Chapter 53

Gabriel introduced them to each other.

"Hello, Vignette-san," Kitakami Yoru just greeted her calmly.

"Hello, Kitakami-senpai," Vignette heard this familiar name, strangely sized up Kitakami Yoru, and replied.

However, thinking that Gabriel was an angel and definitely wouldn't be friends with a bad person, she didn't dwell on it.

"Gabriel, did something happen?" Kitakami Yoru took the key out of his pocket and opened the door lock.

"No, I was in a hurry to get home and forgot to bring my things, so Vignette helped me bring them," Gabriel smiled a bit embarrassedly.

She was in a hurry to get home to play games and accidentally forgot to bring her school bag.

It really was something, even forgetting her school bag.

"Then goodbye, see you tomorrow," Vignette also had to go back, so she waved her hand.

"Goodbye," Gabriel waved her hand, not closing the door, but coming to Kitakami Yoru.

"Kitakami-kun, do you have time this week to go shopping with me?" Gabriel asked with her large eyes shining.

This weekend, Kitakami Yoru had an appointment with Kato Megumi.

However, it was impossible to go out for two days in a row, so he agreed.

"Is Friday after school okay?" Gabriel added.

Although the game Kitakami Yoru lent her was fun, it didn't have much replay value.

Gabriel wanted to try online games, like the recently popular Genshin Impact.

Hmm, I want to play Genshin Impact!

"Gabriel, are you in a hurry? What are you buying?" Kitakami Yoru asked, puzzled, while changing his shoes.

"A computer."

Gabriel blurted out.

Rather than saying she was in a hurry, it was better to say she was expectant.

Kitakami Yoru shrugged his shoulders indifferently.

Putting on his slippers, he closed the door and walked in.

Arriving in the living room, San-san was lying quietly on the sofa, clawing at the air.

Hearing footsteps, it immediately stood up, staring with large eyes, as if welcoming Kitakami Yoru back.

Kitakami Yoru plopped onto the living room sofa and let out a long breath, his face looking a bit tired.

Turning on the TV, he picked up the cat teaser on the table, smiled, stroked San-san's round body, and waved the teaser!

"Meow~"

San-san's eyes flickered, and it was immediately attracted!

The teaser was waved again.

"Meow meow~"

San-san let out an excited cry, waving its paws, wanting to catch the teaser.

Kitakami Yoru started playing with San-san.

After a while.

San-san was still full of energy, but he was tired.

It wasn't early anymore.

He went to turn on the bathroom heater, boiled water, and went to the kitchen to make dinner for today.

As a result, there weren't many daily necessities in the kitchen refrigerator, and it probably wouldn't last a few days.

"The weather is gloomy again, I'd better go out and buy some, so I don't have to order online in a few days when it pours."

Kitakami Yoru wasn't wealthy; he saved as much as he could and didn't dare to spend money lavishly.

Except for the expenses of going out with Kato Megumi.

The only unnecessary expense he could save was the cheap can of black coffee every noon.

The convenience store culture in Japan can be said to be second to none.

Many workers' three meals a day are bought at convenience stores.

Because assembly-line bento boxes aren't expensive, and it saves time and money compared to buying groceries and cooking.

Since you can buy cheap bento boxes, the need for cooking decreases.

Naturally, there are fewer places to buy groceries.

Convenience stores don't sell vegetables, and even some small supermarkets don't; you have to go to medium-to-large supermarkets.

Kitakami Yoru had no choice but to walk to the station, take one stop, and head to the nearest supermarket that sold vegetables and meat.

"Luck is not bad; they started selling at a discount at this time."

Kitakami Yoru carried a shopping basket and saw the supermarket clerk putting discount labels on some bento boxes.

He quickened his pace and headed to the vegetable section.

During weight loss, you can almost eat any kind of vegetable.

Kitakami Yoru liked onions, lettuce, and potatoes.

He put two pounds of each into his basket and randomly chose a few bunches of vegetables he hadn't eaten before, placing them in the basket.

The discount shelves were almost empty.

Picking and choosing randomly, he walked to an empty broccoli shelf and ran into Aoyama Nanami.

"Kitakami-kun." Aoyama Nanami saw Kitakami Yoru first and spoke subconsciously.

As the words fell, she looked at the massive Kitakami Yoru in front of her, and what Kanda Sorata had said to her at noon surfaced in her mind again.

Approaching you with bad intentions, making you lower your guard, giving you things to eat, and then drugging you one day...

Originally, after struggling for a while, Aoyama Nanami didn't intend to care.

But those words were like a steel nail driven into a wooden board; even if you pulled it out, there was still a mark.

And her heart was the wooden board.

"Aoyama-san, are you also here to buy discounted vegetables?" Kitakami Yoru glanced at Aoyama Nanami's basket.

It seemed she had arrived late and only managed to grab a bunch of broken broccoli.

Aoyama Nanami nodded absentmindedly.

"The discounted vegetables are basically all gone; I have some here, do you want some?" Kitakami Yoru said politely.

"Huh?!"

"No... I don't want any, thank you..."

Aoyama Nanami's heart skipped a beat, and she shook her head hurriedly, feeling extremely conflicted.

"Uh-huh."

Kitakami Yoru waved his hand and left.

After buying daily necessities, he bought two boxes of discounted clean sushi and went home to have it for dinner.

After showering and eating dinner, Kitakami Yoru turned on the desk lamp and flipped through the notes Yukinoshita Yukino had lent him.

It seemed there was still the scent of a young girl on them.

If he took them out to sell, there would probably be quite a few boys willing to pay, right?

Yukinoshita said that if he could meet the goal of this one-week study plan, he would have a chance to enter the top thirty of the grade.

Time flew by, and it was Friday.

50: Baking Cookies

Friday, afternoon club activity time.

Inside the Service Club.

Yukinoshita Yukino was holding a piece of chalk, explaining a math problem on the blackboard inside the club.

This math problem was content from the previous semester.

Logically speaking, it should be very easy for a second-year student.

But Kitakami Yoru still needed Yukinoshita Yukino's detailed explanation and teaching to barely understand it.

Only by going home and reviewing it well could he master it.

"Yukinoshita-chan is so strict, Kitakami-kun also looks very serious..."

In the corner, Yuigahama Yui didn't dare to breathe, not even playing with the phone in her hand, just watching Yukinoshita Yukino teaching.

"Did you understand?" Yukinoshita Yukino asked Kitakami Yoru in front of her.