268 Romance of Ice and Fire (1/2)

”Asamiya-san invited me to lunch,” Seiji told Chiaki and Mika. ”She said that she has something important to tell me... that she couldn't let you know.”

Mika and Chiaki exchanged glances.

”Why can't she let us know?”

”I don't know either.”

”You agreed to her request?”

”Yeah... because I was really curious.” Seiji scratched his face awkwardly.

Although he didn't directly agree to Yukari's request, he had agreed implicitly. A period of silence fell between them.

Mika and Chiaki felt as if they had been ambushed.

Yukari was going to eat lunch together with Seiji, and she even said that there was something important that they couldn't know about. This gave them an impending sense of danger.

They felt that they needed to do something about it, but what?

The last time Yukari had a date with Seiji, she used the excuse of ”talking about a common interest,” which was why they could forcefully use the method of coincidentally meeting them and joining in, but this time Yukari specifically said that they couldn't be included.

This was a great tactic by Yukari.

The ideas they could immediately come up with were spying and eavesdropping, but this was no good.

Ignoring whether it would work or not, just this action itself was a bad one.

”I'm sorry, this time I won't be eating lunch with the two of you... is that alright?” Seiji asked the two of them.

Mika was unable to answer.

Chiaki blinked and smiled. ”Of course—go ahead and chat with the 'Princess.' I'm really curious what she has to say to you. Afterwards, if you feel like you can tell us, then do so. If you really can't, then it's fine.”

Seiji nodded.

”Chiaki... what should we do?” Mika asked weakly. She'd used the excuse of needing to use the bathroom to separate from Seiji.

”Asamiya-san made an excellent move with this; I don't know how to counter it,” Chiaki said, sighing. ”She clearly asked to exclude us so that she could be alone together with Seiji, and Seiji agreed, which is checkmate. There's nothing to be done. It's her victory this time, Mika.”

The double pigtailed girl was rather despondent to hear the tomboy being so convinced.

”Eating lunch together just once isn't all that much. I'm more concerned about what she has to say to Seiji,” Chiaki continued. ”I have a faint feeling that this lunch date will be a critical part of her attack on Seiji... but I hope that this premonition of mine is wrong.”

During lunch break.

Seiji met up with Yukari, and they walked to a quiet area of the school together.

”That's a nice-looking lunch... I've heard that you live by yourself, so did you cook it?”

When Seiji opened up his lunchbox, Yukari looked at the contents and asked Seiji about it.

Yukari blinked at this. ”Harano-san... have you returned to your family?”

”No, there's just someone living together with me now.”

”Oh... the landlord is Uehara-san's mother, right?”

”Yes, she's always taken good care of me,” Seiji said while eating his lunch.

Yukari also took a bite of her own food.

”Asamiya-san, do you make your own lunches?”

”I don't. But I'm pretty good at cooking, and I could if I wanted to.” The purple-haired beauty looked at his face. ”If a certain person is willing to become my boyfriend, I could make love-filled lunches for him every day~”

*Cough!*

Seiji almost choked at her unexpected flirtatious attack.

Yukari's face was slightly red as she smiled at him.

Seiji felt rather awkward being looked at by her, so he buried his face in his meal.