I am that male friend in the harem story

"Hm~! It tastes nice~!" 

"Right?" 

Ishigami didn't break his promise, and after they walked for a while, he brought Chika to the nearby gelato store and treated her to two scoops of gelato. 

The ice cream was different from what Chika had imagined, but it tasted nice, and she was curious, so she agreed without hesitation. She got two flavors: Belgian chocolate and New York strawberry cheesecake. The two were sweet types, but one was chocolate, and the other had a bit of sourness due to the strawberry. 

Nevertheless, the two were delicious! 

The sweetness of the gelato made her show her silly smile, and it was impossible for her to be satisfied with this. Her greedy eyes couldn't help but narrow at Ishigami's gelato cup. Similar to her, he also chose two scoops, but with two different flavors. 

"Ishigami, what flavors did you choose?" 

His two gelato had similar green colors, but one had a lighter color, which made her curious about what kind of flavor they were. 

'Is it a green tea and a kiwi taste?' 

"Hm? I got a pistachio and wasabi." 

"W-Wasabi?!" 

Pistachio aside, the wasabi taste that was chosen by Ishigami made her dumbfounded. 

Chika stopped her spoon, which was about to steal his gelato, and her desire to chomp part of Ishigami's gelato decreased slightly, but at the same time, she was also curious about the taste. 

"Can I try?" 

It was her first time tasting a wasabi gelato, so she showed hesitation in case the taste was horrible. 

"Sure." 

Chika felt suspicious, but as she was curious, she used her spoon and took a small amount of wasabi ice cream before she tasted it hesitantly. She could see that Ishigami appeared to enjoy it, but was it really? 

The doubt on her mind couldn't be erased, yet strangely enough, it wasn't bad at all. 

"It's not bad, right?" 

"Yeah. It isn't bad..." Chika felt conflicted, but somehow, she had to say the wasabi taste of ice cream was nice. It was kind of sweet, but at the end, there was this hint of sharpness that added an element of fun, and she also had to admit Ishigami's mischievous smile was also nice to see.

"I want to try the pistachio, too." 

"Sure." 

However, unlike when Chika took a small amount of wasabi gelato, this time, she took quite a large scoop with her spoon and then ate it happily. 

"Hmh~! Delicious~! As expected, the pistachio tastes nice~!" 

"..." 

Staring at half of his pistachio gelato that was taken by this silly girl, Ishigami's lips twitched as he let out a helpless sigh. 

"Are you happy now?" 

"Um~!" Chika nodded, but then she became conflicted again as she felt his gentle consideration. She could feel that Ishigami had an experience, and he wasn't nervous or fumbled like she wished him to be, like how a virgin usually reacted when he went on a date with a beautiful girl. Instead, it was she who had a great time, and she also wondered whether she was so cheap that all of her grievances disappeared after he bought her a gelato. 

"That's good, then." 

Those words were simple, but when they were said in such a gentle expression, even Chika could only lower her head, flustered, hating herself to blush like a girl in love! 

Still, as the daughter of a famous politician and the granddaughter of a former prime minister, it was impossible for her to lose her calm like this. 

Chika wanted revenge! 

"Ishigami, do you want to taste some of mine?" 

"Is that okay?" 

"Sure, sure." Chika smiled as if she had succeeded, then took her New York strawberry cheesecake gelato, then moved her spoon toward Ishigami as if she was about to feed him. "Here, open your mouth. Ahh~!" 

Now, act like a virgin and blush! 

Chika thought that she had won, but when she noticed his eyes, she started to feel her face was hot. 

"...if you are embarrassed, don't do this, okay?" 

"I-I am not embarrassed! The sun is just too intense, and it is too hot! Hurry up and open your mouth!" 

"I am a bit embarrassed, though." 

Chika laughed and said, "It's fine. It's fine. It will be hard for you to get a beautiful girl like me to feed you again in the future, so eat it obediently!" 

"..." 

Ishigami looked at Chika, who had dressed carefully and even put make-up on her beautiful face. Even if he wanted to roll his eyes, he also had to admit that this girl was attractive.

Still, if it was a matter of attractiveness, he also didn't lose to her since many kept staring at him. 

"Then, excuse me." 

Ishigami took off his hat and accepted the New York strawberry cheesecake-flavored gelato that Chika fed him. 

"It tastes nice." 

"Right?" Chika smiled and then took the Belgian chocolate taste. "Try the other one." 

"Okay." 

The two of them tasted okay, but his wasabi also wasn't bad at all. 

"How is it?" 

"Delicious." 

"Right? Especially when a beautiful girl like me is the one who feeds you, the taste will be even better~!" 

"..." 

Ishigami just let Chika say whatever she wanted. 

Nevertheless, when the two had a chat in the gelato shop, two people with similar pink hair stared at them from a distance. No, the two of them had been staring at Ishigami for a while, and like many women who couldn't look away from him, they also couldn't look away from him. 

"Oh~! That's Chika's man~! As expected, he is so handsome~! Moeha, try your best to get his information~!" 

"Yes, Toyomi-neechan!" 

Still, Ishigami and Chika didn't realize that they were being tailed since their attention had been on each other. 

More importantly—

"But I didn't expect your casual clothes to be like this, Ishigami-kun." 

Unlike yesterday, Ishigami appeared in manly casual clothes with a black T-shirt, 501 Levis straight jeans in dark indigo, Dr. Martens Monkey boots, and a Carhartt Detroit jacket. 

His steel G-Shock watch on his wrist also made him appear more manly, which made him so much different from his date clothes yesterday. 

Was this his way so no one could tell that he would go on a date with her? 

After all, Ishigami had a girlfriend, so it would be a disaster if the others knew he would go out with her. 

Yet, when he dressed like this, no one would probably connect him with Ishigami, whose photo was shown on Onodera's Instagram. 

"You don't like it?" 

"No, no. It's good. It's good." 

His style was simple, yet Chika loved it so much, but when she thought about why Ishigami dressed like this, her feelings became conflicted. 

"Me too. I also like how you appear in your casual clothes, Senpai." 

Chika was stunned, then looked at him as she tried to hide her smile. "R-Really?" 

"Yes, I think that the title of "Japan perfect heroine" should fit for you." 

Ishigami didn't lie since even if this girl was a bit naughty, she was so adorable.

Unlike his girlfriend, who loved to show off her slender and long legs, Chika was just so feminine and lovely. 

Wearing a white frilly dress, she covered the whiteness of her shoulders with a cute pink cardigan. Her leather shoes matched her overall clothing, increasing her feminity, and she also put her usual black ribbon on her bangs. 

Yet, even if her dress made her cute, it was impossible to hide the womanly quality within her body, especially with how large her breasts were. 

If his girlfriend was a lemon, Tsubame was a cantaloupe, then Chika would be a pomelo. 

"No, that's not enough! Universe perfect heroine should be my title now!" 

"...."

Ishigami felt that he shouldn't praise this girl too much. 

Regardless, after they finished their gelato, Chika looked at Ishigami and asked, "Ishigami-kun, can I borrow your jacket?" She had to admit that it was a bit chilly after she ate the gelato. 

"I remembered someone felt the sun was too intense." 

Chika felt her face burning. "Ishigami-kun!" She wanted to get angry, but when she saw him taking off his jacket and giving it to her, she shut her lips. 

"Here." 

"...thanks." 

His jacket was a man's jacket; naturally, it was bigger on her body, but that didn't make her appear bad. Instead, the oversized jacket made her appear smaller, and this made her cuter. 

Still, when she wore his jacket, it smelled fresh and had a hint of citrus. 

She could tell that it was the scent of his fragrance, and while it was a bit humiliating, she moved her nose slightly, trying to smell this scent from his jacket more. 

Ishigami noticed it, but as a gentleman, he knew he shouldn't mention any of her embarrassments. 

"Should we go now, Senpai?" 

"Yeah, let's go!" 

"I want to see the penguin." 

"Oh, I want to see the dolphin!" 

Their date plan didn't change, and they planned to visit Maxell Aqua Park Shinagawa together. 

If there was a difference, Chika never thought that Ishigami would hold her hand so naturally, as if it were the most casual thing. 

"...Ishigami-kun, are you going to hold my hand like this?" 

She was shy, but at the same time, she was a bit annoyed that he treated the act of holding her hand as if it were nothing. 

Ishigami also realized that he had held Chika's hand because of a habit, but he knew that Chika wasn't his girlfriend and it might be a little too much of him to hold her hand like this, especially when he had a girlfriend, but—

"I am afraid that someone will approach you again later, so let's hold hands." 

"Okay." 

Tsundere! 

Chika thought, thinking that Ishigami might just be afraid that a man would approach them. 

What a possessive man! 

Yet, as she thought so, Chika smiled sweetly, following his lead as she held her hand tightly. 

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It's always sweet in the beginning.