This Flavor Today!!

I'm still searching for something I "like." But...

Details 9:59
Chapter
Shake Your Soul, Baby!!
Duration
9:59
Release
Oct 26, 2026
Characters
Raika Suga , Miku Mahashi , Yomogi Yakura , Chieri Umezato , and Shizuku Shinomiya

Text 97

Speakers

Background
Just one last thing.
I have something I want to ask you, master.
I want to ask for the future's sake.
Yomogi, how did you first encounter Onishigu, the one you love so much that it shakes your soul?
Huh, whaaat?
Ehehehe, you mean how I met Onishigu~~?
She lit up in an instant~!
Oh, it was the fateful day
I met my savior...!
That was... right, several years ago.
It was around when the wind was starting to turn cold.
Huh, what is this...?
Shh. It's already started,
"Yomogi and Onishigu: A Fated Encounter"!
So what is that supposed to be?
Background
Back then, when I was in high school, I was far weaker than I am now.
I spent my days desperately erasing my presence and barely breathing at the edge of the classroom.
Eventually, my hair grew so long it was frightening,
and my whole existence became like a ghost.
Your whole existence... like a ghost...?
After school, in a classroom that had grown dim.
One student came back to get a textbook they'd forgotten.
Then, even though no one should have been there, they heard a noise.
When they turned toward it...
there stood a woman with hair so long you couldn't see her face!!
Background
Shut up, you're disturbing the neighborhood.
Raika and Cherie sure have vivid imaginations.
I-I wasn't scared at all.
It's a ghost!? Of course that's scary~!
That sort of thing happened all the time.
It was the price of trying so hard to erase my presence.
It quickly became a rumor at school and around the neighborhood.
My family's restaurant got a review saying "a ghost appears here,"
and my mom tearfully begged me...
"Please, just go to a hair salon..."
That sounds awful.
Were you able to breathe?
Heh... Not at all.
As a result, a heavy-breathing ghost showed up at a salon in town,
and the whole place was buzzing.
"What a nuisance." "What a weirdo." "So creepy."
Those stares scared me...
But when I thought of my mom, I couldn't go home either...
There was a book I grabbed on impulse
to shut out the sight.
And that book was Onishigu...!
So dramatic, right...!
That story's too long.
In the end, it was just a coincidence, wasn't it?
Yes, just a coincidence!!
But that chance encounter shook my soul!
...Not something you find for yourself,
but something you encounter by chance, huh...
Yes!!
I'm sure that day will come for you too, Shizuku-san!
Ah...!!
Sorry, I'm forcing my ideas on you again, aren't I!?
...No. I was imagining something.
I was imagining myself encountering something by chance that would shake my soul,
something I'd want to talk about endlessly.
But I still don't really understand it.
That's exactly why I'm looking forward to it.
Oh my~ today was a good day~
Shizuku got to learn something new, and I got to learn about both of your pasts.
Which means... it's time for that.
At times like this, it's Pockin'ice!
Nice! Let's celebrate with Pockin'ice!
Isn't it rare for Cherie to suggest it?
Hehe, I missed out on the orange flavor yesterday,
but today's Chieri is different.
Ta-da!
I bought a whole bag of Pockin'ice~!
Yo, Cherie's shopping skills are the best in the world!
Hehe, I'm the union leader and a shopping meister.
Chieri will have the orange flavor...
Shizuku, which one do you want today?
I'm still searching for something I "like."
But...
Today, green. Melon flavor, please.
It's the color of the boat's deck.
Mm.
This is also my master's favorite flavor.
Yomogi, would you eat it with me?
Then, Miku, let's have the grape flavor together~
Okay, Raika, you split it.
Shizuku, I'll do yours.
Background
Everyone got their Pockin'ice~?
Then, all together—
Everyone
Let's eat~
Ow... ngh, brain freeze...!
Ahaha, that's because you wolfed it down~
...Hey, about the fish we got.
Who can prepare it?
Everyone
...
Raika, you said we'd manage somehow, right?
I meant we'd all figure it out together!
What are we going to do?!
We got so many of them!
Come on, we can try while watching a video~
Then we should've had the fishermen do it...!
Huh~ you should've said that when we were at the port~
Background
...I see.
Without the step of preparing the fish, we can't eat them.
That's right.
Even the fish that becomes sushi is neatly prepared and placed on the rice, I think...
Yomogi. Next time, I want to try preparing fish.
Huh...
Why are you telling me...?
I can't touch fish, and I can't even look them in the eye.
I'm a weak human, you know...?
But when I'm with you, Yomogi, I get to experience new things.
The electronics store in town, conveyor belt sushi, and fishing—all of it.
Those were more like me just getting dragged along, I suppose...
Master. Until the day I encounter what I like,
please take care of me.
(I want to be of help to Shizuku-san...
But fish are scary and I can't touch them...!)
Waaah, what should I doooo!!
This time we've got no choice but to ask someone who can prepare fish.
It'd be a waste to mess up such good fish!
Huh~! Let's all try it as a family~!
This happened because of you, you know!
Don't say you can do something you can't.
Raika, contact someone you know who can prepare fish!
Use your neighborhood network or whatever it works!
Ugh... I get it, but still,
you don't have to get so mad~!
...It seems I should consider the time and occasion,
even for new experiences.
R-Right... you're right...!
Background
One: Don't accept fish until you can prepare them yourself.
Background
Yomogi, someday I want to be able to prepare fish together with you.
Ugh... I suppose first I need to get over my unease around fish...