[DROP] Horimiya: Izuna Miyamura
43. Eh?

A/N: A little information for you. Here I will explain about the arc that will happen in the future.

Arc 1: here covers Hakari's problems with his mother, and Izuna who came to solve both problems.

Arc 2: similar to Hakari, Asuna also has a problem with her mother, so Izuna comes and resolves the conflict that makes their relationship stretch.

For the record, I won't make Never Gear and Sword Art Online here, just the characters I borrowed.

Arc 3: same as the two Arc above, but here is Sayu's problem with her mother. And Izuna went to Hokkaido to solve this problem.

Arc 4: arguably this is a tension-filled Arc with a lot of action and fantasy, the article Hajime— class including Kaori and Shizuku called to another world, and Izuna gained a special ability that allows her to move between worlds (?) and save them.

Arifureta arc, with the addition of Izuna coming in the middle of the story.

Arc 5: this is the end of the story, where Izuna decides to marry the woman of her choice.

If calculated, this is a long-term project, maybe one year will not be enough to complete it. Therefore, I intend to make a time skip so that this story is not too convoluted, and go straight to completion.

It is expected to be completed in the next few months with about ±100 chapters that I can think of so far.

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"We're home!" when Iori and Sayu entered the Apartment and then they were stunned when they saw the thing they saw in front of him.

In front of them, Izuna was standing in front of the stove and preparing dinner. But that was not what astonished them, but rather Izuna was wearing an apron and according to them it was a very destructive sight!

When Izuna heard a voice at the door, she immediately looked over there and saw that Sayu and Iori were the ones standing there. He then immediately greeted them with a smile and said, "Oh... Welcome back. I'm preparing dinner, you can clean your bodies first."

Iori and Sayu simply nodded in a daze. But then Iori quickly shook her head and immediately realized that the man in front of her was her own child and she currently still had a husband she loved!

Different from Iori, Sayu still got some damage left when she saw Izuna with an apron and was cooking.

'Izuna-kun with an apron, Izuna-kun with an apron...' Sayu continuously muttered that sentence and all she had in mind was Izuna for now.

With Izuna's usual face, Sayu couldn't hold back her charm before, but when Izuna said "Love Spot", Sayu felt that she might soon lose control if she continued like this.

But, forget about that for a moment as the three of them started to eat the dishes Izuna made. Izuna was actually not very good at cooking, but if it was a fairly simple matter, she could still make it easily.

Therefore, he only cooked miso soup with white rice, fried shrimp, fried squid, tempura, fried beef and eggs.

"It's quite tasty" Iori said as she nodded as she tasted Izuna's cooking.

"Um, this is delicious Izuna-kun!" Sayu also responded.

"Thank you, I'm happy if you guys like it" Izuna said.

They ate the food cooked by Izuna, and subconsciously forgot one family member who was currently absent.

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Izumi was at Kyouko's house since a few weeks ago she saved Kyouko's sister and she was invited to her house.

As a result, tomorrow, he visited Kyouko's house and brought cake from his mother's shop, and starting from that, every time he went home from school, Izumi would have taken the time to stop by Kyouko's house.

Today, as it was too late afternoon, Izumi intended to go home, but Kyouko's mother asked Izumi to have dinner with them first.

"Izumi-kun, how about you have dinner with us here today before you go home?" Kyouko's mother, Hori Yuriko asked.

Yuriko is a beautiful young woman with shoulder-length brown hair who has several strands of hair cut in the back with bangs hanging on both sides and olive eyes.

Izumi looked at Hori Yuriko awkwardly and she didn't want to make them bother too much because she was here. "E-Emmm... It seems better if I go home now... My family's probably waiting for me for dinner this time..."

Izumi could only make such an excuse so that she could leave Kyouko's house immediately. It's not that he doesn't want to be here, but, he's too much trouble for the Hori family.

When she first met Hori Yuriko, she was a little nervous and she was also asked some questions by him.

Izumi also only answered as usual and did not exaggerate and replied politely.

As a result, Yuriko somehow seems to like him and starts calling him "Izumi-kun" which even Kyouko herself still does not know her first name.

And it makes Kyouko depressed for the whole day, and she does all sorts of things so she can figure out Izumi's first name.

But, as expected, he made a lot of misunderstandings like eavesdropping in the men's dressing room, and did everything else that made a lot of misunderstandings directed at him.

But, she finally knew Izumi's name when they broke into her house and either of them made her happy.

But it's natural considering they've only known each other for the past few weeks and still don't know much about each other.

"Hm... Is that so? Then it's a pity..." Hori Yuriko sighed helplessly when she heard Izumi's words, but she quickly regained her spirit and said, "Then, in the future, you should have dinner with us, Okay?"

"Y-Yes." Izumi then said goodbye and immediately went home because her stomach was quite hungry at this time.

She thought about what dinner her mother cooked and she couldn't wait to eat because her stomach was already rumbling.

On the other hand...

"Hump..." Sayu stuffed the beef into her mouth before finally chewing it gently.

But, he did not expect that the meat was very soft and not hard, and was easy to chew.

"God!!" Sayu and Iori said together, they placed their hands on each other's cheeks while feeling the tenderness of the beef that was in their mouths.

"Does it taste good?" Izuna as the chef here asked enthusiastically, as the person who made the dishes in front of them, Izuna hoped that the dishes could satisfy their tongues and they praised him for his delicious cooking.

Who doesn't like to be praised? Especially by your own mother and a cute girl?

No one would not want to be praised by his own mother and a beautiful girl. And Izuna is the same.

"It's delicious, Izuna-kun! I didn't expect that your cooking would be this delicious!" Sayu inevitably has to admit if Izuna cuisine, although quite simple but tastes quite good.

"Yes, I don't know if you can cook this well. Hmm, maybe I should have taught you to cook earlier. If honed, your cooking ability might not be inferior to a three-star restaurant chef" Iori said with full judgment. Although there were some lullabies in Izuna's current form, but he believed that if Izuna practiced her cooking skills, it would not be impossible for her to match even the famous Chef.

"Well, forget it. I don't really like anything that troublesome like that. After all, men's job is not to cook, but to make money." Izuna does not like to cook or learn to cook, but according to him, doing it is something that is troublesome.

In the future, he will marry, and his wife will cook food for him, not the other way around. And, her job as a husband is to earn a living for her family.

Therefore, it would be very efficient for him if he started to make money at this age for savings instead of spending his time learning to cook.

After all, she did not want to be a housewife!

"You talk like that, do you have a future wife? Girlfriends just don't have" Iori said in a mocking tone.

Izuna's lips twitched, she held back her sense of regret for her current mother, "Indeed I have no boyfriend or wife-to-be. But, you don't mind being my wife in the future, do you, Sayu?"

"Eh?"

Sayu halted her movements, blinking her eyes a few times before she looked at Izuna with a dazed look.

"Huh? Did you propose to Sayu in front of your mother? That's very brave, isn't it?" said Iori while grinning, looking at the two with an understanding look. "So, what about you, Sayu? Are you going to accept Izuna's proposal or not? Hmm, I hope that if you accept it, because that way, you will be my daughter."

"Eh?"

Sayu was completely confused at the moment, and she did not know what to do in the situation.

If asked, whether he likes Izuna or not, then he will answer if he likes her. But that's not the problem now.

Sayu does like Izuna, but she is still not ready to start a relationship with someone. Her family matters were still not finished, and until then, she did not want to start any relationship with anyone else.

"Hmm, maybe like that? Well, who cares about that, right? Besides, do you mind this?" Izuna asked as she shrugged her shoulders casually while putting tempura into her mouth and chewed it slowly.

"All right, all right, stop right there. Look, Sayu-chan seems to be too confused and her face is also flushed." Iori decided to stop their charade, put a small smile on her face, she looked at Sayu and said, "Don't get too thought out, Sayu-chan. We were just teasing you."

"Eh?" Sayu is getting confused at the moment.

"Well, we were just teasing you. So, don't think too much about what I just said 'okay?" said Izuna calmly. She had previously noticed Iori's movements were quite strange, and she realized that she was trying to play Sayu, so she followed Iori's play thinking that it might be interesting.

"B-Is that so....?" Sayu did not know whether she was happy or sad when she heard this.

Sayu raised her head, looked at Izuna and was about to say something, but the door opened and Izumi walked into the apartment and looked at the three who were having dinner without her with a look of disbelief.

"You ate without me...? And again, you guys almost spent it all!" Izuna widened her eyes in disbelief, scolding Izuna as if telling her why they had dinner without her.

"Ah, Well, actually we intend to wait for you earlier... It's just... You're taking too long, and we think you might have had dinner at your friend's house... So, you're having dinner alone... And the rest as you can see." said Izuna in an increasingly quiet voice as she turned her gaze in another direction and dared not look at Izumi.

"Seriously?!" Izumi asked in disbelief, she looked at Iori as if asking if what Izuna said was true or not.

Iori shifted her gaze and said softly, "Well, that's right."

Izumi looked at the ceiling with a blank look. Now, he regretted not accepting Yuriko's offer for dinner last night.