Take Hana Ye Along Too!

The little girl swallowed blankly.

It... it did seem that way...

Because if he were some kind of monster, he really wouldn't have chatted with her for so long. He should have gobbled her up the instant they met.

But at the sight of Lin En's bare body, she immediately clutched the bedsheet tighter and said fearfully:

"Th-then why did you show up here naked?! And barging straight into a girl's room in the middle of the night without wearing anything-n-no matter how you look at it, that's way too deliberate!!"

Lin En stared at her with dead-fish eyes.

"What do you mean, I showed up here without wearing anything?"

Snap-

Lin En tugged at the elastic waistband of his shorts.

(ー`´ー)

"Are you blind? Can't you see I've still got shorts on? Sure, they're a little short, but they're still shorts!"

"..."

Hana Ye stared blankly at his shorts.

"But you'd be better off wearing nothing than wearing those (shouting)!!"

And no matter how I look at them, those don't look like your shorts!

It's more like you kidnapped a girl, knocked her out, screwed her, dumped her in some dark little room, then stripped these off her and squeezed into them yourself! Even if you're not a monster, you're definitely no good!

"Enough nonsense!"

Eyes closed, Lin En waved a hand and flung her dress onto her.

"Since I wandered into the wrong place by accident, just treat it as a misunderstanding and let it go. It's getting late, and I should be leaving. Maybe we'll meet again someday!"

"Sayonara!"

With that,

Lin En started to get up.

Hana Ye froze.

Then she immediately caught on. Panicking, she scrambled over on all fours, grabbed Lin En's shorts, and cried:

"W-wait!!"

Lin En closed his eyes and raised a fist.

"What?"

Hana Ye trembled, stole a fearful glance out the window, and swallowed hard before saying:

"Um... c-could you wait until daylight before leaving?!"

He did seem like a pretty abnormal lolicon, but no matter what, he was still human.

Compared to those monsters outside that ate people at the drop of a hat, meeting a human at a time like this was definitely much better than staying here all alone!!

And more importantly,

He dared to stroll around outside alone when the moon was that red. That definitely meant that even if he was a pervert, he was a very capable pervert!

An ordinary person would surely have been killed long ago!

Lin En said with a (ー`´ー) expression:

"Why?"

Hana Ye stared wide-eyed, her teeth chattering as she said:

"Because... because it's incredibly dangerous outside right now!! If you go out alone, you'll definitely get killed even if you don't get lost! If you want to go home, you can just wait until daytime! Going outside now would be absolutely terrifying! Really!"

Lin En glanced out the window in puzzlement.

"Terrifying? Not at all. It's perfectly peaceful!"

There was even a blind little girl out shopping.

The moonlight was pretty, too.

The only issue was that one household he'd passed had rather rudely dragged him inside, but in the end, they'd very kindly seen him out with repeated apologies.

Seeing him shrug and start to leave,

Hana Ye panicked. Her tiny body was practically dragged sideways toward the edge of the bed as she screamed in alarm:

"W-wait! Listen to me! Listen to me!"

(Drag-)

(Drag-)

"Don't go!! If you leave, Hana Ye is done for! Leaving a cute girl here all alone is wrong no matter how you look at it! And you just stripped my clothes off, too! You can't be so irresponsible! Waaah!"

Lin En stopped.

Hana Ye immediately widened her eyes. "You're staying?"

Lin En closed his eyes and raised his fist, a huge ╬ popping up over it.

"No. I mean, could you let go of my shorts first?"

With her tugging from behind, the already highly elastic shorts had now been stretched over a meter long.

They were crushing his balls.

"..."

Hana Ye said blankly, "Uh... sorry."

She released her little hands.

Snap-

An exceptionally crisp sound rang out.

"..."

"..."

Deathly silence filled the room.

With a (▼皿▼#) expression, fumes rising from his head and two jets of steam blasting from his nostrils, Lin En wanted nothing more to do with her and strode forward. If she hadn't been a little girl,

She would already have been in eight pieces.

And she actually wanted him to take responsibility? What a joke! If Lin En had such lofty morals, he'd have qualified as an outstanding model young citizen ages ago! He was the kind of guy who wouldn't even pay for a prostitute!

"W-wait!!"

Hana Ye rushed over again, her little face pale with fright.

"Um! I can pay you!"

Instantly,

Lin En stopped.

"What kind of money?"

Hana Ye swallowed and said:

"G-gold coins."

"The round, yellowish kind (dubious)?"

"Y-yes! (swallowing)"

Lin En thought for a moment.

"How much?"

Hana Ye immediately widened her eyes and held up her fingers. "Uh, well... five, no! Ten... fifty!"

[Ding! Your mood +10]

Lin En said righteously, "Cash up front?"

Hana Ye stared wide-eyed. "Uh, an IOU."

"..."

A brief silence.

[Ding! Your mood -10]

"Waaah, don't go! Don't go!! Once today's over and Hana Ye gets home, I'll pay you right away! (〃＞皿＜)! Fifty! No! A hundred!"

Hana Ye clung tightly to Lin En's leg, her tiny body dragging along the floor, but it didn't do a damn thing.

What a joke!

Everything Lin En did came with a clearly marked price. If IOUs worked, what would anyone need the police for?

"Get off!"

"No!"

"If you don't get off, I'll eat you! (▼皿▼#)"

Whoosh-

A chilly, sinister breeze blew in through the window out of nowhere.

Creak-creak-

The wide-open wooden door in the living room seemed to be disturbed by something, swinging open and shut, over and over.

Even the moonlight seemed to turn a little redder all at once.

"..."

Lin En and the little girl both stopped.

Hana Ye stared stiffly out the window. A long, twisted shadow seemed to be faintly reflected across the window frame.

"Mmph-!"

She instantly clapped a hand over her little mouth, her eyes as wide as bells and brimming with frightened tears.

Then, with almost unimaginable speed, she jumped down, grabbed Lin En's wrist, and whisked him into the wardrobe a short distance from the bedroom.

Clack-clack-clack-clack-

Inside the dark wardrobe,

Her teeth chattered nonstop as she huddled in the corner with a (.;ﾟ;:profit:;ﾟ;.) expression, hugging her knees and saying:

"We're done! We're finished!! I knew it! Th-that thing found us! It must have caught Hana Ye's scent already. It's... it's all your fault!"