"Utsunomiya-kun, what a coincidence, we meet again."

Quickly walking within sight of Utsunomiya Miu, Kiritani Tetsuya pretended to be surprised and greeted him.

"Isn't this Kiritani's classmate from the same school as me? I didn't expect that we are really destined."

Utsunomiya Miu, who was about to walk out of the crowd, quickly noticed the boy walking towards her after hearing Kiritani Tetsuya's greeting. An unknown smile immediately appeared on the corner of her lips.

"I didn't expect to meet Utsunomiya-san while I was out shopping. Where are you planning to go, Utsunomiya-san?"

Kiritani Tetsuya asked in a curious tone.

"I also came out to do community purchasing." Utsunomiya Miu simply responded.

"Then I wonder where Utsunomiya-san is going next. If we are on the way, maybe we can go together. I am quite familiar with most places in Shinagawa."

Kiritani Tetsuya seized the opportunity to put forward his own suggestions.

"Let me see."

Utsunomiya Miu quickly took out her mobile phone from her pocket and looked at it.

"It's an electrical appliance store called Telepower. I wonder if Kiritani-san has heard of it?"

telepower?

In Kiritani Tetsuya's impression, this electronics mall seems to be located in the Bear Shopping Street, which is five or six subway stations away from here. If you want to get there from here, it will basically take about half an hour.

"Telepower, right? It just so happens that the place I want to go is nearby. How about Utsunomiya-san and us come together?"

Kiritani Tetsuya pretended to be thinking, and then spoke in sudden enlightenment.

"Really? Then please take care of me, Kiritani-san, along the way."

Utsunomiya Miu agreed without any hesitation, and her cheerful attitude was the same as what she had seen in family restaurants before.

"Then Utsunomiya-san, let's take the train there first. We expect to get there soon."

"Everything depends on Kiritani-san's instructions."

Utsunomiya Miu pondered for a while and then said, making it difficult to guess what he was thinking.

Seeing that Utsunomiya Miu agreed to his proposal, Kiritani Tetsuya breathed a sigh of relief, then turned around and took him to the tram stop where he had just come out in the morning.

In his faint impression, there seemed to be several shops specializing in selling painting tools in Little Bear Shopping Street.

They walked back to the tram station, swiped their cards, entered the station, waited at the platform, and got on the bus. Although it was the rush hour, Kiritani Tetsuya and the two of them successfully caught up with the oncoming tram, and even got on the train.

I was very lucky to have grabbed two seats in the crowded carriage.

It takes about twenty minutes to take the subway from here to the entrance of Bear Shopping Street.

In these twenty minutes, Kiritani Tetsuya didn't say much to Utsunomiya Miu, who was stuck close to him due to the crowd. Mainly because the other party closed his eyes as soon as he got on the train, and seemed to be planning to get on the train.

Take a short rest before arriving at the station.

Seeing this, Kiritani Tetsuya was too embarrassed to disturb the other party anymore, and instead started playing with his phone boredly.

After a while, the two people who walked out of the subway station quickly arrived at the entrance of Little Bear Shopping Street.

At the top of the arched door at the entrance, a metal sign resembling a brown bear cub stood conspicuously, shining in the sunlight.

Under the gate, a steady stream of people passed by, mostly couples, leading to various places in the shopping street with sweet smiles.

Because many couples in their 10s and 20s often gather here on weekends for shopping and dating, Little Bear Shopping Street is also known as Cupid Shopping Street. It is considered a relatively famous "love mecca" nearby. In the past few years, it was specially visited.

Published in Tokyo's "Asahi Shimbun" newspaper.

Looking at the waves of young men and women passing by slowly holding hands in front of him, Kiritani Tetsuya's lips twitched slightly.

Only now did he recall the other meaning of the Bear Shopping Street where he and Utsunomiya Miu came.

Under normal circumstances, especially during prime times like weekends, men and women with normal relationships will not come to this shopping street full of love. Only couples who are in love will wander around this shopping street.

You don't need to think about it to know that this travel route was definitely specially arranged by Ibuki Tamao.

No wonder Ibuki Tamao refused to show herself the purchasing route she had designed in advance yesterday, probably because she didn't want to give herself a chance to regret it temporarily.

Now Kiritani Tetsuya had everything figured out.

But now that we have arrived at the entrance of the shopping street, it is obviously impossible to exit halfway.

In desperation, Kiritani Tetsuya had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue walking towards the purchasing route designed by Ibuki Tamao, praying in his heart that he could spend the remaining half day safely.

After all, if you step into a street surrounded by lovers, you may be misunderstood by Miu Utsunomiya no matter what you do.

At the same time, Utsunomiya Miu, who was next to him, frowned slightly after realizing that he had stepped into such a street. At the same time, he lowered his head and looked at his phone to make sure that he was not in the wrong place.

However, this expression only appeared for a moment. Soon Utsunomiya Miu returned to his original expression, pretending that nothing happened, and walked side by side with Kiritani Tetsuya to the purchasing location in the Bear Shopping Street.

The two of them first entered the Telepower Electrical Appliances Mall, which was closest to the entrance of the shopping street.

After completing the purchase of photographic equipment, Kiritani Tetsuya and Utsunomiya Miu continued to move deeper into the shopping street and came to a store specializing in selling painting tools and materials.

"Utsunomiya-san, why don't you take a walk around here first, and then I'll come find you after I finish buying something here."

Before entering the door of the store, Kiritani Tetsuya suggested this.

"I'll go in with you."

Utsunomiya Miu said very naturally.

"fair enough."

Kiritani Tetsuya smiled awkwardly and walked into the store with Utsunomiya Miu.

Compared with the electronics store they just went to, the store they entered now seemed much ordinary, but fortunately, all the painting paper, brushes, watercolor paints and other painting supplies that Kiritani Tetsuya needed on his shopping list could be found here.

While Kiritani Tetsuya was looking for brands recommended on the shopping list at the product cabinet that sold paint brushes, Utsunomiya Miu, who felt idle, stood next to Kiritani Tetsuya and admired the decorative paintings hanging on the wall.

While admiring it, Utsunomiya Miu suddenly asked: "Is there a girl named Ibuki Tamao in your art department?"

"Ah? There is indeed such a person here."

For some reason, Kiritani Tetsuya suddenly felt sweat break out on his forehead, and even his fingers that were picking the brush paused for a moment.

"I wonder why Utsunomiya-san suddenly asked about this?" Kiritani Tetsuya tried his best to sound calm.

"It's nothing, he's just a friend of mine." Utsunomiya Miu replied calmly.

"Really? Actually, I also remembered that Ibuki-san often mentioned you in front of me."

"What did she say about me?"

Utsunomiya Miu asked with a hint of curiosity.

"She wants you to be my target."

Of course, Kiritani Tetsuya would never say this directly, he would just say it in his heart. If he did, he might really have to reload the file.

"She said that Utsunomiya is one of the few friends she has in this school, and she feels very proud and happy to be friends with Utsunomiya Miu, who is in the first and second classes of high school."

After thinking about his words for a moment, Kiritani Tetsuya slowly spoke.

"I didn't expect she would say such a thing."
Chapter completed!