Utsukushii Kare/ My Beautiful Man [ENGLISH TRANSLATION]

Chapter-2; PART-3: Bitter Sweet Loop

           

                                    Translator: White Lotus

            

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After the official start of the rainy season, the club room was filled with humidity. The bread that was left behind by someone had gone moldy, and it was all because there were no girls in the club, so the seniors started to suggest recruiting some girls into the club, but no one dared to put it into action.

"Why is it that there are so many girls in the university, but not a single girl here?"

"Isn't it because there are no handsome guys in our club?"

A senior poked a first-year student in the head after hearing his calm analysis.

"Ah~ if only you were girls."

"Do you want to persuade the female version of us?"

"No way."

Everyone kept chatting about these silly topics.

"Our club is really casual, huh?"

Koyama, who was flipping through a photography magazine on the side, laughed.

"That's what I like about our club," said Hira.

"Indeed. Oh, Hira, are you coming to my house today? I'll cook dinner."

"Have you received another attack from your family?"

Hira showed a troubled expression on his face as Koyama made a pleading gesture with his hands clasped in front of his chest. Koyama's parents were farmers who grew vegetables, and they frequently delivered tons of them to their only son, who lived alone in Tokyo. Hira was called upon to help him consume these vegetables.

"Okay, but…I don't want to eat a hot pot with just vegetables anymore. It's so hot today."

"Then let's make teppanyaki* and add some chicken in it. I have chicken breasts at home."

(T/N: *Teppanyaki (鉄板焼き) is a Japanese dish of meat, fish, or both, fried with vegetables on a hot steel plate forming the center of the table. It is a style of cuisine that is cooked on the grill and usually served to diners on an iron plate. Teppanyaki (鉄板焼き, teppan-yaki), often confused with hibachi (火鉢, "fire bowl"), is a post-World War II style of Japanese cuisine that uses an iron griddle to cook food. The word teppanyaki is derived from teppan (鉄板), the metal plate on which it is cooked, and yaki (焼き), which means grilled, broiled, or pan-fried. In Japan, teppanyaki refers to dishes cooked using a teppan, including steak, shrimp, okonomiyaki (pancake), yakisoba (fried noodle) and monjayaki (Japanese pan-fried batter). Image: