Chapter 40: The Angel’s Shame and Unhappiness (2/2)

So he thought, and for some reason, Mahiru frowned.

“So seriously, what’s up with you?”

“…Nothing at all.”

She launched another physical attack at him with the cushion, humph, and turned her face aside. “I shall make Ozoni now.” She wore the apron, and entered the kitchen.

Amane picked up the cushion that was shoved onto him, and could only stare at the displeased Mahiru in the back.

Once they finished the Ozoni, Mahiru reverted back to her usual expression.

She was scowling when they began to eat, and he was a little uncomfortable with that, but the Ozoni and the Osechi were really delicious, and he found himself mesmerized. Before he knew it, he sat that Mahiru seemed to be back to normal.

Everything returned back to normal when they left the dining table and returned to the sofa.

“Speaking of which, are you going for Hatsumōde, Mahiru?”

“Hatsumōde? I do not really wish to go…I do not like crowded places. It feels like I am being watched.”

“Well that’s because…”

You’re an unbelievably pretty girl after all, so he wanted to say, but he remembered he had just ruined her mood, so he swallowed back his words. “Well, that is to be expected.” He answered.

“Amane-kun, are you going to the Hatsumōde?”

“Back at home, I go with my parents, but I haven’t made up my mind. I think there’s no need to squeeze through on New Year’s Day itself.”

“Agreed.”

“Looks like Chitose’s group is bonding back home with her family, and kids nowadays don’t really go for Hatsumōde. We’ll go a little later.”

Compared to the past…fewer younger ones, especially those in their teens and twenties, would attend the Hatsumōde, not that Amane and the others were weird or anything.

Not that he did not want to go, but he understood that it would be packed there, and he would only feel tired just going there. He thought it would be fine going later when there were fewer people.

“Besides, I want to relax over these three days. I don’t really care about the New Year packets.”

“I am interested in receiving New year packets though. ”

“You want to go to the shopping mall?”

“…I have no courage to charge into the crowds there.”

“Agreed. ”

Amane replied as Mahiru did, and leaned into the sofa.

They were not dictated to go anywhere on New Year after all.

Amane would typically hope to avoid troublesome matters, and was fine with just spending the day, lazing around. It appeared Mahiru had intending to spend the entire New Year period at his place, for the convenience of cooking. They did not have to worry about having food, or someone to talk to.

This is one fancy New Year, so Amane thought as he glanced aside at Mahiru, chuckling away.