Chapter 10 : Lucky Charm

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Next scene : On the way home...


(Ukiyo and Kaoru are both silent inside the train.)


Kaoru :(thinking about what happened earlier) ... (whispers to herself) I still can't believe it... Iguchi Yuuya... likes... ... (shakes her head) What am I thinking? Muri, muri!

Ukiyo : (glances at her)

Kaoru : (notices him) What are you looking at?

Ukiyo : Who else. You're acting weird.

Kaoru : I'm not acting weird!

Ukiyo : Sure you are. Ever since we left GZM.

Kaoru : ...chigau. [You're wrong.]

Ukiyo : What did Yuuya discuss with you?

Kaoru : (changes expression) ... nothing much.

Ukiyo : Really?

Kaoru : Just thanked me for the photos...

Ukiyo : Ah... is that it?

Kaoru : (nods nervously)

Ukiyo : ... he had to go all the way to GZ to just tell you something like that...what a guy.

Kaoru : ...err... I was thinking the same. (looks away)


(After getting off the train. Ukiyo and Kaoru walks for a while. Kaoru's mind is still floating.)


Ukiyo : You sure Yuuya didn't do something weird to you?

Kaoru : (shakes her head) Chigau.

Ukiyo : You're really acting strange.

Kaoru : (becomes tensed and fans herself with her hand) No. Just really exhausted. I've got a lot in mind.

Ukiyo : ... wait here.

Kaoru : Huh?


(Ukiyo goes inside a nearby convenient store and comes back in a few minutes.)


Kaoru : What did you do?

Ukiyo : Kore. (gives her a popsicle ice cream)

Kaoru :(shocked) For me?

Ukiyo : I don't really know what's going on... but you really seem troubled. So,here... cool down.

Kaoru : ...uh... arigatou. (accepts it) (notices the bead bracelet Ukiyo was wearing) That bracelet-...

Ukiyo : What?(notices) Ah... this? (raises his hand)

Kaoru : ...

Ukiyo : (smiles)Did you forget already? It was you who gave me this.


Narrator : I knew that. I remembered it clearly until now that I was the one who gave it to him... on his birthday.


On the same day, I gave him a compliment for his work.


>flashback<


(Their group had a presentation in front of a panel and it went smoothly. After the presentation...)

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