My Fiancée is a Cool-Headed, Peerless Angel - Chapter 70
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Chapter 70: Fiancee and Outlet – 1
TL: lime
ED: Spynine01
In the end, Shiori didn’t tell me where she wanted to visit at all.
Maybe she forgot about it? I thought about asking her, “Hey, where are we going during Golden Week?” But I felt too uncomfortable to just do that out of the blue, so I held back――.
This morning, my fears were put to rest.
“Outlet…?”
I had stayed up late last night, trying to get a good night’s sleep since it was finally time for my vacation.
However, my peaceful sleep would interupted by a cool-headed and unparalleled woman.
In accordance with her, I whipped my sleepy body into shape and went to the dining table in the living room to be greeted by my usual Morning Dark Matter and the others dishes.
Because of the previous incident, I began to eat it a little cautiously, but it seems that today’s dark matter was alright.
As I was enjoying the mouth-watering delicacies, Shiori said, “We’re going to the outlet park1Outlet malls are popular shopping venues in Japan. They carry both domestic and international brands, including fashion, electronics, food, sports, household and luxury goods. While prices at outlet malls are not ridiculously cheap, they tend to be better than at regular retail shops. today,” and I asked her again. [TLN: Check the footnote if you’re wondering what an outlet mall is.]
“Are you frustrated?”
“No, no… Not at all. Do you have something you want to shop for?”
“I do. Something important.”
“Oh… But I thought… outlets were in the countryside.”
“Exactly. The place that I want to go to is at a rural town.”
“Aren’t we missing a leg to get there?” [EDN: It’s some sort of idiom which is meant to be like how will they get there without any transport since it’s far.]
Maybe it’s just my lack of knowledge, but I’ve only ever been to a few outlet parks in my life.
So I don’t know much about them, but I guess the only way to get there is via car or another other means of transportation, since there wouldn’t be any train stations nearby.
“No problem.”
Shiori looked at her phone.
What was displayed on the screen was a ticket for a bus that goes directly to the outlet park.
“Heeh… You could use a bus to get there directly, huh.”
“One way is 1,000 yen.”
“That’s cheap. Isn’t that cheaper than going with a personal car?”
Considering the cost of gasoline and the expressway, buses are really cheap. Is that even profitable for the bus company? ――Is that why they’re doing it…?
“But that price is only on weekdays.”
“What? Then it must have been super expensive because it was Golden Week, right?”
Shiori snorted at me when I asked.
“That’s a known fact. For my purpose, the cost of bus transportation is just a garbage hurdle to get over.”
“Oh, ooh…”
Shiori is more enthusiastic than ever. Maybe it’s because she’s going out with me? If that’s the case… I’m simply just happy.
“Come on, eat faster.”
“Okay, okay.”
♢
I went to the city center by train after leaving my house.
In fact, I’m going to meet up with her just shortly.
――
『Pant… pant… sorry, did you wait long?』
『No, I didn’t wait much at all. I just came too early. I was looking forward to today.』
『Shiori…』
『You’re so sweaty. Let me wipe it off for you.』
『I-I’m sorry. I’ll wash the handkerchief and give it back to you later.』
『It’s totally fine. Kojiro’s sweat is not dirty at all. Let’s go.』
『Yes!』
Holding their hands tightly, the two headed out on a date in the city.
――Something like that? I fantasized about a page of my youth inside my mind, but the reality was――.
“Kojiro, what are you grinning at? You look dangerous…”
“No… it’s nothing…”
So here’s the thing.
We live in the same house, so there’s no such thing as meeting up at a set location.
Well… it is what it is…
We boarded a bus at the bus terminal in the city center, where there was a bus stop for ‘Outlet’ buses, and were seated in our assigned seats with plenty of time for departure.
Usually, there’d be a window-side or aisle-side war here, but surprisingly, Shiori said, “Either side is fine with me,” so I chose the window side without hesitation.
Since I’m bad at rides and experience motion sickness easily, I’m really glad to be seated by the window.
But I don’t want the girl I like to know that I’m prone to motion sickness, and it wouldn’t be very stylish for her to find out on this trip, so I secretly bought some motion sickness medicine and took it a while ago.
“Y’know this is just like a school trip when you get on a bus like this.”
I muttered something I thought of, Shiori’s eyes lit up and muttered, “School trip…”.
“Did they say where we were going this year?”
“Which one is it…? As I recall, we had a choice when we just started the second semester of our freshman year, right? Hokkaido and Okinawa and… one more… Well, in the end, we had to choose between Hokkaido and Okinawa, and I think they finally said which one we were going to choose… ――Oh, by the way, which one did you choose, Shiori?”
“The other one.”
Her answer made me let out my voice, “Eh?”.
“Anywhere was fine with me.”
“You seem kind of excited about it, though, aren’t you?”
“For now, yes.”
She said so very happily.
“I didn’t have any friends when we decided where to go for the school trip. But now――”
She stares at me.
“What is it now?”
“Nothing.”
Shiori turns her face away and starts fiddling with her phone.
“What is it? I’m really curious, you know.”
“I-It’s that Sumire-chan and Rikudo-kun are there too.”
“Huh? What about me?”
“Ugh, you’re so noisy… Look, you have to be quiet because you’re disturbing the other passengers.”
I felt a bit lonely because Shiori didn’t mention my name, and so I developed a sense of mischief.
“But you and Shijo aren’t in the same class anymore, so you’ll have different room arrangements and stuff.”
Shiori’s time stopped when I said that like a boy playing a prank because he wanted the girl he liked to look back at him.
“――That’s… right…”
Just when I thinking about if she was fine, she began moving again. Shiori’s reaction was slow and dull, like the hands of a clock that was about to run out of battery.
This is bad… I guess my joke went a little too far…
“Ah―… Although, there is that! See, like the course! As I recall, it’s almost the same if you combine it with the sightseeing course during the school trip! Mm-hmm.”
I followed up frantically, and Shiori became energetic as if she had switched batteries instantly.
“I guess that’s true too. ――Alright… I’ll have to ask Sumire-chan where we’re going to go around as soon as possible!”
She said so and started using her phone with extremely fast finger movements.
“No… isn’t now too soon?”
“It’s good to decide these things early.”
“Isn’t it too early?”
What are you supposed to ask when you don’t even know what the course is yet…