Although I was seen off by the students and had gone outside of the academy, because I had no way of knowing where the other three were, I went back to the Kitten’s Purr to pick up my luggage.
I thought I’d give Bernadette a word of farewell or something but she wasn’t at the Purr.
「If it’s the missy you’re looking for, she hasn’t come back yet, you know?」
Having been told before I even tried asking the question to Ossan who stuck his head out from the kitchen, I lowered the hand I had raised.
「Want me to tell the missy once she returns?」
……Just why are you so good at being considerate!
It’s already at the point where I can only think that you’re reading my mind you know?
「Then, mind if I have you do that?」
「I won’t accept a message of words of farewell you know?」
「Are you an ESPer or something!?」
「You damned fool. ……I’m just, your Senpai in life is all.」
While laugh with a 「Fu」, Ossan was wiping a cup. He looked so refined that, if the place were different, it was enough that I might have called him Master[1]……!
「You know, it’s because of that part of you that criticizes people right in their face that you aren’t popular.」
「What the heck, is this a sermon?」
「Call it advice, stupid Yuu.」
When I sit at a counter seat, Ossan poured milk into the glass he just wiped and put it in front of me.
「To make a man, moreover me, drink such dense milk, who’d benefit from that.」
「We aren’t a cafeteria for brats. What we give out is only either alcohol, water, or that.」
Saying that, Ossan sat down in the seat next to me.
When I reluctantly tried drinking it, how mysterious, it tasted refreshing.
「This is delicious.」
「It’s milk from the rare animal Fancy Sheep. It’s pretty expensive, you know?」
Isn’t Fancy Sheep that? The sheep that bares its teeth and has coarse pink fur. Seeming to be what women call cute, it’s a monster with enough popularity that you could catch sight of Fancy Sheep merchandise.
It’s a rare animal that is said to be fundamentally harmless, but, when it experiences fear, will scatter out a poisonous nerve gas and run away.
「I’m surprised that something as delicious as this could come from such a strange animal like that.」
「When a strange animal is delicious, the market price goes up as well without fail.」
Because both Ossan and I were people who didn’t think that rare animal was cute, we had a wry smile look.
「You leaving already?」
「……Well, I might’ve stayed here a bit too long after all.」
「Is that so. ……Having seen you after such a long time, it was fun, got it?」
Saying that, Ossan messed up my hair and went back into the kitchen.
「……Damn it, that kind of mess up my mood.」
I stood up after lightly fixing up my disheveled hair and then I left the Kitten’s Purr.