Gabriel was still immersed in immense shock.
She looked Sato up and down several times with her purple eyes, then suddenly raised an eyebrow.
"Could it be that person?!"
"Gab, you know?"
Raphiel looked at Gabriel and asked.
Gabriel rubbed her chin thoughtfully for a moment, then looked at Sato.
"The girl with the long brown hair?"
"Mm!"
Sato nodded lightly in confirmation.
Gabriel said incredulously, "Didn't you say she was your fellow villager and childhood friend? How did she become your girlfriend?!"
Before the previous semester had ended, Fujimiya Konomi had stayed at Sato's place while preparing for her exams, so naturally she and Gabriel had met each other quite a few times.
"How does that conflict with being my girlfriend?"
"That... is true!"
As she spoke, Gabriel's gaze suddenly shifted behind Sato. She calmly picked up her chopsticks, and just as the final syllable of her sentence fell, the chopsticks in her hand suddenly shot forward, passing over Sato and precisely grabbing a piece of meat from the grill in front of him.
Her movement was so fast that even Sato did not react in time.
Gabriel smugly pulled her chopsticks back and tossed the meat into her mouth, a satisfied smile appearing on her face.
"Gab!"
Vignette frowned beside her and began scolding Gabriel, but Gabriel merely looked completely uninterested, munching away at Sato's barbecue.
Sato was speechless.
Just where did this girl look anything like an angel anymore?
"Brown hair?"
Kosaka Akane smiled at Gabriel, then looked at Sato with a hint of surprise.
"I thought it would be Eriri or Utaha."
"Why did Kosaka-sensei think it would be them?"
Sato was silent for a moment before looking up at Kosaka Akane.
"Why couldn't it be them?"
Kosaka Akane smiled first, then said, "Not to mention that both of those teachers are beautiful girls. There isn't a guy alive who wouldn't like them!"
"Besides, Miyabi-sensei is Kasumigaoka Utaha's mentor and Kashiwagi Eri's partner."
"I heard that Kasumigaoka Utaha really admires you, Sensei. You couldn't possibly remain unmoved in the face of such a beautiful girl, could you?"
"She's the standard black-haired, long, straight-haired beauty (Yamato Nadeshiko), you know! A pretty face and an impressive figure, both are incredibly attractive. If I were a guy, I'd be absolutely crazy about her!"
"On top of that, in the author's comments on the opening pages of the works you collaborated on with Kashiwagi Eri, she clearly shows how dependent she is on you. It's very easy to see."
"And Kashiwagi Eri is also a beautiful girl. Blonde twin tails, blue eyes, a petite figure, and I've heard she's a little tsundere too. I really want to hug her!"
Kosaka Akane seemed to be getting a little excited.
Hm?
Sato looked at Kosaka Akane's expression and opened his mouth, then remembered what she had just said.
He really had not known about the author's comments on the opening pages.
He had never bought any of the works he had collaborated on with Eriri. After all, Asahigaoka was just a rural place, and there were no stores selling doujinshi there. If he wanted to buy such things, he had to go into the city.
And even in the city, there was no guarantee he could find them.
He could order them through the dagashi shop in the village and have Kagayama Kaede bring them back when she went to restock, but doing something like that would basically amount to social suicide!
Besides, he had already seen Eriri's original manuscripts, so he did not particularly care about the published doujinshi.
Therefore, he had no idea what Eriri had written in the author's comments on the opening pages.
Kosaka Akane looked at Sato, then the corners of her mouth curled up slightly. She gently blinked at him.
"Could it be that Miyabi-sensei didn't know about this?"
Sato shrugged, then picked up a piece of meat and placed it into the dipping dish in front of him.
The sizzling, oily barbecue combined with the fiery chili powder was absolutely explosive when put into the mouth.
Vignette shrank her neck slightly as she watched from the side, then cautiously asked Sato, "Nohara-kun, don't you think it's spicy?"
"It's fine. It's still within the range I can handle."
Sato enjoyed the sensation spreading across his tongue. They said that spicy was a sensation of pain rather than a taste, and this stimulating feeling really was addictive.
After eating a piece of meat, he picked up the chopsticks specifically meant for handling raw meat, placed more meat from the plate onto the grill, then turned to Vignette.
"Vignette, can you not eat spicy food?"
"Mm."
Vignette nodded.
Sato said that it was a pity, although what he really wanted to know was why a demon could not eat spicy food.
After all, according to the usual image people had of demons, they were not supposed to have any dietary restrictions. They even ate humans.
He looked at Vignette and immediately discarded that line of thought.
Demons were all angels anyway. How could they possibly be like the demons of popular imagination? The demons in legends were even supposed to have a pair of horns!
"Vignette."
"Mm?"
"Do you have horns?"
Sato gestured toward where a pair of goat horns would normally grow.
Vignette stared blankly at Sato for a moment, then glanced at Kosaka Akane before quietly saying, "I do."
She actually has them?
Sato was somewhat surprised. Vignette did not look even remotely like a demon.
"Then are you a succubus?"
"I... I'm not a succubus! I'm just an ordinary goat-horned demon!"
Vignette's face reddened slightly as she glared at Sato, then added quietly,
"Satania is!"
Sato froze on the spot. It took him quite some time to recover, and his voice was filled with disbelief.
"That idiot... I mean, that chuunibyou?"
"Pfft, you were going to say idiot, weren't you?!"
Gabriel burst out laughing beside them, as though she had just heard something incredibly amusing.
Sato gave an embarrassed, dry laugh.
Although he had been trying very hard to restrain himself, after interacting with Satania several times, that girl really did seem rather stupid.
Perhaps... you could lure her home with a melonpan?
Raphiel also covered her mouth and giggled.
Satania really was quite an interesting girl...
Vignette looked helplessly at the laughing group.
Satania, huh... She really was a little stupid. Even Vignette could not argue against that particular point.
Because it had practically become an established fact.
Satania really was an idiot!
Poor Satania herself was completely unaware of this.
As she watched the group of boys and girls laughing themselves silly in front of her, Kosaka Akane sat beside them, feeling curious.
A demon? A succubus?
Since when had Miyabi-sensei become this chuunibyou too?
Before long, Gabriel and the others' barbecue arrived, and both sides ended their conversation and began enjoying the food in front of them.