(Un) Fortunately the Yandere is Not After Me

Played With Fire

Trying to support more than one person in the love game was tiring. As if one person wasn't hard enough, nor did it make it any easier with one of the targets being in love with the other.

The school's upcoming festival made things more complicated for him as well. Unlike last year, Arata was taking a much more involved position within it. Though compared to the running around of Misei and Misao, his load was minuscule.

"That should be the last of it." He said, putting down the last box he had to move.

"Awesome." Yogi had also just finished his work. "I'd say that's a job well done." He gave Akaki, who was working with them, a high-five. He held one up for Arata as well.

"Now that we're done, what should we do now?" His gesture was ignored.

"Maybe we can reward ourselves for our hard work?" Akaki offered that they find a place to eat, or maybe shop for some things.

"We should ask Erina and Shinshiro what they think then." Yuriko was stuck helping out at her sister's school for their own festival, while Misei and Misao had plenty of duties to take care of at the school. Arata was going to take advantage of that.

That's was exactly what they did, which was good timing, since the two had just finished their jobs. They were taking care of costumes for the upcoming play, so shopping for fabric ended up being the plan. Though it was also a good excuse for shopping for clothes from the girls' perspective as well.

They went into the nearby shopping mall, filled with many of the stores that held the items they needed. Fabrics, tools, and other supplies were easy. Thankfully these were covered by the school's budget. What wasn't was the sale that one of the clothing stores had on dresses.

"Are you sure we should be spending time in here?" Yogi asked. "We should have everything for the school now."

"Come on..." Erina tried to convince him. "A sale like this is too good to pass up. Plus, I bet I'll find something cute that you'll like." She said seductively. Something that was lost on him.

"I guess if that's what you want..."

"Fine, but can you least carry your own clothes?" Arata complained, since he was stuck with carrying the bags of supplies for the event.

"I can carry it if you want." Yogi offered.

"You can carry her stuff if she buys anything." Arata declined, knowing that Erina would like that. Even if a gesture like that was meaningless in this competition. "And Akaki's got Akiba's things, fair?" He received no protest, even if Akaki was silently doing so.

Looking at this sale, he couldn't deny that the deals seemed pretty good. If he was girl, then he'd be more tempted to buying something. Scanning the shelves while sitting on a bench, there wasn't much else he could to do pass the time.

"What do you think of this?" Erina showed him a red dress she was interested in. Imaging her wearing it, he was reminded of an anime character wearing it during her birthday. Seeing something like that in real life would be pretty wonderful to him. "Um, what are you doing?"

"Huh? Oh sorry, I was just reminded of something."

"You were comparing me to some anime character again, weren't you?" She accused him.

"So what if I was? Anyway, I think it'll look great on you."

"I swear, I'm not gonna get this, just so you can fulfill some dirty fan-"

"You look cute regardless of what you're wearing." He cut her off, then regretted his choice of words in his rush to stop her.

"Th-then... F-fine." She stammered. "I'll get it then." She quickly turned from him, and headed for the changing rooms. He sighed, wishing he was a little less honest about his sentence. Looking over at the others, seemed that Akiba found her own dress that she liked.