Just imagining the girl I like coming to my house makes my steps feel light.

I must be a fool for being so carefree and excited, thinking that I could fly up to the sky now.

The moment I returned to my home, a common house, and took off my shoes at the front door as usual---

"Hey~, there's no cold juice in the fridge~?"

............

......What's that?

I could not help but be puzzled.

Why did I hear a voice from the living room that I should not have heard here?

"Ah, young boy. Welcome back~?"

A girl lying on a sofa in the living room, her legs flapping and bouncing.

No, I think it's too much of a glorification to classify her as a girl.

A cheeky junior high school student who had somehow become nostalgic for me.

I couldn't understand what she said with a smiling face, or rather, I couldn't read her intention at all, and I couldn't keep my mouth shut.

I couldn't understand the words she said with a smiling face, or rather, I couldn't read her intention at all, and I couldn't keep my mouth shut.

"Has a tanuki finally started to sneak into my house?"

"Who is the tanuki! It's a cute and beautiful junior high school girl!"

"If that's the case, I'll call the police and report you for trespassing."

"It's not trespassing～ We are already friends, aren't we～?"

"Who says we are friends? We've only met for two days."

"When a man and a woman ride together on a motorcycle, they're friends! I mean, normally you would be happy to find a cute junior high school girl when you get home, right~! What is it with these herbivorous types these days~!"

Could it be that?

Is she the type of tanuki-chan who thinks the person who is kind to her is her parent and she misses them?

"......I mean, don't eat my snacks without my permission! I was looking forward to it to my break from studying for my exams!"

"Hahaha～, this brings back memories～ Wasabeef is still around!"

Wish she would be exterminated due to that.

The JC tanuki that invaded my house was chewing on my snacks without a second thought.

"Or rather, how do you know where my house is?......Moreover, do you have a key to my front door?"

"I've seen you many times since I live in the neighborhood~. The front door opened just fine when I rattled it open."

I guess my mom forgot to lock the door when she left for work. What a troublesome.

"I wonder if there is a vermin extermination company nearby......"

"Eh, where are the vermin? I only see a dull ronin candidate and a very beautiful JC? Hmmm?"

T/N : ronin, someone who waiting for a chance to enter a university

I don't want to hit her, but please hit her～～～～～

I was annoyed by her freewheeling attitude as she ate all the snacks, so I took the snacks away from her for the time being.

"Ah! My Wasabeef! You thief!"

"You're the thief!"

I stand tall and hold the snack high in the air as the childish junior high student gets up from the sofa in an attempt to take it back.

The unreasonably stubborn junior high school student reaches out her hand with great effort and jumps up and down.

"Don't tease～a～weak～girl! Nuh-uh!"

"Alright, tanuki-chan. Try your best to get the snacks."

"Hey! Don't pat my～head～like～a～dog!"

When I patted her head as if teasing her, the junior high schooler stretched her back and leaned toward me.

"Sit down."

When I ordered her to sit down, she sat down on the sofa.

"Alright, good, good."

"Yay! You are kind after all~?"

As a reward, I petted her head and presented her with snacks, and she began to eat them with a big smile on her face......Yeah, it's soothing, like having a pet dog. No, it's pet tanuki.

After all, she is just a child in compulsory education. Though she's cheeky, she's also easy to tame.

"By the way, you were having an adolescent moment with your junior in front of the former Kisarazu Central site, weren't you?"

It seems that she was secretly spying on me while I was standing there talking with Touri.

"So the entertainment facility over there was called Kisarazu Central? I had always called it a bowling alley or an abandoned building, so this is the first time I know its official name."

"What? Isn't it common knowledge for Kisarazu citizens? There used to be a movie theater called Kisarazu Central Cinema located there, although it has already been closed. Watching movies there was my adolescent moment."

Don't talk about adolescence so much when you're just a junior high school student.

"I wasn't allowed to play there when I was a child because of my father's policy, so I don't know much about playgrounds."

"Ah~, if I had met this boy a little earlier, I would have taken him with me. I could have given him adolescent memories of watching movies with junior high school girls."

"I don't want to go on a date with a junior high school girl because I might be arrested."

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"Wow, you're so shy! I don't hate that kind of innocent side, you know?"

"I'll give you fried tofu, so just go home."

"I'm not a fox."

T/N :?There's a tale that says foxes like tofu.

I'm sorry, tanuki-chan. I'll give you agedama, so be quiet and go home."

T/N : agedama, bits of fried batter after cooking tempura

"No! I won't leave unless you give me more snacks-tanu?. I'm going to live in the attic-tanu?"

Tanu my a**!

It's not cute if you put it like that.

......Whatever, I don't have time to play with this tanuki-chan.

"I have an important visitor coming over later."

"Oh, I see~."

"I'm serious."

"Don't mind me~. I'll act like a pet tanuki~."

No, I mind. This child is going to stay here no matter what.

"Do you know what would happen if someone misunderstood that I brought a middle school girl home?"

"What's going to happen~?"

"I'll be in a hellish situation, I'll be hated, depending on the case, I'll be arrested by the police, I won't be able to take the entrance exam, I'll be labeled as someone who laid a hand on a junior high school student, and I'll die in society."

"Ha-ha-ha, that's funny, that's funny."

Stop laughing! I am really scared!

"Yes, yes, I understand. The disturbers will go home quickly."

But why didn't she seem to get up from where she was lying on her back at all?

"If you can beat me at that, you know?"

Tanuki JC pointed at the video game software scattered under the TV, an obvious provocation.

Very well, I'll get in the ring with you as a senior. You cocky little brat who acts like a big sister for nothing. I'm going to win this fight and get you the he*l out of here.