Chapter 36

* * *By the time they came back to school, it was already 5pm. Miso didn’t choose to go all the way back to the school. She parked at the tonkatsu restaurant near school instead.“Mister, can you fry up like 13 servings of food for us? Make it good.”“Alright.”She sat down on a table. 13 servings… Maru looked at Miso curiously.“Have some. I know you’re hungry.”“I’m fi...”“Fine my ass! Shut it! Just eat! Do you really want to see me try to force feed you?”Miso didn’t seem to want to let this one pass. Maru just decided to sit down lest he incurred her fury once more. He could hear the tonkatsu fry up in the kitchen. He thought back to their earlier conversation for a second.“Come to think of it, I never heard your answer.”“Ah, that.”She wore an exhausted expression, appearing to lack the necessary energy to respond.“Hey,” she called out.“Yes?”“Say you saw a piece of coal on the road. A really, really dark piece too. But you see something sparkling inside it as well. What would you do?”“I’d try to wipe it to see what the thing was inside.”“Right? You’d do that too, right?”“...So you’re saying I’m that coal?”“No.”“Then?”“Poop! You’re poop!”“What?”“I don’t even know anymore. Just do what you want. I don’t care. Flipping hell.”“.......”“What? Why are you looking at me like that?”“I was just wondering if you were mad.”“W-what?”