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At any rate, I was not embarrassed by the “manners that a man should naturally acquire,” which Rinne had drilled into me.
I breathed a sigh of relief.
I took a sip of my orange juice without ice and pondered for a moment.
What should we do after eating and talking a little?
I guess we could disband, but there is a game arcade nearby.
I think we should end the meal a little early and have a conversation with a view to playing at the arcade.
It’s not cool to say, “I don’t have a plan, I’m just going to go with the flow.”
I think it is necessary to always be willing to propose some kind of plan.
As I was doing so, the food I had ordered arrived.
I had ordered Milanese doria and carbonara.
I wanted to have peperoncino as usual, but I don’t have a taste for making people smell garlic in front of three girls.
Rinne had hash turmeric rice and green bean salad as usual. She likes beans.
Kirisaki san had the same Milanese doria as I did, topped with a warm egg.
“Is that enough?”
I ask.
“Because there are fries, too!”
She laughed.
And it was Kitajima san who surprised me.
“I’ve never seen a woman order steak at …… Saizeriya before.”
“I saw Shiori san, so she’s the second person.”
To the surprise of the two girls, Kitajima san ordered a ribeye steak and rice.
“I-I like meat. ……”
Kitajima san says, a little shyly.
“I see…… Shiori san is no different, so the secret to her big b**bs is meat power….”
“I’ve had a steak at Saizeriya once, and it was pretty good. I can understand why you would want to order it.”
And I follow up with Kitajima san.
“Thank you very much. It makes me feel a little better to hear you say that.”
After such an exchange, we said “Itadakimasu” in unison and began to eat.
Yeah. It’s delicious.
I knew it wouldn’t be a miss, Saizeriya.
As I was eating….
“Hey, Kirito. I want some carbonara. Give it to me.”
“…… tyrant?”
I said and handed a plate of carbonara to Rinne.
“I’ll take yours”
“Tch, I don’t have a choice. If you touch my green beans, I’m not gonna let you get away with it.”
“I understand.”
While exchanging such things, Rinne and I exchange some of our food with each other.
“Peperoncino is good, but carbonara is also good. You can’t go wrong with this, can you, Saizeriya?
“The green bean salad has changed. The bacon was good, but the cheese is good too.”
And then, as we were having this conversation…
“Are childhood friends always like that?”
Kirisaki san asked me.
“Ah, we share food a lot.”
When I responded, Rinne, the neighbor, said something I didn’t quite understand.
“Well, it’s normal for ‘family.’”
Family? What on earth is she talking about?
As I was about to ask that, Kitajima san offered me a piece of meat.
“S-Sakurai kun! The meat is delicious too!”
Inevitably, it’s in the form of an “Aaahn” but …… I can’t help it.
When Kitajima san gave me one of the meats, it still tasted like a steak full of juices, just like at a steak restaurant.
“Oh, a heated battle between women. It’s like watching Shuri san and Shiori san”
What a thing to say, Kirisaki san, as if it were someone else’s problem.
Well, someone else’s problem, huh?
As we finished our main course, I asked the waiter who came to take down our plates to ask for two plates of fries. I told her.
“If you’re full, let me know. I can eat as much as I want by myself.”
For girls.
[Diet.]
I personally prefer it with a little meat on it.
Then two plates of freshly made fries were placed in the middle of our table. They were placed in the middle of our table.
I take the lead and pick one up to eat.
In case it’s ridiculously hot, I have to sacrifice myself.
Ouchhh!
The fries I pinched were soooo hot.
I think everyone …… would prefer it a little later.”
I huffed and puffed on my fries before eating them.
My fingers had made a noble sacrifice.
“Then I guess we’re going to have some personal stories now to deepen our friendship.”
What a thing to say, Kirisaki san
“I’m the one who started it, so I’ll do it first!”
Kirisaki san said, and with her fingers guarded by paper, she picked up the still-hot fries, dipped them in ketchup, and ate them.
“My family consists of three people my father, my brother and I. My mother passed away six years ago. My mother passed away six years ago. Oh, don’t worry about it, okay?”
And then we start talking.
I mean, suddenly the conversation is heavy. ……
“I always do the cooking because my mother is not here. My brother does the laundry and cleaning. My father is in charge of earning money.”
She laughs and says
“I also …… know this is something normal people wouldn’t understand, and I’ve already given up on it, but ……”
After prefacing her speech with this, Kirisaki san began to say something that was a bit incomprehensible to me.
“Onii has two people, a ‘girlfriend’ and a ‘very important woman’.”
“”Yes?””
At our question, Kirisaki san let out a loud sigh.
“The girlfriend is Fujisaki Shuri chan. A very important woman is Kurose Shiori chan. You and Shiori chan have already met, right, Towa san?”
“Y-yes. Yes, I have met her. She was a very nice woman.”
Kirisaki san laughs at these words.
“Yeah. I think they are both wonderful women. Shiori chan had a little incident in the beginning, but the statute of limitations has passed. Neither of them is ‘equal’ or ‘fair,’ but I love them both.”
“In other words, your brother is ‘two-timing’. That’s what it means, isn’t it? He’s a lousy man.”
Disgusting Rinne lines.
I guess I have nothing but sympathy too….
“Haha. Well, it looks that way to others, and it looks that way to me, too. But I don’t think they are satisfied …… but with that. I get the feeling that I’m convinced.”
Kirisaki san’s words sounded as if she had given up.
I’m sure they had a lot of troubles and struggles to get there. ……
When I think about it, …… it’s kind of sad.
I’m sure that behind the scenes, Kirisaki senpai, who looks and acts so serious and sincere, was going through all this.
“Well, I guess my personal story goes something like this!”
And as she cheerfully closed the story, we said in unison.
“”Too heavy from the start!””
‘”Haha, I’m sorry!”
Kirisaki san laughed bitterly when she said so.
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