(Un)Fortunately the Yandere is Not After Me

Double... Triple Date

As it would turn out, trying to avoid the two just led to the pairs meeting with each other. Since he wasn't aware of their previous excursion, Arata thought nothing of it. Just a coincidence to him.

"Funny running into you two." He said to them. While they might have appeared calm. On the inside, both Hifumi and Matsu were panicking about this turn of events. "Especially since I didn't think that you were friends." He questioned that hole in the logic here.

"Oh well, I was just browsing." Hifumi came up with an excuse. "Then I just ran into her. That's all." Arata raised an eyebrow to that statement. There seemed to be something off with this girl, but he didn't want to pursue that line of questioning. He was on a date, and that was what mattered at the moment.

Of course, he wasn't planning on being in here at the moment either. But Misei was persistent in telling him that going here wasn't a bad idea. It wasn't like he minded her getting to know the things he liked. There was only one problem with that...

"Say, Arata. What type of stuff do you like to read?" Matsu asked him, breaking him out of the thoughts in his mind.

"Oh um-"

"Your favorite right now is 'Mad Love', correct?" Hifumi answered for him.

"Yeah..." He replied to her. It wasn't exactly high brow stuff, but he found it very entertaining. "How did you know that?"

"Oh, well I've seen you read it before. So I just guessed."

"That sounds interesting." Misei joined the conversation. "It's this one, isn't it?" While they were talking. She was browsing along the manga section, there she spied what they were discussing. A sample one used for promotional reasons.

"Oh that's... Wait." He knew that one. Before he could stop her, Misei opened to the first page. Her eyes widened to the sight it brought her. Just the idea of what she was witnessing made him feel a bit hot under the collar.

"Let me see." Matsu pushed him out of the way to get a glance of it. Which made her feel a bit... tense seeing it. "Arata, I didn't realize that you were into..." Perhaps being into an ecchi series wasn't the best thing to admit. As on the first page here was of a rather scantily clad high school girl with a large chest. Matsu put a hand over her rather undeveloped chest in reaction.

"Ayy..." He really didn't like seeing them watching this. Even if he had told them the truth, it was still uncomfortable showing them anything he actually read.

"You know." Hifumi leaned to him, a sly smile on her face. "I wouldn't judge you for your tastes." She told him. More accurately, she would enjoy the same things as him.

"Anyway." Misei closed the book, not wanting to see anymore that there was to offer. "It's fine if that's what you read."

"You really don't have to be so nice." He responded to her. "I don't mind if you hate the stuff I like." It felt like it would be unfair if he forced her to be nice for his sake.

"Arata." Matsu grabbed him, she needed answers. "Is that the type of girl you like?" Her distance to him made him feel a bit uncomfortable. Both because of seeing her face like this again, along with the fact he's on a date right now.

"Well, she's not even my favorite character." He motioned Misei to give him the book, which she obliged. He opened up to a less risque page, pointing to his girl. "This one is." The three girls, standing besides each other, all looked at her. It was of the character named Kirua Omine, the yandere of the harem in the story.

"Huh, she looks an awful lot like Erina." Misei commented. That prompted him to take a second look at his waifu.

"I never really thought about it, but you're kind of right." Hearing him say that didn't fill two of the girls with a lot of confidence. He explained to him his reasoning. About how her role in the story made him really feel her emotions the most of anyone.