"Then hurry up and give us the food!" Orito Kaori said.
"Sure."
Tsukikawa Shu sat down on a nearby rock and smiled. "But before that, you'll need to pound my back and give me a massage."
Then he pointed at Yui Hama on the other side.
"And while you're at it, give Yui one too. Consider it part of your apology."
"Why should we?!" Orito Kaori finally failed to suppress the anger in her heart. "Why do we have to do that for you? Isn't cooking for you enough?"
"You're doing this on purpose, aren't you?!" Nakamachi Chika snapped angrily.
"I already told you, food is extremely important in this world, isn't it?" Tsukikawa Shu said unhurriedly. "Since it's so important, why do you think cooking a single meal is enough to earn sufficient food?"
"The two of you worked for less than an hour, right? The reward hardly matches the amount of labor."
Tsukikawa Shu smiled. "Besides, I'm counting the massage as part of your apology."
"You didn't think I was supposed to accept your completely insincere apology and just let it go, did you?"
"You're deliberately making things difficult for us!" Orito Kaori was nearly furious enough to cry.
"How did we offend you for you to treat us like this?!" Nakamachi Chika demanded.
"Making things difficult for you? When you were making things difficult for others, did you have even the slightest self-awareness? Or did you think what you did was only natural?"
Tsukikawa Shu sneered. "And as for offending me, you two have done plenty of that. You wasted quite a bit of my time at that mixer."
"Are you really going to hold such a petty grudge?" Orito Kaori said angrily.
"Yeah! You're holding a grudge over something so trivial. We only wasted a little