"Is it over?"
"It has just begun."
"You're lying, right? It's already after-school time..."
Yanami lay on the table in a despairing murmur.
Initially, the girl didn't take staying with Asakura for a whole day as much of a problem, since in her impression, she seemed to be by Asakura's side all the time during school anyway.
But when it was actually put into practice, she discovered the troublesome parts.
First of all, the gazes from the friends around her became strange. Even though she explained that they weren't boyfriend and girlfriend, and it was only because of a "penalty game" — which was the excuse they had agreed upon early that morning — that they needed to stick together for a day, she still couldn't stop those investigative looks seeking the truth.
In addition, staying by a boy's side all day except for going to the restroom also gave the girl a strange sense of self-consciousness: usually, when others weren't around, it wouldn't matter even if she did some movements that were a bit lackadaisical for a girl, but with a boy always staying by her side, she needed to pay attention to her words and deeds at all times (Asakura: Did you really pay attention?). In short, it was exhausting.
The girl's usually energetic face was now filled with a world-weary low pressure, looking indeed quite tired.
"Soon, soon..." Asakura comforted casually.
"You said that during the lunch break too!"
The girl puffed out her cheeks, looking at him with the eyes of a liar.
"Well, after all, supernatural things are like this; it's hard to have an accurate estimate."
Asakura felt the magic level inside the girl's body. Although it hadn't reached the safety line yet, it was much better than in the morning. So he rubbed his chin and said: "From the current view... well, there's probably about one or two hours left before 'complete victory'."
"But it's already after-school time, you know? And it's not the school's after-school, it's the kind where club activities are about to end, and in a while, teachers will come over to patrol."
Yanami looked at Asakura.
"Then let's just stay in the Club room for a while; that way we won't be seen by the patrolling teachers."
Asakura, who had once quietly stayed overnight at school, said indifferently: "With previous experience, Yanami, you shouldn't need to be so worried, right?"
By the way, the place where the two were currently located was the Service Club activity room.
Because Yanami couldn't stand Asagumo's gaze earlier, she had brought Asakura to escape from the Club room and moved to the activity room.
And now, inside the activity room, besides the two of them, there was only the president of the Service Club and the external member of the Magic Club, Yukinoshita Yukino.
"No, my meaning is 'what should we do if we miss dinner'."
Seeing that Asakura completely ignored the meaning in her eyes, Yanami opened her mouth to explain.
"Then... not eat dinner?" Asakura said tentatively.
The girl stared at Asakura with an expression as if she had seen Satan descend upon the world.
"Are you a demon?"
"I'm a magician..." Asakura answered modestly.
"Takuma-kun, can't you manifest all sorts of food? Anything is fine, please give me a portion of hot, rich, oily, and saucy delicious meat dish that feels exceptionally satisfying to eat!" Yanami stared at Asakura's hand and asked.
"The request is surprisingly specific..." Asakura complained, "But I refuse! I don't want to manifest it now."
"Why?!"
Mainly because I don't want to see you getting carried away.
"Mainly because I absorbed quite a lot of magic power from you today. To prevent a magical rampage on my side, I don't plan on manifesting food."
Asakura spoke in a very serious tone.
"Is that so?" Completely unaware that the real food came from the Spirit Kitchen and wasn't truly manifested, the girl immediately accepted this explanation. She nodded somewhat helplessly: "Then there's no other way."
After finishing, she immediately added loudly: "But even so, I don't want to stay in that little hut anymore!"
"Since you've said so..." Asakura fell into thought.
"Are we going to Rabbit House? Or Valhalla?" Seeing Asakura agree, Yanami couldn't help but get excited and asked happily.
"Don't always just be three points and one line; the joy of life will be worn away by half."
Asakura took out his phone, searched for something, and then said: "It seems like a new shop has opened nearby; let's go check it out." Saying this, Asakura glanced at the Service Club president who had been silent since the beginning, "Yukinoshita, do you want to go together?"
"No..." Yukinoshita Yukino's gaze didn't even leave the book in her hand, as she wanted to reflexively refuse.
Without waiting for her to finish, Asakura added: "I heard it's a pretty good cat cafe. The coffee seems to be made very professionally; I really hope our shop's manager could learn well from them..."
Before Asakura finished speaking, he saw Yukinoshita Yukino had already closed the book in her hand and packed her school bag with clean and flowing movements.
"Yukinoshita, you're doing this?"
"Aren't we going to the cat cafe?" There wasn't the slightest embarrassment on the girl's face, she just spoke in that usual light tone: "Then let's hurry up and set off."
This time it was Asakura's turn to be stunned, and then he immediately remembered something.
Speaking of which, this girl seems to be a cat lover...
"Eh, going to a cat cafe..." Yanami, on the other hand, seemed to have no interest in the cat cafe, swaying her feet in indoor shoes while lounging in the soft chair.
"Don't you like that kind of place?" Asakura asked curiously.
"Because cats can't be eaten."
"..."
Although this answer was indeed very Yanami-style, the Yukinoshita over there was already staring at you with an extremely displeased gaze, you know?
"The full name of a cat cafe is cat coffee parlor. Although the main attraction is indeed the interaction with cats, the main profit items also come from high-margin cat snacks and canned cat food, but as a 'coffee parlor,' they will likely also do the basic aspects well."
Yukinoshita Yukino said: "In other words, most of the things a coffee shop has, they will also have in their shop."
Just that the quality will definitely be a lot worse than a professional coffee shop.
The girl added in her heart.
However, judging from Yanami's usual unselective appearance, she probably wouldn't find out?
"Really! Then let's hurry up and set off!"
Hooked by the snacks and drinks of the coffee shop, Yanami completely didn't realize she had been treated as a fool by Yukinoshita Yukino, and spoke with great enthusiasm while grabbing her school bag.