The flavor of natto curry was sowhat unique, but it was not exactly unpleasant.
After finishing dinner with Mikoto, Shido thought for a mont and said,
"Let's go to the ga center."
"Mm."
Mikoto nodded.
After arriving at the ga center, the two of them played a dancing ga, a fighting ga, and claw machines together.
When they were leaving, Mikoto pointed at an arcade cabinet and said to Shido,
"Shido, look."
"Mm?"
Shido turned his head and saw that it was a horror shooting ga called "The House of the De*d."
"Senpai, do you like horror gas? Do you want to try playing it?"
"Shido… you know I'm really bad with horror-related things."
Hearing Shido's words, Mikoto puffed out her cheeks unhappily.
It was not that she liked horror gas.
It was just that this ga cabinet was sothing she and Shido had played together not long after they first t.
Although she had been a little scared, since it was a two-player cooperative ga, and because they were inside a bright, crowded ga center, she had not been frightened.
"I… I see. Sorry."
Shido scratched his cheek, sowhat awkwardly.
[Wrong again. But if she doesn't like horror gas, then what did senpai an by pointing at that cabinet?]
With that question in his mind, Shido left the ga center with Mikoto.
"Should we go watch a movie, senpai?"
"Sure. There's actually a movie I like currently showing."
Mikoto nodded.
The two of them ca to the cinema.
Although it was already night, this was just the right ti for people who had worked all day to relax. Friends and couples had all co here to enjoy their leisure ti.
"Uwaa…"
Mikoto looked around and found a familiar movie.
"What's wrong, senpai?"
Shido turned his head, followed Mikoto's gaze, and found a poster for a horror movie—
"Ushi no Toki Mairi! The Vengeful Shrine Maiden of the Shrine!"
He tilted his head in confusion. Wasn't Mikoto helpless against horror? Why would she look at that poster again?
"Uu… Shido, what's wrong with you today? You're acting so strange."
Mikoto said unhappily.
Just like the ga cabinet earlier, that poster belonged to a mory from their date. Why was he looking so puzzled?
It was as if—he did not rember anything.
[These past two days, Shido has been like this too…]
Thinking back, this was not the first ti Shido had beco like this. There was a strange sense of wrongness.
"S-Sorry…"
He no longer knew how many tis he had apologized today. However, Shido had absolutely no idea what kind of reaction he was supposed to make.
"Honestly… then, as punishnt, please enjoy that set over there with ."
For an instant, the thought that Shido did not rember her crossed Mikoto's mind.
However, in the end, the girl dismissed that idea. Maybe Shido's physical condition was just poor and he had not recovered yet, she thought.
"Set… wait, what is that?!"
Looking in the direction Mikoto pointed, Shido saw the words "Couple Drink Large Popcorn and Potato Chips Set."
"It's a set."
Mikoto answered with a smile.
"Even if you say that, we're not cou… couples… right?"
Shido scratched his cheek in embarrassnt.
"Mm. Shido and I are just ordinary friends who have kissed, gone on dates, and even slept together."
Mikoto answered with a warm smile.
[Pffft—!]
Shido believed that if he had been drinking water at that mont, he would definitely have sprayed it everywhere.
Dates and kissing, he could understand. But what was with sleeping together?
Did Kotori sneak into his room in the middle of the night and move him into Mikoto's room?
No, that was not right.
Mikoto lived at the shrine!
In a daze, Shido began to have an uneasy thought.
[Could it be that Yakumo-senpai and I really are in a relationship?]
Shido himself had no mories of this world, but putting himself in that situation, facing such a cute, sweet senpai who cared for him so deeply, perhaps he really had confessed to her.
[If… if that's true…]
Then when he thought about how he had once said to Mikoto, in other words his girlfriend—
"What my relationship with Origami is has nothing to do with Yakumo-senpai, right?"
He suddenly felt like he had already beco an irredeemable scumbag.
"Did you hear that? He did that kind of thing and still won't admit it. What a scumbag."
"Exactly. They've even slept together and he still won't admit their relationship. What a scumbag."
"Honestly, how hopeless."
Even worse, the conversation between the two of them seed to have been overheard by passersby. The atmosphere instantly beca even more awkward.
"I… I'll go buy the set!"
No longer able to endure that atmosphere, Shido fled into the line to purchase the set.
[Calm down, Shido. Think carefully. That's just your own imagination.]
Standing in line, Shido tried to take deep breaths to calm himself down.
Although it seed like he had slept together with Mikoto, it should not be "sleeping together" in the boyfriend girlfriend sense.
After all…
[Even in this world, I still call her senpai.]
Thinking carefully, if Mikoto were really his girlfriend, then he should be calling her by na directly.
Moreover, if sothing that important were true, there was no way Kotori would not tell him.
And so, carrying those chaotic thoughts, Shido bought the couple set and ca back.
The two entered the screening room and sat down.
Because his mind had been running wild, Shido felt a little thirsty, so he picked up the drink and tried to moisten his throat.
"Hehe… I want to drink too."
At that mont, Mikoto smiled and leaned over. The girl gently pressed against his side, then bit the other end of the straw, enjoying the sa drink together with Shido.
[Wait…]
Only then did Shido realize sothing was wrong.
It was clearly the sa drink, and he was biting one end of the straw, so where exactly was Mikoto drinking from?
He lowered his head and saw that the straw inserted firmly into the drink lid had split into two, twisting into the shape of a heart.
In other words, this was a couple's heart-shaped straw.
"Wh… what is this… I don't rember…"
No, if he thought calmly, while he had been confused, he vaguely rembered hearing the clerk ask whether he wanted a couple's straw.
After all, he had ordered a couple set.
"Ehehe, this makes us look like a real couple."
Mikoto blushed and smiled, placing one finger on her lips.
[A couple, huh…]
Looking at the girl's cute appearance, Shido's face turned red again.
In a daze, he felt that, deep in his heart, he did not dislike the idea of becoming a couple with Mikoto.
Rather…
It was filled with happiness.
(TL:....ugh...)
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