Hello, I’m back with another hamefura short story. This one is an SS material included in the third volume’s special edition. Just as any bonus SS story it’s really short but nevertheless sweet as always. 

The timeline of the story is set during the preperations of the magic academy’s festival, where Katarina and Maria decided to sell Maria’s handmade sweets. 

Raw provided from the taiwanese LN version. Hope you enjoy it!

As the day of the school festival approaches, the preparations are getting worked on. As a result, the workload for me, the student council president, Gerald Stuart, has never been heavier.

Of course I’m not the only one, the other student council members have a whole lot of work to do and are busy.

So it was yet another hectic day in the student council’s office today.

When I was about to finish the confirmation document sent to hand, I was just about to take a break.

“Gerald-sama, if it’s convenient, would you like to try some of these?”

Maria Campbell, a member of the student council, said so, as she offered me some tea and sweets. The timing was perfect. This girl is really smart.

"Thank you. It will be my pleasure.”

I accepted the sweets and tea with a smile. I held it in my hand and saw that it wasn’t a commercially made snack.

“Are those sweets that Maria made by herself?”

Maria’s hobby is making sweets, and she can make delicious snacks to entertain everyone.

“Well, this is actually a trial product to be sold at the Academy Festival. It would be great if you could give us your opinion.”

“The sweets to be sold? Oh, it was Katarina who suggested it, wasn’t it?”

“Yes”

The person who proposed selling Maria’s handmade sweets at the school festival was my fiancée, Katarina. At first, she said she wanted to sell vegetables that she grew herself, but after finally persuading her to dispel her thoughts, now we’re going with this plan.

I felt a little bad for putting the trouble and heavy work on Maria. But fortunately she seemed very happy once we started making them.

So I put the snack she served me kindly in my mouth.

“Huh, what is this?”

I said as I found something running out of the snack’s center. It looked like a piece of paper.

“Ah, at the suggestion of Katarina-sama, I tried to put in something called fortune-telling. I heard it is similar to divination.”

“divination…”

It’s amazing how Katarina occasionally brings up knowledge that even I don’t know, just like now.

I tried to open the small piece of paper that was placed in the snack. The result was that it said:

【Your Heart will be conveyed to your sweetheart in the near future.】

( or: The heart will be communicated to the beloved in the near future.)

I can hardly believe it but… even if it’s just a piece of paper, it made me feel a little better.

But just when my mood improved slightly, my beloved fiancée came running and said, "Ah, Maria, I have been looking for you! How about poem cookies?“ Treating me completely as air, she began to chat familiarly with Maria, who had as always a shy expression.

Completely treated as an outsider, I squeezed within my hand the piece of paper that ran out of the sweets tightly.