Jewel Candy - Chapter 1

[bakemonoremy]

Location: Shopping District

Natsume: Good Afternoon….Little kittEN, it’s rare to see you in a place like thIS.

Even though we often see each other in the classroOM…

HM? Even in the classroom we rarely see each othER, you sAY? Are you implicitly saying “Attend your lessons properly”?

It may be the duty of a student to attend classES, but I’d prefer to decide how I spend my time myseLF.

I have the highest grades in our yeAR… Since I cleared that goAL, it doesn’t matter even if my attendance is too lOW.

EH, “Spoken like a true member of the Game Club”, you sAY?

...AH, I made it sound like “I cleared that game~”, didn’t I?

By the wAY, what did the little kitten come here to DO? If I had to gueSS, I’d say it’s for shopping related to the Chocolat FeS?

This tiME, you’re not in charge of the planning and management of Chocolat FeS, but you’re instructing others on sweets makiNG, rigHT?

If you’re here to buy ingredients for thAT, I recommend the store over theRE.

HM? You want to know if I came here to buy ingredients as weLL?

Too bAD, you guessed wroNG. I’ve come here to buy a new crystal baLL.

YeS, in anticipation of Valentine’s DaY, the number of my customers has been increasiNG. So I’m using it as an opportunity to buy a new oNE.

HrmmM~... If you’re asking me what kind of customers I get the moST, it’d have to be customers who are troubled about romanCE.

Girls are a givEN, but even boys are restless in the face of Valentine’s DaY.

After a girl had a consultatiON, there are times when the boy they gave chocolates too turns up as weLL.

AhaHA, I’m a fortune tellER, not some kind of love’s cupID.

But if the happy couple becomes intimate thanks to ME, they might spread my good reputation and it’ll lead to an increase in customers for ME.

WeLL, even without that I’m not hurting for customers at the momeNT.

Yuuta: *Sigh*...

Oh, Anzu-san? Sakasaki-senpai too! Hello~ ♪

Natsume: Hello Yuuta-kuN. You’re not with Hinata-kun todAY?

You only recently reconciled during SetsubUN, did you already get into a fight agaIN?

Yuuta: Err, things are going well with Aniki… We are acting separately on purpose.

But unlike before, we are constantly keeping in touch now.

Right now, Aniki is in charge of making the chocolates, and I’m in charge of the program~, and that’s how we’re preparing for Chocolat Fes.

Aniki is in super high spirits, saying “We’ll definitely make Chocolat Fes a success!”

Well, it’s a suitable event for us, and it’s large-scale enough to rival the annual events.

It’s a chance for us to make a big name for ourselves.

Natsume: HmM, but despite that you’re making quite the long faCE. I don’t need divination to tell that you’re troubled by somethiNG.

The little kitten is also worried about you after seeing you siGH, so wouldn’t it be best if you came clean about your sorrows quickLY?

Yuuta: Anzu-san, Sakasaki-senpai…

I might’ve said earlier that it’s a suitable event for us, but it’d be correct to say it’s a suitable event for Aniki.

Look, the point of the Chocolat Fes is to make chocolates and give them to our fans in order to convey our gratitude to them, right?

Aniki is good at making sweets, so he’s all lively because he gets to show off his abilities.

But unlike Aniki, I can’t stand sweet things. Because of that, I somehow just can’t get excited about this.

Even just being in the kitchen, I get nauseous from the sweet smell…

Uu~, just what can I do so I can enjoy Chocolat Fes… To enjoy Valentine’s Day?