Mei Terumi walked into a room.
Only then did Nagato realize something... Wait, this was her house?!
A question mark seemed to pop up over Nagato's forehead. This was Mei Terumi's house? He was still at her place?? He swallowed. He had spent the whole night sleeping in her house??
Before long, Mei Terumi came out of the room.
"Mei Terumi, is this your house?" Nagato hurried over to ask as soon as she emerged.
"Where else would it be? You passed out drunk last night. Where was I supposed to take you if not home?" Mei Terumi shrugged.
"Aren't your parents home?" Faced with her sheer boldness, Nagato hurriedly changed his question.
Mei Terumi was only eleven or twelve, yet she already lived on her own? Did her parents not care about her at all?
Nagato could hardly imagine it. If he had dared do this at eleven or twelve, his mother and father would have strung him up and whipped him...
"Pfft, parents? In Kirigakure, what Social Youth, boy or girl, still lives with their parents after turning ten?" Mei Terumi looked at Nagato as though he was making a fuss over nothing.
"?? Then how do you make a living?" Three more question marks appeared over Nagato's head.
"Country bumpkin. Once you're ten, what else would you do besides go out, become a Dance Youth, and make your way in society? Plenty of bars, the Tattoo Shop, and the clans in Kirigakure recruit them from time to time."
"Anyway, enough about that. Put these on. The ones on your head are such poor quality. Stop using them." Mei Terumi took a brand-new packet of black stockings from her pocket and placed it in Nagato's hand.
His face horribly distorted, Nagato looked down at the stockings Mei Terumi