"speaking"
"Thinking"
On with the story
At Totsuki
In a storage room where there were some cooking machines from the gastronomy club, lying around collecting dust on them
The facility was dark and quiet before the door slides open to reveal, Aki, Rentaro, Kaori, and Dan.
"alright then, let's start cleaning" Aki said as she lifts her hands up, both covered in rubber gloves
The time goes on as the four starts cleaning the storage room together as they were having a punishment done to them because of Aki who did a prank on some senior students and this got her into trouble, as well as the other three who were just walking by
"this is why I rather stay at my class, then walk around" Kaori said, wearing a mask to cover her mouth, and was in the middle of cleaning a molecular machine with a wet towel
"yeah, I agree" Rentaro added in as they were cleaning the storage room because of Aki who just loves to get into trouble
"I wonder why we have to clean the storage room?" Aki asked while thinking as she just stands in her place, not cleaning anything
"just stop thinking and start cleaning" Kaori and Rentaro told her with an angry look
They all continued cleaning as one by one, the dust covered machines were getting cleaned one by one
In the middle of it, Alice came by
"oh, all of you are here" Alice called out to them with a smile "hard working?"
"yes" they all replied
"be careful with some of them" Alice told them "some of this machine are old and delicate
"we got that covered, auntie Alice" Aki told her aunt while she and Dan were pushing a big metal refrigerator to the side
Alice watched the two before she realizes something about the refrigerator
"wait! Wait!" Alice exclaimed as she went in and walks towards the refrigerator
"what's wrong?" Dan asked his mother who inspects the refrigerator before nodding two times
Alice then opens the refrigerator and inside was empty, except for a single photo that was lying inside
"I knew it" Alice said smiling as she takes out the photo and sees how it was perfectly preserved
"what's what?" Aki asked, curious to see what her aunt had got
"this Aki, is something that your mother wouldn't want anyone to see" Alice said with a snickering smile as in the photo was Soma and Erina who was wearing some sort of magical girl cosplay but looks flustered and embarrassed to the max
"that's Aunt Erina?" Dan asked his mother while looking at the photo
"yup" Alice said as she went out of the storage room with the other four following her "this was taken at their first date together at a special day"
"and what day was that?" Aki asked, more curious than ever
"Well…." Alice trailed off while placing a finger to her chin
26 years ago at Totsuki
Soma was walking around the hallway of Totsuki as he was heading to the Headmistress Office to get Erina
The two were in their second year together and were dating with each other. The whole school knows it and some support while some deny. This got daily shokugeki challenges for Soma as he is the first seat and the boyfriend of the most amazing person in Totsuki. Over all, the result of each Shokugeki for his seat and Erina's hand as her boyfriend were defended over and over to the point that the Shokugeki Challenges for her hand stopped and now only for his ranking in the Elite Ten
Soma whistles as he walks around and reached Erina's office
He tidies his clothes up before knocking on the door two times
"Erina? You there?" Soma called out as today was a planned date day and that means the two were going somewhere for the day
The door swings open as Erina's hand reached and grabbed Soma's before pulling the man in
"wow!" Soma exclaimed in surprise before the door closed
An hour later, a black car went out of Totsuki and into the outer street
Soma was in the car as so was Erina who was wearing a jacket, sports jeans, and with the addition of wearing sunglasses, and a sun hat
"I like how you look and all, Erina. But you look a bit?" Soma asked, a bit teasing to Erina
"I didn't want to wear this, you know" Erina said pulling down her sunglasses to reveal her beautiful amethyst eyes to her boyfriend "I just didn't want Alice to tail on me to where we are going"
"come on. Just how bad Alice wants to always have fun?" Soma asked before he imagined just how much Alice likes to drag Ryo around when they were in an amusement park "nevermind"
"all in matter, this isn't just for me as a coverup to Alice" Erina added in as she looks in front and sees that they were going to a convention and it was an anime convention "it's so that no one who is a chef there would know that I'm in such a place"
"what's that matter for us to be here?" Soma asked not seeing the point
"the matter is that they might try and blackmail me or something" Erina told him before Soma chuckles and pulled her in for a hug
"don't worry" Soma said "I'm here and I won't let that happen"
Erina hugs him back while having a smile as she was glad to have him as her boyfriend who is so loving
A few moments later, Erina and Soma arrived at the anime convention where there were many cosplayers, anime Otakus, any many anime fans
"wow, this is more crowded than the one in Tokyo" Soma said whistling a bit "why we come to this one though?"
Soma looks to Erina who was wearing a magical girl cosplay, her blonde hair turned red as she was wearing a wig while also having make up to disguise herself
"because in this convention, there's a contest for the one with the best magical girl cosplay will get a special limited edition manga of the First Time Summer Love that is only released for today and I do not want to wait next year to get it!" Erina explained, her eyes sparkling for her manga book which was one of her favourites and was reading at the moment
"and I thought the otakus here are bad" Soma thought with a sweatdrop
The two went on as it was a planned date and that was by spending the day at the anime convention and waiting for the contest to start which it did after 4 hours
The MC was doing the announcement of the contest while the contestants were waiting by their seats
Erina was fidgeting in her seat in anxiousness with Soma who accompanied her on the whole way
"please be me! Please be me! Please be me!" Erina muttered out as she wished to win the contest as bad as she wanted the manga
"you really wanted it, didn't you?" Soma said with a smile
"and the winner of the annual Cosplay event is!" the MC exclaimed as he was given a note which he reads before going back to the mic "contestant number 21! As the Cosplay of Magical Girl Villainess Foxiness Fox! Nakiri Alice!"
Soma and Erina heard the name and their jaws dropped
"yay~!" Alice popped out of the crowd as she wears an animal magical girl cosplay that looks to be a fox and was doing a victory sign while getting bombarded with photoshoots from all angle
"A-A-Alice!?" Erina stammered out in shock to see her cousin
"looks like I win perfectly!" Alice said while laughing superiorly, Ryo stood beside her, in an all-black dog costume while looking bored
Back to the present
"wah" Aki said with a deadpanned face to know that her mother and father went to an anime convention just to get a limited edition manga
"and then I took a picture of their stammering defeat!" Alice said with a smile while holding the photo in hand "as you can see"
"so what happened next?" Dan asked, the story not being finished after all
"oh right! You can't believe just how it ended!" Alice said with a snickering smile "just when we were going home, Erina's Cosplay j-"
Alice never got to finish her words as an arm was around her neck and a loud crack sound was heard, the 92nd Alumnus soon passed out
Aki and the others were trembling in fear as the one who just knocked out Alice was none other than Erina herself, the Headmistress having an unpleasant or unhappy look on her
"if you wish to remain in this school, I suggest that you continued whatever you were doing before my cousin comes in" Erina said in a threatening voice as Aki and the others bolted back inside the storage room and continued cleaning as fast as they can
Erina huffs as she takes the photo in Alice's hand and looks at it with a blushing face
"I thought I got rid of this all" Erina muttered out as she left the room and a passed out Alice as well
Night-time
Soma was in his home's living room as he was hearing what had happened a few hours back in school by Aki
"and then Mom just snapped Auntie Alice's neck!" Aki exclaimed while having Tama on her lap, the child just sucking on her bottle of milk, her twin Maka, however, was asleep on the couch while hugging a teddy bear upon sleeping
"okay then, that would explain why Alice was out for the day" Soma said as Alice was brought home out cold by Ryo who carried his wife bridal style while her neck had compresses on it
"so what gives with this whole cosplay thing?" Aki asked while caressing Tama's head
"about that part" Soma said while rubbing his chin "I don't think you're old enough to know it"
"eh? Why?" Aki whined
"just wait until you're 20 or so" Soma told her with a smile
After his kids were in bed, Soma went to his room where Erina was already in there, probably taking a bath or reading a book while sitting on the bed
"cosplay, huh?" Soma said "Erina did still keep that magical girl outfit from back then, didn't she?"
Soma went to the room as he opened the door and was met with a very surprised Erina who was in her old magical girl costume that still fits her
"a-a-a-ah, t-t-this is! I was just checking it! yeah! Just that!" Erina stammered in pure embarrassment as her husband caught her cosplaying on the act
Soma looks at her before chuckling as he went in and closed the door before locking it
"just when I thought I had to hold back for a while" Soma said with a smile as he slowly closes in on Erina who was blushing even redder to her husband's approach
Soma soon holds her and carried her up to the bed where he will have some fun with a beautiful magical girl
That's a wrap!
Bye bye