Vampire Princess & the Otaku Queen 3

The next day, the "Otaku Girls United!" admin sent us back a favorable reply. When we returned home from school, I was dragged to Naruko's room in the usual manner, and now, I was reading the response message from the community admin, whose user name was "Mavis Vermilion."

"Nice to meet you, Orange Naru-sama. My username is Mavis, and I am acting as the administrator for the "Otaku Girls United!" community. I will not waste any time, so thank you very much for your message expressing your interest to join. Of course I will gladly approve your request. Given your age and hobbies, I am sure that we can become great friends. If you want… in a few days we are planning a meeting, and would be pleased if you could join us for tea. There are lots of things I want to talk about… please consider it. Until next time, thank you very much."

"So her name is 'Mavis,' huh? Heh, this admin seems like a really polite person, doesn't she?"

From the contents of that letter, I felt the air of a well brought up young woman. How do I say this… it exuded a smell of elegance. Was it just wishful thinking? No, my intuition told me that there was no mistaking this for a beautiful young woman. When she became conscious of how I was acting, Naruko looked at me as if she were looking at some unclean thing.

"Gross. What are you grinning for?"

"I'm not grinning. I was just thinking that I'm glad she seems like a good person."

"Well… I guess. Seems sorta like a proper daughter from a high class family, doesn't she? I can't really imagine what that's like. There's nobody like that in my class."

That was true. Her friends, like her, were all the flashy type. They may have the looks and the refinement, but they're really hard to approach. They emit an air of not wanting to associate with anyone unlike them. It's as if they had thorns, and getting to close to them would leave you pricked.

"So, you're going to go, of course, right?"

"Yeah. I'll do it," Naruko nodded, but for some reason she seemed stiff.

Geez, she's been acting like this for a while… it seems like there's still something she's worried about but is hiding from me. We've already solved the issue of her being afraid to make friends with older guys… what is there other than that? This bothered me, so I asked.

"Hey, there really is something still bothering you, isn't there?"

"Not really."

This attitude again. It looks like she really just doesn't want to say. although this is pretty annoying. Well, at the very least, I guess I can just continue to encourage her.

"I see. Well, do your best then."

"Huh? Why do you say that as if it's not your problem anymore?"

"What?"

As I creased my eyebrows, Naruko faced me and spoke, "Come with me to the meeting."

This girl…

"What the hell are you talking about, how exactly do you want me, a GUY, to participate in an all girl meet up?"

"What if you crossdress? A little make up should be okay."

"Hell no! You say that so casually, but if I'm discovered, wouldn't they make me out to be some pervert who wanted to take such a huge risk just to go to an all girl meeting?!"

"I'm prepared to take whatever risk, so it'll be alright."

"This isn't your problem! It's about me! I have absolutely no desire to carry the dishonor of being labeled a pervert! It's not alright at all!"

"Tch. Fine!" It seemed like Naruko finally agreed with my reasoning. Nodding earnestly a few times, she pursed her lips and grumbled. "I guess it can't be helped… well, should we go for a more direct plan of attack then?"

"You make it sound like I'm the one who really wants to go and am asking you for a favor or something… well whatever, I'll listen for now so go on. What do you mean by 'more direct plan'?"

"Well, What if I sent this Mavis-san a message saying 'My brother was huge otaku, and for some reason he insisted that he wants to go to an all girl tea party. He looks really lonely so would it be alright if I brought him along?' Or something like that."

"You make me an open pervert instead of a sneaky one. And I mean, they would probably reject such a proposal. It was an all girl's meeting, so bringing a guy would be very frowned upon." I told this to Naruko, and her mood darkened. Biting her lower lip, she glared at me.

"So, what are we going to do?!"

"As I said, going with you to this meeting would be impossible… come on, stop glaring at me like that. Uhh… hold on… hmm… " I looked at the "Otaku Girls United!" community page. Clicking on the topic about the offline meeting, the details of the meet up were displayed."See, this place… it's a café right? It's not like you need a reservation, right? So then, I'll go with you and sit in a seat next to yours. It's not like I can talk to you from there, but at least I can watch you."

I mean, this was my idea, but just sitting at a table next to her probably wasn't what she wanted.

I was expecting her to respond with her usual scorn and disdain, but suddenly… "…I understand. That's fine."

I don't know why, but Naruko was sincerely nodding her head. Surprised, my eyes widened. "I see."

Incidentally, Naruko never really made it clear why she wanted me to go with her, did she? But it's a bit too late to ask that now… but it's alright if I'm just there with her, even if I can't participate? I have no idea what's going on… well, anyways, that's how it was. Next Sunday, I would go with my sister to the "Otaku Girls United!" community offline meeting, and would watch over her from the shadows.