Chapter 436 – Moe Element #2

It’s late at night so there aren’t many customers in this rice bowl restaurant.
I took a seat at a corner table and pointed to Lenka at the menu that looked like it was written in cursive.

“What’s on the menu?”

“Oyakodon.”

“Did you want to eat that?”

“Uh.”

“What should I do?”

“Woonadong.”

“The eel doesn’t attract much.”

“Eat with that.”

“Why? “You want to eat eel too, so you’re trying to steal mine?”

“Uh.”

“That’s selfish.”

“Eat.”

“All right.”

Lenka’s face was slightly red.
I don’t know if she’s embarrassed by her timid attitude, or if she just gets wet when she sees me, but she thinks it’s a good change no matter what.

Seeing Lenka like that, I giggled to her and ordered Una Don and Oyako Don as per her wish.
Afterwards, as she was pouring water into a cup, Lenka’s thin arm suddenly stuck out from the middle of her table.

She slides her own hands over her cups that are placed side by side.
Her clenched fist slowly opened, revealing a square piece of chocolate.

I think they gave it to me to eat, but the process was so cute.
After suppressing the urge that arose for a moment, I held out a full cup of water to Lenka and asked.

“It’s chocolate? What?”

“Clear your mouth.”

“Why are you giving me this now? “I’ll give it to you after you finish eating.”

“Even if you give it to me, it’s a mess… It’s annoying… Don’t eat it.”

Lenka wants to go back to normal even if you loosen her up just a little… It won’t work.
A slave must also know how to flirt with his master.

Tap, tap.

After knocking on her table a couple of times without saying a word, Lenka’s hand, which was trying to retrieve her chocolate, stopped.
Lenka, who had glanced at me and pushed the chocolate to the corner of the table, glanced at me with her sullen face and muttered.

“You’re doing all sorts of strange things…”

I like you because you say things like that but you get exactly what I want.

Not long after, the rice bowl I ordered came out.
Lenka, who was spooning the chicken and scrambled eggs on the oyakodon bowl along with the rice, looked sideways at my bowl and said.

“Give me some eels.”

“Is it so.”

I picked up the eel with chopsticks and put it on Lenka’s spoon, and Lenka, pouting her lips as if she didn’t like something, lifted her spoon to her mouth.

“It is delicious?”

Instead of answering my soft question, she took another piece of her eel.
I laughed and asked him.

“Why do you keep taking it from me?”

“Because it’s delicious. “Are you dissatisfied?”

“No.”

“… You should eat mine too.”

“People are so…”

“What. What…!”

What should I say about the way he shakes his chin and stands up…
He’s like a puppy who has made a mistake but doesn’t want to admit it.
I feel like a Chihuahua suffering from a nervous breakdown and a Pomeranian who is scared when he sees strangers but is fierce.

“No. Eat a lot.”

“I guess so.”

Lenka’s chopsticks skimmed my bowl again.
Another piece of eel that disappeared. This time, I looked at Lenka with a dumbfounded expression as she took the large body.

“If you’re going to get eel for every spoonful, why don’t you just order eel as a side dish?”

“I can’t eat it all. And you gave me chocolate.”

Isn’t it too unfair to exchange an eel for a piece of chocolate the size of a fingernail?
Still, I watch it because it’s cute.

“All right.”

Maybe you didn’t like the indifferent answer?
Lenka’s beautiful eyebrows twitched.
I think I was expecting a fight, but I’m a little embarrassed because it’s different from what I expected.
I can clearly see that they were planning to make fun of each other if I accepted it.

“Bon appetite.”

At my continued words, one corner of Lenka’s mouth twitched.
I’m about to burst out laughing when I see his annoyed expression, but I’ll hold back.
The more I persevere, the more Lenka will be reborn as an attractive heroine.

**

After finishing her meal, I picked up Lenka and returned to her house.
Perhaps annoyed by the silence in the car without any personal conversation, Lenka got out of her car and glared at me with a frown on her face.

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

“…I don’t know what we’re going to do.”

“I think that’s what I should say in this situation.”

“What…! What…! “Why do you say such things?”

The way he insists on it is so adorable.

“I have no intention of arguing. “I apologize.”

“That’s a really annoying style. “Are you intentionally making me sick?”

“No. Sorry.”

“Just die.”

“I told you not to die.”

“I changed my mind.”

Lenka’s words were filled with sincerity.
It’s not that he’s really telling me to die, it’s just that he’s showing his feelings of going crazy and jumping up and down.

She said as if she was disappointed that I had calmed down the corners of her mouth that had been rising without her knowledge.

“I’m hurt.”

Then, a slight look of concern appeared in Lenka’s eyes.
And what she said next made me not able to hold back my laughter any longer.

“Then just die half the time.”

When she covered her mouth and cleared her throat in response to her nonsense, she saw that Lenka, although he looked fishy on the outside, was clearly in a good mood… She smiled like that.

“I like it but it’s funny…”

It feels like the air has cleared for the first time in a while.
Lenka probably feels the same way.
Here she should add some cold water and then give her carrots.

“Shall we hug you one last time?”

“What? Last?”

A double wick lit up in Lenka’s long eyelashes.
It looks like you misunderstood what I said.
Actually, I said that on purpose to make him wake up a little out of affection.

“I forgot the word ‘today.’ “Let’s hug each other for the last time today.”

At those words, a look of relief appeared on Lenka’s face.
Anyway, it’s true that she likes me a lot.

“Nope?”

“Then that’s it. “Go in.”

It was when I was about to get into the car that I heard Lenka’s cool refusal and she shrugged her shoulders.
A quick sound of shoes hitting concrete came from behind me, and then I felt a slight pressure and a warm touch on my lower back.
Lenka gave him a hug.

I had never expected Lenka to do this, and the moment I turned her head, her hand slipped from my waist.

Without saying a word, she walks away, teasing her long legs.
I feel like there is some unknown warmth in the empty space where she ran away after slamming the door shut.

“Her…”

I let out a breath mixed with half embarrassment and half joy and scratched one cheek.
I wonder what will happen to my fluttering heart if I just show it a taste and it pops.
Still, I am very proud that he approached me on his own and expressed his affection.

As I returned home alone in the dark night breeze, this thought suddenly occurred to me.
I think that now Lenka is the only one who has not seen our house.
After inviting her to her house, she wants to get together with all four of her heroines.

Come to think of it, I didn’t ask about the photo.
I should have hinted at luck earlier when the mood was good…
Lenka did something so cute that I completely forgot about it.

Anyway, there is a lot of time and a lot of timing to ask questions.
After thinking about that, I took a shower and lay down on the mattress.

The air conditioner is blowing cold air.
At times like this, it would be perfect to hug and sleep with Chinami, who has the warmest body among the heroines…
I want to slowly fall into sleep while touching her soft skin.

Why did I become sentimental today?
I think it’s probably because Lenka is acting excited.
And yet I haven’t even received a good-bye text message… I don’t have the mindset of a slave at all.
Did you think you won today’s battle of wits? You will soon realize that this was a big mistake.

I closed my eyes with a burning desire to win, and tossed and turned in and out of a light sleep.
Even Suma is anxious for me. I’m shocked.

**

The next day, when I woke up and looked in the mirror, my face was swollen.
Even if it’s not a steamed bun, it’s just noticeable.
Why is this happening even though I haven’t eaten anything spicy? The human body is truly unknown.

I looked at my phone screen and saw a message from Miyuki, so I checked her notifications.
The text message said that the side dishes must have run out by now, so come and pick them up today.

As she expected, the side dish container was running low.
Did you ride a small head? Now I feel like I know me better than Tetsuya.

When I think of poop in the morning, I feel dirty.
I shook off her head and blew away the stupid image of Tetsuya that appeared in her mind. After washing her body, I put on my hat and left the house.

I thought about taking a car, but decided to just walk.
It was because the weather was cool.
At times like this, good things always happened, but is today any different?
Let’s check it out.

As I was heading towards Miyuki’s house at a leisurely pace, I saw a familiar silhouette over the hill.
A woman with her light brown hair, wearing an innocent dress, is holding a large bundle in both her hands.
It was Miyuki.

“Matsuda-kun!”

She must have spotted me, putting down her bundle and waving one hand wildly.
I guess the only good thing that will happen today is meeting Miyuki.
I approached her with a light hop and asked with a puzzled expression.

“Were you on your way home?”

“Huh.”

“Why?”

“Why? “Can’t I go?”

“That’s not it, you left a text message telling me to come pick up a side dish.”

“Because there was no reply, I thought he was asleep and tried to bring it to him myself.”

“I’m having a hard time buying it.”

“I’m usually like this. Matsuda-kun, where were you going?”

“Your house.”

“My house? “You usually come by car.”

“I wanted to walk today. “This is a place you can’t drive to, but if you had, you would have passed by.”

“I know…? “I’m very lucky.”

It’s not luck, it’s necessity.
Because you and I both thought the same thing.
After swallowing those words, I took the bundle from Miyuki.

Clear sky, occasional wind…
It’s perfect weather for a picnic.
I’ll stop by the house, change my clothes, and come out right away.
But did I clear up any traces of Chinami or Hiyori?