Hypnosis Microphone: Blue Division~Bayside Story~

XIV/ Hope

"If you are free next time, why don't you come to my camp fire in the forest, we should have a feast together" invited Riou. Setsuna's eyes sparkles, "Really?"

Jyuto and Samatoki startled when heard that. "Uhm, why don't we have a barbeque instead? It's must be unfair for you to prepare the ingredients and cook for three of us, we should bring the ingredients too, right?" suggest Jyuto.

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The promised day finally arrived, Jyuto, Samatoki and Setsuna went into the forest nearby the harbour for barbeque at Riou's campfire. Due to the deals made by Jyuto, three of them bring the ingredients for him while he will prepared the cooking place.

"I don't want to eat his cooking..." complaints Samatoki.

"I told you don't mentioned it...do you think why I made such deal in the first place?" replied Jyuto. Both of them brings a various ingredients in their hands, same goes with Setsuna that brought vegetables in her hand.

"Is his cooking that bad? But, last time he cooked the chicken soup, it's tastes delicious tho" Setsuna tilted her head.

"Well...it's not like...his cooking is bad..." reply Jyuto, hesitant. "...it's just the ingredients of his cooking is totally 'survival'" add Samatoki.

Setsuna never imagine this two, from a totally different personality able to be in the same pages which is about Riou's cooking. Did Riou brings this two together? But he is living in the forest...how possible?

However, the barbeque idea isn't that bad, especially in the night of summer.

A few minutes later, they arrived at Riou's camp fire. Setsuna awed by how 'survival' Riou's lifestyle is. It's does feel 'home' without the 'house'.

"You made this camp by yourself?" asked Setsuna, looking around his camp. Riou smiles, "Yeah"

"Cool! You didn't tied it with the rope, but instead a fibre plant?" awed Setsuna, observing Riou's handwork. Riou chuckles, "If you know the various plants, everything in this forest would be your friends" said him.

"That's mean you know how to differentiate the medical plants and poison plants?"

"I do"

At the side, Jyuto and Samatoki watches those two has a conversation. They never know that Setsuna would interested to learned about survival lifestyle.

"Hey, Setsuna, don't say you interested to lives like Riou?" asked Samatoki. Setsuna waves her hand, quickly denied it.

"No way~I would be died in few days if I lives like Riou" reply her.

"I know, right?" said Samatoki as he leans to one of the trees around the campfire and lit up his cigarette.

Once they finished the preparation, they started to cook their meals together. Riou cooks his favorite curry, while Jyuto grilled the ingredients that they brought and Setsuna cook the rice.

"After that, put like this?" asked Setsuna to Riou.

"Yeah" Setsuna follow the Riou instruction to cook the rice with survival technique. "Now what?"

"Wait til it's cook, it's might takes time" said Riou. Setsuna sighs.

"That's so many steps to do...if at home, you just switch on the button and tadaaa! The rice will be cook by itself!" said Setsuna.

"Well...after all, this is survival way" comment Jyuto. Setsuna look at the man that 10 years gaps from her, but he persisted her to called him 'Riou' (without a suffixes) instead of his surname. "Riou, can I ask you something?"