"Gua, how should I repay you?"
Izumi held her hands behind her back, carrying a lunchbox, and blinked at Gua.
"Hmm..."
Gua fell silent. Repay him? How?
Mom never taught me that.
Mom only told me to bring you lunch.
"There's no need to repay me. We're friends."
That was Gua's answer.
Disappointment flickered in Izumi's eyes. "Just friends... all right, then..."
Izumi smiled again.
"But even friends should give and take~"
"Gua, I'll treat you to ramen this week!"
"Let me tell you, I found a new ramen shop. It's really good~~"
Thinking of that delicious food, Izumi's eyes unconsciously drifted upward, as though she were reliving the memory...
Ichiraku Ramen could practically rival Three-Color Dango!!
It was just ridiculously delicious!!
"Here."
"What do you mean?"
Izumi looked in confusion at the tissue Gua held out.
Gua said, "You're drooling."
Izumi: ...
Izumi's face instantly turned red.
She snatched the tissue and turned her back.
Gua headed out of the classroom.
When someone embarrassed themselves, you shouldn't keep staring.
Speaking of which, was ramen really that good?
In the original story, Naruto loved it, Hinata loved it, Kushina loved it, Minato loved it, Jiraiya loved it...
Now Izumi loved it too.
Could Teuchi be adding some "special ingredients"?
Otherwise, getting so many people to share the same taste would be pretty difficult.
Once home, Gua shut himself in his room, took out his S-Rank Scroll, and began studying.
He studied the Heavenly Book too.
He couldn't let it go to waste.
For the first time, Gua felt that time dragged on forever.
He couldn't understand it.
He couldn't understand any of it.
But he could only keep grinding away.
He had even stopped reading novels lately. He had heard that Jiraiya's serialized story had been updated, but he