Last Chapter is here. Sorry for the very long delay. I was so busy with my work and I forgot that I am in the middle of writing a story. I was surprised that there was a lot of people that actually like this story. Thank you for everyone who like/favorite/follow this story and I hope you'll like this last chapter.
It has been months since the incident at the party. The central has fully taken control of Tootsuki and with these Promotional Exams going on, it seems that I have forgotten everything that has happened. I haven't talked to her after everything that has happened. Not that I avoid her but we barely even meet aside from exams and group meetings. She seems to be meeting with Hayama a lot more than our group.
It was lunch time and I have a lot of time on hand. It was snowing really hard here in Hokaido and everyone was preparing for the next Promotional Exam. I have already prepared everything so I decided to use my time to walk around the place.
"Yukihira!" I looked around and saw Takumi roaring with a dish in his hand. "I want you to taste this new dish I created last night!" I looked at the bowl of noodles in his hand, took the chopstick from his other hand and taste some of the noodles.
A loud slurping sound was heard as I took the noodles into my mouth. "Is this... Potato?" I took a sip at the soup of the noodles and chucked a bit. "Seems like this was the one you served at our last promotional exam."
Takumi smiled and pointed one of his fingers to me. "That is an upgrade of the dish I created. This is the ultimate Potato Noodle dish!" I smiled at him and listen while he was busy explaining the ingredients of the dish that he created. Before he was able to finish his explanation, Isami appeared and dragged him away. "H-hey! I'm not finished yet! I'll get back on you, Yukihira!"
I continue walking down the hallway. I stopped by in a cooking room. Decided to peek inside, I grabbed the door knob and opened it only to find Megumi inside trying some dishes. Megumi looks into my direction after hearing the door opening.
"Souma-kun."
"Tadakoro."
Megumi decided to take a break and walked with me around the town.
"I'm so glad we passed the second promotional exam. Nakiri-san's lectures are really helpful"
"Yeah. It seems that central will do everything to make sure we'll fail. We have to prepare more for the upcoming exam." Megumi nod.
"Souma-kun. If you have any problems, feel free to talk to me about it." I looked at her confused about what she was talking about until I remember the time that Megumi was worried about me when Hisako broke up with me. I stopped walking. After months that have passed, this was the first time that I have thought about it again. "Souma-kun? Are you okay?"
"Y-Yeah." I then walk towards Megumi and gave her a hug. She seems to be surprised by my action. I was surprised about what I did too. "Thank you for everything." I broke the hug and she looked at me smiling. She nod and looked at her watch.
"Oh it's about time to take out the meat off the freezer." She looked at me and smiled. "Souma-kun, I'll be going. See you later." She waved her hand and hurriedly run back to the hotel. I looked at my own watch and decided to return back too.
My mind wandered back to Hisako. I can't help but think of her again. I don't hope that we'll be back again. I was just hoping that she was happy now and Hayama was taking good care of her. I still love her but I don't see anything from us apart from just being friends. And I don't even think that we are still friends seeing as we don't even talk with each other anymore. But I believe that someday, I'll find someone who will love me just as I love her.
I returned to the hotel. I decided to return to my room since there is no need to test more recipes for the upcoming exam. I walk down the hallway to my room and stumbled upon Erina waiting outside of it. I back step a bit but before I was able to retreat, she noticed me and began walking towards me.
"Yukihira, where have you been? I have been waiting here outside of your room for hours now!"
"You should have texted me that you are -" before I can finish explaining, she began talking nonsense stuff about how carefree I am and that I should have used my spare time preparing for the next exam instead.
'Nah.' I thought to myself. I don't want to be lectured by a Nakiri.
"By the way, could you please give this to Hisako?" she took my hand and put a bag of medicine into my hand.
"What? No way!" I grabbed her hand to return the item back but she slipped her hand out of my grasp, laughed and run away. "Hey! Nakiri!"
"Please tell her I'll meet with her at 8 o'clock at the reception!" and before I could be able to say anything, she was out of my sight. Damn Nakiri. Of all the Polar Star members, why it should be me?
Since there is nothing I can do, I decided to go to Hisako's room to give the medicine to her. I walk towards the other set of room and after some minutes finding the correct room number, I finally am at the front of her room. I grabbed the door knob but I was stopped and began nervous. Why do I have to do this? I removed my hand off the door knob and decided to just leave the medicine bag and a note outside but suddenly the door opened and Hisako came out.
"Yukihira?"
"H-Hisako..." it was awkward. Awkward silence fills the hallway. She then noticed the medicine bag in my hand and decided to explain. "N-Nakiri ordered me to give this bag to you." I grabbed the medicine bag but before I was able to fully do so, I was stopped after seeing a ring in her hand. It was the ring that I bought for her!
"Thank you." She took the bag off my hand and I scratched the back of my head. It was looking like a highschool boy telling my crush that I like her.
"Nakiri said that she will be waiting for you at the reception at 8 o'clock."
"Alright."
"Got it?"
"Yeah." A bit of silence once again until she broke it. "Is there anything else you wanted to say?"
"N-nothing. I'll be leaving." I turned around and walk away from the room.
"Yukihira." I turned around once again and saw her smiling at me. "I hope you are happy right now. Thank you for everything."
I smiled at her, nod and walk away from the room. I can sense her still looking at me as I walk down the hallway. I didn't looked back. I found myself wondering about why she still has the ring. But after some time thinking, I finally found the answer that I am looking for. That ring is the symbol of our love and we will never forget about the things we went through together. There will be a time that I would be hurt but that feeling will be slowly changed with happiness and I will forgot every sad moments that I have experienced.
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Thank you again for everyone who read this story. I decided to create another Shokugeki no Soma fanfict around Nakiri and Yukihira. Hope for everyone looking forward to it.
