My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!?, Volume 10 by Satoru Yamaguchi

Author:Satoru Yamaguchi [YAMAGUCHI, SATORU]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2021-10-19T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4: Shopping in the Little Town

After thinking about it for a while, Cyrus dismissed my proposal. “I can’t.”

“But why?! It’s not like being stuffed together inside a carriage! I’m sure you’ll be fine!” I countered.

“That is true, but it would still be only the two of us. When I’m working, I can focus on that and ignore the rest, but this is a personal errand. Being all alone with such a cute girl would be...unbearable,” he insisted, frowning.

I had invited Maria here so that Cyrus could spend time with her, but he had refused to sit with her inside the carriage and he’d had almost no opportunity to talk to her while helping out at the orphanage.

My proposal was that the two of them go shopping together. Since he came here every year, Cyrus was as comfortable with this town as he was uncomfortable with girls, and as a department director at the Ministry, he was talented enough to take on any kind of mission. He was the perfect man to accompany Maria. Maria also said that having him come along would make her feel safer, but he wasn’t having any of that.

I sighed and looked him straight in the eye. “At this rate, you will grow old without ever managing to speak to a girl. Are you really okay with that?”

“I-I’m not, but...”

“You think that Maria is lovely, don’t you?”

“I do, but being alone with her would be...” he mumbled, unable to find the right words. After thinking silently for a while, his face lit up. “Why don’t you come along too then?”

“What? But then you wouldn’t be alone with her...”

“Exactly. I couldn’t take it if it were just the two of us. But if you were there, I think I could manage it, like when we are working on the fields,” he continued, his eyes sparkling with determination.

Sometimes the three of us worked together on the fields, that’s true, but I would be the only one chatting with Maria, while Cyrus smiled and looked at us like a quiet grandpa watching over his two granddaughters. If that was his definition of “managing it,” then he really had a long way to go before he got comfortable around girls.

I wonder how he and Maria grow closer in the game. Finishing his route must be a pain.

After he insisted so much, I couldn’t refuse. I ended up tagging along with him and Maria. I was disappointed that Cyrus had spoiled a perfectly good chance to be alone with her, but Maria told me, “I’m very happy that you will be coming with us too,” so I figured that it wasn’t that bad of a trade-off.

We took note of how much of each ingredient we would need to cook for everyone, got the money to buy everything from an orphanage employee, and set out. I was told that it would only take a little more than ten minutes to reach the center of the town on foot.

All my other friends,

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