Toradora! Volume 8 by Yuyuko Takemiya

Author:Yuyuko Takemiya
Format: epub
Publisher: kureshii

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“Hey, no fair… How come you managed to look cool in that?”

“Really? Cool? Well, I guess I do look good in these track suits.”

Under Noto’s envious stare, Kitamura stood at the gathering point while looking at his own rented skiing costume. This costume can only be described as “very purple”, from top to bottom, while emblazoned on the chest and legs were some “very golden” lightning logo. In any way, it was a hard to describe skiing costume, while the material was made of silk… That’s right, silk.

Just the costume alone was already weird enough, but everyone was also required to have a large name badge placed on their chest. The name badge wasn’t even white, it was light blue, which seemed to be the representative color of Class 2-C. The students from other classes also wore melancholic expressions, for they had to adorn their own colored name badge for their class, ranging from green, dark red, bright red, and brown.

Ryuuji thought, It’s incredible that Kitamura can make this look good on him. Wearing his skiing boots, he looked quite dashing as he stood on the firm snow. Whether it was how he wore the costume, or the fact that he’s an athletic youth to begin with, that skiing costume suited him just as it would suit a member of a proper skiing team. Even Ryuuji had to agree with Noto, Kitamura’s not playing fair.

Not long after arriving at the hotel, each person received this hideous skiing costume. Each team of boys and girls went to their own rooms to get changed. (The rooms were quite difficult to describe in words. To put it simply, it would be the type of Japanese-style rooms that would make Minori pretty excited.) After changing, they were to gather at the entrance of the ski-slope not far from the hotel according to their class.

“Takasu, you certainly look frightening in that…”

“Shut up. I don’t need you to tell me that.”

Seeing Noto’s apologetic eyes, Ryuuji bit his lips hard. For someone with a face that resembled a Buddha when smiling, a demon when crying, and a fugitive when speaking, there was no way such a colorful skiing costume could match up with him. Ryuuji’s looked as deplorable as those dolls with exchangeable heads, or rather, like a transvestite assassin who lost his makeup after an intense battle.

As for Noto, he resembled one of those puppets in those old traffic safety ads.

“Ha! I have discovered the secret to why Kitamura looks good in this skiing costume! That’s because he’s wearing a fur cap and hanging a pair of goggles over his neck! Noto-chan, Taka-chan, let’s learn from him as well!”

Haruta, who was constantly mumbling, resembled a delinquent that just came out of jail and found himself coming to the wrong place… in other words, extremely pathetic. Though they decided to believe Haruta’s suggestion, and mimicked Kitamura by wearing a cap and hung a pair of goggles…

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They each had different reactions, since they were speechless at how each other looked.

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