"Ho ho ho! What would you like for Christmas, little girl?"
Five-year-old Ryugu Rena didn't move.
"Go on, Rena," Chie-sensei prompted. "Don't be shy!"
Rena's eyes narrowed.
"But it isn't Santa."
"I am Santa!"
"Chie-sensei, don't listen to him! It's that old policeman – the one who ogles the pretty girls at Angel Mort!"
"Don't be silly, Rena. He's Santa!"
"No he's not!"
"Yes I am."
"Santa's not a pervert!"
"I'm not a pervert," 'Santa' – a.k.a. Ooishi, who'd been persuaded by Chie to act as Santa for the little kids at her school – hissed. "I'm jolly old St. Nick."
"YOU'RE LYING!!!"