บท 139: Feeding from Gabriel
Department store.
"Do you have anything you want to buy? If there is, just buy it now."
While saying that, Gabriel took a bag of potato chips and put it in the basket that Ren brought.
Even though the purpose of coming to a convenience store is to buy groceries, she still need to buy some other things.
For example, snacks and the like can simply replenish home supplies that have run out.
Of course, she paid for the snacks herself, and they weren't included in the one billion yen balance. But if Ren ate it, the money spent on the snacks he ate would be included.
The cost of living is not high enough to support Ren.
"No."
Ren shook his head and continued following Gabriel, fulfilling his obligation to carry the goods.
The purpose of his coming here was to delay, and there was no need to buy anything.
"Okay."
Gabriel took a bag of potato chips she had never tried before and put them in the basket.
"I have never tasted this taste before. Come buy it and try it together."
"Um."
Ren answered very casually.
After getting the answer she wanted, Gabriel began selecting from the shelves.
She didn't ask that question for no reason, she asked it to save money.
After all, that bag of potato chips was a new flavor that she had never tried before, and she didn't know whether it was delicious or not.
What if it doesn't taste good?
To be safe, she should let Ren try the new potato chip flavor with her.
Since the two of them were eating together, it wasn't too expensive for her to pay half the price of potato chips.
In this way, if the new taste is delicious, Ren only spends half his money to eat it, which can be said to be a real profit.
And if it doesn't taste good, then Ren only spends half of the money, which is not a big loss, and can avoid pitfalls later on.
Overall, having a snack with Ren was definitely a worthwhile option.
That's why when Gabriel ate snacks, she would take the initiative to give some to Ren, and then secretly deduct half of the snack money from the one billion yen balance.
Regarding using Ren in this way, would she feel guilty?
To be honest, there are still some.
After all, it's not good to just deduct a billion yen balance without saying anything.
There was no other choice, the cost of living was dwindling for some reason, and Gabriel didn't have enough to buy snacks.
Luckily, Ren was responsible for paying for three meals a day.
Otherwise, she might have been working to make money by now.
However, it didn't matter, she was confident that she would be able to pay back the money she had personally deducted in the future.
This is her confidence as an angel.
Gabriel didn't believe that as an angel, she could pay more money than a human.
What a joke!
Under the influence of this thought, Gabriel continued to choose without hesitation.
Anyway, she would definitely be able to pay it back in the future, so it didn't matter if she bought more now.
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After a while, Gabriel and Ren, who were carrying two large bags, came out of the convenience store with a "Welcome to your next visit" greeting from the clerk.
Seeing Ren carrying two heavy looking bags with ease, Gabriel had no idea to help.
This was the punishment she gave him for carrying things.
Therefore, she would never take the initiative to help him until he couldn't stand it anymore.
On the way home, after staring at him for a while, Gabriel finally couldn't hold it in anymore.
As an angel, how could she just look at him and ignore him.
So, Gabriel reached out her hand and took out a bag of potato chips from the bag Ren was holding, which really helped lighten his load.
It definitely wasn't because she was curious about the taste of this new flavor of potato chips.
After tearing the potato chips, Gabriel took a piece of potato chip and put it in her mouth.
The uncivilized behavior of walking while eating was of course ignored by her.
"It feels good."
After carefully tasting the taste, Gabriel gave it a good review.
"Kamikawa, try it."
After saying that, she handed the potato chips to Ren.
"…"
Seeing the snacks that Gabriel shared, Ren wanted to try it.
Unfortunately, he was holding the bag with both hands so it was difficult to hold it easily.
After thinking about it for a moment, Ren readily put down his bag and let go of his hand.
He didn't want to disappoint Gabriel's kindness.
But before he could put the items away, Gabriel suddenly remembered that Ren was still holding the items with both hands.
"Ah, I almost forgot, you can't accept it now."
So, Gabriel took a piece of potato chip and brought it to Ren's mouth.
"Open your mouth."
Looking at the potato chips brought to his mouth by Gabriel, Ren hesitated for a moment, then opened his mouth and ate the potato chips.
It seemed like this was the first time he had been fed like this.
"How?"
Pulling back her hand, Gabriel asked hopefully.
"Delicious."
In fact, Ren finds potato chips unpalatable.
But Gabriel said it was delicious, so these potato chips should be the kind that even ordinary people would feel delicious after eating.
"It seems I still have a good outlook on things."
After praising herself, Gabriel grabbed another potato chip and started eating.
"By the way, Kamikawa, how tall are you?"
As she fed Ren potato chips again, Gabriel noticed that he seemed much taller than her.
"174 centimeters."
Ren is still very clear about his height.
"30 centimeters taller than me."
Gabriel quickly remembered her height and was a little surprised.
"Um."
As an Esper, Ren doesn't care about things like height.
Because as long as he wants, he can make his height reach whatever height he wants, whether it is a giant tens of meters high or as tall as Gabriel.
This is his normal height without any modification.
If analyzed based on normal human height growth, he will probably continue to grow taller in the future.
After all, he was only 16 years old and was still in the development stage.
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"Finally got home."
Opening the door, Gabriel couldn't wait to run into the room.
Ren who followed her, walked in slowly, as soon as he put down his two bags, his cell phone vibrated in his pocket.
He took out his cell phone and opened it to see a message from Vigne.
Vigne: [We are ready. You can bring Gab here]
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