Mahouka: The Yotsuba Prince (OC x Mayumi)

Part 16

Chapter 16

MAYUMI SAEGUSA

With the Nine School Competition set to begin soon, she is going to get rather busy. The convention with the course two students had healed much of the wounds and scars caused by the riots and the terrorist attack and had brought the school together.

It allowed her to address the issue of prejudice openly and started a positive conversation about the issues and the division at school. She had laid the first brick for the building of reform that she had always wished to build, and now it was upto her successors to build upon it.

And right now, she found herself agonizing over her dress as she prepared to meet one of those very successors on a weekend. With days passing by, it was finally time for her first date in Highschool, and it wouldn't really be so embarrassing if it was not for the fact that it was with a junior.

Not that he ever felt like one. Inei Yotsuba was boy-wise and mature beyond his age, and as she heard the bell to her apartment ring, she buzzed up and gave herself a once-over. She had chosen a rather simple white floral sundress with a light pink overcoat.

It was neither too formal nor informal, and with a final sigh, she left the room and walked up to the door. Through design, she made sure that her sisters and butler were away, for she did not wish to make a hill out of this mole.

And here he was.

"Mayumi-san, you look lovely," he greeted her in his usual drawl and lazy voice. She did not miss how his eyes seemed to look her over with a slightly observant gaze, not that she did not do the same. She blushed at the compliment and gave him one of her own.

"You clean up nice as well," she smiled. He had cleaned up indeed, not that he came to school in drabs. But she could somehow feel that he had spent time dressing up rather than choosing it all sloppily. He wore black tapered trousers and a clean white shirt, and his sleeves rolled up. Nothing too fancy but still formal enough, she would say.

Behind him was a black car, making her raise a brow.

"Black and White is becoming quite a theme with you now, isn't it?" she teased, and he shrugged.

"I happen to like Black," he said as he led her upto the car like a gentleman, opening the door for her and helping her sit.

"Thank you," she said as he joined her, and she realized that it was not actually one of the modern self-driving cars but rather an old-school one with manual gears and brakes.

"Wow, I don't think I have ever sat in one of these," and she had not, so he shrugged.

"First time for everything," and with that they were off. And they were off, and it was not as unusual as she had expected. He took her to the cinema, and they watched a movie. Helped her shop around a bit, and a small stroll through the park.

It was pleasant and taxing for him, she could tell, but he stuck by her side as she dragged him from one place to another. That was until it came time for lunch.

"So, where are we going to lunch?" she asked. The truth was that there was not much of Tokyo she had not seen, and she had spent most of the time showing her the places she considered to be the best of the city. At that, he raised a brow.

"Now that is a surprise," he said as he joined her.

"Where are we going?" she asked.

"Well, you have probably dined at every fine restaurant in the city already. So, I have another plan for you," and with that, his car came to a halt in a residential neighborhood infront of a rather small house.