Chapter 108: The Melancholy of a Certain Hero Girl (2)

「Wow, it’s quite a stylish shop. I think they’re very considerate in how they even have a parasol for the cafe outside.」

「I…I guess so. 」

Lily and I went into one of the cafes on the street.

As it was a recently opened store, it seemed to have a good reputation among the people in the town.

It seemed that Rostam had purposely invited a skilled hero from abroad and entrusted him with the management of the store.

The skill here referred to cooking.

「Hmm, they have a parfait. * Is this something that the hero of this shop came up with? I’m going to order this. What do you want, Lily? 」

「Huh?! Well, I…I’ll have the same thing…」

Lily responded to my question with suspicious behavior.

Anyway, I ordered two parfaits, but what the hell was happening to Lily?

Even though I was thinking that, when I stared at Lily from the front, for some reason I immediately wanted to look away from her.

This was because when I saw Lily in a different mood than usual, my heart started pounding fast in my chest without me realizing it.

While I was thinking about this, the two parfaits I had ordered earlier were placed on our table.

「Hey, it looks pretty good. 」

During the previous dessert showdown between Fitis and Isu-chan, I thought that the level of desserts in this world was quite high, but the parfait that was placed in front of me now was as good as the ones on Earth. It had a delicious appearance.

I scooped it up with a spoon and checked the taste, but the cream wasn’t sweet enough, and the ice cream tasted too simple. However, I could say that the skill with which they created the parfait into that shape was pretty close to the original, which was impressive.

I already knew how important food culture was in this world, and if they were to independently develop a dessert like this, I was sure the hero who was entrusted with running this shop would have considerable skill. I was sure.

One could even hope that this hero might lead to a new promotion of dessert dishes in the future.

「Lily, this is pretty good. Personally, I think it could be improved by adding a little more topping, but what do you think…」

The moment I looked at Lily to ask what she thought.

「Ah…Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!? 」

For some reason, the parfait glass that had been placed in front of Lily suddenly tipped and rolled across the table, falling to the ground. Its contents were all messed up.

Ah, what was she doing…?

When I looked closely, Lily’s hand holding the spoon was shaking, and I thought that was why she couldn’t grasp the inside and smashed it into the glass, but in any case, Lily couldn’t eat her parfait.

It was a shame to order such delicious food and not be able to eat it.

Thinking so, I scooped up my parfait with a spoon and handed it to Lily.

「Here, you can taste it. 」

「Eh…Whattttttttttt!? 」

When Lily saw the spoon that I held out to her, her face turned bright red, and she let out a strange cry.

Ah, oh no.

If I thought about it, wasn’t this a pretty embarrassing thing to do?

That was what I thought, but it would be embarrassing to take down the spoon I had just handed out.

I couldn’t help it since I had already given it to her, so I decided to freeze and look away until Lily took it into her mouth.

Eventually, as if realizing my intention, I noticed that Lily remained silent and put the offered parfait into her mouth.

I let Lily feel relieved and at the same time asked her what she thought about the taste.

「…I just don’t understand it…」

It seemed so.

Yeah, it looked like she didn’t enjoy it that much, so that was okay.

Thinking so, I put my parfait into her mouth again with a spoon, but at that moment, Lily turned bright red again and looked flustered.

What on earth was that?

Lily, what happened to you?

I didn’t understand.

I had no idea what was going on, but I did know that for some reason the atmosphere here was incredibly annoying.

It was like a junior high school boy watching a shoujo** anime with his family.

I didn’t really understand, but I continued eating the parfait, feeling an indescribable itch, and handed Lily the menu again, asking her to order another dessert.

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*A parfait isa sweet dessert made of layered ingredients in a tall glass.

**Shoujo anime tend to target younger female audiences and often have stereotypical romantic stories.