28 A Day in Marriage (2/2)

”Oh, the club got a spot here so I was sent to hand out fliers.” She handed him one of this glossy paper ads she was pressing against her abdomen. ”You, why are you here? Children are not supposed to be here after all.”

He went over the flier that promoted both the booth and the club itself. He gave his gaze back to Momoka. ”I'm helping out Attori's mother. This is her booth.” He paused, collecting faint memories of his interactions with Momoka.

”Oh, is Attori the blue-haired girl that stays here? I saw her yesterday.” She chuckled before leaning at the store counter. ”I just started yesterday so that's probably why you haven't seen me around.” Momoka chuckled and then eyed at Arata differently. ”Ne, do you have time in the evening? You haven't been dropping by the club. I thought you were just very busy in school.” She reached out to stroke at his face. ”I missed you, Arata-kun.”

Arata froze, getting a series of flashbacks about Momoka's route. It was simple, but too much of a roller coaster. Her route asked for the musclehead MC, and Arata barely delivered. He could only chuckle at her touch, but used a hand to take her hand off gently. ”I'll see if I can find some time.”

”Okay.” She just placed her arm on the counter, still leaning against it. ”How about school? Are you doing good with school?” The date-able was tilting her head left and right, at a very slow pace just to keep Arata's attention and not get dizzy at all.

”I'm... doing fine.” The man could not help but to attend more to where his gaze landed, rather than answering her questions. Arata could bet Momoka planned to lean down at an angle where her dirndl's collar would swoop so low, showing almost half of her chest to him. Moreover, thinking that Kanaru could come back anytime made him worried. He was not cheating, but deliberately ogling at another woman's chest in front of his girlfriend's mother was too much of a risk. Even for a game.

Momoka seemed to read his mind, perhaps through the sweat raining down his forehead. She pulled out a hanky and patted his face. ”No need to be so you!” She just laughed, letting him take the hanky. ”You can just come when you're free! See you, Arata-kun!” She waved and left, passing fliers to the passers-by that would stop to look at her.

Arata looked down at the hanky left by the grown woman. It had her initials sewn on one edge while having the club's logo at the one next to it. He stared at the blue crown with the letters CV written in the circle of the gem. He whispered, ”making me go to Crown Velvet, huh.” Then he twitched.

With 480 Affection points being handed to a date-able outside the customary 100 Affection points for every date, it was viable to max Tohru even if a newbie manages to open her. It only led to one conclusion: the new date-able will be introduced soon. And she will be found in Crown Velvet.

”Was that a hooker?” Kanaru's voice thundered across Arata's hearing, causing him to shriek in an ugly way, like a startled duck. She stifled a spit as she drank her drink with a straw. ”I'm seeing a lot more of you which I bet Attori likes.” She went to the side to go in the booth before sitting down the seat for the booth owners. ”Who was that girl earlier?”

”That was an old friend. Her company had a booth at the far side of the fest.” Arata wiggled the flier, secretly stashing the hanky in his back pocket. ”She was handing out fliers when she saw me.”

”Hm, her company? How old is she?” Kanaru made a curious hum, deceived by Momoka's appearance.

”Around late-twenties.” Arata tried to be respectful. He heard women were easy to offend just by talking about ages. ”But she's using her appearance to her advantage. Their c-company grew famous because of her.”

Kanaru could only burr at what she thought. She opened her boxed rice and meat while offering fried potato cuttings with hand gestures. She saw Arata sat down next to her and took a piece of the offered potato. She only remained silent.

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'Again? I thought I told Sayaka to cut it out.' Arata thought as he heard the error message. He just sighed and turned to the mother who was supposed to be talking. He had to rub his forehead to relieve the forming headache.

Soon, the current action time had to move on, and 6 PM action time came to pass. More customers gathered round the fest booths, and Arata had to serve more beer than usual. Kanaru excused herself for a while, being called by their contact in Hibiya. It was the after work rush, and Arata had to deal with it alone. It was a good thing that he had both the clothes which added a fraction of Speed in exchange of Stamina cost, which were Level 101 items. He moved like he was two people, but his Stamina was depleted right after.

The player started munching on the last chocolate nougat bar he had to heal less than 10% of his Stamina. It was enough for him to survive another action in the next action time. 9 PM came, and Attori went to check up on him. She did not see her mother, but she was more disturbed by her boyfriend's state.

”Hey, are you okay?” The mad girl sat down next to him and combed his hair. ”What happened to you?”

”Nothing really.” Arata finished the nougat bar, only to fall straight to Attori's chest, which she offered willingly. He wrapped his arms around her waist and savored the smell and warmth of his girlfriend's moist bosom. ”Ah, it does feel relieving...”

”There, there. You must have worked so hard today!” Attori laughed out as she caressed his head. ”It's okay, Arata. I think you should rest.”

”Nah. Battery charging 20%!” He rubbed his face against her cleavage, not minding her white uniform. ”Stay with me, Attori...”

”Of course, I'm not going anywhere” -she placed a kiss on his head, before keeping her face inside his tuft of locks- ”because I love you, Arata.”