✦1314✦Nanbaka✦Reverse-harem✦

✦10✦ New Year Tournament Arc -Of mochi and karuta-

"You...what?" Rock didn't quite understand the whole point of the change of reward. "Michiyo? Y-you want the reward to be her?" 

Liang looked so offended that he looked so clueless! "Have you been eating so much that you have become blind?!" He pointed upwards, "Michiyo-san has both beauty and strength! It's only natural that I would fall in love with such a beautiful flower!" He would never forget that throbbing feeling of blossoming love! He fell in love the moment the moment their battle became a dance where two people acknowledge one another's abilities. He never got the chance to ask her how she became so strong. "If I win this battle, I will be able to meet Michiyo-san again and again!" 

"Huh, Michiyo sure is popular." 

"While you're busy with your pathetic oven, I will be pursuing something much more useful than that!" 

"Well I can't allow that, Michiyo is our inmate!" Rock said as he dodged Liang's attacks. 

"Someone like you who doesn't care about Michiyo-san's strength doesn't deserve her!" Liang found it comical that Rock would choose a stone oven over Michiyo. From his point of view, Rock would be fine with anything as long as there was food; it mattered nothing to him if Michiyo wasn't there so Rock might as well give up Michiyo to him instead! "I'm going to finish you off right here! Taste this! The product of 7000 years of Chinese history!" What happened next was a fiery dragon kick. 

"Oh, that is pretty cool..." Michiyo looked down when she dodged another of Inori's attacks. 

"Heh, your friend is going to get burnt into a crisp!" Inori taunted. 

"Really?" 

"Doesn't care about her...?" Rock received and blocked the kick with his arm. 

"What?!" 

"The stone oven is ridiculous and I don't care about Michiyo...? You're the one who doesn't know anything!" Rock angrily grabbed Liang's ankle with his grip. "Fighting doesn't fill my stomach!" he began swinging Liang round and round, giving the other zero fighting chance. "And Michiyo..." 

"Please don't eat hot dog with a knife and fork, it's so painful to watch that it's getting offensive to me." 

"R-right. Sorry..." 

He was glad they could eat together in the cafeteria but it seemed like there was a lot about food he had to teach her. 

"Some food can be eaten with hands, you don't always have to have chopsticks or knife and forks."

"I-I see..."

"It's alright! We have a lot of time, take your time!"

Michiyo smiled and she ate the hot dog. "It's good!" 

"Glad you agree!" Rock took a bigger bite, "The food Shiro make is so good! If you come here often, you eat yummy food every day! Well, eating with someone you can enjoy your time with also helps." 

"It does..." 

"Hm?" He looked at her eyes to see she was feeling a little nostalgic about something. 

"Rock?" 

"Yes?" 

"Do you enjoy eating with me?" 

Rock smiled at her words, "Of course I do! Why would you ask such a silly thing?" 

"B-because it's been a very long time since I enjoyed food with someone...it's nice to just sit back and enjoy food with someone again. Thank you, Rock."