Chapter 402 Kato Megumi's Yukinoshita Yukino and the Wonderful Journey

Hojo Mikiko looked at the two girls with the same hairstyle in front of her with amusement. One of them would blush and be shy because of her compliment, and the other raised her hands to salute in a French military salute.

But at this moment, they all showed their most ferocious postures as if they had met their natural enemies.

It's great, the girls are cute.

Thinking of this, she stepped forward and grabbed the two people who were about to start a battle.

"Xueno, let's go shopping together when we meet?" She said to Yukinoshita affectionately.

"... Yeah, yeah, okay!"

Yukinoshita immediately responded loudly like a soldier, but she immediately noticed that something was wrong with her, and responded in a low voice, a little discouraged.

Hojo Kyosuke's mother is completely different from her own mother. Facing a strict mother, she can still try to find some excuses to resist, but for this gentle type, she can't find a way to deal with it for a while.

This is inexperience. When I have enough experience, I won't be so nervous!

At a loss, the girl comforted herself like this.

So the group began to walk around the mall.

"Xue-no, do you want to push the stroller? Kashiko will smile at you, super cute!"

Yingliang took the stroller from Yotsuba's hand and enthusiastically recommended it to Yukinoshita.

Yukinoshita reflexively scratched her head, and her eyes met with Kashiko sitting in the stroller. Today, Kashiko was wearing a black knitted hat with cat ears, matched with big black and bright eyes and chubby face, so cute.

It looks so soft, and the pattern of the wool is so beautiful. What kind of cat's ears are they? It looks a bit like a ragdoll cat, no, an American curly cat, no... No, I have to confirm it with my own hands!

The girl tried to look away, but failed for three consecutive attempts. She could only stare at Kashiko like a fool, and the little hand hanging by her thigh was eager to touch Kashiko's cat ear hat.

What would it feel like? Cotton? Silk? Soft? Warm?

"Try it? Kyosuke's sister is very well-behaved."

Looking at the girl in front of her who showed a completely different attitude, Mitsuha also said with a smile.

Yukinoshita nervously pulled the white strap of her shoulder bag with her left hand, and carefully touched the frosted handle of the stroller with her right index finger. She sighed with a little melancholy:

"I have no experience in dealing with children. I am so immature..."

Even the little girl Miyamizu Yotsuha can push the stroller and stroll around, but Yukinoshita has no confidence at all. If you want to know why...

"Xue-no!? What are you going to do over there?"

Huh?

Hearing the shout, Yukinoshita, who was holding the stroller with one hand and stroking Kashiko's little face with the other hand and staring at her with a smile, looked up blankly.

"Aren't we going to the shoe selling area? The map shows this way."

She didn't do nothing when she was standing on the first floor in a daze. The map of the entire mall was firmly memorized in her head.

"That's the direction to the children's play area." Yingliang walked over quickly and looked at Yukinoshita with surprise.

"Or are you tired and plan to take Kashiko there to rest?"

"I'm not tired!"

Yukinoshita immediately retorted. The well-behaved child and the cute cat were combined. How could it be tiring to be with such an angel!

"I, I'm just..."

"Just a road idiot?" Yingliang asked tentatively. She herself felt that this conclusion was absurd. How could a genius girl who could easily remember the names of all the students in the grade be a road idiot?

"Direction idiot? Although I can roughly understand what this word means from the literal meaning, before defining others, first..."

"Okay, okay, I get it. Let's go quickly. Aunt Mikiko and the others have gone far away." Yingliang interrupted Yukinoshita's sophistry.

"I'm just not very good at distinguishing roads. In the final analysis, it's because the planning of the mall is unreasonable. There are so many forks in the road, it's easy to get lost, so there are so many lost children!"

Yukinoshita muttered softly.

Yingliang glanced at the girl beside him, so, have you classified yourself as a lost child?

"Next time you are in a daze and find that we are not there, just stand there and shout. I will run to find you immediately when I hear it. This is the secret of preventing getting lost that Kyosuke taught me. Remember it?"

"I have your contact information!"

Although she refuted like this, Yukinoshita was obviously not confident enough.

"Hehe~ Yukino-chan is not lost!" Kashiko raised her little face and clapped her hands happily.

"Call Yukino sister!" Yukinoshita bent down and responded with a gentle smile.

"Yukino-chan and Kashiko are together!" The little girl said innocently.

Hearing this, Yukinoshita blushed. She was not only lost, but she even lost with Kashiko.

"What did Yukinoshita-san plan to buy at the mall?"

"A gift for Hojo-san." Yukinoshita, who was immersed in interacting with Kashiko, replied subconsciously.

"Oh~Soga~So that's how it is~"

Yukinoshita suddenly woke up and looked at the person who was asking questions beside her with wide eyes.

"What's wrong?" Kato Megumi blinked and asked in confusion.

"You took advantage of my inattention to ask questions and ask questions. I didn't expect that Kato-senpai had such a skill."

"Eh... a cliché? No, I'm just asking you in a normal way. Yukinoshita really likes that hat." Kato Megumi didn't feel like complimenting her at all, and continued to speak in a cheerful voice.

"I don't really like it! I just think it suits Kashiko!"

Kato Megumi looked at the flustered Yukinoshita in surprise. From her eyes to her expression to her body movements, she fully demonstrated her love for the hat.

"Soga... I was going to say that the store just now has the same hat, and there is an extra cat tail that moves."

Yukinoshita didn't even reply, and immediately turned around to find the store that Kato Megumi mentioned.

"It's not on this floor."

"Oh oh..."

"Are you planning to buy it for Kyosuke?"

"How is that possible! The cute cat hat doesn't match that person at all!" Yukinoshita didn't bother to hide her desire to buy a hat, and immediately strongly objected.

While the two were talking, the large group in front had already walked out of the store and headed to the next one. The two pushed Kashiko and continued to chat at the end.

"But if you want to buy a gift for Kyosuke, you can't just follow us all the time." Kato Megumi reminded, after all, they were shopping in stores suitable for women.

"I know... but even if I leave you, I don't know what to buy." Yukinoshita naturally expressed her troubles.

"So you were standing in the lobby on the first floor in a daze before?"

"That's not daze, it's thinking!"

"Oh~~ So what's the result of thinking?"

"Originally, I planned to challenge the field that Hojo is proficient in, but I found that there is really no chance of winning. As expected, sometimes you still need a certain strategy to win, and attacking weaknesses on the contrary will be a more feasible plan." Yukinoshita said seriously.

"Uh... I try to understand it."

These words that seem to be related to choosing gifts made Kato Megumi a little confused, but after seeing Yukinoshita's competitive personality who likes to provoke others, she also understood this girl a little, so after a brief thought, she tentatively said:

"Challenging the field that Kyosuke is proficient in, does it mean starting from his preferences?"

"Yes." Yukinoshita looked at Kato Megumi with some surprise.

"Attack the weakness, is to see if Kyosuke has anything he needs but doesn't have?"

"That's right." Yukinoshita nodded somewhat complacently.

Kato Megumi was amazed to get a positive reply again.

What a shy girl, because she didn't want others to know that she spent so much time choosing a gift for Kyosuke, she used such a difficult word, it was really difficult for her.

"But from your point of view, it should be more appropriate to say that it is more appropriate to make up for the other party's weaknesses~" Kato Megumi said lightly, she decided that since this rare opportunity is so good, she would also buy a gift for Kyosuke.

"Senior Kato, if you are so smart when you are receiving tutoring, you may be able to get the first place in the grade!"

Yukinoshita said seriously, she didn't expect that this stupid senior sister could actually keep up with her thinking.

"Ah~~ Spare me, it's the weekend now."

Kato Megumi, who was just happy, immediately fell down, and the look of despair made Kashiko giggle.

"Kayoko will be full of fear for her future student life." Someone immediately used Kayoko as a shield.

"I'm serious." Yukinoshita emphasized that she was not taking revenge because she found out that she had told everything to Kato Megumi for no reason.

"I'm serious too!" The girl, who was extremely tired of studying, was very determined to resist.

"Well, anyway, I'm not your teacher now."

Oh~ yeah, it's okay~~

So, after returning Kayoko to her mother, the two girls who had temporarily formed an alliance left the team.

"I want to go to this store."

Kato Megumi pointed to a store selling baseball supplies, and Yukinoshita followed without thinking.

"Hey? Are you going to buy the same gift as me for Kyosuke?"

"Of course not! That's a waste of resources."

"Then?" Kato Megumi looked at Yukinoshita who was following closely behind her, and the meaning was self-evident.

"Although I'm not proud of it, I have a value standard that deviates from that of an average high school girl. Not only do I know nothing about what an average girl likes, I also don't know anything about what boys like."

"I can still see this."

Kato Megumi looked at the proud girl in front of her in a bit of surprise, although she had no idea what she was proud of. A girl who can talk about choosing a gift as if it were a memory before the war is certainly not a serious high school girl.

"So, that... it would be great if you could help me, Kato-senpai, or something like that..."

Yukinoshita lowered her head and said as if she was in great difficulty. She didn't stare at the other person's eyes with an oppressive look as usual when she was talking, but kept staring at her toes.

"Soga, I understand, then let's go shopping together, I'll provide some reference." Kato Megumi agreed without hesitation, her tone as relaxed as ever.

"Eh? Is it really okay? You're also going to buy a gift for Hojo, right?"

Yukinoshita was a little incoherent. Although Kato Megumi was not as close to Hojo Kyousuke as Sakura and Nozomi, she was also planning to give a gift to Hojo Kyousuke.

Even Yukinoshita found it quite difficult to ask a girl who was choosing a gift for a boy to help her choose a gift for the same boy. If she hadn't been tricked out of all the words for no apparent reason before, she wouldn't have said such embarrassing words.

"It doesn't matter at all. Yukinoshita-san, don't feel embarrassed. After all, you are also working very hard to help me. I am very happy to be able to help you~"

Kato Megumi's face was calm and happy, and her tone was light and relaxed.

"Kato..."

Yukinoshita was a little moved, and the grudge in her heart seemed to be eliminated in an instant. She also vaguely realized why she had expressed all her thoughts about buying gifts so easily before. It's not a cliche, or it's not a cliche on purpose. This girl named Megumi Kato has the ability to make people open their hearts in front of her.

I had obviously felt very embarrassed before, but after listening to her brisk words and calm smile, I accepted her statement easily. They were obviously very polite words, but they sounded particularly sincere in her mouth.

"Thank you, Kato-senpai," she said with a smile.

"It doesn't matter, I just want to buy it anyway."

Kato Megumi still looked calm, and Yukinoshita became more and more relaxed.

"Baseball? It's indeed a good choice. Hojo didn't touch baseball before high school. Even though the school provides free equipment, there are still many things missing. That's awesome, Kato-senpai."

"I thought of it from Yukinoshita's weak point attack~"

"If you think about it, there are many things you can buy besides baseball."

"Yeah, high school is very different from junior high school..."

"Yukishita, that's a place that sells hardware products. Are you lost again?"

"Not this time! I think Hojo would like a multi-purpose tool kit? Or a smart punch machine."

"Hmm...I'm not sure either..."

"Last time I went to Ruyiliao, I found that he had a tool room with many tools in it."

"Oh~ Have you turned to challenge Kyosuke's area of ​​expertise again?"

"Forget it. I don't know what tools he has. If he repeats them, it will be a waste."

"Yukishita?! You don't want to buy underwear for Kyosuke, do you?"

"...How is that possible! I went the wrong way this time! Why don't you put up a signboard in such a special area? I wonder if it would be embarrassing if you enter by mistake!"

"You'd better tell me where you want to go first."

"Kato-senpai, did you also memorize the map?"

"Write down the map? How could any fool do that? The distribution of stores in the mall is regular. For example, there will never be an underwear store next to a tool store."

"It's so complicated..."

“Those who think it’s complicated are really complicated!”

…

So the noisy two finally bought a satisfactory gift.

"Ah~ I'm so happy. Let's go shopping together next week, right?"

Yamauchi Sakura invited everyone with a smile. Among the people who happily agreed, Yukinoshita, who looked tired and frightened, stood out. However, after looking at Kato Megumi and Glass who also agreed with a smile, she gritted her teeth and agreed, and made up her mind to memorize the locations of all the stores in this mall when she went back.

After returning home, ignoring all the troubles made by her sister who was lonely and bored, Yukinoshita fell into a weak sleep on the bed, looked at the paper bag on the table, and slowly closed her eyes.

So the memories end here and time returns to the present.

[The service department after seeing off the cross-dressing duo]

Looking at Hojo Kyosuke, who looked confused, and Yamauchi Sakura, who was getting excited for no reason, Yukinoshita felt her face heat up, and raised her right hand to flick the hair away from her ears.

"Nothing!" Her words were also quite handsome.

? ?

It's nothing. Why did you leave me here?

Hojo Kyosuke's mind was filled with questions.

Yukinoshita took a deep breath and picked up the school bag hanging on the side of the table.

"I prepared a gift for you, to thank you for sending me a gift."

The dry words were knotted one by one like an old robot, and the fair face turned red as if it was overloaded.

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