Chapter 251 - A Couple

The 19th Day of the Wind month. I finished my daily routine of brushing Bell, and while staring up at the clear, cloudless blue sky, I was thinking about what I should do now.

It’s a nice day, so how about I go shopping? Well, I don’t really have anything I want to buy now…… Kuro and Isis-san have been busy lately for some reason, so I don’t feel like visiting them.

Well, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to wander around aimlessly every once in a while. Just as that thought popped into my head though, a familiar voice rang out.

[Kaitokun-san! Kaitokun-san!!!]

[……Raz-san?]

When I looked back in the direction of where I heard the voice, a 30cm pink-blonde haired fairy…… Raz-san arrived from the gate, looking flustered and calling me in her own unique way.

It’s been quite a long time since I’ve known Raz-san, but is she really still calling me “Kaitokun-san”…… No, this may be impossible to fix now, so let’s just give up.

[Kaitokun-san! Raz needs your help!!!]

[Ehh? My help? W- What are you talking about?]

[It’s about the only parfait couple!!! Please collaborate with me!!!]

[……Hmmm?]

About what? Is that some kind of secret boss? No, let’s calm down here and think about it again…… She may have just said that in the wrong order.

Only parfait couple…… Only couple parfait……

[……”Couples-Only Parfait”?]

[Yes! That’s what I’m talking about! Please, Kaitokun-san, please collaborate with me!]

[No, I’m sorry. Even if I know what those words mean…… Please explain to me the situation.]

[L- Let’s see…… Ahh, here it is!]

Even though I arrived at the words “Couples-Only Parfait”, I didn’t understand why Raz-san wanted me to help her with that, so I asked her back, and out of nowhere, she pulled out a flyer.

I received a flyer about the same height as Raz-san and looked it over…… Written in there was “Our Newest Special Fruit Parfait, for couples only!” in large letters, and there’s a map of the area around the central street of the Symphonia Kingdom.

[……Errr, and how can I be of help with?]

[Raz…… Raz really wants to try this fruit parfait. However, I was told that they can’t serve it if it weren’t to a couple.]

……Well, it’s a couples-only parfait after all.

[That’s why, Raz tried asking “Acht-kun”…… But Acht-kun said no because he was going there with Eva-san.]

[Fumufumu…… Eh?]

Raz-san said she asked Acht to go with her first…… Inviting him to go eat a couples-only parfait…… Eh? Does that mean Raz-san and Acht are in that kind of relationship!?

I- I didn’t know…… that’s a couple with quite the tremendous size difference right there.

However, now that I think about it, I think I can see what Raz-san needs my help with.

[……I see. You want me to help you convince Acht, right!?]

[Eh? That’s not it.]

[……Unnn?]

[Raz is asking you to come and eat parfait with me~~]

[……Eh?]

Looking at Raz-san, who said that with a big smile, I completely stiffened.

What on earth is Raz-san saying? Just because Acht turned her down, she’s asking me to go and eat couples-only parfait…… Is she insinuating something? Or perhaps, is it because she was feeling jealous of Eva?

I didn’t think that people in this world are prone to that kind of jealousy, but I guess it really differs for each person.

However, it certainly isn’t hard to understand Raz-san’s feelings when her lover refused to come with her to eat the couples-only parfait that she really wanted to eat…… However, I think it would be too cruel to Acht if I go in his stead.

[……No, Raz-san. You shouldn’t be too hasty with your decisions.]

[About what?]

[No, what I mean is that you shouldn’t let your momentary emotions sway your decisions…… Wouldn’t Acht be pitiful if Raz-san and I go out to eat together?]

[Why?]

I tried persuading her, but Raz-san just tilted her head, as if she was wondering what was going on.

[……What I’m trying to say is that, if Raz-san and I go together in this, people will think that we’re a couple, you know?]

[But Raz and Kaitokun-san are a “couple”, you know?]

[Yes, that’s why…… Yes? Sorry, can you repeat that?]

[Geez, I said, Raz and Kaitokun-san are a couple, so it’s okay!]

……That’s a shocking revelation. Apparently, Raz-san and I were a couple…… When did that happen? I have no idea.

Did I get drunk before? No, I have Shiro-san’s blessing, so I shouldn’t get drunk.

Did something happen that only I don’t remember that? No, as expected, I’ve never seen such a small-statured Raz-san as a target of affection.

In that case, the only possible reason here would be……

[……Ummm, Raz-san. This might be rude of me to ask but…… Raz-san, do you know what a couple is?]

[Of course! That’s what is called when boys and girls love each other very much and are very close to each other!]

She isn’t wrong if it was interpreted broadly, but why do I feel that she doesn’t know the critical part!?

Apparently, from Raz-san’s point of view, a couple is nothing more than good friends of the opposite gender…… No, of course, calling that a couple isn’t a mistake either, but I suppose the couple mentioned in the flyer is referring to lovers.

Feeling the discrepancy in Raz-san’s perception of a couple, I was wondering how to explain it to her…… But Raz-san seems to have thought about something, and her expression changes to shock.

[……R- Raz…… loves Kaitokun-san and thought we were close to each other…… B- But could it be…… K- Kaitokun-san…… doesn’t love Raz?]

[That’s not the case! I love you and feel like we’re close to each other! That’s why, please don’t look like you’re about to cry!!!]

As Raz-san said that while her body was quivering and tears appeared in her eyes…… I could no longer choose any option other than affirmation.

[T- Then….. Raz and Kaitokun-san are a couple?]

[T- That’s right! Well~~ I was just lost in thought earlier. Raz-san and I are a couple!]

[Yayyy, I’m happy! Yayyy, yaayyy-desu!]

[………………]

I can’t do this, it’s very impossible for me to make Raz-san, a literal fairy, cry. Seeing her so happy like that, I can’t say how she’s mistaken.

Deeply cursing myself for being so easily swung around, my shoulders slumped down.

[Then, then, Kaitokun-san! Will you come with Raz to eat parfait?]

[……Yes. Let’s go.]

[Yayyyyy~~! Kaitokun-san, I love you!]

Raz-san, whose body was stretched out as much as she can, with her arms reaching out above her, and was flapping around on her little wings, was so murderously cute that I could no longer say any objections.

Dear Mom, Dad——— I kind of knew that she was by far the least familiar with this kind of thing, but I didn’t expect that she would be so innocent. And thus, it seems like Raz-san and I——– are a couple.

<Afterword>

Razelia has finally come~~!!! The innocent fairy is really cute.

Serious-senpai: [……If I endure here, I could make my entrance…… If I endure here, I could make my entrance…… If I endure here, I could make my entrance……]

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