The clock turned back a little. Chiba Village, inside the lodge for the forest training camp.
"A pinch of salt?" Yuigahama read the recipe with a lifeless expression. "Yukino, how much is a pinch? A few grams, several dozen grams, or..."
"Yu-Yukino?" Honestly, Yukino Yukinoshita had never encountered someone this familiar right off the bat before. No, rather, someone who was this familiar right off the bat and could actually have anything to do with her.
Sogo Doma? At least that guy called her Yukinoshita! Meanwhile, Utaha Kasumigaoka was desperately holding back her laughter—Sogo had said that if Yukinoshita had not transferred to Toyogasaki, then instead of the dead-fish-eyed guy founding the Odd Jobs Club, he might have joined the Service Club, and since Yui Yuigahama was also a member of the Odd Jobs Club, by the usual school romance formula, these two ought to have been love rivals.
Utaha had a hard time imagining the cool and aloof Yukinoshita fighting someone over a man, but now that she saw this, she understood. They said a good woman feared a persistent man, but little did they know that a good woman also feared a persistent woman. Maybe Yukinoshita was not fighting over a man at all, but a woman!
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"N-No, is that not okay?" Aside from her fashion, outgoing personality, and inability to cook, Yui Yuigahama truly fit most people's fantasy of a Yamato Nadeshiko. The moment Yukino Yukinoshita showed the slightest displeasure, she tactfully took two steps back.
"I just think that using..." Though Yui Yuigahama did not look aggrieved, Yukinoshita still felt as if she had done something awful.
"But Sogo..." Yukino Yukinoshita: "..." Doma? That guy was an exception. Even if you called him an asshole the first time you met him, he would grin and