Chainsaw Man: Mangekyo Sharingan

Chapter 136: Chapter 136: She’s My Girlfriend

Considering the other party’s status, the cram school principal still did not dare refuse.

"Um..."

The principal had only just started to speak when Kotone Asaba spoke first. "I know what you’re worried about. I already said it verbally too, they bear no ill will toward humans. As long as it’s a problem money can solve, it isn’t a problem."

He was too lazy to say much more. In the end, it was just a matter of money.

As for the safety issue, that could be solved with money too. With enough money, hiring a Devil Hunter to keep watch would not be difficult at all.

"Uh..."

The principal had not expected him to put it so bluntly. "Since Mr. Asaba has put it that way, there are no other issues."

What he had been worried about was precisely the possible risk of letting Fiends come here for tutoring, but if those risks could be compensated for with enough money, then there was no problem.

After that, Kotone Asaba began explaining the specific situation to the principal in preparation for discussing the price.

"Pingtsi, Long, Cosmo, and this one whose name we don’t know for now. Let’s call her Sutcher."

Kotone Asaba first introduced their names to the principal.

The stitched girl’s name was something he had come up with on the spot.

"Long, Cosmo, and Sutcher can’t speak, but they can understand English, so they’ll need a dedicated teacher who knows both English and Japanese to teach them Japanese. You can just include that directly in the tuition."

Kotone Asaba briefly explained the four girls’ situation. "Then there’s Pingtsi. She can only speak English and doesn’t understand Japanese at all, but she’s very smart, so aside from Japanese, there’s no need to deliberately teach her anything else. Oh, right, Cosmo is the same."

Pingtsi possessed an ability like an all-purpose encyclopedia, while Cosmo was the Cosmos Fiend. No one knew how terrifyingly vast her knowledge was. There was absolutely no need for either of them to deliberately study those very basic subjects.

Hearing Kotone Asaba praise her as smart, Pingtsi immediately became proud, and naturally, she was very happy inside.

Cosmo’s outward reaction did not look very obvious, but her Affinity also rose.

[Pingtsi Affinity +5%]

[Cosmo Affinity +5%]

[Cosmo Affinity progress has reached 60%. Achievement reward obtained: Constitution +1]

Based on the information Kotone Asaba provided, the principal eventually settled on a price range.

Kotone Asaba did not bargain and simply agreed without hesitation.

Although it was a little expensive, it was still within his acceptable range.

With his money-making ability, that acceptable range was very broad.

Before leaving, Kotone Asaba specifically gave Pingtsi and the others a few instructions.

"When you come here for tutoring from now on, behave yourselves and listen properly. Unless it’s absolutely unavoidable, you must not hurt anyone. Don’t create unnecessary trouble for me. If you suffer any unfair treatment, just tell me afterward. I’ll stand up for you."

Kotone Asaba could already foresee that once Pingtsi and the other three began tutoring at the cram school, they might be ostracized or treated badly by the other students there.

With Long’s personality, a situation like that might make her start fighting at the slightest disagreement. Cosmo and the stitched girl might do the same.

But in that kind of situation, they absolutely could not casually resort to violence, because their status as Fiends was too special. Once they acted, the severity of the consequences would be many times greater than it would be for ordinary humans.

"Remember, if other people exclude you, don’t pay it any mind. Just do your own thing. If you can get along with someone, then get along. If you can’t, then forget them."

Kotone Asaba said.

Pingtsi and the other three all nodded.

They were not especially interested in making friends with many humans anyway. If they got along, they got along. If they did not, then that was that.

"One more thing, Cosmo. Don’t use that ability of yours carelessly on ordinary people. If you accidentally use it, remember to undo it in time."

"Halloween."

Cosmo responded once, seeming to say that she understood.

"Oh, right. Other than Pingtsi, the three of you can’t speak, can you? This time, whoever learns to speak first, or whoever makes the fastest progress with language, I’ll grant her any request, as long as it’s something within my ability."

Kotone Asaba said.

This would give them some motivation.

"What about me? Am I the only one who doesn’t get a chance? That’s not fair."

Pingtsi said unhappily.

"As for you, let me think..."

Kotone Asaba definitely could not put Pingtsi in the same contest as Long and the others. After all, Pingtsi simply did not know Japanese, while Long, Cosmo, and Sutcher could not speak at all. The two sides were on completely different levels of progress.

Kotone Asaba thought for a moment and said, "When the time comes, I’ll judge your progress separately. If you can complete a certain amount of progress within the set time, I’ll give you a reward too."

"That’s more like it."

Only then was Pingtsi satisfied.

"Then from now on, study properly here. I’m heading out first."

After saying that, Kotone Asaba left.

...

By the time evening came and class was over, Kotone Asaba came to pick Pingtsi and the others up, but he first went to Kobeni’s cram school.

He had already asked Reze which cram school Kobeni attended. Since it was on the way anyway, he might as well pick up Kobeni and Pingtsi’s group together and bring them back.

When Kotone Asaba arrived at Kobeni’s cram school, class had just ended, and the students inside were packing up and getting ready to go home.

He planned to wait outside the door for Kobeni to come out, but then he saw something interesting. There was a boy who also looked like a high school student trying to hit on Kobeni.

Kobeni looked extremely troubled. She was also bad at interacting with strangers, so she did not even respond to him, picked up her schoolbag, and ran out of the classroom.

The boy immediately looked dejected. He had not even managed to say a word, but he already had the feeling that he had been rejected.

When Kobeni Higashiyama ran out of the classroom, because she kept her head lowered the whole time, she did not pay much attention to the person in front of her and happened to bump straight into Kotone Asaba.

"Huh...?"

Just as Kobeni was about to fall backward, Kotone Asaba reacted quickly and grabbed her, pulling Kobeni into his arms and holding her.

"Be more careful next time. Don’t be so rushed and careless again."

Not knowing who had suddenly hugged her, Kobeni’s expression darkened, and she was just about to resist when an extremely familiar voice entered her ears.

She immediately reacted. "Asaba?!"

Realizing that the person holding her was Asaba, Kobeni immediately stopped resisting, and her slightly stiff and tense body completely relaxed.

If Kotone Asaba had not spoken in time, Kobeni might have pulled out a knife and stabbed him in the very next second.

"Yeah. I came back today. Reze told me you were taking tutoring lessons at a cram school, so I came to pick you up."

Kotone Asaba said.

"Oh, oh..."

Kobeni Higashiyama looked shy, and her voice grew smaller and smaller. "But could this kind of thing maybe wait until we’re somewhere without people...?"

Being held in Asaba’s arms in public, while she definitely did not dislike it, still made her feel very embarrassed.

When the students coming out of the classroom saw this scene, their gazes were immediately drawn over.

"That girl, I think her name is Kobeni Higashiyama, right? She barely interacts with anyone normally, but she actually has a boyfriend?"

"No, did none of you notice? Her boyfriend is wearing a Tokyo Public Safety uniform. I saw a Tokyo Public Safety Devil Hunter once before. I remember it very clearly. That uniform is exactly the same."

"That’s amazing. Her boyfriend is actually a Tokyo Public Safety Devil Hunter. I wish I could find a boyfriend that impressive."

"Don’t romanticize it too much. Public Safety Devil Hunters have a really dangerous job. What if one day he slips up and..."

"..."

After those classmates passed by them, they all began quietly discussing Kotone Asaba and Kobeni.

The boy who had just tried to hit on Kobeni was not merely dejected anymore. He was outright despairing.

So she already had a boyfriend. No wonder she ran away without even acknowledging him earlier.

Kotone Asaba did not want Kobeni to feel too embarrassed, so he immediately let go of her, then took her hand. "Let’s go. We’re going home."

"Mm..."

Kobeni Higashiyama lowered her head, blushing as she followed him away.

As they walked out of the cram school, Kotone Asaba said to Kobeni, "But I have a few acquaintances tutoring at another cram school too, so we need to go there first and bring them back with us. They’re Tokyo Public Safety Devil Hunters just like us, and they live in the same apartment building as us."

"Oh, okay."

Kobeni Higashiyama nodded.

Pingtsi’s cram school was not very far from Kobeni’s, so before long, Kotone Asaba and Kobeni had arrived.

Pingtsi and the others had just come out of the cram school at that moment.

The other students around them were obviously keeping some distance from them.

"How did the first day feel?"

Kotone Asaba asked Pingtsi and the others.

Kobeni Higashiyama noticed that the four girls in front of her were all Fiends, and a trace of fear appeared on her face.

Fortunately, she had already been a Devil Hunter for quite a while. She had also spent a long time around Reze, who was a Hybrid, and Makima, who was a Devil, so she had become relatively adaptable. Otherwise, she would have lost her composure even more right now.

"It felt fine, I guess. It was just those human brats avoiding us. That was expected too, so I don’t really care."

As Pingtsi answered, her gaze kept studying Kobeni Higashiyama beside Kotone Asaba.

She had never seen this girl before, but the fact that she was walking together with Asaba drew her attention.

Kobeni Higashiyama noticed that the girl in front of her with the rather strange ponytail had been staring at her the whole time, and being scrutinized made her a little uncomfortable. She could not help saying, "Excuse me, is there something dirty on me...?"

However, Pingtsi still could not understand Japanese at all for the moment.

"Kobeni is asking if there’s something dirty on her. In other words, she’s asking why you keep staring at her."

Kotone Asaba translated for Kobeni.

"Forget that for now. Who is this girl?"

Pingtsi asked with great concern.

"Her name is Kobeni Higashiyama. She’s my girlfriend."

Kotone Asaba did not hesitate and told the truth directly.

"Girlfriend?"

Pingtsi was immediately slightly startled.

Back at Asaba’s home, she had already seen two women, a Hybrid and the Control Devil. They both seemed like they should be Asaba’s women, but now another girlfriend had appeared?

She did not have too much of an opinion about it, but this kind of situation inevitably made her a little jealous.

"Seriously, why are you such a player..."

Pingtsi looked at Kotone Asaba with a resentful gaze.

Long and Cosmo, on the other hand, felt no jealousy at all.

Sutcher had no reaction whatsoever. After all, she was already Quanxi’s woman and did not have any feelings for Kotone Asaba.

"Ahem..."

Kotone Asaba felt a little awkward.

It was only recently that he realized Pingtsi and the others’ Affinity toward him was not friendship, but love.

Before, he had thought Pingtsi and the others all liked women, so subconsciously, he had always believed that their rising Affinity had to be on the friendship side.

But later, he gradually discovered that something was becoming more and more off.

Now that their Affinity had already risen to this point, he had no choice but to take responsibility.

Yes, he definitely was not looking for an excuse to justify being a scumbag!

After speaking with Pingtsi, Kotone Asaba then explained to Kobeni, "The four of them are Fiends who came over from overseas, so they can’t speak Japanese and don’t understand it either. That’s why I had them study Japanese at this cram school so they can complete compulsory education later. Right now, they’re also working in Special Division 1, so they’re your coworkers too."

"I see."

Kobeni Higashiyama then smiled at them, as if greeting them with her expression.

At that moment, Kotone Asaba glanced at the time and immediately said, "Let’s get going first. We can talk slowly on the way. Otherwise, we’ll get back too late and end up hungry."

On the way back, with Kotone Asaba translating, Kobeni and Pingtsi chatted amicably for a while.

Long, Cosmo, and Sutcher could not speak, so they did not join the conversation and only listened silently.

Pingtsi and the others were not the kind of Fiends Kobeni Higashiyama had imagined. They were not moody and difficult to get along with. Soon, she stopped feeling afraid of them.

Only Sutcher did not live in the same apartment building as Kotone Asaba and the others, though it was still very close, so he sent Sutcher back first.

The one who opened the door was Quanxi.

"By the way, did you give her a name?"

Kotone Asaba happened to say to Quanxi, "For the sake of handling the cram school arrangements, I temporarily gave her a name. I called her Sutcher. If you don’t like it, you can change it."

In a certain sense, Quanxi was now the stitched girl’s guardian, so naturally, he had to ask Quanxi about the matter of her name.

"Then let’s use that."

Quanxi agreed directly without even thinking about it.

She was probably just too lazy to think of a name for the stitched girl and directly used the one Kotone Asaba had come up with.

"Okay, then there’s nothing else."

After that, Kotone Asaba went downstairs and returned to his own apartment building with Kobeni and the others.

After seeing Pingtsi, Long, and Cosmo to their place, Kotone Asaba and Kobeni finally arrived at his own unit.

As soon as he knocked on the door, Reze quickly opened it. She was wearing an apron, seemingly in the middle of making dinner.

"Darling, welcome home."

Reze held the doorknob, the expression on her face seductive as she said, "Do you want dinner first, or a bath first, or would you rather... eat me first?"

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