Iino and Kobachi might not have helped Ishigami cook, but they helped him put all the dishes oable so they could eat together.

  "It might be te, but you are okay with udht?"

  "Everyone is okay with udon."

  "Well, some people love their noodles thin."

  "I like it thid long."

  "...that's good then."

  "But, I hought you would make tempura, too."

  "Did you not hear the frying noise from the kit?"

  "Sorry, we talked about a lot of things earlier."

  "That's good, then."

  Ishigami khat it was his ot to ask anymore, but Kobachi didn't let him. "Oh, was it good? Why?"

  "...."

  Watg Kobachi's gentle smile, Ishigami wondered whether he had walked into a trap unknowingly, but as someone who had experienced many hardships, he could hahis calmly. "Of course, so it be a surprise."

  "Oh, you..." Kobachi rolled her eyes and knew Ishigami was happy that she had solved the problem with Iino. Yes, when this bastard cooked dinner for the three of them, she handled all the mess, but then again, she was the one who took the initiative to e with him, and she also had prepared herself to solve this problem by herself.

  heless, she khat if it wasn't for him, who smoothed out everythiweewo, it wouldn't have ended so easily.

  Ishigami might appear irresponsible for throwing all the problems at Kobachi, and this was what he had po do from the beginning, but as Kobachi came, he khat he had to hahis differently, or else everything would crumble.

  Fortunately, everything was alright, which was a surprise to him too.

  Kobachi was also surprised by how smooth this ending was.

  Yet, was it really the end?

  "Try the kakiage, Iino."

  "U-Um!" Iino hadn't talked since she had beeing all the time, slurping the warm, gentle, fvorful bowl of udon and the crispy, hot, yet delicious tempura. Yes, the two dishes were tasty, better than anything she had tasted in her life, especially—

  "Oh, is it an onseempura, Yuu?"

  "Yeah, take a bite, and the egg will melt in your mouth."

  "...yoing to make me fat like this."

  "...please exercise, okay?"

  "I will."

  "..."

  Watg her meaningful smile, Ishigami eechless. Still, after she gave him a hint of wishing to do a "hard exercise," she looked at Iino's petite body. "I am jealous of your body, which 't get fat, Iino."

  Iino smiled; yes, this was a heartfelt smile that came from the bottom of her heart.

  In the eyes of others, this might be a ridiculous situation as two girls were together with a single man.

  No, it was much worse, especially when the man couldn't give them a proper name for their retionship, yet despite all of that, she khat he would take responsibility for her, and simir to the others, he would do the same, so she khat no matter how long she would wait, the result would be the same.

  However, if she refused and cleared up the retionship between them, what would happen?

  As she put long shrimp tempura into her small lips, which were slightly too big for her mouth, she forcefully put it i was her first time feeling this kind of warmth, the warmth that she couldn't feel in her family.

  Delicious foods, the pany of others, and pleasa joyful talk betweehree.

  Everything was like the most beautiful thing in the world, even though it began from the ugliest desire within her heart.

  So, when they fiheir dinner, Kobachi and Iino started to have their sed talk as they washed their dishes.

  Meanwhile, Ishigami waited on the sofa, and tally, he sat o part of the sofa.

  "...what is this?"

  He quickly stood up, then sighed in relief since his pants didn't get wet. He then used his hand to rub the wet mark on the sofa, and he sighed in relief si was almost dry.

  "This girl is so clumsy."

  Ishigami thought that Iino had dropped her water, leaving a wet mark on her sofa. Fortunately, he thought so, but if he khe truth...

  Still, Iino, who washed the dishes, was startled by Ishigami's ad felt awkward, yet slightly wet, whehought the pce she just used to... was being... by Ishigami.

  "..."

  Kobachi was silenced, but sidering Ishigami's nature, he might be happy to know what that wet mark was about.

  "...." Ishigami.

  "You don't have to worry. He was so engrossed in his cooking that he didn't notice what you did before."

  "Ah, oh, that's good..." Iino sighed in relief, ign the fact that Kobachi had realized her dirty little secret.

  "Have you thought about what to do?"

  "...what?"

  "Py dumb, aren't we?"

  "I-I hought to go that far!"

  "Even after you did an act like those janitors in the hentai manga?"

  "...." Iino.

  "While most people will say that you should go after the ohat treasure you better if you like him, then just do it. You don't have to care about the talks of others, and he isn't like those men who will proudly tell everyone of his feats."

  Ishigami wasn't such a childish boy who gained pride and ego from the number of women that he had slept with. He was mature enough to know how to treasure the women who had entrusted themselves to him, and this was why he was irresistible even if he had been with many women.

  If there roblem, it would be who would take the position of the main wife as there could only be one.

  Yet, it was such a problem in the distant future, and now, it was better not to think too mubsp;

  Let's start with a baby step, starting from a small step, solving all the problems we before we slowly walk into bigger steps and solve all of our problems.

  Still, life was a cycle of a problem, and it erfectly normal for us to meet all of those problems, especially when a human was sent to the earth for punishment by a higher being, as they had made a mistake in heaven.

  However, a human was a creature that could easily adapt.

  No matter how hard life is, we start to learn the beauty of small things that we never realized before.

  For Kobachi, even if Ishigami was like that, he was her treasure, and she didn't want Iino to bckmail him, so she wanted her to rethink her decision, and fortunately, even if she didn't say anything, Ishigami had shown what kind of a scumbag he was.

  Yet, despite his bad points, his good points were obvious. They probably would not be able to find the warmth and joy that came from him in someone else.

  The warmth might be possible, but the joy, especially from his 20 cm stiffness, was impossible, sidering the average of most people in this try.

  Well, Kobachi only wished to be with him, though, but it seemed she uimated Iino's determination since while she waited for Iino's answer, Iino just looked at her for a moment before she walked toward Ishigami.

  "Ishigami, no, Yuu."

  "Hmm?"

  Before Ishigami could do anything, he ushed by Iino, who, despite her small size, had uedly strong strength.

  "????"

  Ishigami was fused in the beginning, but when he felt her clumsy kiss, he sighed inwardly and taught her how to do it correctly.

  "....." Kobachi.

  Yet, Ishigami and Iino seemingly fell into their own world, enjoying their first kiss, without letting each o until Kobachi woke up and came to them, pushing Iino away, then started to kiss him.

  "Hnh~!"

  Iino was in a daze, yet when she saw his eyes, she moved closer without hesitation and joined him.

  The three had hought of this, yet somehow, the mood, the atmosphere, and his damn skill, Kobachi and Iino, were swayed before they were pletely enraptured by him.

  This guy hardly said anything, and he hardly expressed what he wished, yet even so, he got all of them.

  Why?

  Was he handsome?

  Was he wealthy?

  Not because of any of that; instead, it was because he was the one being chased.

  Like men who would do anything for the woman they loved, even if they khat woman had boyfriends and just used them for someoo talk to when they were sad, the womehe same.

  When a woman falls in love with a guy, they would do anything.

  The only difference was that some men would use that love to trick the women, whether it was by asking for money or just leaving them when they were bored.

  In the fast-moving world where everything could be gained easily, the word "love" became cheap, and when they were bored, they would start to search for others as if they didn't uand the meaning of treasuring every enter.

  Yet, the three, despite their ugly beginning, treasured each other, but as Kobachi y resting on the side, watg hoy Iino was as she was being held by Ishigami, she felt that this wasn't enough, so she took their picture a it to someohat that would be excited to join.

  "e and help!"

  Then, there icture of Iino, who rode oop of Ishigami like a female warrior who tried to tame a wild stallio on that se, there was also Kobachi, who made a peace sign on the er, which made this photo bee even more distorted, showing the moral degeneracy of the current geion, or the example of a hard-w young man to save the try's deing birth rate problem.

  Still, Kobachi didn't o wait too long before she received her reply.

  Tsubame: "Where are you? I will go there!"

  By then, everything was untrolble, and Ishigami realized that he had achieved something that no man of his geion had achieved, yet even so, he would do his best even if he was draio a husk tonight.

  Still—

  "Erase the photo, okay?"

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  By the way, Happy Christmas~!