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"I haven't said I'm going to Soubu High School yet, have I?"
Yanami complained from the side, "Isn't it a bit too soon to call me junior now?"
"Shut up and drink your melon soda!"
Asakura made a gesture of the Great Desolate Imprisoning Heavens Finger at Yanami Anna, then, ignoring the girl's comment that he "looked a bit like a husky," he said to Gokou Ruri, "Would you like something to drink? It's on me."
"Black coffee."
Gokou Ruri sat gracefully and quietly opposite Asakura, answering like an excellent lady.
"Eh? You want to drink that kind of thing?"
Yanami Anna was shocked, "Really?!"
"This is an adult taste, senpai, you probably wouldn't understand," Gokou Ruri showed a mature smile and said to Yanami Anna.
"Gah… That's not true! And what kind of adult taste is this? The real adult taste is much more stimulating!"
Yanami Anna said indignantly.
At this, not only Gokou Ruri, but even Asakura was a little surprised.
He didn't expect this seemingly silly fellow to have already stepped onto the adult ladder…
"I knew you guys knew nothing about adult tastes!" Seeing Gokou Ruri and Asakura silent, Yanami Anna continued triumphantly, "After all, not everyone can do it, eating instant hot chicken noodle seasoning packets dry…"
Asakura: "…Instant hot chicken noodles?"
This adult taste seemed a bit different from what he had imagined.
"Yeah, because I couldn't stand the hunger, the noodles were already broken up and secretly eaten during the third period. I originally wanted to throw away the seasoning packet, but I felt it would be too wasteful, so I just found an opportunity to eat it directly…" The girl turned her face away, her eyes becoming distant, as if unbearable memories flooded her mind: "That was truly something… especially the next day when I went to pick flowers…"
Before that, didn't she feel stomach pain from eating the seasoning packet dry? What kind of stomach does this guy have?
He felt that if he continued to dwell on it, he would lose, so Asakura decided to forcibly end the topic.
"Compared to such irrelevant matters, did anything happen to Gokou last night?" After calling the waiter to order a cup of coffee for Gokou Ruri, Asakura asked her.
"It's not irrelevant! Since then, I've understood the supreme truth that chili peppers are spicy on both ends, which could win a Nobel Prize in Physics!"
That should be a biology or chemistry prize, right?
No, considering the degree of irrelevance, it probably wouldn't even qualify for a humorous Nobel, barely reaching the Golden Raspberry Award standard…
"Nothing happened," Gokou Ruri, in perfect sync with Asakura, ignored Yanami, who was still pontificating about instant hot chicken noodle seasoning packets, and said in a tone that was either relieved or disappointed.
"Is that so? It seems things have settled down."
Asakura nodded.
"I also have to thank Senior…-san for the help," the girl said with a charming smile, her violet eyes sparkling.
"It was no trouble at all, and for me, it was an interesting experience," Asakura also adopted a dignified adult attitude and said generously.
"W-what's going on… This feeling that only I'm left out."
Yanami lay on the table, muttering softly while her gaze darted between Asakura and Gokou Ruri.
"It's okay, senpai just needs to continue living happily and ignorantly like this," Gokou Ruri's smile became even gentler.
"Guh, this indifferent and contemptuous attitude, as if I'm a capybara… And I'm clearly the older one! Asakura-kun, you tell her something too!"
Yanami Anna clutched her chest, looking heartbroken.
"Asakura… Is that so? Speaking of which, Senior-san hasn't told me your full name yet."
Gokou Ruri's gaze shifted from Yanami to Asakura.
"Eh, I didn't say it?"
Asakura scratched his face. Yesterday, in order to maintain a sense of mystery, he had indeed been vague about his own information the whole time, so Gokou Ruri still didn't know his name until now.
"Then let me reintroduce myself. My name is Asakura Takuma, and I'm a student at Soubu High School."
"Asakura Takuma? I will remember it," Gokou Ruri said solemnly.
Rather, her attitude was so formal that Asakura felt a little unaccustomed to it.
"Then you, junior-chan, probably don't have Asakura's Line either, do you?" Yanami, who had been listless, suddenly seemed to find something interesting, and with a mischievous smile, she took out her phone and shook it at Gokou Ruri, "Do you want me to transfer it to you?"
"Is Mr. Asakura very close with this senpai?" Gokou Ruri's delicate brows twitched slightly as she asked Asakura.
"No, we just met yesterday," Asakura immediately drew a clear line.
"No, no, no, we're classmates, aren't we?!" Yanami couldn't help but complain.
"Listen, Yanami, our kind of interpersonal relationships are divided into only two types. One is 'people we know'…" Asakura said solemnly, holding up his index finger to represent 1.
"The other type is people we don't know, right? This binary classification is truly childish," Yanami snorted.
"The other type is trolls," Asakura made a peace sign.
"Not even human?! Even for a binary, that's too much!" Yanami slapped the table and complained loudly.
"So, was senpai still a troll yesterday?" Gokou Ruri added timely.
"Don't make it sound like I'm some kind of monster who just became human today!" Yanami complained even louder.
"But before yesterday, the only thing you and I had in common, Yanami, was that we both breathe with lungs, wasn't it?"
"That relationship is too tenuous, hey! Isn't that no different from all living things since fish landed 420 million years ago?!"
"No, Merlin breathes with gills," Asakura said seriously.
"Your expression when you say that is too calm, making it impossible to tell if you're joking! Rather, why did it suddenly bring up Merlin? Where's the cause and effect?" Yanami was confused.
"If this were a language class, your score would definitely be lower than mine, Miss Yanami! The kind that can't even pass!"
Gokou Ruri, however, showed no surprise. After all, she knew Asakura was a mage, so it wasn't strange for him to know some ancient secrets of other mages, was it?
"Ahahaha, the coffee's here." The staff appeared just in time, interrupting the girl's increasingly loud complaints.
And Yanami, who was somewhat agitated from complaining, subconsciously took the cup and took a big gulp.
"Pfft-gaaaahhh—!"
Humans really can spray coffee out of their noses.
The human body, it's amazing.
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