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Chapter 17-Visitor Noob

As I rode the elevator (so beautiful) that Nina-chan invited me to ride in her apartment building, I was thinking back to when I was really in elementary school.

In other words, my previous life.

I never invited my classmates to my house.

So I never even had the idea of serving tea to my friends when they came to my house.

To be honest, after I came to this life, I saw my mother and Momoka-san doing that, and I acquired the value of ‘you serve tea when you have a visitor’.

That means…

Nina-chan, at the age of six, has acquired the value of serving tea to visitors. Could it be that she’s well trained?

As I was thinking about this, I passed through the elevator and found myself in an inner corridor.

It gave off the feeling of a hotel

In other words, the doors do not face the outside, and the entire building is inside.

Is this really an apartment?

I felt my sense of value, which I had been brought up with, crumble with a sound.

The Kisaragi family has a lot of money, but Nina-chan’s house must have a lot of money too.

Thinking about that, I quickly shook my head in my mind.

Oh no, no.

Because as soon as you grow up, you start thinking about money.

“Here we are.”

Nina-chan said and led me into the room.

When I opened the door, the first thing I smelled was an aromatic air freshener.

“It smells good.”

“It’s room fragrance. Mama bought it for me.”

Nina-chan pointed to a glass bottle filled with a clear liquid and a mysterious wooden skewer sticking out of it like a joke.

It’s true that there is a good smell coming from there if you ask me.

Ah, yes.

It’s called room fragrance, not air freshener.

I didn’t know that.

……I really didn’t know.

“Itsuki. Come on up.”

I was hoping that maybe because she grew up overseas, she would leave her shoes on in the house. I had some shallow wisdom that I got from the Internet, but it turned out to be a fluke and Nina took off her shoes and went up.

Naturally, I followed her.

Not forgetting to take off my shoes.

“Nina-chan, do you often invite your friends over?”

“I don’t have any friends.”

I’m the same as you.

“…?”

“You’re…. Well…you…”

I didn’t know if it was a response or not, but the reply came, and I closed my mouth.

Nina-chan said, “Put your school bag there,” so I put it on the carpet. Is this fuzzy thing called a rug?　I don’t know the difference.

In my previous life, I had just bought cheap furniture from a chain store and filled my room with it, thinking, “As long as it’s usable, it’s good enough”.

Everything in Nina-chan’s house is furnished in white, and the houseplants by the window are a nice accent. When I thought about it, I felt that Nina’s pink school bag in the room seemed to stand out a bit.

But still, the TV is huge.

I wonder how many inches it is.

As I was looking around the room, Nina-chan started talking to me from the kitchen.

“What do you like, Itsuki?”

“What?”

“I meant tea. There are many different flavors.”

I’ve only had afternoon tea.

“I don’t care what it is! Anything that tastes good.”

“Then Darjeeling is fine.”

I don’t understand what that means.

I was asked if Darjeeling is okay.

But I said whatever was good, and since I wouldn’t know what to get, I replied, “Please”.

“Stay on the couch. I’ll bring you some tea.”

“Thanks.”

Well, let me sit down without hesitation.

So I sat down on the white sofa.

It is clear that expensive sofas are different in terms of seating comfort.

I glanced at the living room and saw that Nina-chan was pouring hot water with a familiar hand. I was a little surprised at her familiar movements, as if she did this every day, and asked her.

“Do you often make tea, Nina-chan?”

“What? Is it okay to drink tea when you don’t have friends?”

“Not that. I just thought you were good at making tea.”

“Haah. What do you mean I’m good?”

Nina-chan denied it with a loud voice.

But her face looked happy.

“I just put it in by myself because mama was gone for a long time.”

“Is your mom busy?”

“That’s right. She doesn’t come home at all. But yesterday she came back unusually, and the next one will probably be in a week.”

It seems that exorcists everywhere are busy.

As a matter of fact, my father is out of town for an extended period of time right now.

I haven’t seen him for a week, similar to Nina-chan’s mother, so he might be coming back soon.

But, I think as I look around the room.

But I have a mother.

I have Hina. Even if my father is away for work, I’m never alone in the house.

So, she’s alone ….1 person in a house?

Hmm? An elementary schooler?

“Does that mean you live alone, Nina-chan!?”

“Yes, I do.”

“Then you’re already cooking!”

“No, I don’t. Mama orders lunch for me.”

“…..?”

“Yes, they deliver it every day. It’s delicious.”

Is there such a service?

Rich people’s houses are amazing. ……

When I was surprised by a service I had never heard of, Nina put it on a tray – maybe it has another name – and brought it from the kitchen to the living room, but that one was a tea Unlike the minion who makes it, it is dangerous.

I guess she’s not used to it because she has never served it to guests, although she usually makes tea for herself.

I was looking at the tray with trepidation, and Nina-chan was looking at it intently, so she tripped and fell on the rug.

“……!”

Well, I knew that was going to happen.

I released a light magic “guiding thread silvate” that I had prepared in advance, and caught her in mid-air to prevent her tea from pouring out. Nina-chan stumbled forward and fell down, and I got up from the sofa to catch her.

“Itsuki, I’m sorry! Are you okay?You didn’t get the tea on you, right!?”

“It’s okay. I caught it.”

I’ve never seen Nina-chan look so impatient as she did when she asked me that, so I pointed to the “guide thread silvate” that was completely holding the tea and the cup.

I do this every time, and I have “true eyes” so I can see the “guide thread silvate”, but I wonder what this looks like to other people.

Does it look like a cup of tea floating in the air?

However, when Nina-chan saw the tea floating in the air, she patted her chest as if relieved and put the tray on the table. Then she let out a small “thank goodness ……”.

I looked at her and asked her.

“Nina-chan, are you hurt?

“No, I’m fine. I just tripped over something.”

“I see. I’m glad to hear that.”

I said this and grabbed a teacup with my thread silvate.

Then, I changed the shape of the bowl to a funnel-shape and poured it back into the cup. After I saw that the tea was completely poured into the cup, I placed it on the tray that Nina-chan had placed.

“Thank you, Nina-chan. For making the tea. Can I drink it?”

“I don’t mind. As long as it suits your taste….”

Seeing Nina-chan say so with a slightly embarrassed look, I wondered if she’s not used to serving tea to others after all.

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