Fortunately, Eriri wasn't too interested in such a cheap family drama storyline.
"Shinnosuke has some business and needs to go back first. I'll have the house driver take him. Do you all want to stay here?"
Hearing Eriri say this, Nene and Utaha finally put down the scripts in their hands. If the host was leaving, it wouldn't be polite for them to stay.
Finally... saved.
Masao and Bo could finally breathe a sigh of relief. If this had continued, their entire souls would have been drained.
What was drained wasn't just energy, but also their faith in life!
"It seems it'll have to be next time. Sakurada-san. I'm really looking forward to your next script!"
"Kasumigaoka-senpai! Don't worry, I'll definitely treat it well!"
Utaha looked at Nene, their gazes colliding and producing sparks called kindred spirits!
"Stop it! Why are you two getting so excited! There won't be a next time for something like this!"
Seeing the two excited people, Kazama couldn't help but complain. If it weren't for Shinnosuke, he wouldn't have been able to endure until now!
"Alright, alright, sorry. Next time I'll invite you all to play again."
Eriri was of course reluctant to let Shinnosuke leave, but Shinnosuke clearly really disliked this super realistic house-playing.
"Riri, there's no need to see me off. I can go home by myself."
"Then I'll deliver the painting to your house tomorrow."
"Okay."
After seeing the few people out of her villa, Eriri finally felt relieved. Everyone was finally gone, she could relax properly. Constantly pretending to be a young lady was very tiring.
"Why didn't you leave!"
Eriri realized Utaha hadn't left, but was sitting on the sofa drinking tea.
"Not planning on telling me, what were you just doing in the room with Nohara-kun?"
◆━⊰✧⊱━◆
"Shinnosuke, why are you still carrying another bag?"
After leaving the house and taking a breath of fresh air, Kazama finally felt alive again. He glanced at Nene beside him and saw her still unsatisfied expression, feeling very terrible. Fortunately, Nene didn't go to Shuchi'in Academy, otherwise...
"That's right, if you hadn't said so I would have almost forgotten!"
After being reminded by Kazama, Shinnosuke finally remembered.
"Kazama, this is for you."
"Huh?!"
Kazama looked at the object Shinnosuke handed him and unconsciously his pupils trembled.
"This... this is the limited edition theme album of Magical Witch Mary – Mahou wo Kakete Ageru!"
"How did you get this limited edition album? I heard it's not sold to the public at all!"
Kazama took the album with a joyful expression.
However, after seeing the strange gazes of Nene and Masao beside him, he finally realized.
"Ahem ahem, I don't really like it that much either."
"I also forgot. It seems I won it in a supermarket lottery when I bought something. If Kazama doesn't like it..."
"Since this is a gift from Shin-chan, I have no choice but to accept it with a heavy heart!"
Seeing Shinnosuke take back the album, Kazama didn't care anymore, he immediately hugged the album tightly.
"Bo-chan, this is for you."
"Ah! A five-pointed star-shaped stone!"
Bo received the stone with an expression like he had found a treasure.
Seeing Kazama and Bo get gifts, Masao couldn't help but look forward to his.
"This comic is for Masao."
"Wow! It's actually the limited edition of the One X summit war! Although the subsequent comic storyline is bad, this part is a true classic!"
"Thank you all for today, for accompanying me to visit Riri's house."
Seeing Shinnosuke start to express his thanks, Nene looked surprised.
"Me? There's no gift for me? Even though I was also very tired today!"
Nene's words made the others silent. In fact, all the exhaustion today was because of you, you know!
"Hmm... I didn't prepare a gift for Nene today."
"What?"
Nene had already clenched her fists.
"But Riri gave me this, and told me to give it to you."
"Ah! This brand of lipstick! Is this really for me? I feel so bad!"
Before she finished speaking, she had already snatched the lipstick from Shinnosuke's hand.
After giving all the gifts, Shinnosuke felt relieved. This time Kazama, Bo, and Masao had sacrificed too much. Nene and Utaha seemed to be very close, and super realistic house-playing had become more terrifying than ever.
"Then that's it for today. I have to hurry home to study."
Looking at the time, it was actually still early. Kazama planned to go home to study.
"Then let's get together again next time! Kasumigaoka-senpai has already invited me to visit Shuchi'in Academy, we'll play super realistic house-playing again then!"
Nene was very satisfied. Today she played super realistic house-playing and also got this lipstick. She was very happy.
Kazama and Shinnosuke exchanged glances. Although they didn't say anything, it was as if they had said everything.
Kazama: Shin-chan, you're going to ask Ai for help, right?
Shinnosuke: Don't worry, I'll ask Ai to put Nene on Shuchi'in Academy's blacklist.
The brief gathering of the Kasukabe Defense Force ended just like that.
◆━⊰✧⊱━◆
Just after leaving Eriri's house, Shinnosuke heard the system mission completed notification tone. Eriri's problem had been solved, and the system informed him that he could collect the reward at any time.
Although he was already a kenjutsu (swordsmanship) expert, he had never owned his own sword, not even a wooden sword or a bamboo sword.
Now that he had a famous sword, he was very eager to go home and try out how this famous sword felt in his hands.
Taking the train back home, Shinnosuke collected his mission reward. Suddenly his hand felt heavy, a sheathed katana appeared in his hand.
The scabbard and hilt of the sword were black, emitting a subtle light under the sunlight, like snowflakes fluttering in winter.
Opening the scabbard, there were two kanji characters "吹雪" (Fubuki – Snowstorm) on the hilt. The overall length of this katana was about 110 cm, considered short among katanas. It was shorter than the common tachi (long sword), and its curvature was also smaller.
Although smaller than an ordinary katana sword, its weight was quite significant. The blade of the sword, like its scabbard, emitted a subtle light when exposed to sunlight.
After gripping it, it felt very comfortable in his hand, exceeding expectations.
His talent in kendo far surpassed any kenjutsu in Japanese history, it was just that the Shinnosuke of the past had never realized his own talent.
Now he was also slightly looking forward to, during next week's match with Musashi Ginke's junior apprentice, would there be any surprises?