The New 12 months’s Eve night.

“You may pull out the again of the shrimp by sticking a toothpick on this half …like this. Strive it.”

“Hmm… like this?”

“Sure. You’re good at it.”

Yuzuru and Arisa have been each pulling out the again finish of the shrimp.

Strictly talking, they have been prepping the prawns to make the ‘ebi-ten’ (shrimp tempura) that may go on high of the ‘New 12 months’s Eve soba’.

“Talking of which… about Ayumi-chan.”

“What’s the matter with Ayumi?”

“Did she get a flu shot?”

“Didn’t you’re taking it?　We take it yearly…”

“If we’ve been taking it and we’ve gotten sick, then isn’t it a failure?”

Yuzuru’s sister, Takasegawa Ayumi, was at the moment in mattress attributable to seasonal influenza.

The explanation why Yuzuru determined to spend time with Arisa as a substitute of going again to his mother or father’s home on New 12 months’s Eve was due to the flu.

As a result of Ayumi fell in poor health, all of the occasions that normally happen on the Takasegawa residence have been canceled.

“…No, the dose she took ought to have lessened her signs. In truth, I can say it was a great factor she took the shot.”

“Hmm~…”

“You don’t look satisfied.., didn’t you recover from it?”

When Yuzuru requested her that, Arisa shook her head.

“No approach. At present, I don’t thoughts getting injections, or no matter… I simply felt sorry for her.”

“I’m glad to listen to that. Then you may get injections subsequent 12 months, too.”

Subsequent 12 months – the 12 months earlier than the examination, which would be the 12 months after – each Yuzuru and Arisa shall be getting ready to take the college entrance examination.

Relatively than this 12 months, subsequent 12 months shall be extra vital.

“Y-yeah…, I-it’s completely high-quality. Simply, you’ll preserve me firm for that… proper? Subsequent 12 months as nicely?”

Arisa’s phrases reminded Yuzuru of a earlier go to to the hospital with Arisa.

He remembered that it was slightly… no, extremely embarrassing.

Frankly, he didn’t wish to do it a second time.

“…after all.”

However he couldn’t say no to his fiancée, who was attempting her greatest to get the injections.

Yuzuru one way or the other managed to nod his head.

“……What was that pause?”

“It was nothing private.”

“Actually? …Even when Yuzuru-san doesn’t wish to, I’ll have you ever chaperone me, okay? Please keep in mind that.”

Apparently, the hospital escort was obligatory no matter Yuzuru’s will.

Nonetheless, Yuzuru was happy that Arisa was ready to offer herself an injection, even when it was on a conditional foundation.

“I do know. Lets do it collectively subsequent 12 months?”

“Sure, let’s try this.”

Whereas They have been making guarantees of a ‘hospital date,’ they completed prepping the prawns.

All that was left was to fry them in oil together with the opposite ready greens.

“I’m …anxious about frying them, so I’ll do it. Yuzuru-san, please boil soba noodles… You are able to do it, proper?”

“In fact, I can. I simply boil them, proper?”

There may be nothing particular about boiling soba noodles.

Yuzuru may boil somen noodles and prompt noodles, too.

“Is that so? …after you boil them, please ensure you marinate them correctly with water.”

“Marinate… with water?”

“I imply wash them underneath working water…  You are able to do that, proper?”

“I can, however …It’s sizzling soba, proper? What we’re going to make now.”

If washed with water, it is going to develop into chilly.

Yuzuru requested Arisa if it will be higher to place them instantly into the soba noodle soup as a substitute of doing that.

“… It has a greater texture when it’s chilled. Please keep in mind that.”

“I see. However in case you put chilly soba noodles in, received’t the soup get chilly?　That’s…”

“After placing within the soba noodles, warmth it once more… I gives you directions at the moment, so for now, please do the boiling half.”

“O-okay…”

Yuzuru nodded and crammed the pot with water and began to boil the water.

Whereas he did so, Arisa was crisply frying the tempura.

“Simply as indicated, proper?”

Yuzuru requested Arisa once more after boiling the water.

Then Arisa turned her gaze towards Yuzuru for a second.

“Sure. Simply as indicated… Please measure the time correctly, okay?”

“I do know.”

Yuzuru took out his cellphone, set the timer, after which put the soba noodles into the pot.

Following Arisa’s directions, he boiled it as indicated.

“I’ve boiled it, however what do I do with it now…? Do I simply put it in a colander and wash it?”

“It’s high-quality, however it’s a waste of soba broth… Please switch the soba to a bowl, then to a colander within the kitchen, and wash it.”

“Okay.”

Yuzuru took the soba noodles out of the new water as informed by Arisa, transferred it from the bowl to the colander once more, and washed it underneath working water.

Whereas washing them underneath working water, Yuzuru requested Arisa,

“How lengthy do I’ve to scrub them?”

“Till the warmth is gone. If you end up performed, drain the water nicely.”

“I perceive.”

Yuzuru adopted Arisa’s directions and drained the soba noodles.

Alternatively, Arisa was nervous about Yuzuru and glanced at him whereas frying the tempura.

“I’m performed… what do I do subsequent?”

“Proper… This one is sort of completed frying too, so let’s put it within the soba noodle soup. After you place the soba noodles in, please heat it up.”

The soba noodle soup had been made by Arisa prematurely and was in a small pot.

Yuzuru put the soba noodles, which had been drained off nicely, into it and heated it over the fireplace.

When he judged that it was sufficiently heat, he turned off the warmth.

“I’m performed.”

Yuzuru mentioned and turned to Arisa.

Arisa had already completed frying the tempura.

“I’m nearly performed right here too.  Let’s put them within the bowl.”

Yuzuru put the soba noodles within the bowl he had ready, together with the soup.

Arisa put the tempura within the bowl.

Lastly, they flippantly sprinkled slightly inexperienced onion… and accomplished the dish.

The 2 of them took the soba noodles to the lounge.

Then they put their fingers collectively and…

“Itadakimasu~” 

They began to eat the Soba that they had made collectively.

TN: And subsequent it’s the new 12 months…