A torrential downpour had finally come the previous night, washing away every trace of the early summer heat and giving all of Bunta City a thorough rinse. The entire city felt exceptionally fresh.
Yet once dawn broke and the sun rose above the horizon, the temperature climbed rapidly again, enveloping the city and its surroundings in the heat expected of summer.
Early that morning, Xu Yi picked Stille up from her home. After having breakfast together, they wandered around Bunta City.
Even though all sorts of miscellaneous matters had kept him busy lately, Xu Yi still regularly set aside a day or half a day to spend with Stille.
After all, dating only meant something if the two people spent more time alone together.
Shopping with Stille was actually rather boring for Xu Yi, however. As an engineering graduate, he simply could not understand why she could spend nearly a whole hour in a single clothing shop, refusing to stop until she had tried on almost everything in it, only to buy one or two pieces at most.
In Xu Yi's view, clothes were merely there to cover the body and keep out the cold. What they looked like made no difference at all.
It was summer now. Had he been on Earth, unless the occasion demanded otherwise, Xu Yi would probably have thrown on whatever T-shirt and shorts came to hand without giving anything else a thought.
Of course, some of his female colleagues on Earth had already sternly criticized that attitude. So now, when he accompanied Stille shopping, however reluctant he felt, he still chose to keep his mouth obediently shut and let her drag him around to try things on.
It was worth noting that while the Sains Continent's technological standards might lag far behind Earth's, its