♥Futarigurashi♥Kotarou lives Alone♥

Chapter 14 - Smiling together with you

"Hamburg steak! Hamburg steak! Haburg steak!" Ruri was jumping up and down as Rio cooked the hamburg steak from the multipack.

"For some reason I can't seem to replicate the taste of the multipacks. What is it they put in that makes it taste so good?" Rio tried to make hamburg steak from scratch but after many trial and error of making it from scratch, she and her sister still much prefer the taste of the hamburg steak from the supermarket's multipack. "Maybe the secret is in the sauce?" 

"I don't know~." Ruri heard the door go. "Nee-chan, door!"

Rio always cook with the windows opened. She didn't fear anyone trying to poke their head in because there's steel bars outside. "Old man, is that you?" 

"It's me- and I am not that old! You're cooking?" 

"No, I'm having a shower." 

"You..."

"Need anything? Don't tell me you've done something stupid again." 

"Why is it you always think it's me? We're all eating inside the kid's room. You want to bring some food over?"

"Not enough food?"

"More like he only cooked one dish. and he boiled a lot of rice."

"Ehh~? Fine. I'll come over with some hamburg steak." It was a good thing she bought more than one pack. It should be enough for everyone. "What are you bringing?"

"I'll just bring over some microwave meat dumplings."

"How basic." 

"Be quiet!" 

"Do you want to say good bye to the chance of eating my cooking?" 

"...no." 

"Thought so. Go back to Kotarou's room. I'll be over."

Kotarou's expression didn't change but he was clearly happy with people coming and eating in his room.

"I've got dessert covered~. I've bought ice cream mochi~!" Mizuki bought ice cream mochi over from the convenience shop. "Look, Kotarou-chan, they come with little wooden forks!

"I have grilled fish and beef!" Tamaru brought his dish over. "What's that, Karino? Meat dumplings? How basic." 

"G-get off my backside!" Karino wondered if his meatballs seem cheap?

Ruri ran up the stairs by herself and she's holding a thermos flask. "Ruri brought the world's best miso soup!"

"Ruri-chan is coming over too~!" Tamaru was happy the little girl was coming over. "Now my dearest Kotarou-kyun have a friend from school over~!" 

Kotarou looked a little shy, "It can't be helped. I shall make more of my specialty stir fry."

Rio brought the hamburg steak over. 

"Kotarou, the multipack hamburg steak from the supermarket is the best! You should buy it sometimes! One pack have four big steaks!"

"Four-?!" Kotarou's been buying the ones with only two inside! "What black magic is this-?! The size is the same as the ones in the one pack with two steaks! I have been ripped off...! How frustrating...!" He's very vexed now that he realized he could have got the one with four hamburg steaks in a multipack!

"There, there, Kotarou~." Ruri rubbed Kotarou's back, "If it makes you feel better, Nee-chan was the same too." 

"She was?" 

"Yeah~! She broke down in the supermarket. It was funny! I even tricked her to buy me extra snacks! Ah! Don't tell Nee-chan though!"

"Don't say your misdeeds when I am literally right here!" Rio clearly heard what Ruri just said.