A drug or a drunk plot.
Those plots that usually appear in a hentai manga where a woman was drugged or made drunk before they were brought to the hotel and during their moment of vulnerability, their most important parts were taken as they became the slave of the men.
Fortunately, after Tobe entered Shiori's car, she didn't offer him a drink and just wanted to treat him to a meal, which was fine, thinking that it was just a kindness of a senior toward a junior, yet without a doubt, he understood Shiori's favoritism, or more feeling than a normal coworker.
Yet, this also made him wonder about Yuuta Asamura.
Was Shiori such an easy woman that she would be swayed by a handsome guy?
Or the relationship between Shiori and Yuuta wasn't as close as Tobe thought it to be?
'It should be the latter.'
With Tobe's sudden entrance and joining as the coworker of the bookstore, Shiori's attention quickly turned toward him, a junior and a newbie, and naturally, the handsome one.
"Why do you act like I will attack you?"
Still, when Tobe sat with his bag in front of him, like a defended character with a shield, Shiori was speechless.
"You are overthinking. Even if we're pretty amiable and you are also gentle, we just know each other and isn't it rude of me to just treat this car as mine and put my bag on the back seat like nothing?"
"Go, go! Just put your bag in the back seat. You don't have to act reserved toward me! You are the man! Be bold!
"...."
What did he mean by those words?
Did she tell him to make an advance on her?
However—
"It's not a problem being a man or not. It's a matter of etiquette. You are my senior, after all, so isn't it normal for me to be polite? But thank you. I will take that offer."
As he said so, Tobe put his bag in the back seat by twisting his body, which made the distance between them become so close that he could smell her gentle, floral fragrance, but similarly, Shiori could also smell his gentle, warm, and comforting scent.
"What kind of fragrance did you use, Tobe-kun?"
"It's a natural body scent."
"Liar!" Shiori moved closer, letting her nose inhale the scent on his chest, which made her quite addicted. "A man's smell should be sour and sweaty, right? But your scent is so nice!"
"..."
This was sexual harassment, he thought, yet women had the privilege of not being thought of as sexually harassed even when they were. When a woman raped a man, no one thought of it seriously, and many even felt jealous, which made him feel helpless.
"More importantly, what are you going to treat me with?"
"There is a beautiful woman by your side, yet you are more concerned about food?"
"I am taken."
"Kuuh! What a powerful answer! I can't even say anything after that!"
Yet despite saying that, Shiori was as noisy as ever.
"So, what do you want to eat?"
Still, facing this question, Tobe also wondered what he wanted to eat, especially when it was already late, so it might be good if it wasn't that oily and had a strong smell. As he thought for a moment, he asked, "What about Saizeriya?"
"Ah, are you okay with that? I don't mind taking you to a more expensive place, you know?"
Saizeriya is one of the most popular family restaurants in this country, and it serves Italian food. The dishes that they served might not be authentic, yet they were good enough and quite cheap. Moreover, as it was a family restaurant, it should have a large parking area, which allowed Shiori to park her car nearby.
The other restaurants might be good, but if Tobe considered all the problems, it was better for them to go to this restaurant, especially when the land in this country was limited, so most of the shops didn't even have a parking lot, yet as Shiori told him to be more greedy, he said, "Then, how about an eel?"
"Let's go to Saizeriya!"
Shiori might want to treat him, but if it were eel, it would be impossible since it is too expensive!
"But are you okay with the Italian?"
"If I can't, then what do you want?"
"Yoshinoya?"
"Too cheap! That's too cheap! You can't bring your girlfriend to such a place during a date, Tobe-kun!"
"You are not my girlfriend, and you are treating me, right? How can I ask you to treat me to something expensive?"
"Say someone wants me to treat you as an eel."
Taking a deep breath, Tobe said helplessly, "If you are lonely, you should get a boyfriend instead of asking someone with a girlfriend to go with you."
"That's the reason, isn't it?"
"...that's the reason?"
"I mean, since you have a girlfriend, then you won't think anything weird, right?"
"....."
Did this woman think that he was a saint who had thrown away his worldly desires?
Then again, why did this woman keep seducing him?
"I do."
"...eh?"
"You are a beautiful woman, after all, so I can't help but imagine that something might happen between us, although I have a girlfriend."
Blinking her eyes, Shiori frowned, yet her expression was a little weird as a slight smirk appeared on her face. "Even if you have a girlfriend?"
"Even if I am doing it, or not, it will be different, so don't seduce me, okay?"
"Who will seduce you?! What kind of woman do you think I am?!"
"A naughty one?"
"....." Shiori.
His words were kind of misleading, yet the word "naughty" perfectly fitted her, since, as she knew that he had a girlfriend, why did she try to invite him?
Was it just for a mere kindness?
Or did she expect someone else?
Then again, Tobe had to say, it was quite hard for him not to think that anything would happen between him and Shiori, especially when she was aggressive. While he didn't think that she would go all out since he knew well that she was still a virgin, if the moment was right, then she might go all out.
A moment.
He knew that it was weird, but at a certain moment, a relationship between two people would change.
It was like how one would trust each other when they decided to help each other during a moment of crisis.
A certain moment also existed when two people could become so intimate that they would expose their bare bodies and go all out on the bed.
"Well, you are right. I am that naughty woman who invited a young man with a girlfriend to go home together and eat at the restaurant together, so don't be seduced, okay, Tobe-kun~?"
"....."
Watching her mischievous, yet slightly seductive smile, Tobe realized that he had underestimated this woman, and probably, she was bolder than he had imagined.
If the boy, with whom she had an interest, wasn't the protagonist of a Japanese harem romance story, then probably, they had gone all out.
Still, as Shiori was with him, what would happen?
Tobe wasn't sure, but he would try his best to be loyal!