In fact, this is more like an entire commercial plaza than a shopping mall. It moves the traditional pedestrian street indoors and is divided into several entrances and exits. Once you walk in, there are all kinds of shops on both sides.
Those selling perfume, clothes, bags, etc.
As for the upper floors, there are restaurants of various flavors, including traditional Japanese, American, and even Chinese restaurants such as hot pot.
There are even cinemas and KTVs further up, where students are also allowed to enter, but those are areas to be explored later.
After all, the tea shop is on the first floor.
“Thank you for your patronage!”
Ignoring the tea shop owner's polite words of farewell, Wu Yi walked out of the shop with a plastic bag in his hand.
The sunlight from dozens of meters above his head shone through the transparent roof of the indoor commercial plaza. He held up the translucent plastic bag, took a deep breath and saluted the small bag of tea that was carefully wrapped in paper inside.
“…I didn’t expect this thing to be so expensive.”
It's not an exaggeration at all. Wu Yi couldn't even feel the weight of such a small package in his hand, but it cost him more than 20,000 points.
In the past, he would definitely not care about this small amount of money, and would not even frown even if a zero was added to the end.
But the problem is that Japanese yen is useless in this school, only points are hard currency. Moreover, he has only acquired a total of 100,000 points so far, and the expenses in the past two days alone have used up nearly 10,000 points. With these tea leaves, there are only more than 60,000 points left in Wu Yi's account.
You know, it’s only the beginning of the month. I guess I’ll have to save some money in the future…
For the first time in his life, the young master of the dignified Wu family experienced what it meant to be poor and have low aspirations.
To be honest, I used to drink this stuff as water at home...
"So I told you to just buy something a little lower-end."
As he was talking, Arisu Sakayanagi came up to him from behind with a cane, and seeing the serious look on someone's face, he couldn't help but tease him.
"Do you regret it? Maybe it's not too late to return it now?"
"What nonsense are you talking about? How can you return a gift you bought for your sister just because it's too expensive? That's too lame."
Wu Yi put down his arms and rolled his eyes under his sunglasses... no, his eyes were black.
"Okay, time to check out the sunglasses next."
"..."
As if he heard something he didn't want to hear, the smile on Sakayanagi Arisu's face disappeared for a moment, but soon reappeared.
"Well, let's go then."
It's a pity that an eyewear store is right across from a tea shop.
When Wu Yi walked into the eyewear store carrying tea, he could almost feel the strange look in the eyes of the saleswoman sitting at the counter.
Especially when I saw that I didn't go to the ordinary glasses counter but walked towards the sunglasses counter, the feeling of strangeness became even stronger.
"Okay, this is it."
Coming to one of the rotatable cylindrical glasses frames that displayed a variety of colorful sunglasses, Wu Yi picked up a pair of black sunglasses hanging at the bottom without thinking, which looked the most normal and ordinary.
It's the style worn by gangsters in early movies, with a full square frame and no extra decorations.
"Wait a moment."
Just as Wu Yi was about to go to the counter to pay with his sunglasses, Arisu Sakayanagi, who was standing next to another pair of glasses, called him over. She seemed to have taken a fancy to one of the pairs and made a pinky promise to him.
"come over."
"what happened?"
Although he didn't know the reason, Wu Yi still walked over obediently.
Then he saw Sakayanagi Arisu take off a pair of burgundy sunglasses from his glasses frame, holding the front ends of the temples with both hands and handing them to him.
"Try this one."
"coming."
Wu Yi stretched out his hand to take it out of habit, but before he could take the sunglasses, someone patted the back of his hand lightly.
Yeah? Why did you hit me?
Wu Yi looked up blankly, but the latter still kept holding the temples of his glasses with both hands without saying a word, with a perfect and dignified smile on his face.
Okay, got it.
After all, he was not a fool. After understanding the girl's intention, he took off his sunglasses, closed his eyes, bent down slightly and put his face closer.
For a moment, their breaths touched and their body temperatures seemed to blend in the air.
Staring at the handsome face of the boy so close to him, Arisu Sakayanagi pursed his lips slightly.
She slowly raised her arm and carefully put on the burgundy sunglasses for him.
"Okay, open your eyes and feel it."
"Let me check, ah this..."
As soon as Wu Yi opened his eyes, he frowned slightly.
"Arisu, isn't this color too light? Will people notice it?"
"no need to worry."
As soon as he finished speaking, a pair of slightly cool hands held his cheeks.
As the saleswoman's tears almost burst into tears, Arisu Sakayanagi slowly retracted his elbow, bringing the two of them face to face to a distance that was close enough for a kiss or a fight, and whispered.
"Not as long as it's not this close."
Volume 16: Chapter : Ryuen: I want to be beaten up
"How are you? Are you used to wearing your new sunglasses?"
Walking on the indoor street of the shopping mall, Sakayanagi Arisu smiled and looked at Wu Yi who was wearing new burgundy sunglasses beside him.
You can tell that she was in a good mood. After all, she was the one who picked out the sunglasses and even paid for them.
Of course...it was given as a return gift for tea.
"It's -- it's pretty good."
Wu Yi felt it carefully and gave a fair evaluation.
"Although it's definitely not as comfortable as seeing with the naked eye, it's much clearer than before. Otherwise, it's always pitch black in front of my eyes, and I can't distinguish colors accurately... By the way, Arisu, are you sure no one will notice this?"
"of course."
The girl answered with certainty.
"Like I said just now, as long as you don't get that close, you can rest assured that it won't be noticed."
"…Then why do I feel like people around me are looking this way?"
"Maybe it's because you look handsome."
I'm telling you the truth.
Wu Yi himself was one of those people with quite good looks, but at school he always wore big sunglasses that covered the upper half of his face tightly, making it difficult to see him clearly.
But now he has changed into a pair of slightly lighter burgundy sunglasses, which vaguely reveal the contours from the cheekbones to the corners of the eyes, creating a hazy beauty.
"Other things are easy to talk about..."
As if he was still adapting to the changed color tone, Wu Yi occasionally turned his head left and right to look around.
"But it would be troublesome if other first-year students noticed it. The next day, the news would spread all over the school, like 'Shocking, the leader of first-year class A was openly hanging out with a rookie from the same grade, class D'. After all, gossip is human nature."
"Hehe, so what?"
The silver-haired girl's voice unconsciously carried a hint of the coldness and arrogance that only a superior could have.
"When is it their turn to tell me what to do?"
"……what?"
"What's wrong? Are you surprised?"
"No, I just wanted to say that it's almost time, so I wanted to ask you what you want to eat for dinner." Wu Yi picked up the phone, turned it on and shook it on the lock screen.
The second class in the afternoon ended at three o'clock. They had wasted some time in the classroom explaining their speculations, and then they went back to the dormitory to take a shower, wash clothes, etc. By the time they finished buying tea and sunglasses, it was barely five o'clock in the afternoon.
Especially in the past two days, the new students have just received 100,000 points. A group of young people who are in puberty and have good appetites have such a huge amount of money in hand and are not under the supervision of their families. Naturally, they want to have big meals every meal. If you don’t go to some popular restaurants early, you may have to queue up if you are late.
"You decide what to eat for dinner."
Arisu Sakayanagi's answer was quite casual, and it was really hard to associate her with the image she had shown before. It was as if she was a petite and sickly princess in the previous second, but turned into a queen admired by thousands of people in the next second, and then turned back into a princess in the next second.
Is this considered a cute contrast?
While complaining in his heart, Wu Yi began to look around for food.
Not far away, a large advertising banner hanging from the overpass on the second floor of the commercial plaza came into view. On it was a picture of a huge hot pot with white and red soups boiling and surging in the shape of a Tai Chi, cooking a variety of foods. You could almost smell the fragrance through the picture.
"Then let's eat hot pot."
Wu Yi made the final decision.
The hot pot restaurant is located on the second floor of the commercial plaza. The owner of this restaurant is obviously a cunning business genius.
He chose to rent a shop on the second floor at a relatively cheap price, but also rented an advertising space on the second-floor overpass and hung up a billboard for his hot pot restaurant. It was so large that anyone passing under the overpass on the first floor could basically see it. He even drew an arrow on the top with "this way" written next to it.
This level of advertising strength is not as good as the first floor, but it is better than the first floor.
When Wu Yi and Sakayanagi Arisu went up to the second floor and arrived at the door of the hot pot restaurant, the rich aroma of hot pot immediately hit them, and they could see that there were already several tables of people inside.
The tall and straight waitress in uniform behind the bar came up to us immediately, speaking fluent clichés.
"Hello, how many are there?"
"Both of you."
"You two, right? This way please."
The waitress led the two to an empty seat and took out a disposable menu and a ballpoint pen from her four-dimensional dress.
"What kind of soup base do you need? We have..."
"Clear soup will do."
Glancing at the white-haired legal loli sitting across the table with a half-smile on her face, Wu Yi repeated it clearly.
"Clear soup will do."
"Uh, clear soup, right?"
The waiter then recovered from his momentary daze and quickly ticked the box behind the clear soup column.
"As for the other dishes..."
"Let me take a look."
As a routine procedure, Wu Yi quickly ordered the dishes and went to the counter with the waitress to pay the corresponding amount.
After returning to their seats, Arisu Sakayanagi who was sitting opposite them spoke first with a smile.
"I thought you would choose the shabu-shabu pot."
"Then you can secretly scoop out the hot pot when I'm not paying attention, right?" Wu Yi shrugged. "Don't even think about it. That trick won't work on me."
"what a pity."
Having her inner thoughts exposed, Arisu Sakayanagi didn't try to hide them and admitted them readily.
Self-destructive tendencies...
Wu Yi sighed softly in his heart.
This is certainly not to say that there is something wrong with Sakayanagi Arisu's mind, but just like a drunk person always shouts that he is not drunk yet, for some people with physical defects, they will hate their physical defects so much that they want to further prove through practical actions that they are no different from ordinary people.
But it is precisely these actions that ordinary people can easily do, but when they do them, they may be no different from suicide.
(For example, in the original work, he likes to drink coffee even though he has a bad heart)
The restaurant was not busy, and the hotpots and dishes ordered by Wu Yi and his companions were served quickly.
The induction cooker is turned on at maximum power.
However, just as Wu Yi picked up a large plate of mutton rolls and was about to put it into the pot, there seemed to be a commotion coming from the direction of the store entrance behind him.
