""Onii-chan, do you know what 'out of print' means?" Umaru Doma said as she stuffed potato chips into her mouth. "It means this bag of chips might be the only one left on the entire planet..."*
"Of course I know what out of print means, but it's been half a year—"
"Relax, relax..." Umaru Doma waved a hand as she crammed in more chips. "The best-before date—"
"How could that be?" As half a chef himself, Sogo Doma instinctively said, "After all this time, the best-before date still hasn't passed—"
But before he could finish, Umaru Doma said, "What I mean is, the best-before date did pass, but the expiration date... well, the expiration date only passed yesterday..."
"Umaru!"
"It's only been one day..." Seeing that Onii-chan looked like he was about to get angry, Umaru Doma hurriedly said, "Besides, this is out of print! Out of print! There's only one bag like it on the whole planet..."
"My foolish imouto..." Sogo Doma could not help saying, "Have you considered that maybe these chips went out of print because they tasted bad?"
"Huh?" Umaru Doma froze. "That's a thing? No wonder I thought they tasted kind of weird..."
"Then stop eating them if they taste weird!"
"I thought it was because the best-before date had passed..."
"What the hell does that have to do with the best-before date? If you think they taste off—"
"But..."
"Can't you eat the chips we just bought?" Sogo Doma finally understood why Mashiro had become so much like a hamster. With Umaru setting such an example through her own actions...
Crunch, crunch... Yet after hearing him, Umaru Doma tossed several more expired chips into her mouth before saying, "Onii-chan, if there were chips at home, do you think I'd have dug out unsold stock