21st Century Necromancer

Chapter 108 Grocery Shopping (Please Recommend, Please Collect)

When Chen Yu received a call from Tsuchimikado Yoshiharu, he was selecting furniture with Jounouchi Hiromi.

Since rental homes in Japan don't come with furniture, all household items including daily necessities had to be purchased anew. Although both of them had their respective belongings, living together was markedly different from living alone, and so they needed to acquire many additional items.

"Mr. Chen Yu, whose call was that?" asked Jounouchi Hiromi curiously, noticing the excited expression on Chen Yu's face after he took the call.

"Oh, it's nothing, just a friend." Chen Yu reassured her with a smile after hearing Jounouchi Hiromi's query, "I asked a friend to prepare some items for me, and he just called to let me know that everything I requested is ready."

"Oh~!" Jounouchi Hiromi deliberately elongated her "oh" with a knowing look, as if she saw right through him, "It's not going to be something like the horse bones you bought from Inomata-san last time, is it? If it's that kind of thing, I absolutely won't allow you to bring it home!"

While speaking, Jounouchi Hiromi also put on a serious face and emphasized her point by waving a finger in front of Chen Yu.

"Don't worry, it's not something I'll bring home." Chen Yu assured Jounouchi Hiromi, finding her deliberately feigned attitude not annoying but rather amusing, adding a touch of fun to their relationship.

And indeed, he wasn't lying; of course, the ritual site wasn't something you'd bring home. The Necromantic Space built through the ritual site and the equipment housing the Necromancer - those were the things Chen Yu would bring home.

However, more pressing at the moment was choosing the appropriate items before them. Picking up a rather elegant glass cup from the shelf, Chen Yu asked Jounouchi Hiromi, "Hiromi, what do you think of this cup? It looks like we need to get some more cups for the two of us to use."

"How are we going to carry all this back?" Chen Yu glanced at the pile of items before him with a touch of distress, as they seemed to have inadvertently bought too much.

Carrying everything home wouldn't be an issue for him. With his current physical condition, he could carry the entire load and even take his girlfriend over one shoulder. However, the problem was clearly not about strength and weight.

"Hm, carrying it all back would be troublesome, wouldn't it? Even though we've already got the keys to the new place and could leave the things there, still, how would we manage to carry so much?" Jounouchi Hiromi also seemed a bit troubled—indeed, they had somewhat over-purchased.

The majority of the items weren't particularly troubling, but the rice cooker and frying pan that were part of the kitchenware took up considerable space. Especially since Jounouchi Hiromi had also bought a mop and bucket for cleaning, making their pile look even more substantial.

"It feels like we should buy a car if we're going to live together." Chen Yu couldn't help but mention this need, considering that while living alone, he could manage easily, but with two people, life's demands increased and having a car would make situations like today much simpler.

"Let's talk about buying a car later. You can't possibly go buy a car now to load up all these things and drive back home, can you?" Although Jounouchi Hiromi agreed that purchasing a car was necessary, she shook her head—it obviously wouldn't solve their current dilemma.

"Then should we call a taxi?" Chen Yu suggested to Jounouchi Hiromi. They clearly couldn't both carry this mountain of items and squeeze onto the crowded Tokyo subway, where the density could squish a person flat. It was one thing to jostle in the crowd usually but quite another with so many purchases—riding the subway was out of the question.

Although Jounouchi Hiromi was reluctant to spend money on a taxi, under the circumstances, she nodded in agreement, "Then let's call a taxi. There's really no other way at this point."

Seeing Jounouchi Hiromi's reluctance to part with her money, Chen Yu flagged down a taxi by the roadside, and couldn't help but think to himself that maybe he should consider crafting a "Space Ring", a typical storage accessory found in novels?