*Note: In this chapter, I listened to your feedback and summarized a lot of things that might have been boring to read. I hope you're enjoying this fic as much as me!
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Seeing Akira's "sad" face as he said those words, Yui felt bad for having said that to Akira. At least she could have had a little more tact. Surely poor Akira didn't want to be alone either, but wanted to have friends to have fun with them, but due to certain circumstances, he had no friends. Maybe it was difficult for him to socialize or something, Yui doesn't know and never thought about it until this moment. In fact, she always scolded Akira without even understanding him. Is it possible that Akira suffers some kind of violence at home that makes him that way? Maybe she should do some research on his family situation.
"Mmm... I'm sorry I said those words" – Yui apologized.
I was surprised because both in this world, as in the manga and anime, Yui apologized on very few occasions, so you can imagine the surprise I was when I heard her apologize.
"Don't worry, I know you didn't say it on purpose. Now if you excuse me..." – I said.
Since I couldn't have lunch on the rooftop as I originally planned, then I would go to the school cafeteria and have lunch alone there.
"Wait, today it just so happens that I have already done everything I had to do so I can accompany you to eat... if you want" – Yui said.
Yui may have been very strict with her classmates and many avoided her because of that and her strong attachment to the rules, but inside, Yui was a very good person who cared about all the students in the school, it's just that her way of showing it was not to the liking of most and only a few understood her. Akira was not one of them, at least until now.
"Thank you, of course I want" – I nodded with a smile.
First contact with Kotewaga Yui: Perfect score!
Getting close to Yui was quite a challenge, but I think I played my cards pretty well and even it's true that I'm far from my goal, this is a pretty good start.
"Let's not waste any more time, let's go..." – Yui said.
Seeing Akira's smile, Yui blushed a little, but then recovered. Until now she hadn't noticed that Akira was a pretty handsome guy. Could it be that she did not notice it because of his old attitude? Although if he really changed, it is possible that many girls will approach him.
*Note: the 90% of the girls of this fic will not fall in love at first sight with the protagonist, but since there has to be everything in this life, I left a small percentage. Yui is not one of them, after all, this is not the typical fic where the girls fall in love with the protagonist because of his smile, here it will take quite a long time, at least with most of them and, above all, with the humans, so, if you want to see a protagonist who falls in love with the look, better not read this fic.
With that, I went with Yui to the school cafeteria. During the short walk there, neither of us said anything, we just looked at each other from time to time until we reached the school cafeteria.
"Have you brought lunch from home?" – Yui asked.
In the school cafeteria you had two options, eat your own food brought from home or anywhere else or spend money on the food prepared in the school cafeteria, you could choose whatever you wanted.
"Yes, I brought this" – I nodded.
I brought a little Ben-To with rice. This morning, due to Peke's arrival, I didn't have time to cook lunch, so I made some rice, which was the easiest thing to do, and put it in a lunch box.
"Only rice?" – Yui asked surprised.
The Japanese were used to eating rice daily, but eating only rice for lunch? Isn't that a little... sad? At least from Yui's perspective it looked like that.
"This... Since I'm not used to arriving early, I fell asleep this morning but because I wanted to change, as I have already mentioned, I had no choice but to get dressed quickly and make some rice, In fact, if I had entertained myself a little longer, I would have been late and I didn't want that" – I said.
Well, it was actually Peke's fault, but a little lie never hurts anyone.
Yui looked at Akira with a bit of curiosity. Although that small gesture was not too much, it shows that Akira really wants to change, otherwise, he would have entertained himself and been late again. That improved Yui's impression of Akira, of course not at an incredible level, but a little.
"Haa... since you are so determined to change... Then I'll share some of my food with you, but make sure you to wake up early and make yourself a proper lunch. Eating rice is fine, but you should also include some vegetables and meat, also fish, that's good for your health" - Yui said.
"I will" – I nodded.
If all goes well and tomorrow no one comes by surprise, I will be able to prepare a proper and healthier lunch.
"Perfect" – Yui nodded.
Then, she put the Ben-To she had wrapped in a beautiful pink handkerchief on the table and unwrapped it. The Ben-To was quite pretty with quite exquisite decorations.
"You have good taste" – I said looking at his Ben-To.
"Thank you" – Yui said somewhat embarrassed.
Yui's Ben-To was clearly more elaborate as it contained not only rice, but also some meat and vegetables.
"You can eat whatever you want" – Yui said.
"Then I won't be polite" – I said as I picked up a piece of meat.
Specifically, I liked it meatballs, they were delicious.
As these two ate, many of the other people present there pointed at them. Akira did not have a very good reputation in school and they knew that he was always late for class, sometimes he did not attend and better not to talk about his disastrous grades, in other words, he was the opposite of Yui, who always scolded Akira. But then: Why are they both eating together if they got along so badly? No one could understand why suddenly, it seemed that the lazy Akira and the upright Yui had become friends.
There were people who saw them and pointed them out, but most of them were secondary characters who were totally unimportant, only a few of them had some importance, specifically Haruna's group of friends, Risa and Mio, who had lunch together daily and who were also surprised by Yui's strange behavior.
"Aren't those Kotewaga-san and Sato-Kun?" – Mio asked curiously.
"Yes, but I don't understand it. What do you do having lunch together? I thought those two were like oil and water" – Momioka said surprised.
"Maybe they are friends" – Haruna said.
"Until last week they seemed more like enemies. How could they have become friends so quickly?" – Mio asked.
"Maybe they have resolved their differences" - Haruna said.
"Their differences? Their personalities are completely opposite and Kotewaga-san has always argued with him since last school year" . said Momioka.
"Maybe he has decided to change? It's possible, a lot of people do" - Haruna said.
"It's possible... hey. Now that I notice: Isn't Sato-kun quite handsome?" – Mio asked somewhat surprised.
"That's right, he's pretty handsome! Since he was always sleeping and stuff, I never looked directly at his face, but now that I look closely at him he is quite handsome. Don't you think so, Haruna?" – said Momioka.
Haruna looked at Akira, yes, indeed Akira was quite handsome, no one could deny that, but she already had someone in her heart.
"Yes, I suppose so..." - Haruna nodded.
"It's true, I forgot that our Haruna already has someone she likes!" – Momika said.
"Shh, don't talk so loud!" – Haruna hurriedly said.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry" – she said with a smile.
"Speaking of that. Have you made progress in your relationship with Yuuki-kun?" – Mio asked.
For a long time, Haruna had been in love with Yuuki Rito, a student in the same class and it seemed that Rito felt the same way about her, everyone except Haruna could tell it, but their relationship had not advanced at all in the last two years.
"No..." – Haruna denied.
"Yuuki-kun is not bad and although he is not too handsome, he is too cowardly. If you want my opinion, I think you should consider other options than Yuuki-kun" – Momika suggested.
"Yes, although he certainly likes you, he has never dared to confess his feelings to you. I wouldn't want a person as cowardly as my boyfriend" – Mio nodded.
"Well... it's true that Yuuki-kun isn't too brave, but he's very cute and I like him, but I'm not sure my feelings are reciprocated" - Haruna sighed.
"This... I think they are. Everyone knows Yuuki-kun likes you" - said Momioka.
"That's right" - Mio nodded.
"I don't think so. Otherwise: Why hasn't he shown any signs of it? I mean, I know he's not very brave, but at least he should have tried if that was true" - Haruna said.
Momioka and Mio looked at each other without knowing what to say. That was true, Rito liked Haruna, but Haruna's comment made perfect sense. If he had been in love with her, he would at least have tried to confess his feelings or would have shown signs of being in love with her, but he hadn't, at least not in front of Haruna. Rito was not a bad person, but he was very coward and did not dare to confess his feelings to Haruna. Help them both? None of her friends thought Rito was a good match for Haruna. Why help Rito then? Haruna is a beauty, kind, honest, talented, she got good grades and was even good at sports. How could someone as mediocre as Rito deserve to be with her? Of course, they never planned to intervene in any way. Whether those two became a couple or not would depend entirely on them, however, both girls thought that Rito was not worthy of Haruna and had tried many times to make Haruna understand it, without success so far.
"You may be right. Why don't you try to meet other guys, then?" – Momika suggested.
"I don't know... besides, I'm not that kind of girl" – Haruna denied.
Going out to meet guys on her own initiative? No, she wasn't one of those and never would be.
"Mmm, Haruna is right, plus, she doesn't need it. Maybe there is someone in our school that you can approach" - Mio said.
"In our school? Most of the men here are mediocre, perverted and not too attractive" – Momioka denied.
"Hey, there is no reason to be so cruel" – said Haruna.
Although it was true that their school did not exactly stand out for its variety of men, most of them were mediocre. Who in this school was worthy of Haruna?
"Why don't we try to make friends with Sato-kun? It may not be the smartest, but at least he's handsome" - Momika suggested.