The Unknowns of Chika

"Long time no see, Ogata-san!"

Seeing Rizu approaching them, Chika greeted her joyfully.

"Good day." Ren quickly replied.

Just after finishing his greeting, he felt a sharp gaze coming from the side.

Looking towards the source of his gaze, he saw, as he expected, that it was Ogata's father staring straight at him from the kitchen.

Every time he came here, he received a strange stare from Ogata's father.

You could say he was used to it.

"It's been a while since we last met."

After replying, Rizu asked, "Are you here to eat udon?"

"No, we're here to play with you!" Chika said with a smile, "Do you have time now? Or do you want to help out in the shop?"

"I have time." Rizu nodded.

Today is not the weekend, and it's not mealtime, so she still has free time.

"I want to browse through your board game collection, may I?" Chika asked hopefully.

Not just to help Ren figure out what board games Rizu owns.

As a board game enthusiast, she's naturally curious about which board games Rizu has that she hasn't played or owned.

"Sure."

Rizu had no intention of refusing.

"The board games are in my room. Come with me."

"Great!"

Chika cheered happily, then pulled Ren to follow her and walked towards her room.

"Hello uncle."

Passing by the kitchen, Ogata's father happened to come out, and Chika greeted him obediently.

Ogata's father replied with a smile, "Good day."

"Hello, uncle." Ren quickly said.

Ogata's father didn't even look at him and walked right past him.

Seeing this scene, Rizu stopped her father and said, "Dad, Kamikawa greeted you."

"Ahaha, sorry, I didn't hear."

After being reminded like this by his daughter, Ogata's father pretended to suddenly brighten up, looked at Ren, and said word by word:

"Good day, Kamikawa-san!"

"Um."

Ren felt his response tone was off, but he didn't pay much attention and followed Rizu to her room.

"By the way, this is my first time in your room, Ogata-san."

Entering the room, Chika casually brought up the topic to lighten the mood.

"You can watch whatever you want. I'll fetch the board games."

After leaving those words, Rizu took out the box of board games she had collected from the closet.

Since he had been here before, Ren had no intention of looking around, so he sat down and waited calmly.

Once Chika got Rizu's permission, he no longer had much doubt and began to examine the room with curiosity.

After a while, he found a gift box on the table: "Ogata-san, what's this? Are you giving a gift to someone?"

"Yes. I want to give a gift to Kamikawa."

First moving a stack of board games to the table, Rizu answered.

"So... Wait a minute, didn't Kamikawa-kun want to give you a gift? Why are you giving it to him instead?"

As Chika was about to broach this topic, she suddenly realized something was amiss.

Rizu tilted her head and repeated, "Kamikawa."

"Wait a minute, didn't Kamikawa-kun want to give you a gift? Why are you giving it to him instead?"

After thinking for a moment, Chika guessed what the actual development might be like.

Could it be that you both are exchanging gifts?

"Um."

"Yes."

Ren and Rizu currently have a good understanding and answered in unison.

Chika was momentarily stunned, and quickly asked, "Where are the others? Are you all exchanging gifts with each other?"

"Yes."

"Kamikawa-kun, why didn't you inform me of such important news from the beginning!"

As Ren said these words, Chika became increasingly dissatisfied.

"What's wrong?"

Ren didn't quite understand why Chika's tone changed.

"Because all this time I thought you were the one giving gifts to Ogata-san and the others, so I've been so nice to you." Chika said angrily.

Previously, she had never heard news from him that someone else would give him gifts in return, so she always thought that Ren was the one who wanted to give gifts to the six girls alone.

But from the current situation, Chika could only say that her feelings had been deceived.

"Sorry, because I didn't think this was important information."

Ren truly felt there was nothing to be said about the fact that they were also going to give him gifts.

Chika emphasized, "This is very important! Because this way I won't sympathize with you. Next time something like this happens, you must inform me of this most basic information first."

"So be it."

Ren wrote it down.

After finishing lecture, Chika brought the topic back to the gift box on the table: "So Kamikawa-kun is here. Ogata-san, are you going to give him the gift?"

She was still waiting for the plot to develop, feeling intrigued to witness it firsthand.

"That gift box is still empty, so I can't give it to Kamikawa." Rizu refused.

"Empty? Are you not ready yet?"

Speaking of this, Chika looked sideways at Ren.

She hadn't prepared the gift yet.

Even though the person involved is here, Rizu said without hiding anything: "Exactly, I haven't decided what I will give Kamikawa as a gift yet."

"That's right."

It turns out she just bought the gift box beforehand.

"You can give me anything as a gift. You don't have to worry too much about it." Ren explained gently.

"No, the gift must be properly prepared."

Rizu's attitude was very firm.

"In fact, Kamikawa-kun hasn't prepared a gift for you yet." Chika said at the right moment, "But our main purpose for coming to you this time is to determine what gift we want to give you."

"Will Kamikawa give me a board game?"

Chika's words reached this point, and coupled with her recent remark about wanting to see her board game collection, Rizu understood her meaning even though she was very bad at guessing riddles.