When I returned to my apartment after work, the neighbor opened the door a little.

The woman, who was a beauty in glasses, walked over with a goddess-like smile on her face when she saw me.

“Welcome home, Sasamiya-san.”

Kaedezaka was smiling happily.

She was Yuika’s senpai, a university student working as a V-tuber.

“I’m home. So… how was your day?”

When I asked this, Kaedezaka put her hands behind her back and asked in a cheeky manner.

“Men like meat and potato stew, don’t they?”

“There is no such legend.”

“Do you want to eat, Sasamiya-san?”

“Will you make it?”

“I want you to make it for me.”

Maybe the only way a man would enjoy meat and potato stew was if he had a woman make it for him. ….

In short, she was hungry.

No wonder.

She had learned to use a knife, but she still couldn’t cook properly.

But if I abandoned her at this point, she might really go down the drain.

It can’t be helped.

I’ll cook dinner for her again.

“Then come into my room. Did you buy the ingredients?”

“Yes, of course.”

Then she smiled, elegantly hiding her lips.

“Ufufufu~, We are like lovers, eating dinner together like this.”

“I’d rather you cook it for me.”

I went into my room and headed straight for the kitchen.

Although meat and potato stew was often thought of as a time-consuming dish, there were a number of products on the market recently that shortened the time required.

So even I was able to finish it quickly.

The finished stew was carried to the dining room, and we joined together our hands saying, “Itadakimasu” and started to eat.

“Ara, it’s delicious. Sasamiya-san, you’ve gotten better at cooking, haven’t you?”

“I appreciate your compliments. I guess it’s because I’ve cooked so many times for you.”

“Then it’s all thanks to me.”

“You say that a lot.”

It was not every day, but there were times when Kaedezaka and I had dinner together like this.

When Kaedezaka was hungry, I would always be the one to cook for her.

“You….What do you do for breakfast?”

“I mix yogurt with granola and eat it.”

“I guess you didn’t give up on eating.”

“I am ashamed to ask you to make me breakfast as expected. Ufufu.”

“If you feel that way, make your own.”

And, well, it always went like this.

After finishing the meal, while cleaning up the dishes, I decided to talk about Yuika while chatting with her.

“I was talking to Yuika today, and she said she’s entering an illustration contest for Halloween.”

Kaedezaka then mumbled, “Hmm …,” with an unusually serious expression on her face.

“…Yuika-san, you’ve really changed.”

“What do you mean?”

“Yuika-san didn’t want to share her finished work with others until recently. I was surprised when she drew an illustration for use in a video streaming at the end of June.”

That was a surprise.

Whenever we were together, she always showed me her illustrations, but she didn’t do so in the first place, it looks like.

Kaedezaka looked at me and smiled somewhat sadly.

“It must have been thanks to you, Sasamiya-san.”

“I… I didn’t do anything…”

“You have an impact on so many people.”

Kaedezaka, having said that much, stared at me.

“I am also influenced by you”

Her eyes looked very profound.

Kaedzaka once made a gentle confession to me, saying, ‘It doesn’t have to be right now, so please go out with me when you’re ready.’

If it had been a normal confession, I would have turned it down on the spot, but with such passivity, it was hard to respond.

Incidentally, what followed was always the same.

“Huh? Is it possible that I’m being seduced by you?”

“Huh? What are you talking about? It’s a situation where Sasamiya-san can’t control his feelings for me.”

“Why are you trying to mount up in a situation like this?”

“You’re the one who’s not afraid to say dumb things, the really unfortunate type.”

There was no mood at all.

There was a time when we were embarrassed with each other, but now we often have petty quarrels like this, which could not even be called fights.

She must have forgotten that I was six years older than her.

“But if Yuika-san is going to participate in the contest, I would like to support her. I have to prepare some kind of surprise for her.”

“As usual, you really love Yuika.”

“She is an angel who descended to earth.”

“Isn’t that too much?”

The illustration contest in which Yuika was going to participate will close at the end of September, and the results will be announced at the end of October.

I don’t know what the outcome will be, but I’d like to support Yuika too.

(T/N: I’m sorry, Persona 5 Royal released just got too invested playing that.)