The Fourth Period Is Modern Chinese (Continued)

"What kind of food do they sell at the sports complex?"

"Braised pork intestines are famous! You absolutely have to eat those! I love them too!"

When the secretary girl asked, the Vice President eagerly answered. But the secretary girl's expression stiffened the instant she heard that answer.

"Ah... braised intestines... Huh... that's a little unexpected..."

"Right? But that's what suits the atmosphere of a sports complex. When the wind's strong, it just feels like, 'Yep, this is it!'"

The Vice President seemed to get more and more into it, continuing at a faster pace. But the secretary girl only gave a brief response and seemed uninterested. The moment she heard about intestines, she had clearly lost all enthusiasm and stopped reacting much.

So she didn't like things like large or small intestines... About thirty percent of girls couldn't eat intestines, in my experience. I could eat them just fine, but... it looked like the secretary girl belonged to that thirty percent.

As I thought that, even the Vice President seemed to realize something was off. He kept sneaking glances at the secretary girl with a confused expression that said, "Hm... huh?" But she gave him no response whatsoever. I-It had appeared! The girlfriend riddle~!

If you couldn't answer the first question, "Q: ...," then the second question would be, "Q: Do you know why I'm mad?" If you didn't say anything for the first question, how was anyone supposed to answer? That was what I thought, but wanting the other person to understand correctly anyway—that was the heart of a maiden. Mm-hmm.

The Vice President still couldn't answer. Tap, tap, tap, tap, tap... The thinking time passed second by second.

Then, in place of the buzzer that would sound for a wrong answer, the secretary girl softly sighed.

Too