Chapter 6
<span style="font-weight:400">Like all cafeterias in any school, the cafeteria of Bonyari High School was packed with students trying to get their lunch during their lunch break.
<span style="font-weight:400">While not every student gathered in the cafeteria for lunch, a majority that didn’t bring their own lunch from home came and participated in the battlefield.
<span style="font-weight:400">Most went only to buy their lunch after seeing no opened tables in the cafeteria. But for the few that were early enough and had luck on their side, they managed to get a seat there and ate their lunch with their friends.
<span style="font-weight:400">This morning, however, was slightly different.
<span style="font-weight:400">In addition to the students who came to buy lunch, there were also students who stood at the edge of the cafeteria, gathering with their friends in small groups. Most of them were female students from all three grades of Bonyari High School, and their attention was focused on a particr table at the far side of the cafeteria, where most other students who were there also focused their gaze upon.
<span style="font-weight:400">News of the super-hot “transfer student” had spread far and wide throughout the high school by word of mouth and by photos secretly taken by female students’ smartphones who had the luck to cross his path. By the time lunch hade, a majority of curious female students who had seen the photo brought their friends along to search and hopefully gained a glimpse of the rumored adonis to confirm the hype.
<span style="font-weight:400">Now that they’veid their eyes on him, each and every one of them believed in one single fact; the photo did not do him justice. He was… far beyond their expectations.
<span style="font-weight:400">He was not smiling in the photo, given it was one taken secretly. But, he was now smiling and evenughing as he talked with his friends!
<span style="font-weight:400">They couldn’t take their eyes off of him! They truly wished they could be the girls eating with him on the same table, even if it meant staying in such a packed cafeteria!
<span style="font-weight:400">As the majority of the students focused their attention on him, Yuuji did his best to ignore all the stare and focus on his lunch and conversation with Raku, Shu, and the girls.
<span style="font-weight:400">It was… even worse than when he was in ss. Going to the cafeteria was… a mistake.
<span style="font-weight:400">Should he perhaps request his mom to make him and his sisters lunch…? After all, if every lunch would be like this, he didn’t know if he could do it…
<i><span style="font-weight:400">Mm… Let’s ask mom to make us lunch from now on…</i>
<span style="font-weight:400">He finally made his decision. Although he felt bad… it would be tough for him to go through this every day.
<i><span style="font-weight:400">Ah, maybe I should help her. With elerated Learning, I can learn how to cook from her quickly and help. Moreover…</i>
<span style="font-weight:400">If he helped her make their lunch… Then they would be alone early in the morning…
<i><span style="font-weight:400">T-That’s not a bad idea…</i>
<span style="font-weight:400">Simply imagining the sight of his beautiful, elegant mother in an apron cooking side by side with him… Learning how to cook as he listened to her alluring voice the first thing after he woke up.
<span style="font-weight:400">It was the best. No, the greatest! He would love that!!!
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hey, Yuuji! Are you listening?!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“E-Eh? What? I’m sorry, I wasn’t listening.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Yuuji snapped out of his daze and turned towards a pouting Yotsuba who was staring at him with a frown.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Like I said, do you want to work together on the science assignment we got just now?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hm? Wasn’t it a simple assignment? We only need to make a report on a subtopic we’re interested in and explore it deeply, right? Just rely on your notes, and you’ll be fine.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Her pout grew bigger and she began holding her head, frustrated.
<span style="font-weight:400">“That’s the problem! I haven’t been taking notes in ss!”
<i><span style="font-weight:400">Because of you!!!</i><span style="font-weight:400"> Yotsuba added loudly in her mind.
<span style="font-weight:400">After all, all throughout ss, she had been so distracted by Yuuji’s appearance that she took even fewer notes than usual!
<span style="font-weight:400">So, this was Yuuji’s fault! Definitely!!!
<span style="font-weight:400">Looking at her re, Yuuji shook his head and let out a sigh.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hah… It can’t be helped. I’ll lend you my notes.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“R-Really?! Yaaayyy!!! Thank you, Yuuji~!!!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yes yes. Actually, I’ve also been writing notes for the advanced topics as well, so you can also use them for this assignment if you want.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Eh? Yuu-kun, you’ve written notes for the advanced topics as well?”
<span style="font-weight:400">Yuna and Nina, as well as everyone else in the table all turned to him surprised.
<span style="font-weight:400">They knew how diligent he was, but even the most diligent student would only write plenty of notes. Who’d make notes for advanced chapters as well?!
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yeah. I’ve already understood the current topic, so I thought I would go a little further and prepare in advance.”
<i><span style="font-weight:400">Well, I’ve actually already understood everything there is in the textbook like the back of my hand… The effect of elerated learning speed sure is terrifying. I understood everything in an instant.</i>
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hee~ That’s amazing!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hehehe~ Yuu-kun is so diligent~”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Mm. You should learn from him, nee-san.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“G-Geez! Nina-chan, don’t say that!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Heeeh… That’s amazing…”
<span style="font-weight:400">Ai looked at him surprised, along with Kosaki and Rui who were sitting on her side.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hee~ That’s so diligent of you. I don’t even take any notes.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Are you bragging, miss top-ten-ranked-student?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hm? No, just the truth.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Yuuji looked at her in disbelief, while the others sweatdropped at herment, speechless. It was the truth... as vexing as it was.
<span style="font-weight:400">Though, Yuuji could probably do the same thing now.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Alright! Gimme your notester! I’ll copy them during the next ss!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“...Then won’t you miss that ss?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“It’s fine! I’ll just copy your notes again for that ss!”
<span style="font-weight:400">With a proud expression, Yotsuba ced her hands on her slim waist and pushed her chest out, proud of her genius idea.
<span style="font-weight:400">A sigh escaped his lips as Yuuji looked at his friend with a helpless smile.
<span style="font-weight:400">“You should at least try to take your own notes...”
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<span style="font-weight:400">The final bell of the day rang throughout Bonyari high school, signaling the end of the school day.
<span style="font-weight:400">The moment the teacher left the ss, Yotsuba jumped out of her seat and dashed towards Yuuji’s seat, surprising him in the process.
<span style="font-weight:400">She mmed her hands on her table and leaned forward until her face was right in front of his.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yuuji! Let me bring your notes home! I’ll give it back to you tomorrow!”
<span style="font-weight:400">After reading his notes and copying them to her notebook, she was absolutely amazed by how incredible it was.
<span style="font-weight:400">His notes were so detailed, yet very easy to understand. He highlighted all the important points while still keeping the small little details that will help her understand the topic of discussion better.
<span style="font-weight:400">Just by reading them, she could understand the topic better than she listened to the teacher!!! It’s too incredible! It’s aplete walkthrough of the subject!!
<span style="font-weight:400">With this, she was confident she could get a passing grade on the next test! She needed this cheat code!!!
<span style="font-weight:400">Subjected by such an intense gaze, Yuuji flinched slightly from her sudden outburst and nodded slowly.
<span style="font-weight:400">“S-Sure…”
<span style="font-weight:400">Immediately, a brilliant smile reced her intense expression.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Thank you!!! You’re the best!! Don’t worry! I’ll definitely finish it by today and return it to you tomorrow!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Y-Yeah, don’t worry about it. But… Y-You’re a bit too close…”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Eh?”
<span style="font-weight:400">After hearing her words, Yotsuba finally realized how close her face was to his, and her face burst into a crimson blush and pulled away.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I-I-I-I’m sorry! I-I didn’t mean to get that close!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“A-Ahahaha, it’s fine…”
<span style="font-weight:400">“U-Uuuuhhh…”
<span style="font-weight:400">She lowered her head and covered her redly blushing face with her hands, unable to meet his eyes.
<span style="font-weight:400">How could she do such a bold thing! Now, she couldn’t get his handsome face out of her mind!!!!
<span style="font-weight:400">“Oh my~ What did you do, Yuuji? It’s not good to sexually harass a girl in ss, you know~?”
<span style="font-weight:400">Shu teased as he and Raku walked to his table with their bags slung over their shoulders.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I’m not harassing anybody, you idiot. She just came to ask me if she could bring my notes home.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Ahahaha~ I see~”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hah… Alright, stop being stupid and let’s go home. I’ll go pick up my sisters. Do you guys wanna go ahead?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“No, we can wait. Let’s go together.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Going home with such beauties <i><span style="font-weight:400">is</i><span style="font-weight:400"> a privilege of being your friend, after all!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“...I suddenly feel like not being your friend anymore. Let’s go before I change my mind.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Yuuji put everything on his desk to his bag and slung it over his shoulders as well before standing up.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Oh, Ai. Are you going home too? Or do you have swimming practice today?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yes, I need to go to my club today, so you guys can go ahead.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“I see. Then, see you tomorrow.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Mm. See you.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Oi, Chitoge. We’re going home. Youing?”<span style="font-weight:400">
<span style="font-weight:400">Chitoge, who was talking with her girlfriends, flinched slightly in surprise when she heard Yuuji call her name. His voice, which seemed sexier and smoother than how she remembered it to be in the past, made her heart skip a beat as she turned towards him
<span style="font-weight:400">“E-Eh? Ah, sure! One sec!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Alright.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Yuuji then turned towards Yotsuba.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yotsuba, do you want toe home with us as well?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“E-Eh? U-Uhm… I would love to, but I’ll be going home with my sisters. I have something to tell them.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“I see. Okay, no problem. Next time then.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Mm. Next time.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Yuuji raised his eyebrows slightly when he saw her reaction. Seeing Yotsuba act so meekly was a first… It was unlike her usual cheerful persona. She was just like a cute little flustered animal right now.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Rui-chan~ Onodera-san too, would you like to go home with us~?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Stop saying my name with such a disgusting tone. Kosaki, what do you think?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“M-mm, I don’t mind.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Alright. We’ll put up with you.”
<span style="font-weight:400">With Kosaki and Rui joining the group as well as Chitoge, who quickly said goodbye to her visibly envious friends, they all exited the ss and went to the ss next door to pick up Yuna and Nina before heading home.
<span style="font-weight:400">Meanwhile, Yotsuba quickly put all of Yuuji’s notebook and her things back into her bag and exited her ss.
<i><span style="font-weight:400">I need to tell them and dad about Yuuji! If he became our tutor, then we’ll definitely pass our exams!</i>
<span style="font-weight:400">Holding such determination in her heart, she quickly went to her sister''s ssroom and dragged them back home for an emergency conference.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“We’re home~!”
<span style="font-weight:400">Yuna, Nina, and Yuuji announced their return as usual as they took off their shoes. As Yuuji took all their indoor sandals and ced them on the floor for his sisters, he noticed his aunt’s high heels were missing.
<i><span style="font-weight:400">Oh, right. She’s still in her cafe.</i>
<span style="font-weight:400">Rose, the cafe owned by his aunt that was only a few blocks away from their house, was a popr cafe amongst high school students as well as young adults due to its cozy atmosphere, modern and elegant decor, and the “trendy” coffee drinks that intense coffee enthusiasts may argue otherwise.
<span style="font-weight:400">However, that was something Aika intended from the very beginning. After all, she wasn’t a coffee enthusiast in the first ce and simply enjoyed a variety of drinks with coffee. So, she made her cafe with that idea in mind and aimed it towards the younger generations of customers, and seeded.
<span style="font-weight:400">Now, her cafe has be one of the most popr cafes in the city with plenty of young adults, couples, college students, and high school students visiting it to rx, study, or just to buy drinks before returning home.
<span style="font-weight:400">Because of its poprity, his aunt would be very busy at this time, even though she had already made the cafe self-running with the staff she hired.
<span style="font-weight:400">It may still be a few hours before she will return home, hopefully by dinner.
<span style="font-weight:400">Just then, the beautiful figure of their mother appeared to wee them. A light blue apron draped over the front of her body, reaching barely halfway through her milky thighs because of her enormous twin peaks.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Oh my~ Wee home~ I’m currently making dinner, so you can go change first, okay~?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Ah, thank you, mom~ Then, we’ll be in the living room-”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Nee-san, we still have an assignment. Let’s finish it before dinner.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“E-Eh? B-But…”
<span style="font-weight:400">“No buts. Yuuji, you should do your assignment as well before dinner.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Mm. I will after I talk to mom. You two can go ahead.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Eh? What do you want to talk about~?”
<span style="font-weight:400">Yuna puffed her cheeks and looked at him with a re that only looked cute to Yuuji, slightly upset because she had been excluded from the conversation.
<span style="font-weight:400">Nina also looked at him curiously, but Yuuji simply smiled at them.
<span style="font-weight:400">“You will find out tomorrow.”
<span style="font-weight:400">The two tilted their heads confusedly before finally relenting after Yuuji coax them for a while, leaving him and his mother behind.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Ufufufu~ Now I’m bing more and more curious about what you wanted to talk to me for~ Let’s go to the kitchen, Yuuji. You can tell me while I cook, okay?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Mm.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Yuuji followed after his mother as they head to the kitchen. His gaze unknowingly gravitated towards her shapely hips before snapping out and feeling the embarrassment from being hypnotized by his mom’s sexy butt on his face.
<span style="font-weight:400">She resumed her cooking, chopping up some vegetables and a block of tofu, presumably for the miso soup.
<span style="font-weight:400">Near the chopping board, Yuuji can also see a te with five fillets of salmon, seasoned with salt and pepper and a little bit of garlic, and bite-sized little blocks of chicken marinated with dark, brown liquid and visible chopped up and crushed pieces of garlic in a zip-locked bag.
<span style="font-weight:400">On the stove, Yuuji could see a sizeable pot on one of them, emanating a pleasant shrimp fragrance, most likely boiling the shrimp head and skin to be the base for a shrimp miso soup. While on the other was a pot of boiling oil that had just started being heated.
<span style="font-weight:400">Skillfully, and with grace Yuuji never noticed before, Mira quickly finished chopping up the vegetables and block of tofu into bite-sized pieces and set it aside on the chopping board before turning towards him.
<span style="font-weight:400">“So~? What would you like to talk about~?”
<span style="font-weight:400">Yuuji’s attention was brought back from being mesmerized by her cooking figure and met gazes with his mother.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Ah, yes. Well… I have two requests for you, mom.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hm? Of course, what are they?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Firslty, uhm… I would like for Yuna, Nina, and I to bring our own lunch to school starting tomorrow, if possible…”
<span style="font-weight:400">Yuuji then started exining to her the situation in his school cafeteria and how he and his sisters attracted too much attention to befortable eating there, especially after his appearance changed.
<span style="font-weight:400">Mira listened quietly, staring at his handsome countenance with a slight blush on her cheeks, and nodded understandingly.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Ufufufu~ I see~ Okay then~ I will happily prepare lunch for the three of you~”<span style="font-weight:400">
<span style="font-weight:400">“Ah, can I help to make them? Although Yuna and Nina had been the center of attention since we enrolled in teh cafeteria, my recent… changes seemed to have escted it. So, I would like to help!”
<span style="font-weight:400">Mira looked at her son with slightly widened eyes. She didn’t expect him to suggest such a wonderful thing with such a handsome determined face!!
<span style="font-weight:400">Cooking together with her son… Making bentos together with him the first thing in the morning while her daughters were asleep…
<span style="font-weight:400">She could stay close to him, watching him freely, hold his hand while he’s using a knife to make sure he doesn’t cut his precious hands, talking with him closely, and spending time with him the first thing in the morning…
<span style="font-weight:400">What a wonderful suggestion~!
<span style="font-weight:400">Mira snapped out of her fantasy and focused back on Yuuji. But then, she noticed a small blush on his cheeks.
<i><span style="font-weight:400">I-Is he embarrassed~? Is he blushing because he thought of the same things as me~? Oh my, ufufufu~ What a naughty boy~</i>
<span style="font-weight:400">Her lips curled into a brilliant smile and she nodded her head.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Of course~ What a wonderful idea~ Ufufufu~ Don’t worry, mom will teach you <i><span style="font-weight:400">everything</i><span style="font-weight:400"> you need to know, okay~?”
<span style="font-weight:400">Something in the pit of his stomach tingled, like there were butterflies within it, when he heard the word <i><span style="font-weight:400">everything</i><span style="font-weight:400"> from his mother.
<span style="font-weight:400">His cheeks grew even reader as she stared at the blushing countenance of his mother.
<span style="font-weight:400">“T-Thank you, mom!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Mm~ Don’t forget to wake up earlier in the morning, okay~? So, what’s your second request~?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yes. Uhm, for the second request…”
<span style="font-weight:400">Mira noticed the expression on his son turned serious. The tone of his voice also became solemn as he looked at her straight in the eyes.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I would like to learn about how to do investment from you.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">With a feeling of weight lifted from his chest and a slight tingle in the pit of his stomach from looking forward too much for spending time alone with his mother alone tonight <i><span style="font-weight:400">and</i><span style="font-weight:400"> tomorrow morning, Yuuji returned to his room after he finished his talk with his mother and changed his clothes. A small smile adorning his stunning countenance.
<span style="font-weight:400">She was very surprised when he told her he wanted to learn about investing. It was very sudden, but she epted his request and told him to go to her office room after dinner, marking off one of his checkboxes for things he needed to do.
<span style="font-weight:400">Then, he went to his desk and did his assignment, which he finished easily within even less than 30 minutes due to his newfound learning speed and enhanced memory.
<span style="font-weight:400">Tidying up his stationeries and books from his desk and putting them back into his bag, heid down on his bed with his smartphone in hand to read what the Multiverse Group Chat had been up to.
<span style="font-weight:400">He spent quite a while chatting with them, including telling Aika to stop sending a selfie of herself in various sexy street clothes to him.
<span style="font-weight:400">She was most definitely an incredible beauty now and, hard as it was to admit for him, maybe even on par with his mother, sisters, and aunt. To see her wear a sleeveless one-piece dress that entuated her curvaceous and beautiful bodyline would be a blessing for any guy. But, he has his principles and he felt like it would be weird for him to look at his friend he hadn’t even met in real life with lustful eyes.
<span style="font-weight:400">Unfortunately, it seemed like she won’t be giving up soon since Tatsuya and Lelouch stopped responding to her while Suzuki begged her not to send him to prison.
<span style="font-weight:400">So, with a heavy sigh, he continued to entertain her whims for a while.
<span style="font-weight:400">Finally, after a promise to send him even more risque pictures if he send her a picture of himself topless, she stopped responding to the message and went idle.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hah… I swear, this girl will be the death of me…”
<span style="font-weight:400">Surprisingly, it was still around an hour before dinner, so Yuuji spent his time looking around his inventory for the gacha items he got.
<i><span style="font-weight:400">Hm… I want to give them the enchanted diamond essories now, but it’d probably be a better idea to give them after I started gaining profits from my investments.</i>
<span style="font-weight:400">He made a mental note to himself and then began looking around the other things he had.
<span style="font-weight:400">He had two luxurious and super expensive cake and strawberries as well as an antique tea set which, just like the diamond jewelry set, would probably make more sense to his family if he took it out after he got profits from his investments.
<span style="font-weight:400">The Scepter of Divine Sanctuary was supposed to be in this category as well. However…
<i><span style="font-weight:400">...I really want to install it now. That way, I can rest assured that our home would be safe.</i>
<span style="font-weight:400">He brought out the Scepter of Divine Sancturay from his inventory, and a beautiful, 50cm long rod of gold with a diamond-shaped sapphire affixed by golden vines at its end appeared in mid-air in front of him and fall right into his hand.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Wow… It’s beautiful.”
<span style="font-weight:400">The golden surface of the scepter shined beautifully under the light in his room and the diamond glimmered like a twilight sky filled with glimmering stars. He had never seen anything as beautiful as this…
<i><span style="font-weight:400">...This is bad. I don’t know how to bring this up to everyone.</i>
<span style="font-weight:400">Such a beautiful and eye-catching artifact would definitely catch the attention of his mother, sisters, and aunt, and he wouldn’t know how to exin how he got it!
<span style="font-weight:400">Hiding it would also be difficult, given its size and the fact that his sisters, as well as the fact that his mother and aunt, knew his room inside out somehow. They could even find things in his room better than he could for some reason.
<span style="font-weight:400">He looked at the scepter once again… and then looked at his smartphone.
<span style="font-weight:400">“...Should I just pretend it''s a magical girl’s stick a friend gave me?”
<span style="font-weight:400">After a moment of contemtion, he finally made his decision and began typing in his smartphone.
<span style="font-weight:400">[Tsubakihara Yuuji: Aika, I need a favor.]
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