Ordinary I and Extraordinary Them

own during this morning.
She took my hand and proceeded to the front entrance with quick steps.

As we drew nearer to the entrance, the number of people also increased and upon entering, it was overflowing with them.
I was returning.

“……I will go home”

Faced with a large number of people, I immediately felt sick as I dodged the crowd.
As I was about to take the way back to the station, Kaede clung to my arm.

“This won’t do, Nii-san! We just got in”

As if saying she will not let go at any cost, Kaede grasped my arm and proceeded towards the inside.

Shops of different brands lined up on both sides of the passage.
As we approached the centre of the building, a ceiling like that of an atrium entered our vision.
It had reached till the highest floor.

Different from my slowed-down steps, Kaede did not bat an eye to her surroundings.
Did she grasp the position of the store beforehand on the internet or something? There was not a trace of hesitation in her walking.

Like that, we did not stop for one bit and we arrived at the first shop.

“I will buy my dress here”

Kaede informed me so, as she stopped in front of a shop with a female shop assistant standing there.
She was wielding a business smile that did not lose to that of the smile manufacturing machine’s, Yuuto.
Kaede made a small bow to her and entered the shop.

As expected, the inside of the shop had clothes that were aimed at women only.
So, the customers were all females.

Everyone was picking clothes to their liking and sometimes they will enter the fitting room to test them out.

Kaede was also holding on to clothes she seemed to like and then she would confirm her standing posture by putting the clothes against herself before the mirror.

That too, not once or twice, but already a number that had slightly exceeded ten.

Around the time when it looked like it was going to exceed twenty any minute, Kaede turned up at the end of the shop where I was standing.
There were two clothes in her hands.

“Between these two, which one is better?”

In her hands were a pale blue one-piece dress and a casual black jacket.

I somewhat thought that a lighter shade would also be a good choice for Kaede who had a knack for dark colours, but I did not put those thoughts into words.

Preferences are respective.

Clothes bring out one’s individuality the most.
So, it is better to choose from the ones she had chosen for herself.

“……left, I think”

I informed, pointing at the black jacket.

“Does this one not look nice?”

“That is not it, it does look nice, but I think the jacket is better”

“Fumu……understood!”

Finally, Kaede did a visual comparison of the two dresses several times.
She nodded, seemingly having made a decision.
She put back the one-piece to its original position and brought the jacket over to the cash register.

She went over to the register with light footsteps.
As she handed over the goods to the shopkeeper, the two of them were talking about something.

I cannot make out what they are talking about, but she seemed to have been making a happy expression.