[It isn't often that Meridiana goes into the clothing section of the department store; that's less from any sort of disinterest in clothes and more that she's simply learned that she's not likely to find anything particularly to her taste in...well, pretty much any stores outside of one or two niche shops that happen to cater to her particular notions of what fashion means. However, she'll visit the department store for other things (new sewing projects, usually), and sometimes she'll just go and try to spend a few hours there for nothing more than the sake of immersing herself in the consumer goods of a world that so often seems strange to her.
It appears the latter is what she's up to today; though she's got a little basket for herself, there isn't much in it, and she's more just wandering around absently looking at things (and also looking hella cute even if the olive drab doesn't quite work on her as a color) than she is really determined to find anything.
...It also doesn't help that there's a really catchy song playing in the background of this store, and that's going a long way toward distracting her enough to bounce right along with its melody while she shops.
All things considered, she's probably passing through the men's section on her way to a different part of the store, and this was simply the shortest route; the fact that she's going at it relatively quickly is why at first she almost doesn't recognize that she's passed Mr. Tsukiyama standing in an aisle, which is also what makes her stop and do a double-take to see if her glimpse was correct.
...And then she does a triple-take, perfectly timed with the clatter of her basket hitting the floor, because what on earth...?]
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It appears the latter is what she's up to today; though she's got a little basket for herself, there isn't much in it, and she's more just wandering around absently looking at things (and also looking hella cute even if the olive drab doesn't quite work on her as a color) than she is really determined to find anything.
...It also doesn't help that there's a really catchy song playing in the background of this store, and that's going a long way toward distracting her enough to bounce right along with its melody while she shops.
All things considered, she's probably passing through the men's section on her way to a different part of the store, and this was simply the shortest route; the fact that she's going at it relatively quickly is why at first she almost doesn't recognize that she's passed Mr. Tsukiyama standing in an aisle, which is also what makes her stop and do a double-take to see if her glimpse was correct.
...And then she does a triple-take, perfectly timed with the clatter of her basket hitting the floor, because what on earth...?]
Oh...!
[No, really, what in the world...?]