Mea-san, please show me your face - Chapter 6.1: Mea-san, By Any Chance…(Part 1)
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Mea-san, By Any Chance…(Part 1)
The day after the entrance ceremony was a weekend vacation.
Classes were supposed to start on Monday after the weekend, so it was just a preparation period for that.
But to be honest, I didn’t really care about that.
“Mea-san. I’m going to ask you again, about what happened yesterday…”
“It’s a secret.”
“No, a secret you say… but is it a secret even from me?”
“Yes, it’s a secret.”
….Yeeah. It’s been a whole day already, and it’s Saturday afternoon…
Mea-san has been acting like this since yesterday and she’s just not getting anywhere.
No matter how many times I ask her, all she says is, “It’s a secret.” She keeps her lips tightly pressed together and turns away with a pout…
Anyway, I feel like I need to do something about this today. Thanks to her, I was surrounded by my classmates for a long time yesterday, as if I was being greeted by my mother-in-laws to be, that was how it felt.
I’m not sure what to do… To be honest, this is the first time I’ve ever had to deal with such a type of Mea-san, so I’m not sure how to handle it.
But that doesn’t mean I can back down! This is, yes, a problem between the two of us!
I was about to ask her again when I was suddenly cut off.
*PinPoon♪*
The doorbell suddenly rang. I was taken aback.
“Did anyone plan on coming?”
“…I don’t know.”
“Oh yeah… I wonder if my dad sent me an extra package.”
By the way, I’ll have to prepare a personal seal other than my bank seal for such an occasion. For the two of us, “Nonomiya” and “Chitose”.
While thinking about it, I opened the door. Well, I guess I’ll just sign for today──
*Boom!*
“Good Afternoon~~~~~~!!”
“….Ehhh?! Renjuyou-san!?”
When I opened the door, there was a little girl with the same brightly colored hair in twin tails with ribbons wrapped around her hair as yesterday.
As expected from this unexpected visitor, Mea-san couldn’t keep quiet.
“Wh-what happened, Kobato-san…?”
When Mea-san ran up to her, Renjuyou-san was sweetly smiling and nodding.
“Yeah, I got the address from your mom, Me-chan!”
“………….”
“Anyways, please excuuuse my intrusion~”
“Ahh, wai…”
She came closer to me without waiting for my answer. In her hands, she was carrying a grocery bag that seemed to contain food.
“Ku-kun, can I borrow your refrigerator?”
Then she tilted her head adorably at me.
“B-By ‘Ku-kun’, you mean, by any chance? Me?”
“Yes~~. Kuuya-kun to Ku-kun!! …It’s okay right?”
“Yeah, I don’t mind, but…”
“Eheheh~. Thanksss~. Well then, ♪refrigerator♪, ♪refrigerator~♪”
I mean… What is she doing and what happened to her? She’s a completely different person than she was yesterday!!
If my memory serves me right, yesterday she was hiding behind Mea-san as soon as we met. It was like she was a shy girl.
But today, she’s very friendly… even to me. And then there’s this sudden visit. What kind of a change of heart did she have…?
“What are you doing, Kobato-san?”
That seemed to have bothered Mea-san as well. She rushed over to ask about it.
Then, while transferring the contents from the grocery bag in her hand to the refrigerator, she turned to me and said-
“I heard you two are living together, but it must be tough right!”
She said with a grin.
“Also, you’re both fiances and married, so as a newlywed you guys are living together.”
Mea-san’s mom seems to have revealed a lot of things to this kid…!
Well, it seems that Mea-san’s “He’s my husband!” remark at the entrance ceremony revealed to the whole school that she is also living with me… There is no point in hiding it anymore.
“I-it’s not a big deal is it?” Mea-san brushed her hair away and stuck her chest out. But…
“Is that so? But you’ve never cooked before, have you, Me-chan?”
“Ugyuu…!!”
She was silenced with a single shot.
As if to chase down a fleeing enemy (Mea-san), Renjuyou-san leaped on her.
As for me! About the plan to live together, I think, if we don’t be true to ourselves then it is a bad thought altogether.”
“Tr-True? As in?”
When Mea-san fell silent, I had no choice but to interject.
Then, Renjuyou-san shrank her body a little, looked up at me, and said,
“….Ku-kun is the husband right?”
“What? Ye-yes….”
The way she looked at me and called me “Husband.” I would like her to understand that I can’t help but feel a little nervous.
No, because! I can’t believe that the girl who was acting so shy yesterday is being so aggressive today… for real? I can’t believe she’s talking to me.
In addition, her appearance is young and cute, so the destructive power of her upward glance is, how can I put it, amazing. Mea-san’s upward glance is also quite exciting, but in Renjuyou-san’s case, the childishness is more pronounced, and it makes me feel like I can’t leave her alone as a man..!
Not caring about the fact that I was going through such a sea of emotions, she continued.
“The wife has to make dinner for the husband. You’re a newlywed couple. Me-chan may not be good at it, that’s why… I can make it for him.”
“Tha— That’s…”
Well, how should I put it? Is it a declaration that I can make a better ‘wife’ than you?
If that’s the case, does this mean that she has come to sell a fight to Mea-san? Haven’t these two been best friends since elementary school? I mean, even if they weren’t, aren’t they being too aggressive just today?
I was so scared of the girl and her aggressiveness that I just couldn’t take it anymore. No, I’ve never been shown anything like this before! I’ve never been this close to any girl before!
(No, there is Fuuga, but she is mostly a male friend!)
“That’s why I’m going to cook lunch today and show you how it’s done.”
The tone of her voice was smiling and friendly… But is it weird for me to feel a pressure that makes it hard to refuse?
But, yeah. Let’s try to be calm here. That’s what a cool, mature man should do.
Ehh… Renjuyou-san took the trouble to prepare the ingredients at her own expense and came to cook for us. She also said, “Living together, it must be tough.”
And the fact is, we’re in need of food. Mea-san’s cooking skills are exactly as she said, and I’ve never cooked well because I’ve always relied on my mother.
If someone is willing to set a good example there, wouldn’t that be very gratifying?
When I thought about… I had no reason to refuse.
No, I don’t want to decline, but… is that okay? There is a feeling like that. Because…
“….”
For a while now, Mea-san has been biting her lip in frustration as she kept pulling at the hem of my clothes.
“Ahh… Umm… Mea-san?”
“…Kuuya-san… What should we do?”
Why is she asking me!?
“Will you accept or decline…?”
“Well, it’s… nice of her to set an example, isn’t it? For us.”
I had no choice but to answer, emphasizing the “us”.
God please, let her understand the subtleties of my mind that emphasized this point!
“──────!!!”
UWAAA! I guess it didn’t get through!
As soon as she heard my answer, her eyes widened and she staggered as if she was in shock (of course she let go of the hem of my clothes).
“Whaa… Ehhh? Wh-what happened, Mea-san?”
“It-it’s… a… secret…”
Here it is again!
Hmm, I was thinking… that it would be subtly troubling if Mea-san were to bring that up, because we wouldn’t be able to proceed from there.
“But …if that’s the case!”
“What?”
“I-I’ll cook for you too!”
“EEEEHHHHHHHHH??!!”
I don’t know why I didn’t expect her to say that!
I mean, didn’t you make a big mistake this morning, too, Mea-san?
“It’s fine isn’t it, Koboto-san.”
“Hahaha… Mou~ you’re so stubborn, you know that Me-chan?”
Even when Mea-san pointed a finger at her, I noticed that she was smiling and laughing a lot.
“Okay, just follow my lead, and good luck.”
“You’ll see…!”
Oh, that’s good… Or rather, if that’s the case.
“If that’s the case, I might as well participate in making it for the sake of our future──”
But before I can say that.
“ “Watch me, Kuuya-san/Ku-kun!” ”
They both declared in unison.
The power of the two girls, or rather their motivation, was such that I could only respond, “Oh, yes…”