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Chapter 170 Part 1

Engagement Meeting (1) ~Nice to meet you~

Sunday, August 12th.

It was the day when the parents of the four families met together to make Yuu’s engagement to Sayaka, Riko, and Eimi official.

It seemed that in order to make Sayaka’s new engagement public, her parents would hold events to let close relatives and people from the company know about it.

However, Yuu had been told that he could just attend the one before the marriage.

This time, it was purely a meeting for the families of the related parties to meet and discuss things.

Sayaka’s mother, Tomoka, took charge of everything, and had even generously offered to cover the expenses.

Perhaps out of consideration for the fact that everyone except the Komatsu family was ordinary citizens, it was not held at a high-class restaurant.

The place was a restaurant called Yutoku-tei, which, although still in Saiou City, was located near the old Higashimatsuzaka town, as opposed to the new town where the apartment Yuu lived in was located, and was one of the family ryotei restaurants run by a major family restaurant chain.

As usual, Yuu headed there by car driven by the security personnel, while Martina drove her own car and followed behind them, but Elena was riding with her in the car.

The ones invited to the meeting were the engaged parties: Yuu, Sayaka, Riko, and Eimi. Plus their parents only, not including their sisters. In fact, they had heard that from the Komatsu family Kiyoka would not be attending.

However, saying that she really wanted to meet the three girls Yuu was getting engaged to, Elena forced her way in and ended up coming with them.

The meeting was at 11:30 to coincide with lunchtime, and they arrived at the restaurant’s parking lot 10 minutes early.

Perhaps because it was Sunday morning, the large parking lot was more than half full.

They could see men here and there mixed among the people entering the restaurant from the parking lot.

As soon as Yuu got out of the car, he was surrounded by Kanako and Touko, as well as Martina and Elena on all sides.

He didn’t think there were any women who would brazenly do lawless things in broad daylight, but as a preventative measure, it seemed that they wanted to keep him off women’s eyes as much as possible.

After passing through the gate and walking through the garden, which was small but had stone lanterns and bamboo groves, they opened the wooden sliding door with a noren hung over it and entered the restaurant.

In an instant, buzzing noises filled their ears.

It was just before noon, so the store was very busy.

Several groups, including ones that had a man in their midst, seemed to have made reservations, and were smoothly guided to the back of the restaurant, but the large entrance was crowded with female customers who had come in in groups of two or three and were waiting their turn, or had just paid their bill and were about to leave.

Even though he was surrounded by four people, as expected, a young man like Yuu seemed to be a rarity and attracted attention.

One after another, women looked at Yuu and whispered to each other.

It was to such an extent that even the female customers who were about to leave stopped on their track to look at Yuu.

Today Yuu was wearing a dark gray suit with a red tie.

It was inevitable that many women in the world would be captivated by the sight of a handsome teenage boy in a suit.

「Shall we wait outside for a bit?」

「I suppose…」

Kanako and Martina showed a pensive look on their faces, but Yuu, on the contrary, thought they ought to go ahead here.

That was because the meeting time was drawing near, and since it was before noon, customers were arriving one after another from behind, and it was unclear when the number of people would go down.

「Everyone is probably waiting. Let’s just go in, even if we have to use some force.」

「Yuu-sama… Yes!」

Kanako and Touko nodded their heads firmly, so Yuu raised his hand and shouted loudly.

「Excuse me!」

Even amidst the noisy murmur of the women, Yuu’s voice seemed to be transmitted clearly.

Not only the people who were at the entrance from the beginning, but even people passing by all turned to look at Yuu and gave him passionate looks.

「Wow!」

「Hawawa… what a wonderful boy.」

「How lovely. Just looking at him makes my heart flutter.」

「Geez, even though I want to take a closer look at him… why are there so many people here?」

Amidst the crowd of women staring at him, Yuu spotted two young women who looked like waiters, carrying a tray and a stack of receipts.

They were dressed in a uniform based on a Japanese-Western kimono, styled like the Taisho Romanticism in Yuu’s memories, with fastened sleeves and knee-length skirts for easy movement.

Both of them were wearing flower hair ornaments, which was cute.

「Umm! I believe there’s a reservation under the name of Komatsu.」

「Ha… yes! This way please.」

「Excuse me. Could you please make way?」

「Ah! Yes… go ahead.」

It seemed that shoes were not allowed inside, and they needed to put away their footwear in the shoebox by the side wall.

The system was: put away your footwear individually, pull out the wooden tag, and then carry it with you.

After taking off his shoes, Yuu smiled at the women nearby, who then blushed and readily made way for them.

The place the waiter led them to was a completely private room called the 『Auspicious Cloud Room』.

After the waiter opened the sliding door, they went inside, to find that all the parents and children from the three families were already there.

They seemed to have separated into two group, parents and children, and were enjoying themselves chatting with each other.

「Ah, it’s Yuu-kun!」

「「Yuu-kun!」」

「Oh, you three look so beautiful today. It suits you very well.」

Although they had been told that it wasn’t a formal meeting, it was clear that, unlike when they were dressed in their usual uniforms, all three of them had dressed up.

And it was probably because he had had more opportunities to interact with women since his rebirth that he was able to naturally give compliments as soon as he met them.

Sayaka was wearing a two-toned dress with a black base.

The chic, retro design made her look more mature.

He had the same thought when he visited her parents’ house the other day, but neat and clean appearance really suited Sayaka, who always wore her long black hair down and had fair skin.

Riko was wearing a navy-blue one-piece dress with a ribbon tied around her neck. The chest and sleeves were see-through with floral lace.

Usually, she had her hair tied into a single bundle and hung down in front of her shoulder, but just like when they met at the hotel the other day, she had her hair down with a loose perm, and the combination of those two gave her a glamorous sex appeal.

Eimi was wearing a simple white sleeveless blouse with frills around her neck. Below was a red flared miniskirt with a checkered pattern.

Compared to the other two, who dressed in a more mature manner, Eimi’s was a cute outfit that suited her usual twin tails.

Getting complimented on their outfits as soon as they met, Sayaka, Riko, and Eimi all walked up to Yuu with happy expressions on their faces.

However, Yuu had something he had to do.

「Sorry, but I’ll say hello to your parents first.」

「Huh?」

「Yuu-kun?」

Sayaka and the others were about to say something, but Yuu quickly walked towards the back of the room where the parents were gathered.

Then, he first bowed to Sayaka’s parents, Tomoka and Hikaru, who were standing closest to him.

Hikaru was the only man in the room until Yuu entered, but he was able to smile naturally, probably because he had gotten used to it and Tomoka was by his side.

Perhaps being mindful of the fact that they were the hosts, today the couple were both dressed in plain dark gray suits.

「I’m sorry for being late. We will be in your care today.」

「You’re still totally fine. Welcome… Yu, Yuu-san?」

「Yes, mother(-in-law), father(-in-law).」

「Hahaha, I feel like it’s still a little too early, but it makes me happy when you call me that.」

After exchanging greetings with the two, Yuu stepped towards the two women who had been looking at him.

「Nice to meet you. My name is Hirose Yuu. I have been given the honor of dating your daughters.」

「「Huh?!」」

When Yuu greeted them and bowed towards them, both of them openly let out a voice of surprise.

Men in this world were very passive, so it had become a custom for the women to be the one to greet them.

That being said, in any world, there were probably few teenage boys who could give greetings as fluently as Yuu.