When Two Wounded Hearts Find Solace In Each Other, Snow White (The School's Beauty) And I Were Mistakenly Labeled As A Silly Couple. - Chapter 3: Reunited Right After Parting.

Reunited Right After Parting.

“Today, sure a lot of various things happened.”

After consoling with Himeno, who is known as the most beautiful girl in school, Takashi parted ways with her and headed home.

“By the way, her touch was so soft.”

While returning home, Takashi recalls the sensation of Himeno’s chest that he felt just a while ago.

Although it should have been just a fat, he couldn’t distance himself for a while and ended up savoring that soft feeling.

No matter how painful the feelings were, it wouldn’t have been appropriate to bury my face in her chest for thirty minutes.

Grateful to Himeno, who lent him her chest without saying anything unpleasant, Takashi also thinks that the consolation might be over after this.

From now on, they will probably return to being just classmates.

“Ahh, I need to go buy dinner.”

Until now, his childhood friend used to cook for him in place of his parents who were away on a business trip abroad. However, that won’t be the case anymore.

There might be a possibility of returning to the original relationship after a while, but cooking on the first day after being rejected is a bit too much to ask.

Therefore, he needed to go buy dinner, and Takashi headed towards the nearest convenience store.

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“Ah…”

They separated at the school gate, and after about ten minutes, Takashi encountered Himeno again.

Himeno, who is trying to buy bread at the convenience store, blushes and averts her gaze shyly as soon as she sees him.

She must have remembered the act she was doing just a moment ago and felt embarrassed.

If she were a promiscuous woman with plenty of male experience, it might be different, but for a pure woman like Himeno, it becomes embarrassing.

As this was Takashi’s first time burying his face in someone’s chest, he now feels his body heating up.

Even though it’s still April and the air conditioning isn’t necessary, his body is so warm that he wishes it were on.

“Why are you here?”

“I came to buy dinner. I usually cook for myself, but today I didn’t have the energy to do so.”

Himeno responds to Takashi’s question.

Having been hurt by direct sarcasm and envy from girls, it wouldn’t be surprising if she didn’t have the energy to cook today.

The route from school to this convenience store isn’t a straight path, so she must have taken a different route to end up at the same convenience store.

The fact that she usually cooks for herself might suggest that Himeno’s parents are away on a long business trip.

“Why are you at the convenience store, Takahashi-kun?”

“Same as you, Shirayuki, buying dinner. My parents are away on a business trip abroad.”

Since they are both in the section with bread, Takashi picks up a piece.

“Do you always buy from the convenience store?”

“No, usually my childhood friend cooks for me, but not today, obviously.”

Understanding Takashi’s intention as he averts his gaze, Himeno nods with a somewhat lonely expression.

She seems to have sensed the difficult feelings after being rejected.

“Um…”

“Yes?”

With a shopping basket in her hands, Himeno’s limbs move restlessly up and down.

What she wants to say next is likely something embarrassing.

“Shall I make dinner for you?”

“…Huh?”

Takashi unintentionally asks back at the unexpected words.

It wasn’t that he didn’t hear her, as she spoke a bit softly, but he was surprised by the proposal to cook dinner.

“I want to thank you for comforting me, Takahashi-kun.”

Holding a shopping basket in one hand, Himeno, with a slightly reddened cheek, lightly grabs the sleeve of Takashi’s school uniform.

Her school bag is slung over her shoulder, leaving her right hand free.

“I’ve already received enough help from you. You don’t need to go that far.”

Although the wound from the unrequited love is not completely healed, Takashi has been considerably helped by Himeno.

It’s likely thanks to the soft feeling of her chest that was right in front of him.

So, there’s no need for her to thank him by cooking dinner.

“Besides, you said you didn’t have the energy to cook today, right?”

“That’s when I’m alone. If Takahashi-kun, you are okay with it, I can cook.”

While looking at Takashi with eyes that seem genuinely grateful, Himeno, with an air of naturalness, says something that might lead to a misunderstanding.

“I’ve never cooked for a guy before, but it’s for you, Takahashi-kun, who has taken care of me. I’ll do my best.”

Although Takashi wishes she wouldn’t say things that might lead to misunderstandings, deep down, he does want her to cook.

Certainly, Himeno’s homemade meal would be more delicious than anything bought at the convenience store, and above all, the idea of a beautiful girl’s cooking excites any guy.

Moreover, eating together with someone might be more enjoyable than eating alone at home on the day of rejection.

“Got it.”

In the end, the desire to try homemade food won, and Takashi decided to eat Himeno’s cooking.

“Please spare me the cliché of being bad at cooking.”

“I’ve been making it for a long time, so I think you don’t need to worry about that.”

If she says so herself, it should be fine, but occasionally, in anime, there are heroines who have been cooking for years but are still bad at it.

Although he understands that anime and reality are different, having grown up with anime, there are times when he unconsciously makes such connections.

That’s why Takashi won’t misunderstand even if Himeno cooks for him.

After all, she’s doing it as a thank you.

Although he has a beautiful girl childhood friend, Takashi considers himself in the category of background characters.

Because if he were the protagonist like in anime, he wouldn’t have been confessed to and rejected by his childhood friend.

“Let’s use the bread we have now for tomorrow’s meal. It’s disrespectful to the store to come to a convenience store and not buy anything.”

That means she probably has food at home.

She always buys the right things every time she goes to the convenience store, which is a big difference from Takashi, who only occasionally browses through manga magazines.

“Is it okay to go to my house?”

“Huh? Are we going to your house, Shirayuki?”

“I have to go to a house to cook. Besides, I don’t know what ingredients and cooking utensils you have at your house, so my house is more convenient.”

Perhaps due to the comfort from earlier, Himeno seems to trust Takashi now.

Maybe she thinks that if he were to make a move, he would have already taken advantage of the wounds she received when comforting her.

“Got it.”

He has never been to a girl’s house other than his childhood friend’s, but Takashi has decided to go to Himeno’s house to eat her cooking.