[Yui Yuigahama's Perception]
The host can more easily discern others' thoughts through their words and expressions. This card is one of the Yui Yuigahama card set.
[Yui Yuigahama's Secret Cookies x5]
Cookies with a somewhat subtle taste. Eating them temporarily changes your sense of taste, making even terrible cooking taste delicious. Duration: one hour.
[Upgrade Card]
Using this randomly upgrades one card's level. Single-use card that disappears after consumption.
Honestly, this time's rewards were pretty good. Both the Upgrade Card and Perception were very useful cards. As for the secret cookies, well, aside from Yui Yuigahama, there weren't any dark cuisine characters around her at the moment. Although the effect looked decent, she couldn't use them right now.
After agonizing between Perception and the Upgrade Card, Mio Shirai ultimately chose Perception.
This ability was quite useful. Sometimes she could even detect Mashiro Shiina's micro-expressions. For her current stage, it was extremely useful.
After selecting her reward, time resumed flowing.
"We should head back," Yui Yuigahama said somewhat nervously.
"Mm, that's enough. Thank you."
"It's... it's nothing. It was just holding hands, not a big deal."
Yui Yuigahama tried hard to appear calm, but the faint blush on her face betrayed her inner nervousness. After all, she was a high school student—feeling nervous just from holding someone's hand seemed too embarrassing in her view. Besides, Mio Shirai was also a girl just like her, so what was she even nervous about!
Releasing Mio Shirai's hand, Yui Yuigahama led her back toward the classroom, successfully returning to their seats before the teacher entered.
The second period was math. Although her math grades had been decent during high school before transmigrating, so much time had passed that she'd forgotten most of it. However, after listening to the teacher's explanations, those dormant memories gradually began to resurface.
At this rate, she wouldn't need to worry much about her science grades.
This was what Mio Shirai meant by relying on her old knowledge.
The morning passed quickly. As the bell rang for the last class of the morning, the teacher also perfectly timed the end of the lesson.
Mio Shirai stretched lazily, then began thinking about the lunch problem.
She hadn't cooked at all yesterday and had no habit of bringing a bento, so Mio planned to go to the convenience store and buy something random to get by.
Just then, Yui Yuigahama walked over to her and smiled, saying, "Mio, want to eat lunch together?"
"I didn't bring a bento. I was planning to make a trip to the convenience store."
"I also wanted to buy something to drink. I'll go with you."
"Sure."
Although she was somewhat worried the System would suddenly pop up with some terrible task, she was new here after all and didn't even know clearly where the convenience store was. Having someone come along was quite nice.
Under Yui Yuigahama's guidance, Mio Shirai quickly arrived at the convenience store.
After transmigrating, her appetite had decreased considerably, so she thought buying a melon bread and a bottle of oolong tea would be about enough. However, when preparing to check out, Mio Shirai suddenly thought of Mashiro Shiina, who was also a transfer student.
She wondered if this blonde beautiful girl who had absolutely no ability to take care of herself had solved her lunch problem.
After hesitating, Mio Shirai turned around and bought several baumkuchen cakes. Even if Mashiro Shiina had already eaten, she could eat them as snacks herself.
After buying everything, Mio Shirai had Yui Yuigahama return to the classroom first, while she went to the entrance of Class 1-C where Mashiro Shiina was, then peeked inside.
As a transfer student and white-haired beautiful girl, Mio Shirai's appearance immediately attracted quite a bit of attention from people in the classroom.
After scanning around the classroom, Mio Shirai quickly spotted Mashiro Shiina sitting at her desk. She walked over to Mashiro and said with a smile, "Mashiro, have you eaten lunch yet?"
Hearing Mio Shirai's voice, Mashiro Shiina first glanced at her, then her gaze turned toward the bag in Mio's hand.
This reaction was already quite obvious.
Mio Shirai directly took out the simple lunch she'd prepared for Mashiro Shiina from the bag and said, "Take your time eating. I'm heading back to my classroom now. Don't leave after school this afternoon—I'll come find you."
Mashiro Shiina nodded obediently, then picked up a piece of baumkuchen and held it out to Mio Shirai, saying, "Do you want some? It's very delicious."
"Did you forget? I bought these for you." Mio Shirai was somewhat amused, then shook the bag in her hand, saying, "You eat it yourself. I still have more."
"Oh."
Just as Mio Shirai walked out of Class 1-C and was preparing to return to her own classroom, she realized Chihiro Sengoku had appeared at the classroom entrance at some point, smiling at her.
She'd just remembered she seemed to have forgotten something. After coming over, she discovered Mio Shirai had already helped solve the problem.
She felt she needed to find a way to trick this white-haired beautiful girl into taking care of her cousin.
According to Chihiro Sengoku's observations, Mio Shirai was quite responsible and patient. You could tell from how she'd helped her cousin get up, dress, and wash this morning. Plus, she was a girl, so there was no need to worry about her having any strange thoughts about Mashiro Shiina. She was simply the perfect candidate.
No matter how you looked at it, she was better than Chihiro herself.
Although Mio Shirai didn't know what Chihiro Sengoku was thinking, she had a feeling it wasn't anything good.
So she didn't hesitate to follow her heart's guidance. After greeting Chihiro Sengoku, she quickened her pace back to the classroom.
"Mio, where did you just go?"
"I went to deliver some food to a certain blonde beautiful girl."
"Blonde beautiful girl?" Yui Yuigahama tilted her head, then asked curiously, "Did you just go deliver food to Sawamura-san from Class 1-A?"
"???"
Mio Shirai, who'd been eating her melon bread, suddenly stopped, then looked up at Yui Yuigahama with a somewhat stiff expression and asked, "Yui, who did you just say? Can you tell me the full name?"
"Eriri Spencer Sawamura." After Yui Yuigahama said the full name, she noticed Mio Shirai's expression becoming somewhat subtle. She asked with concern, "What's wrong? Is there something off?"
"No... nothing."
Mio Shirai's mouth twitched. When she'd discovered Utaha Kasumigaoka's pen name before, she'd thought the famous golden-haired losing dog would also appear, but she hadn't expected her to appear at this school.
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