"Well..." Ichiro Takei crossed his arms and thought with a frown on his face. After a long while, he finally said, "I've decided, I'm going to eat black pig ramen today!"
"Takejing..."
Yamaguchi patted him on the shoulder and looked at him with an expression that didn't know what to say.
"You eat ramen at least six out of seven days a week. Don't you get tired of it?"
"Eh? Why?" Takei Ichiro looked puzzled and counted on his fingers: "Soy sauce ramen, miso ramen, salt ramen, tonkotsu ramen, seafood ramen, Kitakata ramen, there are already six basic flavors.
Planted."
"And there are also dipping noodles and noodles with sauce, so many possibilities... Yabai, I'm totally excited haha!"
"Taka—!" A white column of air spurted out from his nostrils. Takei clenched his fists and looked at Yamaguchi, and said with high spirits: "Let's go eat ramen together!"
"No, please spare me!" Yamaguchi Takashi covered his mouth and waved his hands repeatedly: "Thanks to you, my mind is filled with the taste of ramen... Ouch! I won't eat it for at least a month.
If you eat it again... vomit!"
"Eh——!? Why is this like this?"
Takei said in a daze, and then looked at Kato Yusuke.
"What about Kato...? Do you want to go to the cafeteria to eat ramen together?"
"Okay." Kato Yusuke nodded, then closed the book with a "pop" sound, stood up and walked to the two of them: "Let's go."
"Eh……?"
"Great--!"
Two completely different responses sounded simultaneously.
"Wait, wait, wait, wait!" Yamaguchi Takashi stopped Takei, who was raising his fist in celebration, and said to Kato Yusuke: "You just said to go to the cafeteria, right Kato?"
"That's right." Kato Yusuke frowned: "What's the problem?"
"Where's the bento?"
"I didn't do it today."
"……that is it?"
"if not?"
"Well..." Yamaguchi Takashi pondered, looking up and down Kato Yusuke with inquiring eyes, and considered: "Could it be that you broke up with that bento girl?"
"Eh?! Isn't that bad?! Is this true Kato?!"
Takei Ichiro said casually.
Kato Yusuke looked at the two of them with a dark look on his face, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly: "...when did I say that I have a girlfriend?"
"Here we go again."
With a tacit smile on his face, Yamaguchi Takashi walked up to Kato Yusuke and bumped his chest with his elbow: "It's time to tell us, which girl are you dating? She's from our school.
?"
It turns out that gossip really does not differentiate between men and women.
Thinking of this, Kato Yusuke couldn't help but sigh, and said with some enthusiasm: "If there is nothing, there is nothing. Whatever you think."
Then he walked out of the classroom alone.
…
The private Toyosaki Academy is worthy of its good reviews in recent years. Not only does the school cover a vast area, but the cafeteria is also very large. Students can eat a variety of cheap and delicious food here.
And the tuition is not too expensive. Except for the first year, which includes the admission fee and uniforms, it costs 1.2 million yen. From the second year onwards, it only costs 800,000 yen per year, but this does not include accommodation.
, otherwise it would be higher.
Kato Yusuke stuttered while eating the soy sauce ramen made by the aunt in the cafeteria, and couldn't help but miss Sayu's cooking.
The noodles are ordinary plain noodles, and the soup base is made from dried fish and chicken bones. It is flavored with rich soy sauce that is rich in color and mellow in color. The side dishes are bamboo shoots and spinach, which are nutritionally balanced and healthy.
"It's just a bit bland..."
Kato Yusuke thought to himself, the chopsticks in his hand couldn't help but stagnate, and then a self-deprecating smile appeared on his face: "...When did I become picky?"
It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality.
After getting used to the food cooked by Sayu Ogiwara, Yusuke Kato's standards for food taste have unknowingly increased a lot.
But this is also normal. Even if we put aside the technical factors, there is a fundamental difference in the degree of care between the two.
The purpose of the cafeteria's existence is to satisfy the tastes of the vast majority of people, and since Kato Yusuke is not an important person, others will naturally not take care of his tastes.
On the contrary, Sayu was different. Whether it was because of the mentality of being dependent on others, or for some other reason, the girl always had only one purpose in cooking.
That makes Yusuke Kato feel delicious.
Thinking of this, Kato Yusuke's eyes were slightly complicated, and a bright smiling face appeared in his mind involuntarily.
"Sure enough, a smile suits her better."
He murmured, with a gentle curve at the corner of his mouth, an expression he had never shown in front of Sayu Ogiwara.
"Speaking of which, it's almost time for her to get up at this time. I turned off the alarm clock on my mobile phone last night. I also finished memorizing English words in the toilet in the morning. I wonder if she will be frightened when she wakes up and sees the time.
Jump……"
"But compared to that, the first thing she saw was probably the sandwich. After all, I arranged it according to her usual habit of getting up. Although I am not confident in the taste, as a patient, I should ignore this and eat well..."
Thinking of this, he paused for a moment, his eyes slightly lost in thought.
"...I shouldn't have agreed to her yesterday. After all, she is still a girl. Isn't it really too much to carry her home in the rain? Otherwise, I wouldn't have shown signs of a cold as soon as I got home.
…”
Zhiliu... Zhiliu...
"..."
"..."
"Kato...?"
"Kato...?"
"Kato——!"
Yamaguchi Takashi said loudly, reaching out and waving vigorously in front of Kato Yusuke's eyes.
The eyes that looked dull due to trance gradually regained their vitality.
"What's up……?"
Kato Yusuke said, casting a questioning look at Yamaguchi Takashi.
"Is it tasty?"
Yamaguchi Takashi said with a smile.
"What's the meaning?"
Kato Yusuke frowned, and the other party's riddle-like tone made him a little unhappy.
"Ramen...is it delicious?"
Yamaguchi Takashi added, the expression on his face was very exciting, as if he was desperately enduring something.
"……Why do you ask?"
"Ah hahahahahaha, no, no, no, I can't bear it anymore."
Hearing Kato Yusuke's question, Yamaguchi Takashi couldn't help but burst into laughter. Even Takei Ichiro on the side was covering his mouth and laughing, and his body was shaking like a sieve.
"I mean……"
After an unknown amount of time, Yamaguchi Takashi raised his head, pointed at the empty bowl in front of Kato Yusuke and said.
"Are you eating air?"
At that moment, Kato Yusuke swore that he had even thought about where to bury Yamaguchi Takashi.