Date a Live:This is not the date I wanted! Chapter 45 45: The End of the Trip

Today was the evening of the second day of the seaside trip.

At this mont, everyone was gathered on the beach, wearing yukata and playing with the small fireworks Reine had bought from a shop.

"Behold!Yuzuru shall now receive my Hurricane witch's sacred kagura dance."

Kaguya held a firework between each of her ten fingers, colorful sparks blossoming in her hands as she danced her arms energetically.

"Admiration. As expected of Kaguya's kagura dance (lol), it is quite charming."

"What's so funny about that?! Yuzuru, as my other half and also a Hurricane Witch, should be dancing together with !"

Seeing Yuzuru lighting a firework nearby and quietly snickering from a distance, Kaguya pointed the firework in her hand at Yuzuru in dissatisfaction and puffed out her cheeks.

"Refusal. Yuzuru is not a child. Yuzuru will not do such a childish thing as waving fireworks around."

"What did you say? Are you saying I'm like a child...? Looks like I need to properly teach my other half a lesson~"

Stung by Yuzuru's words, Kaguya's face turned red with embarrassnt. But at the extre of things, she instead revealed a smile.

"Refusal. Yuzuru feels danger and will now flee~"

"Don't run!"

"Honestly...Hey don't run too far!"

Shido thought sowhat helplessly about whether the departing Yamai sisters had noticed his reminder.

"...Shido...san."

Suddenly, he felt a gentle tug on his sleeve. Shido lowered his head and found Yoshino holding a firework, looking at him with a helpless expression.

"What is it, Yoshino?"

"Um~ sorry, Shido-kun. Because Yoshino's left hand is occupied by Yoshinon, it's a little inconvenient for to light the firework by myself. Could you help ?"

Yoshinon, the rabbit puppet on Yoshino's hand, answered on Yoshino's behalf.

Shido imdiately understood. Indeed, with one hand occupied, it would be difficult for Yoshino to take a lighter and light the firework by herself.

"I understand."

Shido chuckled softly, took the firework from Yoshino, lit it with his lighter, and handed it back to her.

"...! Thank you..."

After shyly thanking him, Yoshino hurried away, accompanied by Yoshinon's giggling laughter.

"Shido, do things that can only crawl on the ground count as fireworks? They don't go bang. And they don't light up."

Tohka crouched on the ground, looking at the snake-like fireworks crawling across the sand, poking them lightly with a stick as she tilted her head in confusion.

"Well... fireworks co in all kinds of forms. Not every firework gives off light or sound."

For Tohka's excessive curiosity, Shido could only scratch his cheek with a bitter smile.

"Hoh~ The world of fireworks is so profound... Ah! What is this!"

Just as Tohka nodded in admiration, a glowing ring suddenly darted to her feet and crackled loudly, making Tohka startle and jump up in panic.

"Tch... I missed."

Off to the side,Tobiichi Origami was lighting the next mouse firework.

"W-What are you suddenly doing,Tobiichi Origami!"

"Nothing. I was only playing with mouse fireworks. It just happened to land at your feet. I didn't do it on purpose."

Origami said with a straight face. Then she threw another mouse firework toward Tohka.

"Wah!"

After jumping away in fright, Tohka glared angrily.

"You're lying! You absolutely did that on purpose!"

"What are you talking about? Accusing soone of an unintentional mistake allows one to feel the moral decline of this world. A girl with such a personality would be disliked by Shido."

"R-Really? N-No, Shido! I didn't..."

Seemingly startled by Origami's words, Tohka hurriedly tried to explain to Shido.

"I understand. I understand. I know Tohka ant no harm."

Shido gave a bitter smile and comforted Tohka. Then he looked at Origami curiously. "Speaking of which, when did you co here, Origami?"

"A little while ago..."

Halfway through Origami's answer, an unknown flying object suddenly hit the back of her head, making her nod forward like a pecking chick.

The object that bounced away traced a parabola through the air. Shido looked over and saw...

A can of fruit juice.

"Honestly, I only went to buy drinks for a mont, so why is it that every ti I'm gone, you end up fighting with Tohka,Tobiichi Origami?"

Yutsuki, who had returned carrying a bag of drinks, said in utter exasperation.

"Ryougi Yutsuki..."

Origami looked at Yutsuki warily.

To be able to launch a surprise attack from behind on soone who had undergone special training—if what she had thrown at her had not been a can, but a blade, she would already be dead.

In many ways, Ryougi Yutsuki was a dangerous opponent.

As she passed by Origami, Yutsuki whispered in her ear:

"Origami, didn't you already promise not to quarrel with Tohka? Don't you want the promised reward anymore?"

After hearing Yutsuki's words, Origami's shoulders trembled slightly in rare fear.

"What! What else are you going to say,Tobiichi Origami!"

Tohka looked warily at Origami, but this ti Origami said nothing more. She simply lit a firework quietly and played with it in silence.

"Shido, here's your soda. Go over there and rest for a bit!"

Yutsuki knew that a large part of why Origami and Tohka fought was because of Shido, so she said to Shido beside her:

"Oh, thanks..."

After taking the soda, Shido thanked her. He looked sowhat worriedly at Tohka and Origami, but in the end he honestly went off to rest.

Sure enough, after Shido left, although there was still so tension between the two, they did not argue.

"Honestly... why is it that even though Yutsuki-nee captured Origami, you still let her out to play with everyone?"

Just then, Kotori, wearing a yukata and a black headband, walked up beside Yutsuki and asked with so dissatisfaction.

At that, Yutsuki gave a soft laugh.

"Even if we captured her, based on Origami's style, she would definitely escape soon afterward and cause trouble. Better to let her play with everyone. That way, under our watch, if anything happens, it'll be easier to deal with."

"I see, so the principle is that it's better to channel than block..."

Kotori nodded thoughtfully.

"That said, Yutsuki, did you make so sort of agreent with Tobiichi Origami? Otherwise it would be hard to imagine Origami being that obedient."

Reine also leaned in and asked Yutsuki with a little curiosity. After all, setting aside the Yamai sisters and Yutsuki, for Origami, who hated Spirits, at least Tohka, Yoshino, and Kotori could be confird as Spirits. Even so, she had not shown any particularly strange behavior.

At Reine's question, the corner of Yutsuki's mouth twitched slightly.

[Your underwear, after being picked up by Shido in the changing room and taken to the room, was used for all sorts of things. As long as you obediently behave and don't make trouble with Tohka and the others, once the trip is over, I'll give it to you.]

[Deal!]

The mont Yutsuki recalled the conversation she had had with the awakened Origami in the storage room last night, she felt like her sense of dignity had been thrown away.

Well... if it had been clothing taken by Shiori, I probably would not react much better either...

"Mm... it's a secret."

Using a smile to get past Reine and Kotori, Yutsuki ran to the side.

"Hey, everyone, co over here for a mont."

Yutsuki waved and gathered everyone together.

"What is it, Yutsuki? Did you find sothing interesting?"

"Kuku, my compatriot has issued a special hell-forbidden summoning order. It must be sothing very important. Could it be that those guys from heaven are attacking us?"

"Curious. Putting Kaguya's complaint aside, what is it, Yutsuki?"

Under everyone's curious gazes, Yutsuki said nothing. With a smile, she took out a button and pressed it.

"BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM—!"

Imdiately afterward, from one end of the horizon, strings of beautiful fireworks burst into the night sky.

"Yutsuki, this is..."

Shido asked in disbelief.

"Hmph-hmph... I used all the black money I made to buy twenty minutes of a huge firework display."

Yutsuki lifted her head and said proudly.

"If you said you used money you earned yourself, I would admire you even more, Yutsuki-san..."

"By the way, Kannazuki was the one who set it up! I gave him a couple of high-voltage shocks, and he agreed very readily."

"Don't reveal such terrible information at a ti like this..."

Even so, everyone's eyes were drawn to the beautiful fireworks.

"So beautiful..."

Looking at the fireworks blooming in multicolored light, Yutsuki's face showed a gentle smile.

She had never expected that, in this world, she would truly be able to enjoy these small, ordinary days like a normal person.

"Co on, co on, since it's such a rare opportunity, let's take a group photo as a souvenir!"

Then Reine borrowed a digital cara from Fraxinus, and Yutsuki was in charge of taking the photo.

"Kuku~ So you intend to capture my existence with the weapon of records. What an interesting idea, my compatriot~"

"Anxiety. This is my first ti facing a cara, so I wonder if there's anything strange about ."

"Yoshino, you need to smile at the cara and not look down~"

"...Mm, mm!"

"Hey!Tobiichi Origami, you're standing too close to Shido. Move away!"

"You're the one who should move away from Shido, Yatogami Tohka!"

"Um..."

"What are you dawdling there for... stand properly, you idiot brother!"

"Kotori, calm down."

(Really, at tis like this, none of them can stay quiet...)

As if giving up, Ryougi Yutsuki let out a helpless sigh.

Yamai Kaguya, Yamai Yuzuru, Yoshino, Yoshinon, Itsuka Kotori,Tobiichi Origami, Yatogami Tohka, Murasa Reine... and Itsuka Shido.

They were all her family.

A gentle smile appeared on Yutsuki's face.

In this unknown world, she—who had drifted uncertainly like the wind—had finally found a place that belonged to her.

After setting the cara tir, Yutsuki, as if to express the excitent in her heart, lunged toward everyone with a montum that seed ready to embrace all of them.

"I love everyone the most!"

"Eh?????!!!!!!"

—Click!

With the sound of the cara shutter, Yutsuki's first sumr beach trip after coming to this world ca to an end.

Original author'sPS: Yutsuki's sumr volu is over. Next, we will move into the Miku arc.