A Sweet Romance That Starts With One Bottle of Juice, Between a Heiress Who Must Marry Her First Kiss and a Lonesome Guy With a Menacing Look - Chapter 6 - The Young Lady Wants to Be More Intimate - Part 3

Chapter 6 – The Young Lady Wants to Be More Intimate – Part 3

Yasunomihara-san’s lunchbox, huh…

I’d like to try it, but I’m slightly apprehensive.

“Would you please…blow my nose?”

I remember when I handed her tissues on the roof.

This young lady is a bit absent-minded, so I’m worried about what’s in her lunchbox too.

“What’s wrong?”

“…It’s nothing.”

Calm down.

Yasunomihara-san is the top student in the class. There’s no way she’s a bad cook.

I couldn’t concentrate during class because I was worried about Yasunomihara-san’s lunch box.

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After the fourth period, I came to the roof with Yasunomihara-san.

“There’s a nice breeze today, isn’t there?”

“Y-Yes.”

It’s usually quite crowded on the rooftop at lunchtime.

But it was quiet today, with not a single pupil.

Us two people sit together on a small leisure sheet Yasunomihara-san brought.

“Come on, let’s eat quickly.”

—At last, Yasunomihara-san’s lunchbox.

A three-layer stacked lunch box emerged from a larger lunch bag.

That’s the daughter of the president of a big company for you. This lunch box may well be filled with high-end dishes.

The moment the lid on the top of the stacked box opened, I was at a loss for words.

“It’s a tamagoyaki lunchbox.”

“Huh…”

I got a throaty voice that I’ll let out.

—This is the lunchbox!?

I rubbed my eyes and looked again.

“This is…?”

“It’s a tamagoyaki lunchbox. (for the second time).”

It’s a tamagoyaki lunchbox, or I guess you could call it only tamagoyaki…

The moment she opened the lid, all I saw was yellow all over the lunchbox.

Yes, the first layer of the stacked boxes was stuffed full of about 20 tamagoyaki.

I held my head in my hands, unable to comprehend the scene in front of me.

Calm down, me…

That’s it! The three-layers of lunch boxes with different ingredients at sports festivals and such.

“It looks delicious, but what about the second layer of this lunchbox?”

“The second layer, is it?”

I gulped and braced myself.

Is the second layer white rice? Or sausages?

Yasunomihara-san lifted the first layer.

“Since it’s a tamagoyaki lunchbox, so of course the second layer is also tamagoyaki!”

Once again I saw a field of yellow flowers.

Someone… Help me, please.

“And of course the third layer is…!”

When the second layer was also removed, it was yellow yet again.

I was completely speechless when I was faced with over 60 tamagoyaki in total.

Is this advanced-level humor from the young lady, or should I make a retort?

“But you see, only this third layer has spinach and bacon.”

“H-Heh…”

“Anyway, let’s eat.”

Yasunomihara-san put chopsticks in my hand.

I’ll start with one tamagoyaki from the first layer for now, because it’s tamagoyaki no matter which layer I start with…

“I-Itadakimasu—!?”

What’s this—It’s so good.

One by one, I put another tamagoyaki in my mouth.

“Oh my, Tadakuni. Nobody is going to steal it.”

It’s by far the most delicious tamagoyaki I’ve ever eaten, and I can eat it forever.

I noticed that the first layer of tamagoyaki had disappeared.

“Yasunomihara-san, these tamagoyaki are so delicious.”

“Fufu, of course.”

As she said that, she proudly puffed up her heavy chest.

Yasunomihara-san gracefully devoured the second layer of tamagoyaki.

“Please try the third layer.”

“Y-Yeah.”

I reached out with my chopsticks to the third layer of tamagoyaki while leaning forward eagerly.

Of course it’s good.

The freshness of the spinach neutralizes the oily tang of the bacon & tamagoyaki, keeping the dish in perfect balance.

Making this the third layer means that the taste change is taken into account.

—Wait a minute.

“I’m sorry, it was so delicious that I forgot. Why is the lunchbox just tamagoyaki?”

“Tadakuni, ahnn.”

Before I knew it, she had emptied the second layer of tamagoyaki and was reaching for the third layer with me.

Yasunomihara-san grabbed a bacon and spinach tamagoyaki with her chopsticks and brought it to my mouth.

“I-I think it’s too early to say feed each other like that…”

“Is that so? The book I bought yesterday on how to be a ‘baka’-couple said this was normal behavior for couples.”

She probably bought it without realizing it had the word ‘baka’ in it.

“Mou, please just eat it. It’ll fall off.”

“…I understand.”

I ate the tamagoyaki without choice.

Yasunomihara-san, who, once I had eaten, brought the next egg roll with a look of satisfaction on her face.

“Here, ahnn!”

It’s cute that she smiles all the time, but this smile is scary when she only makes tamagoyaki for lunch.

“Fufu. I’m so glad we’re doing this couple thing.”

“You know, I was swept away by the momentum just now and forgot to mention that it’s only tamagoyaki, why?”

“E-Even if you ask me why…”

Yasunomihara-san’s eyes were swimming, searching for words.

“I’m ashamed to say that I can’t cook anything other than tamagoyaki.”

“Eh… Even though you can make such delicious tamagoyaki?”

“…When I cook other dishes, they don’t taste as good as these tamagoyaki.”

Well, there’s no doubt that her tamagoyaki is just raising the bar for cooking.

The other dishes should also be normally tasty, but due to Yasunomihara-san’s character, they will never appear in front of me until they are at the level of these tamagoyaki.

“So I thought, why don’t I just make the lunchbox tamagoyaki only?”

Even though she’s a genius, she’s a fool.

“But your tamagoyaki was really delicious. (Although it’s bad for my body.) It was so delicious that I could eat a whole layer in an instant.”

“T-Thank you very much.”

Yasunomihara-san turned red and rubbed her forehead against my shoulder.

“I can’t stop grinning, so I’m doing this for a while.”

“I don’t really mind.”

Even though she’s usually a graceful young lady, she hides her face when she’s embarrassed.

“I thought Tadakuni would be angry with me because the lunchbox was only tamagoyaki.”

“No, of course not. I’m not going to get angry with you for feeding me lunch.”

“…Can I make you a tamagoyaki lunchbox again?”

I immediately consult my stomach.

“If it’s just once a week.”

“Okay. Next week, I’ll be making a tamagoyaki lunchbox again.”

Her face was still red, but she looked up happily.

“I’m really glad that Tadakuni is a kind person. If I had to go out with a scary person after that accident, I would have…”

“Aren’t you afraid of me, Yasunomihara-san?”

“Scared? Why?”

“Actually, I’ve always been avoided because of my fierce look. It’s even more so because of my big body.”

“People are not what they seem. In fact, Tadakuni is very kind, isn’t he?”

People are not what they seem, huh…

Only Yasunomihara-san said that to me.

“I feel at ease when I’m with Tadakuni. It’s possible that I might be punished for saying something like this, but I’m glad that…my partner is a kind person like you.”

I was relieved to hear Yasunomihara-san say so.

I was always worried that people would hate me in general.

“I will do my best to make Tadakuni like me.”

“Yeah, me too. I’ll try my best to be a person worthy of Yasunomihara-san.”

Before I knew it, my eyes were getting hot with tears.

When I turned my face away in embarrassment, Yasunomihara-san smiled gently at me.

“Fufu. Then will you score better than me in the next regular exam?”

“That’s too much of an unreasonable task, isn’t it?”

“You can do it! You have the deviation to get into this high school, so it’s up to you to work hard for your ranking!”

“Why are you suddenly enthusiastic…”

“We’ll have to have a study session.”

“Eh…”

Like that, an after-school study session was held.

The study session, held in a classroom, was attended not only by me and Yasunomihara-san, but also—

“Yuuka, why is this guy here too?”

—Tanaka-san. She was also there.