Chapter 20: Natsumi's Turn
Natsumi, staring at Shido's slender finger on her nose, opened her little mouth and bit on his finger, earning a yelp from her teasing lover.
Of course, she didn't apply much force on her teeth, simply engulfing it with a smirk and licking it playfully.
Shido, on the other hand, pleaded for mercy with his other hand in the air. Natsumi obliged and released his finger.
"This is what you get for treating me like a kid." Natsumi pouted.
"Sorry, I won't do it again." Shido gave a wry smile and held up both of his hands in surrender. "But, you are feeling better, aren't you?"
"Well, Mukuro actually apologized to me later that night, so I am okay now." Natsumi explained with a smile on her cute cheeks. "It was thanks to Nia and Kotori communicating with her, and she realized her mistake, so it was resolved."
"That's good to hear, you girls are amazing!" Shido gave a sigh of relief, feeling proud of his harem.
"No, it was mostly thanks to everyone else…" Nastumi flustered, then turned her head. "Anyway, is there any good news here?"
"Oh, that reminds me…" Shido pondered, then said. "Your manga draft is passed!"
"My manga draft is passed?" Natsumi asked excitedly.
"Yes, the editor of the library informed me, so there should be no problem." Shido said with a smile, and also realized that Natsumi had become special today, probably because she was in a better mood and more confident!
A person's appearance would be reflected by her mood. Natsumi had always been a girl with low self-esteem, so her mood was relatively negative, making her facial value worse than it was supposed to be, but even so, Natsumi was very cute.
But once she became confident, she would attack everyone's heart with overflowing cuteness!
"Great, so I can debut..." Natsumi jumped excitedly, she had been waiting for this day for a long time.
"Congratulations, if you need any help, just tell me!" Shido smiled gently, nothing made him happier than making the Spirits happy.
"Eriri and Utaha..." Natsumi whispered.
"Eriri and Kasumigaoka? What about them...?" Shido asked curiously.
"They have helped me a lot, and I want to invite them to dinner as thanks." Natsumi said with a little blush.
"But you don't know their contact information, so you want me to tell them, don't you?" Shido said with a smile. Sure enough, his little Natsumi had grown up, which was undoubtedly a good thing.
"Well, that's it." Natsumi nodded lightly.
"Of course it's no problem, I'll tell them when I go to school tomorrow! But it's too long to wait until you come again next time, so is it okay this afternoon?" Shido said while rubbing her cute head.
"No problem." Natsumi said with a grateful smile.
"You are so cute..." Shido said blankly.
"Am I cute?" Nanami lowered her head meekly, her reaction a bit like Yoshino.
Shido was also sure that the Natsumi had really changed. If it was the previous her, she would definitely say that she was not cute at all, but now she was willing to admit her cuteness.
"Come on, sleep with me!" Shido hugged her and returned to his bedroom.
Although Natsumi kept shouting, there was no resistance at all, it could be regarded as affirming the actions of Shido, but in the end Shido didn't do anything sexual, simply kissed her and hugged her for a while, before falling asleep...
The next day, Shido woke up very early as always. He looked at the petite Natsumi beside him and felt very happy.
After having breakfast, Shido went to school, but because of Shido's ability, she could also follow him secretly, turning into a backpack decoration, and going to school with her lover.
"The one in front is Utaha, hurry up and talk to her!" Natsumisaid suddenly.
"You are an ornament now, so don't talk..." Shido said angrily, but the person in front was indeed Utaha Kasumigaoka, and it was undoubtedly the best choice to invite her now.
But taking the initiative to chat with other girls was something Shido rarely did. Most of the time, girls took the initiative to talk to him, because he never wanted to provoke other girls.
But this time he did it for Natsumi, so here goes!
"Kasumigaoka..." Shido walked quickly to Utaha's side, and then greeted softly.
"Shido-kun, are you feeling okay? You actually came to talk to me..." Utaha said with a chuckle.
"Fine, what do you mean?" Shido smiled a little embarrassedly.
"This week, you stopped your footsteps after seeing me at least twice, and deliberately stayed away from me, do you think I didn't notice?" Utaha said with a squinting smile.
"Is that so? Haha..." Shido was a little embarrassed, but what Utaha said was indeed the truth. He always tended to stay away from unnecessary conversations with her.
"Okay, so what do you wanna talk about? If there is nothing, you won't take the initiative to come to me!" Utaha said in a business manner. She tried to guess what he might talk to her about, but she couldn't have known his intention at all.
"The thing is, you already know about the approval of Natsumi's manga, right?" Shido said softly.
"Of course I know, the library posted it on their website." Utaha nodded as a matter of course.
"Yes, and Natsumi is very happy about that. She might not be able to debut without you, so she wants to treat the two of you to dinner or something..." Shido said slowly, he had made it very clear that Natsumi was the one who invited her in order to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings.
"Two of…us?" Utaha tilted her head, but found the point.
"Well, you and Eriri. You two helped her a lot!" Shido smiled and nodded.
"That flat loser? Suddenly I don't feel like going..." Utaha said with a sigh.
"Who are you calling the flat loser?!" A girl ran over and launched a double ponytail attack on Utaha.
This girl, of course, was Eriri.
"Why did you attack me all of a sudden? It's so rude!" Utaha said with a chuckle. To be honest, Eriri's attack was really painless~, it had no effect at all.
If a guy were to take her attacks, he might enjoy the touch of her ponytail hitting his body, but Utaha Kasumigaoka, her long-time rival, was not that perverted.
"Why did you call me a flat loser.." Eriri said in a dissatisfied tone, but also stopped her ponytail attack.
"Because you are flat and a loser!" Utaha said with a chuckle, showing a teasing expression, as if she had found a way to trick Eriri again. "By the way, Shido-kun just asked me out on a date this afternoon!"
"A…. a date? Shido, is that true?" Eriri looked at Shido with a flushed face, not knowing whether she was angry or shy.
"Not exactly, but..." Shido wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Utaha.
"Shido-kun chose me between me and you, so it's not wrong to say that you are a loser, right?" Utaha said with a slightly raised corner of her mouth. To make matters worse, she started shaking her plump chest, showing off her curvaceous figure. "And since you are flat, that means you are a flat loser~"
"How shameless..." Eriri looked at the two of them, a little overwhelmed.
"Enough, that's not the case." Shido said angrily.
"Yeah?" Eriri asked softly, staring at Shido, hoping that he could give her an answer that would satisfy her.
"It's Natsumi. Her manga draft has passed, so she wants to invite the two of you to dinner. Since she doesn't have your contact information, she asked me to help convey it." Shido explained softly that there was no need for them to misunderstand.
"So that's what it is...it scared me to death." Eriri sighed softly, finally being able to relax.
"Scared to death? This matter has nothing to do with you, right? Could it be that you..." Utaha looked at Eriri with a funny look, after all, her reaction was really interesting.
"You are so annoying!" Eriri snapped. "What about you? Why did you say Shido chose you? Could it be that you..."
"Because Shido-kun told me first! He invited me first, which means he paid more attention to me!" Utaha said as a matter of course.
"Is that so? Shido..." Eiri looked at Shido again.
"Well, Eriri, why don't you use that cute brain of yours and think for yourself?" Shido sighed, no wonder Eriri was always bullied by Utaha Kasumigaoka.
