Chapter 41: My Fiancée’s Mood is Very Changeable.

TL: lime
ED: Spynine01

“――There were many rumors about you today.”

After coming home, while playing with my phone at the dining table, I talked to Shiori, who was standing in the kitchen, wearing a very cute dog apron.

There was a lot of talk about Shiori all over the school today.

If I were to make a title for it, it would be something like, “The Cool-Headed and Peerless Angel finally has a man!?”.

The rumors begin with “Nanasegawa-san went to Hatsumode with a guy,” and then changed to “The guy is――.”.

“The guy is a very handsome actor,” or “The guy is a comedian,” or “The guy is a world famous magician”――.

It went on for quite a while, where I was just wondering why they were all celebrities――.

There are also rumors that went in pretty strange directions, such as “The guy is surprisingly ugly” or “Nanasegawa-san is surprisingly a Biisen¹ Ｂ専- a slang that mean attraction to ugly people”――.

There were also rumors that said “The princess’s first visit to the shrine”――. Well, those weren’t exactly the original rumors, but――.

Rumors about such a little-known fact were followed by a lot of tons of rumors, which made me think that rumors about people are really scary.

“So what?”

The voice that came from the kitchen was much lower than Shiori’s usual voice.

Shiori was in a bad mood, she was probably angry due to being the subject of such rumors all day.

It’s true that we went to the shrine together, but… I can understand that it can be annoying when people talk about things that weren’t there in the first place.

In addition, every time she got a break, regardless of whether they were are a man or a woman, she would be asked, “Nanasegawa-san, did you get a boyfriend?” I’m sure she’s mentally stressed out after such a tiring day.

It’s no wonder she’s in a bad mood. In fact, it would be abnormal for her not to be in a bad mood in this case.

Thinking of lessening her load, I talked to Shiori.

“Shiori? I’ll take care of dinner tonight so――”

“It’s fine. Just sit down.”

“Yes.”

Scary…

I was ordered to sit down like a dog loyal to his master, and thus I shrunk back into my seat.

“W-Well, there’s a saying that after the 75th day, everyone would get tired of talking about――”

“You’re noisy. Shut up.”

“Yes.”

No good. I can’ t force myself to get into a fight with Shiori today. I’ll get burned at this rate.

There are days like this sometimes.

Even if she’s described as an angel, she’s just a normal girl. I have to understand that clearly.

Sit down and shut up――let’s kill time by reading a manga I recently downloaded on my phone. Yep, let’s do just that.

It seems to be a social phenomenon, and I’ve only tried to read the first volume, but since I hadn’t bought the subsequent volumes, I decided to buy them too.

I heard that it has been made into an anime, and the theme song is also really good, so I also have the song on my phone.

Even in class, the anime comes up very often, so it’s quite a social phenomenon.

In this day and age, this kind of cheerful talk makes me happy.

As I was reading the manga, I thought lightly about such things when――.

“――It’s…”

I heard Shiori’s voice coming from the kitchen, and when I turned my gaze to the kitchen, I saw that she was holding her hand.

Looking at that, she probably cut her hand.

“Are you okay!?”

I reflexively stood up and rushed towards Shiori.

“I-I’m fine…”

“Look.”

When I looked at Shiori’s hand, I saw that she had cut her finger and blood was flowing out lightly from it.

“I-It’s nothing serious.”

“Still, we need to take care of it right away.

I turned on the tap water in the kitchen and grabbed her wrist.

“Ah…”Shiori said.

“I’m sorry. Did it hurt?”

Did I grip it too tightly? I apologized and she gave a small shake of her head.

“It might sting a little, but…”

I rinsed the wound on Shiori’s finger with tap water and looked at the wound.

There doesn’t seem to be any foreign substance on it, so I let go of her hand and quickly went to the storeroom, took out some gauze and bandages from the first aid kit and went back to the kitchen

As soon as I put pressure on the cut with the gauze, it stopped bleeding, so I quickly put a bandage on top of it.

“――There you… go. Does it hurt?”

“It doesn’t hurt.”

Shiori stared at the bandage without saying a word as I applied it.

“――T-Thank… you.”

“No, no. ――Do you want me to cook for once? You’re a little tired today, aren’t you?”

When I called out to her, Shiori shook her head, smiled and said,

“No. It’s fine. I’ll make it.”

The smile on her face made it seem as if she had never been in a bad mood just now.

Even though she just cut her hand, her mood got better…?

“Really? Then, please.”

“Yes. I’ll do my best.”

This evening’s dinner was dark matter, which came out after what I thought, was her being in a very good mood.