Five o'clock in the morning.

Shiina Iori got up an hour earlier than usual.

However, today it is rare to have no morning exercises, but to wash up quickly, take a shower, then change into simple clothes, drive Yui's car to No. 103 Oakanokacho.

The sunlight that lights up early in summer falls,

It illuminated a newly hung plaque at the intersection of the street.

【Shimaki's Pastry House】

The plaque with dark brown classical paint is slightly reflected.

The streets were still empty at 6 o'clock, but when Shiina Iori stopped the car and walked over, the inner sliding door with a somewhat Western-style elegant feel had been opened.

Shino Sano, dressed in casual clothes, had arrived, holding two large paper bags in his hand.

“Arrived so early?”

“Didn’t I say I’ll come back at 8 o’clock?”

The girl turned her head and saw him. She spoke in dissatisfaction, but she smiled on her face.

A pair of narrow eyebrows and eyes were slightly bent, and a clean smile was.

"I don't know how to make snacks, so where can I start until 8 o'clock?" Shiina Iori's voice was faintly blamed, as if she was dissatisfied with Shino's approach.

Seeing the heavy paper bag in her hand, she naturally took it from her hand.

When the paper bag fell into his hands, his movements sank slightly.

Looking down, the bag was filled with stuffing at home and some dough wrapped in plastic wrap.

"When did you get up?"

Shiina Iori looked up at Shino.

With so much stuffing, the workload is not small.

"Isn't this so excited that I can't sleep!" Sano Shino's sweet little face was filled with an unstoppable smile, "This is the first day in our family!"

The sound is slowly filled with excitement.

Words like ‘we’ that have a sense of shared ownership always seem to give people a sense of mission from the heart.

Although it is still just 'our store' now.

However, in the future...

Shino Sano's little thoughts are slightly active.

Even the smile on his face became even brighter.

“Yes, yes.”

Shiina Iori seemed to have not noticed the girl's slender intentions. She took the bag from Shino and took the lead in: "Today is the first day, let's make some of it for the time being?"

"In addition, make some gifts to make your fame slightly."

"By the way, I bought some coffee beans, and it's OK in a while..."

These are all things that the two had discussed before, and Shiina Iori was just a reminder.

“Yes~”

Sano Shino agreed with a full voice.

However, as the moment passed by, the girl raised her head as usual and swept towards Shiina Iori's face.

The eyes solidified for a moment,

The pupils tighten instantly like the camera's high-speed focus.

It seems to have noticed something.

However, Shino Sano did not react immediately, and his tense body instantly relaxed again.

Soon, the two walked into the kitchen and prepared today's dessert together.

......

"Lika, it's just a failed confession..."

Not the first time.

On the street, two lightly dressed young girls walking together on the road.

Yu Zuomei looked at her dejected good friend beside her, looking helpless, and didn't know how to persuade her.

"But it's already the third one this month!"

Rika Suzuki looked dejected, dragging Emi's arm, twisting and turning like a loach: "The confession failed for three consecutive times! It's more unlucky than a hundred consecutive losses to draw cards!"

When Yu Zuohuimei heard this, she suddenly felt a little confused about how to say what she was worried about.

Rika Suzuki, who was holding her arms beside her, is a petite and cute short-haired girl with a short hair. Both of them are in the manual customer service of the large mobile telecommunications company ‘Docodemo’, a nearby mobile phone and telecommunications company.

Although Rika is still good among ordinary people, the partners she confessed to are rich young men with very handsome appearance and figures like models.

For people of that level, girls of their level can attract a large group with just a move. How could they be able to see family background? They can only be considered ordinary Lixiang?

The person she confessed to was the young master of the Kamisaki family who happened to meet in the restaurant and looked easy to talk to.

The result was unexpectedly rejected.

It is precisely because of this that Rika becomes what she looks like now.

According to Yu Saemi's idea, Rika's goal was obviously too high, but this kind of thing is hard to say.

This is especially true in the circle of best friends.

Even if you know it clearly, it is not easy to say it as a suggestion.

Women, especially those who like clingy, can only use coaxing.

You Zuomei, who has ten years of experience comforting her single best friend, expressed her great help in this.

"Woo~"

While Rika was dragging her arms, Yuzusae Mi suddenly made a sniffing look, and her voice exclaimed in an exaggerated way:

"It smells so fragrant! Did you smell the lixiang?"

"What's so good?"

Rika Suzuki's eyes were red, and she obviously felt really sad just now. Even Emi's sleeves were wet with her cry.

But when I heard Huimi's voice, I couldn't help but be distracted and my little nose twitched slightly.

Immediately afterwards, it seemed that I really smelled something.

“It does have a bit of a fragrance…where did it come from?”

"Over there! over there."

Seeing Rika's attention was finally diverted, Yu Zuomei immediately continued to work hard and pointed to a small pastry shop that had obviously just been renovated on the street.

On the small blackboard table next to the door of the store, there is a row of coffee that has clearly been brewed and is waving with a rich fragrance.

His eyes also turned.

【Shimaki's Pastry House】

"It's a pastry house."

Seeing that it was a place to sell desserts, Rika Suzuki's mouth suddenly turned weak: "I have gained another pound recently and am going to start losing weight. I can't eat desserts."

It's so hard to serve, you guy.

You Zuomei glanced at her with some disgust.

But because I recognize my best friend, I still have to hold back.

"But I want to eat~"

"Let's do it!" Yu Zuomei stretched out her finger, "Today, I will use it as a comfort reward, indulge a little, and try this dessert?"

"The weight loss and other things will be the same from tomorrow, right?"

“Eh—?”

Rika Suzuki wants to go home and sleep.

However, before she could say anything, she saw the Victorian classical stained glass wooden door being pushed open from inside.

A tall, standard deacon dressed in a white shirt and a black vest, and a handsome man with a black scarf around his waist stepped out from inside.

Perhaps because the weather was a little hot, his collar was slightly open, revealing his white collarbone.

It seemed that I didn't notice the two women standing not far from the door, but just skillfully changed the tray in their hands and the row of coffee at the door.

Move the already cold coffee into the house and pour it out.

It is not good to let guests drink cold coffee that has lost its original taste.
To be continued...