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The school marathon is over.

Kyouko gave both Yuuki and Marika a 'Kiss Pass' to both of them.

"I will use this 'kiss pass' on you, Yuuki-sama," Marika said.

"Alright," Yuuki wanted to kiss her but he was stopped.

"STOP!!!!"

Kyouko stopped him to kiss her.

"What's wrong, Sensei?" Marika asked with a confused expression.

"I have never said that you can use this ticket on every student in the school," Kyouko said.

"Then which class can it be used?" Yuuki asked.

"Ahem, I have prepared for both of you, a handsome and beautiful student!" Kyouko said and showed a group of animals that had appeared in front of them.

Marika and Yuuki looked at each other and their expression became complex until both of them laughed.

Kyouko felt confused as to why both of them laughed together.

"You don't need this ticket to kiss me though," Yuuki said.

"Oh, me too, you can kiss me with anything, Yuuki-sama," Marika said and closed her eyes.

Yuuki wanted to kiss her too but it was impossible since Kyouko had stopped them every time that both of them wanted to kiss each other.

---

The marathon was over and it was very anti-climax ending without drama.

Yuuki decided to go back but he made a promise to someone before that. He changed his uniform and waited for someone.

"Yuuki..."

Yuuki knew very well about this soft voice, "Koizumi..." He raised his eyebrow when he saw another person behind her, "Yuu?"

"Hello! I will join you too!" Yuuki said with a happy smile.

Koizumi sighed, "I tried to shake her but it was impossible..." She didn't expect that Yuu was very persistent and wanted to follow her.

Yuuki thought for a bit and asked, "Then can I add one more person?"

"Hmm?" Koizumi and Yuu looked at him with a confused expression.

---

They were waiting for a while until someone came toward them.

"Sunakawa-kun?" Yuu was surprised to see him.

"Sorry, I'm a bit late," Sunakawa said to him and looked toward Yuu, "Hello."

"Hey? You're going to join us?" Yuu smiled.

"Yes," Sunakawa nodded.

"How about Takeo?" Yuu asked.

"He has a matter earlier," Sunakawa said.

Koizumi and Yuuki were on the side while looking at their interaction.

"Is there any reason that you're inviting him?" Koizumi asked.

"He likes Yuu," Yuuki said.

Koizumi felt a bit surprised when she heard it.

"I'm only helping him, it can also help you stop her from stalking you all the time," Yuuki said.

Koizumi, who heard his idea, couldn't help but feel marveled at it. She nodded at him and had a slight smile on her face, "Let's go." She said and pulled his hand.

"Ah, Koizumi-san, wait!" Yuu followed both of them.

Sunakawa also followed them.

They were walking together but they didn't realize that someone with height around 2 meters was following them.

"Suna.. why you didn't invite me...."

---

They walked together while talking together.

"Are we really going to eat ramen?" Sunakawa felt strange since it was very hot right now.

"Yes," Yuuki and Koizumi said at the same time.

"O - Okay! I will follow you!" Yuu was full of sweat and nodded.

"I think all of you misunderstood but what I will eat today is cold ramen," Koizumi said.

"Cold ramen?"

There was still someone who was following them.

"Suna...."

---

They entered the ramen shop together.

Yuu and Koizumi sat side by side.

Yuuki was sitting beside Koizumi and Sunakawas was sitting beside Yuu.

"Hiyashi (cold) ramen originally came from Yamagata Prefecture, the dish was invented over sixty years ago, and not in the ramen shop, but in the soba shop," Koizumi explained.

"Is the soba shop making ramen? It's also been quite around for a long time," Yuuki said.

They were talking for a while until their order came.

"Thank you for waiting!"

"Two bright red tomato sour ramen and two tsuttai ramen."

They saw four bowls of ramen in front of them. They saw that the ramen wasn't that different from normal ramen but there was ice inside the ramen.

"Uwoo, the bowl feels cool," Yuu laughed while caressing the bowl.

Sunakawa smiled looking at her reaction.

Yuuki and Koizumi didn't really care about them. Both of them had a tacit understanding when they were eating ramen.

"Let me help you," Yuuki said and helped her to tie her hair into a ponytail.

"Thank you," Koizumi said with a reddened cheek.

Yuu, who was by their side, couldn't help but gnashed her teeth looking at their interaction. She thought for a bit and asked, "This soup is a warm soup that has been chilled right?"

"Ramen soup generally has a lot of animal fat in it, so if you were to do that, you'd end up with a lump of fat," Koizumi explained.

"Oh, yeah..." Yuu nodded with her explanation.

"It should be using vegetable-based fat, right?" Yuuki said.

Koizumi nodded, "Yes, the vegetable-based fat is used to maintain the body, and then make separate batches of stock and sauce for the hiyashi ramen in order to adjust the flavor properly, since the process is complicated in many places, the dish is only offered during summer months."

"It must be a lot of work," Yuuki said.

"Alright, shall we?" Koizumi said.

They nodded and said at the same time, "Itadakimasu!" They took the noodles with their chopsticks and blew it unconsciously. They wanted to laugh since they were forgetting that it was cold ramen. They started to eat the ramen and slurped the soup.

The taste of the ramen was very delicious and refreshing, even though it was cold it wasn't strange, rather the sour taste of the ramen increased their appetite and ate it very fast.

"Gulp..."

The person who had been following them gulped when they saw them eating in a satisfying manner.

Their eating speed was quite fast and they had eaten all the ramen in their bowl.

"Alright, Yuuki, let's go to the next place," Koizumi said and pulled his hand.

Yuuki felt that this girl would have an appendix sooner or later eating a lot of ramen every day.

"UWAA!! WAIT FOR ME!! Yuu said and ran toward them.

Sunakawa felt regret since he couldn't join the conversation earlier. He wanted to follow them again until he was stopped by a gorilla.

"SUNA!!!!"

Takeo appeared right in front of his face with a lot of sweat on his face, "LET ME JOIN TOO!!!!"

Sunakawa twitched his lips and thought it was better to let him follow them, "Alright, let's go."

"Good!" Takeo nodded and asked, "Suna, do you like Yuu?"

"Cough! Cough!" Sunakawa coughed really hard and looked at him with disbelief.

Takeo smiled, "Don't worry, I won't tell her, I will support you from behind like you support me with Yamato."

"Takeo...."

Sunakawa looked at him with a warm gaze.

"OI!! SUNAWAKA!!! HURRY UP OR ELSE WE WILL LEAVE YOU!!!" Yuu shouted.

"Let's go, Suna," Takeo said.

Sunakawa nodded in response.

"Oi, let me join too!!" Takeo said.

"Uwaa! Takeo!" Yuu was surprised, "Alright, go follow us!"

"I never said that you could follow us," Koizumi said to Yuu.

"EH!!!!"