Chapter 67.


    <strong>Chapter 67. Executing Operation, Codename: Date, Afternoon. (3/4)</strong>


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Oh? What are those?” Rosa asked curiously when she noticed the items in my hands.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“They’re momentous or souvenirs I guess. Here, you can have them.” I tossed the fox over to her and she caught it. I also handed over the circr capsule with the ne inside. While hugging the red fox up against her chest, she immediately opened the small capsule to reveal a ne with a heart-shaped frame ornament with a crescent moon at the center of the heart.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Rosa’s eyes lit up when she saw it, it seems she liked it a lot. She didn’t waste any time and immediately put the ne on.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“You like it?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Do you even need to ask? If I didn’t like it, would I have put it on so fast? The stuffed animal is also really cute.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“I’m relieved to hear that.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Oh, but what about the other ones you have?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Well, I got them both by ident. I was aiming for the fox but ended up getting the bunny next to it first. It was bad luck so I had to spend more than expected to get the fox. As for the capsule I was down to myst coin and figured I’d just use it. I ended up fishing up two of these with one attempt out of pure luck.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“The bunny doesn’t really suit you though, I figured I’d just give these to her as a thank you for letting me rest and also apanying Rosa for so long ying DDR.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“What? There’s no way I can ept it. Just let Rosa have it. She’s your girlfriend.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“But he’s right though, a yellow bunny like that really doesn’t suit me. I’d rather not take it, to be honest. If you don’t take it, this guy is the type to just throw it away you know. It’s just going to go to waste. It’s the same with the capsule. I don’t need two nes and would never wear two after all.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“You’d really just go and throw them away if I don’t take it?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Yeah. So just ept them. It’s not a big deal.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">I tossed the two items over at once. Flustered, she just barely caught them.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“You should throw things like that. The bunny has feelings too. You could have also broken the time in here if I missed and didn’t catch it.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“I was sure you’d catch them.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Liar. You just didn’t care, right?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Right, right. I didn’t care at all, so you can take them without worry.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">She puffed out her cheek then shortly after averted her eyes to the side. She opened up the capsule in her hands and this time the ne revealed was quite simr to the one Rosa pulled out. The only difference being, in ce of Rosa’s crescent moon, was a sun in the middle of the heart frame.


    <span style="font-weight:400">I couldn’t help but feel the two nes reached their rightful owners. A sun for someone who stood out so much and a moon for the one who hid themselves away in the night.


    <span style="font-weight:400">She seemed a bit happy with the ne, but she didn’t put it on right away the way Rosa had. She was about to put it away in her pocket when Rosa, without any warning, snatched it out of her hands.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Jeez, what are you doing? You should just put it on, it suits you well.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“I can’t do that, it’s too embarrassing… with the heart and all.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Oh? So you dislike the ne then?” Rosa asked.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“N-No… I quite like it, it just doesn’t feel appropriate for me to wear it…”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Stop getting so hung up on the little things and just wear it already.” Rosa forcefully put it on around Alicia’s neck despite her protests.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Seeing the two wear them I had a strange feeling while looking at the scene. It was too harmonious. These two friends, that is. Was this sort of thing normal for friends? I wouldn’t know since I didn’t have any to make a directparison to. Though looking at other friends I’d seen as a third-party observer from the outside, it didn’t seem normal at all.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Rosa was obviously up to something. Something I didn’t like. Behind my back, outside of where I could see. She was definitely plotting something…


    <span style="font-weight:400">When she said she wouldn’t mind ying for the wrong team, perhaps this was what she meant. She’d be willing to take the side of the girl I dered as my enemy. Meaning… Rosa was trying to get me to ept Alicia as a friend.


    <span style="font-weight:400">But it still didn’t feel like that was all. Was she trying to set me up with her? But why? Why would she want to do that?


    <span style="font-weight:400">Was she nning to break up with me post-graduation after all, then leave Alicia and me behind while she runs off on her own? I had no way to know. It was something I had to rify with her again at some point to make certain.


    <span style="font-weight:400">If she nned to run off… I would ept her decision. I’m not going to try and force someone to stay if there’s something they want to do. It could be that she’s realizing this sort ofid-back lifestyle really isn’t for her after all. She might want something more exciting.


    <span style="font-weight:400">But still, I will never allow her to seed if she ns to try and push Alicia onto me. That’s not for you to decide, Rosa. She and I are the only ones who get to make such a decision.


    <span style="font-weight:400">As my suspicions toward Rosa’s true intentions grew, the two in question were getting along swimmingly without me saying anything. They were, to be frank, two peas in a pod.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Haaaaah. It seems I may be dumped in the near future and go back to how life had always been for me.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Nothingsts forever. You should enjoy what you have while you still have it. I guess that’s all our rtionship means to her in the end.


    <span style="font-weight:400">There’s no point worrying over it. If it happens, it happens. If it doesn’t, it doesn’t. My ideal style of life is a worry-free one.


    <span style="font-weight:400">I will still ask her about her intentions after this date to confirm everything. Actually, wait. I was just about to think to myself that I have plenty of time to do so, but is that really true? That sounds like a shit g if I’ve ever heard one. Isn’t that like an awful omen? Some real shit tier foreshadowing that I hate the most in stories.


    <span style="font-weight:400">You know what? Fuck this shit! I’m done. I’m not going to follow the natural flow of those stupid things I hate. I see these braindead, dumbass scenarios in stories all the time, and honestly, from the bottom of my heart, they piss me the fuck off! Like what the hell! Everything could be resolved if they just aren’t a goddamn pussy and ask things outright without holding anything back.


    <span style="font-weight:400">There’s no need for this forced drama bullshit just for the sake of ‘deepening a rtionship’ through some nonsense. Fuck you. Fuck your shitty stories. Fuck the dumbasses who can’t write a good fucking romance to save their lives without the melodramatic bullshit that stretches on for what feels like an eternity just to milk the story until it’s dead. Yes, fuck all of that to hell! I’ll burn your shit into the ground if I ever find those jackasses! You got that!


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Rosa, do you n on breaking up with me after graduation?” I just came out and said it right then and there without giving a damn about anyplicated crap. Yeah, I’d read too many romance stories that ticked me off in my lifetime, I admit it. It got me pretty heated as both a reader and author.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Rosa’s eyes widened like she was looking at someone so dumb she couldn’t even fathom it, “What the hell are you asking me something so stupid for out of nowhere? Are you an idiot? Do you think for a second I’m going to go and abandon the boyfriend I’ve worked so hard for?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Thanks. That’s all I needed to know. It’s a weight off my back. Anyway, let’s move on with the date. We should head over to the book store now.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Yeah, sure. Hey, by the way, Alicia. Do you want to go to a restaurant with us after this? I’m sure you’re hungry after the workout we just had, right?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“A restaurant? Should I really be going with you? Isn’t something like that supposed to be set for a romantic mood?” It seemed Alicia didn’t even care about my outburst just now. Even she thought my question was one of the dumbest things she’d ever heard me ask.


    <span style="font-weight:400">I really wanted tough. What the heck? My girlfriend’s not doing that? Then what is she doing?


    <span style="font-weight:400">Oh well… I’m sure I’ll find out soon. After that outburst just now, I’m sure she’s realized I know she’s up to something and she will end up revealing it to me. I’ve just got to patiently wait at this point for when that happens.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Rosa, what are you plotting?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">Ah, it seems I’m not even willing to wait patiently and pretend I don’t know. Whatever had gotten into me?


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Plotting? What do you mean?” She put on a face like she truly did not know.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Meanwhile, Alicia’s eyes were frantically darting back and forth between the two of us in a panic, convinced this development had all been because of her.