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"Great, I've found a nice shop."

Seeing that the group was about to leave, Mizuki Usami, who was cleaning up the disposable teacups left on the table, quickly stopped them:

"Wait a minute, the president just told me that if you want to leave, we have to stop you."

"Why?" Hirasawa Yui asked instinctively.

"Because... it's a secret!"

"You're stingy? You didn't even know that?"

"Hmph... Trying to provoke me won't work."

The group waited in the conference room for about twenty minutes before Miyamori Aoi strode in from outside.

"I'm sorry to have kept you waiting. Please come with me."

"Ms. Miyamori, what's going on?" Ritsu Tainaka asked curiously.

"It's not a bad thing. Anyway, let's line up outside the president's office first."

There were about ten people standing outside the Masakatsu office. After waiting for about a minute, they pushed the door open and went in together.

"Oh my god...! Santa Claus!"

In one corner of the office, there were many beautifully packaged gift boxes, and Masamune was holding a list and sketching it out.

Mashiro, on the other hand, was dressed as a female Santa Claus, wearing a red cotton coat that was appropriate for the current season on the top, a short skirt on the bottom, black cotton stockings on her legs, and white ankle boots on her feet.

"So Santa Claus really does exist!" Yui Hirasawa murmured to herself.

"I really want to complain about you, but you really look beautiful like this." Ritsu Tainaka excitedly looked Mashiro up and down. "Mio, how about wearing this Santa Claus outfit on stage for next Christmas?"

"No! It's too embarrassing." Akiyama Mio didn't hesitate at all.

As they were talking, Mashiro accepted the gift from Masamune and walked towards Hirasawa Yui.

"Merry Christmas, Wei."

"I received a present from Santa Claus! Thank you, Mashiro."

"Mio, Merry Christmas."

"Thank you, Mashiro looks very beautiful in this outfit, it suits you very well."

After the third floor was finished, the employees on the fourth floor lined up in front of Masamune's office, as arranged by Aoi Miyamori.

……

"Merry Christmas, Mr. Maitake."

As evening fell, in Mairou's living room, Mairou looked at Mashiro dressed as a female Santa Claus and Masamune dressed as a reindeer, and a slight look of surprise appeared on her face.

"I never expected that I would receive a gift from Santa Claus at my age."

"Miyamori asked me on the phone before what gift I would want if Santa Claus really existed. I thought it was related to next year's anime, but it turns out that Santa Claus is really coming."

“This is a return gift for the previous birthday banquet,” Masamune said with a smile. “Although I would love to talk to you in detail, we still have more than a dozen places to visit. Let’s discuss it further when we get to the company.”

"Thank you, Santa, for the present."

Watching the two leave, Maizo and his wife exchanged a smile.

Back inside the car, which was decorated with stickers of sleds and snowflakes, Masamune crossed out Maitake's name from the list and pondered:

"Are there eleven people left? We've already been to Fujinomiya and Karasuma. The Adagaki family is just a short distance from our house. Let's go there last."

"Arima Kousei should be visiting someone in the hospital right now. I'll visit Miyazono Kaori later; she can be put second to last."

Although Kaori Miyazono did not attend her previous birthday party due to health reasons, she asked Kousei Arima to bring her a gift, so Masamune prepared a return gift in return.

"Chiba Prefecture is too far away. Following the principle of tackling the difficult first, let's go directly to Chiba next."

"Okay, whatever you say."

Masamune stepped on the gas, and the car sped away.

"It's a pity that it didn't snow today. According to the weather forecast, it won't snow tomorrow either. It just doesn't feel right with the atmosphere."

To this end, Masamune decorated the outside of the car with many snowflake stickers and sled decorations on the front.

The car drove away from Tokyo and headed straight for Chiba.

dong dong...

Upon hearing the knock on the door, Komachi Hikigaya froze on the spot after opening it.

"Santa Claus, and reindeer?"

"Komachi, is your brother home?"

"Writing light novels in my room."

"Hey...hey...!? President Hayase, what's with this outfit?"

“Didn’t your brother attend Mashiro’s birthday party before? This is a return gift.”

Hikigaya Komachi then looked at Mashiro, sizing her up and down with surprise in her eyes.

What an "amazing" outfit!

Regardless of the color of the clothes themselves.

They're incredibly shameless to be able to wear this outfit out in public without caring what others think.

"Wow, that's amazing! It's really amazing! I wish I had gone to Mashiro-neechan's birthday party before."

"Next year isn't too late."

After entering the house, Masamune took out a gift box with the name Hikigaya Komachi on it from the bag and handed it to Mashiro.

"Merry Christmas, Komachi."

"I...can I really accept this? I felt a little embarrassed because I didn't know Mashiro-neechan before, so I didn't attend your birthday party."

"It's okay, it's not too late to get to know each other now."

"Thank you, but I feel a little embarrassed."

Hikigaya Komachi lowered her head slightly to hide her shyness.

"Wait a moment, I'll go call my brother out."

"No, please take us to his room."

"…Alright."

After thinking it over for a while, Komachi felt that there was nothing shameful in her brother's room, and nodded slightly.

"Brother's room is over here, please follow me."

Thump thump…!

"Brother, open the door."

"What's wrong? Komachi, the door's unlocked, just come in."

"I'm just trying to prevent my brother from doing something shady."

What shameful things could I possibly do?

The next moment, the door was gently pushed open, and Hachiman Hikigaya's voice came to an abrupt halt.

"What brings you here? And why are you all dressed like that!"

"Merry Christmas, Hachiman Hikigaya."

"Thank you."

Hachiman Hikigaya blankly accepted the gift box from Mashiro, then quickly recovered and thanked her again.

Is this a return gift for my previous birthday present?

“That’s right, exactly,” Masamune said with a smile.

"It must be very tiring to deliver gifts to so many people one by one, right?"

"No, most of them are company employees, and there are only about twenty people from outside the company. If you plan your route in advance, it's not too difficult."

"So, you're going to go find Yukinoshita and Yuihama later?"

"Yes."

"Thank you for your hard work."

At that moment, Hachiman Hikigaya inexplicably thought of Yoshiteru Zaimokuza from the anime.

Although the anime storyline is fictional, a similar incident happened in real life not long ago. At that time, Zaimokuza went to the Service Club for help and kept looking at himself the whole time.

At this moment, he was exactly the same as Zaimokuza back then, both looking at Masamune, completely too embarrassed to look at Mashiro next to him.

"I'm sorry, Zaimokuza, I misunderstood you before."

'Although the reasons are different, this kind of atmosphere really only allows for conversations with boys.'

But not talking at all also feels inappropriate.

Thinking of this, Hachiman Hikigaya turned to look at Mashiro and bowed slightly:

"Thank you, Santa Claus, for the gift, Ms. Mashiro. I will cherish it."

"Keep up the good work on the novel."

"After Santa Claus said that to me, I feel like I can't be lazy anymore." Hachiman Hikigaya chuckled and then said, "Hayase, I've already written three chapters of the chuunibyou novel. I can write all day during these few days of vacation, and I should be able to finish the first volume before the end of the year. I'll proofread it and send it to you later."

"No problem, we can discuss it in more detail later."

Chapter 89 Presenting a Christmas Gift to Lord Masamune

"I'm so exhausted today."

Around midnight, Masamune lay exhausted in bed, his mind replaying everything that had happened that day.

'Come to think of it, I'm not a particularly diligent person, so why am I running around with Mashiro?'

'It's certainly fun, but it's also incredibly tiring. It feels like a single day drains a month's worth of energy.'