36 We Eat Bento as Girls

Author: Bishamon Mine
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n0664js/39/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

“Seriously, it is Kyo-in Suu.”
“Just like the video. Even Alice-san is here, and I’m in the same class as Alice-san though.”
“N-nice to meet you——I’m Kyo-in Suu——no wait Suzusaki Suzuhi.”
“Hello, Yachimata.”

Dangerous, I almost introduced myself as Kyo-in Suu. If I get called that name over and over at school I’ll die.
Every time I’m called once, my HP is getting ground down.

At lunch, Alice and I become a “bento event” on the roof with Chigu’s friends.
Incidentally, Chigu told me beforehand that her friends are “both gals.”

When I hear Chigu’s words I freeze like a marmot startled by a loud noise, and she laughs “it’s okay, they’re not scary.”

Chigu is plenty gal-ish too, huh.

So now I am scared, terribly frightened.
Because gals are like the personification of sun-types, right.
I said this before, but shade-types can do nothing to sun-types. They can only disappear like a shadow lit by a flashlight……
Even so I’m here because Chigu is a mother-goddess. While praying to god that Chigu’s friends might one-chance…… be otaku-friendly gals.
Mother-goddess-sama, please grant my wish……

“Ahshi is Yuihama Karen.”

The one who introduces herself first is a person with splendid blonde hair bleached out. Perm on the tips, pale skin.
Pastel makeup that looks good precisely because she’s pale, overall a cute doll-san feeling.
And she’s wearing accessories that look expensive.
I think keeping this look takes considerable management. A person whose drive toward fashion is different from someone like me.

Long ago I also resolved myself and went blonde once.
But the roots immediately became pudding, and my hair became like it ate the Gum-Gum Fruit——I couldn’t keep a doll-san appearance like that.
On top of that I, if I’m going to buy accessories and makeup I’d rather buy manga and games……

While I’m terrified of too-pretty gals, Chigu’s other friend greets me too.

“Okinokoji Furi.”

Okinokoji-san is a one-length bob black-hair-san in a navy sweater.
If she weren’t sandwiched between gals, she’d feel like, a gal?
Okinokoji-san’s drive toward beauty is also amazing. She has good raw material and is managing it perfectly.
Her hair has a halo and she could appear in a shampoo CM.
Her skin is like porcelain and she could appear in a body-soap CM.
Her fingers are long and glossy and she could appear in a hand-soap CM.

To summarize, a look like Japan’s representative of beauty.

Scary, beauties are scary.

“……Look, they’re people pouring money into fashion——their faces are different.”

Moreover Chigu is a cool-type beauty too.
And further, Alice, who outstrips everyone by a head.

(Hn?)

Suddenly I notice here.

(Huh?)

I look around the members lined up in a circle-ish way with bentos on their knees. Ah, the beauty rate here is weird!
A-akan…… if I try to eat bento beside these beauties I’ll be a target of ridicule!
Then I’m a foil, a garnish like baran decorating colorful bentos.
Moreover right now I’m in a dorky azuki-colored tracksuit, you know.

Yuihama-san and Okinokoji-san ask.

“Suu, you’re pretty tall?”
“Suu looking small is because on stream the comparison is Alice-san, so it can’t be helped.”

Wait, akan. Yuihama-san and Okinokoji-san are calling me Suu. If this sticks I’m seriously in trouble.
While I’m hesitating whether to bravely say “don’t call me Suu,” Chigu intercepts for me.

“Aah, no no, don’t call her Suu at school. It’s Suzucchi.”
“I see. My bad, Suzu.”
“That’s right, sorry Suzucchi-san.”

Whoa…… maybe everyone——went out of their way to be considerate of me……?
——Otaku-friendly gals, truly here, now, they are……

I’m fine being a garnish already, rather sorry that a garnish like me is with you.
It’s been my dream forever——eating bento lined up with girls.
Lately Alice has been with me, but me with this many girls……!
In elementary and middle school I always ate bento alone, so I ate in the familiar space under the emergency stairs.
So maybe from too much happiness, my heart-sweat from my eyes……

“What’s wrong Suzucchi…… so, why are you crying. Emotionally unstable again!?”
“A-are you okay……? Suzucchi-san.”
“Until middle school, always alone bento——no, it’s nothing deshi——”

Akan. What am I thinking. Telling my elementary-and-middle life story here, do I intend to drop this place into a dark space.
I hurriedly cut my words. Then I bite my words and tongue, and cut my tongue.

Thinking “ah it huurts,” Okinokoji-san hugs my head.

(Hyaaiiii!?)

“So that was it. It’s okay now, we’re here.”

Yuihama-san also pets my head.

“There there, it was hard.”

Eh, what is this place, only mother-goddesses and angels?

“Call me Furi.”
“Ahshi is Karen.”
“Furi…… Karen……”
“Nice to meet you from now on, Suzucchi-san.”
“Nice to meet you.”

……To meet such good people.
If they hadn’t known I’m a FateLege player, today’s events might not have happened.
Is it okay to think it’s thanks to working hard in FateLege……
Me of the three years I worked hard on 〈Insanity〉 Death Road, thank you. You weren’t wasted.
Or rather mother-goddess Chigu, thank you. Kind two people, thank you.

Haasu haasu. Aah both of you smell good. What is it with you two, does perfume come out of your sweat glands?

Next time please tell me the shampoo and body soap you use. Perfume is expensive so the one I have now is fine.

Furi and Karen start talking about my stream videos.

“——Ahshi, the part where you take down that necklace-like thing, I was like seriously suge. You’re flying at a speed that makes roller coasters look like nothing, and you dash through accurately without being scared. I got a kyun.”
“I was surprised you aren’t scared at all jumping out the window on a thin wire.”
“Eh, r-really? I’m embarrassed……”

Karen laughs big and slaps my back.

“Despite being tall, you’re a shy one.”

Karen has a pale doll-san look but her speech and actions are wild, so my brain gets a little confused.
While my back is being used as a percussion instrument, Furi smiles at me. This one is a neat-type gal just like her look, so my brain is relieved.

“At times like this on the net, instead of ‘aren’t you embarrassed?’——you ask ‘aren’t you proud?,’ right?”
“That’s good. Suzu, ‘aren’t you proud?’”
“A-a little proud, maybe……?”

I take this pride in my chest, “I can fight another ten years.”

——But Chigu and her two friends. Taking a prime spot like the roof at mealtime as first-years, these people are definitely first-string.
On this beauty field even upperclassmen get intimidated and can’t pick fights, huh.
A shade-type like me, even coming to the roof is scary.

We proceed with the meal without incident.
Eventually Alice starts a difficult talk.

“That’s right. From now on I think a lot of money exchanges will occur, and considering bookkeeping and expenses and such, I think it would be better to become a sole proprietor or a corporation. At minimum becoming a sole proprietor would be better.”

I try to understand the talk with my small brain and answer.

“Meaning make a company?”
“I think bookkeeping and such will get annoying, so I want to hire someone on the channel.”
“Eh, hire!?——Me!?”

The talk is flowing in a hard-to-understand direction.

“If there’s someone trustworthy we can have that person establish the company, but people who might betray us are annoying.”
“Betray what.”
“They exist sometimes, you know, inside people who betray streamers. So I want Suzuhi as representative director——are your parents the tolerant type?”
“Probably impossible, I don’t feel like I can persuade stepmom or stepsister.”
“Understood. Then at first, is it okay if I’m the representative director.”
“Alice will do it!?”
“My mother is tolerant about this kind of thing. When I turn 18 and become an adult I’ll make Suzuhi the representative.”

Furi is about to pinch rice with the tip of her chopsticks and stops that hand.

“Is there a possibility that much money will move?”
“——Yes. First.”

Alice takes a 〈Key to the Dimensional Warehouse〉 we gathered the other day out of her convenient bag.

“I want to sell one for company-startup funds, suppose we put this on auction.”
“Where did you take that out……”

Furi blinks and almost drops the chopsticks she was lifting.
Alice explains.

“The place I took it out is something we obtained in FateLege——in short it’s like a cat-type robot’s pocket.”
“……I see.”
“This, one of them, costs 10,000,000.”

The one surprised at Alice’s pricing is me.

“T-ten million!?”

But Furi is not surprised by this, casually,

“Depending on the size and amount of what goes in, even 10,000,000 is cheap.”

she affirms Alice’s words.
I-is that how it is?

“Yes. And I think the US military will want Dominant Ogre sealstones, and those will be over 100,000,000 each.”

I am further shocked.

“A hundred million!?”

But Furi is completely calm.

“Hee, that’s something amazing too.”
“The only human who can sell this to the US military is Suzuhi, so the price might have no ceiling.”
“Nice.”

Furi’s expression gradually changes from young-lady-like to a fun one like a merchant who found a new product.
Alice continues explaining.

“And money that seems likely to come in is Suzuhi’s earnings as a streamer. At the current momentum, even a low estimate several tens of millions a year.”
“That’s right.”

Furi looks at me. Eh, what’s with that expression like she’s appraising a product.
Wait, maybe among Chigu’s friends Furi is the scariest?
Even though she has the neatest, quietest look!?
While I’m frightened, Karen hides me with her arm.

“Oi oi Furi, you’re making a bad face.”
“Oh my, sorry.”

Alice goes “hee” looking at Karen.
Then she whispers in my ear.

[You two are good, Furi-san seems to have quite a talent as a manager. Karen-san seems like a trustworthy person.]
[Yeah, I think both of them are good people. Because they smell good and are soft, but my back of the hand is pinched——ow tatata!]

Somehow Alice pinched the back of my hand……

Then behind me upperclassmen go,

“Wait, isn’t that Suu?” “Seriously.” “You’re making money on stream, treat us to juice.”

and such. No, I only just applied for monetization, I haven’t gotten a single yen.
Thinking (scary huh), Chigu glares at the upperclassmen with all her might.
Chigu, your face is scary! What’s with that dark-god-like face! A face like “I shall give darkness equally upon the heads of the good and the heads of the wicked”!?
I only know mother-goddess Chigu so it’s too scary.
While I’m thinking something that might get me punched by Chigu, the pale upperclassmen slink away.

I thank Chigu while trembling in fear.

“Ah, thanks.”
“Nn?”

Then Chigu turns a questioning expression this way and then smiles. The mother-goddess has manifested.
What is this…… she was that scary just now, and she shows me such a kind smile, I can’t suppress the throb in my chest. Is this how a heroine saved by an isekai-cheat protagonist feels?

But despite a fearsome dark god having descended, Furi, who is unconcerned, finishes her bento with perfect manners that seem to have nerves all the way to her chopstick tips, closes the bento lid, and says to us.

“Suzucchi-san, Aricchi-san. May I be included in the company-establishment talk as well?”

“Furi joined the party.”