Domain Expansion! Infinite Mountain Vegetable

"That would be great. I was planning to invite you into the Class D Chat Group. No problem, right?"

"That's fine. Sorry for the trouble."

Kamigami Haruo then remembered that he had yet to join the class group, so he agreed.

"I'm the one troubling you. Well then, I'll be on my way. Thank you."

After receiving his answer, Hirata Yosuke nodded goodbye with a smile, then walked over to Karuizawa Kei.

Karuizawa Kei naturally hooked her arm around Hirata Yosuke's as they chatted with their friends and left the classroom together.

It looked like they had borrowed some points and were preparing to splurge at the student cafeteria.

At some point, a figure had appeared beside Kamigami Haruo. When he noticed, the corner of his mouth twitched, and he could only face it head-on.

"My dear Horikita, how have you been lately?"

"Thanks to you, I'm doing very well."

A cool voice sounded from beside him.

"Then shouldn't you give me a hug to thank me?"

Kamigami Haruo turned around, instinctively closed his eyes, and opened his arms, waiting for the beauty to throw herself into his embrace.

He waited for a long while, yet no pain came. He opened his eyes in confusion.

The girl who should have been beside him was already standing at the classroom door, her head slightly turned as though she were waiting for him.

Seeing this, Kamigami Haruo was not merely happy that he had escaped punishment. Instead, he became even more apprehensive.

With heavy steps and a stiff smile, he walked toward the girl ahead.

He followed behind Horikita Suzune like an attendant until they reached a place with few people and no cameras, where they stopped.

Kamigami Haruo first set down his bag, then took off his outer uniform. After folding it neatly and placing it atop the bag, he opened his arms and walked up to Horikita Suzune.

Sensing that the atmosphere had grown somewhat suggestive, Horikita Suzune also set down her bag, loosened her uniform slightly, and spread her arms.

After she opened her arms and embraced Kamigami Haruo, she stepped back with her left foot, turned, and achieved the feat of sending someone flying through the air.

Having experienced the sensation of flying, Kamigami Haruo was now rubbing his waist. His lower back, stiff from sitting through class for so long, actually felt a little better?

As expected of Horikita. In the field of massage, I acknowledge you as the strongest.

We should dance together another day.

"How long are you planning to lie there like a hobo?"

"It feels nice. It feels like nature. Can you hear it? The wind is welcoming my arrival."

Kamigami Haruo lay spread-eagled on the ground, enjoying a breeze that could barely be called a spring breeze.

"No, I only hear the voice of a problem child. If you don't get up, I'm leaving. I don't want to stay here and lower my standards."

"If you're embarrassed, just say so. You're really not honest with yourself."

Kamigami Haruo got up and dusted off his backside, then walked beside the girl, carrying his uniform in his arms and his bag in hand.

"By the way, shall we eat at the student cafeteria? I want to see Class D's miserable state."

Rubbing his stomach, which had begun to feel hungry, Kamigami Haruo spoke to the person reading beside him.

"I don't mind."

"Then treat me."

"I don't mind... treating you."

Since Horikita Suzune had already said half of it, she simply finished the sentence. It was only one meal, after all.

One meal—no, this meal would probably cost as much as three meals for someone else.

Thinking that, Horikita Suzune narrowed her eyes at Kamigami Haruo.

"What? Want to go back on your word? If you can't do it, don't agree in the first place. That's not cute at all."

"I think you should try applying for the Guinness World Records for shamelessness."

"Nonsense. Who could resist getting something for free?"

After making arrangements, the two headed to the student cafeteria together.

There were surprisingly many first-year Class D students in the cafeteria, though nearly every one of them had a Mountain Vegetable Set Meal in hand. They were uniformly broke.

It felt like the two of them would look terribly out of place if they did not order mountain vegetables.

Well, they were already terribly out of place to begin with.

So they ordered several slightly more expensive set meals from the vending machine, picked up their meal tickets, and happily trotted to the counter to collect their food.

To avoid attracting extra trouble, Kamigami Haruo and Horikita Suzune deliberately chose a place far from where the Class D students had gathered.

Yet reality often failed to meet expectations. The more one wished to avoid something, the more likely it was to happen.

The moment the two had placed their trays of food on the table, two people emerged from the Class D gathering and headed toward them.

Kamigami Haruo did not even need to think to know what they wanted. Other than mooching a meal or borrowing points, he could not imagine any other reason.

So he hurriedly set down his tray, pulled out a chair, and sat.

Then, with a fork in his left hand and chopsticks in his right, he frantically stuffed food into his mouth.

He even skipped the chewing process and swallowed directly. His throat felt disgustingly awful.

"Yo, you two. We came to have lunch with you."

"..."

Ike Kanji's greeting received no response.

That was because Horikita Suzune was staring at Kamigami Haruo, who was wolfing down food before her, with utter disgust.

Meanwhile, Yamauchi Haruki beside Ike Kanji watched the several dishes being devoured with longing and heartache written all over his face.

"Mmph... what is it?"

With his mouth full of food, Kamigami Haruo could only speak to them indistinctly.

"Don't eat so fast. Look, we even brought food to share with you."

Hearing that, Kamigami Haruo looked at the dishes on their trays, then gave them a complicated look.

"Look, even though it's all vegetables, it's very nutritious. If you keep eating meat, you'll suffer from malnutrition."

"If I wanted a Mountain Vegetable Set Meal, couldn't I just order one myself?"

Kamigami Haruo swallowed the food in his mouth and spoke with a speechless expression.

Yet Yamauchi Haruki and Ike Kanji ignored him, set down their trays, and sat beside Kamigami Haruo.

As for the empty seats beside Horikita Suzune, they did not dare sit there. What had happened that morning was still fresh in their minds.

Seeing that Plan A, the freeloading meal plan, had failed, they exchanged looks and decided to use Plan B.

"Hey, Kamigami, you still have points, right? Could you lend me some?"

Yamauchi Haruki spoke first. He felt that he had the moral high ground now.

He had said that morning that he had no points, yet he was now eating so lavishly.

So Yamauchi Haruki felt deceived and thought he could use this as an excuse to borrow money.

"Yeah. You didn't just say you had no points because you didn't want to lend us any, did you?"

Ike Kanji chimed in from the side, trying to corner him.

"Aren't we friends?"

As he spoke, Yamauchi Haruki draped an arm over Kamigami Haruo's shoulder and took out his phone for him to see.

"Look, if you lend me some points, I'll give you the photos I've been saving."

"See? These are all limited-edition photos of little Kushida. I took them during our date a few days ago."

Kamigami Haruo had initially become interested, but when he saw several large group photos, he speechlessly swallowed the food he had been enjoying and said,

"If I want photos, can't I just ask her to take some with me?"