Date a Live:This is not the date I wanted! Chapter 107 107: Arusu Route 1st Day (Part 2)

After school, Itsuka Shido and Arusu Maria ca to the shopping district in Tengu City.

Honestly, choosing the shopping district as a date spot felt sowhat lacking in romantic atmosphere. Shido originally wanted to choose an aquarium or an amusent park, places with more ambiance.

However, this was suggested by Maria herself.

"Although just taking a walk is indeed very economical, is this really okay?"

"Mhm. I haven't properly walked through here before, it feels very fresh."

Shido initially worried Maria would feel bored after walking for a while, but looking at it now, it was an unnecessary worry. The girl was currently looking at the shops on the street with a face full of interest.

"Is that so? But hasn't Maria already grasped everything about this world?"

"As information, I have already understood it. But actually walking through it, the impression it gives is slightly different."

"Is that so... I don't really get it."

"The buildings look spectacular, and the streets feel very lively. From the descriptions in the information, it's hard to feel that it's such an interesting place."

Perhaps infected by the atmosphere or sothing, Maria started trying to spin in circles to express the cheerfulness of her current mood.

Well, it must be the difference between reading a newspaper and experiencing it live. Shido nodded, half-understanding.

"That is true. However, compared to the scenes I usually see, the current situation is actually considered relatively quiet."

Maria's eyes widened in surprise.

"This is considered... quiet?"

"Well, Kotori couldn't possibly confirm the identities of everyone in Tengu City just to make this ga. In reality, in my world, the number of people here at this ti slot would be unimaginably large."

Although the main flow of people at this ti is housewives rushing to buy discounted ingredients. Shido looked sowhat subtly at the shopping bag full of half-price vegetables he was carrying in his hand. Obtaining the fruits of victory too easily actually made him feel a lack of accomplishnt.

"Is that so... I would really like to experience it too."

Looking at the expectant expression on Maria's face, Shido couldn't help but feel pity for the girl's innocent ignorance.

"No... I advise you not to. It's still too early for you... Eh?"

Just as Shido was earnestly advising Maria, Shido seed to see sothing unexpected and let out a surprised sound.

"Shido, what's wrong?"

"Just now, I think I saw Yutsuki and Maria on the other side of the street."

"Yutsuki and ?"

Maria looked puzzledly in the direction Shido pointed.

"There's no one there?"

"Eh, eh? How did they suddenly disappear? I clearly saw Yutsuki and a black Maria just now... Huh, they're gone."

Strange, could it be I saw wrong? Shido scratched his hair sowhat frustratedly.

Then, Shido's arm was tapped. Turning his head, he saw Maria currently puffing her cheeks in dissatisfaction.

"Shido! When dating soone, thinking about other girls is a very rude thing to do, I think."

It seed Maria had misunderstood that he saw wrong because he was thinking about Yutsuki.

"Eh? No, I really saw... Okay, I was wrong, I'm sorry."

Although he really wanted to explain clearly to Maria, seeing Maria looking very angry right now, Shido still decided to honestly apologize first.

...

"Phew... it looks like we weren't discovered."

Poking her head out slightly from the corner of the wall, looking at Maria and Shido on the street not far away. The two didn't seem to notice her preparing to leave, and Yutsuki sighed in relief.

"Geez, why do I have to hide?"

Beside Yutsuki, Marina complained with a displeased face. Yutsuki helplessly spread her hands.

"It can't be helped. Leaving Shido aside, you probably don't want Maria to notice your existence."

"Although that is true..."

But hiding like this, afraid of being discovered, made it seem as if she was doing sothing guilty. Marina looked like she couldn't let it go.

"Well, it's mainly to avoid awkwardness. If Shido was discovered by soone he knows, he would also feel very uncomfortable."

"You sure are very considerate in so boring places."

"I'm flattered~" Yutsuki chuckled and said, "Besides, it's rare that I get to go on a date with a girl like Marina. Personally, I don't want to be interrupted either."

"Like—I—said—"

Her cheeks a bit red, Marina looked at Yutsuki's smug smile and denied it through gritted teeth.

"I never agreed to go on a date with you!"

Indeed, to Yutsuki's invitation just now, Marina didn't nod in the end. However, this was not beyond Yutsuki's expectations.

After all, unlike Maria, Arusu Marina didn't have much curiosity about what love actually was; she purely just wanted to use this to achieve her own goals. If love were compared to a seed, Maria was curious about its growth process, while Marina purely just wanted the fruit that resulted from the process.

In other words, a date was an unnecessary action for her. So naturally, there was no need to agree.

If Marina were still the 'Marina' Yutsuki first t back then, perhaps there really would be no way. However, Yutsuki could feel that, just like Maria's emotions gradually starting to enrich, Arusu Marina also had so things changing.

"I just took pity on you, so I kindly agreed to let you tag along while I take a walk. But I have absolutely no interest in going on a date with you or anything! Don't misunderstand!"

Look, before she was like a little devil who was good at disguising her words, always speaking half-truths with probing intentions. Now she's simply a textbook classic tsundere.

"...I sohow feel like the way you've been looking at since earlier is as if you're mocking ."

"It's just your imagination~"

Seeming to be in a quite cheerful mood now, Yutsuki waved her hand with a face full of smiles.

"So, Marina-chan, where do you want to go next?"

"...I concede defeat, okay. Don't call by that nickna."

Hearing this nickna that was sweet to the point of being cloying, Marina seed to feel a bit uncomfortable.

Well, Yutsuki also seed to feel a bit unaccustod. After a bitter smile, she reverted to her original way of addressing her.

"Then, Marina. Is there anywhere you want to go or anything you want to buy?"

"Nothing at all. I'm not like that child. Everything in my own world is under my control, there's no such thing as wanting or not wanting."

Marina answered with a cold tone.

No need to ask, because everything in the world is my possession—Although Marina didn't realize it herself, this line full of Gilgash vibes... If Kaguya heard it, she would definitely be very excited... Although I also think it's a bit cool. (Turns head)

"Really nothing?"

"No."

"That really can't be helped..."

Helplessly scratching her hair, Yutsuki looked around and then her eyes lit up as if she found sothing good.

After saying a word to Marina, Yutsuki ran towards a shop. A mont later, under Marina's confused gaze, she ran back holding a paper bag.

"What is this...?"

"Taiyaki."

"No. I obviously know the na. I'm asking why you bought this?"

"Nothing. It's just that since you said you don't have anything you particularly want. So I gave my own recomndation." Yutsuki took out two taiyaki from the bag. Yutsuki ate one herself, and handed the other in front of Marina, "Try it, the taiyaki from this shop has pretty good reviews around here."

"I told you I don't need it..."

Although protesting softly like this, Marina still took the taiyaki.

So warm. This was Marina's only feeling.

Although as long as Marina wanted, she could perfectly understand the ingredients, cooking process, and even the historical background of taiyaki just by searching the database. But when actually holding it in her hand, the temperature that couldn't be described with data was warming Marina's palm.

"Yeah... freshly baked, piping hot taiyaki. It's different from the knowledge learned from data, right?"

"Ugh... it's just so-so."

Seeming to be unconvincing because her inner thoughts were pointed out by Yutsuki, Marina turned her head away stubbornly.

"Oh, isn't this Yutsuki-nee?"

Suddenly, an energetic voice appeared from behind. Yutsuki turned her head. A girl with a blue single ponytail, a beauty mark under her left eye, and a tone like a masterless samurai—Itsuka Shido's younger sister, Takamiya Mana, was greeting Yutsuki.

Although saying that, the Mana from the real world hadn't actually been called into this world by Maria. The Mana in front of her was an NPC constructed from the mories of Shido, Yutsuki, and the others.

"What's wrong, staying in a place like this alone?"

Unlike Maria, Marina seed to be set to be unobservable by NPCs. So from Mana's perspective, Yutsuki hiding in the corner at this ti inevitably aroused curiosity.

"Well... how should I put it?"

A troubled look appeared on Yutsuki's face. She couldn't very well say she was on a date with soone Mana couldn't see. Although she was an NPC, Yutsuki also didn't want to be looked at by Mana with that extrely pitying gaze.

"Nii-sama?!"

However, before Yutsuki could explain, Mana looked at the street not far away and said with so surprise.

Nani—Yutsuki poked her head out in surprise to look.

Shido and Maria, who had originally left this vicinity, were now slowly walking towards her direction. Maria held a flyer from a shop in her hand, her face written full of expectation.

Taiyaki... It couldn't be such a coincidence. Relying on her extraordinary eyesight, Yutsuki saw the logo printed on the flyer, identical to the one on the packaging bag in her hand, and a bitter smile couldn't help but appear on her face.

"Nii-sama and another woman... on a date?"

Seeing her older brother with a beautiful woman she had never seen before by his side when she wasn't around, even Mana, who always respected her older brother, showed a wavering expression.

"Yutsuki-nee... could it be that.... you...."

Her older brother was happily dating a woman she didn't know, while the woman who originally pursued her older brother was hiding in a corner secretly watching (false)—just these fragnts were enough to trigger humanity's endless imagination.

A hypothesis brewed in Mana's mind. Assuming Yutsuki-nee originally wanted to invite Nii-sama to eat taiyaki today, but Nii-sama refused, saying he had other things to do. So she ca alone to buy taiyaki, only to see Nii-sama bringing another unknown woman to the place she invited him to for a date. Yutsuki-nee, having witnessed this unexpected scene, could only silently swallow her despair and sorrow, hiding in the corner eating taiyaki by herself.

—Yutsuki-nee is so pitiful!

To actually be pitied by an NPC. The corners of Yutsuki's mouth twitched slightly.

"No, no, no! It's definitely not what you're thinking! I just simply ca here after school to get sothing to eat. I had no idea Shido would co to a place like this."

Although sensing sothing bad, Yutsuki denied it imdiately. But in Mana's eyes, it seed like words spoken to act tough to cover up the wavering in her heart.

"Even though he has devoted won like Sister in law Origami and Yutsuki-nee pursuing him, to actually think of extending his demonic clutches to other won. Nii-sama, that is going too far!"

...Mana-chan, although there are countless things I want to point out and complain about in your sentence, please allow to emphasize one thing first—please don't put on the sa level as Tobiichi Origami.

Mana grabbed Yutsuki's hand, patted her own still-developing chest, and said with righteous indignation.

"Rest assured, Yutsuki-nee, I am absolutely on your side. Don't worry, I will take you to see Nii-sama now. I believe Nii-sama will definitely be able to understand Yutsuki-nee's good points!"

"Eh, eh, eh! I already said it's not like that—stop!!!!"

"What the heck is going on..."

Like watching a dayti soap opera broadcast on TV, Marina ate the taiyaki and silently watched from the side.

"Nom—The taste is not bad."