Chapter 961: The Three, To the Bazaar ④ (2/2)

I've already failed in one area, you know? Isn't this difficult? Errr, what about Alice and Makina-san…… They've already finished theirs!?

Moreover, both of them were almost perfect in shape. Nope, this is hopeless. There's just too much difference in our specs for me to compete with them……

They both seemed to be waiting for me to finish, so I proceeded with the die-cutting even though I'm sure I would be in last place.

In the end, well, I think I did pretty well for my first time…… but it was broken in two pieces and some parts were cracked. I don't think I could avail any prize from this.

[……Thank you for your patience.]

[My child, I think you did pretty well for your first time.]

[Ahaha, thank you. It's not as good as the two of you but……]

[Well then, let's get to the grading…… We'll start with my child's work!]

Makina-san kindly supported me with a smile…… As long as she isn't going out of control, she is a kind person. That's right, isn't it? As long as she's not going out of control, she's a kind and nice person…… Seriously, if she just weren't going out of control……

While I had such a thought in mind, I looked at the grader Paradise-san. Looking at my work, Paradise-san declared.

[100 points.]

[Huh? No, ummm…… It had some missing parts though?]

[100 points.]

[……It was even pretty cra——— [ 100 POINTS!!! ] ———Ah, yes.]

……She declared 100 points in a tone so strong that she won't let me say anything!? No, no, as expected, this is just too strange, but Paradise-san's expression as she said that looked pretty serious.

Errr, I guess 100 wouldn't be the perfect score and there would be scores higher than that, right…… The atmosphere around her doesn't feel like that though. What the heck is going on?

[……Kaito-san, please don't tease her so much.]

[Eh?]

[Listen here, okay…… For her, Kaito-san is ”the being doted upon by her absolute superior”. Do you think she can afford to be stingy with the points she'd give you?]

[……A- Ahhh…… I see, I understand.]

In other words, it's like I'm being accompanied by Shiro-san and she's asking the Gods to grade me…… I see, that's why she had such a despair-filled expression on her face earlier……

For Paradise-san…… The role of having to choose who's better between her absolute superior, her absolute superior's best friend, and me, who her absolute superior really dotes upon…… That’s obviously impossible. There is no other way for her but to give us all full marks.

<Afterword>

Serious-senpai : [I never thought I'd see the day when I'd see Eden look like she has a stomachache.]

? ? ? : [No, well, it's not like she really is Eden-san…… It was also Makina who pushed such an unreasonable role to her.]

Serious-senpai : [Speaking of which, while we're on the subject of festival bazaars, didn't Alice tilt her head when Kaito mentioned yoyo fishing and such things during the Six Kings Festival?]

? ? ? : [Her mind was more poisoned by Trinia's stall culture than Kaito-san's, so she wasn't able to think of that on the spur of the moment. Also, it's been hundreds of millions of years since she went to a bazaar with Makina……]