Chapter 1679: Founding Festival with Shallow Vernal ①

As soon as we arrived, well, there was a bit of a mess, but for the time being, I held hands with Shiro-san and we set out for the Founding Festival.

However, it sure feels strange seeing Shiro-san walking through the streets bustling with festivities like this.

[In the first place, this is the first time for me to walk around a festival venue like this.]

[Well, that’s what I thought. In that case, wouldn’t it be better if we go for the common street food stalls rather than the unusual ones? Shiro-san, do you have any places you’d like to visit or street food you’d like to try?]

I’ve already been here with Alice once, so I plan to prioritize Shiro-san’s preferences. She certainly did create a stall-like atmosphere in the Sanctuary, where we enjoyed the ambiance, set off fireworks, and such, but I want Shiro-san, who is experiencing a festival like this for the first time, to have as much as possible.

[I see, then I’d like to go to the food stalls where we can have a high level of flirting.]

[……H- Hmmm.]

The fact that she demanded for something with a high level of flirting with a straight face is very typical of Shiro-san, but I could only feel troubled by this request.

No, it’s not that I have any complaints about the flirting part. In fact, if I can have a lover-like flirting time with Shiro-san, that’s something I will enjoy too.

However, when she asks for food stalls with a high level of flirting…… Nothing comes to mind.

For example, sharing something between the two of us, eating it together might seem like something couples do, but if that’s the case, we can just do it at any food stall, so doing such a thing shouldn’t be a problem.

[Hmmm, I can’t think of anything right away.]

[Fumu…… Don’t worry. Anticipating that this might happen, I have increased my knowledge on this matter.]

[……Ah, errr, I guess so. I’d be grateful if you told me what you’d like in a more specific way……]

[I presume the act of eating soft-serve ice cream together, each from one side, had a significant degree of flirtiness in it.]

[…………………]

Well, she said something quite outrageous there…… Should we go with that though…… Should we go for the full-on idiot couple way of eating in a crowded venue like this?

Shiro-san is under the veil of an Authority, providing an effect similar to Recognition Inhibition Magic, so no one will notice her…… but I end up being recognized as “that guy who’s acting like an idiot coup with a girl in a bustling place”, wouldn’t I!? No, of course we’d move to a position where we wouldn’t disturb the traffic to some extent, but the embarrassment I feel from doing that is still tremendous……

[……Ahh, no, I’d also like to grant Shiro-san’s wish, but from what I saw last time, there was no soft-serve ice cream stall around. It’s difficult to find a place that serves them in a venue like this, and we can’t do much when something isn’t available……]

Fortunately, there was no such thing as a soft-serve ice cream stall here. Rather, soft-serve ice creams are made using magic tools in this world, so they’re a considerably expensive treat.

Compared to mechanical products, magic tools are expensive, so it’s almost impossible to find them at festivals like this, partly because it would cost them too much to set up a stall.

Since we could only be helpless when something doesn’t exist…… I’m sorry for Shiro-san, but I’m a little relieved.

However, my relief turned out to be short-lived. Shiro-san shifted her gaze slightly and looking up towards the sky, she muttered.

[I’d love to have a lovey-dovey soft-serve ice cream stall.]

Immediately afterwards, part of the stall in front of my gaze disappeared, and a stall with pink decorations, emphasizing lovey-dovey atmosphere, serving soft-serve ice cream appeared.

S- She got me! Right, I almost forgot that Shiro-san has the full support of the other Gods!!! With just a word of request, she can have it granted instantly.

Kuh, I underestimated the support power of the Gods……

[Oya? Kaito-san, there’s a soft-serve ice cream stall just over there, you know?]

[……Indeed. It just appeared, didn’t it?]

[Moreover, it seems like there are currently no other customers. We’ll have to go there.]

[Indeed. It’s so unnaturally deserted, as if some kind of Authority is being used.]

It seems that I have no choice but to be prepared for this. Rather…… There would definitely be a God tending that stall, but I wonder who’s tending it?

With this in mind, we reached the stall……

[Welcome to the Lovey-Dovey Soft Serve Ice Cream Shop!]

[…………………….Long time no see, Heart-san……]

There, the Low-ranking God in charge of Hydra Kingdom was the shopkeeper with an indescribable expression on her face.

<Afterword>

Serious-senpai : [……Come to think of it, the gap between Heart’s previous line is far wider than Seigi’s……]