Ch 81 – 29 May, After School Date with Takao 01

The night passed, and Kouta woke up when he was already basking in the morning sunlight that passed through the slightly opened window. Eriri was still sleeping beside him, snuggled to his chest.Her hand was on top of his chest, with such a peaceful expression on her face.

Outside, the bird's song was sweet to his ear.

Kouta remembered how passionate they were last night. Especially Kouta knew that they did it while Tomoya heard what they were doing. But he knew that there was nothing that Tomoya would do. He was a nice protagonist guy after all.

Kouta doubts he would try or even think about getting revenge on Eriri. If that happened to him, Kouta would try to record it and might plan to blackmail her and the person with her. Or he devised another scheme to make their lives difficult.

But if that happened to him, based on what he saw from Tomoya, Kouta was nearly 100 percent sure he wouldn’t do anything.

Kouta looked at the time, and it was just about past 7. That was the time he usually finished his morning routine. And to be honest, Kouta felt a bit lazy, and there was a time he wanted to rest…

"No… I don’t know what will happen in the future. Having a healthy body is a must." Kouta shook his head and woke Eriri up.

"Eriri… It’s about time to wake up."

Kouta's greeting caused Eriri to slightly open her eyes.

"NN… I slept deeply…"

"Yeah… So can you make a simple toast with  jam, right?"

Kouta stroked her hair and told her what to do, while Eriri squinted her eyes like a cat.

"Nnn… It feels good. Well, I can do it if only there was something like that." Eriri responded.

"Well, good." Kouta left her alone while he just did half the morning routine he usually does, before taking a shower and going to the dining room to see Eriri already serving breakfast.

Eriri was also already in her school uniform and took care of the wet sheets as the result of their night activity.

Anyway, they were really efficient in preparing for school, before leaving home. Holding hands, before they parted ways halfway on the way to school. Or someone caught them and was suspicious of their relationship.

"Ah… But there is something I have forgotten…" Kouta said to himself, since he woke up later than usual. He didn’t prepare any lunch and never told Takao about it.

"That’s the reason… I don’t make lunch." Kouta explained his reason with such an easygoing tone while he put down his Niku Udon on the table.

"Well… it's not uncommon for something like this to happen. You had been making lunch for two people for about a week. It’s not weird that someday you feel tired." Takao responded to Kouta's question quite lightly.

For now, the two of them buy lunch at the cafeteria. There were a lot of students here in this cafeteria. Most of the time, Kouta could remember that the time he spent in the cafeteria wasn’t a good one. As in the past, he only bought bread and milk before he went back to the classroom and ate alone.

Well, Kouta in the past, would be embarrassed to sit in the seat in cafetaria while only eating alone after all.

But right now, Kouta was not alone, as Takao was also in here with him, buying a different type of Japanese food. A bowl of ramen…

"Hahaha… Sorry… about that. I never expected you to didn’t bring your own lunch at the same time." Kouta apologized again. He realized Takao didn’t bring her lunch.

"Ah. It’s my fault too… Hehe…" Takao replied with an embarrassed face. There was truth to the words Takao said, since she was very used to receiving lunch boxes from Kouta. Which sometimes made Takao feel that bringing her own lunch was too much. That was the reason why she didn’t bring her own lunch today.

""Ah…"" When they take a spoonful of their food. It was kind of disappointing. Well, it’s just average food made by cafeteria school after all. At that time, Kouta felt like he got an expensive holiday as he might not have prepared any lunch but, at the same time, got an inferior lunch.

A bit disappointing, but still, he got a break for a day, and well, maybe he just needed to enjoy his rest to the fullest.

On the other hand, Takao wasn’t not happy. She had been so spoiled by Kouta’s food that one of her favorite dishes in the cafeteria didn’t taste that good to her. Yeah, her taste has already changed, and her stomach has already gotten used to the deliciousness of Kouta’s food.

"Hah…" Takao sighed when she took another spoonful of ramen noodles.

"By the way, about our date after school? Do you prefer going to the arcade or movies?" Kouta said that Takao was unexpected to be said in public like this.

"Pu…" She looked around them with a blushed face, showing how little she had experienced with an opposite gender member or this kind of romance situation. And she sighed with relief when she saw no one she knew around her.

It wasn’t like Takao was embarrassed to be Kouta or anything like that. She was just in unfamiliar territory, and part of her didn’t know what to do.

Well, about Kouta’s question, of course Takao preferred going to the arcade and stuff, but for an innocent adolescent girl like herself, the imagination to have a date and watch a romance movie in the theater was a must.

"Un…" Takao had difficulty choosing between those two places, before she realized that she didn’t need to find the answer. "Wait… We can just go to both places, right?" She said,

"Well, of course we can… If that is the case… What kind of movie do you want to watch? Since you want to go to the arcade too… How about we watch this movie? It starts at 6 p.m., so we can play in the arcade for more than one hour." Kouta thought about their date plan and showed her a horror movie that actually had a buzz on the internet. "I heard this movie is quite scary." He added.

Takao saw the movie poster and responded with a shivering body, "C…can we watch… another movie?"

"Well, We can watch a romance movie, but it’s around 7 p.m. and we may be going home late. I don’t have a problem with it… but what about you, Takao-senpa?" Kouta gave Takao another option she might like. "Ah, we also can watch superhero movies from Western. It is still airing till today, even though it was released one month ago." He gave me another movie option to watch.

"Ah… I heard about that movie too. If I'm not mistaken, the film combines the superheroes into one film. I think most of my classmates watch that movie." Takao said that, before she made a suggestive smile and finally changed her mind. "Well, how about we watch romance movies? I’m fine to come home a bit late."

"Well, if that’s the case…" In the end, their lunch break was used by the two of them to talk about their dating plan, and of course, Kouta booked a seat in the cinema online. So they could enjoy more time at the arcade.