Chapter 87
Classmates
Translator : PolterGlast
I put the hamburger in
a standing bag on a plate, and put pre-cut cabbage and thawed mixed vegetables
on the side to hold it in place.
It's definitely a
man's meal, but this is the limit of my cooking skills.
I open the rice cooker
and serve out the rice.
After putting
everything on the tray, I open the refrigerator to get drinks.
Miku-san right now is
definitely starving for things from Earth.
It might not go well
with the meal, but since we have the chance, I decided to prepare two types of
drinks: tea and cola.
"W-Wow, there's
cola, Masaru-kun!"
"You can drink it
all, you know."
"R-really?"
"Yeah, come on,
let's eat before it gets cold."
We say
"itadakimasu" together, Miku-san's eyes sparkling.
When I eat the rice
and hamburger, it tastes as good as usual.
But maybe because it's
been a long time since I've eaten with someone, it feels much more delicious
than usual.
"..."
Miku-san's excitement
was incomparable to mine, who was used to the taste.
She put a piece of hamburger
in her mouth, put rice in her mouth... and was moved with her eyes closed.
"What should I
do, Masaru-kun, I'm about to cry..."
"About to
cry!?"
"Yeah, I never
thought I'd be able to eat such delicious food again..."
Apparently, the food
situation in Alistella is quite severe.
I sold the orc meat,
but I'm not very familiar with the food in this world.
"The ingredients
are delicious, though..." Miku-san says.
"Basically, the
only seasoning is salt, and pepper and spices are luxury items, so they're only
used occasionally. And in my case, the rice is basically tested for poison
before it comes out, so it's always cold..."
"...I see, it
must have been tough."
Being tested for
poison means that she was treated with that much importance.
And yet she was also
attacked in an assassination-like way... she probably had a very complicated
position in the kingdom.
"Do you want to
drink some cola?"
"--Yes!"
She's spent such a
difficult half-year.
It wouldn't hurt to
take a slow break now.
I had a fun time with
Miku-san for the first time in a long time.
We never ran out of
things to talk about.
After all, we've both
lived completely different lives than before.
There are so many
things to talk about.
"To think that
only blood-stained clothes were summoned in the summoning room..."
"I was really
worried at that time. I thought you wouldn't survive if you lost that much
blood."
Apparently, as God
said, I would have turned into a splatter if I had been transferred like that.
Except for Miku-san,
none of the people in the kingdom or our classmates thought I was still alive.
That's so heartless...
but it can't be helped.
Thanks to that, I've
been able to live without being searched, so I'll consider it a blessing in
disguise.
"Then I'd like to
talk about our future now... would that be okay?"
"Yeah, of
course."
"What do you want
to do in the future, Miku-san?"
Miku-san put her hands
together on her lap and looked up at me, peeking.
Then, with a bit of
embarrassment, she said,
"I... want to be
with Masaru-kun. I'll follow you wherever you go."
As soon as she said
that, her face turned bright red.
Apparently, she was
knocked out by the embarrassment of her own words.
I felt a little
embarrassed by her manly words and, on the contrary, her girlish shyness.
When I touched my
cheek, I found it a little warm.
"...I'm glad to
hear you say that."
That was all I could
manage to say.
Silence followed.
But the silence wasn't
bad, strangely enough.
Even if we were
silent, it wasn't awkward at all.
"Mm-hmm."
Miku-san was the first
to pull herself together.
She cleared her
throat, opened a cola to hide her embarrassment, and straightened her back.
"Have you decided
what you're going to do after this, Masaru-kun?"
"...No, not much.
I was just trying to do something about the [Knight's Holy Remains]."
This is my honest
feeling.
Honestly, I was just
trying to do something about the [Knight's Holy Remains] so that my classmates
wouldn't die, and I hadn't thought much about what to do after that.
We've both talked
about what happened to us since we were transferred.
So now we have to talk
about what we're going to do in the future.
One is a shut-in who
was caught up in the class transfer and killed.
The other is a Saint
of the Holy Church who was almost assassinated.
If we're going to
continue to act together, we have to get on the same page.
"What do you
think about the other classmates, Masaru-kun...?"
So I decided to open
my heart to Miku-san's question.
"If possible--I
want to get everyone out of the country. To be honest, I don't think the
kingdom is trustworthy at all."
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