The two chatted as they chose clothes. After about half an hour, Shido's gaze stopped on the display window of a shop.
Among the plastic mannequins displayed inside, there was an outfit consisting of a long black skirt, a beige sweater, and a fluffy hat as an accessory. Although it was a complete set, the price was unexpectedly cheap, and…
[It feels like it would suit senpai.]
Shido tried picturing Mikoto wearing that outfit in his mind.
"Senpai…"
"Shido likes that set? I like it quite a bit too."
Mikoto noticed Shido's gaze and said with a smile.
"Ugh… It feels a little small."
The two walked into the shop. Mikoto checked the size, then shook her head. When she tried asking whether they had a larger size, she was told that there were no other sizes.
[I see. No wonder it's so cheap.]
Shido thought. So it was an item left over because the sizes were incomplete.
"Senpai, let's look at sothing else."
Although the design was beautiful, he did not want to buy Mikoto clothes that did not fit her properly.
"It's fine. It's not completely unwearable, so I'll go try it on."
But Mikoto shook her head and took the clothes into the fitting room.
After a while, the girl ca out wearing the outfit Shido had chosen. The black skirt and beige sweater created a very refreshing feeling, while the fluffy hat added a few points of cuteness on top of that.
However…
"Uu… It's a little tight around the chest."
Mikoto said in distress.
The size of the clothes was barely suitable, but the chest area felt tight.
[!!!]
Hearing Mikoto's words, Shido instinctively shifted his gaze toward the girl's chest. Then he saw that the buttoned part of the sweater was stretched tight. The girl's full chest seed to be protesting against the wrongly sized clothing, and between the gaps of the buttons, he could faintly see an alluring line.
"Ugh!"
For a healthy high school boy, that was far too destructive a sight. Shido's face instantly turned red, and steam rose from his head.
"Shido? What's wrong?"
Mikoto curiously leaned closer, wanting to figure out why Shido's face had beco so red.
As a result, perhaps because her movent was a little too sudden, or perhaps because the clothes had already reached their limit under the pressure from her chest…
Pop!
A button suddenly flew off.
"Puh!"
Then it struck Shido directly on the forehead.
"Wh-what happened?"
Having suffered an unexpected "attack", Shido looked in shock toward the direction from which the button had flown.
And then…
His gaze focused on the girl's chest. At that mont, one of the sweater's buttons had already popped off. Through the opened area, her snow-white skin and alluring cleavage were fully visible.
"Huh? Uwah!"
Mikoto blushed and covered her chest with her arms, then fled back into the fitting room. She poked her head out from behind the curtain and looked at Shido.
"D-did you see?"
Thankfully, there was no one else in the shop. Even so, that did not guarantee Shido had not seen anything.
"No! I didn't see anything at all!"
Although he had in fact seen a very eye catching scene, his reason told him that it was better to lie at a ti like this.
"Uu…"
Mikoto looked at Shido's completely red face and puffed out her cheeks a little angrily. But in the end…
"Fine. Since you didn't see anything, I'll let you off."
She decided not to pursue it any further.
After the incident, the two left the departnt store and went to the cinema.
[As expected…]
After watching the movie, Mikoto beca more and more certain of the thought in her heart.
Because it was a gunfight movie very suitable for n. If he were on a date with an ordinary girl, she felt that Shido would not take the initiative to choose this kind of movie.
Only Shido and Natsumi knew that she had been a boy before crossing over, and Natsumi would not have told Shido about that.
"Hey…"
"Senpai, what do you want to eat for dinner?"
Just as she gathered her courage and wanted to ask Shido, Shido suddenly asked her.
"For dinner, how about buying ingredients and going back to the shrine to cook together?"
Mikoto thought for a mont and said that. After being interrupted like that, she felt that she could not quite bring herself to ask anymore. She sighed inwardly, then suggested going back to the shrine to cook.
"That sounds good. Then let's go."
Shido nodded and held Mikoto's hand as they walked toward the supermarket.
By the ti the sun began to sink, the two had already bought the ingredients and crossed the overpass to reach the shrine.
"What a beautiful sunset."
Shido turned his head, looked at the afterglow falling over the shrine, and sighed in admiration.
"Right? I told you, the scenery here doesn't lose to Tengu Tower Park."
"Mm. After all, it's a secret that belongs only to and senpai."
Hearing Mikoto's words, Shido nodded in agreent.
Plop!
At that mont, he heard the sound of a shopping bag falling to the ground. Turning his head, he saw the girl looking at him with tears in her eyes.
"Sen… senpai?"
For a mont, he was at a loss.
"Shido, you really did rember everything, didn't you?"
Mikoto asked emotionally.
Even if all the previous signs could be explained as Shido carefully reviewing Fraxinus's materials, this alone was different. Only the shrine's sunset had been promised by the two of them later on as their own little secret.
"Rembered…Huh, why didn't I notice?"
Hearing Mikoto's words, Shido first froze for a mont. Only then did he realize that he had actually rembered everything.
It was simply too natural.
Just like how fish swim, birds fly, and humans walk, it was so natural, so self-evident, that he had not felt any sense of wrongness at all.
After all, those were irreplaceable mories that had originally belonged to Itsuka Shido.
"Uu…Shido....Shido!"
Hearing Shido's words, Mikoto could no longer suppress the emotions in her heart. The girl threw herself into his arms and cried loudly.
"Ugh… Um, Yakumo… senpai…"
[!!!]
Feeling the soft, warm sensation in his arms, Shido felt as if his heart was about to lt. He clumsily tried to comfort Mikoto, but before he could finish speaking, Mikoto's soft, tempting lips pressed against his own.
That made Shido's mind go completely blank.
He did not know how much ti passed before he finally realized that Mikoto had kissed him.
The girl with black hair wearing the sa style of kimono, and the girl with long blue hair, held each other tightly, sinking into that intoxicating mont.
It was not until they felt as if they were about to suffocate that they reluctantly separated. Their faces were flushed, they panted softly, and a glistening thread connected their lips.
They had kissed many tis before, but this was the first ti they had kissed so intensely. It was as if they wanted to reclaim all the ti they had lost, and sweep away all the hesitation and unease in their hearts in one breath.
"But… we clearly hadn't kissed yet, so why did I rember everything?"
Shido said sowhat doubtfully.
"Who knows? Why indeed?"
Mikoto gently closed her eyes and said happily.
If it could not be explained, then it must have been a prank from the gods.
After all…
"I am a child blessed by the eight million gods."
Mikoto held Shido's hand and smiled sweetly.
[Thank you… Tsukuyomi.]
The girl silently thanked her in her heart. Perhaps only Tsukuyomi had the ability to create such a miraculous scene.
And precisely because of that, the god who had consud too much faith had once again fallen into slumber, which was why Mikoto could no longer hear Tsukuyomi's voice.
But that was all right.
As long as the shrine remained, and as long as Mikoto was still a shrine maiden, she believed that she would definitely be able to et Tsukuyomi again.
"Let's go. We'll make dinner."
"Oh…"
Mikoto held Shido's hand and walked toward the house. As for Shido, he was still sowhat confused, completely unable to understand what had happened.
"Right… Welco back, Shido!"
At the entrance, Mikoto turned around and looked at Shido, who was still standing outside the door, with a warm smile.
"Yeah. I'm ho."
And so Shido also gave up thinking about the reason. He smiled, then stepped into Mikoto's ho.
(TL:ahhh...the weird feeling in my mind and heart finally ease down...)
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