Pure love ✕ Insult Complex - Chapter 797.

Chapter 797.: 797.
「 The second batch is done 」





I shout to the counter from the bakery .

It’s lunch break, 12:35pm .

While we’re selling off the first batch of products…

We start to put out the second batch .

We’re not just selling lunch pastries, but also snack-like ones .

Those wanting an after-meal dessert, or those who want to eat after school and before club activities .

The second batch sells like hotcakes, just like the first batch .

「 Roger that! Yo-chan! 」

「 I’ll bring them in, Yoshi-kun! 」

Nei and Megu come to the bakery, and I place down the pastries from the oven to the large pads .

「 Okay, the fresh pastries are coming!! 」

Megu brings in the first pad .

Then, the counter in the school cafeteria is filled with cheers .

「 There’s still more! 」

Nei also brings in a pad .

Megu places down the pad and comes back inside .

I’m doing all I can to bring out the pastries from the oven .

「 Katsuko-san, I want that 」

「 Katsuko-san, this please! 」

「 Okay, that’s 630 yen 」

「 Hoshizaki-san, this one! 」

「 Ah, me too! 」

「 Yes, yes, please follow the order! Don’t cut in the line 」

「 I’m going to spank those who try to push in!! 」

Katsuko-nee and Kana-senpai are in the front as vendors .

Edie’s watching to make sure that nobody is jumping the queue or shoplifting .

With this boom, I’m sure that someone who thinks of doing that will appear .

Some students let their junior at the club buy for them and resell it to other students for a higher price .

We caught three of them this week, and Edie punished them behind the scenes .

And if anyone who wants to do anything malicious to us, we’ll hand them over to Iwakura-kaichou .

I’m sure that she’d deal with them appropriately .

「 Okay, that’s all! 」

「 Yeah, thanks for the hard work, Yo-chan 」

Nei brings in the last pad .

We have enough vendors, I don’t need to be there .

What’s left is to clean up the bakery and close it .

There’s no class in the “bread club” today .

「 Thanks for the hard work~ 」

Yukino, who’s eating her lunch box at the back of the bakery, calls me out .

Oh, she’s about to finish eating .

Yukino’s pregnant . She can’t go out on the counter, nor help me here .

She just watches me work every day while she eats .

Yukino’s lunch box is a recipe Katsuko-nee custom made for her .

Katsuko-nee comes back to the mansion after bringing the dough to the bakery, then she brings the lunch box back .

Katsuko-nee makes our lunch box and Agnes and the girls’ lunch in the kitchen of the mansion together with Mana .

Well, Tsukiko and others would help them out, I don’t think it’s that much of a trouble, but still .

Yukino never does any housework .


Even if you say that she’s pregnant, I don’t think that it’s okay that all she does is eat .

「 Hey, Megu-chan, Kana-chan, let’s eat! Katsuko-oneechan and I will look after this 」

Nei said from the counter .

「 Thank you . Nei-oneesan 」

「 Then, I’ll leave that to you Nei-san 」

Megu and Kana enter the bakery, then…

「 Aaaah! Hoshizaki-san! 」

「 You’re going in now?! 」

I hear voices among the buyers .

Oh, they’re Kana-senpai’s fans .

「 See you guys tomorrow! I also need to eat lunch now 」

「 If that’s the case, we’re, uhm 」

「 Sorry~ We’re eating Katsuko-san’s lunch box today 」

「 Huh? Katsuko-san?! What’s that?! A deluxe lunch box? 」





This time, I hear the girls speak .

「 Oh? We may be a bakery, but we’re not eating pastries for lunch! This is just a small token as thanks for Kana-chan’s hard work 」

I mean, back then, I would eat off the unsold pastries in the back, but…

Nowadays, we’re sold out every time, and so we need to prepare food for lunch .

「 It’s a lunch meeting only for the employees of Katsuko’s bakery, sorry guys 」

Kana-senpai turned to her fans and greeted them off .

「 Okay, let’s go eat, Yoshi-kun 」

Megu starts preparing .

「 Yukino, want tea? 」

「 Thanks 」

Yeah, they’re having a conversation without a fight .

These two are getting along now .

Oh right .

「 Yukino, here’s the trial product 」

I take out the bread I baked earlier .

「 Oh, thanks . Just in time, I wanted something sweet 」

Yukino looked at the sweet bread I took out and smiled .

「 Hey, Nobu? Why is it just Yukino-san? 」

Kana-senpai looked at us dissatisfied .

「 I’ve got everyone’s share, let’s go eat them after meal 」

I opened up the pad on the side and show it to her .

「 As expected of Nobu! Love you! 」

Kana-senpai smiled happily .

◇　◇　◇

Since Anya came and assisted in selling our products .

It hasn’t been ten days since then .

Still, after a week…

Our bakery’s accomplished a great name .

First .

Back then, they look at the bakery as something they never knew about and just discovered as the strange bakery of that guy who got engaged suddenly .

Now, people call it as “Katsuko-san’s bakery . ”

Katsuko-nee showing up before the students had that much impact .

She’s beautiful, bright, and friendly, and an adult is better than a student in the business front .

She’s favored by the boys and girls alike .

And since Katsuko-nee’s become the teacher in my baker technical course .

The pastries that were too delicious to be created by someone like me now became Katsuko-nee’s products .

And just in time, the 50-yen cheaper pastries Ruriko, Agnes and the girls make started selling…

Those that were simple became my products .

It looks like everyone sees it that way .

As expected, it doesn’t feel right for the students to find an ordinary first-year student four months ago, suddenly creating high-grade pastries .

“Oh . So Katsuko-san made those?” As soon as they thought of that, their perception of it has become better .

Although, since the 50-yen cheaper products were my creation in their eyes, those didn’t sell well…

And then, we spread rumors that it’s Megu and Nei who make those, not me .

Well, they don’t expect me creating large quantities of pastries by myself, so…

Instead, everyone’s helping me out .

Now they think that I’m only doing manual labor in manufacturing .

Well, I don’t care what they think as long as the product sells…

Putting that aside .

I never thought Ruriko and Agnes would get into this work .

They help out creating the 50-yen cheaper pastries every day .

Mana, Tsukiko, Yomi, and Luna are all helping out .

Ah, Koyomi-chan’s participating in that too .

She must be worrying about staying in the mansion for free .

No, I think that’s a good thing too .

Not just for Koyomi-chan but for all the other girls .

They’re doing something together .

Now they’re related to the house’s earnings .

I think that it should have a good influence on them .

Either way, instead of standing firm by myself…

The family working hard together is much better .

「 What’s wrong, Yoshi-kun? 」





「 No, it’s nothing . Oh, I think it’s Mana who made this rolled omelet? 」

「 Yes, seems like she’s studying how to make these recently 」

Anyway, I leave the cheaper pastries to the girls .

And as for me, I’ll continue to learn those complicated methods for the new pastries from Katsuko-nee .

I could say that anything bakery business-related is going smoothly .

Then .

「 Wait, Yukino! You!!! 」

Megu suddenly shouts .

「 What? Don’t scream while you have food in your mouth Megumi . That’s bad manners . What would you do if this idiot copies that?! 」

I won’t .

「 I mean, Yukino, you mentioned you’ll go to the TV station by the third period, right? 」

Ah .

「 You weren’t present in our math class! 」

N-Now that she mentioned it .

「 Oh, that one was a lie 」

Yukino said calmly .

「 I just wanted to skip the math class, but going to the TV station is the real deal . Although it’ll be just this afternoon . I’m sure that someone from Kouzuki SS would pick me up 」

「 Y-You… 」

「 Kukuku, nice one Yukino-san 」

Kana-senpai laughed .

「 Seriously, you’re such a free spirit 」

「 Not really . My stomach is growing larger, see 」

Yukino replied with a nonchalant expression .

「 I like that thick-headed part of you 」

「 Kana-san, don’t praise her! Yukino will get carried away 」

Megu said .

「 Well, well, don’t get so angry . I won’t go to university like you, Megumi . Besides, I don’t even know if I could graduate high school 」

Yukino .

「 But, I think that you should study when you can 」

「 I wonder . I asked Francie, and he said that he never used the “Sin . Cos . Tan” out of high school 」

Well, yeah .

「 Learning “Base x Height /2” won’t hurt if you learn them but functions, differential, integrals, where do you use them? 」

I don’t know either .

「 High school teaches you a lot of things you won’t use in life 」

Yukino said .

「 If it was 150 years ago, the things we learn from high school, be it math, chemistry, or physics, they’re all for college professor levels . It’s a knowledge for those who teach college students in Cambridge or Oxford 」

Edie comes in .

「 Looking on the opposite side, isn’t it fearsome that almost all high school students knew about the top-level expert knowledge 150 years ago? 」

Yeah .

「 It’s not just the science and teaching, look at History, why would you have to learn about some crime that happened long ago?1 It does nothing in your daily life 」

「 Yukino, I think you meant “Long owned new rice field law”2 」

The American corrected her .

「 Well, that’s how education is, there’s a merit for knowing than not 」

Edie said .

「 Edie, sit down and eat 」

「 Yeah, Darling 」

Megu and Edie still have classes this afternoon .

I’m in the business course, and so my priority is working in this bakery, but…

Oh, Nei .

I stood up and checked the counter .

That’s still a lot of customers .

They’re less than earlier, but still…

Got to cheer Katsuko-nee and Nei .

「 Ah, got it . We’ll switch as soon as we’re done eating! 」

Kana-senpai looked at me and said .

「 Geez, you’re such a worrywart, Nobu! We know what to do 」

「 Ah, yeah 」

I returned to my seat and resumed eating .

「 Still, Katsuko-san’s so famous . I mean, if you take Nei-san and Katsuko-san in the equation, I’d be the third in overall ranking 」

Kana-senpai jokes .

「 That’s not true, Katsuko-nee and Ya-chan are both irregulars . I think that Kana-senpai’s the idol in our school 」

I said .





「 Right . Kana-san’s the orthodox one here 」

Yukino also agreed with my opinion .

「 Right, Kana’s cute, sweet, beautiful 」

Even Edie .

「 Oh geez, that’s embarrassing now 」

Kana-senpai laughed in embarrassment .

Real talk…

The great success of this bakery for a week…

It is all thanks to Kana-senpai’s participation .

Katsuko-nee becoming the poster girl of the bakery itself has a significant effect, but…

The members of the bakery until now are…

Megu, Nei, Edie, and me .

It’s a “Who’s that” for most of the students .

Megu and I have a scandalous aura since we’re both first-year students, yet we’re engaged .

Nei, who turned her blonde hair back to black, is still a fearsome delinquent to some .

Edie’s a dark-skinned beauty that likes to fight, most people are surprised by her .

Those who know us on a day-to-day basis are our classmates, and Megu’s clubmates, but…

Most of the students are feeling out of place .

When I started this, most of them are looking at me with a cold attitude .

But, Kana-senpai .

She’s an ordinary student and has been attending this school for a year and a half .

Everyone knows her as the beauty of the tennis club .

Kana-senpai helping out in our bakery means…

Most of the students no longer think of us as strange students .

Naturally, Kana-senpai’s fan comes over .

「 Well, I guess Nei-san, Katsuko-san, and I together is undoubtedly a spectacle for some . Hmm! 」

Kana-senpai laughed .

「 Hey, now, I’m still a beauty! Though I’m a warrior too 」

Edie laughed .

「 Oh, sorry! Right! Edie-san’s also a beauty! 」

Kana-senpai said in a panic .

「 Megumi, I think you should force it and say, “I’m also a beauty!” 」

Yukino tells Megu .

「 I mean, I’m just… 」

Megu looks down .

「 Stupid, Kana-san’s joking and so you should try to go along with it! Don’t take this seriously, or you’ll get uglier! 」

Yukino said .

「 While at it, I’m confident that I could compete with Kana-san when it comes to beauty . I’m sure of it 」

「 But I’m not as beautiful as Yukino 」

Megu .

「 Really? Okay then! Don’t pamper Megumi now, okay? If you try anything strange, then Edie would stir her up 」

「 Yeah, I’ll get angry . Darling can’t spoil her right now 」

Edie said .

「 I… 」

Megu finishes her meal quickly…

「 Nei-oneesan, let’s switch 」

Then she goes to the counter .

「 Ah, she escaped 」

「 What was that? Megumi-chan’s a cute girl too, right? I’m sure that if you polish her right, she’ll shine brightly 」

Kana-senpai said .

「 Most around her has already polished themselves brightly, and that’s her insecurity 」

Edie sighed .

Then .

「 Geez! That was tiresome! Let’s eat! Eat! Yo-chan! I’m hungry!! 」

Nei comes in .

「 Oh my, this is definitely shining 」

Kana-senpai smiles as she gazes at Nei’s beauty .

「 Huh, whatchu mean? 」

Nei doesn’t get it .

「 Nevermind that, sit down here, Ya-chan 」

I call Nei .

◇　◇　◇

「 Still, Katsuko-oneechan’s bakery is now very popular, but… 」

Nei says while eating .

「 Even so, why are there no students who want to join Yo-chan in the “pastry baking course?” 」

Yeah .

I’ve never heard students talk about it .

「 That’s because everyone doesn’t want to decide their life in high school . I mean, the lessons in that course are to prepare you to become a baker, right? 」

Kana-senpai said .

「 You’re throwing off the other potential and will concentrate on starting up a bakery, that’s how it looks like 」

Is that how it is?

「 Jii-chan did tell me to go for it because it’s a good study though 」

I said .

「 Who’s that Jii-chan? 」

Kana-senpai asks .

「 Misuzu and Ruriko’s Grandfather 」

I explained .

「 That means, the current head of Kouzuki house . The supreme authority who can move Japan’s government and the economy at his will 」

Nei added .

「 Oh 」

Kana-senpai nods .

「 And he lets Nobu call him “Jii-chan”? 」

「 Well, he’s Misuzu and the girls’ Grandfather 」

「 Yo-chan’s relationship with Mii-chan and Ruri-chan is officially recognized after all 」

「 Oh man, Nobu’s really out of bounds . That’s cool of you 」

Kana-senpai sighed .

「 I heard that handling my own shop, calculating the costs, then forecasting the products, and selling them is an experience, so I should do my best in it . I can do trial and error because I’m in school 」

If I were to open a business in the real world…

Then there are more responsibilities I have to shoulder .

Responsibilities for the customers…

Responsibilities for the person in the same business .

Once I start hiring people, they’re also my responsibility .

Saying “I tried, but it didn’t work” is not allowed .

If I cannot earn profits daily…

Then I can’t support the family .

「 I had a talk with Jii-chan the other day… 」

I…

「 A Tokugawa shogun, Tokugawa Keiki never managed a land before he became a Shogun 」

I said .

「 Tokugawa Keiki came from Ichihashi house, but Ichihashi house is a family that supports Tokugawa shogunate, they don’t have a land to rule, they just received the hereditary stipend from the lineage 」

Therefore .

「 But, the territory has a population of a fief, and the person who doesn’t have experience problems if he doesn’t govern properly became the last Shogun, and so Tokugawa shogunate didn’t go well . Jii-chan said 」

If I recall, he returned home from Osaka in the Edo period alone .

All of his vassals abandoned him .

「 Indeed, the Edo castle capitulation was bloodless, but the Shogunate ignored the sympathy of people and confined himself in Shizouka . Then, the Boshin war happened, a lot of people died, he’s an irresponsible person in a sense 」

Edie said .

「 And I’m told to gain various experience, even if it’s in a small bakery 」

「 Nobu, you… 」

Kana-senpai said . Nei stops her .

「 Shh, Yo-chan hasn’t noticed it yet, don’t say it! 」

What?

「 I mean, Kouzuki house and their enterprise is larger than the Tokugawa Shogunate 」

No, the period is different .

I don’t think you can compare them that much .

「 I’ll never leave you Nobu 」

Kana-senpai said .

「 That’s good . For now, we’re not reaching the point where we lose the means to make livelihood 」

「 And the rest of it is nothing but excitement 」

Edie and Nei said .

「 By the way 」

Nei changes the topic .

「 Kana-chan, as for that junior in tennis club… 」

Huh?

1 . ネンネンダイダイ死罪の法 』
2 . 『 墾田永年私財の法 』

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