A few minutes later, braving the cold wind, Shiori and Yutsuki quickly ran into a café in the shopping district.
"Ah, I'm alive again."
"Yeah..."
Taking a sip of hot latte, both Yutsuki and Shiori's expressions gradually ward up.
"Shiori~ I feel like just lounging in the cafe for the whole afternoon wouldn't be a bad choice either."
Resting her head on the table, Yutsuki lazily proposed. A cafe is very quiet. As long as you order a cup of coffee, you can stay until closing ti. There's heating, there are outlets to charge your devices. With just a smartphone, you can easily kill ti.
The otaku part of Yutsuki's heart was constantly tempting her to just laze around here.
"Um, Yutsuki, we are on a date right now. We still have plenty of ti, let's go sowhere else to have fun."
Looking at Yutsuki, who seed to have been defeated by the cold outside, Shiori looked caught between laughing and crying. She scratched her cheek and answered sowhat sheepishly:
"It's a rare Christmas date, I want to make precious mories with Yutsuki."
"Mhm—Since Shiori says so, I'm naturally willing to accompany you anywhere!"
Hearing Shiori's words, Yutsuki instantly straightened her back as if injected with chicken blood, her eyes sparkling.
"Pfft—"
Seeing Yutsuki's exaggerated and cute reaction, Shiori couldn't help but chuckle happily.
"Then Yutsuki, is there anywhere you want to go?"
"Mhm, as for ... as long as I'm with Shiori, even if the destination is hell, it's heaven to !"
"While I'm very touched you have such resolve. Let's pass on hell."
Retorting with a bitter smile, Shiori shook her head helplessly and said,
"Then I'll decide where we go next. Hmm... it's 3:20 now, where should we go? Amusent park, aquarium, or maybe an arcade—ugh."
"Shiori?"
Seeing Shiori's voice suddenly cut off, Yutsuki asked in confusion.
"N-No, it's nothing major! Where should we go next?"
Her cheeks turning bright red, Shiori seemingly tried to cover sothing up, hurriedly waving her hands to gloss over it.
(How suspicious...)
Sensing sothing was wrong, Yutsuki slightly narrowed her eyes, staring at Shiori.
For so reason, Shiori lowered her head like an ostrich trying to hide, even her ears dyed a cute blush. Her hands pressed the fabric of her skirt between her thighs, her legs tightly squeezed together and squirming restlessly, as if enduring sothing.
"—!!"
Looking at Shiori's reaction, Yutsuki seed to understand sothing in an instant. She coughed dryly and asked probing:
"Shiori, could it be you drank too much coffee... and need to go to the bathroom?"
"—!!!!!!?"
As soon as she finished speaking, Yutsuki saw a large puff of steam rise from above Shiori's head. Seeing this reaction, Yutsuki knew she guessed right.
Although it was a problem that could be directly solved by transforming back, Shiori didn't seem to have spare n's clothes. Yutsuki didn't know if Shido had deliberately left them at ho to burn his bridges, or if he just hadn't prepared for this situation. If soone saw him, he'd probably be treated as a pervert and taken straight to the police station.
(What a pleasing... no! What an unfortunate accident. Endure! Endure!)
Yutsuki took a deep breath, suppressing the excitent in her heart to prevent herself from accidentally letting out a pervert... uh no, an impolite smile.
"It's okay, Shiori. I imagine this is the first ti you've encountered this situation since transforming into a girl's body, right? I understand. You must feel very unfamiliar, very scared, and very uneasy about this kind of thing."
Standing up and sitting next to Shiori, Yutsuki gently hugged her. While feeling the other's soft body, she spoke in a gentle tone.
"I-I-I-It's f-f-fine! I-I-I can hold it at this level."
Shiori's eyes were spinning in swirls as she waved her hands and mumbled incoherently.
"That won't do."
Suddenly, Yutsuki firmly disagreed with a serious face.
"Holding it for too long is bad for your body. This is the sa for both guys and girls. This is originally a very normal physiological phenonon. Shiori, you're just not used to it yet. Once you actually do it, you'll understand it's no big deal."
"I-Is that so..."
Hearing Yutsuki's words, Shiori couldn't help but believe her a little. After all, the girl's past life was a guy. Coming from her mouth, those words were inexplicably convincing.
"Exactly. In practice, it's very simple. Just do this and that..."
Yutsuki leaned close to Shiori's ear and whispered a few words. Then, Shiori's face turned completely red like a boiled lobster.
"Did you rember it?"
"Mhm, is it really okay to just do that?"
Shiori asked, lacking confidence. To this, Yutsuki nodded affirmatively.
"Don't worry, I'll go with you. Even if you make a mistake, I'll help you clean up. So feel free to make mistakes."
"Um... what do you an by clean up?"
For so reason, a premonition of unease surfaced in her mind. Calming down slightly, Shiori suddenly realized that the current Yutsuki was remarkably similar to a certain other person she knew.
"Of course, I'll lick... uh no, wipe clean anything Shiori leaks."
"I think I'll go by myself!"
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"Ah... forget it... everything that just happened... forget it all..."
Ten minutes later, Shiori walked out looking thoroughly defeated, muttering under her breath.
Just now, the Shiori who walked into the room with the red icon—well, the past has all beco mist and smoke. One shouldn't be bound by the past, but bravely look towards the future.
"The plan is to stall Yutsuki until seven o'clock..."
Checking the ti on her phone, she was still quite a distance from the goal. She couldn't fall in a place like this.
"Alright. Do your best!"
Slapping her cheeks forcefully, Shiori pumped herself up again.
"Sorry to keep you waiting... Yutsuki?"
Returning to their table, Shiori was surprised to find that Yutsuki was nowhere to be seen.
"Excuse , could you tell where the brown haired girl I was with went?"
Shiori hurriedly ran to the cash register and asked the clerk.
"Oh, that girl. She just asked for the location of the newly opened cake shop nearby. Said she was going to buy sothing and would be right back."
"I-I see..."
Knowing Yutsuki would be back soon, Shiori breathed a sigh of relief. Checking her phone, she indeed found a text ssage from Yutsuki saying she was stepping out for a bit.
"What was that, scaring myself over nothing... Wait! The newly opened cake shop nearby?"
Suddenly realizing sothing, Shiori hurriedly checked the address. Imdiately after, dense cold sweat broke out on her forehead.
Taking a few bills from her wallet and handing them to the clerk, Shiori hurriedly ran out.
"Wait! Miss!"
"It's an ergency! Keep the change!"
"No! Your friend already paid the bill!"
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"Ah... getting careless, what a blunder."
Walking on the way to the cake shop, Yutsuki couldn't help but knock her head in self-reproach.
As ti passed and the impulse caused by lust cooled down, Yutsuki also realized what a stupid thing she had done. Although it was an attempted act, putting herself in the other's shoes, Yutsuki knew her actions constituted complete sexual harassnt. If it caused Shiori displeasure, she truly deserved to die a thousand deaths.
So, Yutsuki asked the clerk about a famous dessert shop nearby, intending to buy so delicious sweets as an apology, and then properly apologize to Shiori.
"It's a rare chance. I should buy a bit more to take ho for everyone as snacks—Hm?"
Arriving at the entrance of the cake shop, looking through the window and seeing three familiar figures inside, Yutsuki couldn't help but raise an eyebrow in slight surprise.
"Tohka, Origami, Yoshino..."
...
"As I said, this kind of big cake is better, isn't it? It's delicious and you can eat your fill. What's wrong with it? Tobiichi Origami."
"To choose a cake using only 'big' and 'plentiful' as criteria, I sigh at your diocre eye. Yatogami Tohka, in the future, you will definitely be turned into a chubby little piglet by high calories and high blood sugar."
"What! Did! You! Say!"
In an instant, sparks seed to fly between Origami and Tohka.
"Everyone... please don't fight..."
Between the two, Yoshino looked troubled as she tried to stop their argunt.
"Hmph, Yoshino is one thing. But why do I have to go out with Origami?"
Tohka muttered with dissatisfaction.
"Isn't it because you made a ss of things while working in the kitchen?"
Origami answered expressionlessly.
"Wh—O-Origami, you're the sa! You tried to sneak weird things into the cooking, got found out, and were kicked out by Kotori-chan."
"Those were necessary nutrition for Shido."
"Um... this was decided by drawing straws..."
"Oh no! Yutsuki-chan saw us!"
Just then, the rabbit puppet Yoshinon on Yoshino's hand suddenly looked at the window and shouted. The bodies of the three girls instantly stiffened.
"Yutsuki? This is bad, we need to leave quickly—"
"Calm down, Yatogami Tohka."
Stopping Yoshino and Tohka, who were about to panic, Origami analyzed calmly:
"The opponent is Ryougi Yutsuki. If we show a panicked attitude, she will definitely see right through us. She couldn't hear what we were talking about from outside the shop either. There is no need to panic."
"O-Oh..."
Tohka nodded, half-understanding.
"Having said that, it's still best to leave as soon as possible. Unavoidably, a temporary truce. We'll complete the mission according to your choice."
"Mhm. I understand."
...
"What a chaotic combination."
The corners of Yutsuki's mouth twitched slightly.
If running into the Yamai sisters just now wasn't strange, encountering this group of acquaintances was truly bizarre. The shy Yoshino, and Origami and Tohka, who clashed like Mars hitting Earth the mont they t—what on earth made them go out together?
"Ah... as expected, they're fighting."
Looking at Tohka and Origami arguing inside the shop, and Yoshino trying to break up the fight beside them. Yutsuki couldn't help but sigh a long, helpless breath.
(It can't be helped. Although I don't know what happened, I should go in and break it up. Yoshino definitely won't be able to stop them.)
Then, Yutsuki's eyes seed to et Yoshinon's. Although she couldn't hear what was being said, judging by the situation, she was probably calling her over to help.
"Yes, yes, I'm coming right over..."
"Yutsuki!"
Just then, a familiar voice and hurried running footsteps suddenly ca from behind, making Yutsuki turn around in surprise.
"Shiori? What are you doing here, ugh—!"
However, before Yutsuki could finish asking, she was violently pulled into a hug by Shiori.
(Eh? Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeh!??)
Yutsuki was instantly so shocked by this sudden happiness that her brain stopped working.
"Idiot! Why did you leave alone!"
However, Shiori's slightly tearful reprimand instantly woke Yutsuki from her sweet dream.
"Eh? No, I just wanted to buy so dessert to apologize..."
"That kind of thing doesn't matter! Don't just leave my side without a word!"
"Uh, didn't I send a text..."
"Yutsuki!"
"Yes!"
Being suddenly called by na, Yutsuki involuntarily replied.
Slightly loosening her arms, Shiori looked at Yutsuki with teary eyes and pleaded softly:
"Don't leave . Since today is our date, then stay by my side the whole ti, and only look at !"
—Rumble!
Like a bolt from the blue, Yutsuki suddenly realized.
(That's right, exactly... I am such a fool. The last thing you should do on a date is suddenly leave the other person's side. Doesn't that imply you're dissatisfied with the date and it's over?!)
"I understand. Shiori."
Proactively pulling Shiori into a hug, Yutsuki had no wicked thoughts. She just gently stroked her soft long hair and answered with absolute certainty.
"I won't suddenly disappear again. On this date, no matter what you want to do, I will always be by your side and never leave."
"...Really?"
Leaning on Yutsuki's shoulder, Shiori asked uneasily.
"Really."
"Really... really?"
"Really, really."
"I see..."
Looking at Tohka, Origami, and the others who had already evacuated from the cake shop, Shiori instantly breathed a sigh of relief. The burden of the rapid sprint made her out of breath, and her words were intermittent.
"That's really... great..."
(I'm so glad Kotori forced to pull an all-nighter playing all those oto gas before this.)
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