Chapter 100 – Preparation (8)

“Yes? Were you friends with the lady?”
“Ah, uncle…”

The conversation continued for a while, and as Rapid’s expression brightened and his vigilance faded, the owner came out holding my cake from the inside.
Rapid kept his mouth shut as if it was difficult to answer the word friend, and I answered while receiving a cake from the owner.

“Rather than being friends, I’m the one who was saved.”
“Oh? Then you’re not a lady, but a friend of mine?”

The owner smiled and lifted the prosthetic foot.
His tone of voice and expression have completely changed from before, and I can feel that he treats me more intimately.
Do you feel a sense of kinship with the word saved?

“Hmm… But it’s a little strange, I’ve never heard of such a thing.”

The man who was laughing quietly suddenly said something strange, and then he looked at me quietly, then smiled again and patted my shoulder.
Sick.

“Well, he looks a little grim, but he doesn’t look like a bad person.”
“You look gloomy… Ugh, ugh…”
“If you were a bad person, you couldn’t be this calm. Then… Was it the blueberry tart? Wait a little longer and I’ll bring it to you.”

As soon as the man who had been patting my shoulder painfully finished his words, he immediately went back into the kitchen.
His hands are quite heavy, perhaps because he is a bread maker.
The heavy feeling does not disappear from the shoulder.

I thought he would be wary if he was caught being close to Rapid, but he’s less wary than I thought.
Did the word rescued make sense?
After listening to the old man’s words, Rapid looked at me blankly, then cut the cake and ate it once more.

“Chi, I guess you thought we were friends.”
“I guess I was having too much fun talking about it. What… I feel good, if I’m treated as friends with Mr. Rapid.”
“… It’s the first time I’ve talked about cake like this, so I must be so excited.”

As soon as I heard Rapid’s words, I thought this was it, so I immediately cut off a piece of crepe cake and ate it.

“Isn’t that a bit unusual? The man likes cake.”

‘Isn’t that a bit unusual? A man likes flowers.’
This line comes from one of the romance novels Rapid bought.
Rapid was taken aback when he heard me and replied with a wave of his hand.

“No, not at all… You might like it!”
“My hobbies are a little unusual for a man, so I like cake, and books… I read this and get teased by other people.”
“Is it like this? How fun this is!”

When I said it while showing the title of a romance novel book, Rapid immediately stuck out his face with his eyes shining.
Long eyelashes sway slightly, and bright eyes meet mine.
My heart is pounding and jumping, and my head is fuzzy.
I gulped and answered Rapid in a trembling voice.

“I-I must have read it… ?”
“Yes! It’s one of my favorite novels. Very romantic… In particular, it is said that the male lead is ordinary, but the fact that he does not lose to anyone as much as he likes it is not normal…”
“The fact that they don’t just look at the heroine who is a famous singer, but look at all of herself as a singer?”
“That’s right!”

Rapid’s eyes are sparkling, and the topic continues as he sympathizes with my words.
I tried to keep a smile on my face as much as possible and worked hard in my mind to recall the contents of the novel.
I brought it because I thought it was the least readable out of all the ones I read, but I didn’t know that this would be Rapid’s favorite novel.

“Isn’t the image of a singer inevitably different from the original image?”
“That’s right, I liked her portrayal of falling in love with an ordinary, casual male lead rather than other glamorous people she meets as a singer.”
“Coincidentally, the scene where the female lead is slightly attracted to the male lead because he also likes it and uses it as a perfume is very… ?”

Rapid paused in his speech, and he suddenly widened his eyes and twitched his nose.
It is a much more sensitive reaction than expected.
I pretended not to notice Rapid’s behavior and unfolded his collar to better expose the spot where he had sprayed his perfume.

I try to keep my expressionless by recalling the central topic of the novel, ‘Flowers on the Cliff’, which is the central topic of conversation with Rapid.
The male lead smells sweet and the female lead likes it.
Even though it’s obviously a chance meeting, I feel a fateful feeling that I feel one after another.
The heroine likes herself as a singer, but because she likes her very much, she feels more and more attracted to the male protagonist who puts up with her fans and tries to treat her like a normal person.

Each conversation seems ordinary, but it is a topic that you can like and return to everyday life from the extraordinary.
The trivial happiness, common topics and empathy felt in the food or conversation we eat together.
The premonition that you are a partner of fate that continues even before you feel a sense of certainty is the central material of the romance novels that Rapid likes.

“Something… It’s a bit of a strange feeling. Actually, I am a fan of Mr. Rapid.”
“Yes? L, a fan… ?”
“In the past, I tried to prepare for the National Guard, but I gave up because I thought I had no talent.”

In the romance novel that Rapid sees, the male protagonist originally tried to work in music, but gave up after feeling the limit of his talent.
The heroine feels a commonality in the fact that she likes work similar to herself, and is gradually drawn to it.

“It’s cool to save people, and that… It’s very pretty, so I’m sorry… Hmmm, I don’t know… I wasn’t bringing this up while I was resting.”
“Oh, no…”
“Guest, blueberry tart.”
“Ah, the tart is here.”

Listening to the song the female lead sings, thinking of the male lead receiving healing every day, highlights the fact that Rapid’s existence itself is always helping me.
Rapid kept blinking his eyes looking at me as if he felt something strange.
As soon as the owner brought the tart, I quickly ate the crepe cake and got up before the conversation got any further.
Talking too long can be bad.

“Then I’ll just go. Come to think of it, Mr. Rapid is taking a break, but for no reason… Just wanted to say hello, he is always helpful.”
“Ah, yes…”

Even as she thinks of the male protagonist who takes care of the heroine as shown in the novel, she never forgets that she leaves her place thinking of Rapid.
All first encounters in Rapid’s favorite romance novels happen, as they do now, by chance, but somehow quickly passing by.
After tidying up the place and eating the cake, I handed the bowl to the owner, finished the payment, put the blueberry tart box in my bag, and returned to Rapid.

“Ah… This is a bit greedy… Could we just shake hands once?”
“A handshake?”
“Pan… Because.”
“Ah, yes.”

In the romance novel, the male protagonist asks for her autograph by holding out the receipt she bought at a cafe nearby to the heroine, unable to win over her fandom, and asks Rapid to shake hands.
What I have planned is now the key.
I suddenly grabbed and shook Rapid’s hesitantly outstretched hand.

“Huh?! Whoops…”

It’s just holding hands, but the reaction is considerable.
It has no choice but to do so, right now, for Rapid, this hand is no different from a pussy.
I held Rapid’s hand tightly, loosened it up a bit, then held it again and shook it.

“Huh?! Hee! Awesome!”
“Ah, lady… ?”

They just shake hands, but Rapid’s face gets messed up.
Seeing that Rapid suddenly tilted his head back, widened his eyes, and opened his mouth, his expression was strangely relaxed.
Do it like this
I let go of Rapid’s hand and greeted him as if nothing had happened.

“Then I will go first.”
“Hehe… Hehe? Heh? Yes? Ah, ah… ?”
“I come here often, see you next time.”
“Yes? Yes… ? Uh?”

Rapid, gasping for breath at the reminder of his face, opens and closes his hand, confused as to what just happened to him.
Even so, there’s no way I’d feel anything strange about it. It’s hypnotic that only when you hold my hand, your hand turns into a pussy.
The reaction is a little stronger than I thought, but it’s rather good.

One of the things that is common in most of the romance novels that Rapid reads is the pleasant sensation and rapid heartbeat that you feel the moment your body touches for the first time.
It is common to see scenes where the body becomes aware of the opponent before the mind, becomes excited, and becomes sensitive.
A premonition of love, a premonition of love, a premonition of destiny.
It hypnotizes the senses that Rapid has learned from the romance novels he always reads.

I immediately left the store, leaving the confused Rapid behind.
Looking at Rapid’s reaction, it seems that her pussy is quite sensitive.
Or maybe it’s because it’s an unimaginable sensation, so I’m embarrassed.
What does it feel like to hold your pussy tightly in your hand and shake it?

The first hypnosis went as planned, no, more than planned.
I came out of the cake shop, but of course I have no intention of going back yet.
It’s good to have coincidental encounters in a row.
A series of coincidences is fate.
It’s a phrase that also appears in Rapid’s favorite romance novels.

Even in the romance novel I am holding, there is a scene where the female lead and the male lead meet each other at a flower shop not long after they break up, find out that each other likes the same flower, and continue the topic.
In that situation, the heroine gradually feels that it is fun to have a conversation with an ordinary male protagonist, and then feels strongly attracted to the man as he gives her a flower and shakes her hand.
It is described as a premonition of fateful attraction, a comfortable, pleasant, and thrilling sensation.

I checked the location of Rapid with the tracking function of the hypnosis app to create my destiny, and waited first for Rapid to go next.
Rapid always stops by the bookstore after eating cake at the cake shop.
It is a fact that I knew by checking the movement line several times.

Arrive at the bookstore first and wait near the corner where Rapid’s favorite romance novels are.
Of course, Rapid’s location is still being checked.
So far, things are going as planned and better than planned.

I think it’s a peculiar taste, but… In an era where e-books have become commonplace, Rapid always insists on purchasing paper books at bookstores.
Sometimes I see them holding up a book, putting their nose to the book and sniffing it, feeling happy… I guess I like the smell of books.
Come to think of it, the very existence of this bookstore is a bit strange.

In other districts, bookstores no longer exist.
There are used bookstores that deal in old books, but bookstores that still bring in and sell new books with the signboard of a bookstore… Perhaps this District 4 bookstore where I am now is the only one.
It is a culture that is now disappearing.
Nevertheless, the books in this bookstore are very clean, and new books are constantly coming out.
That fact somehow feels alien.

In an era where e-books have become natural, why are people selling books?
Old used book stores are also in an era where machines replace clerks, but shopping malls in other districts have also introduced mechanical clerks…
The shopping district in District 4 somehow feels like an old street, a shopping district before negatives appeared.
Is that why Rapid often visits?

“Whoa…”

After releasing the tension with a long exhalation, I take out a novel that Rapid would like from the bookshelf and put it a little high without the clerk’s knowledge.
I can get my hands on some of the follow-up to the books I’ve bought before, and some of the novels with similar content, but I put them just barely out of reach of Rapid, who is shorter than me.

On VisionNet, Rapid’s hobby is known as reading, and the only books Rapid comes to the bookstore are romance novels.
In Esther’s broadcasts in the past, I’ve seen Lapid reading an academic journal that sometimes looks very difficult, but that’s really rare.
I have a feeling that maybe all of those scenes were made up or made up by Rapid because he was ashamed to read only romance novels.
Rapid likes romance novels, so he will definitely be coming here today to read them.

After preparing, I spent some time reading a book in moderation.
I thought the book I was holding in my hand was only available as an e-book, but I never thought that it would be sold as a paper book.
After reading a book for a while, Rapid, who had eaten all the cake, moved closer and closer to the bookstore.
I immediately put the vision phone, which was using the tracking function of the hypnosis app, into my pocket and waited for Rapid to come in.

“Ah, ah…”

After entering the bookstore, Rapid took out each book and began to choose which one to buy.
As expected, I immediately go to the romance novel book corner and take out the books.
Rapid, who was looking at the books one by one, saw the books that were out of reach of his height and jumped in place, his huge chest bouncing.
I was nearby, covering my face with a book, slowly approaching him as I felt his face heat up at his cute figure.