Looking at Shiina Mashiro, Rita gently pushed her smooth, delicate shoulder. It felt even softer than milk. At last, Rita's actions had some effect. Shiro's long eyelashes fluttered, and she murmured in a dreamlike voice, "The sun... the sun won't come out!"
Her rosy lips moved, and Shiro buried her little head back into the bedding.
"Get up already. If you don't get up, you'll be late for school. Today's your first day at that school!"
Rita pushed Shiro again, but the girl was sleeping like the dead and did not react at all. Instead, she said from beneath the covers, "I don't want to go to school..."
"Then don't draw manga either."
Hearing Shiina Mashiro's words, Rita replied expressionlessly.
"No!"
Rita's words... seemed to work quite well. The moment she finished speaking, Shiro's body jolted. She raised her overly slender, delicate arm and rubbed her sleepy eyes with her long, jade-like fingers, struggling to open those beautiful eyes that resembled Sakura blossoms.
She stayed blankly like that for about a minute before focus finally returned to Shiro's pupils. Slowly, she raised her head and met Rita's gaze with those overly pure eyes.
"Rita..."
Shiro slowly called Rita's name.
"What is it?"
"Big bad person."
Shiro muttered in a soft, mushy voice.
"All right, get up already!"
Rita did not mind what she said.
"Okay, got it. I'm getting up."
With a blank expression, Shiro braced her hands against the floor, then slowly crawled forward on all fours like a little cat.
Speechless, Rita took a step back to make room for her. But seeing that posture... for some reason, she really wanted to put a collar around Shiro's fair neck, attach an iron chain to it, and have her crawl forward slowly on all fours like this...
No!
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