Volume 27 Chapter 4 (1/2)
Without going into every little detail, the days passed quickly enough
It was the Sunday of the week following the treasure hunt Right on 11am
Yoshi+no stepped into the plaza on the first floor of the JR K Station building
”Ah Yoshi+no-san, gokigenyou”
Who knohat tiot there, but Tanu place, and when she saw Yoshi+no she sently
She earing the same coat that she'd had on for her date with Rei-chan last year, but underneath that she was clearly wearing a pair of jeans and sneakers A huge departure from the red, white and pink fluffy skirt It seemed obvious, but her style probably reflected her eain, Yoshi+no earing soard
”… Gokigenyou”
Stifling a yawn, Yoshi+no started by returning the greeting Not good She'd had a little nap in the car, and that seeht to fight it off it kept assailing her
”Did you ride here?”
In response to Chisato-san's question, Yoshi+no shook her head
”Huh, you caught the bus!?”
The accusatory tone she used was quite offensive
”I did not My father drove me here in his car”
Before she knew it, it was past the time when she would have had to leave to make it to their date by bike
”Well, I guess that can't be helped”
”It's alright for you, Chisato-san You can get to K Station using your co me to come by bike to save on travel costs, that's not fair”
”I said it can't be helped, didn't I? Stop trying to pick a fight”
”But your tone of voice was annoying It was my father's car, so that should be fine In the report, we can just say I rode here if you want”
”What are you going to do about getting hoet, you know”
”I'll pay for it myself”
Even Rei-chan, last year she secretly put in so as it wasn't written about in the report, it should be fine
”If you start saying that sort of thing, where will it end?”
Then Chisato-san went on a bit of a rant about how the date would be fun staying within the budget, and that there would be others ould try to copy their date, so they had to keep to the allotted amount
”Well, it's fine There should be enough left over for your bus fare ho”
In the end, if you're just going to say, ”It's fine,” then don't bother bringing up the coue out behind Chisato-san's back Chisato-san didn't notice this, and continued on, al as she walked ahead
(Oh geeze)
If things were like this right at the start, would they really be able to get along for their date?
At the very least, Yoshi+no thought that nobody would want to copy their date
The place they headed to first was the cine contained lots ofsimultaneously
”Two high-school students”
As Chisato-san held out her hand to pay at the ticket counter, Yoshi+no firrabbed it As if to say, hey, hold on a minute
”O, that hurts, what are you doing?”
What are you doing? Yoshi+no thought she should be the one saying that
”Chisato-san Why are you taking h it's thein the world?”
”Why? You like it, right? This sort of thing”
”I like it? This sort of thing?”
Yoshi+no snarled She'd only seen the TV commercials for this movie, but it was a drama set in France about a beautiful man and woman and how they meet, break up, cross paths, fall in love, overcome obstacles and flirt
”Huh? A subscriber to Co hates love stories?”
”That's Rei-chan's preference Mine's so more like this”
Yoshi+no pointed at one of the giant posters on the wall The one on the right-hand edge of the four A young, clean-shaven sarizzled old ronin, both had their katana drawn Incidentally, the other three posters were for the romance movie that Chisato-san had requested, a horror movie, and a kid's anime
”Ah, don't tell me you like the blue Cosmos books?”
”… You're way off”
Just to explain:
As everyone knows, Cos was the label used by the Kyuuteisha publishi+ng coirls Within that, blue was used to designate BL, or boys-love stories They were called that because the color blue was used for the covers And, as the name implied, a boys-love story was a love story between two boys - well, it could instead be between a man and a boy, or two irls who preferred reading about love between two males than between a male and a female
And that's fine for them, but unfortunately Yoshi+no wasn't one of the thatcontinue, Yoshi+no decided to correct Chisato-san
”What I like isn't the love between two men, it's swordplay between two men”
”Wha?”
”The Lillian Kawaraban got our surveys mixed up A couple of issues later they printed a tiny correction notice Got it? Try to re novels”
”Ohh I only saw the article about your hobbies in the Lillian Kawaraban Maybe if they'd printed Rei-sama's photo next to the correction”
Well, that sounds about right, Yoshi+no agreed
”But, you know, anyone who even jokingly calls themselves a fan of Rei-chan would surely have noticed that her favorite books are fro”
She was often carrying them around, and when they released a new book in her favorite series she'd spend her lunch-ti it
”Ahh I thought shethem to fit in with you, Yoshi+no-san”
”No Just no”
”Oh, so what about this It said that your hobby was knitting, was that actually Rei-sama?”
”That's right”
”Ohh, so that's how it is The mystery is solved”
Chisato-san sleefully
”What mystery?”
”Yoshi+no-san, during last year's treasure hunt, you were desperately flipping through the pages of a sewing book, right? I never understood the significance of that But now, thanks to this, I feel relieved”
Yoshi+no didn't really understand what Chisato-san was trying to say, or what she was relieved about
”Well, in that case, why don't you make me feel relieved too?”
Yoshi+no leaned in a bit closer and forced a smile
”Huh?”
”TheSaood, yeah?”
”Nope I'd always planned that we'd see this one, 'Paris, Arrondissement 21, Je'taio wherever I want”
”That's fine We're at the place you wanted to go to I didn't say I objected to the cineo ahead and decide whatto see by yourself”
”What are you saying? WeOf course we're going to see this movie”
”'Young Samurai' starts at 11:15, so we can still make it”
Yoshi+no said, pointing to the session times listed above the ticket counter
”Buh-boow It's already 11:16”
Chisato-san said, looking pointedly at her wristwatch However, Yoshi+no wasn't going to give up that easily
”The previews go for 5 or 10 et there for the film”
”At any rate, no”
”But I - ”
In truth, it wasn't as though Yoshi+no was so annoyed by love stories that she broke out in a rash If she watched the , she'd probably enjoy it,so obstinate because it's what her partner wanted to see The mood was such that if she backed down here, then that would mean she was defeated
”This is a date We can't go and see different movies”
”I know that”
But having said that, neither of theh road and watch the other's movie
It wasn't obvious who ht hand back Scissors-paper-rock
Go!
”Ahh!”
So y They both went for rock
”It's a draw … I guess”
The next time around, they both went for paper
After that it was rock, paper, paper, scissors The run of ties h they really ell suited to each other
They were both breathing heavily Even though it was only scissors-paper-rock, they were both going at it hard, using their entire body, and they were getting tired While this was going on, the clock ticked over to 11:20 The ”Young Samurai” previeould surely be over by now
”Hey, why don't we get someone else to decide instead?”
Chisato-san offered If they kept going like this, it would never end In other words, if they couldn't decide themselves, all they could do was entrust it to someone else
”Alright, but how?”
”We'll go to the same movie as the next customer”
”But doesn't that put e, in a number of ways”
By saying that, Yoshi+no was acknowledging that she was disadvantaged because her movie had already started She looked around the cine froht towards them
”Okay, let's see the same movie as the next person”
A singleto see 'Paris, Arrondissement 21, Je'tai Samurai vs Ronin: Ball and Tusk'
”Okay”
Chisato-san agreed, as the running man looked back over his shoulder
”Ah”
da behind hiht see 'Paris' Scratch that It's probably the more likely choice 'Je'taime', and all that
”Looks like victory is mine”
Chisato-san smiled, confident in her success
”Wait, we don't know that”
Once again, Yoshi+no stopped Chisato-san as she went to buy the tickets
”Since they're in such a hurry, theySamurai' after all”
Theybecause the previeere already over And the guy had gone on ahead to buy the tickets, since he was the faster runner
”It's siood seats”
”We don't know that”
The guy was running The girl was running too In a way, the scene was more suspenseful than a movie
”Oddly enough, theypast the cinema”
”Hahaha In that case, it carries over to the next person”