13. Dating – 02

Time passed, and Erekaya and I explored the amusement park – in fact, it was a date covered in the shell of exploration – but it was early morning on the day we promised to do it.

I was standing in front of my shabby closet, thinking deeply about what kind of clothes to wear.

“Um… No matter how much I think about it, I can’t seem to find any clothes to wear.”

Yes. Of course, Nineveh was a kind of school, and I was a student there, and since I returned to Nineveh, I spent most of my time inside Nineveh, so I didn’t feel the need or afford to buy any other clothes.

Even the school uniform I am currently wearing was not bought with my own money. I was just assigned this dormitory, and when I opened the closet door, there were many uniforms of different sizes.

So, the only clothes I bought in the past three months were active clothes to wear after school or sports clothes to wear when practicing swordsmanship at the training ground.

Not only did I not have any fancy clothes for going out to play or going on a date with a girl, nor did I have a history of wearing them in the first place!

Up until now, over a hundred years of time, I was fighting against the end, finding a strategy, and training myself, but where would I have time to hang out with a woman leisurely?

But if I knew things were going to turn out like this, I think I should have tried to enjoy my life at least for this episode.

If it had been, I wouldn’t have to stand in front of the closet like a poopy puppy and fuss about what to wear for today’s date.

– I don’t know why you’re worried. Isn’t it as simple as wearing a school uniform?

When Erekaya, who had been watching me like that, opened her mouth in a way that seemed incomprehensible, I began to wonder if this woman was really sane.

“… Wearing a school uniform on a date day? Are you really sane?”

I knew from a long time ago that this woman didn’t understand the human heart, but how could she come up with such a funny idea?

“It’s not another day, it’s a date you enjoy alone with a girl on a golden holiday. On a day like that, why the hell do I have to wear the same school uniform I wear every day?”

– I really don’t understand your sympathetic way of thinking. Why the hell do you have to show a different side of yourself just because it’s a date?

“… What?”

Erekaya looked down from above as if she were a teacher teaching students, and opened her mouth to Jin with a condescending tone.

– No matter what your actual age is, you are only a poor student. And the current me also knows very well that there is no money in your hands. Because on a fictional day, walking around wearing the same school uniform and the same everyday clothes, it would be even more strange not to notice.

“… Ugh.”

Well, it’s a bit funny to think about how you look when you’ve been walking around wearing the same clothes every day.

– Decorating yourself with more effort than usual on a date day is like a peacock spreading its wings to seduce the opposite sex. Fundamentally, it is nothing more than an act to highlight one’s beautiful points and hide one’s lacking points to the other side.

– However, the circumstances of me and the current me are somewhat different. Aren’t the two of you already spending a lot of time together as students in the same class and as members of the same student council? It means that it will not change much if you have to decorate or decorate yourself from now on.

Certainly, there was some truth to Erekaya’s words. It’s not like we met face-to-face for the first time on a blind date, and above all, strictly speaking, today’s visit to an amusement park isn’t a date, it’s just an ‘exploration’.

– And that’s because, above all else, I have a romance called ‘school uniform dating’.

“… A school uniform date?”

What else is it? Is it something that can be called a kind of cosplay?

– A school uniform is something similar to a kind of right and privilege that can only be worn during school days in a long and long life. Now that I think about it, I feel really bad. My youth and student days, which can be called the golden age of my life. At that time, the fact that I hadn’t had a date or a kiss with another man in school uniform… !

In my head, I can feel the fact that Erekaya is shaking her hands at the mention of the word ‘school uniform date’.

– But the present me not only has no body, and even if I had a body, I had reached an age where I couldn’t wear a school uniform. The current me can’t possibly wear a school uniform… .

Well, I guess so. If you wear a school uniform at that age, I think it’s not just about cosplay, but it can’t be anything other than an obscene act that can be caught under some law.

But Erekaya in her twenties was wearing a school uniform… To be honest, I want to see a little bit.

It is very natural for school lunch freshmen to wear school uniforms, but for a mature woman in her twenties to wear school uniforms on her body, it is clear that she can show off a different kind of beauty than usual!

– So there is nothing wrong with just wearing the school uniform. No, I even have a wish that the present me would also wear a school uniform. A date where a pair of boys and girls wear school uniforms and show off their freshness to everyone on the street… There will be no date with more intense destructive power than that in the world.

“No matter how much you think about it, it seems like a wind full of your personal selfishness and greed.”

Well, even if I wanted to wear something other than the school uniform in the first place, there were no clothes, so there was no choice from the beginning.

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The place where Jin had decided to meet with Erekaya today was no different, it was right in front of the school gate, the place where he went to buy the student council supplies the other day.

Since the clothing issue, which could be said to be the most difficult problem, was solved, there were not too many issues for Jin to worry about.

– Did you pack your wallet?

“I got it. Just in case you didn’t know, he said he brought all the money he received in the name of maintaining dignity.”

According to Erekaya and Celica, the act of making a woman pay for something on a date is itself a negative act that reduces favorability.

To be honest, I didn’t feel very happy when I heard that sound.

Why do I have to pay all by myself? There are two mouths to eat in, but why does it have to have only one wallet to come out of? Besides, Erekaya is a duke’s daughter, so shouldn’t she have a lot more money than me?

– Are you a man with real thoughts!

According to Erekaya, who heard my opinion, shouting loudly, the amount of money paid for a date is not important, but it is a matter of sincerity and sincerity toward others.

At most, Erekaya would have enough money, but at this moment, it was a message that indirectly informed the fact that I was only thinking of you, or something.

– Do you know the traffic line related to the amusement park and the dating course?

“I don’t know how long my memories will last, but I tried to stick them in my head as much as I could.”

The amusement park that Erekaya and I were going to explore today had just opened, so I heard that it was on the verge of bursting with people visiting the amusement park from all over the empire every holiday.

In other words, no matter what attraction you tried to see, you would inevitably have to wait in line, so it was essential to reduce time waste by designing an efficient dating route.

“Jeong, if I don’t think I can remember, wouldn’t it be fine if you gave me a hint?”

– Oh, he seems like a shameless man…

And that wasn’t all. Although she wasn’t here right now, Celica also secretly agreed to follow us and help at the right time.

Could this be the omnipotence of Left Blue Dragon, Woo Baek Ho, or Liu Bei, who obtained Waryong and Bongchu?

As for today’s date, no matter how hard I tried, there was no room for failure. I already had no blind spots anywhere…

“Did you wait a long time?”

10 minutes before the appointed time, Erekaya arrived.

I reflexively turned my gaze to take a look at her outfit and—

“… uh?”

And, for a while, I couldn’t hide my surprise.

Because the outfit Erekaya was wearing today was the same as mine.

And above the school uniform she was wearing, the necklace I gave her the other day was shining brightly in the sunlight.

– Hmm? Did the current me want to enjoy a school uniform date with you?

Erekaya continues to go on a school uniform date as if she had resentment for not being able to date him in school uniform during her lifetime.

Well, these two have only a difference in age, but they are virtually the same person, so did Erekaya at the present time also have a romance in her heart for a school uniform date?

“ah… Is it because of my outfit?”

Erekaya smiled shyly as if she had noticed what meaning was contained in her gaze.

“It’s just, it’s nothing. I thought that you would come in school uniform on a day like today, so I just decided that it would be better for me to come in school uniform as well. Wouldn’t the picture look a little weird if one was wearing a school uniform and the other was not?”

Erekaya laughed and answered casually.

As expected, Erekaya’s arrival in school uniform today was not a fetish, but a consideration for the poor me who had no money and no clothes.

– … Who’s got a school uniform fetish?

Ignoring the clamor of evil spirits in my head, I cautiously opened my mouth while looking at her school uniform.

“That… oh, it’s pretty Your outfit today.”

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Maybe it’s because I heard people say it’s a school uniform date in the morning. Despite the outfit I saw on a fictional day, Erekaya, who is wearing a school uniform, somehow feels more beautiful today.

“What, you wear the same clothes as you normally do, but you know how to make mouth-watering noises too?”

However, unlike the words that came out of her mouth, Erekaya listened to me and showed a subtle smile on her lips.

“Have you heard any advice from somewhere? On a first date with a girl, is it better to compliment her on her outfit?”

“uh? uh? Oh no. that’s… .”

“It’s not something I want to ask. I just like it.”

Saying that, Erekaya carefully adjusted the school uniform she was currently wearing.

“It’s not strange. Even though a school uniform like this is something I normally wear casually, the fact that I feel strange just because I wear it outside of school.”

“So, first of all, I’ll give you 10 extra points. I was able to start off feeling very good just by paying attention to the outfit of the girl I was escorting today and saying she was pretty.”

snap.

Saying that, Erekaya stealthily, but very firmly grabbed my hand.

this is the second Holding each other’s hands and feeling the warmth of each other’s hands.

However, unlike the other time, the purpose was not to miss each other’s whereabouts because there were too many people on the street, today, Erekaya grabbed my hand without any warning or excuse.

“First of all, it has the purpose of exploring, but first of all, it’s a first date with a man. No, in a way, a second date? Anyway, shouldn’t we make sure we escort each other?”

Saying that, Erekaya had a bright and gentle expression that was very different from her usual expression—

“So let’s go quickly. Today, there are so many things I want to do with you.”

“… yes.”

I, too, felt like my heart fluttered for some reason.

It was as if I had the ridiculous illusion that I was not flirting with her, but that she was flirting with me.