After finding a flat spot, they set up the hut and went inside. Everything was just as it had been in the morning, with the workbench still in place. Senju placed a chest in the middle of the two beds near the wall, intending to store some unused items in it.
While Senju was busy organizing, Yuuri started preparing food. However, from the looks of it, she intended for everyone to eat dry food and meat directly. Chito, noticing this, went over to help. Together, they cooked some fish stew, with dry food as the staple for the meal.
When they finished the meal, Senju transferred some useful and unused items from his inventory to the chest and then taught Yuuri and Chito, who were next to him, how to use it.
However, the two of them didn't have anything to store in it; their belongings were generally in their backpacks, and some could be kept in the cabin. They didn't need the chest for now and would only use it after acquiring more items later.
After eating, the two of them did not take a bath, but stared at Senju, and Senju also understood what the two of them meant, and today they were going to open yesterday's tea and snacks.
Senju placed a blanket in the open space in the middle, then set a small table on top of it and covered it with a quilt. The whole setup became a kotatsu, but it didn't have a heater inside.
After placing a thin layer of wood on the quilt, Chito and Yuuri took off their shoes and skillfully got in. Once the two of them were lying comfortably at the table, Senju placed a plate of snacks on it, and they slowly grabbed and ate them.
"It's so delicious, Chii-chan," Yuuri said, lying on the table and eating snacks, her face becoming round.
"Yes, Yuu, and there will be tea and milk to drink later," Chito replied.
After making a pot of tea on one side, Senju came over with three ceramic cups, and after putting the teapot and cup away, Senju also sat down in the kotatsu from the other side, and there was already some warmth inside.
After Senju poured a cup of hot tea for each person, the three of them held the teacups and slowly ate snacks on the table, taking a few sips of tea by the way.
"Ah, what happiness, bliss~," Yuuri lay there lazily and happily.
"Well, the dim sum is still so delicious, it's as if it was just made,it's so sweet," Chito sighed as she slowly bit into the dim sum.
"Well, if only I could make more, I'd eat it every day," Yuuri took a sip of tea. "And this tea is good, it feels very warm."
"By the way, there's something else to drink, Yuuri, would you like to try it?" Senju remembered that the bottles he found in those tin boxes were supposed to be something to drink, containing coffee, brown sugar, some sugar cubes, and some unknown powder.
(T/L: Interesting, is it white?")
"Whoa~ is it food that I haven't tried drank? Let me try it!" Yuuri cheered up and sat up straight as she looked at Senju.
"Okay, Yuuri, just wait a minute," Senju got up from the kotatsu, and then took out a teapot of coffee and glass, ready to make coffee.
However, Senju didn't know how to make the coffee, so after hesitating for a while, he added a spoonful of coffee to it, and then brewed it with hot water and treated it like tea.
In the end, it was a pot of strangely colored liquid, dark and black, which looked very bitter. After thinking about it for a moment, Senju took out a few sugar cubes, put them in a cup, and then placed it in front of Yuuri.
"Taste it, it should delicious," Senju said in a kind gesture as he poured Yuuri a cup of coffee, the black liquid in it making Yuuri feel strange.
"Can you really drink this?" Yuuri looked at it and sniffed again, "It does smell good."
"Of course, you can see that the milk is white and the tea is green, so of course you can drink this black one." Senju shoved the coffee towards her.
(T/L: That's a weird logic, but ok.)
"Really, then I'll taste it," Yuuri took a small sip carefully, and instantly a bitter taste filled her mouth, Yuuri puffed up and wanted to spit it out, but looking at Chito lying next to her, she had to swallow the liquid.
*Gulp*
"Bleh, this is bitter," Yuuri glared at Senju, who pretended to remember and put the sugar cube on it, "By the way, this should sweeten it, these are sugar."
"Is this also sugar? I'll taste it," Yuuri picked up a piece and stuffed it into her mouth, "Well, it's delicious, Chii-chan come and taste it too."
Chito also took a piece and ate it, "Well, this is indeed sugar, so sweet."
"These are all in the coffee and mixed together," Senju wanted the two of them to drink coffee once, but Yuuri was a little skeptical.
"Really, it tastes good together?"
"Of course, Chito and Yuuri should have a drink."
"Alright, but Senju has to drink it with us~" Yuuri stared at Senju to see what he was up to.
"Hmm, alright." Senju had to put the tears in his stomach, then poured himself a cup of bitter coffee, and dranked it down his stomach.
He took two sugar cubes, stirred them with a spoon for a while, and then he took a sip, which was not as bitter as he imagined, but had a mellow and sweet taste.
*Haa~*
The two people next to him also learned to put sugar into their cups and drank it, and their faces were full of confusion, "Strange taste, bitter and sweet, and a kind of fragrance."
After drinking, everyone was in good spirits, sitting there eating snacks, but the snacks were quickly finished, and everyone was still not sleepy.
"Well, that's weird, Chii-chan, I don't want to sleep at all now, I should do something," Yuuri shrank under the kotatsu after eating her snack, but after she lay down for a while, she found that she was still refreshed and very bored.
(T/L: Well it is caffeine, working adults best friend from what I have heard.)
"You've eaten too much, isn't there a limit?" Chito said, beginning to write in her diary on one side, while Yuuri completely burrowed under the table on the other side. Chito felt her feet being pressed a few times, and Senju seemed to feel the same.
"What's the matter? Wah!" Chito was surprised to find that Yuuri was missing. Then, she saw Yuuri emerging from under her quilt, and immediately shoved her back with her hand. "Go back, it's too crowded. The table will turn over. Baka Yuu."
Senju also noticed the mess on the table and quickly picked up the wooden plank to prevent the cup from tipping over. As he cleared the things on it, he saw that Yuuri had dragged Chito into the kotatsu, and the two of them were lying there, arms around each other.
"Let's sleep here tonight, it's warm and comfortable."
"Yuu, don't say stupid things. The bed is right next to us, go to sleep there."
"Alas~ Chii-chan is so boring. It's obviously much more comfortable here."
"Yes, I'm going to bed. Let go of me, it's warmer in the quilt than here."
"Ehh, Senju~ Chii-chan is being mean, do you want to join in?"
"No, I'm preparing milk right now. Do you two want some?" Senju asked as he came with the milk.
"Me! Me! Me!" Yuuri immediately rushed out of the kotatsu to get some milk.
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Been to long hasn't it? Since all schoolwork is officially done(and no personal problems), I'm continuing this!
Well till New Years come, since I will be away... But I'll try my best to pump chapters till I can
Also do tell me if there is any discrepancies in some words, I may have forgotten some of them hehehe...