Chapter 105: Who’s The Pantyhose Expert?
Sakamoto Ken glanced up and down at the girl in the room.
Her feet were slightly pigeon-toed, her toes practically digging a three-bedroom apartment into the floor, and she clenched her fists, looking extremely nervous.
What situation?
From Sakamoto Ken’s understanding of this girl, she definitely had something she felt guilty about.
So Sakamoto Ken kept a perfectly measured smile, didn’t answer her question directly, but instead countered with, “Was your voice just now really loud?”
“Hiss…” Mikazuki Haruna sucked in a sharp breath, her eyes widening hugely.
The more she made that expression, the more Sakamoto Ken smiled meaningfully, which made the girl even more nervous.
Haruna’s mouth corner twitched slightly, and she said, “It… it was pretty loud, almost like shouting, ha… this house actually isn’t that well soundproofed, right… I was just testing the soundproofing… don’t mind it…”
Just now, Sakamoto Ken had been standing one step away from the room door and hadn’t heard any sounds from inside.
This girl, could she have been singing some weird song inside?
Haruna’s voice was pleasant enough, but Sakamoto Ken also knew that when this girl sang, she had no sense of rhythm at all, basically completely off-key.
Sakamoto Ken didn’t call her out, nor did he say he’d heard anything, just smiled slightly and said, “It’s fine, I know how soundproof this room is.”
Sakamoto Ken also stepped into the room and closed the room door behind him.
Hearing the dull sound of the door closing, Mikazuki Haruna jumped slightly, her eyes widening as she looked at Sakamoto Ken walking in.
She took a small step back, and a very bad thought suddenly popped into her head.
If she got locked in this black room, wouldn’t it be a case of crying out to heaven for no answer and calling to earth to no avail?
If he had any mischievous thoughts…
Mikazuki Haruna stared nervously at Sakamoto Ken, and only relaxed a bit when she saw his attention wasn’t on her.
But then she thought again, and felt a tiny bit disappointed.
Now it was just the two of them, a man and a woman alone in a room.
A completely soundproof little black room.
I can’t beat you either, and now that you’ve caught me, I have no way to escape, so doesn’t that mean you could… do whatever you want?
I’d definitely resist, but just symbolically, unless you go too far…
Sakamoto Ken touched the sound-absorbing blocks installed on the wall, then shouted “hey” and “oi” a couple times.
He could clearly feel there was no response at all, the sounds completely absorbed by the sound-absorbing material.
At this point, his gaze finally shifted to Mikazuki Haruna.
The room had lights on, but because the walls and floor were dark, the light reflection was reduced, making it still seem quite dim.
He took two steps closer to Mikazuki Haruna, and she immediately retreated one step.
But the room was only less than 20 square meters, and she was already against the wall.
The room was extremely quiet, Mikazuki Haruna could hear her own breathing and Sakamoto Ken’s breathing, hers clearly more rapid, and she could even hear her own heartbeat.
Sakamoto Ken stopped in front of her, the distance between them less than half a meter.
He didn’t speak, just lowered his head slightly to look at the girl in front of him, his gaze moving slowly down from her slightly panicked cheeks.
Mikazuki Haruna instinctively followed his line of sight downward and found he was staring at her feet.
“Um… what are you looking at?”
“Legs.” Sakamoto Ken’s tone was very calm, straightforward.
“Eh?”
Sakamoto Ken looked at the girl’s legs and said, “Every time I see you, you’re wearing black, right?”
“Eh…?” Mikazuki Haruna hadn’t expected Sakamoto Ken to bring up something like this.
Her toes instinctively curled up, her legs pressed together, but there was nowhere to hide.
Sakamoto Ken continued, “In the pantyhose setting I came up with, the heroine’s signature clothing is black pantyhose, and all the socks in her wardrobe are black.”
“Is… is that so?” Mikazuki Haruna hadn’t heard him mention this setting when they discussed it at Sakamoto Ken’s house back then.
Sakamoto Ken said, “That kind of setting only exists in manga, right? In reality, would any girl really only wear black?”
He smiled slightly at Haruna, asking despite knowing, “You wouldn’t really only wear black, would you? Not even a single pair of white socks?”
“We… haven’t actually met that many times, have we?” Mikazuki Haruna said.
Sakamoto Ken held up one finger and said, “The first time was right after Editor Kaji and I finished discussing the work, when we walked out of the small meeting room and happened to see you passing by.”
“Yeah… I remember… that day it was just a glance.”
“You were wearing knee-high socks, the thicker kind, black.” Sakamoto Ken said.
“Ah?” Mikazuki Haruna’s eyes widened, and she said, “You remember that too?”
Sakamoto Ken continued, “The second time was at the live broadcast event site, you were wearing thin pantyhose with diamond patterns.”
“You… how do you know it was pantyhose? Why not thigh-highs?!” Mikazuki Haruna said.
Sakamoto Ken shook his head and said, “Definitely pantyhose, if it were thigh-highs, the garter edge would show a bit below the skirt hem, but pantyhose garters are higher up, you can’t see them without lifting it.”
Mikazuki Haruna blinked her eyes, a bit dazed, she hadn’t even thought about this!
Does Sakamoto Ken know more about tights than I do?!
You’re not secretly wearing pantyhose at home, are you?
Sakamoto Ken continued, “The third time was at my house, you came secretly, that day it was probably 40D thickness, with wrapping strap decorations on the calves, very characteristic.”
Then, Sakamoto Ken held up four fingers and said, “The fourth time is today, today it’s definitely thigh-highs, right, I saw the garter edge under the skirt hem.”
Hearing Sakamoto Ken say this, Mikazuki Haruna hurriedly covered her skirt hem.
Actually, Mikazuki Haruna really wanted to shout “pervert.”
But it felt like when this guy talked about stockings, his tone was especially calm, with no lewd vibe at all.
Could he really be looking at stockings from a purely academic perspective?!
Actually, regarding the black thing, Mikazuki Haruna herself had never even considered it.
When buying clothes and such, you just buy what you like, would you think about having to buy a certain color?
Now hearing Sakamoto Ken say this, Mikazuki Haruna thought back.
It seems… really.
She’d always only bought black socks, all kinds of stockings and tights, without exception this color.
And her current work, 《Young Lady, Sniper Rifle, and Pantyhose!》, aside from different drawing details, all the character designs and plot were copied straight from the memory of that manga.
In that manga, the heroine’s signature was also black stockings, all kinds of styles.
For this, she’d specially bought a bunch of various brands and styles to reference when Shijiyuan and the others were drawing.
If they liked them after drawing, she’d just give them directly.
Two of the three assistants had boyfriends, and they’d even specially shared with her their boyfriends’ reactions to seeing them in high-end black stockings, even specific details… really, assistants who share anything…
Sakamoto Ken this guy… really has an extraordinary obsession with stockings!
You’re actually just a big foot pervert, aren’t you?
Could it be you want to do something to my feet right here?!
