“I ended up buying both.”
“It doesn’t matter, because I’m going to wear one.”
As I walked along the promenade in which the purple wisteria flowers were in full bloom, I gently waved the two paper bags in my hands, and the president blushed slightly and snatched his own envelope.
In the end, the final gift for an exchange student in Russia was a yukata.
Perhaps it was because kimonos were too authentic and difficult to wear alone, making them unsuitable as gifts for foreigners.
Well, the festival season is back in a few months, so a yukata would be a good gift.
“More than that, I go for a walk. Take a walk.”
Perhaps the president wanted to change the subject of the conversation, so he started walking slowly, holding the paper bag in his arms.
I made a slightly wider stride and followed the president like that.
“It seems that today’s business is over, what are you going to do next?”
Then the president, who was walking in the front, stopped and looked back.
“Are you talking about after the walk is over?”
“Yes. It’s a long-awaited holiday, but it’s a waste to go in after only working for the student council.”
It was only 2 o’clock now because the selection of items was finished sooner than I expected.
Even for a short walk, there was still plenty of time until evening.
Then the president hesitated and opened his mouth.
“Then how about Nakano Broadway? I’ve heard from Minami before that it’s a good place for young students to play.”
“Oh, that’s nice. But if you take the subway from Asakusa to Nakano, it’ll take quite a while.”
“If that’s the case, that’s fine. You can just call the car.”
After all, if I should say that she was a wealthy girl, the idea was different from that of an ordinary student.
“Then let’s go to Nakano for lunch.”
“Fufu, that’s fine. I was just about to be hungry.”
It was time to see each other’s agreement and walk the rest of the trail.
click!
“yes?”
When I turned around after hearing the sound of the camera, a man and a woman who seemed to be lovers were taking pictures with selfie sticks.
Until recently, it must have been the president and I alone. When did you come?
“Aren’t you coming soon?”
I tilted my head in wonder, but at the prompting of the president who was walking in front of me, I hurriedly followed.
***
“D, I thought you were caught.”
“If you go, get off quickly, please.”
Shinjiro Akagi and Minami Akagi followed Kumiko and Yuseong Kim, secretly taking pictures.
It was to report to the young lady later, but Kim Yoo-sung had no idea that he would suddenly turn around, so he hurriedly pretended to be a lover.
“That’s why I told you not to get too close.”
“Still, if you don’t approach this much, you won’t be able to take good pictures.”
As Minami answered bluntly while checking the photo she had just taken, Vice-President Shinjiro Akagi stared at the back of the head of Kim Yu-seong, who was moving away.
“A lucky child. He doesn’t even know that someone like a young lady likes him.”
“Brother, it doesn’t matter if you personally hate him, you know you shouldn’t show it in front of you, right?”
“…I know.”
The two had been serving Kumiko Saionji for a very long time.
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Maybe from the moment you were born.
Therefore, he had the blind loyalty to do anything for her.
Because it was raised that way from the beginning.
After checking all the photos taken by the camera, she inserted the backup memory into her smartphone and folded the selfie stick she was holding in her right hand and said.
“Soon the lady will call the limousine. Before that, you need to clear the back seat.”
“Then we’ll have to go by taxi.”
“Call me in advance if possible. I have to go to Nakano Broadway before Ms. Kim and Yoosung Kim to finish the preliminary research.”
“i get it.”
The two of them quickly negotiated and then began to act again.
Everything was for my dear lady.
***
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Me and the chairman took a limousine called by phone from Asakusa to Nakano.
Originally, it would have taken about an hour if I took the subway, but it only took about 40 minutes because I was traveling by car.
When the elongated black limousine, which you can only see in movies, stopped in front of Nakano Station, the eyes of people passing by naturally poured in.
Getting out of the car first, I put the hood on my clothes over my head and said with some embarrassment.
“Shall we go?”
After that, the president got out of the car and answered with a slight nod of his head.
“like.”
As the limousine dropped us off and disappeared across the road, me and the chairman saw the scene and started walking slowly toward the red and white building in the distance.
***
Nakano Broadway.
It is one of the landmarks that come to mind when you think of Nakano, and is one of the three holy places of the otaku industry.
Because it consists of only one building, it is different in scale from the electronics districts of Akihabara and Ikebukuro’s Otome Road, but the darkness lurking in it is nowhere near comparable to the two.
In fact, I have never been there myself, but in the memory of Kim Yoo-seong, who remains as a knowledge, I have had frequent visits to Nakano Broadway.
There are quite a few rare items that can only be obtained here, so it seems like you’ve made time to visit once a month as if you were on a treasure hunt.
On the first floor of Nakano Broadway, there was the main store of Mandarake, famous for various stores and used bookstores, a DVD rental shop, and an arcade.
Probably because it was Golden Week, everywhere in the building was crowded with people.
“Wow. There are so many strange things.”
The president is looking around as if it’s his first time coming to a place like this, as if it’s strange.
The experience of ordinary people from the time we first met seemed to be still in progress.
“Is there any place you would like to visit?”
Then, the president crossed his arms and made a worried expression, and immediately expressed his opinion without hesitation.
“Let’s eat first. It’s not too late to play after that.”
It’s definitely the clear answer.
It’s because I haven’t eaten anything except ice cream since we met at 12.
“Then I’ll buy you lunch. Every time I come here, I have a regular.”
To be precise, it wasn’t me, it was a real Kim Yoo-sung’s regular home.
“Oh, that’s good. Today, I’ll try to believe in Kim Yoo-sung’s choice.”
I asked the president as I got on the escalator going up to the second floor.
“Do you like ramen?”
***
The place I visited with the chairman was a ramen shop that Kim Yoo-sung liked.
Probably because it is a popular restaurant among people, the seats in the store are already full.
When I had no choice but to sit at the counter, the waiter naturally handed me a menu and water.
The president, who had never been to a restaurant like this a few times, looked around and said,
“The structure of the store is amazing.”
I looked through the menu and answered.
“It’s because the size of the room is small. Trying to make one more seat, even if the seats are different, they sit next to each other.”
Having decided on the menu, I handed the menu board to the chairman and asked.
“Chairman, what would you like to eat?”
Then the president read the menu names written on the menu board one by one.
“Tonkotsu ramen, miso ramen, shio ramen, tsukemen?”
“My personal recommendation is Shio Ramen. It has a clean taste, so many women like it.”
Then, after much deliberation, the president made a decision.
“Then I’ll eat it with Shio Ramen.”
Even the president had decided on the menu, so I ordered tonkotsu ramen and shio ramen from the waiter passing by.
It seemed like it would take about 10 minutes for the ramen to come out, so I apologized to the president and got up.
“I’ll go to the bathroom for a minute.”
“Okay. Let’s go.”
After getting that permission, I went to the bathroom to do some chores.
***
gurgling-
‘Suck!’
Shinjiro Akagi, who was secretly watching the young lady entering the ramen shop and Yoosung Kim, frowned at the sudden signal.
He asked Minami, who was watching the shop next door.
“Hey, can I go to the bathroom for a while?”
“What? Suddenly?”
“I think the cream bread I ate in the car was wrong.”
gurgling-
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Minami shook her head and said at the sight of him, who looked unfamiliar even with a pretense look.
“Uh-huh, be careful about that. Come on quickly. It seems like it will take some time for you and Kim Yoo-sung to move to the next place.”
“Thank you….”
gurgle gurgling!
“Ugh!”
There was no more time to hesitate.
Shinjiro Akagi, who was given his sister’s permission, went straight to the bathroom on the second floor and entered the partition.
About 5 minutes after that.
After he had put out all the urgent lights, it was time to slowly leave.
─Shoot aa
There was the sound of someone washing their hands from outside.
Naturally, Shinjiro thought it would be one of the guests, so he flushed the toilet and stepped out of the cubicle without thinking.
‘uh?’
But the moment he saw the familiar backboard with his own eyes, his body hardened like a stone.
It was because Kim Yoo-seong, the target that he and his sister had to secretly monitor, was standing right in front of him.
Kim Yoo-seong, who was in the middle of washing his hands, said with a surprised expression that he had found his reflection in the mirror.
“Vice President?”
Shinjiro Akagi realized that the follow-up was ruined.