Chapter -013-

Tori, who saw Yuki's figure directly in front of her, stiffened in her place with her eyes widening in surprise.

"Y-you! Tetsuya Yuki?!" Tori exclaimed by raising her voice, bringing the attention of all the basketball club members now towards them.

Yuki, whose name was called by Tori and realized that he was now the center of attention of the members of the Kitsunema basketball club, had a small smile on his face, then lowered his head again.

"Greetings everyone. My name is Tetsuya Yuki, a member of the Natsu High School cooking club, nice to meet you."

An atmosphere of silence now enveloped the indoor court room because the members of the Kitsunema basketball club including Tori were still silent in their respective places to digest the words that Yuki had said earlier.

Eita who saw the silence of his club members took a deep breath, then stretched out a hand to pat Yuki's shoulder.

Tap.

"You shouldn't have mentioned what club you signed up for Yuki-kun. You left them all in shock." Eita said which made Yuki raise an eyebrow in surprise.

"I just wanted to say that I'm officially a member of the cooking club. So you can't persuade me to sign up for your club." Yuki replied in response to Eita's words.

"W-what?? Why?? Why didn't you sign up for the basketball club?!" Tori asked who had come to his senses from her shock after hearing Yuki's direct statement.

Yuki turned his head towards Tori. "Why? Because I want to deepen my cooking skills? Isn't that okay?"

Tori quickly shook her head firmly. "Of course not! Your destiny is to be with the basketball team! Not the cooking team."

Aida, whose mouth was not covered by Yuki, immediately squeaked in annoyance and cast a sharp glare at Tori.

"Tsk! Who are you to say that Yu-kun's destiny is with the basketball team?!"

Now Aida folded her arms in front of her chest. "Yu-kun's destiny is his own choice. Not on your words or other people's opinions."

Yuki stretched out one hand to put his arm around Aida's shoulder. "Never mind Ai-chan, you can't say that to seniors."

"I feel annoyed with him who casually said that your destiny is to be with the basketball team!" Complained Aida who still cast a sharp gaze at Tori.

Tori fell silent again in place, pursed her lips tightly.

Eita who saw Tori's silence wanted to laugh out loud. Because this is the first time he has seen his team members stay silent and not move like that.

Yuki, who realized that Aida's mood was currently not good, chose to direct her gaze towards Eita.

"Eita-senpai, I think it's time for the both of us to go home. Sorry if we've caused a ruckus here." Yuki said to Eita which made Aida feel displeased.

Just as Aida wanted to speak, Yuki had already patted the top of her head, making herself still feeling irritated, discouraged from speaking out.

Eita who saw Aida not moving under Yuki's supervision also had a small smile on his face. He was reminded of the moment when he was still on the same team as Yuki, Aida and the washida club members.

"Alright Yuki-kun and Ai-chan. Thank you for coming to visit our basketball club. Next time if you have free time, come visit again." Eita replied that Yuki nodded his head, but Aida replied with a snort.

Now Yuki's eyes turned back to the members of the basketball club who were still looking at him.

"See you later everyone! Keep up the good work of basketball, you will surely become shining basketball athletes one day." Yuki said with a smile on her face.

After that without waiting for a response from the members of the Kitsunema basketball club, Yuki and Aida immediately stepped out of the basketball court room.

The Kitsunema club members who saw Yuki and Aida already walked out simultaneously breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that they had been holding their breath when they saw Aida scolding Tori.

Eita who heard the sighs of relief from his club members chuckled softly.

"Hahaha what's wrong with you guys? Were you guys holding your breath all this time looking at Yu-kun and Ai-chan?" asked Eita who was replied with a nod of the head in unison by the members.

"That woman was really scary! It's the first time I've met such a scary woman!" Said one member of the basketball club which made Eita chuckle even more.

"Do you know the Washida club? If you knew them, you would know who the woman you called was creepy was."

The Kitsunema club members raised an eyebrow in surprise, because as far as they know, in the Washida club there are no such scary women, there is only a beautiful manager who is always with the Washida club members wherever they go.

Toma, who was curious about Eita's words, immediately looked for the profile of the Washida club on the internet.

After finding the right page, Toma moved his finger to scroll through his phone screen.

His eyes focused on a profile of a woman who was the manager of the Washida Club and was usually called Yama-sensei.

Instantly, Toma's eyes widened in surprise when he saw Yama-sensei's real name, Matsuyama Aida.

"Whoa!" Toma exclaimed in surprise and now made himself the center of attention of the other members.

"What's wrong Toma-kun? Have you found out the identity of that scary girl earlier?" Asked Shuhei who was right next to Toma and represented the questions from the other members.

Toma quickly nodded his head and held out his cell phone to the front so that all his friends could see the results of the search he did.

"Pay close attention to Yama-sensei's full name!" Toma said telling all his friends to pay close attention to what was on his cellphone.

Tomo who was in front of Toma narrowed his eyes to read what was on his friend's cellphone screen.

"Matsuyama Aida, the intelligent and agile manager of the Washida Club. It is thanks to him that the Washida Club has achieved victory for the third year in a row." Tomo said reading what was printed on Toma's cellphone screen.

"Matsuyama Aida." Shuhei said repeating what Tomo said earlier, as did the other club members, including Tori.

"Matsuyama Aida. Aida-chan, Ai-chan." Tori muttered while remembering the call that Eita and Yuki called to Aida.

Instantly both Tori's eyes widened in surprise after finding the similarity of the nicknames mentioned by Yuki and Eita with the full name of the Washida Club manager.

"Oh my! So that scary girl was Yama-sensei?!"