Chapter 53: Yukino is a Demon!!

"Haruno, did you drink again yesterday? Always like this, it's not good."

Last night, pulled again by Hiratsuka Shizuka to drink, Haruno was not in great condition as she rushed over for class in the morning.

Because the school schedule was delayed, Haruno was still in college and had not officially stepped into society yet. But also due to the delayed school learning system, college courses were not so packed.

Haruno had already begun taking on some work from the Yukinoshita family. It was very clear that Madam Yukinoshita was cultivating Haruno as the heir.

"It's fine, Nanako, I didn't drink much."

Yesterday it was always Hiratsuka Shizuka drinking, ranting about Shin-chan while gulping down large amounts of alcohol.

Having come into contact with Shin-chan, Haruno knew this brat was indeed very troublesome. Even she had no real way of dealing with Shin-chan.

'Letting Yukino get involved with Shin-chan, was it right or wrong?' Yukinoshita Haruno had a hunch: if Yukino spent too much time with Shin-chan, her personality would probably change a lot, at the very least become much more cheerful.

But what was the cost? Haruno had a very bad feeling. The cute little sister she'd worked so hard to raise, could she end up running off with that hateful brat?

. Nanako looked at Haruno with a bit of a headache. The two were roommates and had a good relationship at school. Haruno was the kind of person who always liked to push herself, which made the gentle Nanako very worried.

Nanako's concern couldn't be ignored by Haruno.

"Alright, alright, don't worry. I know what I'm doing. It's just that Shizuka met a student who's giving her a huge headache, so I'm a little concerned too."

Oohara Nanako and Haruno were classmates in high school. In their third year, Hiratsuka Shizuka had just started working and became their teacher.

"Could there be a student giving Shizuka more trouble than you did?"

"It's a brat named Nohara Shinnosuke, so small but acts so mature. Letting him interact with my little sister just feels like it's going to cause problems."

"Nohara… Shinnosuke?"

Nanako seemed a little absentminded. She felt like she'd heard that name somewhere, but why couldn't she remember?

"Yeah, just a hateful little brat pretending to be mature. He's also my sister's neighbor."

Nanako nodded, silently repeating the name Nohara Shin-chan in her heart. It felt very important, so why couldn't she remember?

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Just then, Shin-chan, who was dozing off in class, was startled by the system's voice.

[Mission: Longing that transcends time and space]

[Mission Description: Even though she has never met you, just hearing your name made her realize something was wrong. Her love for you has already crossed the barrier of time and space.]

[To meet the one you most want to protect at the most powerless age, is that the greatest regret in life?]

[This time, you already have the strength and ability to protect.]

[Find her. Perhaps she's also looking for you.]

[Mission Reward: Sweet memories.]

'To meet the person you most want to protect at the most powerless age…'

Shin-chan thought of the memories from another world, the world where Eriri was his Kei.

In that world, the downfall of Shin-chan had a lot to do with the age gap between him and Oohara Nanako.

("When I was born, you were not yet born. When you were born, I was already old. I hate that you were born late; you hate that I was born early.")

The age gap between the two was too big. Nanako chose to go abroad and voluntarily cut off contact.

Since a system mission had appeared, that meant after the timeline correction, Nanako had not disappeared, but appeared at a more appropriate time.

Taking a deep breath, suppressing the excitement in his heart, blindly searching was meaningless. Shin-chan also didn't want to ask Ai-chan for help.

Just like the system's description said, he was no longer that potato-brained little brat in kindergarten.

The now eighteen-year-old Shin-chan was already a reliable adult. He wanted to protect everything he loved, and protect everyone around him.

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The first week of the new semester ended. Shuchiin's students were about to welcome their first weekend.

After buying a fruit gift box at the supermarket, Shin-chan sighed while holding his empty frog wallet.

Why did his allowance always disappear so quickly?

Back at the apartment, he happened to run into Shiro who had just come home.

"What a coincidence, Shiro! You're just getting back too?"

Shiro had a bit of a helpless expression. What else could it do but wait for Shin-chan? It couldn't open the apartment's security door by itself.

Hugging Shiro, Shin-chan returned home. Just as he was about to unlock the door, the door across suddenly opened.

Yukinoshita Yukino stuck out her head, still scanning Shin-chan with that trash-like gaze, but the words she said made Shin-chan feel incomparably warm.

"Nohara-kun, the small cookies I promised you are ready."

"I'm coming right away!"

Not forgetting that Yukino was afraid of dogs, Shin-chan first brought Shiro into the house, and also put away his backpack and the fruit gift box.

After coming out, Shin-chan noticed that Yukino hadn't closed her door. He pushed it open and walked into her room.

"Yukino, why is your apartment so big? It's got more rooms than mine!"

"Because the rent is three times higher than yours."

Yukino sat on the sofa and looked Shin-chan up and down. Why was her first friend this unreliable guy? But ever since she met Shin-chan, Yukino had to admit, she had been much happier.

"Yukino, um, where is it?"

Seeing Shin-chan's shy expression, Yukino was a bit scornful. 'Isn't it just cookies?'

"Over there."

Following the direction Yukino pointed, Shin-chan saw a full box of cookies.

"So… so many! Yukino, you're amazing! I'll never forget your kindness in my life!"

"Mm… talking about 'life' is a little too early, don't you think?"

Shin-chan didn't hear what Yukino said. He walked to the glittering box.

A whole box of limited edition cookies tightly locked Shin-chan's gaze.

"Then I'll open it!"

"Open it. I bought it for you, after all."

Looking at Shin-chan unboxing the box, Yukino revealed a slight smile of someone whose scheme had succeeded.

'Let's see you still say I don't have good cookies!'

Shin-chan quickly tore open the box and saw the limited edition cookies he'd been dreaming about day and night.

'Why is the packaging green? Matcha flavor? That's too weird, right?'

Picking up a bucket of cookies and looking carefully at the packaging, Shin-chan instantly froze in place. His whole body collapsed to the floor as if his soul had left him.

'Why… why are they green pepper flavored cookies?! This is demon food! Yukino is a demon!'

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