#064 The lady’s pudding has disappeared!
Needless to say, the effects of Citrine’s coffee were the best.
It was currently 6 am and the sun was already rising. This means I was completely up all night.
I am someone who has no tolerance for caffeine, so the pain increased even more.
‘I couldn’t even sleep… ‘
An ironic situation in which the body is tired but the brain refuses to sleep. In the end, I got out of bed and walked to the living room to at least drink some water.
And, it was the moment when I was about to pour water into the cup.
I made eye contact with the two glowing red eyes under the table.
“aaah!”
I was so startled that I fell back, but when I looked closely, I could see that it was a familiar face.
“… Miss? “What are you doing here?”
Ruby was crouching under the table, staring straight at her cupboard.
“I’m protecting the pudding for lunch.”
“Yes? “Who on earth are you protecting from?”
“From me.”
You are the target of surveillance. The young lady sometimes acts strangely, but this is the first time I have seen anything like this.
“Amber. “Tie me to the table.”
“… “I don’t understand.”
“If I don’t do this, I think I won’t be able to stand it and eat it. Please.”
“No. How could I do something like that to a young lady… !”
“Then at least hide that somewhere I don’t know…” ! I’m sure I can’t stand it like this… “
Ruby had her own rules for eating pudding.
I could only eat pudding once a week, and that was only for lunch.
In the past, she went crazy over pudding and ate it like crazy, which caused her weight to plump up, and she has been like that ever since.
“Okay. Then I will hide it without you knowing.”
It was too much for her to simply hide it in her room. Ruby’s pudding sensor will be activated and she will find it somehow and throw it away.
I carefully took out the pudding and walked out of the dormitory.
‘Couldn’t I just hide it somewhere else?’
There was one place that immediately came to mind. In addition to being an old library, the place is also used as a club room for the Free Activities Department.
I moved forward, feeling proud that I had extended the life of this little pudding even a little.
***
The next day, as soon as Ruby finished her class and it was lunch time, she quickly headed to her club room without even looking back.
“Miss, let’s go together…” !”
She shouted at her, but it seemed like she couldn’t be heard.
Dia, who was walking next to me, saw that and said with a smile.
“I guess today is the day? “Pudding day.”
“That’s right. “On this day, you become especially sensitive.”
Did the original villainess Ruby also like pudding?
Looking at the young lady just now, I couldn’t help but think that it must have been like that.
But since he didn’t gain any weight in the original work, he must have taken good care of himself.
During lunch time, club members would gather and enjoy tea time at the library.
Some people brought their own snacks, and some simply drank tea depending on their taste.
I put down the cookies I baked myself on the table again today.
‘At least the colors aren’t bad today… ‘
Because of various incidents that occurred due to my cursed cooking skills, I tended to be very careful when serving cookies.
Dia took a bite of my cookie and said with a surprised expression.
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“Is it much better than when I ate it before?”
“Really?”
“Yes. At least it definitely tastes better than what you made when you were with me.”
Now that I think about it, these days, the number of people who eat my cookies is turning blue or complaining of difficulty breathing.
“I kept practicing at home during vacation. “I’m glad that there has been some improvement.”
At that time, I heard the sound of someone falling down behind me.
“Ah… Ah… “
When I looked back, I saw Ruby sitting in front of the cupboard in the club room with a despairing expression.
“Miss, why are you doing this?”
“It’s gone… “
“Yes?”
“The pudding is gone… !”
“Is that possible? I definitely left it here this morning… “
I got up and opened the cupboard to check. Clearly there was nothing sitting where the pudding should have been.
‘It’s true…’ ?’
Ruby stumbled against the wall and spoke to me.
“Amber, I guess… I think it’s too much now… “
She was lying down like a wooden doll, holding my hand and saying.
“In that world, you won’t gain weight even if you eat pudding… ?”
Soon the strength in her hands disappeared, and she dropped her head.
“Lady… ? Miss… !”
I cried out in sadness, then calmed down and thought.
‘I don’t know who did it, but… ‘I’ll make sure to find the culprit!’
Leaving her collapsed body behind, the search for her culprit began in earnest.
***
I locked the library door and told everyone.
“No one can go out from now on!”
It was 6 am when I brought the young lady’s pudding to the club room.
That means there was about 6 hours to steal the pudding.
The first thing I suspected was Coral.
“Coral, you were the fastest today again, right?”
At my question, Coral put down her book and nodded her head.
“Yes. I came at 10 today. But what happened?”
“Miss Ruby’s pudding is gone. “You’re a suspect too, Coral.”
When I pointed out her, Coral shook her head and said,
“I don’t really like sweet things. “I’ve never had pudding before.”
“Have you ever come in the morning and seen someone approaching the cupboard?”
“No. No one came. “I was just alone the whole time.”
“… Hmm, okay.”
Her story seemed to be true. Actually, I don’t really like sweet things like coral.
I pointed out Amethyst as the next suspect.
“Ame, please talk to me for a moment.”
“Huh? “What’s going on?”
“Did you eat Lady Ruby’s pudding by any chance?”
“What? “Why do I do that?”
Amethyst shook her head with an expression of complete ignorance.
“You usually play the most pranks on Ruby. “I saw Ruby put salt in her tea last time.”
“That’s… It’s true that I did it. I swear I’ve never touched pudding. “I didn’t even know it was there.”
It seemed like she wasn’t even her, seeing as how serious Amethyst, who had a hard time holding back laughter, was serious.
In the first place, Amethyst is the type to reveal that she is herself after making a prank, so it would be difficult to say that she was involved in this incident.
I also asked Diamond who was sitting next to me.
“Dia, it’s definitely not you, right?”
“Me? No. “It’s true that I like pudding, but I don’t eat it because of weight management.”
‘Well, DIA was with me all day today… ‘
Her subjects overlapped the most with mine, so I took most of her classes sitting next to her.
It can be said that the probability of being the culprit in this incident is extremely low.
Finally, I interrogated Momo and the other female students, but the answers they all gave me were the same.
Most of the club members didn’t even know that the pudding was hidden there.
‘Then who is it that stole the pudding…? ?’
While I was in agony, Cat Milk passed by.
“Meow~”
‘Could it be that guy…? ?’
Milk was a person who usually wandered around the academy premises, showing cute behavior to female students and stealing snacks from them.
Given her appetite, she would have more than enough pudding.
I picked up the milk and interrogated it with serious eyes.
“Tell the truth, Milk. It’s you?”
“Meow~”
There was no sign of eating pudding around the cat’s mouth.
If Milk had eaten the fruit pudding, there would have been a faint smell, but that didn’t seem to be the case.
In the end, we asked all club members, but the investigation ended without any significant results.
If not everyone here, then who are we?
Actually, I don’t remember what I ate… ?
… That won’t happen. Unless I had dementia at this age, it would have been impossible.
I approached Ruby, who was lying down, and spoke.
“Please be patient. “I’ll get you some new pudding in a moment.”
As Ruby consoled her young lady and stroked her head, she answered in the voice she was dying in.
“It’s already over…” The pudding I knew is no more… “
“Lady… “
“Even if you bring a new pudding, it’s fake and doesn’t contain any memories…”
For her, the pudding containing her week-long memories was no more.
While she was trying to comfort her, someone knocked on her library door.
“Hey, is this thing locked? “Can you please open the door?”
‘That’s right. I locked it.’
When I unlocked the lock and opened the door, I was greeted by an emerald with a bright face as always.
“Hi, Amber! It’s so cute today too… !”
She hugged me reflexively, but I could only remain sullen.
“What’s wrong? What happened?”
“The lady’s pudding is gone. “I put it in the cupboard over there.”
“Oh, that fruit pudding?”
Emerald seemed to know about it.
“No way, did you see that pudding!?”
“Yes. “I ate it?”
“… Yes?”
“I ate it. I found it when I came to pick up the bag I left here in the morning. “The sweet stuff was really delicious, man.”
I never thought the culprit would be revealed like this.
I said to her with a troubled look on her face.
“Emerald, that was the pudding that Lady Ruby had been waiting for for a week… “
She looked at my face and looked like she realized something, then opened the bag she was carrying and took out some puddings.
“Actually, I went to the store and bought a bunch to refill. “Is this not going to work?”
“No, how many are there?”
After she poured out all the pudding, the bag, which had been puffy, became unsightly and sloppy.
At this level, you can say that all the puddings in the store were swept up.
‘Is this the royal family’s expense…? ‘
She looked around the club with a bright smile on her face.
“Amber, where is Ruby now?”
“I’m lying on the floor over there. “It seems like the shock was great.”
Emerald picked up one of her puddings and walked over to Ruby, meeting her gaze.
“Ruby, I brought you a bunch of new pudding as an apology. “Try it.”
When I saw the scene, I shook my head and said,
“It won’t be of any use. She said she didn’t like the new pudding… “
“Oh my, you’re eating well…” !”
Ruby quickly snatched the pudding from Emerald’s hand and inhaled it.
“… ?”
Emerald said kindly, looking at Ruby eating as if she had starved for several days.
“Eat slowly. “Is there still this much left?”
I approached Ruby with a blank face and asked.
“… Miss. “I heard there are no memories in the new pudding?”
She answered with her pudding in her mouth.
“Amber, all memories are useless. “You have to look at the present.”
“… “
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That day, Ruby ate seven pieces of pudding by herself and looked the happiest.
And when she got on the scale the next day, she cried out in despair.
Don’t worry Ruby, a little bit of chubbiness is cute.