"So, Yuu, where are you from?" Kanon sent a barrage of questions toward Yuu, he even thought that she'd be better than the lead host at that celebrity entertainment show that airs during saturday nights.
Suddenly, they heard a loud scream- followed by a crash.
It was a student riding a bike, might have gotten out of control but he somehow ended up inside a trash can, upside down.
All of them stopped for a moment to take in what just happened then Kanon continued her interview and all of them walked past the student who just crashed, as if it was nothing.
But then, a sudden shout from behind made them stop in their tracks, again.
"Saki-senpai!" The student who just crashed called out. The student was running towards them with his bike by his side, he looked like he was out of breath.
The student finally caught up to them and flashed them a really huge smile.
"Morning senpais!" the student exclaimed as he scanned the senpais then stopped right at Yuu who was staring at him intently.
"Huh? are you new?" The student asked. Yuu nodded but he wasn't really listening, he was so focused on the small pieces of garbage that sat on top of the student's hair- especially that straw that's been sticking out.
"He's also from the city like you Yosuke!" Kanon exclaimed.
"Woah really! Now there's two of us!" The student exclaimed with joy, he then introduced himself "I'm Hanamura Yosuke of class 2-A!" Yosuke said with a huge grin.
"I'm Narukami Yuu, second year but I still don't know my class" Yuu said while trying to maintain eye contact, away from Yosuke's hair.
"A second year too?! This must be fate! ohh how the Gods must have noti-" Yosuke got cut off when Kanon dragged Yuu away from him.
"Just try to act like you don't see him, 'kay?" Kanon said to Yuu with a wink.
"Hey! I heard you, you know!" Yosuke exclaimed as he tailed behind the group, rolling his bike along.
"This is the place Narukami" Sayaka said as they stopped in front of the faculty room.
"The teachers here will know what class you're in" Sayaka smiled before pushing back her glasses.
The trio of third years headed off while waving their arms and shouting good-bye.
Yosuke sighed beside Yuu which startled him a bit because he thought that Yosuke already stopped following them a while ago.
"Hey man, I'm going to get into my class now okay? Hope were in the same class!" Yosuke flashed a smile and ran off.
*Slide*
Yuu looked around the room and approached a friendly looking teacher, asking for the roster.
The man Yuu approached smiled and pointed him to two tables on the opposite corner, "Those are the tables of the second-year advisers, this is the third year's"
Yuu followed to where the man is pointing, there was only one person there as the other one is vacant, the man didn't really looked... approachable.
Nevertheless, Yuu approached the man in the blue suit, asking if his name is in his roster.
"Narukami Yuu?" The man asked staring up at him with a frown
"Heh, another one from the city? Here to pick up girls huh?" The man hissed at Yuu.
"Well, you're in my class so watch yourself or you're gonna go right into my shitlist" The man stood up and glared at him, his buckteeth was so pronounced throughout his yabbering.
"Follow me into the room full of idiots like you" The man grumbled.
Yuu knew that they were near the classroom as he heard already heard some noises, there was this really loud girl who kept shouting to someone to pay her the steak she deserved.
Yuu shrugged it off.
*Slide*
Yuu heard the noisy classroom simmer down into silence as the teacher walked in, though there were audible disappointed sounds.
"Shaddap ya crazed monkeys" The teacher slammed the book he's been holding onto the table.
"Today, we have a new transferee, someone from the city, now don't go thinking of doing anything or you're gonna right into my shitlist!" the teacher pointed a finger on the book he placed on the table.
Yuu took this as a cue to enter the room, he could hear gasps and whispers from the classroom.
"Lucky!" an audible voice said out loud, there were a lot of smiles out there.
"Hello, I'm Narukami Yuu, please take care of me" Yuu said as he bowed.
*SLAM*
The entire classroom instantly silenced
"I saw you make eye contact with that girl over there!" The teacher yelled out loud.
"Which girl?" Yuu asked trying to question his assumption which turned out to anger the teacher more.
"That's it! NOW you're on my shitlist!" The teacher raged. Thankfully, someone called his attention.
"Teacher, can he sit over here?" The girl donning a green jacket said after retracting the hand she raised.
"You deaf? sit over there!" The teacher pointed to the empty seat next to the girl in green.
Yuu made his way to the seat, he could feel the intense stares he was receiving.
"Tough-luck huh?" The girl in green said to Yuu once he got down to his seat.
"That's Morooka sensei, AKA, king Moron. You could say he's the worst teacher ever in the history of Yasogami" The girl said in a whisper while rolling her eyes.
Yuu laughed before uttering a thanks to the girl.
"I'm Chie, Satonaka Chie by the way" The girl flashed Yuu a smile before shoving a piece of meat into her mouth, she was keeping a container of sliced up steak in he table.
"Want some?" Chie offered as she showed a little part of the container to which Yuu politely rejected.
In a few minutes, home room was over and a bunch of people have gathered at Yuu's table.
They were all asking him a lot of questions, some were inviting him to lunch and all but then something caught everyone's attention.
"What do you mean you broke my cd? HA?! WHAT DO YOU MEAN?!" Chie said while holding up yosuke by the neck part of the shirt.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I never really meant it, it was an accident! I was riding my bike whe- GUHHHH" Chie kicked Yosuke somewhere in gnads and left him to die in pain outside the hall.
"This is gonna cost you steak! and good steak I'm telling ya. High quality steak" Chie scoffed as she turned around to sit back on her desk.
If someone were to film whatever happened, it might have been censored due to extreme violence.
"Hey Yukiko, wanna get some lunch?" Chie said as she got back to her desk
"Sure" The girl sitting on fron of Chie said. She was really pretty, with long black hair and a slender body, but it's not like it had any effect on Yuu.
"How about you join us, Yuu?" Chie offered.
"I didn't really bring any food. I was just planning on buying one from the cafeteria" Yuu said.
"Hmmm, you can take my emergency supply" Chie said as she dug a large container from her bag
"Here. I'm supposed to eat that as a snack though but think of it as a welcome gift" Chie grinned as she shoved the large and heavy container to Yuu's arm.
"Thanks Chie" Yuu smiled as he stood up
"Awwwww, I just asked you to lunch earlier didn't I, Yuu-kun" A girl pouted. Yuu apologized, it was always better to stay with the people who seemed sane, Yuu thought to himself.
As the trio made their way to the rooftop, Chie started defining the different types of meat and slowly progressed into the different types of sauce.
Once they reached the rooftop, Chie immediately sat down on a ledge and patted the girl she brought with her on the back.
"This is Amagi Yukiko" Chie said.
"Nice to meet you" Yukiko said with a slight bow.
"You know the Amagi Inn? her family runs that place, she's the heiress" Yukiko humbly waved it off as Chie exclaimed it.
"She's really pretty huh" Chie playfully nudged on Yuu's arm, leaving Yukiko emabarrassed.
Yuu smiled at her at decided to open the 'emergency supply' that Chie gave to him.
Lo and behold, it was filled to the brim with half rice and the other half some meath with some sauce on it. No wonder it was so heavy.
But it couldn't defeat the container that Chie was holding, it was more or less twice the size of the container that Yuu was holding.
Chie begand shoveling the foon into her mouth the moment she opened her lunch.
"Pardon her" Yukiko gave a small laugh as she opened hers.
In contrast to Chie's lunch, Yukiko had mostly seafood and vegetables in it and seemed to have been focused more on quality than quantity.
"You made that?" Yuu asked before digging into his lunch.
Yukiko immediately reacted, saying that it was their chef that made her lunches and that she wasn't really that good.
Time flew by quickly and before Yuu knew it, classes have ended.
"Hey Yosuke" Chie slammed her palm on Yosuke's desk
"I hope you did not forget our deal" Chie said in a really grim voice, Yosuke gulped and shivers ran through Yuu's back.
"Okay then!" Chie intantly perked up.
"Hey Yukiko, wanna eat some steak? it's on Yosuke" Chie grinned as Yosuke flinched
"No, I'm fine, I'm watching my weight plus they really need a hand back at the inn" Yukiko said as she was organizing her stuff.
"Bummer. Oh! how abouy you?" Chie turned to face Yuu who was just about to get up.
"Oh we could give you a tour while we're at it! whaddya say huh?" Chie said as she tried to convince Yuu to come.
Yuu didn't really want to be on Chie's bad side, her grim voice still echoed inside his head and he somewhat agreed.
As they were walking outside, Chie never failed to explain the menu of every restaurant they passed by while Yosuke kept on sighing and murmuring about how he could have bought his own cd instead.
"Huh?" Chie said ss she looked around.
"I thought I said I luxury steak! Why in the world are we at Junes' food court?!" Chie exclaimed
"Hey hey hey, With the three of us, this is all I could afford okay?" Yosuke reasoned as he waved around his wallet.
"Now just sit there sir and ma'm while I order our steak" Yosuke said with confidence
"Even if it's at Junes, steak for three people isn't that cheap Chie. Is this really alright?" Yuu asked Chie
"Relax, he's the son of the manager here, he gets discount" Chie replied with a carefree tone.
A few moments later, Yosuke came wobblin back- trying to hold a tray with three plates and three drinks.
"Whew, man was this heavy" Yosuke distributed the plates of steak and the drinks but stopped as he looked up.
Chie and Yuu followed Yosuke's stare and saw that it was focused on a girl wearing a Junes apron- Saki Konishi, the girl Yuu met at the gates earlier this morning.
"If I were Saki senpai, I would've already filed a restraining order against you" Chie said before facing her food and dancing some weird dance of joy.
Thanks to Chie's exaggerated dance of joy, Saki noticed the trio and walked closer to them.
"H-Hey senpai" Yosuke said with an idiotic smile on his face.
"Oh hey Hana-chan" Saki said while smiling. Yosuke looked like he could be buried alive and he'd still have that smile plastered on his face.
"Ah Yuu" Saki mentioned Yuu's name as she turned to face him.
"So you're hanging out with Hana chan huh? did he bother you?" Saki asked Yuu with a worried expression
"No, not at all" Yuu said while waving his arms.
"That's great. Hana chan's a really good guy but if he starts to really bother you then just say it straight to his face!" Saki's expressioned lightened "Gotta go now, enjoy your stay" Saki ssid as she went back to her work.
"Hey Yosuke, mind if I take half of your steak?" Chie asked as she was slicing away almost the entire portion of Yosuke's steak to her plate.
Yosuke just gave a lovestruck yes and a nod.
The steak was actually better than you normal beef, Yosuke kept on bragging that they used Inaba beef in this branch, apparently, it was a cut above normal beef.
Chie went on and on about how protein is good for your body while they walked alongside the foodstands, Chie picking up food from every food tasting station.
It was already about to get dark, but before leading Yuu to the path to his home, the trio decided to take a detour, something to promote the beauty of Inaba as what Yosuke was saying.
After some turns and walk and violent eruptions from Chie, they found several police cars up ahead their track.
"Hey, let's check it out" Yosuke said as he hurriedly walked to the area perimitered with a yellow "Do not cross tape", Yuu and Chie followed suit.
Whaf they found in the cenfer was a dead body, it was the body of the female reporter who was involved in an affair with a local politician.
"Do not cross that line kid" Dojiml warned Yosuke as Yosuke tiuched the tape. Dojima noticed his nephew with the group and came towards them.
"What are you doing here?" Dojima asked Yuu as he removed his gloves and crossed the tape to get outside the perimeter.
"My friends were showing me around" Yuu replied.
"Well just keep out of trouble okay?" Dojima said while looking at Yuu but then his attention shifted to his assistant who was hurling nearby.
"Tell Nanako I won't be able to get home early" Dojima said before walking over to his assistant.
"Dude, your uncle's a detective? sweet!" Yosuke giddily said.
Moments later, the trio finally arrived at Yuu's house and parted ways.
Yuu stepped into the house and was greeted by Nanako who went back to finishing her assignment. Yuu remembered that his unclessaid he won't be able to leave early but he knew Nanako would be disappointed if she knew, still- there was nothing he could do. It's not like he could go and replace Dojima as a detective.
Yuu approached Nanako and told her about Dojima, Nanako's expression was obviously disappointed but she didn't cry or poutmuch over it.
To liven up the atmosphere, Yuu decided he'd make dinner for the both of them.
There weren't much ingredients but Yuumanaged to make some chicken stew. Nanako looked really happy with ths food and gave Yuu a thumbs up after she cleaned out her plate.
Yuu happily went back to his room and noticed that some of his stuffs have arrived, it took a few hours for Yuu to finally put everything into place. Now, to test the tv.
After plugging in the tv cord, Yuu switched on the tv and smiled at himself as the screen showed a commercial of some coffee drink and an idol named Risette. Just asYuu was abiut to turn off the tv, the image on the screen changed, it wasn't that catchy commercial with an idol, it was somewhat dark and there was only a single person on the screen. He knew who the girl was.
The waves of her hair, the droop of her eyes, the curve of her lips.
No doubt. It was Saki Konishi.