Why Not Make Both Twins 'Girlfriends'?-Chapter 2Volume 3 .3 - Suddenly Cat Ears...?

Suddenly Cat Ears…? 3

“It’s Yuzuki after all…”

Then Yuzuki frowned and put her hands on her hips.

“What’s with that look of disgust…? And, you’re with the Usami sisters too…”

The ones who looked more awkward than Sakuto were the twin sisters. It had been about a month since the “Hydrangea Festival”.

“Hello, Yuzuki-chan… What a coincidence, huh?”

Hikari said with a wry smile.

Meanwhile, Chikage grabbed Sakuto’s arm, pulling him towards her, and glared sharply at Yuzuki.

“Why is Yuzuki-san…”

This is bad──Sakuto instantly thought so.

He could sense anger in Chikage’s question.

Why are you here? ──That kind of tone.

“Um, Chikage…”

Sakuto hurriedly tried to intervene──

“Why are you wearing cat ears!?”

“It’s just a coincidence that Yuzuki and I met here… Huh? Oh, that!?”

Sakuto looked at Chikage with a surprised expression.

“I think wearing cat ears is really sly!”

“Th… This is the uniform here, I can’t help it…!”

Ah, Yuzuki is arguing back? Sakuto was taken aback.

But seeing Yuzuki’s face turn red, he realized she was probably embarrassed.

Perhaps it was more about matching the theme of the town rather than the shop’s concept, Sakuto thought, but he couldn’t help feeling it was also the shop owner’s personal taste.

“Don’t you think so, Sakuto-kun!?”

“Well, I don’t really──”

──I don’t really dislike it, Sakuto thought, but he decided to keep his mouth shut to avoid any strange misunderstandings or jealousy.

Then Yuzuki pointed out that Chikage was holding Sakuto’s arm.

“Ah… If you’re talking about being sly, that’s…!”

Then she looked at Sakuto’s face and snorted with an unamused “Hmph.”

“So that’s what it was. Sakuto’s girlfriend is Chikage-chan after all…!”

Technically, Hikari was also his girlfriend… Now, how to respond──As Sakuto hesitated for a moment, Hikari spoke up first.

“I wonder about that?”

Saying so, she entwined herself around Sakuto’s other arm.

“I’m his girlfriend too♪”

Hikari smiled triumphantly… no, this was not the time to smile…

Yuzuki’s eyes narrowed.

“Wait, Sakuto… Don’t tell me you made both of them your girlfriends?”

“──────!?”

Sakuto stiffened, but then…

“…No, that can’t be right.”

Suddenly, Yuzuki’s tone softened, and she sighed as if exasperated, seemingly thinking it was a joke. Sakuto felt a profound sense of relief.

“…anyway, what brings you here?”

“We came to buy ice and drinks…”

“Then over there──”

Yuzuki pointed indifferently towards the area where the refrigerator and freezer were located.

Then Hikari spoke up.

“Hey, why don’t we also buy some yakisoba or something? I’m getting a little hungry…”

With a giggle, Hikari looked expectantly at Sakuto and Chikage, who both agreed.

“Then I’ll go for a corn dog.”

“I would like shaved ice──”

“Um, hold on a second…”

Suddenly, Yuzuki extended her right hand forward.

“Actually, the manager of this place hasn’t arrived yet…”

“What do you mean?”

When Sakuto asked, Yuzuki made a troubled face.

“It means we can’t serve any food because there’s no one who can work in the kitchen. Right now the manager’s relative is trying to get in touch with them──”

Then, from the back of the store,

“Seriously…”

A disappointed-sounding girl’s voice could be heard.

However, Sakuto thought to himself, “Huh? Hmm!?”.

(Could that voice possibly be…!)

This time, instead of just an unpleasant feeling, Sakuto sensed something ominous, and cold sweat streamed down his forehead.

And the person who appeared from the back of the store was──

“Sorry, Yuzuki-chan… Oh?”

Kousaka Matori.

The vice president of the Newspaper Club, who had been a great help before the summer vacation.

Matori was also a staff member of this store, currently dressed in a light blue triangle bikini with a staff apron and cat ears.

“Takayashiki!? Hikari and Chikage are here too! Why, why──!?”

Sakuto and Chikage made a “oh no…” face.

Only Hikari from the same Newspaper Club exclaimed in surprise, “Matori-senpai!?”

“What’s with you guys, all lovey-dovey with your arms linked together?”

Matori teased them excitedly despite being surprised by the unexpected reunion.

Hikari and Chikage blushed and quickly let go of Sakuto’s arm. Matori was the last person they wanted to be seen by.

Unperturbed by the trio, Matori happily ran over to them.

Even so──

Matori was quite something. Her assets, lifted by the bikini, bounced up and down, left and right, along with her ponytail.

Then, Matori looked at Sakuto with a sly grin and said,

“Hehe… What do you think, Takayashiki? I’m pretty good, right?”

She struck a pose like a gravure idol.

“How about it? Are you excited? Oh, what about this? ──Nyan nyan, goro nyan♡”

This time, she started doing a cat pose.

“How about it? Cute, right? Don’t get too excited though──”

“Did you forget to take your medicine?”

“That’s rude!? I tried to be brave and you’re being mean to me!?”

“You’re just being painfully embarrassing, Matori-senpai…”

Sakuto stared at Matori with a completely expressionless face, or rather, with a look of withdrawal.

No matter how sexy Matori tried to be, she was still Kousaka Matori.

Sakuto, who had been trapped by her honey trap before the summer vacation, was confident that he could maintain this unshakable stance indefinitely.

“If your parents saw you now, they’d cry, wouldn’t they?”

“My papa and mama always say, ‘Maa-chan is always cute!'”

Ah, so that’s why she turned out this way, Sakuto thought, suddenly making sense of it.

“More importantly, what happened?”

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“Huh? What do you mean?”

“Just now, you sighed ‘seriously…’ in the back… You were trying to contact the manager, right? Something about a relative…”

Matori, as if remembering, exclaimed “That’s right!” and clasped her hands together with a panicked look towards Yuzuki.

“Sorry, Yuzuki-chan!”

“Eh…?”

Yuzuki, unaware that Sakuto and Matori knew each other, looked dumbfounded but regained her composure seeing Matori’s panic.

“What happened to the manager?”

“Well, it turns out they’ve been hospitalized…”

“Eh…!?”

“So, we’re suspending the sale of food… We’ll just have drinks and ice cream, and I’ll be making shaved ice and stuff…”

“But the customers coming in want to eat──”

──The two of them discussed the problem with troubled expressions.

As Sakuto and the others watched them with confusion──

“Excuse me…!”

A voice came from the side.

Chikage was staring at Matori and the others with a serious face.

“Could I hear more about what you were just discussing?”

Sakuto thought to himself, “No way…”