Volume 5 Chapter 1 (2/2)
Even with a sweatshi+rt and a jersey training pant, February physical education was tough The light jogging to warh the space in the cloth, so it ended up beinghot air into her cupped hands, Yuers as she ran
Because today, they were going to play basketball
”Of course” Tsutako-san laughed heartily
”Yoshi+no-san and shi+ for trying to use them as an example”
”Hmm”
Yuroaned; she didn't need to be told that It was the afternoon of the day shi+mako-san had told her, ”I', Tsutako-san pointed her pocket-sized camera at Yumi in the hallway
”But there's no point in asking me, either Unfortunately, I have neither an older sister nor little sister”
Yu, anyways
”Tsutako-san, don't you have anyone you look up to in your club, at least?”
”Nope”
An i her face away from her camera And then she said, ”Who do you think I am?”
”The photography club ace, Takeshi+ma Tsutako-san”
”Exactly”
Her fralimmered
”Do you think there's soraphy skills?”
Tsutako-san's answer seemed a bit off the mark from the question She'd taken ”look up to” as ”respect,” and then taken that to a ”goal” perspective Though in her case, itcondition for a senpai would be someone better than her, so in a way, it wasn't really that off
”Oh, what a shaht”
”Like Yoshi+no-san? Please”
Feeling daunted by just the prospects of it, Tsutako-san pulled her head back Maybe she re of which, Tsutako-san coinators aside, and instead rebuked the follow-up break-up sisters
Think about it, said Tsutako-san as her eyes glittered
”Lillian is filled onderful students Do you think I can narrow that down to a single person? First of all, think about ould happen if I found a sibling What if an obstacle were to arise, like her de I only take pictures of her?” ”I see”
Which meant Tsutako-san had resolved to be alone for the whole three years What a splendid resolve, or so Because on the other hand, it also ht she should re-think her peeping photos, though
(However)
As expected, Tsutako-san wouldn't be any help, either Yuy, Tsutako-san gave a point of advice
”You et advice if you ask Katsura-san and others, but it'd be a waste of effort to ask”
”Why?”
”Oh, can't you iine it now, the stereotypical Valentine's Day”
”Mmm”
True -Though that's a bit rude to Katsura-san But Katsura-san and the others really did try to live a fairy-tale school life Butoff the wall for them
”Yu for, and start over again”
”What I was actually looking for?”
”Why're you gathering infor chocolate to is so big, right? So you want to set everything up perfectly, right? Then there's no point in asking normal students Really, the only people who could possibly be of any help would be those in the Rose Mansion, aht?”
”But Yoshi+no-san and shi+mako-san were of no help”
”Why do you have to ask first-years?”
”What? But I'm a first-year…”
Mumbled Yuer
”Second-years and third-years experienced being first-years, too”
She said
”Chocolate for onee-saave her some last year, why?”
After finishi+ng her cleaning duty, Yu at the back of the school and caught Rei-saan
”Ah, u for soive her a super large chocolate cake, did you?”
”Oh co that to school”
Rei-sama cackled, thenproud Oh, no Rei-saet how Yoshi+no-san feels, at all She wasn't bragging about the super large chocolate cake, but rather quite the opposite
But Yoshi+no-san's agony wasn't important here, so Yumi felt sorry for her, but decided to leave it aside
”Indeed”
She concurred, laughing, hahahah
”Just a trite thing So”
Using her thuers, Rei-sa that size could be called ”trite,” and it would be perfectly safe to bring to school
In a sense, her treatment of Yoshi+no-san and Rosa Foetida ildly different, but on the other hand, the only person she could hbor And of course, to Yoshi+no-san, that could also be called a ”heavy burden”
Finally, soht Tsutako-san was right, after all Indeed, things went s people ere first-years last year Plus, since it was in the past, there was the added bonus of knowing the effects So she could ask the onee-sama who received the chocolate, and would be able to set up a perfect Valentine's Day
Last year, Rei-sama was the sister of a bouton, like Yumi, so she was the perfect person to ask And only because there was no way she could ask Sachiko-saive the chocolate to
”So as it?”
She asked, excited Pure chocolate by a famous chocolate company? Adult-flavored chocolate bonbons?
”What was it? Oh, the chocolate?”
In Yu back to the departh-class chocolate inboxes seemed like such a perfect fit
”Umm, if I may ask, for reference's sake”
What would she do if she were told, they were dried-plum-sized chocolate worth several hundred yen? But the opponent was Sachiko-saht not fit her tastes But at the same time, Yumi decided that if she'd have to use up her New Year's money, she would, and that's when Rei-sama answered
”Bitter chocolate truffles I think six in a box”
”Truffles”
What an expensive echo The little, dried-pluht have had that name too, yes, and they were absurdly expensive
And Yu in her head
If they were 200 yen each, it'd be 1,200 yen
300 yen would be 1,800 yen
400 yen would be 2,400 yen
500 yen would be- she stopped She felt a bit faint Because for a co 3,000 yen was unbelievable
Even though she attended a ladies' school, it was troublesoether Because each household had different fortunes and assets She knew this from the start, but when she visited Sachiko-sama's house over New Year's, it was really hammered home
Even though they both lived in japan, and both attended the same school, they were really, really different in terms of value Not that she was dissatisfied with her ho
”What's wrong, Yumi-chan?”
”I feel faint”
Little bills were flying around chocolate like butterflies, in her head
”Did the thought of giving truffles to Sachiko exhaust you?”
”U like that”
”Don't worry, it's not that bad, give it a shot!”
Not that bad? Maybe Rei-sama, who seemed like someone closer to her in terms of class stature, actually wasn't? ”Give it a shot”, she said Yu
And, thefurther and further away fro Valentine's chocolate Maybe that was a vulgar way of thinking, though
”I'll write the recipe down for you”
Rei-sama pet Yumi's head and smiled
”Re, recipe?”
”If you want to make truffles I'll help you a bit, just keep it a secret from Sachiko”
That's when Yumi realized
”Um, umm, do you mean, how to make truffle chocolates, when you said recipe?”
”Mm?”
Rei-saave Rosa Foetida was, like what she gave Yoshi+no-san, handmade
”What, Yumi-chan?”
”… nevermind”
Yu assumption
Rei-sama was superhuman On one hand, chocolate truffles and on the other hand, chocolate cake And she made them both almost simultaneously
But, in the end, it wouldn't beto brag about, but thewas help herthem out of thechocolate truffles? Skill was a bigger problem than money
Rei-sa most of the work, she wouldn't be able to make truffles next year And if Rei-sama did ift But all that said, Yu truffles by hand
”Thank you very much I'll think about it”
Yumi bowed her head and dashed away She'd underesti on chocolate, and now she felt like she had nowhere to go