Chapter 378 Unexpected Coincidence
“Heh heh, why the long face when we’re out for a meal?”
On the lively and bustling shopping street, Sato Shinichi, uncharacteristically, lagged behind the young girl, walking with a dejected look. Kazumi, noticing the boy’s unusual behavior, turned around, waved her hand to break Shinichi’s reverie, and asked.
“Ah, Kazumi, no, no, I was just thinking about something else.”
A small, fair hand waved in front of his eyes, and Sato Shinichi finally realized his state. He quickly looked up, then sheepishly rubbed the back of his head and explained somewhat stiffly.
“Oh— is that so.”
Her eyes narrowed into slits with a smile, how could the young girl not know what the golden retriever was thinking at this moment? However, she was too lazy to point it out, watching the young boy’s incredibly clumsy attempt at lying.
“Hahaha, yes, yes, let’s go eat.”
Kazumi’s gaze, which seemed to see through everything, made Sato Shinichi’s skin crawl. He brushed off the matter with a forced laugh and pulled the girl towards the shopping street.
Ordinarily, for the young boy, it was a joyous occasion that his girlfriend was in good spirits and not upset with him about yesterday’s events.
However, the method chosen to resolve the matter was somewhat depressing, giving Sato Shinichi a strange feeling that he was less important in his girlfriend’s heart than a game.
Simple physical contact was probably commonplace for Kazumi. She only felt a slight blush on her cheeks and let the young boy lead her forward.
Seeing the still somewhat stiff young boy, Kazumi’s sense of pleasure clearly increased several notches. For the young girl at this moment, she quite enjoyed this feeling of controlling her pet’s emotions with her every word and action.
Indeed, this peculiar sensation of teasing a naive boy was something that even her obedient Little Black couldn’t compare to. (Little Black: ????)
Actually, Kazumi hadn’t planned to talk about this matter with Sato Shinichi before. After all, telling too many lies would easily reveal the truth. But the boy’s flustered and nervous cute appearance made the young girl, who was in a great mood at the time, unable to resist teasing him a few times.
Of course, the effect was also very obvious. Whether games or a partner are more important has always been girlfriends’ ultimate death-by-question. However, by changing the subject, she naturally had the right to double standards. How could a mere silly deer be compared to a game, let alone “Earth Online,” which was a capability of the young girl produced by the system.
“Kazumi, should we buy some snacks here first?”
It had to be said that Sato Shinichi had a very good ability to adjust his mindset. After calming himself down a bit, he emerged from the sense of defeat that he was inferior to games. Looking at the dazzling array of snack stalls around them, he asked his girlfriend beside him.
“Sure, is there anything you want to eat?”
The colorful snack stalls looked very appetizing. The young girl nodded in agreement and threw the question back to Sato Shinichi.
“Me… anything with meat is fine.”
Sato Shinichi looked around and then conscientiously gave an answer that was almost meaningless.
“Uninformative and nutritionless statement. Let’s buy those glutinous rice dumplings first.”
Kazumi poked the young boy’s waist hard. She was accustomed to Sato Shinichi’s personality. She grabbed his hand and walked towards the nearest stall.
Strictly speaking, this was actually Kazumi’s first time eating at this kind of roadside snack street in her life.
After all, she either ate at home or went to restaurants with Sato Shinichi. The boring grilled sausages around the school were not qualified to be listed as snacks. Combined with the dulled desires due to her undead state, the young girl, who was quite gluttonous in her previous life, hadn’t eaten anything like this for almost half a year.
With the bonus of being in a great mood and having her boyfriend with her, Kazumi, after a long time, felt the urge to eat some delicious food. She pulled the young boy to a dessert stall.
“Boss, give me one of these dumplings.” “Coming right up.”
The colorful glutinous rice dumplings were squeezed out from the machine, falling in clumps into the sweet powder that was already prepared. They tumbled and rolled evenly, coated with the toppings. Just looking at them made one feel the overwhelmingly sweet happiness.
“Here are your dumplings.”
“Okay, thank you, boss.”
Sato Shinichi naturally took the food from the vendor and then reached into his pocket to get his wallet to pay. However, before he could take out the change from his wallet, a round, skull-shaped small bag landed in his hand.
“?”
“I can’t always let you pay.”
Looking at the young boy with question marks still on his face with a helpless expression, Kazumi grabbed two coins from the skull’s mouth and handed them to the boss, replying.
“But… this isn’t that expensive.”
“As if you’ve ever let me pay before.”
Casually mocking the boy’s words, although the girl did enjoy having someone pay for her, she felt it wasn’t good for the boyfriend to always pay on dates. It gave her a strange feeling of being kept, and besides, she wasn’t without money.
“Because Kazumi, your daily life is…”
“But a date is something for two people. It’s not fair to you if you’re always the one making sacrifices.”
Taking the dumplings from the young boy, she stuffed a piece of glutinous rice into his mouth with a bamboo skewer and replied smilingly, completely unaware that she had already defined this meal as a date.
“Kazumi…”
After quickly finishing the glutinous rice dumpling in his mouth, Sato Shinichi was about to say something touched, but Kazumi interrupted him again.
“Alright, alright, I’ll pay for this, and you can pay at the next meal.”
Shaking the skull-shaped small wallet in her hand, the young girl said lazily while biting into the green dumpling on her bamboo skewer. With that, she headed towards another stall.
“Okay!”
The young boy nodded seriously, put away his touched expression, and quickly followed her.
…
“This tastes okay, try it.”
In the snack street of the mall, the young girl ate the dried bean curd in her hand and fed the remaining half-box into her boyfriend’s mouth behind her.
At this moment, the young girl could somewhat feel the joy of taking her boyfriend shopping. Not to mention being able to help carry things, just being a food residue processor was incredibly convenient.
After all, many snacks are things you really want to eat, but after a few bites, you find them too greasy. Sato Shinichi, whose appetite was equivalent to a bottomless pit, solved such a problem very well, allowing the girl to taste various delicacies without worrying about waste.
“Kazumi, we still have to eat dinner later.”
Quickly chewing the dried bean curd in his mouth, Sato Shinichi couldn’t help but pull his girlfriend’s arm as he looked at her about to head towards the next snack stall.
Although enjoying his girlfriend feeding him was a happy thing, and with his appetite, he wouldn’t feel full even if he ate at all the snack stalls on the street, considering Kazumi’s wallet, the young boy resolutely stopped the girl’s feeding behavior and tried to pull her towards dinner.
“Ah… that’s right.”
Sato Shinichi’s words seemed to have some sense. Kazumi touched her slightly full stomach and felt that if she ate any more, she might not be able to eat dinner. She nodded, gave up her original idea, and followed Sato Shinichi towards the mall.
And as the two of them just reached the mall entrance, a familiar figure that the young girl had never expected walked out from behind the heavy curtain.
“President Kurokawa?!”
(ps: This is a fictional world, and Japan probably doesn’t have such snacks, right? But I really like eating them, so I wrote them in because Kazumi is equivalent to dried fish.)
