"So, can you let go of my clothes now?" I glanced at the girl in the green dress behind me. She quickly released her grip upon hearing my words. "The Black Dragon Stream Lord is amazing! He took down those thugs in just a few moves." She seemed determined to stick with that chuuni nickname.

I sighed. "Don't give me such a chuuni name. Well, goodbye." Without waiting for her reply, I continued searching for a rental apartment. But the girl in the green dress hurried after me. "Wait! Was that Matsunoi Residence you mentioned earlier real?" I turned to look at her. Up close, I realized she was probably a thirteen- or fourteen-year-old middle schooler, with chestnut-brown short hair and a prominent ahoge. She looked like a very ordinary girl. "Do you know where it is?" I asked. "No," she replied bluntly. Was she wasting my time? I turned to leave, but she called out again. "I don't know about that Matsunoi Residence, but I know a place renting rooms. If you don't mind, I can take you there."

"Lead the way," I replied flatly. She nodded happily. "What's your name?" the chatty girl asked. "Han... Yueyue Xi." Why did I have to share a surname with that goofy guy? But the ID she gave me had this name.

"Yueyue Xi, huh? I'm Hodou Yu. Just call me Yu." Hodou Yu was incredibly friendly. "Can I call you Xi?" Whatever, as long as she didn't give me some ridiculously chuuni name. "As you wish."

Then Hodou Yu's chuunibyou kicked into full gear. "And so, the Green Dragon Princess encountered the mighty Black Dragon Stream Lord." How could she say such chuuni lines dead seriously? I got goosebumps, seriously.

Soon, I arrived at the apartment she mentioned with the chuuni Hodou Yu. Though small, it looked tidy. I took out the phone Yueyue Shenlian had specially prepared for me and dialed the landlord's number written on it. "Hello, is this Miss Mikage Jōrei? I heard you have a room for rent. I came to take a look."

The conversation went smoothly. I just needed to pay the rent to move in immediately. Basic necessities were already prepared inside. That was good; it saved me the trouble of buying them separately.

When I first saw Miss Mikage Jōrei, the landlord, I have to admit I was startled. She was a young woman with a great figure and quite beautiful, but she had dark circles under her eyes as if she hadn't slept for years. She walked as if drifting, like she might collapse at any moment.

After paying two months' rent, I went to my room, 202, and opened the door. On the tatami mat was a reddish-brown tea table with a porcelain tea set. The TV sat in the corner, and the wardrobe stood beside the bed. The clean bed looked regularly maintained; dust was hard to see. The kitchen and bathroom were in separate rooms on opposite sides. Though small, it was better than I expected.

I pushed open the balcony window. Looking out, I saw a forest, and the air was fresh. It was a nice place. But something strange fell from above—a rope. Then, a girl in a green dress descended from the sky. I swear I didn't see her pink rabbit-patterned panties.

Hodou Yu held the rope with one hand and waved at me. No wonder she recommended this place—she lived here too. But she seemed to overestimate her arm strength; one hand couldn't hold the rope properly.

Hodou Yu screamed as she was about to fall. "Time Stasis!" I froze her in mid-air, reached out to grab her, then released the Time Stasis and pulled her up. "That's dangerous, you know." Hodou Yu looked completely unfazed. "Such a small danger can't stop me, the daughter of the Dragon King and the Green Dragon Princess!" Then she struck a pose I couldn't understand at all.

"So why are you here?" I asked irritably. Hodou Yu scratched her head. "To see you, of course. I live right above you." "Can't you use a normal way? Can't you use the front door?" I shouted at her.

Then came another round of chuuni remarks. I was too tired to even comment. Hodou Yu stared at me with wide chestnut-brown eyes, not saying a word. It made me uneasy. "Look, what do you want?" Then she knelt before me. "I hope the Black Dragon Stream Lord will take me as your disciple. That move you used earlier was so cool!"

I was speechless. Could such a thing be learned by teaching? "Drop that chuuni title you used earlier." Hodou Yu looked at me seriously. "Yes, Master!" "Don't call me Master. This ability is innate; it can't be taught." After I said that, Hodou Yu looked dejected. "So the path of the strong really isn't easy to walk, is it?"

Just as I was about to comfort her, she suddenly bounced back with full energy. "The Black Dragon Stream Lord's ultimate technique really isn't easy to learn. But as long as I stay by your side, I'm sure I can pick up a bit of it." Her confident expression was quite cute, but sorry, I couldn't drag anyone else into this.

"Alone in a room, a man and a woman—you're not afraid I might do something lewd to you?" I put on a lecherous look. Sure enough, Hodou Yu blushed and stepped back a few steps, crossing her arms over her chest. "Well, the Black Dragon Stream Lord is handsome, but... but we just met!"

I had given up on getting her to drop that chuuni title. "Then hurry up and leave." After saying that, I lay down on the bed. But Hodou Yu didn't seem ready to give up. "The Green Dragon Princess never gives up easily!" Then she struck another extremely chuuni pose to cheer herself on.

"Black Dragon Stream Lord, wake up!" Early in the morning, someone seemed to be calling my name. I turned over. "Nana, let me sleep a little longer." Then I snapped awake. The one waking me up wasn't Nanami Hayashi anymore—it was Hodou Yu.

"Hey, why are you in my room?" said the chuuni girl Hodou Yu, who had appeared in my room early in the morning. "I'll keep bothering you until you teach me that move, 'Black Dragon Impact'." Please, don't give such chuuni names to all the skill names, okay?

With droopy eyes, I said to Hodou Yu, "Aren't you afraid I might do something lewd to you?" But her chuuni tone made even this threat ineffective. "I thought about it all last night. If it's the Black Dragon Stream Lord, he certainly has the qualifications to be the Dragon King's son-in-law, so..." Before she could finish, I threw her out the window, locked it from inside, and ignored her banging on the glass no matter how hard she tried.