Wagnaria- One Day After Sato's Accident
"Outrage!" Yamada screamed.
"Unbelievable!" Takanashi was frustrated as well.
"What are you all talking about?" Todoroki came into the break room. She seemed very disoriented and out of sync after she had found out about Sato's accident.
"This!" Taneshima showed a small clip of a newspaper to Todoroki.
Todoroki took the paper and began reading it.
"Marriage Between Business Tycoon Ayama Orino and her childhood friend Sato Jun tonight at St. Jonathan's Church! Service from 6-9 PM. Vows at 9:45 PM."
Todoroki's hand shook as she finished reading the newspaper clip.
"Marriage?" she managed to say.
"No way would Sato, amnesia or not, would marry an evil person like that!" Taneshima declared.
Inami, who joined in the conversation, said, "Maybe he wants us to not worry about him. He does have amnesia and this woman all of a sudden says that that you're her husband. You'd believe her right?"
"Yamada agrees but disapproves!" Yamada said as she punched her first in the air.
"And the ceremony is so sudden too," Kyoko said as she snacked on chocolate filling.
"Don't you all think it's a little suspicious?" Soma joined in. He wasn't smiling this time.
"Soma?" Takanashi greeted him. "What do you mean?"
Soma gave a slight grin. He always knew something that everyone else didn't.
"That their marriage would be so sudden?" Soma started.
The very words caught considerable attention from everyone.
"Sato-kun has to heal from amnesia and any other external injuries he may have endured in the accident. Why the day after the accident? Is this all not suspicious? Didn't Ayama already declare that she and Sato are already married?"
"They aren't!" Taneshima boldly declared.
Soma grinned. "Then you might want to hear what I know about Sato and Ayama that I withheld from you."
Everyone leaned in. This was too intriguing.
"Sato and Ayama are already married," Sato explained.
Eyes of belief stared at Soma.
"How you may be asking? Here's the real explanation: Sato and Ayama previously agreed to marry because Sato wanted Ayama to stop harassing his family and friends. Ayama literally forced Sato to do nothing but agree to her demands. Sato, however, was not happy and ran away from Ayama and his family. The marriage was annulled because no one knew where Sato was." Soma finished explaining.
"So does that mean Sato is only marrying her again for the safety of us?" Taneshima asked.
"A possibility," Soma acknowledged.
"Then we should go and tell Sato!" Takanashi sparked.
Nods of agreement came from the Wagnaria crew, except for Soma.
"You're forgetting one important thing: Sato's amnesia. You have to prove that Sato is faking it," he explained.
"What do you mean?" Yamada questioned.
"Sato has talked to all of you; he has to have tried to give some type of clue that he doesn't have amnesia," Soma explained.
This was unexpected.
"We were all trying to get him to snap out of his amnesia that he probably never had the chance to say anything," Taneshima explained.
"I see. That's too bad, but we should still go after work, right?" Soma shook his head.
"Yamada does not understand. Why don't we all say that we disapprove the marriage when the man announces if anyone objects?" Yamada brought up the idea.
"Ayama will just have her people 'take care of us' before we even get a chance. We must sneak in somehow and get proof or some kind of verbal agreement from Sato that Ayama is forcing this upon him. But that will be extremely because Sato wants the safety of us and will most likely remain stoic about this dilemma," Soma again explained.
"After work, we'll go!" Taneshima declared.
Approval ran throughout the Wagnaria crew, except for Todoroki.
"You guys go on ahead. I have a couple of things to do after work," she explained hesitantly.
"Why?" Taneshima questioned. "Why would you not want to go ask him how he personally feels and if he's struggling?"
"If Sato wants this then I won't stop him," Todoroki said with a slight smile.
No comments came from the Wagnaria crew.
Soon, closing time came.
Everyone dressed up and left as soon as possible, except for Todoroki and Soma.
They both sat in the back entrance on the stairwell.
"You're really not going to go see him?" Soma asked Todoroki.
"I don't want to upset him," Todoroki explained.
"You know, if Sato was to secretly reveal his sanity to anyone; it would be you," Soma explained.
Todoroki looked confused.
"Why me?"
"Because out of all of us, you're the most precious to him," Soma explained.
Todoroki was more confused now.
"What does that mean?"
Soma stretched his arms as he stood up and began to walk away.
"That's for you to find out."
Todoroki then stared up into the dark night. A full moon shone above her that day.
Todoroki then asked Soma as he was leaving,
"Do you think that he meant every word he said?"
Soma stopped. "Probably more." And then Soma disappeared into a dark alleyway.
Todoroki stared at the moon again.
"I've never seen you before girl with a pretty smile," Todoroki remembered Sato's words.
I wasn't smiling, she thought.
"Don't worry. I'm lucky to have a pretty girl like you with an elegant smile to be such a close friend to me."
Does he really think I'm pretty? Todoroki thought.
"You should give me your cell phone number so we can talk sometime.
I'm sure that I didn't teach you how to text, though that short elementary girl with the brown hair, she looks like she's good at it." Todoroki continued to recall Sato's words.
Then it hit Todoroki. The previous moments she remembered in her head were of a time that she and Sato shared together!
It was when Todoroki got her first cell phone. Sato and Todoroki were both in Sato's now wrecked car when that exchange occurred.
Todoroki recalled it now! Sato must've been referencing that moment when they were talking.
Todoroki took off quickly. She knew it now; she must stop that marriage!