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>>43420153
>"Oh, yes you are right. I suppose it's all for the best then."

You say this through partially gritted teeth, unwilling to fully accept her manipulation.

>"Well, hurry up then. It's not every day you get to serve tea to me~."

Trying your best to ignore Yuuka's reveling in your discomfort, you light the stove and put a pot of water on to boil.
The wood takes a little bit of time to ignite due to your general fumbling with the tinder, but you get it going eventually.
Notably, she still hasn't gone back to the front of the shop yet.

>"My~, you are awfully slow with that thing you know. And it'll still take so much time to boil..."

She seems genuinely annoyed at your inablity to boil water faster than nature will allow you to, even though there is quite honestly no other way of doing so.
Her general teasing of you is starting to get more annoying than frightening, given that it seems to amount to nothing more than being passive-aggressive.
Even her general aura has gotten less oppressive now you are used to it.
She sets her umbrella on the table (Thankfully it was dry anyway... so why does she have it?) and walks over to where the pot is.
The water inside is barely warm, but even so the fire underneath will have made the metal too hot to hold for more than a split second, something you found out when making your dinners.
This makes it all the more surprising, when Yuuka lifts the pot straight out of the fire, not even holding it by the handles at the top.

>"Let's try... This~!"

A slight breeze comes over the room, and within seconds the water is steaming and sizzling.
Before you know it, she's started pouring boiling water into the teapot.
You have to remind yourself that letting your jaw hang open is rude.
All the same, the woman who's seemingly intent on pestering you is pouring boiling water from her hands into the teapot, not to mention the fact that she must have used magic to boil it in the first place.
She doesn't even look as if it's a thing that by all logical sense one shouldn't be able to do, like it just comes naturally to her as simple as walking to violate the laws of thermodynamics.

>"All done~!"

Yuuka sets the pots down and turns to face you.
Going by the tone of her voice and the look in her eye, she intends to use every second waiting for the tea to brew to annoy you.
Surprisingly, she just... sits there for a few seconds.
Not entirely sure if this is some kind of psychological trick, you concede to letting her in the back room. It's probably what Kourin would do after all.

>"Ahem. Yuuka, would you like to take a seat?"

You try and break the awkward silence that had filled the room.
Yuuka blinks, and you notice her expression was blank, a contrast to her usual smile.
It was concerning in it's own way, since you had never seen her without it for so long, even if it was for just a minute.
She regained her senses a little, and smiled again, although more gently than before.

>"Ah, thank you."

She took a seat at the dinner table you and your landlord usually had your meals at, in the chair you pulled out for her.
It wasn't like you were being particularly kind to her, but basic courtesy would go a long way in your case.

Sorry again for the short one and the delay, I got tied up with a guy wanting to play a game that I hadn't in a while just as I was sitting down to finish shit off.

Are we halfway to the bump limit already?
That's unusual for a fairly small thread.
It's only been nine hours since it started...

>>43095888
I loved it when this thread didn't have plebbit users shitting on it.<div class="xa23b"><span class="xa23t"></span><span class="xa23i"></span></div>

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