The Top Idol Next Door Can't Help But Crave My Guilty Pleasure Meals-Chapter 5Volume 1 . - You Want to Make Me Eat a Lot, Right?

ROUND 5 – You Want to Make Me Eat a Lot, Right? 5

“I heard a strange rumor at school. ‘It seems that Mamori Suzufumi from the second year confessed to Arisu Yuzuki'”

My heart skipped a beat. Had the information reached Rika as well?

“Of course, I wasn’t going to believe such a rumor. Suzu isn’t interested in idols, nor is he a fanboy. Suzu values his own beliefs.”

Rika’s eyes as she looked at me were serious.

“…So, what’s the deal?”

The real reason for her visit wasn’t to take care of me or to celebrate my move, but this, huh.

Now, how honest should I be?

“It’s true that I confessed to Yu… Arisu Yuzuki. But there were circumstances behind it.”

“What’s the situation?”

I couldn’t just reveal that Yuzuki is my neighbor.

Consequently, I can’t reveal that ‘I was caught by a third party while having a secret talk to hide our neighbor relationship.’ And even if I made up some convenient reason like love at first sight, there’s no guarantee she would believe me.

Above all, I didn’t want to lie to my childhood friend like that.

“I just encountered Arisu Yuzuki in the Resource Room ‘somehow’, and right after that, a third-year senpai came in. That person misunderstood, thinking Yuzuki and I were up to something suspicious. So, I pretended to confess to her on the spur of the moment. It seemed better than having weird rumors spread about us. After all, she’s an idol.”

I skirted around the truth without completely lying.

Even though it was to protect Yuzuki, I felt a little pain in my chest for deceiving my childhood friend.

“Hmm. If Suzu says so, I’ll believe it.”

Rika seemed not fully convinced, but she seemed to have put away her spear of anger for the time being.

“I’ll ask one more time, are Suzu really not dating Arisu Yuzuki?”

“We’re not dating. That’s the truth. I’m sorry if I make you worried, Rika.”

I put my hands together in front of my face and sincerely apologized to Rika.

“…Alright, I understand. If you have something else to do today, I’ll leave in a little while.”

“Sorry, I’ll make it up to you next time.”

“By the way, whose young-looking boots are those at the entrance?”

“Uh, Yuzuki shouldn’t have been up in my place… ah.”

Enveloped in an aura of absolute zero, Rika swiftly gulped down her pudding in one go.

“I’m going home!”

Rika slung her school bag over her shoulder, slammed the empty pudding container onto the kitchen counter, and strode towards the entrance. Seriously, is she planning to go home dressed like that?

“Stupid Suzu! I hope the pudding gets stuck in your throat and makes you choke!”

Just as I was about to chase after her, I dropped the empty container on the floor, and a brown stain spread across the kitchen mat.

This is bad, I need to wipe it up properly and quickly, or the caramel sauce will seep in.

“…Ah, damn it!”

Right now, Rika is more important than the kitchen mat.

As I stepped out into the hallway, Rika was already reaching for the front door handle.

“Wait, Rika!”

Ignoring my plea to stop, Rika leaves the room.

I stepped out into the hallway in my socks and placed my hand on her shoulder.

“Let go! Suzu, You should just be happy getting along with a popular idol like Suzu. After all, you probably think of me as nothing more than a convenient-all-capable maid who’s good at housework!”

“That’s a misunderstanding!”

I never once thought of Rika as someone who’s good at housework!

“I said it before, but I’m not dating Yuzuki.”

“But you seem awfully close to her! If you’re such good friends, why don’t you just live in the same apartment building──”

“…What are you doing?”

It was a clear, dignified voice that cut through the noise.

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Rika and I simultaneously turned to look toward room 810.

There was Yuzuki—in the midst of inserting her key into the door.

“…Hey Suzufumi. What’s this about a convenient maid? And who is that woman?”

I thought vaguely that if I looked up the phrase “a frog being stared down by a snake” in a dictionary, it would probably use this situation as an example.

“…Can you explain what you mean?”

I couldn’t tell whether the question just now had come from Yuzuki or Rika.

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