After transferring lifts from the base and returning once again to the beginner area at the summit, I slid my board over to where the two of them were still completely frozen in place on the snow.

"Hey, hey, princesses. Even if you’re mesmerized by my riding, if you keep sitting on the snow like that, your butts are gonna freeze."

I took off my board and called out with a light laugh, and the two of them flinched, their shoulders trembling.

"S-Shizuku... You fell from something like a cliff like that... and you’re alive!?"

"Haha, in snowboarding you don’t fall, you ride. Come on, can you stand?"

I held out my hand to Anju, who had a tearful, flushed face.

Letting out a small yelp, she timidly took my relatively large 'for a six-year-old' hand and stood up on trembling legs.

"Shizuku-chan... I can’t stand either..."

Right on cue, Aoi stretched out both hands toward me, looking up.

For someone who had just been emitting dark killing intent toward the surrounding crowd, her performance as a perfectly fragile girl was flawless.

"Yeah, yeah. You’re covered in snow too."

I pulled Aoi up as well, then brushed the snow off both of their expensive outfits with efficient, practiced movements.

"Alright, let’s take a break for now. We’re heading to the rest house. Mom should’ve grabbed us seats inside."

"O-Okay..."

"...Yes, that sounds fine."

Still dazed and unsteady on their feet, I firmly supported both of them from either side with my arms 'like when I carried drunk juniors to a taxi in my previous life' and escorted them into the heated rest house.

* * *

"Oh, Mom. Over here."

At a window-side booth in the rest house, where my mom had already placed our belongings, I sat Anju and Aoi down across from her.

"My, my, you two are bright red. Shizuku, you didn’t scare them by doing something reckless, did you?"

"I was just riding normally. More importantly, these two are freezing."

Taking off my snowboarding gloves, I looked at their hands.

Their cute gloves were soaked from snow getting in through the gaps at the wrists while they sat on the ground.

"Here, give me your gloves. Snow got in, right? If you leave it like that, you’ll get frostbite."

I placed my hands over theirs and gently but firmly removed the wet gloves.

"Ah..."

"Shizuku-chan...♡"

Their small hands, now exposed, were red and numb from the cold.

I wrapped both of their hands in mine, blew warm air onto them, and gently massaged them to restore circulation.

It was the same “cold-weather care combo” I used effortlessly on beginners who were on the verge of crying from the cold back in my previous life.

"Shizuku, doing this in public... it’s embarrassing!"

Anju’s face boiled red like a steamed octopus as she worried about the eyes of the surrounding customers—but she made no move to pull her hands away.

'...Shizuku-chan’s breath... her hands are warm. She’s warming me so gently... my Shizuku-chan... only mine…’

As for Aoi, she had completely surpassed her limits, her pupils dilating as she nearly melted, looking like she might rub her cheek against my hands.

"What’s wrong, Aoi? You look weird. Still cold? Wait here, I’ll get something warm."

Completely unaware that she was just going full yandere, I stood up and headed toward the snack stand.

* * *

A few minutes later.

"Here, sorry to keep you waiting. Special hot cocoa. I added marshmallows too."

I placed three steaming paper cups on the table.

"Wow... thank you, Shizuku-chan!"

"I-I’ll graciously accept it... Nanase-san."

Because of the surrounding eyes, Anju switched back to calling me Nanase-san, but the tremor and heat in her voice were impossible to hide.

Watching the two of them cup their drinks with both hands and sip happily, I nodded in satisfaction.

"Girls shouldn’t let their bodies get cold. Warm yourselves from the inside properly."

I gave them the exact same “competent senior smile” I used back in my office days when bringing warm drinks to female coworkers freezing under the air conditioning.

'...Ah, I’m done for. I’m absolutely going to become Shizuku’s bride... Even if I have to mobilize all the power of the Hojo family, I’ll make this person mine!'

'The cocoa Shizuku-chan bought... it tastes like Shizuku-chan...♡ Now her blood is flowing through me too...♡'

A tsundere who had completely broken past her limits, and a yandere who could turn even sugar into madness.

From nearby tables, whispers could be heard.

"That black-haired girl is ridiculously handsome..."

"She’s got two beauties with her... she’s definitely going to grow up into a dangerous heartbreaker..."

At the center of that chaos—my mom, watching from the best seat in the house as her daughter displayed absurd escort skills while noble girls lost their souls over her, took a sip of her coffee and muttered with distant eyes.

"...This kid was definitely a number-one host in her past life. ...I give up. Do whatever you want."

Faced with the sight of her daughter unconsciously charming multiple girls, my mom had reached a state of complete resignation.

"Phew! Nothing beats something sweet after the snow! Alright, once we’re warmed up, which course should we hit next?"

As I cheerfully finished my cocoa and smiled, the two girls nodded at the same time with trance-like voices.

“"We’ll follow you anywhere."”