Chapter 8 – 8화. 외출(4)
After being subjected to a forced sex ban by Machiko, I wandered around to farm items, which was my original goal.
Of course, I was in a shitty mood.
My method of item farming started near Souta’s place, where I had the most memories from the game, and gradually expanded my radius of activity.
For reference, items weren’t just in boxes; they were scattered in various places like cracks in walls, under large rocks, and even under some middle-aged man’s wig.
How long had I been farming items?
Just as my stomach started to rumble, I sat down on a newly installed park bench and checked the items I had collected.
[Aphrodisiac]
[Stamina Booster]
[Reverse Bunny Girl Outfit]
[Health Recovery Potion]
“Heh heh. I’ve gathered quite a bit.”
The moment I checked the items, a joyful smile, which had been impossible until just now, appeared on my face.
The haul was quite substantial for a day’s work, and I had also collected a fair amount of money from the simple cases where money appeared during the farming process.
No. Actually, the biggest reason was that I had obtained an unexpected treasure while farming items this time.
That was:
[Mini Camera & Mini Recorder]
Items that would be very important for capturing Miyuki.
Originally, I was planning to capture her by slowly breaking down her walls, like in the game. But with these, there was no need for that.
‘Since I’m going to bang her anyway, I should do it quickly.’
I thought, carefully putting the mini camera and recorder in my pocket.
This was a very important treasure for the capture. I had to keep it safe.
“Hoo. Well then, shall I go grab some food?”
After all, we live to eat.
With that, I got up from the bench.
My goal was the convenience store that Takuya remembered had opened a few days ago.
***
After searching through Takuya’s memories, I easily arrived at the convenience store.
*Beep. Beep.*
“Thank you. Please come again.”
I heated up my lunch box in the microwave and then went outside.
As soon as the convenience store door closed, I cursed while looking at the lunch box in my hand.
“What the hell? They don’t even let you eat inside?”
What kind of place is this?
Even in Korea, where the hospitality is shit, they let you eat inside.
After cursing at the convenience store for a while,
“Haa… Well, this is my fate.”
I just sighed and accepted reality.
There was no point in complaining; nothing would change.
I’ll just have to go dark later and force myself to eat my lunch box inside the convenience store, even while the part-timer is giving me the stink eye.
I made that resolution in my mind and started looking for a suitable place to eat.
First, in front of the convenience store was out.
Looking at the scorching ground, if I sat there to eat, my lunch box would probably go bad before I finished. No. Would it melt before that?
So, in front of the convenience store was out. The nearby park was…
*Clatter!*
The first place was under construction.
“Don’t let go of my hand!”
The second place was in the middle of some drama filming.
“Aah♥ Do it more roughly!”
“Of course! Honey!”
‘Shit.’
The third place was supposed to have the moans of a man and a woman, but instead, I heard the moans of two men.
If it were the moans of a woman, I would have been in the mood to listen to a 19+ ASMR, but two men was a bit…
For these reasons, the park was out.
The problem was that if the park was out, there was nowhere else to eat…
‘Is there no good place? Somewhere with few people, where I can eat in the cool?’
After sweating and worrying for a while,
‘Come to think of it. Isn’t there a shrine nearby?’
A moderately sized shrine that I had found while searching through Takuya’s memories suddenly came to mind.
As far as I remembered, there wasn’t anyone living there to manage it, so it should be okay to eat there.
Thus, my next destination was decided to be the nearby shrine.
Fortunately, the shrine wasn’t too far away.
It was located on a slightly elevated hill in the plains, so it was about a 5-minute walk.
Except for the slightly winding path, the shrine was in a pretty good location.
In addition, there were a lot of trees, making it a great place to avoid the sun.
I sat down on the shrine’s veranda and opened the lid of the lunch box I had bought.
First of all, the smell was… a pass.
The good smell of rice and meat wafted up.
There was a pickled plum on top of the rice, which was a bit annoying, but it was Japan, so I decided to understand.
Now, how would it taste?
I rubbed the chopsticks together in my palm, anticipating the taste of the lunch box.
To be honest, it was a bit unreasonable to expect much from a Japanese lunch box in 2009.
There was almost a 20-year difference from what I knew.
But even so, the reason I bought the lunch box was because of the vague expectations I had for Japanese lunch boxes from the past.
The anime and YouTube videos I had watched praised them so much! It should be good! That was the feeling.
Of course, if I was disappointed, I wouldn’t eat one for about 10 years.
I thought that, broke the wooden chopsticks apart, scooped up a big spoonful of rice, and put it straight into my mouth.
No.
– *Zzzzzing.*
I was about to put it in.
I suddenly felt an intense gaze from the side, so I didn’t drop the rice I was about to put in my mouth… I put it in my mouth anyway, and then I also put the egg roll and pickled plum in my mouth.
I wasn’t the type of person who couldn’t eat because of someone’s gaze.
After chewing the food in my mouth and swallowing it, I turned to the side.
And what I saw when I turned was:
“What is it, kid? Do you have some business?”
It was a long-haired, black-haired, black-eyed girl who looked like she had come straight out of an anime flashback scene.
Of course, I just said she was pretty; it didn’t make my hidden lolicon power boil over.
I just felt like she would get a lot of cuteness during Chuseok.
Anyway, I asked the girl who was staring intently at me, or rather, at my lunch box.
My question seemed to snap the girl out of her trance, and she looked me straight in the eye and said,
“I’m not a kid!”
Saying that was already proof that she was a kid, but I didn’t bother correcting her.
“So what, kid?”
Of course, I didn’t say I wouldn’t call her a kid.
At my words, the girl, no, the kid, flared up.
“I’m all grown up!”
“You’re a kid in my eyes.”
“Is it all about height?!”
“Yeah, it is.”
Hmm. That’s a pretty sharp question for a kid. But.
“That’s right. I’m not small either. But something else is big.”
“Liar. Show me the proof!”
“No.”
I was a confident member of society (past tense) who could brazenly lie in the face of facts.
At my retort, the kid stomped her feet in frustration and glared at me, but I just kept teasing her by calling her a kid.
Was it because I teased her too much?
“Ugh. You’re annoying…”
The kid’s pretty brow started to furrow, and it was like a button that shouldn’t have been pressed had been pressed.
As she said that, the kid suddenly started muttering something incomprehensible, and surprisingly, the color of her eyes started to change.
And it was to the opposite color, from black to white.
While I was bewildered by the bizarre sight,
[He’s bullying me. Punish him!]
The girl seemed to be talking to someone in an unknown voice.
Of course, I couldn’t perceive if there was something there, but I could feel it.
That this kid had summoned something here.
I was wondering how to deal with the situation, but
[What do you mean, no? You’ve been doing well so far!]
Suddenly, a look of bewilderment began to appear on the kid’s face.
No, more than that.
[What, you want me to look at that kid closely? What kind of…]
Even a look of fear began to appear.
“Hic, hic!”
Ah. She even started crying.
I couldn’t understand what was going on when I saw the kid suddenly looking at me with fear.
She was annoyed at my face, then she got scared, and then she started crying. What was I supposed to do?
My mood, which was already bad because of how messed up things were today, was getting even worse.
‘Haa… Still, she’s a kid. Should I try to comfort her?’
I was thinking that I should comfort her… when I tried to comfort the kid, no, the girl.
“Waaah! I’m sorry. Please don’t kill me!”
As soon as I got a little closer, she started crying like this again.
Even more so than before, she was wailing as if the sky was falling.
I was really going crazy.
After that, I had to try to comfort a girl I didn’t know for a long time.
It was so unfair.
***
And after comforting her for a long time, I finally managed to convince her that I was a safe person and had no intention of harming her, and only then did the girl stop crying.
“Sniff…”
She also introduced herself, saying that she wasn’t a kid but a girl named Misaki.
And she explained to me why she had cried, which was quite something.
“So, you’re a spiritualist, and you can see a weird-looking ghost behind me?”
“Yeah…sniff.”
She said it was because she had seen a ghost.
At that, I asked the kid… Misaki, in a dumbfounded tone.
“The kind of ghost that appears in legends and ghost stories?”
“Sniff. Yeah…”
What are you, a shaman?
“Haa…okay…”
“Do you believe me?!”
“I don’t know, you brat.”
It seemed like I had gotten mixed up with a strange girl.
***
[Among the farming items, there may be items necessary for the progression of the episode.]
