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Dear dream Hiuri-san. For some reason, I'm walking down the street with you in real life right now.

“Hmm, next is... beach balls? Do they have ten of them?”

Hiuri is unusually stoic, so the shopping is going smoothly. If this was Tadashi, we would have already made a side trip several times, but Hiuri buys what we need to buy without looking away.
On the other hand, I’m carrying the luggage. As an indoor person, I don’t have much strength, but as expected, it seems like I have more arm strength than Hiuri.

Just now, I tried sending a message to Tadashi to complain, but it wasn't marked as read. I think he's probably aware of my message itself, but he's deliberately ignoring it.

“...Nakano-kun, if it’s too heavy, please tell me, okay?”
“Aah, yeah. It’s ok.”

When I was silent, Hiuri suddenly turned around and said that.
Hiuri is only carrying light things. While I’m carrying heavy things like water and a large amount of swim rings. I don't know how many people will participate in the beach project, but I doubt that we will need this much.

“Isn’t a swim ring something everyone should prepare on their own?”
“That's true. But it's written here and he gave us the money, so we have to buy it.”

Damn you Tadashi. Prepare yourself when I get back.

Even after that, the shopping went on without any notable incident. If this was a light novel, there would be at least one pick-up event happening at this time, but maybe because everyone can easily see that I'm carrying luggage near Hiuri, no one like that tried to talk to us.

Or maybe pick-ups don’t happen much nowadays?
This place is a city about a ten-minute train ride from my house, but it's not really that big a city. I wonder if they would even pick up girls in a real big city.

“Nakano-kun, the shopping is done for now... Are you really okay?”
“I, I’m okay.”

That's a lie, my arms are already numb.

Maybe it’s because I look pale, but Hiuri suggests we take a break.

“Fuu...”
“Good work, Nakano-kun.”

We entered a certain cafe. It's just me and Hiuri, but we're sitting in a seat meant for four people. The remaining two seats are used to place our luggage.

When you look at it like this, it's quite a spectacle. Well done making it this far, me.

“I already placed an order. Are you ok with cafe au lait?”
“Yeah. I like cafe au lait. You know me well.”
“Yes, well. For some reason, I think Nakano-kun would go with cafe au lait.”

It's probably the influence of the dream.
Once, in the dream, I made a cafe and had a chat with Hiuri. At that time, I said that I usually drink cafe au lait at cafes. I guess she unconsciously remembered that.

That’s something dream Hiuri did, so I can't say much about that, but it must be frightening for your actions to be decided by your unconscious mind.
Real life Hiuri probably can’t even mind it, since the one who decided her actions is the person herself, even though it was inside the dream.

“Nakano-kun, we’re going to go back by train just like this, will you be okay?”
“Yes, leave it to me.”

If I take a break, maybe, surely...

“Now that I think about it, I didn't ask, but why is Sakura-san in charge of shopping?”
“I don't know. But, Shindo-kun asked me to go shopping with his chaperon... I didn't think that the chaperon was you.”
“For me, I was contacted without even being told the reason.”

When I ask her for more details, apparently Hiuri was going to attend the meeting. This is probably proof that Hiuri is looking forward to the project in her own way.
However, it seems that other people shrink when they are in front of Hiuri. Perhaps that was why Tadashi let Hiuri leave the meeting without making her feel bad. Even if he’s like that, Tadashi is a man who is considerate of everyone other than me.

“That’s rude isn’t it. It’s not like I’m trying to scare them either.”
“Ahaha...”

I already had that conversation with Hiuri in the dream.

Hiuri is strong-willed. She can even scare a senpai when they openly confess their feelings to her. That became a rumor, and now she's called the Black Thorn Princess... Perhaps because of this, other unrelated people also end up being scared of her.

But, Hiuri is a girl who enjoys being treated like a princess. She doesn't want to scare people. She had consulted me on that point before in the dream. I'm sure at that time...

[You should smile when you talk]

...I feel like I said something like that. At that time, Hiuri wasn't my girlfriend yet, so I was able to say things like that, but I don't think I can say it now. And I don't feel like I can say that in real life either.

“That's tough.”
“I know, right?”

That’s why I can only throw in an agreement.

After taking a break and chatting at the cafe for a while, we go to the station and board the train. Even though we took a break, my arm felt numb again when we boarded the train, but I'll make up for it by slapping Tadashi later.

“Oh, thank you!”

Once we return to the library, I give the luggage to several people, including Tadashi. If we have that number of people go shopping, my arms won’t go numb, won't they?
For now, I slap Tadashi, and then Hiuri and I are ordered to disband.

“Is your arm okay?”
“Yeah, well it's a vacation anyway.”

Since it's summer vacation, I can take as many breaks as I want. It probably won't have that much of an impact on the assignments anyway.

“Then let's meet again at the beach.”
“Yeah. See you later.”

And so, I part ways with Hiuri.
Hmm, even though we went out together, there weren't any event-like events...

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(T/N: I thought removing the space would make things tidy, but it might be hard to read when there are multiple long lines in a single paragraph, should I bring back the space?)

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