A Lonely S-Rank Explorer, Returning to His Student Days to Redo His Youth—It Seems the Strongest Loner Is Being Genuinely Loved by the Most Beautiful Girls in the School - Chapter 19: Sweets Garden

“Do you like sweets, Yuito-san?”

“I like sweet things. On the other hand, I’m not good with spicy or bitter things…”

“Hehe… You have quite a childish palate, don’t you? I think it’s endearing and nice.”

In the fancy, scattered pink interior, a sweet aroma wafted through the air.

It is “Sweets Garden” in the station front building. It is an all-you-can-eat shop for sweets like cakes and donuts.

The only ones sitting at the table are Yuito and Hakari. There are no signs of Kirika or Satou.

In the end, Yuito ended up going to the Sweets Garden alone with Hakari.

Satou declined, saying, “What are two guys supposed to do at a sweets garden…”

Kirika and Hakari both volunteered, saying, “We want to go together!”

In the end, the winner and loser were decided by a fair game of rock-paper-scissors.

“Yuito-san, you have cream on your mouth.”

“R-really?”

Hakari taps her own mouth. The cream must be in the same spot.

Yuito touches his mouth with his finger. There is no sensation.

――Was it the other way around?

“Hehe, I’ll get it for you.”

Hakari reached out and touched Yuito’s lips. Her soft, delicate fingers gently caressed the skin.

When Yuito moved away from his mouth, there was cream on her fingertips.

Hakari stared at the cream on her fingertips for a few seconds, then popped it into her mouth.

“It’s very sweet…”

Hakari squinted her eyes and twisted her mouth into a crescent shape.

Eyes like melted chocolate entwined with Yuito.

His heart raced with a start.

“H-Hakari-san…!! Isn’t that something you do for someone you like…!?”

“Oh, I actually like you, Yuito-san.”

“Eh… huh?!”

Suddenly, it was Hakari’s confession that came out of nowhere.

――Huh, what!? A joke!?

However, Hakari isn’t the type to make careless jokes.

In other words, she’s a serious person.

“Uh, um… well… I’m really happy to hear that. I think Hakari-san is incredibly cool and such a wonderful person, far beyond someone like me…”

“…Hehe.”

Yuito was flustered, like someone spinning a potter’s wheel.

Upon seeing that, Hakari couldn’t help but smile. She took out her smartphone from her bag and showed the screen to Yuito.

“See, Kirika-san’s doing the same things with her friends that she likes, right?”

“…Friends?”

The smartphone that Hakari showed had a video posted on SNS playing on it.

It looks like Kirika and her friend are eating cake. They are wearing unfamiliar uniforms. Could it be a video from their middle school days?

Kirika took the cream from her friend’s cheek and brought it to her own mouth. She then struck a theatrical pose.

“What a forgetful little kitten. There was sweet cream on its cheek.”

“Haha, what’s that!”

“What I want my boyfriend to do.”

“Eh, Kirika, you have such a tough guard, yet you’re getting all caught up in those fairy tale delusions?”

“Don’t call it a fairy tale delusion!! It’s a maiden’s romance!!”

The video stopped there. It seems it was a short video.

“See, you’re doing the same thing as a joke with your friends, right?”

“I see…”

Yuito listens to the conversation and quickly turns red.

(I totally misunderstood… So when Hakari-san said “like,” it meant as a friend…?)

Yuito furrows his brows like when he drinks strong carbonated water, making a “ugh” sound.

Embarrassing misunderstanding.

He almost ended up creating a black history. Well, he’s already halfway into it, though.

“Yuito-san, aren’t you going to eat?”

While bringing the chocolate cake to her mouth, Hakari tilted her head.

“Ah, no. It’s nothing… ah.”

“…Why are you looking at my mouth?”

There was chocolate cream in Hakari’s mouth.

She must have gotten it stuck from the chocolate cake she had just eaten.

“Uh, you have cream on your mouth.”

“That’s serious. We need to take care of it right away.”

“It’s on the right side of your mouth from Hakari-san’s perspective.”

“I understand. Hmm…”

Hakari offered her right cheek to Yuito and smiled.

The eyes are saying, “Take it♡”.

(She got it for me too, so I should return the favor. It feels a bit like a couple, which is a bit embarrassing… but alright!!)

He touches the corner of Hakari’s mouth with his fingertips. Hakari’s lips are soft and clingy. He takes the cream while stroking the smooth skin.

Should he wipe it with a paper napkin?

He thought so, but somehow, Hakari was staring at Yuito with expectant eyes.

Maybe, it’s just the natural course of things.

Yuito brings the chocolate cream to his mouth.

To enhance the overwhelming sweetness, there was a hint of bitterness mixed in.

For some reason, it feels 50% sweeter.

“Yuito-san, how is the taste?”

“…Ah, I think it’s sweet and delicious.”

“Hehe… Would you like to eat more?”

“Huh?”

Could it be that she would put cream on her own cheek and say, “Eat me♡”?

Just as he thought that, Hakari took a bite of the chocolate cake with her fork and directed it towards Yuito.

It seems she will divide it normally.

“Yes. Ahh.”

“A-ahh.”

The cake that he was allowed to feed to Hakari tasted even sweeter.

By the way, the couple-like behavior of Yuito and the others was being watched with curious eyes by the surrounding female customers.

The path of love is sweet. The flirtation between good-looking men and women is entertainment.