My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong As Expected

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I was covered in sweat. My T-shirt was soaking wet.

Even the usually calm and collected Kawasaki sat down on the grass and wiped his sweat with a towel.

"Hey, how could this happen? It was bound to get away no matter what!"

Yumiko muttered to herself as she tossed the PET bottle of tea to Kawasaki and me. She probably bought it for us at the convenience store earlier.

Perhaps it is this subtle gentleness that allows her to firmly hold the queen's throne in the class.

Thanks...

Kawasaki thanked her politely, though in a very soft voice.

Hopefully, these two people who don't get along well can take this opportunity to improve their relationship.

"Anyway, just focus and try again. Even if it doesn't remember it the first time, just clearly state the command and practice it two or three times."

Kawasaki took a hearty gulp of the tea Yumiko had given him, exhaled, brushed the grass off his bottom, and stood up.

She's more patient and serious than she appears...

It was worth asking her for help.

Kawasaki-kun once again placed the bone dog biscuit in front of the shortbread...

"Okay, Crispy, sit down."

“Woof!”

They ran away again!

The shortbread is running at full speed!

"It's degenerated! What's going on?!"

"It's no use telling me!"

"At least it could sit down before!"

Kawasaki ran after the shortbread while cursing.

But the shortbread has gotten used to being chased...

It predicted Kawasaki and my movements, making sharp turns and dodging around constantly!

"Why would it learn how to escape?!"

Crispy dodges Kawasaki's hand just before being caught!

"Yumiko, please help me! Help!"

I asked Yumiko for help.

"Ew—I want one too?!"

Despite grumbling, Yumiko joined the chase for the shortbread, which resulted in the three of us playing tag with it.

Three high school girls chased a dog in the park in the summer.

Doesn't the visuals look a bit youthful? Like a sports drink commercial?

The thought flashed through my mind for a moment, but I quickly lost interest in thinking about anything else...

“Woof!”

The shortbread is full of energy.

It's rushing even further than last time.

They shook off the three of us and ran further and further away...

Finally, it disappeared from sight.

“Woof!”

The faint sound of shortbread being sizzled could be heard.

"call……"

“Huh…Huh…”

"Ugh—cough cough! Ugh!"

Three high school girls chasing after shortbread completely erased the youthful vibe of a sports drink commercial.

The location of the shortbread is...

In front of the woods that completely divides this meadow in two.

Next to the flower bed.

It swayed back and forth behind the flowerbed, barking loudly.

It feels like it's trying to tell us something.

But there were no plants planted in the flowerbed yet, only black soil.

“Woof!”

Instead of running into the flowerbed surrounded by bricks, the shortbread gently poked the ground behind it with its nose and called out again.

Yumiko stared at it intently.

Suddenly, he clapped his hands in front of his chest.

It seems like I've thought of something...

"Is that what you mean? You want us to dig over there?"

Yumiko... What a dreamy idea!

"Is it that one? The fairy tale? The one where the dog tells someone to dig up that patch of ground, and they find treasure inside?"

"Hmm. What? You haven't heard of it?"

"What?! Of course I've heard of it. But, how should I put it... um—okay, maybe."

Kawasaki-kun... an unexpectedly fantastical idea!

"Hey, should we just start digging?"

"The shortbread insisted on escaping here, probably because it really sensed something here and wanted to tell us."

Kawasaki is already so enthusiastic even before we've dug anything.

"Hey, I don't think the shortbread is that good."

"But it keeps calling us."

"Woof woof woof!"

"That's true, but it doesn't have the ability to find treasure. In fact, if we had to categorize it, it's just a stupid dog..."

"Woof?"

Hmm, it seems the shortbread has something to say...

"Let's dig around anyway. It's just an empty space behind the flowerbed."

Kawasaki picked up a suitable-sized branch from the ground and immediately began digging behind the flower bed. Yumiko followed suit, grabbing a branch and starting to dig as well.

In that case, I have no choice but to take action...

"I wonder what we'll find."

Kawasaki-kun was digging intently, muttering to himself.

"It's usually a koban (note 2), right?"

Yumiko also stared intently at the flowerbed.

"Can you get a koban in Chiba?"

"Woof?"

"I don't know either, but Chiba in the Edo period also used koban as currency, right?"

"I remember that the area around Chiba Port Park was reclaimed land."

"Huh? You have a problem with that?"

Yumiko glared at Kawasaki-kun again.

"What? I have no objection. I just meant that this area was probably still sea during the Edo period! So even if we dig something up, it'll probably just be fossils!"

Kawasaki asserted this.

"What? You'd be happy to find a fossil?"

"Oh? You must be super happy!"

They were arguing so loudly...

They're both so cute!

What an amazing way to argue!

"Alright, alright, it was Su Bing who asked us to scoop it out, so don't get your hopes up."

"I know. But it's making such a racket, wouldn't it make you feel like you have to dig it up?"

"If we don't dig, we'll care even more."

They were arguing, but their opinions were actually quite similar.

"Haha, then don't get your expectations too high."

Their high expectations of the shortbread's intelligence make me uneasy...

In short, the three of us dug for about thirty minutes.

Considering we didn't have shovels or spades, we're already doing quite a bit of digging...

"We didn't see any fossils... So, where did the shortbread go?"

"what?"

Oh right, I haven't heard it bark since the beginning of the journey!

I quickly looked around, but I couldn't find it anywhere!

They told us to dig this side, but it ran away by itself!

"Ugh, Shortbread—where are you? You stupid Shortbread—!"

I called out the name of the shortbread and decided to go back to where it was originally.

Then you find it there...

"Ugh—Short Cookie ate a whole bunch of dog biscuits!"

Yumiko's eyes widened when she saw the shortbread.

The shortbread lay on the grass.

Next to the nose was a nearly empty cookie bag...

"Could it be deliberately making us dig in the dirt so it could sneak back and eat cookies...? So clever!"

Kawasaki, on the contrary, began to admire him.

"Woof."

The shortbread sticks its head into the bag, takes a bite of a cookie, and places it at Kawasaki's feet.

"Is this a reward for our return?! What an excellent dog!"

"No, no, no. Shortbread isn't that smart!"

"Really? I'm starting to think it's a really powerful dog."

"It really is a coincidence."

I was trying to prove it wasn't stupid, that it had some intelligence, which is why I taught it new tricks. How did it turn into the opposite argument...? Why? I'm not very bright, so I can't figure it out...

"I don't know if it's smart or not, but I'm sure it's not stupid."

Yumiko smiled wryly and patted the belly of the shortbread.