This is the menu. Please take a look.
After handing two menus to Hachiman and Yukino, he took out a pen and notebook and stood quietly to one side.
"What would you like to eat?" Yukino asked while looking at the menu.
"Hmm~ I don't really mind. I'll have whatever Little Snow has."
Yui said it with a cheerful smile.
"Hmm~ As for Komachi, I don't really mind either."
"I want ice cream."
Little Rumi spoke up in a flat tone.
"Do you want the seafood hot pot?" Hachiman asked, looking at the menu with some interest.
"No, I'll have steak instead."
Yukino wasn't particularly fond of seafood. After closing the menu, she discussed the order with Hachiman.
"For the appetizers, Italian crab pasta and haggis in puff pastry. Then seafood hot pot and steak. For dessert, one ice cream, one panna cotta, and three puddings."
After finishing, Yukino glanced at the waiter.
"No alcohol?"
"No."
"How would you like the steak cooked?"
"Medium."
"Very well. Please wait a moment. Your food will be served shortly."
The waiter put away the pen in his hand and headed toward the back.
Soon, the waiter first brought Hachiman and the others some water, indicating that they should wait a little longer before bringing out the appetizers one after another.
"Hmm, this feels pretty good."
Hachiman looked at the food before him.
"Most restaurants nowadays remove the sheep's stomach before serving it. Otherwise, just looking at it would ruin your appetite."
Yukino had no interest whatsoever in the haggis in front of Hachiman.
"But I think it tastes pretty good."
Hachiman stuffed the haggis mixed with mashed potatoes into his mouth and chewed it carefully.
There wasn't the slightest taste of offal. Instead, it felt like chewy meat mixed with spicy seasoning and a hint of sweetness from the broken-down starch. Hachiman nodded in satisfaction.
"As long as you like it."
Yukino ate the noodles mixed with crabmeat, quite pleased with the restaurant.
"This place really is pretty good. There isn't even any cartilage in the crabmeat."
"Hmm~"
Yui, who was only focused on eating beside them, had no idea what the person in front of her was talking about.
"Little Snow always sounds so sophisticated."
Little Rumi unhappily ate the food in front of her and muttered, "Why hasn't the ice cream come yet?"
"Dessert won't be served until the end."
Yukino gently coaxed the little one.
"Tch~"
Little Rumi pursed her lips impatiently.
"Excuse me, may we serve the main courses now?"
The waiter, who had been standing nearby, saw that Hachiman and the others had nearly finished eating and stepped forward to ask.
"Yes."
The waiter cleared away the plates from the table and brought out the main courses.
"Please enjoy."
The waiter smiled politely, then went over to Komachi and refilled the water she had finished drinking.
From the main courses all the way to dessert, Hachiman and the others enjoyed exceptionally attentive service. Whether their water ran out or Komachi found the food too bland and asked for more seasoning, the waiter always appeared at exactly the right moment. He neither annoyed them nor made them wait too long.
Even Yukino, who had been accustomed to being waited on since childhood, was very satisfied with him. Thus, when he was clearing away the last dishes, he found a twenty-pound note tucked beneath Yukino's plate.
"How much did this meal cost?" Hachiman asked Yukino after they left the restaurant.
"Over three hundred, I think. It wasn't too expensive."
"It wasn't. The service alone was worth that much."
"This is what you call not expensive?"
Dango did the math in her head and realized that they had spent nearly an entire Yukichi. She simply couldn't understand these two rich people.
"Do you really care about this little money? Didn't you sign a contract of indenture with Yukino?" Hachiman teased Dango.
"What do you mean, a contract of indenture?" Yui protested.
"Even if it isn't an actual contract of indenture, it's pretty much the same."
The girl who had signed a contract with Yukino guiltily shut her mouth. Her face flushed bright red as she glared at Hachiman in deep indignation.
"Enough. Stop bullying her. She isn't very smart to begin with. It wouldn't be good if you annoyed her into becoming stupid."
Yukino and Hachiman teamed up to tease Yui, nearly making Dango cry.
Walking ahead angrily, Yui decided in her heart that she would keep her distance from these two schemers from now on.
"See? I told you not to bully her, didn't I?" Yukino skillfully shifted the blame.
"Which one of us bullied her?" Hachiman was utterly helpless against Yukino. He couldn't beat her, and he couldn't bear to scold her. Watching her become more and more girlish and childish in the way she acted, he could only bear the injustice in frustration.
"Hikki~ Little Snow~ Come over here and look!"
The energetic Dango turned around and shouted to the others, making passersby turn their heads to look at this foreign youthful beauty.
Although the passersby were all looking at her with smiles, the thin-skinned girl still lowered her head shyly and stared intently at her own reflection.
"What is it?" Hachiman asked, looking at the person who became angry quickly but calmed down even faster.
"Look, this mirror is so much fun~" Yui stared with interest at the distorting mirror in front of her.
"Fun? I don't see what's so fun about it."
Hachiman was completely bewildered.
"Hee hee hee~ Hikki, look at me in there. Don't I look really thin?"
"Heh..." Hachiman had no idea what excited Yui so much, so he responded with an indifferent laugh.
"Alright~ Let's go. No matter how long you look, you won't become that thin."
Staring at Dango, Hachiman teased her.
"Hikki~ You're going to lose me if you keep that up!" Yui said seriously.
"Don't doubt me. I'm serious!"
"Yeah, seriously."
While placating her verbally, Hachiman stepped forward and took Yui's hand. Her chubby little hand didn't struggle at all and obediently remained in the boy's palm.
Hachiman held the hands of the two girls, one on each side, as they walked through the streets of Edinburgh.
Chapter Seventy-Two: Edinburgh Travelogue, Part Five
Hachiman lay sprawled on the bed, gasping heavily, his forehead covered in sweat.
At that moment, he could no longer feel the existence of his hands or feet.
"Big Brother, you're so weak~" Komachi looked at Hachiman with contempt.
Hachiman was too exhausted to speak. He rolled his eyes and ignored Komachi's mockery.
"Hikki looks just like a fish that was accidentally washed ashore and then dried into salted fish alive."
Yui offered a very apt comparison from the side.
"If salted fish looked like this, I'm sure no one would eat it. It's way too disgusting."
Yukino straightened the wrinkles that had appeared in her clothes after exercising with Hachiman just now.
"Could you three stop making these cold remarks from the sidelines? Try walking around all day and then doing squats while carrying someone weighing over ninety pounds!" Hachiman protested indignantly.
"You didn't even do twenty before collapsing."
Yukino mocked him disdainfully.
Little Rumi silently handed Hachiman a cup of water, then obediently sat down beside him.
"Rumi is the best. Those three heartless people over there—I spent the whole afternoon helping carry the bags, and this is how they treat me."
Hachiman looked at the three ungrateful ingrates over there with disdain.
"Since I'm heartless, I won't massage you, then. I was going to massage someone to keep his muscles from getting sore."
Yukino sighed regretfully.
...Hachiman really wanted to slap his own mouth.
Seeing Hachiman's constipated expression, Yukino immediately burst out laughing. She leisurely walked over to him and silently began gently massaging his legs.
"If we weren't climbing a mountain tomorrow, you could suffer on your own."
Yukino's beautiful eyes fixed on Hachiman as she found herself an excuse.
"We're climbing a mountain tomorrow?" Yui asked.
"Ah~ We're going to take a look at Arthur's Seat."
As she massaged Hachiman's calves, Yukino chatted with Yui.
That's called a mountain...? Hachiman thought.
"Arthur's Seat? Is that the King Arthur?" Yui asked curiously.
"You know about him?" Hachiman looked at Yui in surprise. He was astonished that she remembered King Arthur despite not even knowing the legendary figures of her own country.
"I've watched Fate too~ You underestimate me, Hikki~" The girl patted her own Dango with a smug look.
"Forget it. I was expecting too much."
Hachiman knew it now: he absolutely couldn't expect anything from this airheaded girl.
"What? Was I wrong?" Yui asked, looking at Hachiman's dark expression in confusion.
"I think King Arthur is pretty cool too. She's a lot like Little Snow."
"Even if you say that, I still can't understand why you used 'she' to refer to him."
Yukino, who never watched anime, clearly couldn't understand.
"What? Isn't he a girl?"
"You need to apologize to the people of England right now!" Hachiman complained.
"Hmm~ I didn't know. I thought you were talking about the anime..."
Yui stuck out her little tongue, looking somewhat embarrassed.
"Yui~ Don't say that King Arthur is a woman in front of British people. Someone with a bad temper might curse you on the spot."
Hachiman warned her.
"Got it~" Yui waved him off, then quickly tossed the matter to the back of her mind and pulled a deck of cards from her bag.
"Hikki, Little Snow~ Do you want to play cards? Sitting in this car is so boring, and I can't understand anything on TV either."
Yui pouted, completely uninterested in and unable to understand the English channels.
"Sure. What kind of game do you want to play?" Hachiman also felt a little bored, so he immediately became interested.
"Hmm~ Just a regular card game. I don't know how to play anything else."
Yui thought about it and realized that she didn't know many games.
"That works. It's a little early to sleep anyway. It's only a little after seven."
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