Bessatsu Toshokan Sensou 1, page 14
"Hey... Hey!" Doujou's tone was worried, but Iku didn't have the spare attention to answer him.
Her gaze was fixed on the red globe ten centimeters from her face.
"If you can't do it, just let me!"
"Please don't talk, you'll distract me. Even I should be able to..."
"At least slice it before you peel it! It's easier that way!"
It's easy, he said. He might as well have said that women were obsolete. Iku grew more and more stubborn.
She had seen Shibasaki peeling a whole apple or Asian pear countless times.
"I'm trying to make an impression, okay!?"
"You're certainly not going to make one with your arms and shoulders stiff as a board! And you shouldn't have the apple that close to your eyes anyway!" Doujou squinched his eyes shut as if to block out some terrifying sight. "How long are you going to keep my blood pressure up for, anyway? I've been enduring this for the last fifteen minutes, and you're not even a third of the way through! Just admit defeat already!"
"I understand, I'll go faster!"
"No! Don't do it, you idiot!"
But Doujou was a split second too late.
Her gaze was fixed on the red globe ten centimeters from her face.
"If you can't do it, just let me!"
"Please don't talk, you'll distract me. Even I should be able to..."
"At least slice it before you peel it! It's easier that way!"
It's easy, he said. He might as well have said that women were obsolete. Iku grew more and more stubborn.
She had seen Shibasaki peeling a whole apple or Asian pear countless times.
"I'm trying to make an impression, okay!?"
"You're certainly not going to make one with your arms and shoulders stiff as a board! And you shouldn't have the apple that close to your eyes anyway!" Doujou squinched his eyes shut as if to block out some terrifying sight. "How long are you going to keep my blood pressure up for, anyway? I've been enduring this for the last fifteen minutes, and you're not even a third of the way through! Just admit defeat already!"
"I understand, I'll go faster!"
"No! Don't do it, you idiot!"
But Doujou was a split second too late.