Dagashi-ya Yahagi: Setting Up a Sweets Shop in Another World Volume 1 [Parts 1 to 8] by Bunzaburou Nagano

Author:Bunzaburou Nagano
Language: eng
Format: epub

Michelle’s Side

There was just one thing I understood; the importance of a thing could be sensed the moment you touched it. This became clear to me as soon as Yusuke’s hand encircled mine—that he was my destiny, and that he was more important to me than anything else in the world.

Was this lovesickness? Then I was too scared to ever take this elixir. If this love was an illness, then I wanted to stay sick.

I won’t ever let him go...

Yusuke’s Side

Customer traffic abruptly stopped once noon passed us by. The only ones who remained inside my store were Meryl and Mira, who were devoting themselves to that ten-rim game. They had made over twenty attempts by now, but that universal elixir continued to elude them.

I brought the chair that accompanied my street stall out to the front and opened up the lunchbox Minerva had made for me.

“Whoa...”

Grilled chicken, a mysterious terrine, pickled vegetables, homemade bread, and a small banana cake were all tightly stuffed inside. Meryl looked at me, a little dumbfounded.

“What, you’ve got something to say?” I asked her.

“Just thinking it looks like a lunchbox a loving wife would pack.”

“A loving wife? Look, I know Minerva sounds like a girl’s name, but he’s a guy. And we’re just friends.”

“Really? It doesn’t look that way to me...”

Today, Meryl seemed like she was biting something back.

“What does it look like to you then?”

“There’s no way you’re just friends.”

“I agree,” Mira said, stepping into the conversation.

“Wait, even you, Mira?”

“Yeah, I think you’re best friends!”

“Not even close!” Meryl shouted, her shoulders raised in agitation. “Look, that’s not what I meant. I’m saying that Minerva is definitely in love with you!”

“...Yeaaah, I wonder about that.”

“I’m telling you, he is!” she insisted. “I’m sure you’ve realized it too, right?”

It was true that the possibility had crossed my mind. I just didn’t have anything concrete to go by.

“If he didn’t, he wouldn’t have made such an amazing lunch for you.”

The lunchbox suddenly felt like it weighed ten tons. Love is heavy...

“You think?” I asked.

“Obviously!” Meryl said, frustrated. “He gets all pouty if he sees Mira and me getting even just a little bit chummy with you.”

Yeah, he does keep calling them cheeky brats...

“So what are you going to do?”

“About what?”

“About Mister Minerva! Who else?”

I personally thought it was fine for guys to like other guys. But if you asked me whether I could have a man as my own lover, that was a different story. I just couldn’t get turned on if my partner wasn’t a woman. I’d asked my gay friend about this before, and he’d told me that if you could get off while thinking of a man, then you could be gay. I’ve never tried it for myself, but I don’t think my body would react...

“But it’s not like he’s confessed,” I protested. “You don’t actually know what he’s thinking, do you? You shouldn’t jump to conclusions.”

“I dunno. It just sounds like you’re trying to put off dealing with the problem to me.”

Meryl’s ten-rim coin fell into a hole.

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