CH 69

“Nagisa, is that you…?”

As Kasumi and Nagisa sent sparks flying at each other, Yō, who had been watching Kasumi’s movements, let out a surprised sound.

In response, Kasumi glanced sullenly at Yō’s face, while Marin looked up at Yō’s face with a doubtful expression.

When it came to the important part, Nagisa smiled a friendly smile and tilted her head in a cute way, showing no sign of the acrimonious atmosphere she had just experienced.

“What are you so surprised about? Are you surprised that I’m a girl?”

“No… I noticed that you’re a girl, but…”

“Oh, you noticed that? I thought that Kasumi-chan had told you that I was a boy, and that you’ve been mistakenly thinking that I’m a boy all along.”

When Nagisa looked at Kasumi with a mean expression on her face, Kasumi turned away and ran away from Nagisa’s gaze, looking unhappy.

Marin, who had been curiously standing beside Yō, began to stare at Kasumi with puzzled eyes.

“…What is it?”

“Nothing, I was just wondering if you were going to go that far.”

Kasumi noticed Marin’s gaze and called out to her, to which Marin replied with a cute smile.

However, despite the expression on her face, she seemed to have some disdain for Kasumi’s words.

Kasumi was annoyed and tried to open her mouth, but Yō stepped in between Kasumi and Marin to prevent them from arguing any further, blocking their gazes.

He grabbed Kasumi’s hand and calmed her down a bit before turning to Nagisa and speaking.

“Well, I don’t care about what Kasumi told me, but didn’t you have short hair? How come your hair has grown so much in such a short time? Is it a wig?”

Nagisa’s hair is now as long as Kasumi’s and Marin’s from a while ago.

Yō couldn’t help but wonder how Nagisa’s hair had changed so much in such a short period of time, when the hair he’d seen before was barely reaching her shoulders.

“No, I usually just put it in a hat to make it look shorter.”

“Why would you do that?”

“Because you want to be as detached from your private self as possible when you’re streaming. In my case, it would cause a lot of resentment.”

Apparently, Nagisa is also concerned about being exposed.

It’s true that Yō hadn’t noticed Nagisa until she told him, so it seemed to have a certain effect.

“Well, it’s not like the shape of the face itself is going to change, so girls with good intuition will notice, and Marin-chan knew I was a girl from the moment she met me.”

“Yes, it was not stated on the internet, but Nagisa-chan has a very pretty face, so I noticed quickly.”

Marin complimented Nagisa, but the person who had said it to her had a subtle look on her face.

Maybe she’s not too happy to be called cute by an overwhelmingly beautiful girl.

“Well, to tell you the truth, I was wondering if I should come dressed as usual, but I thought it would be better if I were to act with Marin-chan.”

If Nagisa, a video streamer who attracts a lot of resentment, works with Marin, there is a chance that Marin will be unexpectedly attacked by someone who has a grudge against her.

That’s why Nagisa came dressed as a private person.

Yō agreed with her and thanked Nagisa for her concern.

However, from the outside, it was supposed to be two men and two women, but now it was one man and three women.

To top it all off, Nagisa looked eye-catching enough without Kasumi and Marin, which made Yō feel a little uncomfortable about working with the three of them.

“Thanks for the help. Well, at any rate… let’s all get along, shall we?”

“Well, isn’t that up to Kasumi-chan?”

Nagisa shrugged her shoulders and turned her gaze to Kasumi.

But when Kasumi looked at Yō and Nagisa, she had a disheveled expression on her face and seemed to be out of her mind.

“…Well, I guess it doesn’t matter if she’s with you. But if you don’t treat the other girl the same way, I think you’ll have a problem with that one.”

“Eh?”

Yō, caught by the gaze and words of Nagisa, who looked away from Kasumi and looked in another direction, looked in the same direction, and there stood a beautiful blond girl with a sulky expression, looking at the hands of Kasumi and Yō.

“You can’t have one without the other. Good luck getting everyone on the same page, ringleader.”

Nagisa looked at Yō with a look that said, “You gathered them, so don’t just throw them at me, do something about it yourself.”

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Author’s Afterword:

Thank you for reading!

I’m thinking of changing the title a little bit, and I’d like your opinion on which of the following two would be better:

“When I took care of a girl with a broken heart, she started to get attached to me, and my estranged childhood friend started to get involved with me a lot.”

“When I took care of a girl with a broken heart, she became attached to me, and my estranged childhood friend became angry and violent.”