Extra - Kotone Nagi

Ping!

[Hey! Hey! Kotaro, are you done with the documents? Can I lead the team in the next mission?]

Kotone Nagi just sent him a message.

Kotaro stared at her text with a half-opened eye, put on read and turned off his phone. No second thought in the decision. He didn't mean to be the cruel guy but that was a hard pass. The others would get a headache if Kotone was in command.

Ping!

[Come on! I wanna do it! Let me be the Captain for once!]

Nope. Not gonna happen.

Ping!

[If you're ignoring my messages, I'll pull pranks on you. I'll have Kaoruko join in the fun!]

Messages successfully ignored. Anything she throws at him, he can handle it all.

Ping!

Huh? She sent him a picture?

Kotaro checked it. The next instance, he paled.

He saw his face, still covered in bandages and asleep back in the infirmary. What drained all his color was the fact that Kotone was also in it. The angle of the camera indicated she had taken the picture as a selfie. But there was a problem, she did it on purpose. She brought her face close to him, too close!

[Wanna test your popular phrase?]

What popular phrase?! It this supposed to be a prank?! This is just...just...huh, nice one. She almost got him swayed for a second there. Kotaro won't be fooled so easily! There's no such thing as a popular phrase!

[I'll post it on the group chat in five minute if you don't agree.]

Wow. Blackmailing, Kotone has switched to another tactic.

"I'm covered in bandages and walking with a cane. Do your worst." He texted back.

Kotaro made his decision and waited for a reaction.

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Kotone returned a smiling icon, nothing more was said.

Ping!

The Task Force group chat opened in his shocking face. That little! She uploaded it for real!

[As you wished~.]

"Kotoneeeeeee!"

Kotaro's wailing voice became muted by the notifications bombing his phone.

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