Shiro leaned closer, observing her nervous expression.
"Yui-chan, if you want to thank me for saving your life, it's very simple. You know what I want."
At that moment, Shiro reached out, caught a few strands of her long hair, and began playing with them.
Yui Kotegawa had already been taken advantage of by him several times, so she was no longer like she had been at the beginning, immediately blushing and overheating whenever something like this happened. However, upon hearing such a direct statement, she was still shaken.
Therefore, after hearing it, a look of avoidance appeared in her eyes, and she didn't dare look at him directly.
"I... I don't know."
"Those shameless things are out of the question."
Shiro watched as she first stammered that she didn't know, and then, as if afraid he would suggest it first, immediately cut off his retreat.
After all, the statement that shameless things were out of the question already explained everything.
Shiro felt very helpless when he heard that. Although she was shy now, her tone was full of a lack of confidence.
"When you put it that way, there's really nothing I want."
"After all, I don't lack money or anything else. The only thing I'm missing is you."
Although Yui Kotegawa had recently begun dealing with troublemakers like this, she truly couldn't handle this kind of directness.
"You..."
"You can make a request that isn't too shameless."
Yui Kotegawa gathered her resolve and said that at that moment.
Shiro's eyes lit up when he heard that. Then, as if he had thought of something, he moved close to her ear and spoke slowly. When he approached, she felt his warm breath on her ear, and her face became unbelievably red.
"If we can't do anything that crosses the line, then this should be fine, right? I want the right to fuss over you whenever I want in the future."
Shiro knew very well that it was impossible to achieve everything in one step. After all, they had almost completely fallen out last time, so he decided to take things slowly, like boiling a frog in warm water.
Of course, unless another one or two life-saving situations occurred, but opportunities like that weren't easy to find. If he deliberately arranged them or used other methods, he might actually succeed, but it would lose its meaning.
Yui Kotegawa reacted as if she had been struck by electricity when she heard that and immediately refused without even thinking.
"No... no, that's too much."
Shiro saw her reaction and continued trying to persuade her.
"What's wrong with that? How is it too much? After all, isn't it already almost the same as it is now? It's just that every time it was either an accident or me forcing the issue. Now I'm only asking you to relax a little. You won't even agree to something like that?"
Yui Kotegawa recalled the recent situations and felt that at first glance there really didn't seem to be a problem with that part, but she quickly realized that there was a problem after all, because all of it had been forced by him.
"No!"
"I can't accept that condition."
Yui Kotegawa thought that if she agreed, it would definitely be worse than usual, and perhaps he would even kiss her several times a day.
At that moment, Shiro engaged her in an intense debate, using all kinds of methods. In the end, she couldn't withstand the words "life-saving debt," so she reluctantly agreed, but she also emphasized that he must not go too far.
"Things like this are fine occasionally, but not too much!"
At that moment, her gaze was firm, as if she would not give in any further.
Seeing the opportunity, Shiro decided to stop while he was ahead. Then he put on a rogue-like smile.
"Come on, give me a kiss."
Since she had agreed, he had no intention of being polite. And when she heard that and saw his face getting closer and closer, her face couldn't help turning red.
"Didn't... didn't you say you weren't allowed to go too far?"
Yui Kotegawa couldn't help saying that as she watched his actions. But unfortunately, Shiro's words blocked everything she wanted to say.
"That's right, this isn't going too far. Is there any problem with the first kiss today?"
Yui Kotegawa thought about it for a moment and really couldn't find any problem, but wasn't this person far too impatient? Looking at the face drawing closer and closer, she couldn't help closing her eyes, pretending that she had been bitten by a dog.
After Shiro had his fill, she immediately buried herself completely under the blanket. After all, if someone lifted the blanket, they would see that her face was so red it looked as though blood might start dripping from it at any moment.
"You should rest a little longer. I'm going to deal with the problem."
"Someone was probably fighting or something, and a stone accidentally flew toward you. It can only be said that you were unlucky this time."
Shiro didn't say that she had actually helped his naïve darling avoid a disaster, because then everyone would probably feel bad. So he simply changed the explanation.
Yui Kotegawa was surprised when she heard that. She also emerged from under the blanket.
"You mean that this time I simply had bad luck and got caught up in someone else's attack?"
Earlier, because of a certain troublemaker, she hadn't thought much about many things. Now, after hearing that, she remembered that she had ended up injured for absolutely no reason, which was completely unreasonable.
"That's right. This time you can only say that you were unlucky. I'm going to find those guys now and settle the score."
Just as Shiro was about to leave, she grabbed his hand.
"Um, if it wasn't intentional, then let it go. Don't make such a big deal out of this."
Shiro hadn't expected her to say that. It could only be said that there were truly many saints in a multi-anime world.
"Are you trying to forgive them, or is there something else going on?"
Shiro asked that question at that moment, wanting to clarify whether she was truly a saint or whether there was another reason.
Yui Kotegawa always felt that the person in front of her had become a little strange. Hearing that question, she instinctively spoke her thoughts.
"No, no, no. I'm also very angry that something like this happened to me, but anger is useless. Since it already happened, and those people are nowhere to be found, if I let you go looking for them, it would be like searching for a needle in a haystack. And if you end up fighting people like that, what if you get hurt?"
"Besides, when a fight breaks out, innocent people might get dragged into it again. Since I'm fine now, let's leave this matter as it is."
After hearing her explanation, Shiro didn't know what to say for a moment. After all, this was exactly the kind of statement he hated the most.
Understanding her thoughts, Shiro smiled.
"Don't worry, people like that are easy to find. And don't you think that if someone else had been in your place, they would already be dead? That only proves that those two guys don't know the meaning of restraint at all."