The blue sea, my youth

After returning to the dining table and finishing their meal in peace.

Several people put away their lunch boxes. Kohei, who had calmed down since being hit by Aina, coughed lightly and pretended to chat in a normal tone: "Kitahara."

Iori had long been accustomed to Kohei's daily illness, and automatically regarded Kohei's words just now as Kohei's madness. Now that he no longer cared about Kohei, he was unprepared when he suddenly heard Kohei calling him: "What's the matter?"

Kohei was thinking about something special, and asked in a heavy tone: "Do you like love fortune-telling?"

Iori, who didn't know, thought that Kohei was having a seizure again, and the two who knew couldn't help it. Takaharu wanted to laugh, and Aina wanted to cry. It can only be said that Kohei's operation really can't (bear) (people's) (hopes)

Iori said with great disgust: "Why do you suddenly mention such a disgusting thing?"

Kohei's mentality is so strong that he can change himself even with such obvious disgust. He looked at Iori with a subtle expression: "Oh, you like it, you innocent and shy boy."

Iori: "Did you hear me?"

Takaharu deeply admired Kohei who was so shameless. He had been bought and encouraged Iori: "Try it. There is nothing to do now, just treat it as a game."

Iori thought that there was really nothing to do now, so he nodded: "Okay, let's try it."

Takaharu took out the Lalako co-branded poker cards from his back: "I'll kindly tell you a fortune."

Iori suddenly felt that this was as if he was asking Kohei, and reminded him: "Actually, I don't care."

Kohei shuffled the cards very quickly and put them on the table. He unfolded the poker cards and pointed at them: "You draw a card from here."

Iori: "Yeah." Iori casually drew a card from the table.

Kohei: "What did you draw?"

Iori glanced at the cards: "Three of Diamonds."

Kohei crossed his hands and supported his chin, saying very seriously: "Very good, I understand everything."

Iori looked at the cards in his hand, then looked at Kohei, and after several back and forths, he decisively questioned: "You understand everything after just one card."

"You drew the three of diamonds--" Kohei became more serious, "It means that you will marry a woman from the countryside who likes to wear super heavy makeup and deeply loves and admires the love plots in TV dramas."

Iori listened more and more wrong: "This is too specific!!"

Takaharu looked at Mana with a gloomy face every time he heard a word. Kohei's description has already named Mana in addition to her name and appearance.

As expected, Kohei was dragged out by Mana as soon as he finished speaking.

Iori pointed in the direction they left and looked at Takaharu: "What are they doing?"

Takaharu looked innocent: "Maybe something happened suddenly."

As soon as the voice fell, the two walked back again.

Iori asked curiously, "Where did you go just now?"

Before he answered, Kohei thought of a new trick: "Kitahara, do you want to take a psychological test?"

Iori was confused: "Ah? What are you thinking?"

Kohei: "I want to know what you are thinking."

Iori: "Stop talking, it's disgusting."

Takaharu felt something was wrong and hurried to smooth things over: "Kohei, did you see the psychological questions on the Internet and want to try them?"

Kohei saw Takaharu's eyes on him, and he wanted to deny it at first, but he thought of his purpose and admitted it directly for the sake of success.

Iori heard that it was seen on the Internet, and he believed it immediately when he didn't trust Kohei at first.

Enduring the blow to his heart, Kohei talked about the rules of the game: "You are attending a dinner hosted by a big shot in the workplace. Among the dishes on the table, there is a dish you particularly don't like. What will you do? This is the question."

After listening, Takaharu also began to think, thinking to himself: 'If it were me, I might try not to touch that dish as much as possible. ’

Iori unconsciously repeated Kohei’s question and thought about it.

After calming down for a while, Kohei turned his head to look at Aina and said, “What do you think of the corpse beast?”

“Huh? I have to take the test too?” Aina didn’t expect that she would have to answer, and after thinking for a moment, she gave the answer, “I might force myself to eat it.”

“I see.” Kohei explained, “This question tests ‘what kind of people are more compatible with you’.

Your test result shows that you are particularly compatible with the kind of ‘people who are very good at dealing with things and sometimes quite capable’.”

While speaking, Kohei also gestured to Iori with his hand, indicating that I was talking about Iori.

Such an obvious gesture not only embarrassed Aina, but also made Iori feel puzzled.

After Kohei finished explaining, he looked at Iori, “Okay, what about you, Kitahara?”

“Me…” Iori put his hands behind his head, completely unconvincedRen Kohei just replied in a soothing way, "I don't have any food I hate, so I can't imagine it at all. So for me, this psychological test is useless..."

Kohei said directly: "I see, that means you don't have any food you hate, so you are a perfect match for 'people who love to wear super heavy makeup'."

Iori pretended not to see Kohei's gesture, nor did he understand Kohei's hint (explicit suggestion), and said unwillingly: "By the way, what would it be if you chose 'to be honest, I don't like it'?"

Kohei: "You are so honest, so you are a perfect match for 'someone who loves to wear heavy makeup'."

Iori: "'Eat a little bit, and leave it if you can't finish it.'"

Kohei: "You are so brave and willing to challenge anything, so choose 'someone who loves to wear heavy makeup'!"

Iori: "'Pretend to drop the food off the plate.'"

Kohei: "You are so good at taking advantage of opportunities, so choose 'someone who loves to wear heavy makeup..."

Before Kohei could finish his words, he was grabbed by the face and pushed aside by Aina who couldn't bear it.

Aina looked at Kohei with a sickly smile: "Kohei, gather outside."

Kohei was frightened and trembling under Aina's hands, sweating profusely: "Okay..."

The two left the room without looking back. Takaharu sighed helplessly and did not leave with them. Instead, he got up and started to pick up the lunch box that had been on the table.

Iori got up and cleaned up together, and asked Takaharu: "What's wrong with Kohei today?"

Takaharu: "Maybe he got his brain damaged by watching anime yesterday, and wanted to imitate the characters in anime. But by the way, what do you think of Aina?"

Iori: "To be honest, Aina is a good person, but her aesthetic is different from mine. I like the type of Azusa-senpai."

Takaharu patted Iori's shoulder with understanding: "Then you have no chance. In fact, being single is also good."

Iori shook Takaharu's hand off with his backhand and refuted fiercely: "Go to hell with the current pretenders, I won't be single!"

After cleaning up, Takaharu and the others returned to the table and waited for Kohei and the others to come back to assign work.

Bored Iori lay on the table and sighed helplessly: "What are they doing?"

Takaharu, who was also bored: "Why haven't they come back yet..."

'Dululu, dululu' As if knowing that the two were bored, the landline rang.

Iori, who was closer to the phone, picked up the phone: "Hello, this is Dolphin."

The person on the other end of the phone: "Hello? This is Sugita from Wild Wide Fours. Is Ms. Kotegawa here?"

Iori was about to ask Takaharu if he had seen the boss lady when he saw her carrying a box in. "Yes, please wait."

Then she called out: "Auntie, phone call."

Seeing that the boss lady didn't pay attention, Iori continued to call out: "Auntie, your phone call."

The boss lady put the things on the cabinet and turned to walk outside. Iori seemed to have thought of something and called out: "Manager——"

Sure enough, the boss lady turned around: "What's the matter?"

Iori handed over the phone: "Your phone call."

Iori watched the boss lady take the phone and leave, thinking to himself: 'It turns out that she hates people calling her aunt. '

Takaharu also thought: 'The boss lady is acting very strangely, I feel something is wrong, I'll ask the foreman when I have a chance. ’

While the two were thinking, Kohei poked his head out from the middle: "Hey, Kitahara."

Iori asked helplessly: "What happened this time?"

Kohei said seriously: "I have a question for you."

Takaharu saw Aina hiding in the back corner, and it seemed that this time Aina wanted to ask.

Then he also paid attention to the question Kohei wanted to ask. Kohei did not disappoint Takaharu and asked directly: "Do you want to do it with the corpse beast?"

Originally, Aina, who was hiding in the corner, ran out directly, and her target was Kohei who asked the question without any euphemism.

Just at this time, Chisa and Akemi, who went to help with the foreman, also came back.

Takaharu no longer paid attention to the noisy Kohei and Aina, and found Akemi to care about her work experience.