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Lazing around in Kuuro’s apartment!
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“Ehhhhh!?” 

A voice from the living room called out to Kuuro, seemingly annoyed by his “demand” assistance in the kitchen to help with the groceries. A seemingly simple enough request from a seemingly simple enough individual, and perhaps to an average individual it would not have been too much effort to assist in this way to someone who had been providing her with room and board for this short period of time. 

...Of course, the level of hospitality and humility that one might expect from one who seemed to owe the other for providing them with a roof over their head and even went out of their way to cook for them. Such was the individual with the name “Nero Etheldreda Kagami”, whom of which had been living with Kuuro for almost a week now after a certain “incident” left Kuuro with what Nero considers to be an “obligation” and what Kuuro considered to be an “annoyance”. 

A self-proclaimed “Sister” without a lick of dignity about her. Though she was not currently wearing the … “outfit” … that Kuuro had met her in, forcing the uniform of the school he went to on the girl at this time, she still seemed to not have any dignity, her legs open at a wider angle than one might expect a lady to show. 

To Kuuro, it might have spelled out a rather luscious nature behind her act - especially if one considers how the two had originally met, though to Nero there was no other choice to her. If asked, she might say something along the lines of “It just felt better this way.” 

“I don’t want to! I’m busy with this level! I started my own playthrough on this “Schatten 4” game you had here while you were busy doing… whatever it is boys like you do during the day.” 

Unfortunately for Kuuro, this particular game only had one option for a saved game. 

“Where were you, though? You said you’d come home early today, but I guess you took your time today, didn’t you? You scolded me yesterday about “being punctual”, but I bet you were just going around picking up strange women again, you perv. I guess a boy like you is growing, so you should enjoy your youth while you have the chance~.” 

Nero called with the grin only a cat would wear. 

The other day Kuuro scolded Nero about “being punctual” when in reality it was about him asking her to take out their dinner out of the oven while he was at the store or it was going to burn. Thus, she considered her actions here right, despite, as per usual, being in the obvious wrong here. 

... The fact of the matter is that the two had takeout that day. 

However, her own statement seemed to invoke a sense of discomfort within Nero, forcing her to think about the time she and Kuuro had met only a week ago. 

“Perv,” Nero simply repeated, taking her gaze away from the man, a feverish red strip taking residence upon her face. 

“Ah, please forget about that. Just thinking about that makes me want to die,” Nero said, her eyes glazing over for but a moment before returning to normal. 

...The least that the brute could do was knock!

The momentary reliving of what could be considered Nero’s worst day was the only thing that could take her eyes away from the game, a [Game Over] screen plastering itself on the television due to her distracted nature at the time. She didn’t seem to mind, nor give that any thought as she left from the living room-like area of the apartment to the kitchen located in the same room divided solely by a counter that sat abnormally tall at chest level to Nero with barstools that lined the side facing the living room. 

Nero got up to go watch Kuuro put away the groceries. 

Not help Kuuro put away the groceries. Simply watch. 

“I want meat tonight, by the way. You promised me meat yesterday but you never gave me it, after all~. Men need to keep their word, do they not?”