I really don't want to have a girlfriend.

"I picked out these clothes for you, so stop whining about this little thing and just stand there quietly!"

Kasumigaoka Utaha gave a cold shout, and without looking up, she earnestly helped him tie his tie.

However, she seemed to lack experience, and her technique was somewhat clumsy and immature—although she knew how to strike, she didn't strike very well. Her fingers kept tracing across her chest, and her hesitant and repetitive movements were quite frustrating.

Tenkuji Yu wanted to say something, but seeing her biting her lip and staring intently, as if determined to do this well, he silently swallowed his words, staring blankly at the ceiling light, letting her do as she pleased like a human model.

After about five or six minutes, Kasumigaoka Utaha finally managed to tie a tie knot that was by no means pretty—but at least it wasn't crooked or crooked, and you couldn't see anything wrong with it if you adjusted the angle slightly.

She seemed to want to pull hard and strangle Tenkuji Yu's neck, but she was afraid that the tie she had worked so hard to tie would break, so in the end she could only let go with a little regret and pat his chest.

"Be proud, this is the first time I've tied a tie for a man. I learned the technique online while researching, so it's normal to stumble a bit, don't worry about it."

Yuu Tenkuji snapped out of her reverie, turned around, looked at herself in the mirror, and adjusted her tie: "...It's alright, although the process was a bit torturous, at least the result was good."

"Don't worry, there won't be a next time." Kasumigaoka Utaha rolled her eyes indifferently.

Tenkuji turned around and couldn't help but complain, "But I still don't understand why you insisted on tying my tie. What I could do in three seconds, you dragged on for almost ten minutes..."

"Is it something to be proud of that you're a three-second man?" Kasumigaoka Utaha retorted, twirling her long hair with her fingers, her gaze inexplicably shifting away. "Well, don't get me wrong. I've treated you like a dress-up doll, so I should at least take responsibility to the end... Just like you guys wash your cups carefully after using them, right?"

Yuu Tenkuji automatically ignored the last sentence, admired his handsome appearance in the mirror, and also noticed the young female shop assistant hiding behind the shelf not far away, peeking at him with starry eyes. Then he prepared to go back to the dressing room to change his clothes.

Seeing that he was about to leave, Kasumigaoka Utaha instinctively grabbed his arm: "Where are you going?"

"Change your clothes." Tenkuuji Yu gave her a strange look, and casually tugged at his collar, the poorly tied tie threatening to come undone. "You don't expect me to keep shopping like this, do you? Even if I'm not bothered by the heat, nobody goes on a 'date' in a suit, does anyone?"

"Uh, that's right..." As if she had just realized what she had done, Kasumigaoka Utaha let go of his hand first, and after thinking for a few seconds, she suddenly ran towards the women's clothing area next to her.

"wait for me a while!"

Before Tenkuji Yu could have a chance to question her, her figure quickly disappeared.

Not long after, Kasumigaoka Utaha, dressed in a pure black gauze dress and looking like a princess who dominated the dance floor, walked quickly over, lifting her skirt. Her eye-catching breasts, under the close-fitting fabric, stirred up waves that made people hold their breath.

Behind her was a shop assistant who kept peeking at Yuu Tenkuji, holding her own phone for some reason.

"This is a rare opportunity, let's take a picture to remember it."

After giving a simple and easy explanation, Kasumigaoka Utaha stood next to Tenkuji Yu, signaling to the shop assistant to prepare for a photo, and then casually took his arm.

Just like that, out of the blue, the two of them, like a young couple preparing to attend some important occasion, smiled and took a few photos together in front of the dressing room.

Refusing the shop assistant's request to copy a photo to take home, Kasumigaoka Utaha looked at the photo on her phone screen, nodded with barely satisfied satisfaction, and casually set it as her screensaver.

For no particular reason, it's just because it looks good.

"Is it even worth it?" Yuu Tenkuji's polite smile faded as she frowned and asked, "You can only stay for two days. Even if you take photos, you won't have time to look back and reminisce, will you?"

"How is it meaningless?" Kasumigaoka Utaha waved her phone at him, her tone casual, but her eyes shone with seriousness. "Two days later, I will remember that I took a picture with you here. We were both wearing nice clothes, and although we were both smiling, you seemed more reluctant than me."

"And these past two days, seeing this photo on my phone has reminded me that even in this uncertain other world, I can still stroll around with a certain light novel protagonist with a carefree attitude, just like I am now..."

As she spoke, she turned and strolled toward another changing room.

Her cascading black hair flowed freely behind her, and her cinched-waist gauze skirt swayed and fluttered, her graceful figure reflected in Tenkuji Yu's eyes.

"The little things in life aren't meaningless, at least for me... just the thought of you wearing the clothes I picked out is worth taking a picture to remember, hehehe~"

Kasumigaoka Utaha laughed happily, her soft laughter quickly fading behind the closed door.

"...Really."

After staring at her back for a while, Tenkuji Yu finally looked away and shook his head with a smile.

Not long after he changed his clothes and came out of the store, he found a saleswoman waiting for him outside, holding a rather stylish men's suit.

Trying to hide the longing in her eyes that yearned to exchange contact information with him, the shop assistant lowered her head slightly, handed over the clothes in her hands, and said softly:

"This is what that lady asked you to change into... She's changing into another outfit now. Please wait for her to come and take photos after you're done."

"..."

Yuu Tenkuji stood silently in place, suddenly feeling an urge to go home right now.

This woman is such a hassle...

But thinking about what she had just said, he felt that their relationship had unknowingly grown much closer, and he wasn't the type to disappoint his friends, and he had promised to stay with her to the end...

Finally, with a helpless sigh, he took the clothes and turned back to the dressing room he had come out of just seconds earlier.

Behind me, the shop assistant, taking advantage of the fact that no one was around, asked nervously in a low voice, "Do...do you need any help?"

Sky Temple paused in its steps.

What help?

Should I help you take off your clothes or help you put them on?

This world not only has every human being so lifelike, but there are even perverted women like this... Itoko, what kind of mess have you made!

Muttering a resentful curse under her breath, Tenkuji Yu turned around with a beaming smile and said to the rather pretty shop assistant, dressed in black stockings and a suit skirt, "Is that alright? Then I'll leave it to you!"

"Yes!"

The shop assistant's face flushed, and she couldn't hide her delight at his handsome smile.

Just before she stepped into the dressing room, a suit was shoved into her arms, accompanied by a detached, emotionless voice:

"Please wrap it up for me, thank you."

After saying that, Yuu Tenkuji closed the door without even glancing at the other person's astonished expression.

The gentle look in her eyes when she sighed seemed staged, leaving only a chilling atmosphere around the saleswoman. In the quiet store, she stood alone, holding a stack of still-warm men's suits.

Before she could even lament her desolation, she suddenly froze, her heart pounding, and she looked around furtively like a thief.

"This is a good deal!"

……

About half an hour later, the two of them walked out of the clothing store with several bags in their hands.

"I always felt that the shop assistant was a bit suspicious. I saw her holding your suit and panting heavily as soon as I came out of the fitting room, like a female in heat. If I hadn't shown up in time, the consequences would have been unimaginable!"

Recalling the scene she had witnessed not long ago, Kasumigaoka Utaha criticized it without any restraint, displaying a ruthless attitude that suggested she would arrest and torture the other party on the spot if she caught them in the act.

Yuu Tenkuji didn't seem to care much, and just casually responded twice—after all, he had bought two suits of the same style, and he could just throw the one he had just bought away in the trash can, and he might not even have a chance to use the suits in the next couple of days.

So he quickly put the matter out of his mind and turned to ask Kasumigaoka Utaha:

"Where are we going next? You're not planning to clean up my entire outfit from head to toe, are you?"

“No, I’ve lost interest in using you as a dress-up doll.” She shrugged, slightly raising her delicate and graceful chin, gazing into the distance in contemplation for a long while.

"What's next..."

Chapter 139 What would you like to do during the end of the world?

A proper shopping mall should not only have a variety of clothing boutiques, jewelry brands, and chain restaurants, but also plenty of entertainment options.

The two arrived at the video game arcade on the tenth floor, their expressions quite different.

Tenkuji Yu looked utterly helpless, as if to say, "Here we go again." Kasumigaoka Utaha, on the other hand, excitedly ran off to exchange a bunch of change, roughly estimating it to be over 100,000 yen, which filled a heavy bag.

Then, with a generous wave of his hand, he declared, "Today it's my treat! Play as many claw machines as you like, even if you win the minimum payout!"

Because these large electronic amusement parks thoughtfully include a shipping service, if a customer has won too many plush toys and can't take them home, they can ask someone at the counter to help ship them home. If the distance is nearby, they can be delivered within a day.

Perhaps it was knowing this that made her dare to so brazenly announce that she would take all the dolls from here?

"Forget it, we'll all be starting over in two days anyway, so there's no need to worry about the mall..."

Thinking this, Yuu Tenkuji decided to go all out and exchanged a bunch of change. Starting with the first claw machine, she focused on shaking the handle with the goal of "grabbing everything within her sight".

So, about an hour later.

Before Tenkuji Yu had even finished half of the machines, the floor was already piled high with bags of plush toys, prizes, headphones, and cell phones. The machines he had "favored" looked like empty shells that had just been opened and hadn't had a chance to be filled yet. The shop assistants stood in front of them looking completely bewildered, while Tenkuji Yu was being gently coaxed by Kyori, who was practically begging him to let them off the hook.

Finally, after accepting the one-time free meal voucher from the mall restaurant, Yuu Tenkuji, under the relieved gazes of those people, promised that she would not do anything more, and then walked towards Kasumigaoka Utaha, who was engrossed in playing the claw machine and had not noticed what was happening here.

"How was the harvest?"

"Of course, who do you think I am?" She lightly hooked the handle with her slender white fingers, staring intently at the products inside the machine, and answered without turning her head, "Although I'm not as good as you, as long as I'm willing to learn, there's nothing that can stump me."

Once the trap had successfully hooked the target into the hole, Kasumigaoka Utaha smiled smugly and tossed her spoils into a half-full bag to the side.

"I never realized claw machines were such a fun game..." She turned around and saw Tenkuji Yu standing behind her with empty hands. She asked in surprise, "Are you done? You haven't been slacking off for the past hour, have you?"

"I feel like if I don't stop now, I'll either be forcibly kicked out by security or surrounded by a bunch of people crying in front of me." Yuu Tenkuji spread her hands helplessly, glancing at the shop assistants who were following behind her, seemingly supervising her nonchalantly. She sighed again, "I got so serious without realizing it that I ended up with so many things that I didn't know where to put them... So I only kept a few nice dolls to send home, and had them send the rest to the nearby welfare home as gifts. I even threatened them that if they didn't deliver them in the next couple of days, I would come back and take everything that was left."

Even without acquiring claw machine skills from the system, with his eyesight, muscle control, and gaming skills, he could win the most expensive items with minimal cost after a few practice sessions. This would mean the shopkeeper would use the maximum cost to get the least profit, so of course they would do anything to get rid of this plague.

If Theo comes and gets all the points, how are the other newbies supposed to compete? Who's going to give them free money?

"Is this something a human being would do..." Kasumigaoka Utaha retorted, but didn't find it particularly strange.

After all, she already knew that this guy was a cheater.

So the point isn't what he did to the poor shopkeeper, but what he did afterward.

"You gave most of the things to the orphanage?" She tilted her head slightly, looked the indifferent boy up and down, and asked in a drawn-out tone, "These are things that will disappear in two days, why did you do such a meaningless thing?"

"I'll just throw it somewhere. I can't just pay the store to take care of it, can I? Even if it's something that will disappear sooner or later, I don't want to waste it."

Tenkuji Yu answered without batting an eye, glancing down at the bag at her feet: "Are you taking all of these back with you?"

“No, let’s send it to the orphanage like you did.” Kasumigaoka Utaha thought for a moment, then waved her hand and said, “Anyway, I enjoy the process of grabbing things, not just grabbing whatever I want. If I ask the shop to send it home, I have to think about where to put it, and in the end I probably won’t even look at it… It’s better to let the children in the orphanage be happy for a day or two.”

"Then it's settled." Tenkuji Yu chuckled. "Do you want to continue playing claw machines? Or go play something else?"

She countered, "And you? What do you play if not claw machines?"

"If you keep doing it, I'll watch you from behind. If you want to play other games, I'll go with you."

"What an indecisive man!" she cursed harshly, but a faint smile remained on her face. "Fine, hand the items to the clerk, spend your change anywhere, and then go calm down!"

"receive."

Before long, the two had spent all their coins on the various machines. After exchanging their tickets for two drinks at the counter, they left the arcade amidst the farewells of the staff.

At noon, the two used the free meal voucher to have a meal at the most expensive restaurant. Kasumigaoka Utaha wanted to order red wine, but unfortunately she was too young, so she could only drink guava juice.

"If it really is the end of the world, let alone drinking, no one will care if you do this or that in the street."

Yuu Tenkuji declined to comment on Kasumigaoka Utaha's complaints.