Seeing Tetsuya suddenly appear, the two immediately stood up.
Tetsuya calmly sat down on the sofa, while the two instinctively lined up in front of him.
"All right, this is your turf, not the Chiba Estate. Your Teacher Izuna isn't here, so relax and sit down. Anyway, why are there only two of you? Where's Konan?"
He waved for them to relax and asked where Konan was. Didn't the three of them usually stick together?
Nagato and Yahiko realized it too. Right, they weren't at the Chiba Estate anymore. They relaxed and sat on the sofa opposite Tetsuya.
Yahiko answered.
"Konan went out to help a neighborhood lady look after her kids. She said that if we went along, we'd only get the kids into trouble, so she wouldn't let us come."
As he spoke, Yahiko patted Nagato's shoulder indignantly.
"How was that getting them into trouble? I was playing games with the kids, okay?"
Nagato rubbed the tip of his nose awkwardly.
"Haha, it wasn't that bad. It's just that you take games a little too seriously, Yahiko."
Seeing their reactions, Tetsuya could pretty much picture Yahiko fooling around with the children and turning everything into utter chaos. He burst out laughing.
"Hahaha, Yahiko, you've left the Chiba Estate now. It's time you learned to be a little more mature."
Yahiko sighed helplessly.
"Teacher Tetsuya, the world out here is a little different from what I imagined."
With that sigh, the atmosphere in the living room grew a little heavier.
As Tetsuya watched Yahiko sigh, the teasing in his smile faded, replaced by a measure of pride.
"But that's just how the world is, Yahiko. The world is real. It can't follow your imagination. Still, I'm glad, because you've recognized the difference between reality and imagination. That means you're