"So… where are we going?"
Since the destination was not the hotel, Origami looked at Shido and asked.
"…Let's go shopping."
Following Kotori's suggestion, Shido chose the option they had originally planned and prepared to take Mikoto and Origami shopping.
"Then, what are we buying?"
Mikoto tilted her head.
"Hmm…"
[Wait, Shido. The options are out.]
Just as Shido was thinking, another option box popped up on Fraxinus.
① Go to a clothing and accessory store and watch her choose coordinated outfits.
② Go to a pet shop and play with animals to shorten the distance between you.
③ Go to a pharmacy stocked with all kinds of powerful aphrodisiacs and love potions.
After everyone voted, option ① received the most votes, with option ② trailing close behind by only a small margin. The reason was that they were not sure whether Origami liked animals.
As for option ③… most of the crew believed Fraxinus's AI needed a maintenance check.
[Shido, did you hear ? Choose ① here.]
"No, no, no. We definitely have to choose ③ here."
After hearing the machine read out the three options, Shido answered without hesitation.
[Wait! Are you serious? Is that the kind of place you take adolescent girls to?!]
Hearing Shido's answer, Kotori almost exploded.
"But this is Origami we're talking about."
[What are you talking about? I don't understand at all.]
"…When you say Origami, you say aphrodisiacs. When you say aphrodisiacs, you say Origami. That's normal."
Shido answered as if it were perfectly natural.
[I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. What kind of woman is this 'Tobiichi Origami' in your mind?]
At this mont, Kotori sowhat understood how Mikoto had felt.
Right now, she felt as if her and Shido's thought processes were not even in the sa dinsion.
"Hmm… generally speaking, she's the kind of woman who mixes all sorts of aphrodisiacs together and makes drink them, tails at all hours, and collects my clothes to sniff them…"
[You're joking, right? How could a woman like that exist in this world?!]
"Even if you say that…"
Shido awkwardly scratched his cheek.
He himself understood how unbelievable what he was saying sounded. Unfortunately, the Tobiichi Origami he knew really was that kind of girl.
[In any case, the pharmacy is rejected. Don't forget Mikoto is there too.]
"But I think that if I want to conquer Origami, we should go there after all. And if I want Yakumo-senpai to believe , I should raise Origami's affection as much as possible, right?"
Shido answered.
Although going to that sort of place would indeed make Mikoto displeased, wanting to see Shido save Origami was also sothing Mikoto herself had proposed.
[I understand. But in exchange, the mont her affection drops even a little, you leave imdiately. Got it?]
Kotori sighed.
Although Shido's idea was outrageous, it was true that going to the hotel earlier had raised Origami's affection.
"Yeah, I understand."
Shido nodded and brought Mikoto and Origami to a pharmacy located in an alley.
To be honest, if the Origami from the original world had not once brought him here, Shido probably would never have found this place in his entire life.
"Shido… what is this place?"
Mikoto furrowed her brows. Looking at the rows of dicine packages on the shelves that would almost never appear in a normal hospital, she asked doubtfully.
"Um… you can just take a casual look. If there's nothing you like, we'll go to another store."
Shido said sowhat awkwardly.
And so, Origami and Mikoto looked at each other. In the end, at Shido's suggestion, they decided to see what exactly this shop had.
"Hey, Mikoto, what kind of dicine is this?"
Origami picked up a strange packet of dicine and asked.
"Let see… ugh…"
Mikoto leaned closer and found that the dicine package was written in Chinese. No wonder Origami could not understand it.
"Liu…wei…di…huang…wan1… Ugh… this… seems to be… an aph… aphrodisiac…"
Mikoto looked at the effects written on the package and said in a small voice, her face turning red.
"Um… Mikoto…"
Origami seed to want to say sothing, but found it difficult to speak.
"Hmm? What is it?"
"I think… even if you're lovers, that sort of thing is better done in moderation. If Shido needs dicine at his age, then in the future… it will be very difficult."
Origami hesitated for a long while before finally mustering her courage. Tugging at the hem of her skirt, her gaze drifting uncertainly, she spoke in a quiet voice.
"Eh?"
And so Mikoto froze.
She stared blankly for a while before finally realizing what Origami ant. The girl imdiately blushed and desperately waved her hands.
"N-no! It's not what Origami is thinking! The Shido I know is a super—herbivore type who wouldn't react even if a girl took off all her clothes and jumped into his arms! How could that kind of relationship possibly happen?!"
"Eh? Then why did Shido bring us here…"
Origami asked doubtfully.
"I don't know!"
Mikoto awkwardly shook her head.
Although today's date was for Origami, in Origami's eyes, she was probably the one who was Shido's girlfriend. This was practically like dumping a pot that Origami should have been carrying right onto her head.
"Hah…"
She sighed and began picking up the bottles and packets from the shelves to look through them.
[Why would Shido bring us to look at aphrodisiacs? Wait… don't tell …]
At this mont, she suddenly thought of sothing.
The current Shido and the Shido she knew were not exactly the sa. Perhaps the boy before her really was the type to bring conquered Spirits to hotels and live an adult life of decadence and indulgence.
[Tohka, Yoshino, Kotori, Kaguya, Yuzuru, Miku, and Natsumi…]
Counting the Spirits Shido had already conquered, if he did not restrain himself… needing aphrodisiacs was not completely impossible, Mikoto thought helplessly.
Thinking of this, she picked up a packet of the aphrodisiac and walked over to Shido.
"Hey, Shido…"
"What is it, senpai? As expected… you're not interested in this place?"
Looking at Mikoto's unreadable expression, Shido said uneasily.
"Even if you really have reached the point where you need to rely on dicine, I think pure Chinese herbal preparations would be better."
Mikoto placed the packet of dicine in Shido's hand, then added earnestly,
"But… the most important thing is restraint. Even if Tohka and the others are all very cute girls, you must not lose self control. You know, the saying 'lust is a knife above your head' is not a joke."
"W-wait, what are you talking about, senpai?"
Looking at the aphrodisiac Mikoto had handed him, Shido felt that the girl seed to have misunderstood sothing.
And it was a very serious misunderstanding.
"What am I talking about? I'm talking about how Shido has indulged too much over a long period of ti and now needs dicine to support himself."
Mikoto said with a red face.
a famous traditional Chinese dicine
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