Lunch in a nice family restaurant.
Of course, from the perspective of a student who lives with a small allowance, the price wasn’t great at all, but I was able to somehow solve it with the money I had saved up thrifty.
On the way out after dinner.
Rika said to me with a still worried expression.
“Don’t do that, let’s do Dutch Pay.”
“Okay. Let me buy this much. You’ve been buying it ever since.”
All I spent here today was the money I bought for a free pass when I entered.
Except for that, Rika voluntarily paid the money first, so my turn did not come.
Leaving aside all other issues, just eating and drinking pricks your conscience.
If something comes, there must be something that goes.
“If you enjoyed it, I’m fine with it.”
“really…”
In the end, Rika turned her head with a shy face, wondering if she had given up on Dutch Pay.
“Anyway, since we ate lunch, let’s start playing again. Where do you want to go?”
Then Rika pulled out an amusement park pamphlet from her handbag and spoke in a lively voice.
“Then let’s go see the parade! They say it starts at 2 o’clock!”
“Is that so?”
So, our next destination was decided, and to watch the parade, we went to the nearby Fantasy Land area.
***
In the fantasy land area, symbols from various fairy tales that come to mind when thinking of D○ were reproduced as buildings.
Cinderella’s Castle, Seven Dwarfs’ Cabin, Peter Pan’s Pirate Ship, etc.
Everywhere we looked, beautiful architecture and attractions that seemed to have been reproduced from a fairy tale came into our eyes, so we watched as we moved to the parade site without realizing the passage of time.
“Wow! The parade has started!”
When Rika looked at where she was pointing, she saw a huge carriage, the princesses riding on it, and staff wearing various character doll masks, waving their hands on the street.
Perhaps because the appearance itself is a rare spectacle that cannot be seen without a place like this, children holding their parents’ hands, lovers, and even foreign tourists all stopped and watched the parade.
“pretty…”
And it was the same for me and Rika.
A parade with a charm that makes people stare with their mouths wide open without realizing it.
I felt as if my childhood was revived.
The parade seems to last about an hour, and people were moving along the parade wagon like children following the quarantine car when they were young.
Seeing that scene, we were impatient and wanted to follow along, but Rika said it was okay because he had already seen it, and suggested that we have a leisurely cup of tea at a nearby dessert cafe.
“Oh, Ryu-chan bought the rice, so can I buy the dessert?”
“Do it yourself.”
Perhaps it was something he had still kept in mind, I nodded with a bitter smile at Rika’s quick suggestion.
***
“Dare you! A cafe date that I haven’t done yet!”
“Calm down, miss.”
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Minami, who was looking at Kumiko from behind, biting her handkerchief like a villain in a cartoon, said in a calm voice.
“How do you calm down in this situation! I took the player away from me first!”
“You said you’d make concessions today.”
“But you’re also angry!”
hey hey profit!
Kumiko, who had been biting the handkerchief in her mouth more and more strongly, as if instead of angering her, saw that the dessert she ordered was served on Kim Yu-seong and Rika’s table and asked Minami.
“Minami, is there an ice cream shop around here?”
“Yes. Would you like to buy the green tea flavor you always used?”
“No, buy mint chocolate. I feel like I’m running out of sugar today.”
“…All right.”
As Minami quietly disappeared to buy ice cream, Kumiko spat out the handkerchief she had in her mouth and looked at Kim Yu-seong, a savage who didn’t know how fast she was burning.
‘Perhaps Yooseong-kun is completely unaware of the fact that I am following him.’
It’s not that I don’t trust him.
However, the human heart was so deceitful that there were certainly people who could not believe it even if it was true unless they saw it with their own eyes.
‘This is the last time.’
If you can confirm with your own eyes that your beliefs are not wrong, this will never happen again.
Kumiko, wearing sunglasses, a wig, and a barbari coat that looked suspicious to anyone, held a branch in both hands and made that determination.
***
Even after drinking tea at the dessert cafe, Rika and I played like crazy.
In fact, it seems that it takes longer to walk and wait than to ride an attraction, but isn’t that what an amusement park is all about?
After enjoying various food and entertainment in each themed area such as Adventure Land and Western Land, I finally rode Rika’s one-pick ride, Flurum Ride, to find that it was already past 5 PM.
Unlike summer, the days in autumn are very short, so the sky was gradually turning orange.
Slowly, the time when amusement parks are classified as open at night has arrived.
“Oh! It was fun!”
Sitting on the bench, stretching and saying that, Rika immediately asked me who was sitting next to me.
“How was Ryu-chan? Today’s day?”
Thirsty, with a canned cider in my mouth, I turned my head, “Hmm?” to her surprise question.
Rika was looking up at me with her usual twinkling eyes.
I always feel it every time I see it, but Rika’s green eyes have a mysterious charm.
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Maybe I’m the only one who feels that way, but should I say there’s a strange sense of depth?
Thanks to that, I lost some time to reply, but I coughed and turned my head.
“It was fun. I can’t even remember the last time I went to an amusement park like this and had a lot of fun.”
“Hehe, that’s good, then.”
Rika smiled shyly and scratched the back of her head.
After compressing the finished cider can with one hand, I threw it into the trash and said.
“Then let’s go back soon before it’s too late. It takes about an hour one way, so if you’re late, your parents will be worried.”
“Oh, yes.”
Hearing my words, Rika got up from the bench in a hurry.
It was time to walk towards the exit to leave the amusement park.
“Ryu-chan.”
Suddenly, Rika stopped calling my name.
“uh?”
When I looked back as I replied reflexively, Rika looked at me with a stiff expression, perhaps nervous, and said:
“Really, really, can I get one last ride on one more ride?”
“What do you want to ride?”
When I asked that question and tilted her head, Rika swallowed her saliva and pointed to one of the rides.
“Ferris wheel.”
***
Ferris wheel.
In a way, it can be said to be one of the alpha and omega of a love comedy, and it was one of the essential elements.
And I realized the moment Rika said let’s go to the Ferris wheel.
Rika is about to confess to me.
To be honest, I didn’t expect this moment to come at all.
Rika suggested that we go on a date first, and in preparation for this kind of situation from the beginning, I talked to the president first.
However, when I thought that the moment was right in front of me, my heart was pounding.
“Then have a good time.”
As we sit in the empty seats in the round car, the staff closes the Ferris wheel by hand with a friendly sales message.
Rumble!
The Ferris wheel starts moving with vibration.
They said that it takes about 15 minutes for the Ferris wheel to complete one rotation, so we still had plenty of time.
Slowly feeling a sense of floating, Rika turned her head to the side.
gradually moving away from the ground.
And the sky is getting closer.
It is a unique scenery that can only be seen from the Ferris wheel.
As we climbed a little higher, we could see all the buildings of the amusement park we had passed before at a glance.
The colorful LED lights were turned on because it was now night time, and the night view was incredibly beautiful.
Rika, who didn’t notice the passing of time, looked at the scenery outside the Ferris wheel, and turned her head with a voice of surprise, whether or not she had regained consciousness.
Sitting in front of her, I straightened my back without realizing it.
Because he intuitively realized that the moment he had been waiting for had arrived.
Before long, Rika, with a nervous expression on her face, spoke up her luck first.
“Hey, Ryu-chan, what do you think of me?”
“Huh? About you?”
“yes.”
I was afraid of hurting her with my lack of vocabulary, so I chose words as much as possible.
“He’s a good friend. He doesn’t have prejudice even if he has a bad appearance, he just looks at people from the inside and comes to him kindly, such a grateful friend.”
It was.
Currently, Rika’s relationship with me was friends.
Perhaps, unless there is a particular reason to break up, this relationship will last long after I graduate.
However, unlike me, Rika didn’t seem to have any intention of continuing this shaky relationship.
And after hearing my answer, Rika swallowed her saliva and asked, looking straight at me with a blushing face.
“Hey Ryu-chan, won’t you date me?”