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Asakura originally thought that during the current off-peak travel season, he would be the only one at the campsite, but he found that besides him, there were already several tents and two RVs parked at the edge of the campsite.
It seems that even with various debuffs, there are still many people who enjoy hiking and camping.
Perhaps 'very few tourists during the Golden Week holidays' could even be considered an advantage for such people.
He casually found a corner in the campsite and tried to set up his tent crookedly.
"Huh… Why is there an extra ground stake? Why does this support pole seem to be a different length from the manual… Did I grab the wrong one earlier?"
What he thought would be a simple task of setting up a tent actually presented quite a few problems once he started.
"That ground stake should just be a spare, and you just need to swap that support pole with the one over here."
Probably seeing Asakura's troubled expression, a friendly voice came from nearby.
Asakura looked in the direction of the voice and saw a girl with pink hair standing next to his tent.
"Um…"
Asakura looked at the other party with some difficulty.
Because his purpose for coming to Mount Kumotori was different from these hikers and campers, he didn't really want to interact with them.
"Ah, are you hungry? Do you want some dumplings? But you'll have to wait about five more minutes…"
The girl showed a sunny, almost silly, smile.
No, I just wanted to make you retreat with my gaze.
However, it seemed the girl's emotional intelligence was not enough to understand Asakura's gaze attack.
So Asakura could only sigh: "Excuse me, who are you?"
"My name is Kagamihara Nadeshiko."
The pink-haired girl said.
"Miss Kagamihara, don't you have anything to do?"
Asakura asked.
"Ahaha, actually, I was just about to go pick up some firewood… but I don't know why, I just felt like there were so many snakes in the woods, so I got scared and ran out."
The girl scratched her face awkwardly.
Well, I'm truly sorry.
Asakura couldn't help but feel a little guilty, and the harsh words he had intended to say softened.
"When I go to pick up firewood later, I'll bring some for Miss Kagamihara too."
"Really?! Thank you!"
The girl's already bright smile became even more dazzling, even overpowering the afterglow of the setting sun that was almost touching the horizon: "I'll share a bowl of dumplings with you later!"
No, I really don't want your dumplings…
"More importantly, is Miss Kagamihara good at setting up tents?"
Asakura casually brought up a topic while changing the support pole.
"Hmm,"
The girl rested her finger on her cherry lips, thought for a moment, and then said with some uncertainty: "Average, I guess? Although I did learn it in school…"
"Your school is really… uh, versatile."
What kind of school teaches students how to set up tents?
"Ehehe, is that so…"
The girl scratched her head and said cheerfully, completely missing the implication in Asakura's words.
This made Asakura feel a subtle sense of frustration.
Even Yanami isn't this dense, right?
"Although it's strange for me, who is being taken care of, to say this, is it really okay for Miss Kagamihara to be so kind to a stranger like me? What if I'm not a good person?"
Asakura couldn't help but sigh.
"Because when I couldn't go home in the wild before, someone also took care of me and even gave me a bowl of curry-flavored instant noodles. So I think when everyone is camping together outside, we should help each other."
Kagamihara Nadeshiko said with an honest yet benevolent smile: "Besides, I don't think you look like a bad person."
"Judging good and bad only by appearance will lead to trouble sooner or later."
"Really?"
"For example, Miss Kagamihara, do you know my name?"
"Of course it's… Huh?"
The girl, who had thought she and Asakura had already introduced themselves, tilted her head and showed a puzzled expression.
"I didn't introduce myself just now. I just went along with Miss Kagamihara's words and glossed over it."
Asakura said: "If I did something, you wouldn't even know my name, would you?"
"Then what's your name?"
The girl asked curiously.
Asakura: "…"
So, you only noticed that I didn't tell you my name from that whole conversation, right?
"Asakura Takuma."
"So it's Asakura-kun."
The girl nodded happily and said: "Can Asakura-kun eat spicy food?"
"Although I don't particularly like it, eating spicy food is fine."
"That's great then. I'll save a portion of the dumplings for you later."
The girl nodded with satisfaction.
"How obsessed are you with sharing a portion of dumplings with me…"
Despite saying that, Asakura still accepted the dumplings the girl offered.
To be honest, compared to the instant food Asakura brought himself and the overpriced instant food he bought from the shop owner, the dumplings the girl cooked in a hotpot-like manner were indeed much more delicious.
Especially when in the wilderness, this deliciousness became even more precious.
The only thing that surprised Asakura was that although Kagamihara Nadeshiko ate very cutely, she ate very quickly. Asakura had only eaten seven or eight dumplings when the girl had already finished off the remaining forty-plus dumplings in the pot.
This made Asakura feel as if he had seen a variant of Yanami.
"Asakura-kun, you didn't bring a sleeping bag?"
When they were talking about how to sleep at night while eating dumplings, Kagamihara Nadeshiko showed a surprised expression.
In fact, it was after the girl saw the Sorting Hat in Asakura's bag that she first showed a blank, incomprehensible expression—after all, it was very strange to bring a broken hat with patches for camping, one that was neither a baseball cap nor a sun hat.
"I don't really like the restrictive feeling of sleeping bags, and it's not winter now, so it's fine without one. Compared to a sleeping bag, I think mosquito repellent lamps are more important this season."
Asakura answered casually.
After all, he wasn't really here to camp. A sleeping bag would be too restrictive. If he were attacked, he wouldn't even have time to react. It was better to just sleep normally.
Damn it, why are there mosquitoes in the two-dimensional world too…
As for vigilance, the snakes in the surrounding forest were the tripwires Asakura had summoned with Magic to set up for himself. If anything approached the campsite, he would quickly notice it.
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