Everybody started shouting, clapping their hands, and whistling for joy.

...I don't blame them.

They came here just for the event at Angel Mort.

None of them expected to see the waitresses wearing different costumes like this.

"......Meep."

"HAUUUUuUUuuUuuUuu!!!

R-R-R-Rika-chaaan!!

I'm taking you home with me!!!"

"Wait. Calm down, Rena.

You can't take her home yet. She has to finish her punishment first."

Rika-chan appears with glasses of water and wet napkins on a tray.

They drew lots to decide on the costumes. Rika-chan's costume is the uniform of Angel Mort, which we use regularly for punishments.

"......Hello.

Welcome to Angel Mort."

Rika-chan put the glasses of water and the wet napkins in front of Rena and me.

"HauAuauuu!!

You look so adorable.

I'm taking you home with me!!"

Rena raised her weird voice, and everybody in the store followed suit.

"""I-I-I'm taking her home with me!!"""

Everybody started shouting the phrase!

Before I knew it, they were surrounding our table trying to burn the scene of Rika-chan serving customers into their minds.

"Hauuuu,

Rika-chan,

you look great in that uniform!!

Hauuuuu!!"

"......Meep.

...It's embarrassing to have everybody look at me like that."

"Hm?

There's something different about the uniform, though."

"G-G-G-Good eyes, Maebara-san!!

Allow me to explain!!"

Tomita-kun, our underclassman, pushed his way through the crowd.

"Oh, Tomita-kun.

Okamura-kun, too.

I didn't know you guys had a ticket."

"That's not important right now, Maebara-san!

The important thing here is the uniform Furude-san is wearing today.

As you already know, the uniforms of Angel Mort are designed to bring out the most of a mature woman's features.

Therefore, it's normally required to have certain bodily proportions to wear this uniform.

In that sense, this is the least compatible uniform for Furude-san, because she's still at an early stage of development."

"Plus, the other problem was that the restaurant couldn't find a uniform in Furude-san's size!

That's why it was necessary to try various measures in order to facilitate her punishment, that is, to wear the uniform of Angel Mort!!

Therefore, they came up with the idea to use a school swimsuit, and it created an impossible combination of said swimsuit and the uniform of Angel Mort!!

It's so eccentric that even God couldn't see it coming!!

In this costume, Furude-san now has an overwhelming attack power far beyond her normal statistics!

She also gained elemental enchantment,

status impairment,

a huge increase to her critical hit rate,

and on top of that, she's also given increased invincibility time during powerups!!

Do you understand how great this is?!

You do, don't you?!

Let me put it another way, like what Ryuugu-san always says.

I

-I

-I

-I

-I'm taking her home with me!!!"

"No, you can't! I'm the one who's taking her home!!

But, I understand exactly how you feel, I'm taking her home with me!!!"

Tomita-kun and Okamura-kun held Rena's shoulders, and they shouted the phrase in their excitement!

The phrase had spread throughout the entire store, and was now out of control.

...Anyway, Tomita-kun and Okamura-kun surprised me sometimes.

For their age, they're so good at giving passionate speeches... They'll probably make it big in the future...!!

"Where are Mii-chan and Satoko-chan??

I can't wait to see them!!"

At that time, the crowd sent up another roar.

I hear Mion telling them to let her through.

...I don't remember what kind of costume she picked.

"K-saaaaaaan!!

What,

what,

what's going on?!!"

"Wow!!

K-Kameda-kun...!

Of course, you're here because this is a Dessert Festa, and you're a dessert maniac...

Hey, how have you been doing...?"

"It doesn't matter how I am!!

More importantly, what is that?!! What's going on here?"

Kameda-kun was in a state of great excitement. Thick veins were displaying on his forehead.

...The source of that excitement appears through the crowd.

"There's no turning back. I guess I've got to do what I've got to do.

Welcome to Angel Mort!

Here is your ultra-rare cheese cake!"

Mion appeared with a cake on a tray...

Oh!!

Now I remember what she picked for her costume...!!

"Hauuuuuu!!!

Mii-chan, you look so kyute too!!!"

"I can't believe I'm doing this!

I was going to make Kei-chan wear it!"

"...M-Maebara-san,

this costume is extraordinary, too!!

Plus,

because you know her in person, and because she's the leader of the club who has never lost any games in the past and also a class president who's always perfect at everything,

you can enjoy this 500%!!

Even the class president, who doesn't know what losing is, can't escape the punishment...

Your club is

so terrifying!!"

"Wha-Wha-What?!!

Please explain what is going on here, K!!!

I thought we were friends because we shared a huge parfait together!!

How could you not tell me about such a wonderful club!!!

I can't believe you didn't tell me about this.

If I knew about it, I wouldn't have joined the baseball team!

Where is the reset button for my life?!"

The crowd roars in excitement!

"What a great club!!"

"I've never heard of a club as wonderful as this in my life!!"

"Hauu... You can't join our club. Only people who live in Hinamizawa can join~~☆."

"""Wh-Wh-Wh-What?!!!"""

"Then, I have to move my certificate of residence to Hinamizawa at once!!"

Stop there, Rena.

The population of Hinamizawa might double by tomorrow...

"Anyway... this is a beautiful punishment, K...!!

Costumes that make women look beautiful are like decorations on desserts!

A shortcake, for example,

is just a sponge cake if you take away its decoration!!

But, if you decorate it with whipped cream,

to enjoy the wonderful and mysterious harmony that layers and layers of beautiful decoration create...

You can enjoy it with both your eyes and your tongue.

Ohhhhhh☆!!

That's why this combination of a sailor-style school uniform and gym shorts is wonderful!!

They're both ordinary school clothes, and each is tasteful in its own right. But let's put that aside for now!

A school uniform and gym clothes are in the same category, namely school clothes, but they've never been combined together. It's just like a strawberry daifuku!!

Nobody thought they'd taste good together.

But, the combination actually brought an unexplored and unknown taste to this world!!"

"...Kei-chan, he's calling you 'K'.

I didn't know you were friends with this pervert."

"I'm trying my best not to be friends with him..."