First stop: a giant electronics chain store.
"Here, Rin-chan, pick one!" Marin grandly pointed at row after row of smartphones. "Your antique flip phone can retire with honor!"
Rin stared at the glass slab, thin as a sheet of paper, and knotted her brows. "...How do I turn it on?"
Marin and Sakura said together, "Press the button on the side!"
Rin poked the screen—
"Dummy! The button! The one next to it!"
Artoria had already locked onto her target—the crepe stand at the back of the store, wafting an enticing aroma. She swallowed quietly and made her way over with determined steps.
Kaguya stood in front of the latest game console, watching the flashy images in its promotional video. For once, a trace of curiosity appeared on her face. Hayasaka Ai lowered her voice to explain, "Miss, this is a PlayStation. You can connect it to a television and play video games."
"Games?" Kaguya glanced at the oversized LCD television on display beside it.
"Um... something like... a strategy simulation?" Hayasaka Ai struggled to find words the Young Miss would understand. "You control it with a gamepad." She picked one up.
Kaguya took it and weighed it in her hand, looking baffled.
"Pfft—" Marin turned around, saw the scene, and shook with suppressed laughter. She decided to explain "electronic play" to Kaguya-sama later.
After a long while, with Marin and Sakura's combined guidance, Rin finally chose a top-of-the-line flagship phone. (Her reason was that its casing matched the colors of her Jewel Magecraft.) Marin also forced her to take a set of the latest noise-canceling Bluetooth earphones. ("So you won't complain about the noise!")
"All right! The main event!" Marin's eyes lit up as she charged toward a building plastered with posters of anime cosplay outfits. "My battle gear