Chapter 55
◆Hiiragi Haruka◆
For the holiday, Seiji-kun decided to make dinner for me . It was for all the times that I made him meals and bentous .
As he continued calmly with his cooking, I could tell that his skill was pretty good . In the end, he served a salad, soup, and pasta . It seemed like a combination that would be commonly served as a café lunch set . I was quite happy, but at the same time, not happy .
I picked up some pasta with a fork and took a bite .
“How is it? I have a good amount of confidence in it . ”
I-it’s good…! For a moment there, I thought I had actually gone to a café .
“Yeah . It’s good . ”
Seiji-kun smiled in relief and then began to eat .
I had no complaints in good cooking, but personally, I was unhappy that Seiji-kun was good at cooking… The soup as well, wasn’t something that was store bought, but something that he had made from scratch .
Mumumumu…
Generally speaking, I would say that I’m better, but Seiji-kun would have enough skill to be called as having a normal level .
A male who knows how to cook is popular—
That’s what I would think . Having someone that can make food for you is something that is quite nice, and at the same time, it makes it kind of hard to let go of them . I’m super worried about Seiji-kun attracting another woman because of this .
“Seiji-kun, this flashy cooking, where did you learn it? From your mother?”
“Umm… that…”
He was stuck, as if he had a hard time saying something .
I can’t imagine Seiji-kun’s mom making such flashy dishes like this . The bentou that I see him eat for lunch in the home economics room always had a homemade feel .
“My mother, has been quite into Italian recently… so…”
Pikiin, my woman’s intuition was activated .
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It’s wrong . It’s definitely not his mother .
Then, who is it? Sanchan is terrible at cooking… If that’s the case, then another woman———!? That would be the only explanation for such flashy dishes .
“Seiji-kun, are you hiding something from me?”
“Ueeh!? W-why!? Why would you think that…”
His panic is quite suspicious…
“I can somehow feel it . Just a little . ”
“The soup is pretty good as well, right?”
“Ah, yeah . It’s really tasty!”
“That’s good . ”
This relieved smile that Seiji-kun had, it was a smile that I unbearably liked… His salad is good too . It was to the point where it might make me say that I actually wanted to eat vegetables!!
In truth, I really didn’t know much about Seiji-kun . I believe that I wouldn’t lose to anyone in knowing things about Seiji-kun after he became a second-year high schooler, but if it’s about last year or about his middle school days, I haven’t heard much . Without a doubt, he had mastered this cooking skill before he started dating me .
“You made this meal today to thank me, right?”
“Eh? Ahh, yeah . ”
“Do you do cooking at home?”
“My mother is at home, so if I just use ingredients in the fridge, she gets mad at me . She would scold me by saying that she was going to be using that meat or those vegetables tomorrow, and stuff like that . ”
“Ah . I get that . It’s because most of the things in the refrigerator are probably planned out . If things are used all of a sudden, the menu for the week ends up getting messed up a bit . ”
“So it seems . She said the same thing to me . ”
He doesn’t cook at home, yet he’s so good…?
Ah, I got it!
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“An ex-girlfriend!? It’s that, right!? You were dating a beautiful, fashionable, and slightly older Onee-san!?”
“Haaah!? What are you talking about? Rather, isn’t that more like the current situation?”
That’s right . There isn’t any proof that I’m Seiji-kun’s first girlfriend .
“I don’t have an ex-girlfriend . Haruksan is my first . ”
He immediately refuted my thoughts .
Hmmm? Rather, isn’t it more like the current situation…?
“A beautiful, fashionable, and slightly older Onee-san?”
I said, while pointing at myself .
“T-that’s right…”
Ah . He’s embarrassed . So cute… When he shows this side of himself, it makes me aware that he’s a younger boy and it really makes my heart tighten . Normally, he wouldn’t get flustered or hesitate as he settled everything perfectly .
“I’m sorry for being jealous of a nonexistent ex-girlfriend . ”
“No, it’s fine . ”
He wasn’t taught by an ex-girlfriend, nor was he taught by his mother . Then, who, and when…?
“Seiji-kun, do you like cafés?”
“Cafés? No, I don’t really like them that much . I do like coffee though . ”
Mumumu .
So, it wasn’t that he was imitating a lunch from some café somewhere .
“I mean, cafés are like, ‘Having tea at a fashionable place this, it’s so cute! I’m quite fashionable myself, right?’ Those are the types of girls that go there, right?”
“Uwah, that’s quite a biased view!!”
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“Am I wrong?”
“Girls just like that sort of place . The furniture, the interior, and the accessories are often really nice, and the store itself comes with a good atmosphere . ”
“Fuun . Why the sudden talk about cafes?”
“I was thinking that if it wasn’t on a date, it’s kind of hard to go to a place like that, right? So, I thought maybe that you liked it . The stuff you made is like the stuff that would be served at a café after all . ”
He doesn’t like cafes… He isn’t imitating the cooking of some place… Then, where did he get all of his cooking skills . Was he secretly practicing in the kitchen—?
“Were you thinking about thanking me today like this for a while?”
“I wouldn’t say it was for a while, but you always treat me to things, and even make me bentous . That’s why I thought I should pay you back . ”
What should I do? When I think that he might have been bad at it, and practiced cooking for my sake, it makes me want to love Seiji-kun even more…
Mou, I’ll leave it like that then . Seiji-kun is grateful for everything that I do for him every day after all, and the cooking is also good .
“Are you really curious about my cooking, that you need to no matter what?”
“Eh? Yeah…”
He was trying to hide it earlier . What happened all of a sudden?
Seiji-kun peeked at me with a serious expression .
“I’m really 27 years old, and I came to this current time period by a time leap . ”
“… Ahahah, what’s with that? No matter how I see it, you aren’t 27 . ”
“And so, I know how to cook because I remember it from college, when I was working part time at an Italian restaurant—”
“What? That’s such a realistic college setting . Ahahaha . ”
“In college, I lived alone, so I had a lot of chances to cook . So now—”
“College student, living alone . That sounds so real!”
Tears felt like they were coming out of my eyes, so I wiped it with one of my fingers .
“Haaah, that was weird . ”
“……… I know, right?”
That’s the smile that I like .
Then, I asked him something uneasily .
“Ummm… Tai-mu-lee-pu, what’s that? What does it mean?”
Gakun, Seiji-kun hung his head .
“I-I see… I guess you wouldn’t normally know . A word like that…”
And then, he explained to me what a time leap was, and I finally understood .
So, as we carried our own tableware to the sink, I tried asking him .
“Then, if the time leap was real, then the Seiji-kun here right now is 27 years old?”
“Aaah, the setting from earlier? That’s how it would be . ”
With the water running, I washed the dishes with a sponge, and then handed them to Seiji-kun to rinse .
“Haruksan… If that was the case, what would you do?”
“I don’t think I would do anything? Seiji-kun, is Seiji-kun, right? If it was really someone else inside, then I would have to think about it though . ”
“I see . ”
Saying that, Seiji-kun smiled .
Afterwards, we flirted a little more than we usually would .