Chapter 234: The Magical Flying Tool
Compared to the girl's left eye, the right eye, fitted with the golden contact lens, revealed a golden iris. From Kaede and Eriri's perspective, it was indeed quite cool.
But it was just too~~~ Chuunibyou.
Without needing to say anything else, just standing there like that, one could clearly feel the nearly overflowing aura of Chuunibyou emanating from her.
Bumping Kaede's arm, Eriri whispered, "The Evil Gods True Eye, huh? Kaede-kun, this is a genuine second Chuunibyou. What should we do?"
"How should I know what to do?"
"Of course I'm asking you! Isn't Megumin in konosuba also pretty Chuunibyou?"
"But that's a story set in another world. It's fine for characters to be a bit Chuunibyou in their design. But this is reality, and I have no experience dealing with this. However, I do think that to deal with Chuunibyou, you have to fight back using Chuunibyou methods."
Hearing Kaede say this, Eriri instantly shivered and shook her head without hesitation: "No way am I doing that!"
Although they didn't know what the two were talking about, the Chuunibyou duo noticed Eriri's look of resistance and prepared to further demonstrate their "power."
Dekomori Sanae's twin tails spun faster, and she said triumphantly, "The Wielder of the Thunder God's Hammer, has arrived! Let me show you my ultimate move, Thunder Hammer..."
Before she could shout out her ultimate move, and while Takanashi Rikka was still posing, Kaede and Eriri saw a figure appear behind the two girls.
Then, the person swung a long-handled object in her hand.
It was aimed directly at Takanashi Rikka's head.
Takanashi Rikka seemed to sense something was wrong and tried to turn her head, but the next moment, her head was struck by the unidentified attack.
"Bang!" "Bang!"
"Ah!"
"Waaa!!"
The unidentified object actually bounced after hitting Takanashi Rikka, striking Dekomori Sanae's head as well. Moreover, after Dekomori Sanae's pose was broken, her long twin tails wrapped around her body, making it impossible for her to clutch her head.
After bouncing twice, the flying tool returned along an incredibly strange trajectory, landing back in the hand of the woman who threw it.
Clasping her head, Takanashi Rikka recognized the person who had struck her, instantly shuddered, and didn't dare to say a word.
Dekomori Sanae finally managed to untangle the twin tails from her body, turned around, and exclaimed, "The Holy Regulator?! You're here?"
Wow, setting aside the Chuunibyou duo, even Takanashi Rikka's older sister showed up.
Holding the long-handled ladle that served as her flying tool, the tall, black-haired woman walked over, raised her hand, and tapped her own sister's head again. "The moment I saw Dekomori approach, I knew you were up to no good this morning. Now hurry up and get to school!"
"Ugh... but we haven't recruited any comr..."
Before Takanashi Rikka could finish her sentence, she saw her sister's glare, shrank her neck, and quickly pulled Dekomori Sanae, who was about to resist, and ran away.
"Eh? Master?"
Dekomori Sanae, being dragged away, had no choice but to turn her head while running and shout at Takanashi Toka: "Holy Regulator, just you wait! You won't defeat me this easily next time!"
Watching the two children leave, Takanashi Toka shook her head, feeling exhausted, and turned to Kaede and Eriri. She bowed and apologized, "I am terribly sorry. I am Takanashi Toka, and the short-haired child is my younger sister, Takanashi Rikka. She and her friend have caused you trouble."
Shaking his head, Kaede smiled and said, "It's nothing. Although they are a bit eccentric, they are quite interesting."
Eriri also nodded: "Right. It's been a long time since I encountered a Chuunibyou. At least they're cute."
Takanashi Toka sighed and said, "I wish she could be a little more normal for me. I truly apologize for the trouble they caused you."
After apologizing again and knowing that Kaede and Eriri were students who needed to get to school, Takanashi Toka finally bid them farewell.
Continuing toward school, Eriri no longer felt unwell. She smiled and said, "Wow, I originally thought that the girl's family would also be somewhat Chuunibyou, but I didn't expect her to be so serious!"
"That's true," Kaede mused. "But I'm more curious about her ladle-throwing technique. How did she manage to hit both of them and have it bounce back perfectly into her hand? Practice makes perfect?"
"Pfft! Hahaha~~~ Practice makes perfect? Kaede-kun, you have such an imagination!"
Holding Kaede's arm, Eriri laughed especially happily. "Kaede-kun, do you think we'll run into those two girls again next time?"
"I think it's possible," Kaede said definitively. "I have a feeling they've targeted you. Even if we don't see them for a while, I have a hunch we'll definitely run into them again later. Eriri, be mentally prepared. You might be mistaken for a Chuunibyou by people who don't know the situation."
"Uh... I really don't want that."
Although the two girls were interesting, and Eriri herself didn't look down on Chuunibyou, that didn't mean she wanted people to treat her like one!
Kaede expressed his helplessness regarding this. Anyway, he hadn't been mistaken for a Chuunibyou. Unless Eriri couldn't handle it, he planned to watch the drama unfold from the sidelines, as it was quite entertaining.
After all, Takanashi Rikka and Dekomori Sanae wouldn't cause any serious trouble.
When they arrived at school and were eating lunch together in the cafeteria, Kaede and Eriri brought up the incident, immediately sparking a discussion among their friends.
Biting her chopsticks, Usami mused, "Chuunibyou... is that like Uchimaki-san?"
"No, it's not!!!"
Uchimaki Subaru, who was usually very calm, quickly retorted, "I just like drawing 2d waifu, and that has nothing to do with Chuunibyou!!!"
No, you seem more extreme than Chuunibyou... "Eh? Is that right?"
Seeing that Usami didn't quite grasp the difference between Chuunibyou and a severe otaku like Uchimaki Subaru, Uchimaki Subaru pulled out his phone, searched for an explanation of Chuunibyou, and showed it to her.
Looking at Uchimaki Subaru's phone, Usami read aloud, "The self-important thoughts, actions, and values unique to adolescents? A tendency toward self-centeredness, constructing a self-affirming world in their minds... Ah~~ I get it now. This is what Eriri was talking about—that girl claiming she was the Evil Gods True Eye, right? But what exactly is the Evil Gods True Eye?"
Everyone expressed their confusion about this, as the setting was something Takanashi Rikka had created herself.