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Just in case, Asakura still made a trip to the used store where the Nukumizu siblings said their father bought the cursed camera over the weekend, and as expected, he found nothing.
Actually, saying he found nothing isn't quite right; he did manage to unearth some good things in the used store that were hard to get elsewhere.
"I can't believe I managed to buy this super invincible sea-view figure of Kome-chan that has never been re-released. By the way, does 'Yosuga no Sora' exist in this world?"
Asakura originally thought that according to the usual tropes of combined anime worlds, perhaps Kome-chan would also exist as a real person in this world, but it turned out not to be the case.
This left him feeling both regretful and a little disappointed.
Fortunately, in his previous life, he wasn't anything special.
"And this set of the original 'Spirit Story' which became a hidden easter egg due to a non-malicious bug, and is said to be out of print… Although I don't plan to play it, Ryunosuke should like it, right?"
Things like these, he never expected to find in that used store located in a secluded alley corner. In a moment of excitement, Asakura pulled out his wallet and bought quite a few.
In the end, he was naturally like a consumer who, during various shopping festivals, gets dazzled by discounts, impulsively buys a bunch of unnecessary goods, and then regrets it so much they want to chop off their hands once their head clears.
Especially with figures, even if he bought them, there was nowhere to put them in his empty home…
"Forget it, it's not that much trouble anyway. I'll just leave them in the Clubroom."
Walking down the road, carrying a large pile of things, Asakura struggled to pull out a sticky note from his pocket and carefully examined what else he needed to do this Sunday.
"Next, I need to go to Yanagimori Shrine, right?"
He had promised to find the IBN5100 for Ryunosuke that was kept in the shrine, and even if his phone was confiscated because of it, Asakura would not break his word.
"Oh, isn't that Asakura-kun?"
Halfway there, he ran into Yanami Anna, who was holding a retro canned oden, a famous Akihabara specialty.
"Yanami, what are you doing here?"
Asakura, who never expected to run into her in such a place, was also stunned for a moment.
"A holy site pilgrimage, of course!"
Yanami Anna replied proudly.
"Holy site pilgrimage? Now? Here?"
Asakura's expression became even more bewildered.
It's true that Akihabara is indeed a holy site in the hearts of many otaku, and this place often appears in anime, so calling it a holy site pilgrimage doesn't seem to be a problem.
But the one who said this was Yanami Anna, the demon of appetite.
Putting aside the facts, this girl could indeed be considered a member of the popular group at school, and she didn't look like someone who would watch that kind of anime at all.
"That's right, it's a holy site pilgrimage for 'The Isolated Gourmet,' and I've caught up to the special episodes."
The girl said excitedly, then she shook her head with a look of regret: "It's a shame that many of the shops from the TV show have already closed. So many of them looked delicious."
"…Is your wallet really okay?"
Asakura couldn't help but ask.
Although he hadn't watched much of the TV series the girl mentioned, from what she said, it seemed to be a show similar to a mukbang.
The food appearing in those kinds of TV shows shouldn't be too cheap. Does this girl really have that much money?
"Hmph, I just got a generous allowance from my grandma! That was a Yukichi Fukuzawa!"
The girl said triumphantly: "No problem at all! Asakura-kun, do you want to eat? I can treat you~"
"I always feel like every time you say something like that, I end up paying…"
"Those were all just coincidences! Damn it, this time I'm definitely going to get my revenge… Huh?"
"What's wrong?"
"Yukichi Fukuzawa is gone! Even Hideyo Noguchi is gone!"
"Did you lose it?"
Asakura secretly activated the Snake, intending to see if he could help the girl find it.
"Although Yukichi Fukuzawa was broken at the vending machine in Chiba, there should still be a lot left. I feel like I didn't spend much money…"
The girl said somewhat bewildered.
"Let me ask first, how much did you eat during your 'holy site pilgrimage' just now?"
Asakura seemed to understand something and couldn't help but ask with a headache.
"I didn't eat too much, just stopped at each station to eat something. Anyway, I have a train pass… I didn't dare to go into those expensive-looking yakiniku restaurants, I only ate cheap stuff. I just ate my way from Chiba to Akihabara, it doesn't seem like I ate much…"
Although the number of stations required to travel from Chiba to Akihabara varies depending on the train transfer route, in Asakura's understanding, even the shortest route should have at least nine stations.
Getting off at every station to eat, even if you believe her claim that she only ate cheap stuff, in this day and age where a bowl of ramen costs at least six or seven hundred yen, and tempura can easily cost over a thousand yen, a single Yukichi Fukuzawa really doesn't last that long.
"Don't you keep track of your expenses, you?"
Asakura said with a headache.
"Asakura-kun, you really don't understand…"
The girl shrugged, revealing a somewhat mischievous and smug smile that inexplicably annoyed Asakura: "If you calculate life too precisely, you'll lose a lot of fun!"
"Yanami, have you heard the term 'financial management'?"
Asakura asked with a fake smile.
"I'm not sure why, but Asakura-kun's angry expression is a bit scary. Here, have this fish cake from the oden, it's better to calm down a bit~"
The girl picked up a soft fish cake from her canned oden and said with a fawning smile.
"No need, for oden, I still prefer the ones from convenience stores. I'm not interested in instant food."
Asakura coldly refused.
"Instant food has its own beauty! If it wasn't delicious, why would instant food have developed from the past until now?!"
"Because it's convenient to eat, I guess."
"Hmph, I get it. Asakura-kun is the kind of person who boils instant noodles in a pot, and if conditions allow, even adds greens, bean sprouts, char siu, and an onsen egg, right?!"
"Is there a problem with that?"
"In that case, you wouldn't be able to savor the wonderful crispy texture of slightly undercooked noodles, even after three minutes of soaking, because the water wasn't boiling hot!"
Yanami Anna preached eloquently: "This is a great loss in life! Skipping instant noodles is equivalent to skipping life! Even life itself will become incomplete!"
"…Please, let my life remain this incomplete."
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