I Just Wanted to Have a Peaceful Picnic (2)

That distinctive hand gesture, with her thumb and index finger crossed over each other.

‘A finger heart?’

But would Maron even know about finger hearts?

‘This is a world that’s both a subculture game and a romance fantasy.’

Neither side of that equation had anything to do with finger hearts.

So was it a hand gesture meant to express some other positive feeling, rather than affection?

‘Well, Maron probably wasn’t insulting me.’

I wasn’t sure, so I simply returned the same gesture.

Even if the gesture meant something else, it had been a while since I’d made a finger heart for a girl, and it made my heart flutter in a strange way.

Maron blinked...