The next few days were weird for both of them. They had to get used to having to wake up early again, Shuichi going to work, and Eiri writing his next novel. It didn't take long for them to get readjusted. Shuichi, however, was doing all he possibly could to make Eiri hungry. Surprisingly to him, Eiri was able to withstand the temptation. Eiri, on the other hand, was having a difficult time with the bet. He was starting to crave foods that would make him lose the bet. He didn't want to be Shuichi's slave for a day because he knew what Shuichi would want. He would want him to probably have sex all day or have him only wear very tight black leather shorts that doesn't leave much to the imagination and a dog leash. Eiri couldn't bear that kind of humiliation, so he tried his best to resist Shuichi's attempts to make him eat.
It was getting to the point that Shuichi thought that Eiri would never give in and Eiri thinking that he might if Shuichi keeps this up. Everyone noticed that something was going on. Just none of them had the courage to ask. They started noticing when Shuichi started talking about different types of food he could use to temp Eiri and started neglecting his duties. K wasn't going to stand for this. So on the 9th day of the bet he finally took a gun to Shuichi's head and said, "You stop talking about food, focus on your work, or I'll blow your brains out." Shuichi finally stopped talking about food at work and focused on his singing. He was, however, undiscouraged on his attempts.
Eiri, mean while, had started his next novel. He called it The Honeymoon Suit. He had decided to use his and Shuichi's honeymoon as the base for his story. He did change some of it so people wouldn't get suspicious. He also made it more romantic, not that their time there wasn't, he just wanted to put in some things they didn't get to do. The one thing he made sure to leave out was the chess playing. He knew that that would be not a very interesting subject for his readers to read about. On the whole, he was loving his book and so was. He had Shuichi be his only critic in between his attempts to make Eiri eat.
By the 12th day, Eiri was on the verge of cracking. He wanted food and didn't know if he could stand 2 more days with out the food he wanted. Shuichi was on edge too. He was running out of ideas to get Eiri to eat to the food Shuichi knows he is craving. Every time someone would come up behind him, he would jump. On time when Ryuichi did it, he scared Ryuichi as much as Ryuichi scared him. Ryuichi was the first to finally ask what was going on. "What's wrong Shuichi? Lately you seem jumpy. I'm not scary am I?"
Shuichi sighed and said, "This bet."
Ryuichi gave him a curious look and said, "Bet? What bet?"
"This one between Eiri and me." said Shuichi sadly.
"What's it about?" asked Ryuichi curiously.
""Well, in Paris Eiri thought he was getting fat." Ryuichi giggled at that. "It's not funny. So he said he was going on a diet and I said he didn't need one. Then he bet me that when we returned if he could be on a diet for two weeks without eating anything bad, I would have to do the diet for two weeks as well. But if he lost, he would be my complete slave for a day." Ryuichi was laughing now. "Stop laughing. It has almost been two weeks and I'm losing. I don't want to go on a diet for two weeks, I wouldn't last. Oh, why does Eiri have to be so hard to crack. He's going to win, I know it."
In between laughs, Ryuichi muttered, "Why don't you just give up if you know he is going to win."
Shuichi gave him a serious look and said, "I can't do that. If I do that, is diet will be shot. He'll start eating and I'll have to go on a diet. I can't give up, not now."
Ryuichi just shook his head and walked away, still giggling about the whole situation. The whole thing was funny to him. He just couldn't figure out why they would make a bet like that in the first place. So he asked Fujisaki, who didn't know, who asked Hiro, who asked K, who asked Mr. Sakano, and so on. By the end of the day, everyone knew about the bet and were all laughing about it. Shuichi was angry with Ryuichi for doing it, but grateful for making him realize that the is bet was stupid and he should tell Eiri that he gave up.
While Shuichi was figuring this out, Eiri figuring out that this was just to complicated for him. He knew that he had to eat something, even if it meant that he became a slave for a day. He just couldn't last much longer. He however made himself wait to eat until Shuichi got home. He wished that Shuichi would hurry.