Chapter 10: Thinking it’s a good feeling, but it’s a joker

Push the door to enter.

The wind chime on the curtain of the door rang out, while at the same time warm air-conditioned breeze swept down from the top of Natsuki Aoi’s head.

He rearranged his hair, then walked over to the seat across from Apricot Sakurajima and sat down.

“I didn’t think we’d have to eat together, I thought we’d just have a cup of milk tea.”

Sakurajima Apricot looked at the menu in her hand, a pencil of only ten centimeters twirling around her fingertips, ticking off a few dishes before pushing the menu in front of him, “Let’s see if there’s anything else you’d like to add?”

“Okay, but let me preface this by saying that I have a sister at home so I won’t be eating a lot, so you don’t have to feel like I’m being polite, I’m actually going to have to cook her dinner again when I get home.”

Aoi Natsuki explained thoroughly, careful with his words, he didn’t want the target of this mission that he hadn’t easily met to become more and more annoyed with him.

And when he finished, there was really no beep in his ear about the drop in favorability.

He sighed in relief.

“Okay, eh? Since it’s a sister’s, I have to ask again, how does your sister treat you? Does it also hold this nasty attitude?” As if she had heard a very interesting event, Sakurajima Apricot opened the organ at once, her body came up and asked curiously.

“Before …… it was quite nasty, but as we slowly got along, the relationship was quite cordial.”

Natsuki Arai recalls.

Leena’s encounters with him, in retrospect, relied on his unremitting patience and care.

“That means your natural ill will with the opposite sex can actually be eliminated by rubbing it in, interesting.” Sakurajima Apricot changed a notebook out of nowhere, then drew a ballpoint pen from her collar and quickly took notes.

This way it looks like both sides are interviewing instead.

Come to think of it, Sakurajima Apricot’s desire to explore him came more from this marvelous malevolence of the opposite sex, where some phenomenon of the supernatural would be of great interest to her.

Thinking of this, Aoi Natsuki, who took a sip of lemonade, suddenly showed a smile at the corner of her mouth.

If someday this guy learns that gods really do exist in this world, maybe he’ll just get so excited that he won’t be able to sleep for weeks.

“Ask whatever you want, I’ll tell you what I can.”

“So there’s still something you can’t say?”

“Well, since it can’t be said, it must be a secret.” Aoi Natsuki purposely threw a hook, originally thought just language flirting a bit, did not think the other party will be hooked, but never thought the effect is very outstanding.

Sakurajima Apricot directly slapped the table and stood up, her eyes widened with curiosity as she looked at herself, her pupils filled with longing as if she wanted to eat him in one bite.

“Please! Please do tell me no matter what! Any condition will do! Please!”

Is any condition possible ……

Aoi Natsuki suddenly had a thought in his head, yikes …… I don’t know if this is considered a card bug.

That’s when the first plate came up.

It’s a plate of goulash.

“Chinese food?”

“It tastes good, try it.”

He picked up his chopsticks and took a piece into his bowl and tasted it, it was sweet and sour, his favorite.

Sakurajima apricot looked at his enjoying expression and resumed her seat before writing in her notebook, Favorite goujons.

“I do have a research proposal for you to consider.” Aoi Natsuki suddenly said.

“You say.”

Regarding the word research, Sakurajima Apricot was particularly sensitive.

“You said that since I was born with a physique that is hated by women, why don’t you use yourself as an experiment and be my temporary girlfriend for an hour, and by switching the perspective of the original relationship between the two of us into an intimate lover’s relationship, will it feel different again?”

Well, this part of Aoi Natsuki is all bullshit, mainly because he just thinks that a well-hooked fish has a much better chance of getting hooked again if he puts it back in the river.

And yet so it is.

Sakurajima Apricot really agreed with both eyes.

What a wonderful game.

Natsuki Aoi, feeling that this was still going to be slightly grand, put down her chopsticks and cleared her throat as she asked:

“Sakurajima-san, would you like to be my temporary girlfriend for an hour?”

“I do.”

As the words fell, Aoi Natsuki didn’t show any joy, she was just waiting quietly for the system tone to arrive.

One second, two seconds, three seconds.

The system tone of mission completion was delayed.

He then opened the system panel, and at the bottom of the panel a line popped up at this point.

“Both parties must have reached a relationship of 70 or more favor values to be considered as having completed the task.”

Well, I knew it wasn’t that simple.

Trying to jam the bug he ultimately failed.

Sakurajima Apricot looked at the dejected look he suddenly got up and suspicion rose in her heart, “Why do you suddenly have an unhappy look on your face.”

Aoi Natsuki pursed her lips, but still managed to pull herself together and shook her head to explain, “No, I’m just a little upset when it suddenly occurred to me that you’re going out with me with a mindset of hating me.”

When Sakurajima Apricot heard that, a beautiful smile appeared on her face again.

Slightly upwards, the dangling eyes are like those of a fox, and the lower three whites add a bit of fierceness to this.

Extremely seductive with some ruthlessness mixed in, this face tends to create a suffocating attraction for men who get along.

“No. Oh, I have a full-on crush on Aoi-san right now.”

Natsuki Aoi looked at her and narrowed her eyes.

“No, I don’t think so.”

“There’s oh.”

Natsuki Aoi waited in silence for a few more seconds.

“No!”

“There really is oh.”

……

Sakurajima Apricot also got what she wanted out of this meeting between the two parties, and it was clear that she was incredibly happy.

But this immense happiness didn’t translate into any data on the favorability panel.

Still -1.

Ripple.

She said there was so much more she wanted to explore with him in the future, and hoped he could stay in active contact.

If there was no favorability alert, he would have felt that it was his springtime, but if he was able to see the favorability value, he now only felt like a clown.

Having met two S-ranked girls so far, one an arrogant, violent maniac and the other an experimental maniac who was probably very dark at heart, it was hard to get him interested in either one.

So hard ……

“I’ll be off then, oh, some other time, no! Maybe I’ll see you tomorrow!” Sakurajima Apricot waved at him.

“Aang, bye.” Aoi Natsuki replied feebly as well.

I was thinking about taking the bus home when I realized that Sakurajima Apricot was walking back.

Standing in front of himself, he slowly raised his left hand.

Natsuki Aoi didn’t move.

Then Sakurajima Apricot helped him to smooth the tips of his upturned hair, “I think Aoi-san can change your hairstyle, without bangs, or the whole person will look more refreshing oh.”