Shopping

The entrance ceremony was the same as every school. Boring principal giving boring speech about their greatness. And chairman Sakayanagi was also spouting some nonsense about us being elites or something.

After the ceremony, we headed straight to the dorms. Surprisingly, boys and girls were not separated by dorms. Just boys were on the lower floors while girls were on the upper floors. There was also restriction on boys entering girl's room after curfew, but the opposite was allowed. Sex was not allowed, but who will know what happens inside the room? And that insane sensei, saying things like protection...

We got our room keys and decided to meet up after freshening up. My room number is 241 while hers is 712.

While flipping through the manual, I saw the time and day for the garbage disposal and a warning to not make too much noise. It also said not to waste water and electricity as much as possible.

"They don't actually have limits on gas and electricity usage, huh… "

I thought that they would subtract from our points automatically.

The room is about 8 tatami mats big. This is my house starting today. It has a kitchen with basic utensils, fridge, LPG gas, a cheap desktop, which will not be able to run GTA5 and high end games like Genshin Impact, an almirah with 2 bedsheets in it, a bed which is large enough for two people to sleep while cuddling, etc. etc.

After freshening up, I arrived at the entrance of the dorms to wait for her. There, I caught glimpse of Horikita, Ayanokoji, Sudo and some others. I just gestured a greeting by nodding my head. Some people were surprised by my silver hair. I wonder why? People do have colourful hair like blue, pink, red, etc. in this world. But silver is still rare huh?

"Did you wait for me long?"

I turned around to see Ai. We were still wearing uniforms, but she looks absolutely lovely in anything.

"Nope."

I then whispered into her ear, "I saw Horikita, Ayanokoji and Sudo."

She hummed and asked, "How did she look?"

Did I tell you guys that girlfriends love asking difficult questions? If I said she was beautiful, she will get mad. If I say she was ugly, she will think I secretly think her as beautiful and will get double angry. And if I don't comment on her looks when asked, she will think I am attracted to her. So the best thing to say is...

"Cheap copy of Yukinoshita."

Somehow, she looked offended by my comment.

"Don't insult Yukinon. She doesn't go around stabbing people with compass."

"You are right. I am sorry."

See! Like this, you can avoid a dangerous situation. Ai's attention diverted successfully.

"You just thought about diverting my attention, didn't you?"

"H-how did you know?"

"Woman's intuition."

"Damn! I need something like man's intuition. The world is really not equal."

"Don't dodge the question. You found her beautiful, didn't you?"

"Man, what should I say? If I said she was beautiful, you will get mad. If I say she was ugly, you will think I secretly think her as beautiful and will get double angry. And if I don't comment on her looks, you will think I am attracted to her. Just what should I say?"

She smiled and said, "Just tell me honestly. You know that I am not unreasonable like getting mad at you for telling the truth, don't you?"

"Well, she looks beautiful. But nowhere near as beautiful as you."

She smiled and hugged me feeling happy. But what is this danger I am feeling? Nah. Maybe it is nothing.

"Let's go to shopping!" She exclaimed excitedly.

"Yay." I tried to sound enthusiastic, but it came out like a monotone. She just ignored that and we went for shopping.

We arrived at Keiyaki Mall.

"Let's get some clothes first."

"Okay."

So we went to a clothing store. It was filled with girls, obviously. But I could see a single guy amongst them surrounded with many girls. Hmm, oh he is Hirata. I could make out Karuizawa amongst the girls with him. I have great respect towards him, able to handle so many girls at the same time.

As if noticing my gaze, he waved at me like we are childhood friends. But I am sure I saw him for the first time in my life. Seeing him wave in my direction, the girls noticed my and were coming to my side.

"Ai, be my shield."

"Sure."

We started doing something lewd in the middle of the store. It was so lewd that the approaching girls stopped in their tracks and stared at us wide eyed. We h*ld h*nds!

I gave a delightful grin to Hirata, gave him a tata, and we went to the other side of the store. I don't want any girl other than Ai bothering me.

As we went to the other side, we found someone familiar.

"Matsuhashita-san, how have you been?"

Ai went and hugged her. For some reason, she is close with our neighbour. But I keep my distance from her as I find her weird for some reason. One of my friend in the middle school said that she was stalking him for about a month. Well, he is an idol so he has a sixth-sense regarding that cases. Tough life.

"I am fine. How have you been Hoshino-san?"

"Good."

She was with four other girls who were watching us curiously.

"Oh! let me introduce you to my new friends. This is Shinohara-chan, Nene-chan, Sato-chan and Kushida-chan."

"I see. Hello guys, I am Hoshino Haruto and this is my girlfriend, Ayasaka Ai. We and Matsuhashita-san went to the same middle school, though we were in different classes."

I carefully didn't tell them that we are neighbours since Matsuhashita seems like she doesn't want anyone to know that she is rich. And I don't want to give anything to Kushida. I couldn't recognise her because she has such a mob face. She must have worked plenty hard to become so popular with that average face. I am just speaking objectively, not insulting or anything. Totally.

"Wow! So lucky. Say Hoshino-san, are you perhaps a Korean?"

I blinked in surprise about Kushida's observation. Afterall, there is not much difference in the faces of Japanese and Korean, at least I think so.

"My mom is Korean. I am surprised that you could tell."

"Hehe. Korean and Japanese do look different."

...

I think I am the one who is not good at recognising faces.

Like a chad, I grabbed Ai's arm and gave them an apologetic smile.

"Sorry Matsushita-san and Co., but we are on a shopping date, so tata!"

"It's okay. You eternal lovebirds enjoy your date."

"Thanks Matsuhashita-san."

Then we went our separate ways to buy some clothes. T-shirts, jeans, hoodies, *cough*underwear*cough*, extra uniforms, dresses, nightwear, etc. etc.

The total bill for both of us came out to be 40,000. But we will not need anymore clothes for at least half a year now.

"Haru~"

"Hmm?"

"Since you called another girl beautiful, you will pay for everything. Won't you~?"

I see. So this was the bad feeling I was having. Then I will be left with only 60K. And next month we will receive about 60-70K. And we both need to collect at least 20M points for safety measure, since you never know what might happen. It is a really big task.

As I was thinking about how to earn points, she started showing me her puppy eyes. I am too used to fall for that.

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"I will pay for both of us."

(. ❛ ᴗ ❛.) Some hours later (. ❛ ᴗ ❛.)

We finally went to our rooms. We ate at a restaurant, got basic supplies, etc. etc., and she didn't pay a single point.

At the end of the day, our points balance was like this.

Mine- 57,541

Ai- 100,000

Let's start mission 'Earn Points' from tomorrow.