"So we won the third battle without a fight?"
"Yup, the opponent forfeited due to food poisoning."
We frantically rushed towards the arena for the third battle. After arriving at the scene, what was waiting for us is the unexpected result of the opponent forfeiting. This food poisoning, don't tell me...? I hope they weren't customers who stepped on a landmine here in our shop.
"Then, if you don't mind, can you guys help us to rebuild our business here?"
An apologetic Hideyoshi asks with a gloomy look. This isn't Hideyoshi's fault anyway.
"You're right. In order to gain back some of the lost customers, we must introduce something that can make a lot of impact."
The classroom is still empty. Though we have stopped the source of those negative comments, we can't stop the bad rumours that have spread around. Like Yuuji said, if we don't coming up with something big, the customers aren't going to come back.
"Uuu, then what should we do...?"
Hideyoshi looks around the entire classroom. Though I have looked around the classroom at least once, I can't think of anything special that we can do.
"Yuuji, do you have an idea?"
"Leave it to me. Though it's overly simplistic to use a Chinese teahouse and this kind of thing to attract customers, it should be very effective."
After that, Yuuji pulls out and aquamarine and white cheongsam[2] that has really beautiful embroidery on it. Hideyoshi comments,
"Eh. Though I feel that the skirt is a bit short, this would definitely make a large impact. If you're going to use this for publicity—"
It'll definitely have a large impact if Himeji-san and Hideyoshi are to wear it. Though we're being lazy, it isn't a bad tactic.
"Ah. We'll make—Akihisa wear this."
The impact is too great now.
"Wait...! Please spare me! Wearing a cheongsam after wearing a maid costume, everyone will think that I'm a real homosexual!"
For a happy school life, I certainly hope to have no more bad rumours about me. Even if I'm a normal student, I'm being even more famous for the wrong reasons.
"I'm just joking. This is for Hideyoshi, Himeji and Shimada to wear."
"Ah, that's it? What a relief~"
So it was a joke. Thank goodness.
"Aren't you joking when you're asking me to wear this?"
Hideyoshi sighs as he picks up the cheongsam.
Hideyoshi, what nonsense are you talking about? Even if we're joking about making Minami wear this, we're really saying this from the bottom of our hearts when we're asking you to wear this.
"We're back~! Ah, Aki took off the maid outfit."
"Ah...that's too bad. It was really cute."
"Hazuki wants to see onii-chan wear it one more time."
At this moment, the three girls came back. They continue to say such selfish words without caring about other people's feelings. Is my reputation going to worsen because of that incident...
"Ah ha ha. What a pity, the world isn't so naive to let people see others in cosplay, you know?"
I reveal a wicked smile to them. Since you people have seen me in a maid outfit, let me see you people in cheongsam.
