Chapter 275 A Chance to Get Full Marks

The business hours of this maid cafe are until 11:30 p.m., and it was almost closing when Shimizu saw them arriving.

It was now nearly half past eleven, and before the cafe officially closed, Shimizu folded the remaining sandwich in half and stuffed it into his mouth, then drank up the coffee in the cup.

Then, Ichinose Shiki went to the front desk to pay the bill, and the three of them left the store together.

Although I promised Ichinose Shiki that I would lend her some time after get off work, I didn't expect it to be so late.

But judging from the current situation, Qingshuijian’s trip was not in vain.

Simply put, my encounter with one of the five heroines, Ichinose Shiki, happened several months earlier than last week.

Honestly, Shimizu didn't know whether this was good or bad.

Because judging from the current situation, Ichinose Shiki, like everyone else, probably has no memories of the first round.

Moreover, the dream she described did make Qing Shuijian somewhat concerned.

Although he might be overthinking it, after all, it was just a dream of Ichinose Shiki, but whenever he thought about the car accident that happened with Sakurai Haruka before, Shimizu Mi still felt a little worried.

After leaving the coffee shop, the three of them had just walked a short distance on the street when Sakurai Haruka, who had consumed too much water at the gym and had just had a cup of coffee in the store, needed to go to the bathroom, so she ran back.

Shimizu watched Sakurai Haruka's back as he left, and then realized that only he and Ichinose Shiki were left there.

Although the two were often alone when working in the bar, after knowing that she was Ichinose Shiki, Shimizu Mi didn't know what to say, but fortunately it was Ichinose Shiki who brought up the topic first.

"Now there are only two of us..."

Under such circumstances, Ichinose Shiki looked at Shimizumi and suddenly said something very subtle.

Qing Shuijian really didn't know how to respond to such a topic, so he just said "hmm" softly.

Soon, Ichinose Shiki smiled, came closer, and gently pressed Shimizu's arm with his shoulder.

"Mr. Shimizu, what do you think of this store today?"

"..."

Although it was Shimizumi's first time here, the reason why maid cafes are so popular is probably not because of superficial words like "cute" or "master", but because of their sincere service of "wanting everyone to have a good time".

Because I found this nice shop, I can consider it a gain.

Then, Ichinose Shiki raised his head and took a deep look in the direction of the cafe.

"Ms. Sakurai really likes you..."

Halfway through his words, Ichinose Shiki turned his gaze towards Shimizumi.

"Just like my friend."

Ichinose Shiki added softly.

Like her friends? What does that mean?
There was so much information in Ichinose Shiki's words that it took Shimizu Mika a while to fully understand them.

When it comes down to it, Shimizu doesn’t even know who her friends are.

However, Ichinose Shiki just said that she came to Tokyo to meet her friend, and that friend is in the same school as Shimizu.

Shimizu was curious about the identity of that friend and was about to ask, but Ichinose Shiki spoke first.

"Does Mr. Shimizu like yanderes?"

"Why are you asking this question all of a sudden?"

This was probably the strangest question Shimizu had ever heard tonight, even stranger than when he met her in Tokyo a few months earlier.

"So Mr. Shimizu has a natural physique that attracts yanderes?"

"I've already said why you're asking this kind of question..."

Shimizu Mi discovered that Ichinose Shiki seemed to have a special talent for jumping from one topic to another, which was completely unrelated.

But to be honest, she has been like this since last episode.

"Mr. Shimizu, what would happen if you were liked by a yandere?"

“Why make that assumption?”

"Hey, you answer first."

Ichinose Shiki urged.

But even if she said so, it would be difficult for Qingshuijian to answer for a while. After all, there are not so many yanderes in the world, and it is impossible for ordinary people to have the experience of being liked by a yandere.

If I follow this line of thought, I really don’t know whether it is lucky or unlucky to be liked by a yandere.

After Shimizu answered Ichinose Shiki in this way, she asked an even more tricky question.

"What if two yanderes like me at the same time?"

If someone is really liked by multiple yanderes at the same time, it would definitely be bad luck... maybe.

"So why are you asking this question all of a sudden?"

Ichinose Shiki did not answer, but once again used her talent for changing the subject.

"By the way, what kind of person is Mr. Shimizu?" Ichinose Shiki looked at Shimizu with curious eyes.

"How can you ask others what kind of person you are..."

Qing Shuijian couldn't help but complain.

"Then Mr. Shimizu, could you please give a brief self-evaluation?"

Qing Shuijian didn't want to belittle himself, nor did he want to praise himself, so he chose not to comment.

Moreover, if one wants to correctly understand and evaluate a person, Shimizu Miki thinks that Ichinose Shiki should judge with her own eyes.

After Shimizu told her this, Ichinose Shiki was slightly stunned and opened her eyes unconsciously.

"what happened?"

"It feels like Mr. Shimizu talks like a teacher... No wonder she likes him."

She? You mean her friend?
"Mr. Shimizu, let's get acquainted again. My name is Ichinose Shiki."

As he said this, Ichinose Shiki smiled and extended his hand to Shimizu.

Shimizu was stunned for a moment, then he also gave his name and shook hands with Ichinose Shiki.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know what kind of person Shimizu was before, so I kept it a secret from you. I hope Mr. Shimizu doesn't mind."

Ichinose Shiki bent down towards Shimizumi.

Even though she was taller than usual in her high-heeled boots, Shimizu was still taller than her, and when she bent over in close like this, even if only a little, the valley between her breasts was still visible.

In fact, compared with the other five heroines, Ichinose Shiki's figure is relatively petite. She is about 1.62 meters tall. As mentioned before, even though she is one year older than Shimizu Mi, she still has a girl-next-door vibe. However, her development in all aspects is still quite good.

At this time, Sakurai Haruka, who had gone to the bathroom in the cafe earlier, just came back with a plastic bag in her hand.

"What are you talking about?"

"No, we didn't talk about anything."

Although it was indeed just a casual chat, Ichinose Shiki's repeated denials with her hands made people more suspicious.

"Haruka, that is..."

What Shimizu was talking about was the plastic bag that Sakurai Haruka was holding.

"When I went to use the restroom just now, the cafe was about to close. The clerk said there were three ice creams left in the store. If you don't mind, you can take them."

Sakurai Haruka opened the plastic bag and found three different flavors of ice cream inside.

Because they had been staying in the air-conditioned room of the cafe until just now, although the air inside was not circulated as outside, the temperature difference between indoors and outdoors was large. After walking out of the air-conditioned room all of a sudden, their bodies did feel a little stuffy. So Shimizu took a chocolate flavor without hesitation, and Sakurai Haruka took a cream flavor.

Finally, there was one vanilla flavor left in the bag. Sakurai Haruka held the plastic bag in front of Ichinose Shiki.

"Huh? For me?"

Ichinose Shiki felt a little surprised.

"Don't think too much about it. There are just three left in the store. And if you eat too much at this time of night, you will gain weight..."

"Is that so? Well, thank you, Ms. Sakurai. I'm welcome."

Ichinose Shiki smiled and thanked Sakurai Haruka, taking the last vanilla-flavored ice cream from the bag.

The three of them found a bench near a roadside vending machine and sat there to briefly enjoy the coolness brought by the ice cream.

"See, why have you been turning your face towards her since just now?"

Sakurai Haruka was a little unhappy because Shimizu Mi kept turning her face towards Ichinose Shiki.

Although Ichinose Shiki's face is indeed very beautiful, Shimizu Mi certainly did not do this to look at her face.

On the other side, Sakurai Haruka, with her cheeks puffed up, had no idea that it was her own problem.

Miss Yao, please don't be so stupid...

"what……"

Sakurai Haruka let out a slight scream, and then realized that it was the melted ice cream that dripped onto her chest.

Sakurai Haruka watched the liquid flow towards her chest and looked at Shimizu with some annoyance.

"See, there's a handkerchief in my pocket, can you help me get it?"

Qing Shuijian nodded and helped her take out the handkerchief from her pocket.

"Well, I have stuff on both my hands now, can you help me wipe it?"

Haruka Sakurai held the ice cream in one hand and the plastic bag that contained the ice cream in the other.

"Why can't you just throw the bag away, or I can get you the ice cream."

There is a trash can right next to her where she can throw the trash, but Haruka Sakurai still wants to use an empty plastic bag to occupy her hands.

Even though Shimizumi said this, Sakurai Haruka still insisted on him helping her wipe it. If this continued, the melted ice cream would flow to more troublesome places. There was no other way, so Shimizumi had to help her...

After the three of them finished enjoying their ice cream, it was already late, so Ichinose Shiki got up from the bench.

"Then I'll go back today. I'm really sorry to have Mr. Qingshui spend so much time with me."

After saying goodbye to each other, Shimizu Mi and Sakurai Haruka watched Ichinose Shiki leave.

Ichinose Shiki walked to the tram station across the street and stepped onto the escalator leading to the platform. The escalator slowly pushed the crowd upwards, and the distance between each other became farther and farther.

Suddenly, Ichinose Shiki turned around and looked at Shimizu quietly.

A breeze blew, ruffling her glass-like azure hair and skirt.

Although it looked like Ichinose Shiki was saying something with her mouth, the sound didn't come through at all.

Judging from the lip movements, Shimizu could only roughly guess that it was something like "See you tomorrow".

……

"Anyway, we should go back."

"Ah."

Sakurai Haruka lives nearby, so she doesn't need to take the train like Ichinose Shiki.

After Sakurai Haruka nodded in response to Shimizumi, the two of them started walking.

I don’t know if today is a holiday, but at this time there are still a lot of people walking on the streets, adding a unique lively atmosphere to the night.

Perhaps because it was too late, Shimizu Mitsuki yawned unconsciously, and Sakurai Haruka, who was walking on the inside of the sidewalk, was also infected and started yawning.

Sakurai Haruka noticed that Shimizu was looking at her yawning and looked a little embarrassed.

However, she cleared her throat and took a half step closer to Shimizu.

"Your performance today was very good."

Sakurai Haruka suddenly started to give a score to Shimizumi's performance today.

"Just to ask, what is the full score?"

"Of course one hundred points."

“Why is the score so low…”

Although I didn't do anything praiseworthy today, just helping her clean the ice cream off her chest just now should be worth more than ten points.

Seeing that Shimizu showed a little bit of dissatisfaction, Sakurai Haruka raised both hands in front of him, opened his palms, and started counting with his fingers.

"First of all, it's not like we came out alone, so I'll deduct ten points."

"Wouldn't that mean you'd already be deducted points from the beginning..."

And the scoring method was actually a deduction system, and Shimizu Mi thought she would use a bonus system.

Sakurai Haruka continued to bend the fingers of her left hand.

"Adding the details of my words and actions, I will have to deduct another 40 points, right?"

"Yeah, that makes sense."

Seeing this, Qing Shui looked as if it was a matter of course and nodded.

Just like the last composition in the Chinese test, even if it is well written, the Chinese teacher always likes to deduct one or two points out of habit, as if in their eyes there is no real full score.

However, it seemed that Teacher Sakurai had not finished grading. She suddenly clenched her right fist and gently hit Shimizu's side abdomen several times.

"If a girl invites you and you foolishly agree to it, you will be deducted 50 points."

"...In that case, the score has been deducted to zero."

And in this case, it should be said that Sakurai Haruka was working hard to tolerate Shimizumi for the whole day.

Although Sakurai Haruka's fist didn't hurt, it still caused a tingling pain in Shimizu's heart.

Then, Sakurai Haruka took a step forward, stopped in front of Shimizumi, looked at him, and slowly extended a finger.

"But, since I was with Jian today and it was quite pleasant, I'll give you ten points."

"…Thank you so much then."

So this is how the term "ten points" came about.

He deducted so many points in the beginning, but gave back ten points in the end. Teacher Sakurai is actually not bad.

However, if Shimizu himself were to give the rating, he would probably give a similar score.

Afterwards, Shimizu Mi and Sakurai Haruka chatted all the way and before they knew it, they arrived at her house.

Shimizu stopped at the door of the apartment, thinking that since they were already there, Sakurai Haruka should be able to go back by herself.

However, Sakurai Haruka also stopped nearby.

"what happened?"

Shimizu asked in confusion, but since Sakurai Haruka lowered her head, he couldn't see the expression on her face.

Then, Shimizu heard her answer in a soft voice.

"Well, now there is a chance to get full marks..."

(End of this chapter)