A world only known by the God of Lost Love

"Hey, hey, hey! Suzuki-san, what's going on!!!"

As a result, when Ren Suzuki returned to his class, a group of people immediately surrounded his seat——

"Someone in the Art Department said that you and Mashiro Shiina are childhood sweethearts and lovers?! Is this really the case?!"

"This one……"

Regarding this sudden question, Ren Suzuki lamented the speed at which gossip news spread in the school. At the same time, he was once again troubled by the misunderstanding caused by Mashiro Shiina.

From the perspective of [Strategy], it is not a bad thing to be able to form a close relationship with Shiina Mashiro as a matter of course, but for Shiina Mashiro, this misunderstanding may greatly affect her mood and state of studying at school.

Although she may not realize how much misunderstanding her remarks caused everyone, as the news continues to spread, even she will eventually learn the true situation.

By then, this child who is neither good at communication nor good at reading air will definitely be troubled by this...

"You guys... let's understand it this way for now."

Sighing slightly in his heart, Suzuki Ren adopted an almost acquiescent attitude towards everyone's inquiries.

"However, please don't publicize it everywhere...after all, this may be quite troublesome for Shiina-san."

"Eh?! It's actually true!"

"Two people transferred here at the same time... It's really reasonable for them to have such a relationship!"

"That's amazing. That's Mashiro Shiina... Even someone like me who doesn't pay attention to the art world has heard of her name..."

"Suzuki-san is such a lucky guy!"

After getting Ren Suzuki's approval, everyone's first reaction was to exclaim at the confirmation of the scandal.

For this group of young people who live in the small courtyard of campus all day long, it is indeed normal that such news full of romance and gossip would cause such a violent reaction.

However, while sighing, they did not forget Suzuki Ren's last request.

only……

"This, actually it doesn't matter whether we publicize it or not."

The boy who took the lead in asking Ren Suzuki said with an embarrassed look on his face:

"It's because this news has spread throughout the school that we know about it...So, even if we keep silent in the future, everyone should know about you and Shiina-san."

"……makes sense."

Suzuki Ren smiled bitterly and nodded.

"In this case, I have no other request."

"Hey, don't worry, Suzuki-san, we won't bother you too much!"

"Yes, we are just a little bit curious! You see, it is the talented painter Shiina Mashiro after all! Of course everyone will be curious about various things about her."

"This topic will definitely only be popular for a short period of time. When the novelty wears off, people will stop talking about it!"

The classmates comforted him in this way.

At this time, Suzuki Ren had no choice but to accept the comfort from everyone, and prayed in his heart that the situation with Mashiro Shiina would be a little easier than here...

........................

"Hey, Shiina-san, can you tell me a little bit about you and Suzuki-san?"

As expected, there are also many gossip lovers around Shiina Mashiro at this time.

For them, who received first-hand information and saw Ren Suzuki leaving the class with Mashiro Shiina, they had almost confirmed the relationship between the two.

As a result, their questions changed directly from the initial "relationship confirmation" to a more in-depth "couple Q&A".

Just like now, they are all very eager to know why this talented painter fell in love with this "childhood sweetheart"——

"Because... there is something both beautiful and contradictory about Lian."

Mashiro Shiina was also unambiguous and decisively expressed her thoughts:

"I yearn for that beauty and want to resolve that conflict, so I got close to him."

"Wow! Okay, what an artistic statement! It just sounds quite romantic!"

"As expected of a talented painter, even falling in love is so full of beauty..."

As a result, through the imagination of these adolescent boys and girls, this answer once again became evidence of the "intimate relationship" between the two.

Therefore, under Shiina Mashiro's further revelations, the relationship between the two finally had no "room for improvement" and became a complete established fact.

At this time, Ren Suzuki, who was far away in another teaching building, suddenly received a prompt that made him extremely confused——

[The progress of the strategy has been changed, the current progress of the strategy is: 45%]

【Please keep up the good work. 】

"???"

It seems that the progress of this [Second Strategy] will not be decided by him from beginning to end.

Chapter 15: Preparation before painting

When Ren Suzuki and Mashiro Shiina returned to Sakurasou after school, the first thing they greeted was Misaki Kamikusa's warm and cunning greeting:

"Ah~ you two are finally back, the famous transfer student couple from Suimei High School~"

"........."

Faced with such a straightforward statement by Misaki Uyegusa, Suzuki Ren's face first flashed a wry smile, and then he immediately turned to look at Shiina Mashiro, wanting to confirm whether she would be unhappy because of this statement.

However, even after hearing such a straightforward and wrong word as "couple", Shiina Mashiro still has a poker face that has not changed forever...

"...?"

On the other side, Mashiro Shiina, who realized that Ren Suzuki was looking at him, also turned his head and looked back, tilting his head slightly, as if he didn't understand why Ren Suzuki suddenly turned his attention to him at this time.

(Does the child not care about this misunderstanding, or does she simply not know what the word "couple" means?)

Because of Shiina Mashiro's extreme lack of common sense in the past, Suzuki Ren was unable to read her thoughts at this time from her attitude. And the expression that was always neither sad nor happy made Suzuki Ren completely stop using her. Probing thoughts.

Before he knew enough about this child, he still couldn't take control of this [Strategy]——

"……We're back."

Ren Suzuki, who didn't know how to respond, had to adopt a default attitude again.

As for Shiina Mashiro, she repeated along with Suzuki Ren:

"came back."

"At least finish the sentence, Shiina-kun..."

"We're back."

"Well, that's right."

"Ah hahaha, you two are really fun when you are together!"

Looking at the duo in front of them who were always glaring at each other, Misaki Kamikusa couldn't help but smile quite cheerfully.

"Okay, you two, come in quickly! I'm going to think of a way to prepare dinner using the leftover ingredients from yesterday's sukiyaki pot! Hmm~ Let me think about it, how about beef roasted with green onions?"

"Ah, regarding this, please let me help with tonight's dinner!"

As soon as he heard about the topic of dinner, Suzuki Ren, who had been thinking about preparing a lunch for Shiina Mashiro, hurriedly said:

"Sister, I already worked very hard at yesterday's welcome party. Please let me share some of the work today!"

"Eh?! Suzuki-kun actually knows how to cook?!"

"Well, after all, I have lived alone for a long time..."

"Oh! In that case, I'll ask you to help me prepare it later!"

Misaki Kamikusa patted Ren Suzuki's shoulder hard.

Then, she took a brisk step and turned towards the house.

But after Misaki Inakusa left, Mashiro Shiina, who was standing next to Ren Suzuki, suddenly said:

"…………lotus."

"kindness?"

"I want to help too."

"Well, Shiina-san probably doesn't know how to cook, right?"

"Well...not at all."

"Knew it."

After all, she is a person who cannot even fold clothes or choose underwear, so it is too unrealistic for her to learn cooking no matter how she thinks about it.

"After all, we have to prepare dinner for everyone in Sakurasou this time, so I might as well forget about helping. If Shiina-san wants to learn, you can watch the operations of me and Ueiko-senpai on the side."

Ren Suzuki said:

"When there are only two of us one day, I will consider asking you to help."

Although Suzuki Ren knew that Shiina Mashiro could not help, he did not reject Shiina Mashiro's proposal, but chose to leave a follow-up agreement.This will not dissuade Shiina Mashiro from wanting to help with housework, but it will also give her a little bit of hope for the future.

This is how Ren Suzuki responds as the "god of lovelorn".

"It's okay if you watch from the side..."

Sure enough, after hearing Suzuki Ren's answer, Shiina Mashiro accepted it very easily——

"Then...can you let me take some photos? I want to use them as material for future comics."

"It's definitely okay to take pictures of me. As for Senior Igusa, I'll help you ask her opinion later."

Suzuki Ren nodded and said:

"You go back to your room and wait for a while. I will call you upstairs when we start preparing dinner."

"As expected... no matter what, it will always be brown."

"Huh? Shiina-san, what did you just say?"

"It's nothing."

Shiina Mashiro shook her head gently, then walked directly into the door and walked towards the stairs silently, leaving Suzuki Ren standing there blankly staring at the slowly leaving figure.

"...Sigh, I don't know when I can figure out what this kid is thinking."

After leaving such a sigh, Suzuki Ren also took steps towards his room.

And in his invisible pocket, the moment his mobile phone connected to Sakurasou's wireless network, the screen quietly lit up again.At the same time, in Room 102 next to him, there was a sound that was extremely difficult to detect...

…………After one hour…………

"Oh? Shiina-san wants to film the two of us cooking as comic material? Of course, no problem!"

Misaki Kameigusa, who was washing vegetables, responded happily after hearing Shiina Mashiro's request.

"Do you need me to change into any special clothes? I can prepare nurse uniforms, gymnastics uniforms, and dead stock water!"

"...Although I don't know what type of manga Shiina-san wants to draw, at least the above three types of clothes should have nothing to do with cooking."

Ren Suzuki replied with a slight frown.

"Nonono, this is why you don't see enough, Suzuki-san."

Faced with Ren Suzuki's "innocence", Misaki Kamikusa gently shook her finger and showed a rather mysterious expression.

"All kinds of characters and scenes can appear in food comics these days! Not to mention the more common welfare clothes just mentioned! Some comics will even make their clothes explode!"

"seriously……"

Because Ren Suzuki really hasn't read too many comics, he is still skeptical about Misaki Kamikusa's statement.

But looking at the serious expression on the other person's face, Suzuki Ren still couldn't deny her rashly...

"Then... I'd better ask Shiina-san."

………5 minutes later…………

"If you're going to Igusa-senpai... you just need to wear a uniform."

Shiina Mashiro's reply made Suzuki Ren feel a little relieved.