Chapter 84: The Angel’s Unexpected Weakness (1/2)

Ultimately, Amane did not know the reason why Mahiru pouted, but her mood seemed to improve when she played with the cat, and she finally smiled at Amane.

Midway through, she ignored Amane and started playing with the cats. Amane gave her a wry smile, but for some reason, the cats started hogging his lap.

Once she saw that, Mahiru pouted once again. Goodness me, Silk however gave such a look as it seat on her lap, which calmed her down.

When Amane doted on the cats, the other cats started gathering around him even though he never provided snacks for them. Perhaps it was because they were fond of him. After such a precious experience, the happy time with the cats ended.

The duo cleaned the fur off their hands, and washed them. While Mahiru was washing, Amane went to pay, and then Mahiru gave him a slightly displeased look.

“Why are you making such a face?”

“You do not have to care for me this much, Amane-kun.”

“That’s not it. I’m also doing this for my own pleasure. Don’t worry.”

Amane said that he would pay, and he did not need Mahiru to worry about this.

“Well, I’m really grateful that you’re willing to enter a cat cafe with someone like me, a place that I’m embarrassed to enter alone. Right?”

“…But.”

“You should be a little more selfish. If you can’t accept this…how about we come back again the next time?”

“…This will only be to my benefit though?”

“It benefits me too. it’s a win-win.”

No problems right?  He chuckled. Mahiru pursed her lips, leaned her head on Amane’s arm, and held his hand once again.

After they had lunch at a highly rated restaurant, they went to a large shopping mall.

On a side note, the food was really delicious, and lived up to its rating. Amane had a personal preference towards Mahiru’s cooking however, and once again, he realized that Mahiru’s cooking was the best.

As it was Golden Week, there were more customers in the shopping mall than usual. As he held Mahiru’s hand firmly, Amane leaned on the wall, wondering what they should do next.

“Anyway, what are we going to do in this shopping mall? We say we’re shopping, but do you have anything you want?”

“N-nothing in particular. I think I will be happy with a little window shopping though…c-can’t we?”

“No no no, of course we can’t. I don’t dislike the idea of window shopping.”

Back home, Amane was often dragged along by his mother, and often went shopping with his family. He had some immunity to these acts any male would have suffered over.

Also, it might be interesting to bring Mahiru out window shopping.

“Where do we start? General store? Clothes? Interior design? There’s lots of them.”

This large shopping mall had countless shops for clothes, food, general goods, or even amusement. There was a myriad of them, and the mall was so big, one would be unable to finish shopping in a day.

They could not see them all, so there was a need to narrow the list to the smallest possible.

“Then…shall we start from clothes?”

“Sure. You want to buy new clothes?”

“If there are good ones. Summer clothes are stocked, and I want to buy some new ones.”

“Summer huh…that’s fast.”

The sweltering season would arrive soon, but at this point, there was only warm sun shining upon them. Amane felt it was too hasty for them to buy summer clothes.

It was common sense to purchase items before the season, but Amane could not let go of the spring.

“This summer…ah, you’re going to my hometown too…right Mahiru?”

“Ah, y-yes. If Shihoko-san and you do not mind.”

She nodded, probably remembering Amane’s suggestion to follow him to his hometown.