November 12th, Sunday.
"Uuu…"
Shido was walking awkwardly along the road toward the shrine.
Today, he was wearing the sa style of kimono as Mikoto, with a blue wig on his head. With Fraxinus's help, he had beco the super cute and adorable Shiori-chan.
[I really want to go ho…]
Although this was not the first ti he had dressed as Shiori, no matter what, Shido still felt that when he was dressed like this, he could not calm down.
After entering the shrine and arriving outside the Yakumo house, Shido heard the sound of running water from the courtyard.
[At this ti… Right, senpai should be performing mizugori1.]
Shido thought for a mont and understood that Mikoto was carrying out her daily required ritual.
Considering that Mikoto probably would not be able to co open the door for a while, he simply took the spare key from under the flowerpot and entered the Yakumo house.
[Senpai probably hasn't eaten yet.]
He went to the kitchen and began thinking about what he should make for Mikoto.
"As for ingredients… Ah, there we go."
Taking several apples from the refrigerator, Shido tied on an apron and began cooking.
"Hah…"
After taking off her soaked white robe, Mikoto dried herself and changed into clean clothes.
As the weather grew colder and colder, mizugori had beco a ritual that tested her willpower.
However, today, the cold water of the purification pool had not bothered her at all. After all, a Spirit whose spiritual power had fully recovered would not feel discomfort from a re bit of cold.
[I wonder what it'll be like once winter cos.]
Still, her spiritual power would be sealed sooner or later, and the weather would only get colder. At this rate, mizugori felt like it would gradually turn into cruel punishnt.
[But for Tsukuyomi's sake, I really do have to work even harder.]
Mikoto encouraged herself inwardly.
Only, after she returned yesterday, she had no longer been able to hear Tsukuyomi's voice. That made her feel sowhat uneasy.
Click, click, click.
"Huh?"
The sound of chopping ca from the kitchen.
But only Mikoto lived here. Who could it be?
Feeling puzzled, Mikoto ca to the living room. From there, she saw a girl wearing a kimono, with long blue hair and a four leaf clover hairpin, wearing an apron and virtuously making breakfast.
"Shi… Shido?"
Mikoto said blankly.
"Ah, good morning, senpai. Sit for a bit. Breakfast will be ready soon."
"Oh…"
Looking at Shiori-chan, who was overflowing with newlywed wife energy, Mikoto sat down in the living room sowhat at a loss and turned on the television.
Today's top news story was the severely damaged High Platform Park. It seed to have been reported as a spacequake. But with an airship, wings, and a sun involved, Kotori and the others must have gone through a lot of trouble to hide the truth.
Mikoto thought this.
"Here, senpai. Breakfast."
Before long, Shido walked out of the kitchen, carrying a bowl of Italian apple baked rice.
"Apple baked rice? That's a little luxurious for breakfast."
Looking at the breakfast on the table, Mikoto felt sothing warm in her chest.
Even though he had lost his mories, the Shido before her was still caring for her in his own way.
"Because I wanted to help senpai cheer up. Ah, right… Here. Adult flavor."
Shido smiled and handed Mikoto a small bottle.
"Pepper?"
"Because putting chili in breakfast didn't seem like a good idea. So I used pepper, which has a similar spiciness, as a substitute. It can warm the stomach too."
Hearing Shido's explanation, Mikoto smiled and sprinkled a little pepper over the baked rice.
The breakfast, carrying gentle sweetness and a faint hint of spice, quickly ward her entire body.
"Speaking of which, Shido, why are you dressed like that?"
After breakfast, Mikoto asked the question in her heart.
"About this… Actually… Please go on a date with , senpai!"
Shido scratched his cheek awkwardly, then spoke seriously.
[Is that so? I see…]
Thinking about it carefully, when Shido had sealed her, the date had been carried out with him dressed as Shiori. Perhaps after watching the Fraxinus recordings, he had judged this to be the safest approach.
"You don't actually have to dress like this."
She said with a wry smile.
Unlike Miku, when Shido had worn won's clothes during Mikoto's capture, it was to experience the sa troubles as her. However, the current Shido probably did not know that aning.
"No! Please let dress like this. Please."
Shido said with an awkward expression.
It was not because he had a cross dressing fetish.
To Shido, wearing won's clothes was not only because he wanted Mikoto to feel happy; it was also a form of self-punishnt.
[After all, I did so many terrible things before.]
That was what he thought.
"Besides… even if I changed, the only thing at senpai's house is the dinosaur mascot suit, right?"
"Ahaha… That's true."
Hearing Shido's words, Mikoto smiled and nodded.
Whenever she rembered making Shido dress as a dinosaur, even now she could not help laughing.
"Then, please wait for a mont."
Mikoto had no intention of refusing Shido's invitation.
Right now, she maintained her full spiritual power. AST's observation equipnt could discover her at any ti, and then there would be endless attacks.
More importantly—according to Kotori and Reine's speculation, although it was only a guess, it might be possible to awaken Shido's sealed mories at the sa ti they kissed.
And so, Mikoto changed into clothes for the date.
It was a kimono of the sa style as Shido's. Perhaps Fraxinus had specifically dressed Shiori in a kimono for this matching-couple-outfit play.
After applying makeup, she and Shido left the shrine together.
"Where are we going, Shido?"
Mikoto asked.
"Ugh… Sa as usual, how about the bookstore first?"
Shido thought for a mont and said.
"Always choosing the sa place will make a date lose its freshness."
Mikoto blinked.
Although she herself did not care where the date took place, as a boy who saved the world through dates, always taking the sa route was a failing grade.
"Ugh…"
Shido awkwardly scratched his cheek.
"Then—"
"It's fine. Let's go to the bookstore."
Shido was thinking about other date locations, but Mikoto shook her head.
And so the two went to the bookstore where they often dated together.
"Oh, welco, Mikoto-chan! And who might this be?"
The bookstore owner looked at Shiori and asked.
"Hello. I'm Shido's cousin, Itsuka Shiori."
"What's this? So you're the little sister in law?"
"I'm not a little sister in law!"
Hearing the owner's words, Shido blushed and loudly retorted.
"If we're talking about a little sister in law, shouldn't that be Kotori?"
After the two entered the store, Shido said troubledly.
"Ahem, don't forget, I still haven't accepted the current Shido yet."
However, Mikoto blinked and said with slight dissatisfaction.
"Ah… Sorry…"
Only then did Shido realize. If she accepted Kotori as her little sister in law, wouldn't that indirectly an she acknowledged herself as Shido's wife?
"Mm. Shido, who is still in the middle of his trial period, please keep doing your best."
Mikoto nodded, then began searching for books that interested her.
[Yakumo-senpai…]
Although the girl's usual way of saying, with a black-bellied smile, "Mm, Shido and I are ordinary friends who have dated, kissed, and slept together", always made Shido feel very troubled—
Having Mikoto one-sidedly deny their relationship like this…
[It really hurts after all.]
Shido thought.
that one ritual of pouring water over on self at morning for purification
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