You wouldn't want her to know that the H-manga Teacher lives next door, would you?
Sagiri's expression froze as she looked at Ito waving at her from the window. She immediately lowered her face and frantically tapped on her phone screen.
Sagiri: [How are you there?!]Ito: [I'm here to help my boss move.]
As long as the fairy's money is in place, what's helping her move? Moreover... Ito had always wanted to go ashore. Although money came quickly in the water, the ceiling was low.
As a light novel author whose first work sold over a million copies, drawing illustrations for her light novels could accumulate popularity and pave the way for him to go ashore.
The fairy produces one novel every four months, with at most ten illustrations per novel, and only a few color pages. Most are black and white illustrations that don't require intricate coloring.
Not to mention the considerable amount of money the fairy gave—even if she didn't pay, Ito would probably agree to be freeloaded.
Ito: [I'm a bit tired moving by myself. Come help me.]Sagiri: [You want me to help you move?]Ito: [Yes, how tiring is it for two people? You come and help too.]
In fact, Ito didn't expect Sagiri's small arms and legs to help move anything; he just wanted to help her step out of her house as a friend. Even if she didn't go outside, she could at least visit her neighbor.
Sagiri: [No no no no!!!!!]
Sagiri frantically shook her head at Ito. Her knee-length hair, tied with a pink ribbon, swayed wildly with her movements, and at the same time, she made a big 'X' with both hands at Ito.
Ito: [It's okay if I tell her you're the H-manga Teacher?]Sagiri: [If you tell her, I won't talk to you!]Sagiri: [!!!]
The attempt failed, but Ito did not give up. After all, if it were that easy to get her out, she wouldn't have been holed up at home for several years.
Ito returned to the entrance. At this moment, she was marking which room each box should be moved to. Fortunately, her brother, who was the editor in charge of the fairy, had thoughtfully labeled the contents of the boxes when helping her pack, so she didn't need to open each one to decide where to move it.
After greeting the fairy, Ito went next door.
He rang the doorbell and sent Sagiri a message.Ito: [Don't worry, it's just me.]
After seeing Ito's message, footsteps were heard from behind the door. The door opened a crack, followed by pattering footsteps. When Ito pushed the door open, Sagiri was nowhere to be seen; only the sound of a room door closing could be heard.
After closing the door, Ito went to Sagiri's room door and knocked.
"I'm coming in, okay?"
Hearing no refusal, Ito pushed the door open and saw Sagiri, dressed in pink pajamas with ruffles, burying her body in the quilt like an ostrich, with her butt sticking out.
Ito didn't know what Sagiri was thinking now.
However, if Sagiri really wanted to avoid him, she could have simply not opened the door to let Ito in. Even if she let him in, she could have locked her room door from the inside. Perhaps... she herself wanted to change, but was powerless to do so and wanted someone to pull her out?
Ito came to the bed, sat down, and lifted the quilt, revealing her small butt wrapped in pink shorts adorned with ruffles.
Her small butt was quite perky.
"If you don't come out, I'm going to spank your butt, okay?"
With that, Ito gently patted Sagiri's butt.
"H! Pervert! Lecher!" Sagiri, muffled under the quilt, said in a low voice, but she did not leave the quilt barrier.
Ito certainly wouldn't do this to an ordinary girl.
But what was his relationship with Sagiri!? They were good brothers who watched lewd pictures together! It's okay to spank such a fragrant good brother's butt, right?
Moreover, Sagiri was also a girl who knew Ito's length, and last time she was even shot in the face by Ito and turned into a snow cake.
"You call me a pervert, Sagiri, but aren't you the same? You watch no less lewd pictures than I do."
Ito placed his hand on Sagiri's small butt and kneaded it.
Unlike Rika and Nanami, Sagiri's butt felt similar to Kamino Megumi's and Ami's. Although it was quite perky, it lacked fleshiness and even had a subtle boniness.
However... Ito liked both the soft and bouncy feel of a fleshy butt and the small, bony one equally!
While playing with Sagiri's slightly bony butt, Ito spoke.
"Seriously, Sagiri, do you want to leave your room?"
"Don't say things like that while you're kneading my butt!" Sagiri shouted muffledly from under the quilt.
"If you don't want to be kneaded, why don't you just come out from under the quilt? Hmm… a slight boniness also has its own charm. There must be a reason why you don't want to go out, right?"
Except for a very few who feel comfortable being alone, most shut-ins have reasons, and Sagiri has reached the point where she's so ill that even her brother, who lives with her, doesn't see her once a year.
"...."
"If you don't speak, I'm going to take off your pants too." Ito placed his hand on the edge of her pajama pants' elastic band.
"Pervert!" After cursing Ito and a long silence, Sagiri finally spoke, "Once I go out, something bad will… will happen."
"Bad things? What things?"
"I don't know… anyway, it's bad things!"
Swish!Ito took off Sagiri's pajama pants.
Unlike Kamino Megumi and Ami's pure white cotton panties, Sagiri's panties were the type with hollowed-out fabric edges and less material, which could increase attack speed.
"Eek!! What are you doing!!!! Lecher!"
His thumb gently hooked and pulled the buttock outwards, causing the tender, budding anus, protected by only a single layer of fabric, to slightly open. This made Sagiri instinctively clench her buttocks, and Ito mischievously pressed his index finger lightly onto it.
It was so interesting, contracting and relaxing.
"What kind of bad things? Worse than being treated like this by me, a lecher?"
Upon hearing this, Sagiri fell silent again. Ito could feel Sagiri's body trembling. Bad things would happen if she left home...
Although Ito no longer remembered the plot from his previous life about why Sagiri was unwilling to step out of her house, fortunately, in this world, Ito and Sagiri met very early.
When Ito first met Sagiri in the drawing group, he thought she was some big shot in the lewd picture field. Now that he thinks about it, she was still an elementary school student back then. In a way, Ito could be considered to have watched Sagiri grow up?
Sagiri had also confided some things to Ito, such as her parents' divorce, but internet friends are just internet friends, and Sagiri didn't say much at the time.
Although it might also be due to bullying that she didn't go to school, bullying at most just makes one not want to go to school, not to the extent of not even going to the living room.
It must be due to family reasons.
Moreover, when Aoi came last time, she also asked Sagiri's brother about Sagiri's family.
After Sagiri's mother divorced, she remarried Izumi Masamune's father. At that time, although Sagiri had already stopped going to school, she at least didn't keep herself locked in her room.
Then Sagiri's mother and Izumi Masamune's father remarried, and during their honeymoon, they had the same stroke of luck as Ito in his previous life.
It's highly probable that her parents' situation caused Sagiri to become a shut-in.
So...
"You can call me Dad!"
"..."
Sagiri's trembling body stopped, but the next second, Sagiri, with her butt sticking out, instinctively lifted her leg and kicked Ito in the chest. Then, she immediately threw off the quilt and swung her pink fists, hitting Ito's chest.
"Who would call you Dad?!"
After a brief outburst, Sagiri fell silent. Ito gently hugged Sagiri and then softly said in her ear,
"Whether it's Dad or internet friend, Dad or uncle, Dad or big brother, it's fine to treat me as anyone. As long as you want to change, I will help you."
Although Sagiri really wanted to complain about why there were three 'Dads' in one sentence, however... besides her mother, when was the last time she was held like this? Sagiri had already forgotten.
Sagiri's eyes inexplicably became moist.
It wasn't that Ito was overflowing with compassion. As friends with Sagiri for so many years, Sagiri had helped Ito a lot, from drawing to work.
Now Sagiri was clearly in a pathological state of reclusion. If there was anything Ito could do to help her, he wouldn't be stingy.
Besides... she could only stay cooped up at home and lived with her family, so it wouldn't be convenient to hold any future "Interview with Silver Line" (gathering for inspiration).
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