Even if I transform, I will never be captured.

Satella: "Stare—"

Suddenly, Misaki Shokuhou bristled, her starry eyes brimming with tears, as if she was about to cry. She shouted, "What's wrong with that! I'm just hungry!"

Misaki Shokuhou really wants to cry.

In class, she was at least praised as someone who "has the demeanor of a mature woman," a true heiress among heiresses.

But now, in front of someone she cares about deeply, she's actually hungry and her stomach is growling! She's completely lost her composure! She's utterly disgraced herself!

"No problem at all! It was just my stomach growling! I was starving! So please don't cry, okay? Let's go eat right away."

"I won't cry!"

Misaki Shokuhou sniffed and muttered, "Since you're somewhat sensible, you can decide what to eat for lunch. You can eat whatever you want."

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"Since you put it that way, then I'll take the liberty of arranging this. Let's go to the most expensive restaurant for a lavish meal!"

—That's what Satella originally intended to say.

But when the sweet aroma of cake wafted from the dessert shop, Satella's stomach started growling uncontrollably.

A few minutes later, Satella and Misaki Shokuhou were sitting in a dessert shop on the street.

"Seriously, who eats dessert as a main meal? Aren't you afraid of consuming too much sugar and gaining weight?"

Sitting facing the street, Misaki Shokuhou rested her chin on her hand and complained.

"It's okay, there's a saying... dessert is in a different stomach!"

Satella sat opposite Misaki Shokuhou, fidgeting with her legs back and forth restlessly.

She was wearing white casual pants and a navy blue T-shirt that she had chosen herself. Although she no longer had the elegant and refined air she had at the beginning, she looked much cleaner and fresher, giving people a feeling of natural beauty, like a lotus emerging from clear water.

"What kind of twisted logic is this?" Misaki Shokuhou sighed.

Just then, the waiter arrived to serve the meal.

Chapter 23 Explosion

"Sorry to keep you waiting. Here is your cheeseburger, fried potatoes, cheesecake, pineapple bun, Baumkuchen, and chocolate parfait with orange juice. Is the onion sauce okay?"

Thank you☆

"For dessert, we have mini custard tarts."

"Thank you for your help."

After the waiter left, Misaki Shokuhou wrapped the hamburger in a large napkin from the table and elegantly put the enormous nigiri into her small mouth.

The delicious meat juices, the melting cheese, the crunchy texture of the lettuce, the tangy flavor of the tomato slices, and the perfectly spicy sauce that binds all these distinct textures together—this perfect combination softens her gaze, and you can tell at a glance that she is repeatedly savoring something wonderful in her mind.

Watching Misaki Shokuhou dine with such elegant manners, Satella couldn't help but sigh. As expected of the first-class young lady in the original work, the future queen of Tokiwadai, even her meals are a pleasure to behold.

If it were her, she definitely wouldn't be able to do it.

"...Awoo!"

Satella took a big, delicious bite of the cheesecake, and the sweet taste made her close her eyes in bliss.

"So delicious!"

Although I've eaten a lot of delicious food in Re:Zero, the cuisine in this medieval setting is quite different from that of modern society.

The former's advantage lies in its natural and pollution-free raw materials, while the latter's advantage lies in the richer flavor brought about by more mature cooking techniques.

It's sweet but not cloying, has a wonderful aroma, and even has a hint of Satella's favorite strawberry flavor—it's absolutely delicious!

When Satella decided to go back, she also brought some for Emilia.

Well, consider it a souvenir to bring back from a trip!

Of the six dishes ordered, only the hamburger and fried potatoes were from Misaki Shokuhou; the rest were from Satella.

The cheesecake was chosen out of her own volition, while the pineapple bun and Baumkuchen were because her wife from her previous life liked to eat them, so now that she had finally traveled to the world of anime, she naturally had to buy them to try.

Hmm, it tastes pretty good.

After finishing the bread, Satella began to tackle the large cup of chocolate parfait.

The chocolate parfait, served in a large glass, is exquisitely crafted. The cream ice cream is presented in distinct layers of orange, green, white, and red, and topped with a few strawberries, making it look incredibly appetizing.

Satella scooped up a large spoonful and savored it with relish in her cherry-colored mouth. When she opened her eyes, she suddenly realized that Misaki Shokuhou was spying on her again.

"Do you want some too?"

As she asked this, Satella generously scooped out a spoonful of chocolate parfait and handed it to Misaki Shokuhou, saying, "I'll feed you."

"I won't eat it!" Misaki Shokuhou refused, but to be honest, her refusal was somewhat wavering.

"Your eyes clearly look like you want to eat... Ah, could it be that you're prone to gaining weight after eating sweets?"

"No way!!!"

"Haha, looks like I guessed right." Satella laughed, amused by Misaki Shokuhou's sudden and intense reaction. "But in that case, you should eat more sweets. Look how thin you are, you can see your bones."

"Waaah..."

Misaki Shokuhou was ultimately no match for Satella, and was humiliated when Satella pried open her mouth, and a spoon carrying white and cloudy ice cream was thrust inside, ravaging her oral cavity and playing with her tongue.

At that moment, Misaki Shokuhou suddenly realized that Satella had just used this spoon, hadn't she?

Doesn't that mean...?

I indirectly kissed Satella?!

Satella, who was enjoying the feeding play, suddenly noticed that Misaki Shokuhou's face had turned rosy.

Although it looked good that way, she still said, puzzled, "It's just feeding you something, is it necessary to blush like that?"

"This...this spoon, you just used it!"

"So what if it's been used?"

Satella replied with that, then paused for a while before realizing what she meant, "You don't actually think this is an indirect kiss, do you? Relax, I've shared a pair of chopsticks with other people before, it's nothing."

"..."

Seeing Satella's nonchalant expression, Misaki Shokuhou suddenly felt silly for being shy, and also felt inexplicably angry.

An angry Misaki Shokuhou turned her face away, no longer looking at Satella. Instead, she rested her chin on her hand, her beautiful eyes, sparkling like two stars, staring at the scenery on the street, her gaze slightly vacant.

There is indeed such a period in life:

The flowery language in textbooks will lose its luster.

Anything that comes from parents or teachers will be met with denial and rebellion.

On the contrary, those smug comics that constantly mock adults for being worthless and meaningless, or the comments of comedians, can give a bit of vitality to a depressed and vulnerable self, just like the experiences of Misaki Shokuhou and Satella.

I want to be friends with Satella and I like that noisy, carefree lifestyle.

This kind of feeling is something that Misaki Shokuhou herself may not have realized yet.

However, whenever she was with Satella, she would feel incredibly relaxed, a feeling that Misaki Shokuhou truly experienced.

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and so--

"I wish we could stay together forever."

As that barely perceptible murmur fell, Misaki Shokuhou's pupils, which were fixed on the street, suddenly contracted.

As if teleported, a menacing helmet made of jet-black material suddenly appeared on the glass facing the street.

"—!"

Misaki Shokuhou leaped over the table and pinned Satella, who was still unaware of what was happening, beneath her.

In the next instant, all sounds, including those from the restaurant and the street, were shattered by the violent explosion.

Orange flames exploded from outside the window, and the special glass facing the street was torn apart like a piece of white paper. When the raging shockwave subsided, the entire dessert shop had been completely destroyed and engulfed in flames.

"pain……"

After being unconscious for an unknown period of time, Satella regained consciousness, supporting her still throbbing head, and tried to stand up, but was unable to do so.

—It was pinned down by something.

Instinctively, I wanted to push away what was pressing down on me, but what I touched was a sticky, wet substance.

She held her hand up to her eyes, and in an instant, the crimson color completely filled Satella's vision.

is blood!

Fresh, still-flowing crimson blood between her fingers!

Satella remembered that she had just been eating a chocolate parfait when Misaki Shokuhou suddenly pounced on her and pinned her down...

Then, an explosion occurred.

Author's Note:

P.S. Thanks to bookguer28143205180, A Certain Scientific Misaka Misaka, Hikigaya Haruno, Girls' Fresh Panties, Weng Zhongxian, Innocent xi, Xiaoxiao, and unexpectedly confused monthly tickets and blades.

Chapter 24 The Lucky and the Unlucky

Misaki Shokuhou!!

Satella scrambled to her feet and pulled the girl who was on top of her into her arms.

It was indeed Misaki Shokuhou pressing down on her, but the girl was no longer the spirited girl she usually was. Even with the raging flames reflecting on her face, there was not a trace of color in her eyes.

"Shokuhou Misaki! Hey! Shokuhou Misaki, wake up! If you wake up, I'll never say you have flat breasts again!"

Amid Satella's desperate shaking and shouting, Misaki Shokuhou finally slowly opened her eyes.

Beneath her trembling eyelashes, her starry eyes shone with a dim light, but even so, the girl still defiantly uttered, "I'll definitely be older than you someday!"

"Yes, yes, yes! You'll be at least an E cup... no, an F cup, a G cup! Much bigger than me!"

As if grasping at a lifeline, Satella tightly gripped Misaki Shokuhou's cold little hand, her words tumbling out incoherently, as if both crying and laughing: