346 Thanks For the Meal! (1/2)

Ryuuno Izawa wasn't seriously injured.

He said that he could carry on battling and urged his master to continue the game. However, Kanna adamantly refused.

Kanna Fujihara decided to forfeit the game. Although it would give her a bad reputation in the Yin-Yang Master society, she didn't care.

Kanna's family had forced her into coming to this party. At heart, she was an otaku girl who didn't care at all about such venues. Nor did she care what others in the Yin-Yang Master society thought of her. At most, her family would scold her about it.

Izawa was resting on a bed in a guest room. Kanna, seated on a nearby sofa, began reading a light novel.

Rather than being together with other Yin-Yang Masters, she felt that this was far more relaxing.

Kanna felt that the only good thing about this entire party was that she had become acquainted with Natsuya Yoruhana.

She never expected to meet a girl of similar status and similar interests at such a party.

Kanna wanted to continue chatting about anime and manga with Natsuya and invite her to the upcoming otaku doujinshi convention!

'I'll try talking to her again later,' Kanna mused. 'It'd be nice if she agrees to go.'

Izawa suddenly sat up on the bed. ”Master, I would like to observe the remaining rounds of the game.”

”Eh? Why?”

”Because I have my attention on... Yashuu-san and Shiroya-san,” Izawa said with a solemn expression.

Kanna was rendered speechless.

This fujoshi girl's mind nearly exploded!

'To think that my own handsome Spirit-branded Retainer has his attention trained on two other boys!'

Various fantasies of boys' love scenes flashed through her mind: love-and-hate relationships between the three handsome boys, uke and seme, secret feelings for each other, intimate contact, and a love triangle were all included in her fantasies...

Kanna coughed mentally. 'Perhaps I'm getting a bit too excited...'

Kanna did her best to suppress her fantasies and asked, ”Why do you have your attention on them?”

Izawa fell silent for a moment.

”I... before I served milady, I met Yashuu-san in the past,” he revealed. ”At that time, Yashuu-san was a friendly and open individual who took good care of me. Today, when I came here and happened to see Yashuu-san in the garden, I was quite happy to see an old friend.

”However, when I went over to chat with him, not only did Yashuu-san not know who I was, he had a terribly cold attitude, and the look in his eyes seemed abnormal. I was quite concerned about what he must have experienced. I asked him about it, but he refused to talk to me.”

A beautiful past, a coincidental reunion, and an unexpected change! One side was cold and heartless, and the other was struggling to conceal their sadness...

Kanna grew even more excited! Her mind started running wild again.

”He loves light novels, anime, and manga, which matches milady's interests quite well. I feel that he would get along excellently with milady, but he's unwilling to show his true self, which is truly regrettable.”

'Shiroya is an otaku? He complements his master Natsuya so well... perhaps he became an otaku because of Natsuya,' Kanna mused.

”After the game began, I saw that Shiroya-san defeated Yashuu-san in their first match. He was quite strong in his other match as well, which was why he caught my attention. Afterwards, I fought against Yashuu-san and was defeated... I had a deep impression of Yashuu-san's true strength.

”Will Yashuu-san's master challenge Shiroya-san's master to another duel? If they duel again, who will win? I'd really like to know the answer to this question.”

Izawa expressed his true thoughts, but Kanna misunderstood them.

'I understand, Ryuuno,' she thought, feeling a pang of pity. 'I understand quite clearly. On one side is an old flame that you have deep feelings for, and you were happy to see him again. Even if he rejected you coldly, you still can't let go of your feelings.

'On the other side is your new romantic interest. You received a warm feeling from him on your first meeting—what's new and fresh is always exciting. And now, the two of them are about to fight, so you want to watch them. This is only natural!

'Ahh... I can't take this anymore! I can't stop my own imagination!!'

The fujoshi Yin-Yang Master envisioned such an out-of-control scene in her mind that she almost went wild.

She couldn't control her raging heart, and her face flushed crimson.