Volume 6 - CH 1

It was the first day of school after summer vacation.

“…Good morning, Arisa.”

Yuzuru came to school and spoke to a girl in his class.

A very beautiful girl with flaxen hair, green eyes, and a shapely figure…

Yukishiro Arisa.

She was his fiancée and lover.

“Ah, Yuzuru-san… good morning.”

Arisa reacted to Yuzuru’s greeting in a slightly surprised manner.

Yuzuru’s cheeks, which had been tense, relaxed.

However, simultaneously, Arisa looked aghast.

Then she frowned…

“…I take that back.”

Then she turned her face away from him.

“Um, Arisa…”

“…I don’t care.”

“Don’t say that…”

“…No. Please don’t talk to me.”

Arisa said while glancing at Yuzuru’s expression.

She was waiting for Yuzuru to say something.

Or so it appeared.

Yuzuru, on the other hand…

“…Ah, Is that so? Okay, then.”

He turned on his heel.

Arisa’s eyes widened, then she looked a little sad.

She moved her beautiful lips to say something to Yuzuru as he walked away…

“I don’t care…”

Then she turned her face away.

They remained seated, elbows on the desk, their faces turned away from each other.

And sometimes they checked each other’s expressions…

Sometimes their eyes would meet, and they would look away hurriedly.

Observing their unconcerned attitude and exchange, their two friends – Satake Soichiro and Tachibana Ayaka both looked at each other.

“Could it be…”

“Oh my, a fight?”

That’s right…

Yuzuru and Arisa were in the middle of a fight, to much acclaim.

Lunch break.

(…today also it’s store bought bread, huh?)

Takasegawa Yuzuru was chomping on a piece of bread, feeling a little down.

The reason was that his fiancée… Yukishiro Arisa was not in the best of moods.

Usually on holidays – and even when it’s not a holiday – she would come to his room, would play with him, and would cook meals for him.

On school days, she would come to meet him.

She would even make his lunch for him.

“Hey, Yuz…”

“What is it?”

In a slightly irritated voice, Yuzuru asked the person who spoke to him back.

The one who spoke to him was one of his friends, Satake Soichiro…

“This is one of those times when you’re more irritating than ever.”

and Ryozenji Hijiri.

While the two chuckled, Yuzuru looked annoyed.

He regretted letting his irritation show out in an uncharacteristic manner.

“Let’s have lunch together.”

“We’ll have a little get-together.”

“…I’m not in the mood.”

While Yuzuru replied in a cold voice…

They took the liberty of bringing their own chairs and began to spread out their own lunch at his table.

Yuzuru frowned, but since he couldn’t possibly do something like dropping their lunch on the floor by sweeping it off with his hand… he kept his mouth shut instead.

“Why did you have a fight with Arisa-san?”

Soichiro asked Yuzuru this right out at the start.

Yuzuru’s eyes widened.

“…how did you figure that out?”

“It would be weird if we didn’t.”

Yuzuru’s question was met with a wry smile from Hijiri.

The two who were so much in love with each other were not coming to school together.

In fact, they didn’t even talk to each other.

Yuzuru eats ready-made bread instead of his lovingly prepared lunch box.

One didn’t have to be a great detective to know that this was an unusual situation.

“…it’s not my fault.”

Yuzuru said as if he was making excuses for the two of them.

It is Arisa who’s weird for being hung up in something like this for so long.

I never said anything wrong in the first place.

It is not my fault.

Even if there was something a little wrong on my part, Arisa’s was worse.

…that’s why Yuzuru had no intention of apologizing from his end.

“Well, I guess you’re right.”

“I understand… women are so unreasonable.”

Soichiro and Hijiri agreed with Yuzuru’s words.

Why they fought, of course, the two of them did not know.　

They couldn’t even guess.

However, they both believed that Yuzuru would never do anything weird.

If the two had fought, they were sure that it would be Yukishiro Arisa who would be at fault.

…this decision was natural since Yuzuru had a longer “history” as a friend to both of them.

“But hey, it can’t stay that way forever, can it?”

“There are times when a man has to back down, even when he thinks it’s not his fault. Don’t you agree?”

Soichiro and Hijiri reminded him as they were admonishing him …

Yuzuru gave an indescribable look.

Surely it will never end if he doesn’t apologize first.

He will be left fighting with Arisa forever.

Yuzuru was dimly aware of that.

He also knew that, as time passed, their relationship could fade away.

…that alone was the last thing he wanted.

But…

“No, but it is for Arisa’s sake that…”

“Okay, we’ll listen to you.”

“Tell us about it. We’ll be the judge.”

Soichiro and Hijiri said with a smile.

Yuzuru felt his heart lighten a little.

–Friendship and love are precious because they cannot be broken by money and can be relied upon in times of need.

He felt like he heard his father’s words from some time back.

“Actually…”

TN: The author is yet to decide the title of this volume.. I’ll update it once he decides it…