Referring to Itsuki as a Meat Monster?
"What's wrong? You seem surprised that I have a boyfriend?" Nino noticed Ren's hesitation and inquired about it.
"Um." Ren nodded.
It could be said that he was very surprised by this turn of events.
After all, he didn't even know when he became Nino's boyfriend.
"Actually, you don't need to be so surprised. I just said that on purpose. Naoki and I haven't actually reached the point where we're lovers yet." Nino explained with a guilty conscience.
No wonder.
Ren wondered why he didn't remember this.
Turns out Nino was just casually talking.
"But, my relationship with Naoki is just a little closer to taking the next step..." Nino added like this.
Ren didn't speak, nor did he refute her strange statement.
"Alright, for your help earlier, I'll treat you to a cup of milk tea." Nino looked around and found a milk tea shop, leading him there.
"Okay."
Ren happened to want to ask Nino something, so he didn't refuse and followed her honestly.
Since she wanted to treat himself, Ren didn't follow her to order, but found a seat in the milk tea shop and sat down.
"Here, I don't know what you like, so I ordered you a cup of pearl milk tea, which I like to drink."
Shortly after, Nino came with two cups of pearl milk tea, placing one in front of him, and sitting across from him.
"Thank you."
Ren didn't mind this, so he inserted a straw and drank it.
"By the way, how are the gifts you prepared for them?"
Before he could speak, Nino led and asked him.
"Is the progress going smoothly?"
After considering the progress of his preparations in his mind, Ren answered hesitantly.
There were still many gifts to be prepared, and it wasn't easy to bring them out directly.
Nino's eyes sparkled, and she asked with a gossipy tone, "So, have you already thought about what you're going to give to Ichika and the others?"
"I haven't thought about Miku and Yotsuba yet." Ren honestly replied.
"In other words, you've already thought about the gifts for Ichika and Itsuki?" Nino followed her words.
"Yes."
"What are you going to give them? Can you tell me beforehand?" Nino promised, "I promise, I will never secretly tell them the gifts you're going to give."
"I plan to personally make meat buns for Itsuki and give them to her. Ichika's confidentiality cannot be revealed."
Because Ichika asked him to keep her being an actress secret from her sisters, Ren had to prepare a gift for Ichika, but of course, he couldn't tell Nino about it.
"You want to send meat buns to Itsuki?!"
Nino's eyes widened, and she looked very surprised.
"Yes, is there a problem?" Ren was a little puzzled by her reaction.
"No problem. It's better to say that the gift you chose is perfect." Nino sipped her milk tea to calm her inner emotions, "I can tell you clearly that Itsuki really likes meat buns."
If Itsuki knew that Ren was going to make meat buns for her, Nino couldn't imagine how excited she would be.
Someone she liked making the food she liked, which was perfect for Itsuki.
Even though what Ren did was ordinary, it had nothing to do with Itsuki, the meat-eating monster who ate everything.
Nino had to say that Ren was unexpectedly amazing.
Clearly he asked her what they liked beforehand, although Nino didn't answer, but now wasn't that irrelevant to him at all?
Wait, could this be the main reason why Ren was liked by others?
Thinking about this, Nino began to ponder.
"Nino, how do you know that Itsuki likes meat buns? Didn't you tell me earlier that you didn't know what Ichika and the others liked?" Ren observed the information revealed in his words, and then found the contradiction.
"Ah, this..." After realizing it, Nino didn't know how to explain.
She was surprised by Ren's recent choice, and unconsciously ignored the arrangement that she didn't know what her sister liked.
"It's not important." Nino, who couldn't think of a suitable explanation for a while, forcibly changed the subject, "By the way, I'll tell you some additional information about Itsuki, which is quite interesting. Want to listen?"
"What?" After hearing this, Ren was immediately diverted by her words.
"Itsuki really likes to eat meat buns, so if you want, Kamikawa-san, just call Itsuki the meat bun monster." Nino said with disdain.
"..."
What kind of additional information was this?
It was completely useless!
However, even so, Ren still noted down the information.
"How about that? Interesting, right?" Nino asked with a smile.
"Not really."
Ren didn't see what was interesting about this information.
"In that case, let's change it to something else." Nino thought for a moment and then continued, "Itsuki still can't ride a bike, but she's been hiding it from us all this time, but in fact, we all know that she can't ride a bike."
"By the way, it's better for you to know this yourself. Don't tell Itsuki, or else she'll settle the score with us." Nino added specifically.
"Thank you." Ren thanked her.
This information was still useful and might be used.
"You're welcome. If you want to hear more information about Itsuki, you can ask me." Nino said with a smile.
"Do you actually know your sisters very well?"
After staring at Nino for a moment, Ren asked her.
Based on her previous statement, he finally believed that Nino's statement that she didn't know what her sister liked was a lie.
"How should I put it? I'm quite familiar?" Seeing Ren change the subject again, Nino said shyly.
"Then why didn't you tell me what they like?" Ren didn't quite understand.
"I was actually threatened and had to do this."
After thinking for a moment, Nino answered seriously.
"Who threatened you?" Ren asked with concern.
"Itsuki, she threatened me." Nino lowered her head and said softly, "She said that if I told you what she liked, she would eat up all my dinners and leave nothing for me."
Ren fell silent.
This threat was different from what he imagined.
"It's just a joke, Itsuki couldn't possibly threaten me." Nino quickly returned to her normal tone and said very proudly, "Besides, I'm responsible for cooking at home."