The popular Pilot Delful shaker mechanical pencil is now available in unique transparent body colors! The pencil tip of this body can conveniently retract to protect the pencil tip, pockets and pencil cases from damage. Just push firmly on the top cap button to extend and retract the tip. When the tip is extended, you can shake the pencil to extend lead or click the top button. Pressing the cap firmly retracts the tip. The pencil body is clear so that you can see that inside mechanisms, and has a window that shows the two writing states - the off state "Deru" which means "to come out" and the on state "Furu" which means it is ready to "shake".