"Ah, so that's how it is..."
Anjing Zhen replied with a slight daze, unconsciously glancing ahead.
As soon as his gaze shifted over, he saw the two Horse Girls who had inexplicably turned around just moments ago abruptly spin away. As though they were suddenly experts on the few capsule toy machines in the corner by the street, they began enthusiastically discussing them.
"Ooh! Yoshinobu, look! This capsule toy machine actually has an ultra-rare Three Views commemorative edition!"
"Where, where? Seriously? Let me see... It really does!"
"Want to try our luck? I feel super lucky today—maybe we'll get one on the first try!"
"Mm-hmm! I feel super lucky too! Come on, let's go try!"
Speaking with extreme exaggeration, the two Horse Girls bolted toward the capsule toy machines on the street corner as though escaping a race.
Watching Daitaku Helios and Mejiro Yoshinobu speechlessly, his eyes sweeping over their wildly twitching ears and tails, Anjing Zhen sighed and thought to himself with helpless amusement:
"This is... textbook overcompensation. So the two of them really misunderstood..."
After accidentally seeing the changing room in the store, his mind had gone completely blank, and he had instinctively fled outside.
Once he had tried his best to calm down, he gradually came to his senses and realized that something about this shopping trip had probably been off.
If he was not mistaken, the two Horse Girls ahead, who were clearly far too enthusiastic, were probably not acting that way solely because of their interests.
Rather, they had misunderstood the relationship between him and Kitasan Black as that of a couple.
Or at least, two people who liked each other.
After reaching that conclusion, his first reaction had not been to rush to clear things up, but to feel that this misunderstanding... did not