Toradora! Vol. 1 by Yuyuko Takemiya

Author:Yuyuko Takemiya [Takemiya, Yuyuko]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Seven Seas
Published: 2018-05-08T04:00:00+00:00

A peculiar atmosphere remained in the second-year C class, but time flowed on and soon enough, the end of the day arrived. Neither Ryuuji nor Aisaka had paid any notice to the classroom’s atmosphere. PE, lunch break—they had to rise above those two bitter failures; they couldn’t allow the last chance of the day to escape them. Even if it were only slight, they wanted to leave some sort of impression on Kitamura’s heart.

“Are you prepared? Aisaka.”

“…”

“A-Aisaka. Breathe, you can breathe.”

“…Pah!”

It was homeroom, right before school let out. In a corner of the tumultuous classroom, Aisaka’s face was the very definition of serious. At her side, Ryuuji was just as earnest. Guilt wrapped heavily around his whole body, like Shun’s nebula chain from Saint Seiya.

“I-I’m starting to feel nervous… I wonder if this will just be a nuisance to him.”

“What are you saying that for? Trust in yourself. There’s practically no guy alive that wouldn’t be happy getting homemade cookies from a girl. And Kitamura has a sweet tooth. He’s not the type to turn up his nose at handmade stuff—and at the very least, he doesn’t seem to not like you.”

“Y-you think so?”

Yes, he nodded at her, and finally, managed to slightly ease Aisaka’s tense expression. In her tiny hands, she held a package of precious, handmade cookies that she’d made during the afternoon cooking class.

It was a class for both boys and girls, so it didn’t really feel too much like a present from a girl to a guy, but there definitely were boys who wanted the extras the girls made, and there were some who specifically made cookies to give to their boyfriends.

Aisaka, working sneakily so no one could see (sometimes using Ryuuji’s body as a shield), had baked slightly complex cookies with a checkered pattern. The plan was to give them to Kitamura casually, saying, I had leftovers, so would you like some? All this was to help make a better impression on him. But there had been an accident. Of the ten she secretly baked, six of them burned black. It was because she had made some sort of palm-sized blunder misreading the oven scale. Incidentally, in order to “destroy the evidence” she’d crammed them into Ryuuji’s mouth.

There were four left over. Aisaka Taiga was betting on those four. Still, nervousness visible on her face, she held the package of cookies and clenched her fist. Seeing that behavior from thirty centimeters away, Ryuuji thought her sheer stress would cause another incident. He shuddered at that foreboding premonition.

“H-hey, listen. Don’t tense up so much. Be completely casual. Don’t suddenly get all careless.”

“I got it. Careless, right. Yeah, carefree…freeloader…freestyle…styleless…” Aisaka continued muttering, and then…

“Okaaay, get to your seeeaaats, everyone. We’re starting homeroom now!”

Her small frame jumped with a start at the teacher’s voice. They mixed in with the small groups of students heading to their seats. The 145-centimeter creature walked unsteadily between the desks.

Ryuuji instructed Aisaka to talk to Kitamura as soon as the closing ceremonies were done.

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