Now then, let's get back to the main topic.
"Mito, I have a business with you, not Tenryu."
"Me? Don't tell me you fell for me~?"
Mito smiles happily.
And then she rattles on while gesturing dramatically.
"But, you can't! You can't I said, you can't! Because I have Senpai who has promised to take me in the future!"
....She's not talking about me right?
I don't remember making such promise.
"Don't worry, I don't feel that way. Rather, is there any place we can talk calmly?"
Talking while standing on the corridor is that.
"Then let's go to my room. Even though it's called a room, it's a building big enough for the whole parliament to enter."
Mito leads me to a luxurious building that even puts the royal capital's state guest residence to shame. It's made of light green-colored stones that look like marbles.
I'm taken to the living room of that mansion that's close to the entrance.
When we sit down, the living statue maids-san serve us some warm tea.
Their dexterity rival Lulu's even though they're just stone statues.
"Now then, since we've caught our breath, let's get back to the topic at hand."
"Good idea."
I take off the violet-colored wig and place it on the sofa.
"Arara, so it was a wig? Black hair, that means you're the current era's hero--"
I take off the white mask while Mito is speaking.
"--Eh, that beautiful girl's face!"
Mito shouts out when she sees the face of Nanashi that looks exactly like hers.
....Who the heck is a beauty.
"So you were a woman? By any chance, are you me from a parallel world?"
"I'm a genuine man. This is just a disguise."
I stop talking and tear off the Face Mask from the chin.
I sure feel like a phantom thief.
"--I-Ichirou-niii!!!"
I gently receive the hug, with the force of a level 89, of Mito--A junior at my workplace who's also my childhood friend, Kouhai Mitsuko.
I erase the inertia by making use of Unit Arrangement.
"Ichirou-nii, Ichirou-nii, Ichirou-nii, Ichirou-nii--"
I hug her delicate body along with the torrent of emotion that seem to be loaded in my names.
I gently pat Mitsuko's hair like when she was crying as a child, and let her weep to her heart's content until she calms down.
It's only been a year ago for me, but it should have been quite a long time for her.
After crying for about a hour, she's finally stopped, so I try talking to her.
"It's been a while. So you really were summoned as a hero during the development of FFW?"
"Un--Ah, so the bug-ridden FFW have been finished by Ichirou-nii, I mean, Suzuki-senpai?"
"Yeah, I had at least delivered the production-ready package to Mr. Overweight before I came here, so it should be fine."
"That's good. It was always weighting on my mind."
On top of being quite responsible herself, it's her first project after all.
"Oh right, you can keep calling me Ichirou. We're not in the workplace."
"Un, then please call me Hikaru with love."
Hikaru is an important childhood friend for me, but I don't feel love toward her.
"I'll do it if it's just affection."
"You're being cold like that hasn't changed eh."
Hikaru said so and smiled nostalgically.
By the way, Hikaru is Mitsuko's nickname.
She proclaimed that the name Mitsuko wasn't stylish, so she put up the name herself.
"Putting aside the love thing, is it alright to call you with Hikaru instead of Mitsuko now that you're at age?"
"Don't call it at age! I kept being called Shiga Yamato or Mito ever since I came here, so I want you to call me my name when I was in Japan. Calling me Junior-shi is alright too but.... Hikaru is nicer."
She was called [Junior-shi] by Mr. Overweight when she was admitted, and the name spread. "Kouhai is a kouhai (junior) so your name from now on is 『Junior-shi』", so he said and the surrounding people accepted it, the next day, even sales people started to call Hikaru that.
As a retribution, he got the nickname [Mr. Overweight], so both were just as bad.
"Then I'll call you Hikaru."
"Un--"
Some kind of itchy feeling flow between us, but Hikaru tends to self-destruct like Arisa so this kind of mood won't stay long.
"--Wait, why are you so young!"
You're minding that now.