Chapter 78 – Tailing (6)

I don’t know what romance novels have to do with being interested in dating, but Grape put on an even weirder expression and grabbed my arm.

“By the way… It’s a bit hot today.”
“Is that so? It’s nighttime, so I’m cool.”
“I know somewhere cooler… Shall we go to a restaurant?”

Apparently, he got hungry while waiting for me to buy a book at the bookstore.
I obediently nodded to Grape.
Grape pulled my arm in the direction of the restaurant.

Grape told me there was a restaurant he wanted to go to, and he told me about a bar-cum-restaurant that served cocktails.
I don’t like to eat out, so I don’t know what kind of restaurant is good.
I followed Grape, thinking that he would know this better than me, and he arrived at a restaurant with a club-like atmosphere.

There is a stage in the dark basement, and people are dancing while playing musical instruments.
You can eat while watching them, and people get up from all over the place and go to the table and talk to each other… This is a very unique restaurant with an open atmosphere.
It’s a very unfamiliar place to me because I’ve only been with men from my school days until last year’s training camp.

Right next to her, a tall, muscular man is flirting with another woman, and the woman obediently holds her hand and follows her in a slow, sticky dance.
It’s a bit like a weird dance… It is a restaurant where animals in heat seem to be courting each other.
How do you know about this place?

Looking at Grape’s face, I could see that he was rolling his eyes as if he hadn’t thought that it would be a place like this, as if he was a little taken aback.
In a dark corner, people who don’t know if they’re couples or mating partners who just got together for the first time today are kissing while touching their buttocks and rubbing their breasts.

“… The restaurant is unique.”
“Yeah, that’s right… They say it’s delicious… I thought it would be a place like this…”

Grape doesn’t match his looks, he has no dating experience like me.
For both me and Grape, this place is too stimulating and perverted.
A restaurant that hides here and there in corners and behaves bizarrely.
Could a place like this even exist?

“Let’s look elsewhere… ?”
“Have you been looking for it?”
“No, but…”
“Did you say this is a restaurant? Then we just eat.”

I entered the store, beckoning Grape, who was hesitant to eat, to follow me.
It’s grapes that count anyway, so I don’t have the right to choose which restaurant to eat at.
Since you said it’s a restaurant, the atmosphere must be different from this, and it’s delicious.

After following the staff’s instructions and taking a seat, pleasant jazz music flows from inside the restaurant.
The atmosphere isn’t bad.
It’s not too loud, it’s a good atmosphere, but… A bit too sticky

The sound of kissing can be heard from the back seat, and Grape’s face is red.
Grape shook his hair in a ponytail under the dim light as if he was a little embarrassed and talked about the menus he wanted to eat.

“Do you like tacos?”
“Tacos… ? It’s food I’ve never heard of.”
“Oh, then would you like to eat? The beef tacos here are delicious. With that… How about a cocktail? I will recommend it.”
“Hmm… Yes. If you buy me, I will eat anything…”

Unlike when I was at work, my anger is definitely released.
Grape, who seemed a little excited, recommended a cocktail he wanted to drink and a cocktail that I thought would be good to drink.
After calling the staff, I looked up at the staff and ordered the menu.

“Two beef tacos and some cocktails… Please give me something called catharsis and something called daiquiri.”

The clerk continues to glare at the grapes as he takes the menu.
The gaze towards me is not so good.
Why is this girl with you? It is a look that seems to ask.

“By the way, this is the first time I’ve had a meal with the team leader.”

When the employee heard me calling Grape the team leader, he nodded and stepped back.
Somewhere a little intrusive staff.

“Have you ever eaten together at work?”
“It was at a dinner party or when a number of employees went together, and it wasn’t just the two of us with the team leader.”
“… We drank together a while ago.”
“That… That’s true, but at that time, it was not a meal, but rather a conversation while drinking, and there was a little accident.”
“Nothing happened…”
“I’m glad.”

Grape listened to my words and turned his head slightly, pursed his lips as if he didn’t like what he said.
When I think back to that time, I feel bad.
If it’s enough to stop just at the edge, what would happen if we had sex…
Good to stop

It’s easy to know that you’re in a bad mood now, and you know why, but… Grape’s emotional ups and downs increased after he was revealed to me, and at one point he was in a bad mood, and at other times he was in a good mood.
It’s not hard to notice whether you’re in a bad mood or a good mood, but it’s not once or twice that you’re in trouble because it’s hard to know why.
I shifted my gaze to Grape, who suddenly seemed to be in a bad mood.

“Yeah, it’s our first time eating together…” I just happened to see it.”
“Well, I’ll think of this as silence and eat well.
“Gag?”
“Suddenly giving gifts and even meals… Aren’t you silenced?”

I said, tapping the plastic bag containing the doll that Grape gave me as a gift.
If you meet a co-worker on the road, it is natural to break up and ask them to eat deliciously, no matter how close it is, no matter how close you are.
Grape and I are kind of close, but we’ve never had a meal together until now, so we’re quite literally good friends.
In the meantime, meeting by chance at the same place is not a reason to pay for a meal together.
In other words, it can be seen that Grape bought me dinner for another purpose than just a meal.

“Gag… Gag…”

Grape’s mood was a little worse now.
Grape opened his eyes for a moment, looked back and forth between my doll and me, then sighed and sat down.

“Yes… I’m silent, so please take the doll with you.”
“I will keep it.”

Even if Grape didn’t tell me, I plan to seal it well so that not a single dust falls and take it out from time to time to enjoy it.
Even though I said I’d keep the present, Grape seemed to be in a bad mood.

At that time, the staff brought tacos and cocktails and put them on the table.
The clerk kept glancing at me and Grape before quietly disappearing, and as soon as I was alone with Grape, I started slicing tacos.
Slightly spicy yet soft and creamy, yet salty meat and vegetable taste… Quite tasty.

“Is not it? Isn’t this… ? Gag…”

Even though it’s so delicious, Grape doesn’t even touch the food.
He muttered something softly without even touching his cocktail.
I can’t hear what he’s saying, but he seems lost in thought.

“… Isn’t it strange that you’re still the team leader when you’re not even inside the company?”
“Yes?”
“I, before… When I do that, I call it Grape… And we’re the same age.”

While she was savoring the taste of tacos, Grape raised her elbows and large breasts on top of her table, turned her eyes toward the stage and spoke her strange words.
It’s like he wants to be friends somehow.
Personally, it’s not a bad word, and it’s something to be excited about as a man, no matter how much I like Rapid, that a beauty like this wants to be friends… Something is strange.

From Grape’s point of view, I’m a not-so-good, albeit not-so-good employee who even confessed to and gave me strange gifts.
Just like the other employees, we get along well, and as a result, I have more opportunities to interact with myself more often as I pass over things that I will be in contact with myself more often, and I get along normally… The opponent whose identity was revealed.

In the midst of even having sex by accident, recently there have been some conflicts related to work… He tried to make her do more work, was caught throwing away the gift she received, and even took her drunk to a motel… Such an opponent
The last sex or the motel job must have been a bit complicated mistake for Grape, and this time he gives such an expensive gift and even silences him to hide his identity.
From Grape’s point of view, am I a comfortable partner and someone I want to get close to?

“Mr. Grape… I like it when you call me, but why are you asking me to call you by my first name?”
“Yes? Why, why… Do you want to get to know me better?”
“Are you making friends?”
“Yes! Yes, in private!”

I keep getting close to Grape, thinking that I can have sex with him and even hypnotize him, but I need to be more careful.
To Grape, am I something he wants to be close to?
Not in my opinion.

“Why?”
“Why? ?”
“Isn’t it better for the team leader to keep a distance from me?”
“Yes?”

I don’t hate grapes.
It’s not as much as Rapid, which I like strangely, but I like it.
For me, getting to know Grape is a welcome thing.
It’s good to be close in person, and it’s good to be friendly with the boss at work.
But why is Grape trying to be friends with me… ?

“The team leader is pretty, and just having a meal together like this is a great opponent… I like it, but I don’t understand why you want to get close…”
“You want to be friends, is there a reason?”
“That’s true, but the team leader and I have a bit of a special relationship.”
“I see… Do you? Uh hmm… Because that happened… ?”

When I mention the special relationship, Grape’s eyes widen slightly.
I averted my gaze for a moment, looked around, and spoke softly, really worried that someone might hear.

“No, I’m the one who learned the identity of a magical girl, and the team leader is a magical girl.”

Grape’s expression suddenly deteriorated.