"Mm... uh..."
Nagato's face was as red as a boiled shrimp, and steam rose from his head.
Faced with Konan's teasing, inquisitive gaze, he stammered, at a complete loss as to how to explain why he read books like this, let alone answer her question.
Seeing Nagato so utterly embarrassed, Konan was secretly delighted.
This Nagato, stripped of a "god's" indifference and the Akatsuki leader's obsession, seemed especially real, even a little... cute?
She stopped pressing him and instead reached out to take the hand he had curled slightly in his nervousness.
"Since you like reading them..."
Konan's voice held a smile, and her purple eyes sparkled.
"Then let's go buy them together! I'd like to see just how good a book has to be to get you so hooked."
Nagato: !!!?
Huh?!
Go buy... books like this together?!
Nagato's head went boom, as though fireworks had exploded inside it.
He imagined walking into a bookstore beside Konan, pointing at the suggestive cover of The Lustful Ninja Chronicles of Shimura, Volume Seven, and telling the clerk, "One copy, please..."
I'm done for! That's too embarrassing! Absolutely not!
The flush on his face instantly spread to the base of his neck, and the steam above his head seemed to grow thicker.
Only when Nagato looked ready to evaporate on the spot from embarrassment did Konan leisurely add, a sly glint passing through her eyes, "I hear there's a regular version."
At that, Nagato was like a drowning man grabbing a piece of driftwood. His dim eyes instantly lit up, and he asked eagerly, "Huh? There's a version with normal content?"
If it was just an ordinary adventure novel, then buying it with Konan would be no problem at all!
So that meant the version Nagato had been reading really was the