Kasumigaoka Utaha was completely stunned after hearing Shiro's words. Her eyebrows twitched uncontrollably, and she looked at Shiro with an incredible gaze. Looking at his ordinary face, she truly wanted to ask, where on earth did you learn such a shameless statement?
"Is there anything wrong with that? Shouldn't that be common sense?"
Shiro understood her gaze, so he spoke in a curious tone, or rather, with an expression that said, "is there a problem?"
Common sense, my ass. Did your PE teacher teach you common sense?
That was Kasumigaoka Utaha's inner thought at that moment.
"Can you tell me who taught you such common sense, Kouhai-kun? I would really like to meet those talented people."
Kasumigaoka Utaha spoke through gritted teeth at that moment, giving the impression that she wanted to kill someone.
Shiro looked at her expression and began to laugh.
"I'm just joking, just joking."
"Your joke is not funny at all."
Kasumigaoka Utaha roughly understood that this guy was a joker and was now treating her as a joke, but she could do nothing about it. After all, she didn't know what her current situation was and felt as if her life was in his hands. That feeling was extremely unpleasant.
Shiro looked at her gritted face and stopped teasing her, speaking directly.
"Alright, I won't tease you anymore."
"You only stopped me because you want to ask what happened, what your situation is, and whether I can save your life or something like that."
Shiro said this with a indifferent expression, looking as if he had complete advantage.
Kasumigaoka Utaha looked at him and for some reason felt that she deserved a beating, but she still nodded.
"Exactly, that's it."
"Why did you say that? And what do you mean by my corpse looking ugly tomorrow?"
Shiro heard that and froze for a moment, then pointed a finger at her.
Kasumigaoka Utaha was confused. Why was he pointing at her?
"Don't you know? Or do you have no idea?"
"Something got attached to you. And if I'm not mistaken, that thing was already with you last night, and tonight it will probably appear directly on you."
Kasumigaoka Utaha, after hearing that, seemed to remember something, and her face turned deathly pale.
"And your expression just now, when you thought I did something to you, I can only say that you're overthinking."
"After all, if I wanted to do something like that, why would I bother so much? Besides, that thing wants your life. Why would I want your life? Couldn't I just drag you into some alley and finish it?"
Kasumigaoka Utaha was initially pale in the face, but as soon as she heard Shiro's later, completely suggestive words, she immediately shot him a sharp look with her beautiful eyes.
"Can't you not say such things? Can't you be at least a little normal?"
Kasumigaoka Utaha felt helpless. Can't this person be at least a little serious? And with this behavior, isn't he really afraid of serious consequences?
"Do you know that if you behave like this in front of women, you will surely be severely punished?"
Shiro, hearing her irritated tone, shrugged.
"So what if I get punished? My reputation is already at the bottom. Those who like me will love me, and those who don't—won't. I won't force anyone."
"And I have nothing to hide about what I want to do. Or rather, there's no need to hide anything I want."
"For example, regarding the things I just mentioned, I can guarantee that more than ninety percent of the men you know would want to do them."
Kasumigaoka Utaha then felt a slight surge of self-satisfaction, but Shiro continued speaking, giving her no chance to savor it.
"But so what? Those people don't dare to speak, don't dare to say anything, because they are afraid of losing even the smallest chance to have contact with you. But I don't care."
"After all, I have no interest in being a simp, nor do I have interest in pretending to be refined. I don't care about changing my behavior for a woman—ah, no, that's not accurate, for a woman who doesn't belong to me."
Shiro's tone in those words carried a trace of arrogance.
After listening, Kasumigaoka Utaha concluded that he was essentially saying she wasn't worth him changing for her.
But this guy was also quite narcissistic! He hadn't even proposed, and he already wanted her to belong to him. Such a person was also a pure narcissist!
"And you're pretty narcissistic too!"
Shiro easily accepted her assessment.
"It seems I have many great qualities, and you saw them at first glance. I can only say that you have good taste."
Kasumigaoka Utaha was once again left speechless at someone's shamelessness; she could only twitch her lips and let out a dry laugh.
"Alright, let's return to the main topic. The reason I followed you was simply that I couldn't resist taking a few more looks at a beautiful woman, especially one in the same school uniform. Then I noticed that something was wrong with you, and with that aura of death around you, if no one helps you tonight, you're dead."
Shiro no longer wasted words and said it directly.
Kasumigaoka Utaha, seeing that someone finally pointed out the problem, immediately spoke without any hesitation.
"Do you know what's happening to me?"
"To ask you, before you started feeling unwell and noticed something was wrong, did you say anything strange or encounter any unusual people?"
Shiro asked that question at that moment.
Kasumigaoka Utaha thought carefully after hearing that, then suddenly remembered something.
"Now I remember. On the way home, after talking to the editor, I was in a very bad mood because the novel might have been canceled. I passed by a stand and saw some very unusual items. The seller said they bring luck. At that time I was bored and bought one, and it's still at home."
"It was a ceramic doll."
"Very small."
Kasumigaoka Utaha spoke honestly at that moment. After finishing, she met Shiro's gaze and suddenly realized something, and her expression changed.
"That thing is problematic!"
"Uh-huh."
"You realized it yourself, didn't you? I'm pretty impressed that you dared to buy such strange things."
Shiro was quite impressed with this person. In a world with supernatural powers, the greatest taboo is buying strange items. Who knows what demons or monsters could be inside?
Not to mention various alien curses that one cannot protect against. And yet this person dared to buy such things. Shiro respected her as a brave soul, but she was obviously just an ordinary person. Where did she get such confidence?
"Why do such supernatural phenomena even exist? Isn't this a scientific world?"
Shiro looked at her astonished expression and suddenly remembered something. Ah, right, given her background, how would she even know about these things? Even for aliens, according to his world-building, she should know and wouldn't be surprised.
Let alone these supernatural elements; he hadn't set any of them up at all, everything was still as before.
"Emmm… well, who told you this is a scientific world? Of course, for ordinary people like you, it's normal not to know."
"Spirits, demons, apparitions, all sorts of things exist; only ordinary people like you don't have access to them."
Kasumigaoka Utaha was completely shocked after hearing that. She wanted to say he was joking, but considering her actual situation, her face darkened, and she obediently remained silent. After all, it seemed that she really had encountered such a thing. In those circumstances, continuing to doubt it, wouldn't that be extremely foolish?
"Kouhai-kun, are you an exorcist or an Onmyoji?"
Kasumigaoka Utaha looked at Shiro with a gaze full of hope, as if grasping at the last straw.
Shiro looked at her face, then her hands, which were unconsciously gripping his hand tightly.
At that moment, Shiro suddenly, very playfully, spoke two words.
"Guess!"