The Fourth Period Is Modern Chinese (Continued)

"Please──come──in! Welcome to the Service Club!"

DB Special: Third Year Arc, New 4 Illustration

DB Special: Third Year Arc, New 5 Interlude: And so, Komachi Hikigaya spoke again.

Online translation reposted from Baidu Tieba

Image source: Aoba

Translation: Nuclear Void Nuclear Dispersion

Proofreading: Locking Shared Bicycles

Ah, hello, hello!

Thanks for coming! Sorry to make you come all this way. Ah, well, Komachi was the one who got called out, so I don't really feel that sorry! Ah, what should we order? Coffee, obviously, right? Right, right! Okay, then I'll ring the bell.

...Ah, two coffees. Yes──, thank you. Please. Mm, one milk and one sugar each, that's right.

Phew──! Phew──!

Mm-hmm, yes, yes, I was pretty sensitive to hot things. In French, that would be langue de chat.

Translator's note: A traditional French confection, literally translated as "cat's tongue." The Japanese phrase for being sensitive to hot food used earlier was "cat tongue"; its Chinese transliteration is Langue de chat cookie.

Ah──, yes, if you called me a coffee person, that would be true. Ah, no, it wasn't because of my brother. Our parents both drank coffee, so I naturally ended up that way too. It was an efficiency thing, really. Yes, yes, efficiency. If everyone drinks coffee, isn't it a hassle to make a separate drink just for yourself? Well, grinding beans and filtering coffee yourself... doing it once in a while is nice too. Boys really like those kinds of machines, so they definitely want to do it. There are two guys in my house, after all. Mm-hmm.

...It wasn't just boys who liked it? It was romantic?

I see, Komachi didn't dislike it either. It was nice, very atmospheric! It felt like something you'd want to do before starting a fire at a campsite! But at