Ch.12 Tanaka-kun The Bully

"That! Where did you buy him?! It's so cute! I'm going to buy one too right away!"

"No, I found him." (TL: Should've used "him" the moment Omanju's gender is revealed tbh)

"...Weren't you taught in school that you shouldn't pick up things that are lying on the street!?"

"Well... I guess you could say he was lying there, or maybe he just became attached to me..."

"Kyui"

Just a moment ago, when Mitsumiya-san arrived, Omanju was asleep, exhausted from the enthusiastic hugs from Obaa-sans.

I had left him on the counter, and when Mitsumiya-san came in front of him, he stared at her intently...and jumped.

"Wow... So, so cuuuuuute..."

"Kyui!"

Ohh.

Omanju seems to be fine with Mitsumiya-san.

The look of utter despair on his face, like when Obaa-sans were petting him, is completely gone, and he looks incredibly happy.

Ah, yeah.

I know, being too friendly can be annoying too... I understand.

I'm constantly being told things like, "You're so cute, like a girl," or "Would you like to meet my daughter?"

"! Kyui!"

"Hmm... what's wrong, Omanju? Wouldn't you prefer Mitsumiya-san?"

"!?!? Kyukyukyuiiiii!"

"Oh, sorry, sorry, I was just kidding."

Omanju that was being held by Mitsumiya-san suddenly jumped at me the moment our eyes met... and snuggled right into my arms.

Hmm, I'm glad that he got homesick overnight, but...

"................................................"

"I'm sorry, Omanju is... Mitsumiya-san?"

I watched Omanju wriggle around in my arms for a while, then suddenly turned back to Mitsumiya-san, whom I had completely forgotten about.

"...Mitsumiya-san...nosebleed"

"...Yesh..."

Ah, I see.

It looks like Mitsumiya-san has a slight fever... She's probably caught a mild cold and that's making her a bit irritable.

I need to do as much of the customer service as possible so she can get some rest.

There's a difference in value between a part-time worker who's currently a high school student and me, who's on a leave of absence and essentially a freeter.

"Are you okay? Do you want to go home today?"

"No, if I leave such a beautiful senpai behind, I feel like I might get into a West Side Story situation..." (TL: The raw only said WSS, so this is just my guess and I might be wrong)

"W...? What's that?"

"It's nothing..."

I was about to leave Mitsumiya-san to someone else to tend to her...but it turned out that I didn't even need to, as her nosebleed stopped and the redness in her face subsided once she sat down.

"But is that so, this child is a monster...?"

"Kyui!"

"So, what kind of monster is it?"

"I don't know?"

"Kyui!?"

"...I feel like this monster is staring at me intently?"

"This child seems to have a habit of suddenly turning around and staring. Don't worry about it, he's probably not thinking about anything."

Incidentally, since he wasn't scared, I let her hold Omanju, hoping for a healing effect from petting him.

Just as expected, she's petting and cuddling him, acting completely normal.

"...White...It's soft for now, but these limbs belong to an even-toed ungulate...a deer? ...No, it's short but there's also a mane forming, and a point on his forehead that looks like it could become a horn..."

"It's strange, isn't it? Well, many monsters resemble animals from Earth, but there are also chimeras that look like two animals combined into one, and then there are some that are completely unknown."

"Sure, deer and rhinos do have horns... but still, the coloring, the single point on his forehead, and above all, the fact that he's attached to senpai who doesn't need make up to be treated as a girl in the city... Could it be...?"

Apparently, Omanju likes all kinds of vegetables.

For lunch, he devoured the usual vegetable sticks I'd been giving him.

"Senpai was super popular as an otokonoko since elementary school, and he was so fragile that no one ever tried to make a move on him... Even I'm hesitant to make a move if it came down to it sunce he's so pure... so, in other words, a virgin..."

But for him to eat about 2 carrots worth of it... I guess monsters eat a lot after all.

Well, he is a monster after all... Oh, that reminds me, I should buy some books on how to raise monsters on the way home... I don't think they'd sell any.

Oh well, I'll have to search for videos of tamers soon.

"Hoshino! I heard you brought a pet with you! I haven't gave you permission for—whoa!?"

"Oh, Tanaka-kun."

Following Mitsumiya-san, Tanaka-kun—the owner's son—in his school uniform, headed to the back room.

He's a big guy with a loud voice, and he bullied me a lot when we were kids, so he's still scary to me. He's a former classmate... no, I haven't failed a year yet, so he's still technically a classmate.

Until I was in elementary school, he dragged me out to play sports almost every day, probably just to make fun of me for being bad at it.

Well, even in middle school, he always called me to run errands whenever something came up... Oh, but he was always wasting things by saying, "Actually, I don't need this. Just throw it away," and he'd let me have it for lunch.

"Hoshino... Y-you...!"

But when he heard that my family was broke, he said things like, "If you're going to pay it back over the rest of your life, I'll pay it all for you!" or "If you promise to help out at my house, I'll treat you to everything!" He's surprisingly kind-hearted... Even though He was the ringleader until elementary school and the boss of the school from middle school onwards.

He is a bully, but I think he's relatively kind for someone from the countryside.

Even though he's a bully.

"Who...? Tell me! Who stole him from me?!"

"Ah, I guess that's the conclusion you'd come to... He's become so beautiful, and his sex appeal is on a whole other level than it was yesterday."

"Mitsumiya! Do you know something?!"

"No? I mean, normally, my primary suspect was Tanaka-senpai. I thought you might have been using some kind of shady drug. I was thinking of reporting you when I got home."

"You!?"

Tanaka-kun suddenly seemed panicked, grabbed my shoulders, and started shaking me violently.

Steal?

Sex appeal?

Shady?

...Since they both know about it, I wonder if something happened at school?

A love triangle involving a famous couple?

"...How dare they, to my Hoshino!" (TL: Ah, so this guy is gae)

"No, Tanaka-senpai, don't casually claim ownership of him. Yuzuki-senpai has been single for 17 years. That's precisely why there's such a fierce struggle going on beneath the surface though..."

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