Paparazzi Queen Maria

Translated by Dawn

Paparazzi Queen Maria

That evening.

We were all gathered in the living room of my house, sitting on the carpet and eating dinner around the table, when Matsumi opened her mouth with a pained smile.

“Even so, Kiriha made me laugh this morning. I wonder if that idol was afraid of heights?”

“She deserved it. I hate people like that who think anything is acceptable on TV.”

Perhaps because she was remembering the morning, Kiriha’s tone was cold and prickly.

When I first met KIRIHA, I wanted her to smile all the time, but nowadays I think this KIRIHA was good too. What do you call it, a cool beauty?

“Hm? What’s wrong Honey?”

A shiver ran down my spine as Kiriha directed her cold voice at me.

“Ah, no…nothing…”

I couldn’t say in front of everyone that I also like the cool beauty KIRIHA, which would be the perfect example of an idiot couple, so I tried to cover up my feelings.

But Kiriha was watching my face. Then a wicked smile spread across her face, centered around her mouth.

If I had to say, I would say that she even has black antlers, wings, and tails growing out of her body.

“He~y, Honey, what did you just think?”

Kiriha put down her chopsticks, put her hands on the carpet, and bent forward toward me.

Inevitably, the hem of her loungewear fluttered down, revealing part of Kiriha’s too-deep cleavage.

“Guhh!?”

Kiriha’s arms sway her pair of ample breasts from side to side with each step she took. Even though I was eating, another desire was stimulated.

“Well, I don’t think we should be talking about this in front of everyone, so let’s just let it slide, shall we?”

“Hm~, I’d rather hear it in front of everyone.”

A bewitching smile that let out a sweet exhale came within kissing distance. I looked over at Matsumi while enduring the sensation of my face becoming hot and swollen with embarrassment.

Then she sensed my gaze and stood up, tapping the table.

“Ikuo! I hope you weren’t thinking of doing something shameful again! MARIA! MAIKO! Do it!”

While MARIA sat on her knees and received MAIKO’s scolding, I decided that it was better than being Psychomimetized and Thoughtographed by the two of them.

“That…I want KIRIHA to be happy, so I didn’t want KIRIHA to be in too serious a mode like before…”

“Un.”

“Lately, I’ve been thinking that a cool-beauty Kiriha is nice too…”

At my words, Kiriha’s little devil smile turned cold. Her honey-colored eyes narrowed coldly as if she were looking down at an insect.

“You, are you an M?”

Kiriha’s hands forcefully pushed me down.

With my back slammed into the floor, I lay down helplessly, and Kiriha straddled me with her butt on my stomach.

The superb view of her lower breasts, and the cool expression on her face as she looked down at me from the other side of them, arouses me to an unknown level of arousal.

“But I don’t like the way you look at me coldly. I like the way you look at me with your cute smile, but I also like the way you look at me with a more mature look.”

“If you like me this way, how about I do the wake-up call this way?”

“Eh…”

“Honey-chan is lost!?”

“Price of fame, price of fame♪”

“Don’t take a picture, Miina-sama! ……hmm?”

Before I knew it, Maya was peeking into my face with her two-side-up tassel hanging down.

“What’s wrong? If you don’t eat quickly, your rice will get cold.”

Maya said with her expressionless, emotionless doll face.

“Those are cold eyes.”

—I want to pay tribute! From the bottom of my heart, I want to pay tribute to Maya!

As I was unable to stop crying over Maya’s kindness in taking the trouble to give me a hard look, Shisae suddenly shouted out in a crazy voice.

“Nyuooaaaaaa! Honey-chan, look at this!”

When the MR screen suddenly appeared in front of Shisae’s eyes, it showed the Social Networking Site of Yamachi, the idol who had appeared in the morning.

We gasped in front of us at the contents.

To put it simply, it was a bad word about me and KIRIHA.

She wrote that when she begged IKUO to show her teleportation, he cursed her and said, “It’s not something to show,” and that he was scared when his bodyguard Kiriha violently attacked her.

In addition, while complaining blatantly, she tried to elicit sympathy from fans by concluding with the sentences, “But it was my fault for asking him to show me his psychic powers,” and “It’s hard, but I’ll do my best for all my fans.”

More than 100 comments had already been written in the comments section.

They were filled with slanderous comments against me and Kiriha and sympathetic comments against Yamachi.

Some of the comments were even abusive, calling Kiriha a “poisonous insect woman,” a word that could be described as traumatic for her.

Kiriha had completely lost her expression and was staring at the MR screen with a bored, almost blunt, gaze.

There was no room there for the teasing that had been going on earlier.

I was so offended that I wanted to lash out.

But I didn’t know where to direct my anger.

Idols who write lies and put others down.

TV stations that listen to these idols.

The fans who were led astray by the cheap posts and wrote slanderous remarks about me and Kiriha.

I and KIRIHA had done nothing wrong.

Yet, those low lives were trying to damage us with their one-sided involvement.

People often say, “Think of it as if you were bitten by a dog,” but no one wants to be bitten by a dog.

The unreasonable feelings of being one-sidedly bullied by my classmates since childhood come back to me, and my thoughts become aggressive.

“I’m going to smack you in the face with my heel fist the next time I see you, you scumbag idol! The wound will heal as soon as I hit you, so there will be no evidence of the assault.”

It would be a perfect crime to call YAMACHI to this spot with an apport and smash her with a trailing heel fist, then teleport her back to where she was.

For a moment, it seemed like an attractive idea.

But then I cooled down and realized that such a shortcut would ultimately close off a bright future for me and KIRIHA.

Looking around at the faces of MATSUMI and the others, I saw that it was not only her who was unhappy, but everyone else seemed to be in the same mood.

MIINA and MAIKO look annoyed with frustration and complain, wondering why she did that.

Shisae, with her left and right fists clenched alternately, said, 

“Maria-chan! Let’s expose this idol’s scandalous video on the Internet and end her idol’s life!”

and shout.

“I know how you feel, but you need to calm down. And Shisae is using Maria too conveniently.”

“Grrr, isn’t it frustrating, Honey-chan? Shisae seems to be awakened by a wave of anger and the will to kill.”

“I feel the same way. But that is a misuse of psychic power. It may be self-defense, but if you beat her up because she was a scoundrel, it’s just a crime of assault.”

Shisae raised her eyebrows with a closed mouth at my calm commentary.

In order not to hurt the girls, I spoke softly, but in a sincere tone.

“We’re amazing. We’re high school students and we’re saving Japan with our psychic powers. But that doesn’t mean we can break the law. You see it all the time in the manga, don’t you? The main character wakes up with superpowers and protects everyone from the bad guys, but then he starts to kill the bad guys who are bad for him. I don’t want violence in the name of justice.”

Shisae and the others slumped their shoulders at my words, which sounded like I was talking to myself.

Shisae then said.

“You’re right, Honey-chan…Shisae was fascinated by the dark side of the Force. Shisae will stop throwing mosquitoes in the faces of people Shisae doesn’t like…”

“Yes, let’s stop.”

—That’s plain hard to do.

Continuing, Matsumi showed an uncharacteristically meek demeanor.

“I, too, will stop using heel fists except in self-defense…….”

“Yeah, that’s great, Matsumi.”

—When did she use it other than in self-defense?

Then Kiriha also looked up and apologized in an apologetic voice.

“Sorry HONEY, I’ll try to moderate my poisonous needle threatening behavior too…….”

“Good, good. Kiriha is smart.”

“And I’ll also stop doing the high-speed spinning descent thing when I’m airlifting someone I don’t like…….”

—That’s egregious…….

As I was having mixed feelings, Miina reached out to the center of everyone.

“Let’s make a promise here, then. We are psychics, but we will never get carried away or misuse our psychic abilities.”

At Miina’s mature, mild-mannered call, we looked at each other and nodded spontaneously.

Everyone extended their hands and laid them on top of Miina’s hands.

I felt my heart becoming brighter with this sense of togetherness.

I didn’t have to say a word to know that everyone else feels the same way.

With everyone here, we wouldn’t go astray.

I guess it was because I was so moved.

I said something that I would normally never say.

“Thank you, guys. I may be exaggerating, but we’re the strongest and best team out there.”

They all nodded their heads in satisfaction, with a slight tinge in their cheeks.

“Kiriha, Miina, Shisae, Matsumi, Maiko, Maya, and Maria……huh? Where’s Maria?”

The six of them begin looking for Maria at once.

Maria was the only one who did not reach out her hand and was looking at an empty space with an air of absent-mindedness.

“What’s the matter Maria, did you get a message on your AR screen?”

In this day and age when smartphones were obsolete, it was common to operate devices on AR screens that only you can see, or MR screens that were set to invisible mode so that others couldn’t see them.

“I was Thoughtographying Yamachi’s scandalous videos on the Internet, just as Shisae told me to do. There were so many that I wondered which ones to Thoughtography, but I Thoughtographed them all.”

With one unsympathetic word, the time of the world stopped.

“…………Eh?”