"...How should I put it, um... Actually, I really like cats, so I came to see it, that's all."

At that time, when Kurumi Saki's expression became stiff and he looked at him like a broken robot, Yongye thought for a while and then thought of what he should say at this time.

He just said that he found an abnormality, so he was curious to see it, or it would be boring to say that I recorded a video, so in order to cover up the previous behavior, he also grabbed a cat by the back of the neck and lifted it up. , showing a smile that he considers friendly.

He found a random place to sit down, and put the cat that was caught at any time on his lap. The cat was very cooperative with him, laying motionless on his stomach, his pupils were dilated, his ears were flattened down, and his body was shrunk. Sticking it up on the stomach, it seems to be quite well-behaved.

But... In fact, this cat is not well-behaved, but can't even scream, and wants to raise its fur and tail, but also has no courage. The animal's instinct makes it clear that resisting or escaping is self-defeating, so it shows that ordinary people also I can read it, and there is a look of despair in the fear.

Without looking at the cat, Yong Ye, who instinctively thought that the cat was very docile, touched the cat's back casually, and spoke to Kuang San, who was diagonally opposite, with some complacency.

"This cat seems to like me very much, and it's not like a cat in my case."

"...this, this is not at all... not..."

Compared to Yong Ye, who didn't pay much attention to cats, Kuang San noticed the cat's fear and wanted to stop the invisible threat of this terrifying companion (elf) to cats, but he didn't know how to speak. So it became very rare to stutter.

"No? No what? Isn't this cat very nice?"

I don't know why, but Tokisaki Kurumi, who had always acted quite neatly and neatly, became so strange, Yong Ye just asked the cat's head casually.

And the cat, who was quite afraid of him, seemed to be petted by a terrifying tyrannosaurus. His whole body was trembling slightly because of fear. If it could, it would probably cry directly.

"Don't... stop it—!"

"…what??"

Yong Ye didn't know what he was doing wrong, but Tokisaki Kurumi made a sound that was not like her style, like a wailing sound, pounced on him and snatched the man who was placed on his lap by Yong Ye, so scared that he couldn't move or even shivered. cat.

"...Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, the bad guys aren't there, the bad guys aren't there meow~"

Kuangsan, who is obviously gentler to cats than to people, and soft-spoken soothing cats who are so frightened that Yongye puts them on his lap, looks like Yongye is speechless. He has seen people who like cats before. But that seems a bit too much, doesn't it?

"…I said……"

"Huh? Ah, no!"

Just as Yong Ye wanted to say something, Kuang San came back to his senses, as if thinking of something very important, she gracefully put down the cat she was holding and slowly turned her head to look at Yong Ye.

"...Teacher, can you tell me when you... started appearing in this shop?"

"Well... just arrived."

"So... what did you see?"

As if afraid of Yong Ye's lying, Kurumi leaned closer to him and stared into his eyes.

And Yong Ye shrugged her shoulders as if nothing had happened to her, the contrast between her and her usual behavior, and her desire to hide what she had done, "I didn't see anything."

"…real?"

There is no way to easily believe Yong Ye, and there is still suspicion in Kuang San's eyes.

"certainly."

"But... when I was rubbing the cat just now, was the teacher here watching me?"

"That is to see a little bit, after all, I haven't ordered my coffee yet."

Although it was pointed out that the problem was, Yong Ye just picked up the menu on the table without hesitation and looked at it casually.

And Kuang San, who was in the seat diagonally opposite her, thought that he had been seen rubbing against the cat before, his face suddenly flushed red as if his feet were venting his emotions, and he unconsciously stepped on the ground at high speed many times.

Then, she turned her head and looked out the window, looking at the deserted street and the dark sky to adjust her emotions, and after a while, when her face changed back to its original state and calmed down again, she pressed her right fist against her mouth and gently coughed.

No sound came out, but Tokisaki Kurumi's own shadow on the ground spread out to cover the surroundings, wearing a black and red Gothic Lolita dress, that is, another Tokisaki Kurumi in the form of a spiritual outfit, from that Tokisaki Kurumi in school uniform appeared in the shadow in front of him.

"Alala~ Teacher Yong Ye is actually here too."

Glancing at Saki Kurumi when he was rubbing against the cat's school uniform earlier, Kurumi in the spiritual outfit showed a look of disgust, and then looked at Yong Ye with a coquettish smile, raising his skirt with both hands and saluting gracefully.

"I'm sorry~ This is a clone of different timelines that I can create. It's really my sin to let you see such a shameful clone. Now I've dealt with this shameful guy."

As soon as the spirit outfit Kuang San finished speaking, a number of pale hands appeared next to the school uniform Kuang San, who forcibly dragged the school uniform Kuang San, who seemed to want to say something, into the shadow like a quagmire.

"---and many more!"

Just when the lower half of the school uniform Kuang San sank, Yong Ye glanced back and forth between the two Kuang San and quickly discovered something was wrong.

"What's wrong? Do you want to sympathize with this, the 'me' who is not very obedient and shameful?"

The spirit outfit Kuangsan, who was called to stop but didn't stop, looked at Yongye with a smile on his hips with his hands on his hips.

"No... Actually, I sympathize with you more. Are you the avatar? Don't you feel pitiful to help the main body act for this kind of thing?"

Yong Ye walked up slowly, patted the head of the spirit outfit Kuang San, who had a slightly evil smile, and sighed lightly to show sympathy or to feel speechless.

"...Hey, hey?"

The spirit outfit Kuangsan, who was slapped on the head, stood there at a loss for a while because his acting skills were punctured by Yongye.

And the school uniform Kuangsan, who only had the upper body outside, couldn't help being stunned. The arms that were dragging her around stopped moving. As time passed, the corners of her eyes twitched slightly, and her cheeks were gradually dyed red again. .

"You, what are you talking about? I don't understand why?"

The spirit outfit Kuangsan tried hard to keep a smile, and after looking away from Yong Ye, he pretended to be nonchalant.

"...I have never said that I can actually see the strength of spiritual power without the aid of a detector."

"Is that so? ... It's such a convenient ability."

"It's really convenient, so I can easily see the difference between you and the clone."

"...Is that so?"

Kurumi, who was wearing a black-red spiritual outfit, fell into a speechless silence, while Kurumi, who had only the top half of his school uniform outside, stunned and squeezed out the words of his previous clone from his throat.

"Well, after all, there is still a huge gap in spiritual power between the two sides."

"..."

There was no response. Tokisaki Kurumi, the main body of the school uniform, looked at himself in the shadow, looked at the clone again, and finally climbed out of the shadow again and sat back to his original position in silence.

And the avatar of the spiritual outfit sighed as if giving up, and chose to sneak into the shadow and disappear.

It is undoubtedly a good choice to run away directly, but you can ignore other aspects, but in this regard, he pays great attention to reputation... or Tokisaki Kurumi, who loves face, will not run away like this.

If it was really possible to run away regardless of face, she wouldn't deliberately let her avatar come to act in order to save her face, as if she would actually execute a avatar of her own.