Chapter 18 Lunch
On the rooftop of the third teaching building of Shikoku High School, a girl with short hair and a blonde young man sat side by side. The girl expressionlessly opened her wrapping cloth and took out her bento box, which looked like an urn and was full of flaws. Sensing Sato Shinichi, who was hesitantly trying to say something beside her, Su Jun tilted his head slightly and asked.
“What’s wrong?”
As if a drowning person had suddenly received oxygen, Sato Shinichi abruptly turned his head, stood up, and bowed to Su Jun at a speed so fast that a afterimage could be seen. “I’m sorry!”
“Kiyomizu-san! I’m sorry!! I shouldn’t have hidden our relationship in front of Soba-ta-san! Please don’t be angry!”
Sato Shinichi spoke extremely quickly, and anyone could hear the sincerity in his words.
“What’s wrong?”
Su Jun’s mouth twitched, and he turned his head away, looking at Sato Shinichi, who was standing perfectly straight and apologizing to him.
“Eh, Kiyomizu-san, you… you’re not angry?”
Su Jun’s question interrupted Sato Shinichi’s apology. He raised his head and looked at Su Jun with disbelief.
“Why do you think I’m angry?”
Finding that it wasn’t a very important matter, Su Jun turned his head back, opened his bento box, revealing the prepared food inside.
“Because Kiyomizu-san didn’t talk to me the whole way here, and even when we got here, you just started eating. I thought because of that incident, you…”
As if he had heard the best news in the world, Sato Shinichi plunked himself down and said pitifully beside Su Jun, like a puppy.
“I just didn’t want to talk.”
Su Jun said faintly. On the way to the rooftop with Sato Shinichi, Su Jun had indeed been thinking about his own capabilities. After all, he needed to pay attention during class and couldn’t be thinking about these trivial matters. And last night, he had been so engrossed in reading that he had suddenly forgotten about this.
“Oh, well, I’m glad Kiyomizu-san isn’t angry.”
After receiving the news that Su Jun wasn’t angry, Sato Shinichi let out a sigh of relief and also took out his bento and opened it beside him.
“…”
【What a pure straight man you are!!!】
It could only be said that it was fortunate Su Jun was no longer the original Kiyomizu Kazumi and that what he said was the absolute truth, but what was this question with absolutely no survival instinct? Did he use up all his emotional intelligence in the classroom earlier?
Well, anyway, he wasn’t his real girlfriend, so he didn’t need to care whether he was a steel straight man or an Adamantium straight man. He just needed to deal with him for a while and then break up naturally.
Not bothering with Sato Shinichi’s statement, he opened both layers of the bento box, and a peculiar aroma wafted over.
The green peppers were stir-fried until they were slightly browned, and the perfectly cooked meat slices were mixed in with the peppers, creating a spicy and appetizing aroma. Beside them were blanched vegetables and rice that had been cooked in the morning.
While it wasn’t very elaborate, it was a meal combination that Su Jun often ate. Since he only knew how to cook these few dishes, his proficiency was still up to par. At the very least, he hadn’t gotten tired of eating it for so many years.
“Kiyomizu-san, did you change your lunch today?”
This distinctive fragrance also attracted Sato Shinichi’s attention. Also, because Japanese people don’t eat stir-fried dishes very often, Kiyomizu Kazumi’s suddenly produced lunch gave Sato Shinichi a sense of surprise.
【Oh no!!!】
At that moment, Su Jun realized that his actions were completely different from the previous Kiyomizu Kazumi. After all, the previous Kiyomizu Kazumi usually just made a few rice balls as lunch and never made stir-fried dishes like this.
“I saw it on a food channel before. It’s Chinese cuisine. I thought Sato-kun might like it, so I tried making it. I might not have done a good job, so please don’t mind.”
Who knew how Su Jun managed to say this utterly shameless thing, but the best way now was to disguise the origin of this dish as something he learned specifically for his boyfriend. And with Sato Shinichi’s carelessness, plus the girlfriend buff, he shouldn’t mind the peculiar aspects, right?
“Really!!! No, no, it looks delicious, and Kiyomizu-san made it herself.”
As expected, when the young man heard that the bento was specially prepared for him, he melted. He no longer had the time to think about why his girlfriend, who was eating rice balls a while ago, suddenly had such superb cooking skills. Instead, his eyes were sparkling as he looked at the food in front of him.
“Then, Sato-kun, please try it.”
The act had to be convincing. Su Jun, enduring his discomfort, pushed the bento box in front of him slightly towards Sato Shinichi.
“Well, then I won’t be polite.”
Sato Shinichi picked up his chopsticks, picked up a small piece of meat and pepper, and put it in his mouth. The perfect crispness and the texture of the meat, accompanied by the spiciness, exploded in his mouth, and he closed his eyes in enjoyment.
“This, Kiyomizu-san’s cooking is really super good!! If I could eat such delicious food every day, I’d be willing to die right now!”
He opened his eyes and immediately gave Su Jun a thumbs-up.
“…”
Faced with such sweet talk, Su Jun remained unmoved; he even felt like laughing a little. However, he couldn’t help but feel a little happy that his cooking was so well-received.
【Wait, what is this feeling!!!】
After Su Jun had finished complaining about Sato Shinichi’s cheesy lines, in the next second, his left chest started pounding, and his cheeks also began to feel a little warm.
【Body, don’t you dare react so strangely, it’ll cause me a lot of trouble!!】
“You… I’m glad you like it…”
While responding to Sato Shinichi, Su Jun picked up a mouthful of rice and stuffed it into his mouth, trying to suppress his increasingly strange body by eating.
“Mhm, I like it very much. Kiyomizu-san, would you like to try my bento? I prepared fried shrimp today!”
Sato Shinichi nodded and also handed over his bento to share.
Originally, Su Jun did not plan to eat Sato Shinichi’s bento anymore. After all, he had prepared enough for himself, and eating someone’s food made one feel indebted, so it was better to have less interaction.
However, when Su Jun saw the fried shrimp in front of him, his fingers involuntarily reached out and picked one up.
【It’s not that I lack willpower, it’s just that these high-class fried shrimp look too delicious!】
Well, it smelled good too!
