Chapter 173 Kazumi Shimizu is in a good mood
“Kazumi, you seem to be in a very good mood today?”
At the entrance of the residential area in the early morning, Sato Shinichi walked side by side with the thin black-haired girl. The blond young man had a gentle and doting expression on his face, tilting his head to the girl’s side and asking.
“Hmm? Why do you say that?”
Kazumi, with her breakfast in her mouth, turned her head strangely and looked at the boy beside her, asking in confusion.
Her eyebrows unconsciously twitched, waiting for Sato Shinichi’s response. Could this be a new trick he learned from cheesy pickup lines?
“Because when you left the house today, Kazumi, you had a smile on your face. In any case, you looked much happier than usual. Did something special happen?”
Looking at his girlfriend’s cute, puffed-up cheeks from chewing bread, completely unaware of how she looked, Sato Shinichi’s heart was about to melt. He suppressed the urge to reach out and poke her cheek, and said to Kazumi with a smile.
“Ah… If I have to say something, it’s that I finally got something I’ve been wanting from the mobile game I play.”
Hearing Sato Shinichi’s words, Kazumi herself was taken aback. Was her mood that obvious? She didn’t panic because her inner thoughts were revealed, and with a slight smile on her lips, she casually explained to the boy beside her.
“Ahaha, Kazumi, you play mobile games?!”
This time it was Sato Shinichi’s turn to be surprised. The straightforward boy really didn’t expect that his girlfriend, who seemed so cold and uninterested in anything but studying, would also secretly play mobile games like other girls.
“Yeah… Is playing games strange?”
She looked at the surprised boy before her strangely. Hey, big brother, did you come from the mountains? Is playing a game these days something to be so surprised about?
“Ah, no, no, it’s just that I thought people like you wouldn’t play those little games.”
Sensing his girlfriend’s gaze, which held a hint of care within the disdain, Sato Shinichi chuckled sheepishly and replied.
“Appropriate rest is important too. Anyway, I got a very important item, so I’m in a pretty good mood.”
After taking a sip of milk and swallowing the bread in her mouth, Kazumi nodded and replied, half-truthfully and half-falsely.
After all, even if one got a rare item through some cheat, the happiness would be much less if there was no one to share it with.
Although Kazumi wouldn’t say something like “I killed six people yesterday and got an orange rare item from the lottery,” it felt quite comfortable to disguise it as just a normal mobile game and share it with the boy.
Compared to Little Black, this was one of Sato Shinichi’s few useful qualities.
Perhaps?
“Kazumi, what game are you playing? Do you want me to play with you?”
Hearing his girlfriend’s answer, Sato Shinichi quickly took out his mobile phone from his pocket, clicked on the app store, and waited to download it as soon as the girl said the game’s name.
“Chop—”
The sound of a palm touching hair came from Sato Shinichi’s head. Under the boy’s confused gaze, the girl landed a light “hand chop” on his head, interrupting his action.
“Didn’t I tell you not to go along with everything I say? Boys need to have their own opinions in a relationship!”
“But I…”
The girl’s right hand was not forceful. In fact, even if she used her full strength, in Sato Shinichi’s eyes, it would only feel like a gentle caress. However, it still completely suppressed the boy’s excitement. With Kazumi’s cold, soft little hand on his head, Sato Shinichi seemed to struggle to say something more.
“Do you really like those dress-up mobile games that girls play? Don’t cause trouble at a time like this!”
Petting the boy’s head like she would pet Little Black, Kazumi said to her boyfriend, who was acting like asimp, with a hint of helplessness.
Sigh, actually, her boyfriend was good in all aspects, except that sometimes he was too much of a simp. Although he had restrained himself under her strong suppression (training) for so long, he still occasionally showed strange excessive concern like this.
As someone who had been through it, Kazumi could empathize with the feeling of wanting to give everything to the person you like when you’re with them for the first time.
The shy and naive boy didn’t know how to express his feelings to his lover, so he could only clumsily do everything he imagined he could, even if those things seemed foolish in retrospect.
If it were the real Kazumi, she would probably also be very happy with her boyfriend’s all-round, no-dead-angle care. But the current Kazumi was different! She had originally planned to leave with enough benefits, so this kind of behavior from the silly boy was actually causing her quite a bit of trouble.
Especially since another of the girl’s goals was to teach Sato Shinichi how to love properly as compensation. This kind of uncooperative behavior from the boy was, at times, really giving Kazumi a headache.
“I… I understand…”
The boy lowered his excited head. His originally high spirits became dejected after Kazumi’s words. He put away his phone and silently followed Kazumi towards the school.
Looking at Sato Shinichi, who had his head down like an abandoned puppy, and feeling the emotions written all over his face due to her every word and action, Kazumi felt a trace of amusement. She had taught him quite a lot about dating, but in the end, he was still like a naive chick who knew nothing, making her laugh.
As if thinking of something even more amusing, the corners of her usually plain lips curved into a smile of affection, and she spoke coldly.
“Shinichi.”
As if by reflex, after hearing the girl’s call, Sato Shinichi immediately lifted his head and looked at his girlfriend.
“Hold this trash for me.”
Familiar with the routine, she handed over the bread and milk packaging bags she was holding, and said indifferently.
“Oh, okay.”
The originally bright gaze dimmed slightly after hearing the girl’s words, but Sato Shinichi still nodded obediently and took the packaging bags from Kazumi. After all, he had been doing this for the past few days, so it didn’t feel too out of the ordinary.
“Um, switch it to your right hand.”
Looking at Sato Shinichi, who had foolishly taken the trash and was holding it, Kazumi’s expression didn’t change much. She reached out and poked the boy’s arm.
“Hmm?”
With a hint of confusion on his face, Sato Shinichi’s body obediently followed the girl’s instructions, handing the packaging bag from his left hand to his right hand.
“Kazumi, you…”
After a moment of gathering his emotions, Sato Shinichi put on a smile, intending to find something else to talk about to break the sudden awkwardness between them.
Although Kazumi’s words were a bit harsh, just as she had said before, such guidance was for them to be together for a longer time. Therefore, even if he felt some restraint in his heart, Sato Shinichi would not choose to express it. After all, as a boy, enduring his girlfriend’s unreasonable temper tantrums was quite normal.
However, a cold, soft little hand reached out and took his left hand under the boy’s disbelieving gaze. He looked up as if waking from a dream, and met the girl’s cold face, which showed a rare cunning expression, as if her previous “mean old self” was all an act.
Her arm was gently tugged twice by the girl’s palm, and as if guessing his mood, she squeezed his hand. Her originally cold tone melted into tenderness in that instant, and she whispered softly into Sato Shinichi’s ear.
“This is my compensation for rejecting your good intentions~”
