At the hour of twilight, the setting sun's afterglow shimmered with golden light. During that time when a hundred demons roamed the night, it protected those who were still outside—such as the Doma siblings on their way home...
"Onii-chan, in the end, you still didn't carry all the stuff we bought home yourself? You even had to pay people to do it. What a waste..." Lady Umaru muttered beside Sogo Doma.
"Umaru, I think calling it stocking up would be more appropriate than calling it shopping. After all, that's closer to the truth."
"It wasn't that exaggerated..." Lady Umaru said softly, turning her face away.
"Exaggerated? If the delivery staff hadn't quietly suggested that it would be cheaper to pick things up directly from the manufacturer given how much we bought—then maybe I would've been exaggerating." Sogo Doma said with dark lines across his face.
"Heh, hehe..." Lady Umaru could only respond with an awkward laugh. "Um, Onii-chan, maybe the staff only said that to close the deal? Their goal was probably to make customers think the delivery fee was worth it. Yes, that must be it..."
"So that was it..." Sogo Doma nodded as if he agreed, then continued, "If they hadn't needed two delivery trucks just to barely fit everything we bought today—no, everything we stocked up on today—then that explanation might not have been wrong."
"Th-that's because the plushies and prizes took up a lot of space, ha, hahaha..." Umaru Doma's awkward laughter simply would not stop.
"If you knew they took up space, then don't grab so many! If there's no more room in the plush storage room, then I'll have to..." Sogo Doma threatened, "throw them out."
"It's fine, it's fine. Umaru's dollhouse still has plenty of room. If it really runs out of space,