Part 2

(The delivery slip said it was books, but maybe it’s one of those inappropriate ones you read during puberty…!)

…Listen here.

You sure bought a lot… Ushio-kun…

Excuse me? I think you’re misunderstanding something. Just so we’re clear, these are my war spoils¹ and leftovers from ComiPara.

Huh? ComiPara…?

Ohhh! You mean the event everyone signed up for together at the end of the year?

These are the books we distributed and the ones I bought at the venue, okay? It’s definitely NOT anything shady.

I never said it was shady…

Nuh uh, the prejudice was written all over your face. You think I couldn’t tell how your opinion of me was plummeting just from those biased assumptions of yours?

S-Sorry! I’ll reflect on it…

(I mean… to be fair, the ones I got were mostly BL, and I wouldn’t exactly call them PG friendly.)

Oh yeah, you boys never told me how the event went…

Was it fun?

…

I guess…

(Ooh, Ushio-kun’s being honest for once.)

I see! I’m glad you had fun.

ComiPara is about manga and anime, right? That sounds really nice, maybe I should attend next time too!

Excuse me? Do you even know what you’re saying?

Wha…?

The next one’s in the summer, and it’s a complete war zone so don’t even think about going with that half-assed attitude of yours, or else—

—you’ll die.

Huh…? What?

I’m going up to my room now, bye.

…

Huuuh…?