Perhaps this was what it felt like to have unexpected fun. Maru felt rather proud as he looked at the decorative strings that he had hung up. Even in his previous life, he was someone far from being involved with events. He was the type to think that a meal was better than a flower that is bound to wither and that a pair of socks were better than a balloon that is bound to deflate. Although he scheduled date courses and even looked up places with good night scenery when he was in a relationship, he had never brought props and decorated his own place to set up a mood. Looking back, he was definitely not an interesting man. He once again thanked the woman who accepted a man who had never given her a bouquet.

It had been around 10 minutes since Sora went into the room, but it looked like she wasn’t going to come out anytime soon. She probably needed more time to get her thoughts together than to fix her makeup. He pretended to not hear her sniffling as he hung the mirror ball on the ceiling. When the mirror ball, which needed four battery cells to operate, was turned on, his living room became pretty colorful. Decorating...