"You're awake?"
Yukinoshita opened her eyes, only then realizing she had actually slept for nearly two hours.
"Sorry, I actually slept for so long."
Uchiha Ryo waved his hand. "It's nothing. Since you're awake, come over and have lunch."
Reluctantly getting up and leaving the cat rest area, Yukinoshita followed Uchiha Ryo to the dining area of the cat cafe and ordered two portions of Italian risotto.
"It's really wonderful here, they are all so cute."
Yukinoshita sat opposite, but her eyes were still on the group of little guys in the rest area.
She could tell that the manager and staff of this cat cafe must be people who are very gentle to cats, rather than just treating them as tools to make money.
The hair and demeanor of each cat showed that they had been carefully cared for, and their body shape was neither too fat nor too thin. Speaking of which, Uchiha Ryo is clearly someone who doesn't know how to raise cats, why is the cat cafe run so well? It seems the manager is a very outstanding person.
While thinking, Yukinoshita suddenly noticed an American Shorthair running towards the dining area. She was just about to reach out and pick up the little guy on the floor, but saw the other party leap onto Uchiha Ryo's lap.
"I'm eating, I don't have time to massage you."
Uchiha Ryo symbolically petted the cat, but it also made the American Shorthair purr comfortably.
Looking up, he saw Yukinoshita looking over with an [I'm so envious] expression.
"So nice, they are not afraid of strangers at all..."
"After all, they are cats in a cat cafe, their daily job is to interact with various people. Alright, get down quickly, can't you see I'm eating! Go stay over there."
Uchiha Ryo somewhat disgustedly shooed away the cat lying on his lap, drawing a glare from Yukinoshita. But the next moment, she was attracted by the cat that suddenly jumped to her side.
After finishing the meal, Uchiha Ryo first let Yukino stay in the cafe by herself for a while, while he went to the staff restroom to check on things.
Mainly to remind that guy Kujiramie about some common sense of raising pets, such as absolutely not letting the Big Orange Cat he's raising run outside. If others see it, please keep the witnesses on the spot immediately and call me.
Kujiramie nodded. "Understood, eliminate all outsiders who see our cat."
"Understand my ass! Call me, I'll handle it!"
Although Uchiha Ryo is not some great philanthropist, he won't allow this group of yokai to indiscriminately kill innocent people. If someone sees their Northeast Big Cat, then there's no choice but to use the Sharingan to make them forget some things.
Outside, perhaps this group of cats with growing intelligence understood that the female in front of them belonged to the big boss, so Yukino, who had done nothing, was surrounded by a group of cats.
When Uchiha Ryo came out, he pulled the unsatisfied Yukinoshita to wash off the cat hair on her hands. Today's time enjoying cats had also come to an end.
Leaving the cat cafe, Uchiha Ryo noticed that Yukino seemed to still be immersed in the atmosphere just now, and could only say helplessly.
"It's not like you can only come once. You know the address, just come over when you have time next time."
"That's true." Yukinoshita nodded, revealing a confident smile.
"I accidentally fell asleep this time. Next time I come, I must pet every single cat in the cat cafe!!"
Every single one..... If it's just the cats, it should be fine. Anyway, just tell Kujiramie not to let her enter the staff restroom.
Uchiha Ryo naturally took Yukinoshita's hand. "Accompany me to the shopping mall next. Do you have anything you want to buy?"
"Me? I don't. Does Ryo-kun need anything?"
"Mn, going to watch Hana's stage play tomorrow, planning to make a large cake, and invite her friends to eat together by the way."
Yukinoshita was thoughtful. "I see, then I'll come help too. But compared to cake, I actually quite want to eat pudding."
"Then let's change it to a large pudding! Let's go buy ingredients right now. As for the cooking venue, I've already asked the Shinomiya family, I believe they can prepare a place tonight."
So! The second destination for the two is..... the commercial snack street of the shopping mall!
"Oh oh, what a cloying smell!" Uchiha Ryo swallowed his saliva.
"Um... Ryo-kun, aren't we supposed to go buy ingredients?" Yukinoshita Yukino asked doubtfully.
Uchiha Ryo chuckled. "How could a portion of pasta fill my stomach? I'm here for desserts today."
"Desserts...."
"That's right. A few days ago, I saw in the Shuchiin campus report introducing the reopening of a sanshoku dango shop, and it's actually a century-old shop! So I came to taste it."
Yukino, being pulled along by Uchiha Ryo, followed speechlessly.
Sure enough, the entrance of the commercial street at this time was already filled with many young people, seemingly standing..... opposite the dango shop, anticipating delicious desserts.
"Mn? Crepes? There are actually parfaits too."
There are certainly many customers, just don't know how it tastes. But today they mainly came to eat dango, so he still brought Yukino to that dango hut which was said to have been closed for five years and only recently reopened.
"Boss, two skewers of sanshoku dango."
"A customer has arrived!"
Inside the shop was a middle-aged man with narrowed eyes, looking about sixty years old. In today's snack streets, it's really rare to see a boss of this age group.
The boss soon brought a plate of dango covered in sweet sauce to the table, and Uchiha Ryo unceremoniously picked it up to taste.
Seeing Uchiha Ryo eating vigorously, Yukinoshita also picked up her skewer.
She didn't quite understand. Aren't so-called dango and sanshoku dango just simple glutinous rice balls drizzled with salty or sweet sauce?
This kind of Japanese-style snack is said to have existed in Japan since very early times.... Yukino took a small bite, and immediately her brow relaxed.
"Delicious....."
Uchiha Ryo quickly finished the skewer in his hand, licked the sauce off the corner of his mouth and said with a smile.
"Boss, your craftsmanship is not bad. I'm someone who has eaten a lot of dango. The softness of your glutinous rice balls and the taste of the sauce are simply a perfect match."
An appreciative expression also appeared on the dango shop boss's plain face.
"Is that so? But I really didn't expect young people would like my dango. Don't young people like you all go buy crepes, cream cakes and the like opposite now?"
"Well, maybe I just have a soft spot for this kind of sweet dango. Sugar is indispensable to me! Please give me two more skewers."
Uchiha Ryo put down the stick. "Does Yukino want more? Of course, if you want to eat crepes, I can also go buy them for you."
"Since Ryo-kun likes eating dango, then I'll also eat dango."
Yukinoshita is not picky about sweets at all. After all, she is not the sweet tooth type like Shirosaki Hana.
"And it's quite nice here. Over there is too lively, which actually doesn't suit me."
The boss looked at the two young people tasting his dango and couldn't help sighing.
"I thought this shop would only attract those stubborn old people not much younger than me. I didn't expect young people nowadays also like this taste....."
Uchiha Ryo continuously eating dango — didn't want to speak.
Yukinoshita Yukino thought for a moment and still said. "We saw your century-old shop in the school's newspaper club magazine. Even if it's the taste of the old era, it won't be forgotten by people."
"Is that so.... It couldn't be better if there are still young people who like it."
Uchiha Ryo, who ate more than a dozen skewers in one breath, burped.
The corner of Yukino's mouth twitched. Are you here for after-dinner dessert? This is your main course!
"Boss, check please.... and by the way, prepare another ten skewers for me, I'll pack them and take them away later."
"One must eat both the modern era's cream industrial snacks and the old era's additive-free glutinous rice syrup. Only then can it be considered healthy."
Uchiha Ryo was just about to take out money to pay, when an untimely voice came from behind.
"Ho? This shop hasn't completely closed down yet.... and do people actually eat this kind of garbage?"