New 12 months’s Day, early morning.

“Wow…. these mochi are so good!”

Arisa introduced the isobeyaki mochi to her mouth and stated in order she widened her eyes.

Yuzuru baked the mochi… however after all, it was left to the oven and never Yuzuru’s prodigious culinary expertise.

It was simply the standard of the mochi.

“Mochi is pretty much as good because the outlets that made them…I suppose?”

Yuzuru nodded at Arisa’s phrases and bit right into a baked mochi.

It tasted identical to the mochi that he all the time ate at his dad and mom’ home at New 12 months’s. 

Yuzuru’s household bought mochi from a specialty retailer yearly.

This 12 months, that they had them mailed to his residence.

“I’m extra impressed with the ozoni you made for me.” (TN: Ozoni: New 12 months mochi soup)

Yuzuru stated as he tucked into the ozoni’s clear soup.

The soy-sauce-flavored Kanto-style broth was infused with the flavour and aroma of dried bonito and kelp.

Baked mochi was no completely different than common, however the mochi within the ozoni was one thing else totally.

It absorbed the broth and have become many instances tastier.

“I’m glad to listen to you say so… I’ll make it once more subsequent 12 months if I’ve the prospect.”

“I hope you’ll make it on daily basis in case you can, not simply subsequent 12 months.”

When Yuzuru stated that, Arisa laughed.

“There you go once more… You’ll get bored with it, you understand.”

“I’ll by no means get bored with your cooking… however I won’t prefer it if I can’t drink your miso soup.”

Arisa’s phrases made Yuzuru rethink.

Though Ozoni can be laborious to throw away, nevertheless, it could be an amazing pity that each one of Arisa’s miso soup was changed by Ozoni.

“Talking of miso soup… the Kansai fashion is made with white miso and is scrumptious. It’s a bit of completely different from our miso soup…”

“…Kansai-style?　Eh, you can also make it?”

“I don’t know if it tastes the identical as the true factor, however in case you ask me if I may make it or not, I may… In my home, we modify it each day so we don’t get bored with it.”

“Heh~…”

Yuzuru was born in Kanto, so he had by no means had Kansai-style soup.

That’s the reason he was very inquisitive about it.

“…Do you need to attempt it?”

“I need to.”

“Then, let’s achieve this tomorrow.”

There was no spherical mochi, so it received’t be really Kansai-style, although.

Arisa smiled bitterly.

However maybe this was a degree of concern for Arisa, however what Yuzuru was involved about was whether or not it tasted good or not.

It didn’t matter to Yuzuru as a result of he didn’t suppose a handful of mochi corners may have a big impression on the style.

“By the way in which, Arisa. What number of variations are there in the way in which you eat mochi?”

“…variations?”

“…I can solely consider isobeyaki, soy sauce with sugar, or soybean powder.”

Regardless of how scrumptious it may be if eaten on daily basis, one would get bored with it.

And the quantity of mochi was an excessive amount of to eat solely at New 12 months’s yearly.

Perhaps it was as a result of his dad and mom couldn’t even have any extra at residence…

The quantity despatched to Yuzuru’s home was an excessive amount of for Yuzuru to eat by himself on New 12 months’s Day.

Though his mom had instructed him that if he froze them, they’d last more, it was not like Yuzuru hated it, however he didn’t like it both.

It was apparent that he would get bored with them sooner or later.

“Yeah, that’s proper. The methods of consuming that Yuzuru-san talked about are definitely scrumptious… however there are others, if I’ll say so.”

“…for instance?”

“Nicely, one of many main ones is to cook dinner cheese and mochi with bacon, for instance.”

“Ah…”

Certainly it sounded scrumptious.

How may it’s dangerous, because it was scrumptious with simply bacon and cheese to start with?

“Is there the rest?”

“What else?　How about uncooked eggs?”

“Uncooked eggs!?　No, however, I see. It’s not a foul match huh…?”

There exists a meals referred to as tamago kakegohan (rice topped with an egg).

It represented a straightforward and engaging dish that Yuzuru additionally resorted to when he was in bother over meals.

Eggs and white rice go very nicely collectively.

Then there was no purpose why eggs and mochi shouldn’t go nicely collectively.

“The mixture of butter and natto (fermented soybeans) can also be scrumptious.”

“I see… Nearly something that goes nicely with white rice additionally goes nicely with it, huh.”

If uncooked eggs have been good, then natto can be good too.

“It takes plenty of effort and time to cook dinner, however you can too pan fry it in order that it turns into crispy and appears like a pizza.”

“Oh, that sounds good!”

It will lose among the mochi taste, however it appeared like a good suggestion simply when getting bored with the feel, to not point out the style.

Yuzuru determined to ask for the recipe later.

They completed consuming the ozoni and mochi whereas having a energetic dialog about tips on how to eat rice desserts.

“Nicely then… I’ve some preparations to do. I’ll go forward of you.”

Arisa stated as she completed cleansing up.

Yuzuru was not significantly stunned since he had been instructed beforehand that he would meet up together with her as a substitute of going together with her due to the preparations.

“Preparations, huh?”

Yuzuru chuckled.

He had a tough thought of what Arisa’s preparations have been.

It wasn’t laborious to inform, however…

Yuzuru was not tactless sufficient to do such a factor.

“Nicely, I’ll let myself go leisurely later.”

“Sure… Please sit up for it.”

Thus, Yuzuru parted with Arisa as soon as extra.

After a while handed, Yuzuru went to the station nearest to the shrine.

Soichiro was already there.

“Sorry to maintain you ready.”

“You actually did, geez”

“…shouldn’t you say you’ve simply arrived then?”

Yuzuru stated with a wry smile to his good friend who had a grim expression on his face that stated ‘You’re late!‘.

“I’m not your boyfriend. Naturally, I’m not your fiancée both.”

“Nicely, that’s true, too.”

Yuzuru chuckled at Soichiro’s phrases, and the 2 of them laughed as nicely.

His grumpy angle was a joke in his personal method.

There was nonetheless loads of time to fulfill, and there have been two individuals who hadn’t arrived but within the first place.

“Talking of which, you didn’t include Arisa-san, did you?”

“I used to be instructed she’d go forward as a result of she had some preparations to do. From the seems to be of it, it appears to be taking a bit of time to prepare.”

“I see… Nicely, my case is just like yours.”

Soichiro appeared satisfied by Yuzuru’s phrases.

Some time handed since Yuzuru and Soichiro first began chatting.

A cheerful voice could possibly be heard from behind them.

“Soichiro-kun, Yuzurun. Sorry, did I make you guys wait?”

The one who appeared whereas saying that was Yuzuru’s childhood good friend, Tachibana Ayaka, sporting a brilliant crimson kimono.

This time, she was sporting a lightweight quantity of make-up.

She all the time had a mature face, however right now it was much more polished.

“Sorry to maintain you ready… It took a little bit of time.”

Then, from the shadow of Ayaka, a flaxen-haired woman appeared with a subdued voice and a smile on her face.

It was Yuzuru’s fiancée, Yukishiro Arisa.

She wore a kimono made from inexperienced material with crimson flowers painted on it.

Arisa had her hair tied up and was sporting gentle make-up…

It went with out saying that she was stunning in on a regular basis life, however there was a special form of magnificence about her right now. 

‘Sorry, we made you wait.’

The 2 guys shook their heads collectively when the 2 ladies stated to them.

“”No, we simply obtained right here.””

Then Yuzuru took Arisa’s hand and Soichiro took Ayaka’s.

“Then, we could go?”

“Sure.”

“Let’s go.”

“Sure.”

The 4 of them started to stroll slowly – matching the velocity of the 2 ladies sporting geta.