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"Heave-ho..."
Urushibara Ruka struggled to carry an old corrugated cardboard box out of the warehouse.
According to her, the promised IBN5100 was packed inside.
Asakura opened it to confirm; the foam plastic used as padding had become aged and fragile due to its age, crumbling easily with a light touch.
However, the machine was indeed well-contained inside; whether it could operate was not his concern.
"By the way, why would there be such an antique-looking machine in a shrine?"
Yanami also leaned over curiously, as if watching the show, and asked.
"I don't know either..." Urushibara Ruka scratched her face awkwardly. "Before Asakura-kun contacted the shrine, I didn't even know this was here.
Maybe it was left by a former priest a long, long time ago."
At this point, even she became curious: "But even everyone in the shrine doesn't know what's inside the warehouse, so how did Asakura-kun know this was here...?"
"If I had to say," Asakura repackaged the box and taped it up, "let's just consider it a small revelation from the gods."
"Indeed, thinking that way makes it feel more romantic."
Urushibara Ruka also showed a gentle smile, like a Yamato Nadeshiko.
It's just a shame about the chest area, which is despairing.
Asakura subtly withdrew his gaze.
By the way, it seems like there are quite a few 'rare resources' around him, but considering there are also normal-sized types like Yuigahama and fuller types like Yanami, it should just be a coincidence.
Rather, most kimonos, including miko attire, look more elegant and beautiful when the chest is slightly smaller.
"Asakura-kun, you actually have feelings for Miss Urushibara, don't you? Otherwise, you wouldn't have found such a strange excuse to see her."
As they left Yanagimori Shrine, Yanami walked leisurely behind Asakura with her hands clasped behind her back: "After all, miko are rare, and Urushibara also looks very good."
"You're overthinking it.
I'm getting this for a friend," Asakura replied expressionlessly.
Perhaps seeing Asakura walking ahead with so many bags, the girl felt a pang of conscience and asked.
"Are you really sure you don't need my help carrying anything?"
After all, the girl had just curiously weighed that ancient computer and found it to be quite heavy and cumbersome.
"No need," Asakura replied without hesitation.
"I see, is Asakura-kun the type of chauvinist who believes men should bear more physical labor?"
Yanami raised an eyebrow.
"No, I'm just afraid you'll drop and break it," Asakura replied sincerely.
"I'm not a clumsy airhead, how could I possibly trip over flat ground... Rather, how could clumsy airheads truly exist in reality?
Those guys must just be pretending to be clumsy airheads, making those fake 'Oh my~' sounds while pretending to fall, when in fact they're just shamelessly trying to rub their big chests against someone else's childhood friend!"
Feeling that if he let her continue rambling, it might go on for a long time, Asakura showed a mischievous smile and asked in an incredibly innocent tone, "Yanami is so knowledgeable, she must not have let the home-wrecker succeed, right?"
Yanami suddenly fell silent, like a parrot whose neck had been choked.
Then, her face flushed, she repeatedly mumbled things like, 'I'm just pitying Karen,' 'I don't care about Sousuke anymore,' 'We're just friends,' 'What's wrong with wanting everyone to have a happy future?' and so on.
Seeing Asakura's carefree smile, the girl instantly became even angrier.
She quickly overtook Asakura, but after walking out of the tree-lined path and along the roadside for quite a while, she looked back to find that Asakura hadn't followed.
So she put her hands on her hips and showed a gloating smile: "Carrying so many heavy things, you must be too tired to walk anymore!
You wouldn't listen when I told you to let me carry some of it.
Boys always like to show off!"
Then she saw a taxi stop in front of Asakura, and Asakura quickly put all the things in his hand into the trunk.
As he leisurely opened the passenger door of the taxi, he seemed to just notice the dumbfounded Yanami and continued to ask in that very innocent tone, "What did you just say?
Sorry, I didn't hear you~"
"Why is there a taxi?" the girl asked in surprise.
"Of course I called it.
Otherwise, do you think a taxi would specially come to such a remote road?" Asakura replied as a matter of course.
"So you called a taxi earlier, and deliberately didn't tell me, just to see me make a fool of myself?"
"Silly child, you're overthinking it."
Asakura said with a smile, "You're usually quite cheerful, so there's no need to specially do something like this."
"Just to confirm, you're not complimenting me, are you?"
"If you don't get in, I'll tell the driver to leave directly."
"Wait for me, I'm actually already tired from walking.
Walking so much in hard-soled high-heeled sandals, my heels feel so sore..."
As the girl said this, Asakura subconsciously looked at her feet.
The girl's leg shape was not the common bowlegs seen in Japan, but much straighter.
Perhaps thanks to always eating, her thighs, though not fat, could definitely be described as plump and meaty.
Unfortunately, today the girl probably didn't wear socks because she was wearing sandals, and her feet were completely bare.
This also allowed Asakura to directly see the girl's pearl-like full and round toes, which felt pink and tender.
Her nails were also trimmed very neatly; although she didn't wear nail polish, the healthy, flesh-toned nails looked more natural and harmonious, and paired with the girl's carefully chosen white-dominated sandals, it was quite pleasing to the eye.
Of course, Asakura was not an Arknights player and didn't have much interest in girls' feet.
If Yanami had worn black or white stockings, especially the kind that slightly squeezed the flesh, she would probably score higher in his mind.
After all, in Asakura's eyes, Yanami's leg shape and fleshiness would definitely not be too inferior to a certain 'big-vat-stirring' country girl, and would be even more complementary to such clothing.
However, there are quite a few subtle differences between female aesthetics and male aesthetics, so Asakura hadn't seen Yanami wear those much—considering she mostly wears uniforms, maybe she simply doesn't have many casual clothes?
"Asakura-kun's gaze suddenly became a bit perverted."
Perhaps Asakura had been staring at the girl's feet for too long, causing Yanami to feel a bit embarrassed, and her round, full toes, which Asakura was looking at, shyly curled up.
"I just suddenly thought that if you wear sandals, you don't have to worry about your feet smelling..." Asakura said nonchalantly, covering up.
...Asakura-kun, that's where you fall short.
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