"Then I'll go to the store first~"
"Mhm, leave dinner to us!"
"Nanaka-nee, don't forget you can only buy beer. If you get drunk, tomorrow will be bad..."
In front of the villa, Miyazawa Yu waved goodbye to Kotegawa Nanaka, then turned around, hands on hips, and asked the seniors behind him: "By the way, seniors, do you actually know how to cook?"
"Well~ if it's just simple dishes."
"Eh, then why am I the one who's always serving you at Grand Blue!"
His eyes turning into half-moons, Miyazawa Yu had only seen Hamaoka Azusa make Okonomiyaki. As for Kotobuki-senpai and Tokita-senpai, they had never entered the kitchen at all.
Even when helping out at the store, the two of them were always wearing naked aprons while serving food and helping out.
He thought these two guys were kitchen idiots!
"Well... this involves many aspects of the problem."
"The most important thing is that the feeling of having food served to your mouth is really great!"
"Truly irrefutable!"
The three seniors gathered together, their dot-eyes nodding in mutual agreement. Seeing this, Miyazawa Yu knew that his meager words could not move the seniors.
Helplessly, he shook his head and looked at Aina and Kohei.
"What about you two? You know Okonomiyaki is a no-go, right?"
"I think I can handle sashimi..."
"Things that are cut and eaten raw don't count as cooking at all!"
As a two-dimensional blonde, Imamura Kohei was, unsurprisingly, useless in life matters.
As for Aina, she was relatively confident in cooking—after all, she came from the countryside, and sometimes, when the family was busy with farm work, they didn't have time to cook for her, so she often cooked for herself.
However, her entire understanding of food was limited to vegetables and meat. As for fish...
"If it's stir-frying, no problem, but I'm still experimenting with aquatic animals."
"I see..."
Although it couldn't be said that all the wise men had gathered, after asking around, basically everyone at Grand Blue did not have the potential to be a kitchen killer.
Confirming that they would definitely be able to eat dinner even if they cooked separately, Miyazawa Yu slightly raised his head, and the corner of his mouth curled into an arc of conspiracy.
"Azusa-senpai!"
"Hmm? What's wrong, Yu?"
"I suggest that we cook separately tonight. One dish per person counts as participation, doesn't it?"
Smilingly moving closer to Hamaoka Azusa, Miyazawa Yu held out one finger and proposed a seemingly harmless idea.
The truth was, he needed time to act alone!
To ensure that he wouldn't turn into the sleeping husband again tonight, sleeping pills were a must, but if they moved as a group, leaving the team to go to the pharmacy would be too suspicious!
But if dinner was one dish per person, everyone would inevitably have to go shopping separately, which would make him less conspicuous!
This plan is brilliant!
"Eh~ Do we have to separate?"
A little hesitant, after all, they came out to play together, but maybe it's okay to separate temporarily only when buying things?
Thinking this, Hamaoka Azusa was about to say no problem, but Iori Kitahara suddenly jumped out from some corner, raising his hand and nodding frantically and seriously!
"I agree! Let's do that, Azusa-senpai!"
"Huh~~?"
Looking at the anxious Iori, Azusa Hamaoka's eyes were immediately filled with great suspicion.
After all, if only Yu said so, she could barely convince herself that he might have just thought of it, but if Iori was added...
Suspicious! Suspicious at a glance! These two little guys must have some unknown little plan.
However...
"That's fine!"
With a slight arc at the corner of her mouth, Hamaoka Azusa waved her hand and indicated that it didn't matter.
Seeing this, Miyazawa Yu finally breathed a sigh of relief. To be honest, when Iori jumped out, he thought the guy was here to mess things up.
His credibility was already hard to establish with Azusa-senpai, and adding the scumbag Iori made it too suspicious!
But fortunately, the final result was still within the plan. Sleep for three people without strange water sounds, I'm coming!
...
"Oho! What a big market! Let's split up here then!"
"Good luck everyone!"
Half an hour later, in front of the farmers' market, Ryujiro Kotobuki and Shinji Tokita drooled at the dazzling array of marine fish and rushed in.
"Seniors are really so energetic, aren't they..."
"Then what should we make? It's probably simpler to just have sashimi!"
Flipping through the shopping list they just received, Chisa Kotegawa looked up and could no longer see the backs of the seniors, so she could only give a helpless wry smile.
Kohei and Aina naturally raised both hands in agreement with her suggestion, after all, it would be better to order takeout than to have them cook.
However, the next second, the three of them suddenly found something wrong—
There were eight people when they arrived, two had run off, so why were only three of them talking!
Suddenly turning around to look behind them, Yu, Iori, and Azusa-senpai had all disappeared.
It seemed these guys ran off even earlier than the seniors, and in a sneaky way at that!
"Hiss... something is suspicious about Iori and Yu!"
"Hmm? Why?"
"Actually, before we came..."
Frowning and looking around, Chisa Kotegawa pinched her chin and hesitated for two seconds with a suspicious look, then explained: "I think I heard Iori say something about poisoning them or something."
"Huh? Is 'poisoning them' referring to Yu?"
Recalling the tragic state of Iori being swept away by Yu, Yoshikawa Aina's eyelids twitched, and an ominous premonition surged in her heart.
Iori had a precedent of secretly plotting to harm Yu, although he finally gave up after confirming that the other party had no interest in Chisa...
Wait! Chisa seems to have been cursed by the banana boat and has fallen for Yu!
"Gulp!"
The motive is perfect! The stimulating condition is present, and Yu himself exudes a super-punchable aura.
Yoshikawa Aina swallowed, her pupils dilated in shock—No way, did Iori find out that Chisa had a secret crush on Yu, so he was preparing to return to his old ways and catch Yu off guard!
"Chisa! Not good! Yu might be in danger! Iori is going to commit a crime!"
"What? Calm down, Aina."
"I can't calm down! This is a matter of life and death! We must stop him quickly!"
Holding Chisa's shoulders and shaking them back and forth, Yoshikawa Aina felt more and more convinced by her own thoughts, and her whole body visibly panicked.
Seeing this, although he didn't think Yu would be in any danger, Kohei Imamura still gave a thumbs-up and pointed behind him.
"In that case, let's find everyone first. I think I saw Tokita-senpai over there just now."
"I'll go look!"
To stop Iori from killing Yu or Yu from counter-killing Iori, combat power was needed. Hearing Kohei say this, Yoshikawa Aina immediately ran in the direction he pointed.
With the determination to save the Pab club, when she was breathless from exhaustion, she finally turned the corner and found Tokita-senpai buying fish!
"Tokita-sen..."
"Ah, I see, then I—"
Completely ignoring the call, Shinji Tokita looked around the stall, and finally fixed his deep gaze on the face of the fish-selling woman and spoke deeply.
"I want Hamasaki's wife!"
"Pfft!"
The hand raised in mid-air froze in place, and Yoshikawa Aina instantly spurted out a mouthful of old blood.
She suspected her ears were broken. Tokita-senpai seemed to have said something incredible just now. Could this guy want the fishmonger's wife!
"..."
Shaking all over, she never expected that the senior she was familiar with was a mature woman enthusiast, and one who was excessively into mature women!
Yoshikawa Aina shivered, then wobbled and turned to leave, leaving the space to the happily chatting Tokita-senpai and his lover.
"Hmm? What's wrong, Aina? Where is Tokita-senpai?"
"...Tokita-senpai, he actually went after a married woman!"
Facing Kohei's confusion, Yoshikawa Aina covered her face with both hands and shook her head weakly.
Tokita-senpai cannot be relied upon anymore! No, wait! In this situation, she should call the police directly! The law will give the senior the punishment he deserves!
"Hey, wait a minute."
"What did you hear..."
With looks of confusion on their faces, although Tokita-senpai was unreliable, Kohei and Chisa didn't think he would be so shameless as to go after a married woman!
There must be some misunderstanding here.
"Aina, did you mishear?"
"No! These ears of mine heard it very clearly!"
Two lines of tears streamed from her eyes, Yoshikawa Aina choked up and knelt on the ground in a distressed pose.
Tokita-senpai words were still echoing in her skull, causing endless torment, so it definitely wasn't a mishearing!
"Hmm, then it's simply auditory hallucination. After all, she's a cakey."
"I told you not to call me that! If you don't believe me, you two come and see!"
Angrily rushing up and grabbing Kohei's collar, Yoshikawa Aina dragged the two toward the spot she was just at, but unfortunately, Shinji Tokita had already bought his things and left.
However, just as she was extremely disappointed, another muscular blonde figure entered the sight of the group.
"Oh! It's Kotobuki-senpai!"
Hiding behind a telephone pole and popping out her head, Chisa Kotegawa scanned Ryujiro Kotobuki from top to bottom, finding nothing unusual about him.
"He's just shopping normally."
"Physically, there's nothing strange about him. It looks like Aina misread the situation again!"
"Is that, is that so?"
If possible, Aina also hoped that she had misread the situation, after all, the image of the senior in her heart...
"Boss! Please give me a high school student with a great body!"
"He's out of the game!!!"
With zombie faces collectively, looking at the lawbreaker Ryujiro Kotobuki, who had a completely normal expression but asked for a high school student right away, Kohei Imamura trembled and pulled out his phone.
"No! Call the police, we must call the police now!"
"No, wait, Yu's life safety is more important before that. We should look for him and Iori first!"
"I can't argue with that! What's wrong with this market! Have everyone's dark sides been squeezed out?"
He didn't believe Aina when she said Yu was in danger, but now Kohei Imamura truly suspected Iori of plotting against Yu.
Even the usually relatively normal seniors have let loose. He didn't dare to imagine what Iori could do!
"Iori... Iori... Found him!"
Her brain didn't believe that the seniors would do strange things, but the situation didn't allow Chisa to think much.
With a flash of inspiration, while Kohei and Aina were still debating between calling the police and finding Iori, she accurately located Iori Kitahara at the adjacent fish stall through the crowd!
Fortunately, this guy didn't seem to be doing anything strange, he was just buying fish...
"Um, hello."
"Welcome! What would you like, young man?"
"I want a poisonous fish that can make an adult pass out with a single bite!"
Smilingly raising his finger, Iori Kitahara looked at the store owner with a calm expression, his eyes as clear as a child's.
"..."
No doubt about it, Kohei Imamura took off his jacket with a dark expression, bent down to gain momentum, and then flew into a Leo Flying Kick right onto the back of Iori's head.
Without the slightest hesitation, the latter instantly fell to the ground, maintaining his smile, his head hitting the fish cutting board with a loud Duang sound!
Putting his hands behind his back and tying him up with a rope, Chisa Kotegawa silently tied the guy into a hogtied position.
Yoshikawa Aina walked up to the confused store owner with a blank expression and bowed deeply: "I'm sorry that our patient ran out and caused you trouble. We're taking him back for his medicine now!"
"Oh? Oh, you should be careful next time..."
"Truly sorry!"