I Quit the Going-Home Club for a Girl with a Venomous Tongue - Chapter 57

Chapter 57 – Unlimited Tomato Juice Works

[A girl wearing a crimson hat, sunglasses, thigh high skirts and milky white coat will approach you. Ask her to take your picture, she’ll do it for you. By the way, she’s Hiwa Arina, the toxic and gluttonous girl.]

I sent that text to Makoto and he immediately replied to me. I called out to Arina.

“Alright, Arina, he agreed to the plan. Now, you should go to him without being conspicuous and make him call out to you.”

“Annoying…”

“If I go there, Ruka will find out that it’s me, so please, Arina! Do your best!”

“Fine, fine, I got it… I’m off.”

She threw another gum into her mouth before walking away. She proudly raised her right fist to the air for some reason. Seriously, what is this weirdo doing? People are watching. No, I don’t know her, don’t look at me. (T/N: Probably a One Piece reference? But they threw their left hand in One Piece, so who knows.)

I silently observed the couple, who were currently inside the penguin area.

There were no high grounds nearby, so I could only follow them sneakily from behind.

Meanwhile Arina was slipping through the crowds while closing the distance between her and the couple. What the hell? Why is she so skilled? Is she an MI5 agent?

Not long after, she passed right in front of Makoto. He looked scared shitless, but he managed to call her out.

He said something to Arina. Arina then took his phone, held it up for a while, gave the phone back to him and left. The entire process was so quick, it was amazing.

She came back with a smug face.

“You look satisfied…”

“I mean, he looked so pathetic when he called me out, so I pressured him to talk to me. It was funny.”

“I guess notifying him that you would come was a mistake… Now that you left this much impression on them we can’t rely on you to help again…”

I sent Makoto another text.

[From now on, try to work everything out together before asking for help. It’ll be a great way for you two to bond.]

Alright, that should minimize the number of times he asks for our help.

Even if he needed to call us over, we could only do it once more because Ruka hadn’t seen me yet. Anymore than that, she would be suspicious and that would mess things up.

“Now all we need to do is to watch them over until everything is done and pray for their safety and happiness…”

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When I asked Arina to hang out together after leaving the aquarium…

I never woulda thought that she would bring me to an all-you-can-eat sweets store.

“Uh… Is it okay for me to come in?”

I glanced around to see the overwhelming percentage of girls among the customers. They ranged from high school girls to office ladies… This place was literally filled with girls. I shuddered when I noticed it. Is this an isekai? Clearly, this is not the same world as the world I came from. This world lacks testosterone!

“Don’t mind about it.”

Except it’s not that simple, Arina-sama. This is on the same level of breaking into the women’s toilet. I mean, just look at this place! All the waitresses and the customers are girls! Surely a man should never take a step in this place!

But no matter how loud I screamed inside my mind, it never reached Arina’s ears. In the end, I resigned myself to my fate and sat down in the middle of this foreign world. Makoto, I’m scared… Help me…

In the end, I got used to the shop’s atmosphere overtime, though Arina’s gluttonous streak managed to stun me again. At first, I was confused on what to order because the varieties of the sweets overwhelmed me, so I left it to Arina, but everything that she ordered was tasty.

The best thing they got in this store was the all-you-can eat tomato juice. It was so good that it almost made me shed tears of blood. Arina started to call me ‘Dracula’, but I ignored her and kept on drinking.

Meanwhile, Arina was still eating her sweets. Seriously, does she have a black hole in her stomach?

“You sure eat a lot…”

“Girls who eat a lot are popular.”

“That’s the second time you said that. Coming out of your mouth, it should be convincing, but you never ate this much at school…”

“Right, it’s hard to eat this much at school.”

“Huh? Why?”

“The atmosphere doesn’t match.”

I guess that’s true. I’ve never seen anyone try to eat something whenever they can. If someone were to do that, they would probably attract a lot of attention. 

“I feel like I’m eating a lot today.”

“How could you maintain this body figure when you eat this much?”

“My body has good fuel efficiency.”

“I designate you as the enemy of humanity.”

After wasting around ninety minutes, the all-you-can-eat session came to an end. I spent the last minutes of the session sipping my tomato juice while observing Arina’s gluttonous behavior. That girl’s hands never stopped moving to stuff more sweets into her mouth.

After that, we left the store. Freedom! My nose was on the edge of breaking down from smelling too much sugar.

“I don’t think anything else is going to happen to them, so let’s get back home.”

“Sure, but give him a heads up first.”

“Alright, I’ll mail him.”

The sun hasn’t settled yet, so they should still be wandering around the town. 

As I was typing my message, Arina hid behind me while tugging at my hem.

“What’s up? Did you catch the shyness syndrome?”

“No I am not! Look at the front! Twenty meters ahead!”

The place was crowded, so I didn’t know what she was trying to tell me. I squinted my eyes to look around, but I soon gave up because it was impossible to notice anything in this crowd.

“Arina-san, I saw nothing there…”

“Idiot! They’re getting close! Hurry up, come with me!”

She pulled me and tried to leave, but her behavior roused my curiosity so I did my best to resist her.

“Where?~”

And then our eyes met.

In this vast universe, where the sun looked as small as a quail’s eggs, my eyes met Namiki Shirona’s eyes. A miracle happened. As I was thinking about that, she opened her mouth and pointed at me, she seemed surprised. Then, Hiragi Yuri and Miyanaka Ran appeared from within the crowd, both of them saw me.

So this is what Arina-san meant. …Cr*p… They saw us, me wearing a tuxedo and Arina in her casual clothes hanging out on the weekend. My appearance, in particular, would trigger their curiosity. ‘Why is he wearing a tuxedo?’ A question that even I couldn’t answer. But seeing us like this, it wouldn’t take a genius to come to a certain conclusion…

Hiwa Arina and Sakaki Sui are on a date.

If you have the slightest bit of common sense, you would naturally come to that conclusion.

Shirona and the others were approaching us, but my brain projected their movements in slow motion as it started looking for excuses.

Arina seemed to already accept her fate as she had turned into a statue.

Even so, I won’t give up. I’ll tell them straight up that we aren’t on a date, but instead, we’re watching over Makoto and Ruka’s date. If I could be passionate with my words, I’m sure they would understand.

If they still doubt me somehow, I’ll show them my texts with Makoto, and I’ll force Makoto to cooperate and prove our innocence. I called out to Arina.

“The victory is upon us, Arina.”

“What are you on about?”

I know my words made no sense and if I were in her shoes, I would most likely say the same thing.

Meanwhile, Shirona and the others finally appeared before us.

“Huh, Arina-san?”

Shirona ignored me and approached Arina instead. Even with her sunglasses on, she found out about her identity. Maybe if I were to approach Ruka, she would notice me like this too.

“Mhm.”

Arina elegantly removed her sunglasses like a Hollywood star.

“I knew it! Arina, your fashion sense is amazing!”

Shirona showed her a grin, meanwhile the other two beside her grinned at me. In response, I decided to turn into a statue and cleared my mind. Zen. I achieved zen. I love tomatoes.

“Sui, what are you wearing? …Huh, what’s wrong?”

“…”

“Sui? Are you alive?”

“…”

“O~i~”

“…”

While Yuri was trying to confirm Sakaki Sui’s status as a living being, Ran punched him hard in the stomach, but the young man’s mind was still as blank as a canvas. He was taking in the view of the distance, the magnificence of the universe, the Galaxy Andromeda that would decorate the night sky.

He was thinking about the clear blue sky of the day and the night that clad in darkness. He pondered about the reason why the universe was clad in endless darkness. The answer he found was simple, it was because the universe was an infinite vacuum. The reason why we could see colors was because whenever light strikes an object, it reflects the object and the information about the object, including its color, reaches our eyes.

Since the universe was an endless vacuum, light continued to travel without striking anything, that was the reason why it was black. Then, a new question arose inside his head. Will light reflect something when it reaches the end of the universe? If the end of the universe exists, will light reflect it back to earth? Does the end of the universe even exist in the first place?

In addition, the speed of the universe is faster than the speed of light so even if the end of the universe exists, the light will never reach it. It’s terrifying. In the first place, why does the universe exist? Why do we exist? Why does the universe expand without us being aware about it? Is there anything beyond the boundary of the universe? Why does this world exist? Will all those questions be answered one day? 

Then I found myself standing alone.

Arina and the three girls were gone.

I checked my phone and found a message from Arina.

[I’m going ahead with those three. You should visit a psychiatrist before you go home.]

Apparently the girls had left. It was around 3 pm when they left, so they probably went to have fun first before going home.

Since I had nothing better to do, I bought two bottles of tomato juice from the vending machine and went home.

One for me and one for my sister.

The universe is deep.