Kaiwa mo shinai tsurekko no imouto ga, naganen issho ni baka yatte-kita Netoge no friend datta

The tower apartment located on the top of the mountain was standing proud showing its majestic nature.

Not only the exterior of that apartment but also the interior was absolutely gorgeous, which you usually didn’t see in structures like this. Even though it was the second time that I came here, I just couldn’t shake the feeling that I was out of my element.

Furthermore, to be invited to the house of Nanjo Rin where she lived alone, who was said to be the idol of the school, it wouldn’t be strange for me to reach the peak of tension at this point.

Even though that should be the regular case, right now I was now at the peak of my confusion instead.

“What do you think about this get-up?”

“… Isn’t it fine either way? Rather, some areas are almost visible if you choose this one though.”

“Haha~an, I feel like your reaction is slightly juicy from before. This one has got better skin exposure than the one before… I mean, what’s even fun looking at just a piece of cloth underneath this?”

“Wai–HEY!, YOU IDIOT! What do you think you’re doing?!”

With a somewhat astonished and somewhat mischievous smile on her face, Nanjo Rin pulled up the hem of her short skirt, taking it to the point where it was almost visible but not visible in between her legs.

When I averted my eyes feeling self-conscious, I heard a mocking smirk coming in response.

Furthermore, she definitely enjoyed seeing me get perplexed… Really, she’s such a troublesome woman in various ways.

Speaking of the same Nanjo Rin, right now she was wearing a casual outfit consisting of a light blue flared skirt and an off-the-shoulder white top that exposed her girlish slender shoulders.

By the way, until just a little while ago, she was wearing a knit-up one-piece dress with autumnal colors and patterns.

And even before that was a monotone outfit giving out a calm feeling.

Other than that, I was made to watch as she wore those fluffy and girlish types of clothes rather than those sharp boyish things, and even those s**y and mature types of clothes which gave out a lot of erotic feelings with it.

Not to mention the variety of clothes she owned but still adding to the fact that she could pull off the feeling related to all of them perfectly, in the end, it made her look even more attractive. In a way it got me to wonder in awe and admiration at her ability.

“A~ah, MOU! What should I even wear for shopping with Yoshida-san on the weekend?!”

“As If I care.”

Involuntarily, I immediately responded with an exasperated voice to her whims.

Since she asked me to come to her house with a really serious face at that time, I thought instinctively that she would be talking about the prevention of any mishaps which might occur to Shiyori having deeper relation to her from now on, but instead, it was this fashion show happening right now.

I got rather relaxed due to this.

“As a matter of fact… you will be going shopping with your friends, right? Isn’t it fine to just wear what you like in the first place?”

“… No it’s not.”

“TF?”

“At times like this, I mostly choose things considering what the other party would like. … If you were to ask me what I like, I don’t have any…”

If I had to say it, it would probably be a jersey as loungewear, he muttered with a self-deprecating tone.

If anything, I have to say nevertheless, it would be rather the jersey I wore at home, she murmured.

If anything, I would rather dress according to the tastes of the person I was going out with, and with that, create a sense of intimacy. — For a girl who had been overly reading the atmosphere around her and wearing a cat-like disguise all the time, I understood it to be quite a serious problem by itself.

――But… to say she liked jerseys with a whatever face…

I couldn’t help but think of her similar to Shiyori at home, and doing so, couldn’t help but let go a small giggle in response.

I would be of help if I were asked about the taste of Philia-san, however… that’s something that was limited to games while in the real world, it fell under the category of cosplay.

“Then how about just going with clothes that don’t have any distinctive features and choosing what you think might go well with that?”

“… That! I’ll take that! Kurai sometimes gives quite good advice heh. Ah~, wait a minute!”

Nanjo Rin, with a face as if she had received some kind of revelation, went back to her own room for God knows how long, to change her clothes yet again.

And after a few minutes, hearing her agonizing over stuff, leaking out voices such as, 『 Maybe this? 』 and 『 Maybe that blank one would look better 』, and then comes back out again.

“This doesn’t have that much of a quirk… yet, how does this look? This doesn’t feel weird, does it?”

“…”

It was a white dress that could be said to be a staple for dates, etc., combined with an autumn-colored jacket.

It was true that, if you pass that as having no quirk by itself, it would make sense. But on the sidenote, that makes Nanjo Rin’s beauty stand out on a different level altogether, as my heart couldn’t help but skip a beat in surprise.

“U~unn, not a bad reaction at all huh.”

“Shut up. Say, Nanjo, do you always worry about this sort of stuff this much at times like this?”

 “Because… it’s my first time going out with my friends you know…”

“… I see.”

When I asked that half-embarrassed and half-astonished, I was given a rather unexpected reply with an embarrassed and troubled expression, to which I could do nothing more than just silently accept.

It might also be because I understood how much Shiyori meant to her through her reaction.

Feeling a bit happy, even though also a little confused, all in all, a mysterious kind of feeling persisted within me. That must be why, as an addition to the previous things, I asked yet another question that I was wondering about.

“Come to think of it, I heard that Nanjo was the one who produced Yoshida Shiyori as she is now. Did you perhaps go and buy clothes together while doing that?”

“At that time, I introduced her to my favorite hair salon and recommended clothes from magazines. But this is my first time going shopping with her.”

Also, it was done with half of the feeling that it looked fun while another half of it was given to curiosity, she added.

“Well, but when that plain and inconspicuous Yoshida-san said that she wanted to change herself with her face blushing bright red, I felt her kind of dazzling. … Come to think of it, it was around that time I think, from when I especially became curious about her all the more.”

… I see.

That must have been the moment when Shiyori finally thought of taking a step forward.

“Are you as well going to… sorry, do you also want to…”

“Un?”

“If you also want to change, shall I produce something for you?”

“… If in the distant future, there is a chance, I’ll depend on you.”

“Nn, I see… Besides, you seemed to have something to talk about with me, but what is it I wonder? Is it something to do with me?”

“Ah, that’s right. I think Nanjo may have already noticed that as well, the thing is—”

As a preface, I explained the malice directed toward Shiyori that I noticed today.

I thought it was safe to say that the current Nanjo Rin was a good friend to Shiyori.

Perhaps she could even give some good suggestions as well.

However–