★ Unusual Daily Life ★
Chapter 103: Sakurai Saki doesn't want to die socially
The second day of Golden Week.
Sakurai Saki finally remembered that he still had a home tutoring job.
He had skipped several times a few days ago, all due to unavoidable circumstances—there really was no better way.
In front of the Nakano quintuplets' house, Sakurai Saki lowered his head and looked at his own shadow.
Becoming a vampire wasn't a bad thing. Thanks to the help and treatment of Gaen Izuko — Oddity specialist — Sakurai Saki had now become a vampire who was almost human. His recovery ability hadn't diminished much; on the contrary, all his weaknesses had vanished.
Completely enhanced.
ᕙ( ˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ )ᕗ ✧
It can only be said that each profession has its own specialty — when dealing with Oddity, people with superpower truly aren't considered proficient.
"It still feels a bit uncomfortable under the sunlight, huh…" Sakurai Saki never liked sunny days, and now he hated them even more.
As for things like in the movies — the blood thirst that makes one feel high as fuck if not satisfied — he hadn't experienced any of that.
Silver items were now ineffective, and garlic could still be eaten.
The only remaining drawback was: Sakurai Saki's resistance to beauty had decreased. He had moved one solid step closer to becoming the main character in a doujinshi.
Vampires inherently carry the succubus trait, so that's unavoidable.
(Note: Oho.)
...
It was currently 10 a.m.
He had scheduled the tutoring session beforehand — from the second day of Golden Week until the end of the holiday.
During this time, Sakurai Saki had to travel through the vast sea of knowledge with those silly girls, paddling the boat named studying together — studying literature, history, and English. With effort, humans can accomplish anything… except math.
"Today I definitely can't fail!"
(⌐⎚-⎚)✧
Adjusting the black-rimmed glasses he specially wore today, Sakurai Saki felt full of confidence. There was no particular reason — just that today's ability was related to studying.
[Today's Superpower: Feeding and Asking for Directions
Effect: Through feeding, can make the target do things they initially couldn't do.
Side effect: None.]
Dear god! It's unbelievable that a superpower could have such a weird name!
Well, all the superpower names were made up by Sakurai Saki himself.
'Today I even brought a whole bag of snacks...'
Hmph, those five idiot sisters, I'll finish them off with a backhand!
Today Sakurai Saki would thoroughly tutor all five subjects that would be tested after Golden Week for them!
But when he arrived at the sisters' house, half the confidence on his face disappeared.
Among the five sisters, only Yotsuba was in the living room?
Yotsuba: ヾ(＾ ∇ ＾).
"Hehe! Sakurai-san! Long time no see! You came early today!" Nakano Yotsuba greeted Sakurai Saki.
"Where are the other four?" Sakurai Saki carried a bag, inside were books and teaching materials.
"They're still sleeping." Yotsuba scratched her head, awkwardly saying: "Yesterday we played too late."
Yesterday was the first day of Golden Week, so everyone was very excited.
"Can you go call them? I'm a guy, it's kinda awkward."
"It's fine! Sakurai-san is sensei, let's go together! Those girls are all lazy sloths." Yotsuba pushed Sakurai Saki's back and led him upstairs.
But this early bird wasn't particularly great at studying either.
Yotsuba was the kind of early worm that got eaten by the bird.
Yotsuba: (｡•̀ ⤙ •́ ｡)
...
Standing in front of Itsuki's room.
Sakurai Saki glanced at Yotsuba, "Knock."
As an outsider, he felt it wasn't appropriate for him.
Yotsuba knocked on the door.
From inside came Itsuki's voice――
"Who is it?"
"It's me, it's me! Yotsuba."
"Phone scammers like to say that too." Itsuki changed the topic.
[Who are you?]
[That person.]
[Oh, that person? That one?]
[Yeah yeah, that one.]
Those scam calls with riddles like that — the kind of people Sakurai Saki hated most.
"It's almost noon already, Sakurai-san's here too!"
From inside the room came a soft noise, then, the door cracked open slightly.
Itsuki: ┬┴┬┴┤(･_├┬┴┬┴
Sakurai Saki saw that Itsuki still hadn't fixed her hair, and her iconic star-shaped hair clip wasn't on yet.
The moment she saw Sakurai Saki, the door slowly closed again.
A moment later, Itsuki's voice sounded: "Wait a bit more, I'll come out."
Seems like she was getting ready to put on makeup and do her hair.
And looks like she wouldn't be out any time soon.
Makeup takes a lot of effort for girls, even light makeup still requires all kinds of cosmetics. Girls in places like Tokyo rarely show their bare face.
There was no other way, the two had to go call the others.
Yotsuba knocked on Nino's door a few times.
After a moment, Nino, already having combed her hair and finished her makeup, pulled the door open from the inside.
"..." Nino saw Sakurai Saki.
At first, she didn't react right away.
But after Nino: ┬┴┬┴┤˶°ㅁ°) !!├┬┴┬┴
"You… you, what are you doing here!?" After saying that, Nino felt her tone wasn't quite right, so she weakly said: "I haven't changed clothes yet..."
Nino looked down at her outfit — still in pajamas, with the buttons on her chest not even fully done up.
She had assumed he wouldn't come this early today!
"Nino, you should dress properly." Yotsuba reminded.
Immediately after, Sakurai Saki saw the fair and delicate face of the girl flush clearly red.
"...Hentai! Don't look!" Nino hugged her chest, face blushing deeply, and crouched down.
Nino: (づ>/////<)づ
Sakurai Saki, ever the gentleman, closed the door.
Behind the door, an adorable and embarrassed yelp from Nino could be heard.
"Sakurai-san, next you go call Ichika! I'll go wake up Miku!" Yotsuba assigned the tasks.
Sakurai Saki nodded.
This mission was heavy!
Even worse than opening a blind box!
At least with blind boxes or gacha you still get some guaranteed rate.
Or rather, Sakurai Saki was lucky enough to pull Yotsuba first — that was the guaranteed pull.
He knocked on Ichika's door.
More than ten seconds passed, and Sakurai Saki turned to look at Yotsuba — who also saw no reaction from Miku room either.
Yotsuba looked at him with a helpless expression, then she took the initiative to open the door — Miku's room wasn't locked.
Sakurai Saki followed exactly Ichika's room.
Although what happened last time in Miku's room made him a little scared to open a girl's room without permission...
But Ichika was the mature Onee-san type, her room must be very tidy, right?
Thinking like that, Sakurai Saki opened the door to hell.
'Umu, confirmed.'
A total slob in daily life.
This room was even worse than some lazy angel's――
Clothes were scattered everywhere, there was even visible underwear on the top of the pile. Besides that, cosmetics, daily use items, miscellaneous stuff...
In the corner of the room, Nakano Ichika could be seen sleeping peacefully in bed.
Her sleeping posture was fairly normal, only her head sticking out.
Ichika: zᶻ ૮˶- ﻌ -˶ა
Seeing that, Sakurai Saki let out a sigh of relief.
He slowly walked over to Ichika.
"Time to get up, Ichika."
"...Umu?" Nakano Ichika sleepily opened her eyes.
(๑•́ ᎔ ก̀๑) z Z
Then she stared at Sakurai Saki for a few seconds, and immediately did something completely unexpected――
Ichika grabbed Sakurai Saki's hand and, taking advantage of his lack of attention, yanked him into the blanket.
Inside the blanket, Sakurai Saki subconsciously moved his hand a bit, then froze.
Sakurai: Σ(°ロ°)
He hadn't expected that Ichika didn't wear pajamas to bed!
"Ichika, it's me." Sakurai Saki was pulled into her embrace, completely at a loss.
His eyes didn't know where to look.
Nakano Ichika let out a steady breath, her sweet breath blowing on Sakurai Saki's face.
She had fallen back asleep!
"Sakurai-san, I've already woken Miku up."
Outside, Yotsuba's voice echoed closer from afar.
Panic surged inside Sakurai Saki, and he buried himself deeper into the blanket.
...If he got discovered, it'd really be social death!
"Hm? Where's Sakurai-san?"
Yotsuba looked into the room.
"So messy."
She slowly walked closer to Ichika.
"Umu...?" Hearing Yotsuba's voice, Ichika became slightly more awake — Yotsuba had called her up more than once before.
Something felt off at her chest, Ichika reached out, and her hand touched Sakurai Saki's hair.
Sakurai Saki flinched slightly.
"( ˶o˶˶o˶)!!!" Nakano Ichika was now fully awake.
At this moment, she remembered what she had done just now.
'Oh no.'
She had been too sleepy!
"Ichika, what's wrong?"
(｡· v ·｡) ?
"No… nothing."
(｡>﹏<)
Yotsuba stared at the blanket.
The blanket today seemed puffed up into a lump — was it her imagination?
"Ichika, is there something in your blanket?" Yotsuba reached out her hand.
Inside the blanket, Sakurai Saki didn't even dare to breathe hard.
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