It’s Too Early to be Having Newlywed Syndrome! ~Childhood Friends Who Rekindled their Love for Each Other ~ - 4 - 21 - 72

72

“What should we do with these two left over chicken?”

Naoto remembered and asked Iida.

“Just go ahead and eat it.”

Said Iida.

“Dude, you’re really alright not eating them?”

“Meh, I’ll buy some grub on the way home anyway.”

“Then—— Nagatomo-san, can you still eat a chicken? How about you just get back the bon-in meat that was taken from your lunch with this?”

Hearing that, Makoto’s expression brightened.

“I can still eat, but wouldn’t you mind if I do?”

Naoto held out the box containing the chicken,

“Here, take it. Today, Tachibana-san and Nagatomo-san did a lot for us, like treating us at the family restaurant and paying for our train fare.

Iida will still treat us another day, as well.”

Iida spoke,

“Yeah, I want to treat the others to a meal, but no, not you man.”

Then made an expression of disagreement.

“Even though Iida asked me to talk to Tachibana-san about going to Health Land. What a great help I did for today.”

“Damn, now I have to treat you as well.”

“Right?”

“Seriously, I might treat you to something. Even your decision to buy chicken in advance of our arrival is spot on as well.”

“I was momentarily lost in thought if what I ordered would make it in time before you arrive though. ——Speaking of, you arrived quite later than the supposed time you will arrive here, right Iida?”

Saying “That’s right!”, Iida’s expression suddenly changed into a serious one.

“I should apologize to everyone!

I’m sorry, on the way back here, I found good-looking clothes on sale, and hurriedly checked it out, that’s why we arrived late. I totally forgot to talk about it.”

“What, so that’s why you’re late?”

Naoto said, much to his chagrin.

“Well, I was able to talk about nostalgic things while you’re gone, so it didn’t really feel like I waited for you that long, so it’s fine for me. I was able to eat chicken as well.”

“While we’re on the way back, we passed by a really sharply-dressed guy, then we started talking about if Tachibana-san will be alright seeing a guy dressed like that. When I started thinking, I suddenly worried on what clothes should I wear on the day we’ll go to Health Land. That’s when I saw those good-looking clothes, and I made one lap around them quickly.”

After bowing and saying “Thank you very much for the chicken”, Makoto said,

“It would’ve helped us most if I know what men’s clothing Haruka likes, but I’m not confident that I know about that.

Probably, a normal clothing wouldn’t scare Haruka…… but if I can do so casually, I will try to ask her.”

Then she made a difficult expression.

“My everyday clothes are quite normal, right?”

Iida, who doesn’t look like he had that much self-confidence, asked Naoto.

“I don’t really take my time to etch into my mind what clothes you wear, but if they’re not that memorable, that means they’re normal, right?

……I did a search for it, but it seems like clothing with skull designs, and large and rough accessories are not good to wear when meeting someone with a clinical fear of men. Iida’s probably fine on that regard.”

“You’re kinda just winging it, you know.”

“Because, I don’t really take tie to remember what kinda clothes you wear. Just send a picture of you wearing casual clothes to the girls and ask for their feedback.”

“Man, you’re saying it as if it’s easy to do…… What about you Morita, what’ll you be wearing on our trip to Health Land?”

“Of course, something one would wear when riding a bus. I’ll just wear something that’s not suffocating on the stomach. I’ll remove my belt inside the bus and put on a towel blanket.”

“Aah I see, we’re riding a bus after all. Going there and returning, you still have motion sickness, so thinking of what to wear is out of the question, huh.”

“You got it. We’ll be wearing the provided outfit inside Health Land anyway.

…… But well, since I started going on dates with Natsuki, I noticed how my wardrobe contains just a few outfits, If I have free time, it would be good shopping for some clothes with Natsuki, though.”

“Well, what am I gonna do now?”

“Even if you say that, I have no knowledge when it comes to coordinating clothes. Wouldn’t be you’re only choice would be to ask Hirose-san to accompany you?”

“Why are you referring Hirose-san?”

“Just a simples process of elimination. Other than Hirose-san, there’s no one else that you can ask for this.

Ninomiya-san will be proofreading my novel for any typos and omitted character, also to check any lines talking ill of the Natsuki-like character. It would probably take about 10 hours to do all of that, so she wouldn’t be able to accompany you with shopping for clothes.”

“Eh, you talked ill of me on your novel?”

Natsuki replied without a moment’s delay.

“I don’t really know, but the first part has a lot of complaining, so it might look frightening if we don’t check it. Lines like ‘Looking all happy while covering herself in my blanket. Furthermore, saying that it has a nice smell? If it’s other people, they might misunderstand, you know.’, or ‘As I thought, she might have stopped coming to my room because she found out that I stole her panties.’”

“You stole my panties?!”

“Not in real life, I didn’t.

Back when we were kids, while helping you carry laundry, your panties fell off from the pile, so I picked them up and gave them back to you, remember? I was just thinking whether we can still have such refreshing exchange just a few days before we started going out.

I just made it that the main character stole the panties in question in the novel since it was an important event in it.”

“That last scene of Part 2, right? That part was really good——”

Aki made a small applause in front of her chest.

“What’s with that? Is that seriously that kind of story?”

Natsuki asked Aki without thinking.

Aki nodded.

“The male protagonist, while in the middle of a fight with his childhood friend Nat-chan, caught a cold, you see. The protagonist’s parents have to go out on an important business, and they didn’t know that Nat-chan were fighting, so they asked her to look after the protagonist before going out. Having no choice, Nat-chan looked after the protagonist, but since they were fighting, they didn’t talk to each other.

When the protagonist woke up, Nat-chan wasn’t there, then when he suddenly looked at the top of the desk, there was the treasure box that Nat-chan made in home economics class and gave to him as a present.

In there contained the panties that he stole, so he panicked, thinking that Nat-chan saw what’s inside, got mad and left for home. So he entered the code that he set up to be able to open the treasure box, ‘72’ based on the goroawase of Nat-chan’s name, Natsu (7=Nana, 2=tsu (Engrish of two)), opened the treasure box, and checked inside it.

When he did, he saw the ‘Friendly marriage for one day ticket’ that he received from Nat-chan on his birthday when they were kids inside the box together with the panties he stole. The boy thought ‘I can use this ticket to be friends with her again.’ cried tears of joy.

After crying for nearly an hour, he suddenly cried out ‘While gripping the panties, I used them to wipe off the tear. Just what am I doing?’, then Part 2 END!”

“I also empathized with the protagonist and ended up crying on that part. While in a dazed I ended up repeatedly writing ‘panties panties’.”

Natsuki looked at the two getting roused,

“Would it be quite embarrassing for me to read that novel?”

She asked.

“Even I felt quite embarrassed when I read it, so I assume Natsuki and Haruka-san will be really embarrassed.”

When Aki said that,

“Even I felt quite embarrassed when I read it, so I assume Natsuki and Tachibana-san will be really embarrassed.”

Naoto mimicked her.