Beat It, Master! – Part 04

The next day, I was lying on my bed flipping through a plastic model magazine, murmuring, “Man, this is amazing. Totally amazing,” when I got a text.

It was from Orito.

“Tsundere Restaurant got you hooked, didn’t it?”

That’s all it said. I typed back, “The food was good, and honestly, I had fun.” Just before I could hit send, the door opened and Haruna walked in.

“Ayumu, you here?”

Seriously, this girl never knocks. I was about to give her a piece of my mind, but then I froze.

She was holding a Full Metal Panic! set, the exact one I’d just been looking at in the magazine.

“Where’d you get that?” I asked.

“I broke yours before, remember? So… I figured I’d replace it. S-Satisfied now?”

Wait. Don’t tell me she’d been working part-time at that Cosplay Restaurant☆Star River just to buy this for me? I didn’t