a boy!" Her little face had turned bright red; it was hard to tell whether it was from anger or embarrassment.
"You haven't? That boy named Kyosuke Kousaka!" Although she felt that manga could not be trusted, when Gokou Hinata recalled the plot and her sister's reaction, it seemed as though it had really