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“Awoo!”

Rir was in high spirits. It looked like she took great delight in the arcade we found in the second department store we visited.

Those words came from the FPS game Rir was playing. She had apparently, “once more”, hit enemies with all her bullets. She had been doing this for a while.

“Phew! This game is fun!”
“Rir, you’re good at this, ain’t ya?”
“Well, I never played these games before. I’m surprised it went so well.”

Today was the first time she tried those games, and she kept getting high scores… It was probably due to her excellent reflexes and kinetic vison as a beastfolk.

“Hm~, this is enough. Should we try that music game with drums next? You can play it with two people.”
“Sure!”

I wasn’t exactly good at this game, but I couldn’t turn down a request from my cute beaming girlfriend. The result was obvious:

I suffered an ignominious defeat, while Rir, on the contrary, didn’t miss a single note.
What’s with her bein’ so incredible for a while now?

“That was fun!”
“I guess. Should we come here again next Sunday?”
“Let’s do that!”

Alright, one of the items on the agenda for our next date has been settled.

“I’m going to try those next! The claw machines!”

Her eyes moved to the next game like an excited child. This time, she had zeroed in on the claw machines.

“Ah, make sure you don’t spend too much money on ’em, will ya?”
“I’ll try my best, but please stop me if you think I’m going too far.”

She herself seemed to realize that she might not manage to restrain herself, which was unusual for her. Thus was the allure of the claw machines¹. She used a change machine to break down a 1000-yen bill into 100-yen coins, which she apparently intended to spend.

Gotta hold her back if she’s about to spend more than 1000 yen.

Rir played a game without delay.

“Oh, I got it.”
“Huh.”

On the machine with plushies that cost 100 yen per round, she snatched a price from the giant category on her first try.
The hell… no way.

“What do we do with this thing?” she asked with a troubled expression, as she was hugging a huge plushie of a bird chickling wearing clothes.

Being able to grab that was amazing.

“F-For now, why not take it home with you and use it as a huggin’ pillow?”
“Hm~… I guess I can do that.”

Afterwards, I put it into a bag I got from an employee.
It’s pretty unwieldy… oh, well, it should make for a nice memento.

“…Shuu, I caught something again…” Rir told me with an apologetic look.

While I was getting the bag, she had apparently played the claw game again and was holding a bowl of ice cream, which would cost around 300 yen in a convenience store, in each hand.

“How many tries did those take?”
“I played twice for 100 yen on the one with ice cream, and got one on both attempts.”

So, she got two bowls of ice cream, which would’ve cost 300 yen each, for just 100 yen. She’s amazin’, after all. How’d she manage to catch ’em this easily?

“Should we eat them? It’s my treat!”

With a smug look, she held out the chocolate flavored ice cream and a wooden spoon to me. I took it gratefully. We sat down in neighboring chairs and ate it.

“Quite tasty. Especially considering one of those only cost 50 yen,” she mused.
“That’s true.”
“Let’s go eat lunch once we’re done with them.”
“Alright.”

Maybe she already got bored after using 200 yen from the 1000 she broke down. Well, that happens when you always win.

After finishing the ice cream, I took the bag with the bird plushie in one hand, and Rir’s hand in the other. In this manner, we entered a restaurant in the department store.

Since it was Sunday and noon, there was a long line, but we didn’t let that bother us much.

“…Pick whatever you like. I’ll pay the bill,” I told her, after we were shown to a seat and started perusing the menu.
“Bwuh!?” She looked at me in shock. “Y-You don’t need to…”
“Can’t you at least let me pay for lunch? We’re on a date, y’know…”

I said this less to make her happy, and more since I wanted to play the part of the man during a date. Still, Rir would likely refuse and-

“Please do, then,” she replied with a joyful smile.

Not what I expected. W-Well, that’s fine.

“Right, leave it all to me.”
“Heh-heh… thank you.”

For some reason, she gazed at me like I was something amusing.
Could it be… did she sense that I wanted to pay to look cool? She’s smart, so that’s possible. Maybe I made her worry ’bout it.

“In that case, I’ll go with the chicken in tomato sauce,” she announced.
“R-Right. I’ll take the roast beef.”

Better not worry ’bout the small things.

After deciding on the food, I flagged down a waiter and we placed our orders.
…There’s somethin’ seriously elegant ’bout eatin’ as just the two of us in such a restaurant. Kinda mature, y’know.

1. I remember playing on of those as a kid, and it was so obviously rigged, I swore to never waste money on them again. I wonder if Japan has laws against this kind of tampering.

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