Relentlessly Approaching the Poison-Tongued and Indifferent Beauty to Tickle the Cutesy Reactions out of her [Dropped] - Chapter 21 - Invitation
“I had the wrong perception about light novels.”
“Oh, do you finally understand now?”
As they ate their lunch in the courtyard, Koyuki bowed her head in a formal manner.
In return, Naoya responded with a wry smile.
It seemed that after reading only one book, Koyuki had completely changed her perception of light novels.
“I’m sorry I jumped to conclusions about Sasahara-kun reading ‘ecchi’ stuff. That was really rude of me.”
“No, it’s fine.”
Naoya responded with an awkward smile.
‘Well, I only lent her normal novels… but of course, I also read ecchi manga and light novels.’
He possessed even more risque love comedies that he wouldn’t recommend to Koyuki. It was only natural for a boy to like them, but he definitely didn’t want a girl he liked to find out about his embarrassing secrets.
Koyuki didn’t notice that Naoya was slightly nervous as he let out a relieved sigh.
“It was really an exciting adventure story… Especially when Fran-chan, who was initially cold to the protagonist, became honest, that was just… Arghh… That was a death flag, wasn’t it?”
“Hahaha… Don’t worry about it.”
Naoya comforted Koyuki, who sank into disappointment and covered her face.
She seemed to like the kuudere character who was thought to have died in the first volume. Perhaps she felt sympathy because she was similar to her.
“Shall we read the second volume then? I brought it thinking you’d like to read it.”
“Thanks, but I’m already in the middle of reading it.”
Koyuki took out the same book which was the second volume of the novel that Naoya had recommended to her.
“My sister has all the volumes. After all the saying, ‘Family is the best’ is true after all.”
“Wow, Sakuya-chan has a pretty good taste.”
“Huh? Do you know my sister?”
“Yep, I happened to run into her yesterday.”
He was actually kidnapped and held captive, but he decided to keep silent about it and just let it slide.
Koyuki didn’t react much to it and happily stroked the cover of the novel’s second volume.
“Hehehe~ I read it a little bit at a time during break time. So let’s talk about it after school.”
“Oh, sure… Wait, I can’t accompany you today. I will be busy with my part-time today.”
That’s when Naoya had realized.
It was Friday, his part-time job day. When he told her that, Koyuki frowned a little.
“Oh, I see. That’s a shame… I was looking forward to talking to you.”
Her gaze then fell on the light novel.
“Oh, well, maybe it’s a good thing.”
“Huh?”
“If Shirogane-san comes to visit me at my workplace, we can talk there leisurely and the store manager will also be happy by having someone else in the store besides me.”
The place where Naoya works for his part-time job is a second-hand bookstore. There are rarely any customers, and the only work he has is occasionally delivering to regulars in the neighborhood.
It could be said that the store is only open for the sake of the owner’s respectable social life, completely disregarding profits.
When he explained this, Koyuki tilted her head in confusion.
“Isn’t it weird to work at a hobby shop? So, who is the store manager there?”
“Well, let me see… if I had to describe her in one word…”
Naoya recalled the familiar face of the store manager, who despite having many different attributes, could be described as an “Onee-san” type.
“Hmm, I see.”
As soon as Naoya finished speaking, Koyuki’s eyebrows twitched. The atmosphere around her became tense. She opened her mouth quietly with a dignified expression.
“I understand. Let’s go. Rather, I absolutely have to go.”
“Well, I don’t think the store manager is the kind of person that Shirogane-san thinks she is. There’s no way anything will happen between me and the store manager, you know what I mean?”
“Is she married or does she have a boyfriend?”
“No, neither.”
“Then let’s go.”
“Ugh… I’m only interested in Shirogane-san, you know?”
“Well, maybe you are, but you don’t know what other women might think!!”
Koyuki was fuming in anger as she hurriedly munched on her lunch.
Whether this was the result of her becoming more honest or simply a slip of tongue due to being cornered was still unclear, but it was most likely the latter case.
‘Hmm…it seems like there’s a big misunderstanding, but… well she will understand everything when she meets her in person.’
And so, Naoya quietly continued to eat his lunch, convinced that there was no way that nothing would happen with the store manager, and that it would become clear as soon as they would meet each other.
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