The Favorability rating of Akechi Hideyori
I mad dashed away from Irene-somethingsomething-san and arrived back at the swimsuit section in the department store.
By the time I arrived, everyone was already gathered in front.
“Oi, Hideyori? Where have you been?”
“Haa, Haa, Haa……Haa, No-, Haa–where…….”
“What nowhere!? You practically just ran here right!?”
I try to get my breathing under control.
“Haa, that aside, gimme……some water…….”
“Ah, here! Hideyori-san.”
I received a PET bottle from Takeru and immediately poured its content down my throat.
It was green tea so it was rather easy to drink.
Someone raised a flustered voice.
I was paranoid that some thief might come running again but that doesn’t seem to be the case.
“Haa……that was good……sorry I drank it all, Takeru. I drank with my lips so sorry about that too.”
Since my lips touched the bottle directly, it could be taken as an indirect kiss so I apologized to him.
“Ha? That’s not my tea you know?”
“Eh? Then whose was……IT!?”
Eien-chan’s face was bright red.
Seeing that, I looked down at the bottle.
It’s a smallish one of only 350ml.
And Takeru always buys the 500ml ones.
Unlike the sweat I got from my earlier sprint, a different kind of sweat started to flow down my back.
“Eien-chan! I’m so sorry!”
“I’m gonna buy you a juice no, 10 bottles of juice as an apology! “
“Ara? So an indirect kiss with Eien-chan only cost about a thousand yen for you huh?”
Tsugaru’s words shocked me to the core.
An indirect kiss with Eien-chan only worth a thousand yen?
There’s no way that’s the case.
“I’ll pay with my life. If you don’t need it then please sell off my organs for money!”
“Umm……, well……., it’s fine………it’s also my fault since I forgot that it might become an indirect kiss when I handed you the bottle……..”
Eien-chan didn’t even look at my face.
This is……..it’s happening again…………
The same thing that happened with Emi the other day………
I made someone hate me again…….
“Don’t worry about it, Hideyori.”
“Anyway, do you want my canned coffee?”
Don’t look at me like that…….
Damn you, Irene-somethingsomething-san…….
You won’t get off scot-free if I see you again……..
“Are you okay? Towa-san?”
“I’m, I’m fine! Don’t worry about it, Risa.”
Risa checked up on Eien-chan.
Seeing her try to comfort Eien-chan in front of me is too hurtful.
“I was just embarrassed……but I don’t hate it……..”
Eien-chan muttered something while sneaking a peek at me.
She must be looking at me like I’m a scumbag……
The game’s correction force is too strong………
If the world is trying to make itself more convenient for Takeru then it would toss me into hell in the process.
I wondered what she wanted so I looked back.
“Hideyori-kun is misunderstanding something.”
“But I’m not going to correct it.”
“Are you some kind of demon……..”
“I mean, she’s my rival.”
Recently, I think I have lost my understanding of Emi.
“How about you try dying again?”
“Tsugaru……keep on insulting me like this for the rest of my life please.”
“Now you just sound disgusting.”
I can clearly see that the favorability toward Hideyori of everyone here is Zero.
So a department store is where a heart comes to die huh.
“Hideyori, do your best.”
“Treating it like it’s none of your business huh.”
“It’s actually not my business after all.”
Among them, Takeru’s words sound the gentlest to me.
Seriously, at this rate, I might actually fall for him.
I’m so thankful that I almost want to apologize for calling him useless in the game.
Thanks to my indirect kiss blunder, the topic of ‘where I disappeared to’ seems to have slipped everyone’s mind.
The topic of a thief stealing a katana box is just so far removed from our peaceful daily life, if I want to keep them away from danger then I probably should be thankful for my blunder though.
TLN: Next up, Miyamura Towa’s Ending and the game’s backstory