Toradora!:Spin-Off 2 Fall Fattened Tiger Chapter 1

Chapter 1

Takasu Ryuuji, she remembered.

Come to think of it, it might be that in the beginning, my appetite for food was what hooked me up with that guy.

"Yes...."

It wasn't friendship, nor love, yet can I remember correctly just how this strange, family-like relationship, solid yet complex, came to be? It was ...

"Yes?"

To be precise, perhaps, fried rice. Indeed, it was fried rice. It started with that unforgettable but awful night, being fed fried rice at three in the morning.

"Yes....???"

"Oh, wait a sec. Let me explain. It was fresh food, home cooked, not warmed up at some convenience store while other customers wait behind you, annoyed."

"Oh, please continue!"

Overwhelmed, she sadly kept quiet.

Though she had a strong reply on her lips, she thought that perhaps it would be better to hold her tongue. Eh? Huffing through her bared fangs, Aisaka Taiga again...

"Yessss......"

...swallowing her anguish.

In that small right hand there was a chunk of pork shoulder roast. In the left hand a pork-loin block. Shoulder roast if we make homemade chashu (and, make simple curry with the broth), pork-loin if we cook trotter for Japanese style kakuni, so WHICH ONE!!? Together with Ryuuji, Taiga was looking over the pork in the supermarket’s meat counter, which was already getting old.

Light and fluffy waves of hair reaching her waist, transparent milky-white skin, she had a refined beauty like a French doll. Short for a second-year high school student, the whorl in her hair didn’t quite reach Ryuuji’s chest. Combined with a petite build, Taiga was rather cute today. With those big chunks of meat in both hands, thinking about what to do with that simple mind, “I would just as soon eat both…”, Taiga is a real girl, of course.

An exceptional real girl, and,

"Yessss...Noooo....! I give up, I can't decide! Ryuuji, it's your choice! Because you’re making it, and are a better judge with that pig-nose sniffer working, you choose delicious things! Now do it!"

It was impressive indeed, to die for.

"Who has a pig-nose!? ...Honestly. Well then, cheaper it will be. Today roast, we'll make chashu. It's decided."

".....!?"

“What? What’s up? You’ll make kakuni of course? In that case make them separately,”

"....!"

“What’s up, seriously? Roast sounds good? That sounds good? Good, it’s decided. Let’s go."

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