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She doesn't seem to want to talk about it at midday, and I understand that there are stories involving women, so she shouldn't be forced to ask.

But since it doesn't seem like there's anything you can trust completely from Shibako's behavior so far, don't ask. It seemed like you needed to keep in mind.

Send a chilled eye to Shiniko, who is stuck in the dust, and Zhou carries fresh food in a bag of supermarkets into the kitchen and packs it in the fridge.

It's food for four people, so there's twice as much as usual. That kind of tickled me.

”... Zhou-kun, do you care?

Zhou shrugs her shoulders small as the midday after hand wash peeks into her face.

”If I told you I didn't care, you'd be lying, but I talked to my dad a lot, and I'm still not willing to teach you that at midday, so come on.”

”What, hey, what did you tell him?

”Himitsu”

I always laugh mischievously at the circumference where I throw vegetables into the vegetable room as midday comes, and whisk and pound the back of the circumference, so I laugh.

”- Well, I'm not going to say anything about what Zhou wants to give you at midday, am I?

Words said after being stroked with a scattered head.

I'm not even going to rely on Zhou's parents that far on the boulder, so I'm going to work part-time and have some military money available. I'm not going to get out of hand about the exams either, so I'll have to try harder to reconcile them.

(... I'm going to rely on Kido.)

I may have been half joking before but I had a part-time invitation, so it would seem like a good idea to get on with it. I'm not very good at customer service, but it's just fine in the sense of gaining social experience.

I look up at Zhou, who snorted, as if he was restless in the middle of the day, with more work to be done.

I laughed at midday like that and told him again, ”Don't tell me,” closing the vegetable room door in an upbeat mood.