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第三章 文化祭摊位战争
Chapter 3: The Culture Festival Stall War
For the culture festival, the class decided to run a maid café. Yota wanted to hide in the back and wash dishes. Rika shoved him into a butler uniform.
“Normies stand out front.” She straightened his tie for him. “And you can do the accounts, which is more useful than people who only know how to shout ‘Master.’”
Halfway through the event, the otaku club from the next class came to crash the stall, putting up a “limited ema plaque” as the stake. Rika glanced at Yota. Yota glanced at the ema. Both of them said at the same time, “We accept.”
They won. The price was that the whole school saw Amami Rika and Kurose Yota high-five, the motion so practiced it looked like they had drilled it a hundred times.
After school, on the rooftop, Rika pressed the ema into his hands. “Inventory. Legal intake.”
Yota stared at the line she had written on the back of the ema—“Failed to become a normie today too, but today was fun.”
The wind was strong. He did not throw anything over the railing.