Vol 1 Chapter 3 (1/2)
Chapter 3 - Just the Two of Us
“Here co donburi!”
“I’m sorry, is the C set ready yet?”
“Today’s fried noodles with bread is sold out”
The cafeteria during lunch break was as bustling as a local event
“What a scene”
Although I had transferred for almost a week, this was the first tieness
“What are you doing? You’ve got to be quick to buy good stuff!”
Kitagawa pulledmeal tickets
“Anyone’s easily overwhelmed by this scene on the first time they come”
Kaori said, while she lined up behind us
“I’ to buy set A today”
Nayuki seemed to have made up her mind
The cafeteria was situated at the best place in school It was a round structure, surround by glass s, and in the centre a kitchen and reception
“It’s pretty after being refurnished The food cos and cheap You can also buy bread and drinks nearby It’s very popular”
Kaori explained
Just hearing her rier As I look at the sample photos and the price, I pondered whether I should have the pork set or the vegetable and fried meat set
“I want set A”
“You’re quite obsessed with set A”
Kaori continued to clear my doubts
“There’s a strawberry dessert included in set A, aht?”
“Yes!”
That hy Nayuki was so resolved in her choice
“But you don’t line up here for set A”
Kitagawa reminded
“What? Really?”
“Kitagawa comes to the cafeteria every day He’s quite the professional Kitagahy don’t you tell her earlier?”
“I only kno that Minase wants set A”
“Okay, let it go”
Weirdly, I tried to stop theument
Nayuki went into another line, and everyone got back later afterwards
But while Kaori, Kitagawa, and I were holding our lunch sets, Nayuki was still standing there with her hands open
“What’s the probleht?”
I tried to be silly, but Nayuki just shook her head in sorrow
“Set A is sold out”
“Then pick another one”
“Only set A has the strawberry dessert”
“The cafeteria isn’t ‘a hundred flowers’”
“Wu…”
“Let me treat you to a strawberry parfait at ‘a hundred flowers’ if you want strawberries”
“Really?”
Nayuki ietic fellow
“So go buy so else and come We’ll wait for you”
“Sure! Sorry, Kaori, Kitagawa I’ll buy the quick curry rice”
Nayuki quickly ran to the meal ticket machine What a botherso each other with a s
What are you guys doing, I said, squeezing in between them
…
“So I’ll end it quicker today”
“Okay, I’ll be waiting at the bookstore”
Nayuki nodded with a “Yes!” and rushed out of the classroom
“What’s that, a date?”
Kaori nosed in
“No I promised I’d treat her to a strawberry parfait at the cafeteria, you re a discount today, so I chose today for it”
“Okay…”
“Kaori, your face that looks like you know some secret bothers me”
“I don’t know anything”
A class
“Goodbye, Misake and Aizawa”
“Bye”
“See you tomorrow”
I waved to hi me,
“Getting used to school, Aizawa?”
“Probably”
“I think I can talk with you a lot easier now”
Seeh I was still not very used to school, I felt coawa, as well as being at Nayuki’s side
My ue, but it didn't really bother me
“To be honest, I thought you were a fearful person, but I know it’s just a ”
“What does that ht this has been the first time I met you”
“Y-Yeah It’s just a way of putting it”
It seeood talk with Kaori to clear my suspicion towards her
“It’s about tiht? Let’s walk to the gate, then”
Noticing
For I felt there was so to the bookstore, I spent soaht use all the money I had to treat Nayuki
When I left the dusty arcade, I bumped into Ayu
She was holding a taiyaki bag
“Is it taiyaki again? You really like this, don’t you?”
“Yes Taiyaki is my favourite Do you want some, Yuichi?”
“Sure,” but when I stretched my hand, I stopped
“No thanks I’ll pass today”
“It’s fine I’ve paid for it this tiave me two extra ones because I love his taiyaki so much Look!”
Ayu opened the bag, inside containing five hot, stea me
“…but I have to eat so sweet later I say next time”
“Is that so? With Nayuki-chan?”
“Because so happened, yeah”
“You get along ith Nayuki-chan, Yuichi”
Ayu looked a bit lonely
“So-so Do you want to come to ‘a hundred flowers’? I don’t think there’s a taiyaki parfait, though”
Hey wait, aone to the arcade
“No thanks”
“Hey, don’t be shy”
I could borrow froh money
“No, really I’ now See you, Yuichi”
Ayu shook the wings on the bag she alore and ran off
When Iher about Ayu, but as she talked about how she took strawberry parfait as her goals and thrived, I forgot to talk about it
We had our strawberry parfait as planned
“I’m done!”
With a clank, the spoon spun around the glass container
Nayuki seemed satisfied
“I’m very happy”
Nayuki shook her body and said indulgingly
“880 yen without tax, along with discount Happiness is so cheap”
“Absolutely!”
When ent out the shop, the setting sun had dyed the shopping district crimson
“Akiko et home”
“Yeah…Oh”
At the end of the shopping district, Nayuki suddenly stopped
There was a shop selling kid stuff It was the one I saw in ht I came back to this town as well as where I first met Ayu
“Yuichi, look at that”
Nayuki pointed to a colourful glass-pebbled stand
The glass pebbles shone under the setting sun
Nayuki was deeply captivated by the red glass pebbles in a bottle
“That’s so good I want one”
“What use is there for solass pebbles?”
“There isn’t any use You just take it”
I looked at the twenty-yen sign under the bottle
“Hm, I can buy one for you, only one”
“Really?”
“Yes, one Twenty yen”
“One is enough Thanks, Yuichi”
Nayuki looked like a kid who just got her pocket ave her as she walked to the cashi+er
“Thanks for waiting~”
She ca, on her hand a small, red, round pebble Nayuki…red…round pebble…red eyes…
“What’s up, Yuichi? Did you re?”
“N-Not really Forget it Let’s go”
I waved hts and paced up These sudden is trouble me
The setting sun had slid off the streets
Back home, we found that Akiko had not yet returned
“What’s wrong? She didn’t say anything about it this ”
“Let’s change first and wait for her”
Not long after, while ent down to the living roo
“hello, this is the Minase’s…oh, mum”
It was Akiko, obviously
“Yeah Yuichi and I went to the shopping district today, so…oh, I see It’s fine Okay, don’t push yourself too hard, ood luck~”
“So?”
“My mum said she’s suddenly very busy and will be late today She ht there”
“I see”
“She said she couldn’t let herself to allow me to stay by myself But it’s fine if you’re with me”
“Eh…okay, I understand”
I scratched lars, but wouldn’t Akiko be worried about so else?
Although ere cousins, for a young boy and young girl to stay overnight in the same house…
“So let li”
It seemed it wasn’t only Akiko ould be worried
Nayuki gestured a hard-working pose, seeetic
Oh, forget it I could do this much
“You would help ht?”
“Okay Talking about cooking, I once took the soup left in cup noodles as clear soup Now, tell me what to do”
“I’ll tell you after I finishdinner You only need to set up the dishes”
Nayuki heaved a sigh and took Akiko’s apron
I lay on the sofa in the living roo television