Shaved Ice

Lemon

Strawberry

「Thanks for the food.」 With the silver spoon, I first take a small scoop and try putting it in my mouth. ...It's sweet. The ice melts in your mouth, and at the same time, it takes hold of the heat inside, and when you swallow, an exceptionally cool sensation passes through your dry throat. This is pretty good. One thing that bothers me is that this syrup, I can't taste a strawberry flavor at all. Though the flavor isn't bad. This time with the white dango. Yes. The softness of the white dango, the crunchiness feeling of the ice, and this unfamiliar flavor of the syrup. I don't really understand, but it's delicious. One bite, and another, the red mountain of ice had begun to crumble. For it to be this sweet, was there something strange put in it? As I was absorbed in eating, suddenly a pain shot through my head. Had something been put in it after all? 「Aaah. If you devour it like that you'll get brain freeze y'know.」 The kappa who had suddenly been sitting next to me had said, laughing with a smirked smile. Is that what this is...?

I can't trust her, but I haven't come this far to not eat anything so, I'll settle for this for now. Though, I don't really know what to order. As to not be noticed, only my eyes swam around to see if they couldn't find something. Beneath the stand were signs that read, melon, strawberry, and lemon. I don't know what 'melon' is, but it's followed by strawberry and lemon, so it's probably a fruit right? 「So, the strawberry, um, about how many are in it?」 「Huh? Ah, do you perhaps not know about frozen sweets?」

The frozen sweets, it seems to be some round ice that's finely shaved in some machine I don't really understand. And at the end, they pour some kind of amazingly colored syrup over it. Strawberries, do they turn this kind of color when squeezed? 「Here you go. This kind of resembles that thing of yours, so take this white dango as a freebie.」 A deep glass dish with a single leg attached is densely filled with white, finely shaved ice. The temperature from the ice in the glass dish was so cold, it gradually became painful to hold. To be honest, the red syrup that was almost painful to the eyes wasn't very appealing. Maybe it's trendy? Though to be given a freebie, maybe there are some good youkai out there.