Otome Nadeshiko Koi Techou (乙女なでしこ恋手帖)

Matsumori Girl's Academy

Stand!

Bow!

Now everyone, please be careful on your way home.

Goodbye.

Goodbye!

Want to get something to eat?

I'll excuse myself first.

Are you coming over tonight?

Yoshiko-san and Midori-san are coming over too.

See you, Chizuru!

I'll see you later, Chizuru.

Yeah, see you later, Saiyo.

What's this?

Today's Saturday, so why did you bring your lunch?

Oh, Ranko, you're still here?

Well, I can't leave before saying goodbye to you.

Don't tell me, you brought your lunch because it's difficult to eat at home?

That's not it.

But it is true that I don't feel like eating at home.

As usual, your lunch doesn't look like something a young woman would eat.

My little sister goes to a family school, so she probably has more to eat.

In my case, I should be grateful that I have anything to eat at all.

Even for you, you can't change the fact that you're a daughter of the Shinoaki family.

In the end, I'm pretty much an outsider since I'm adopted.

They simply say I was born in my parents' house and grew up as a commoner.

If I were a proper Shinoaki lady, I'd eat my lunch like this:

I'd place only three grains of rice on top of my chopsticks,

and slightly open my mouth.

So elegantly.

I really don't feel like eating like that.

I know, right?

But it seems that the heads of the family think that if you can't do that, you aren't an elegant lady.

I can't do that, so I'm not an elegant lady.

Right, right.

Even without doing something so rigid, your regular eating style isn't vulgar at all.

When you eat at my family's store, you use a knife and fork beautifully, don't you?

Thanks to you, I've become friends with a daughter of a western food restaurant,

so I've had quite a bit of training!

You can go home ahead of me today, Ranko.

My Shinoaki father asked me to run an errand at the main school.

Oh, is that so?

That's why you brought your lunch?

Yeah.

To get to the main school, it's quicker to go from here than to go home first, right?

It's closer, but you'll have to take a train, right?

If it's a request from your household, shouldn't your father prepare a car for you?

Unfortunately, the Shinoaki family is poor, so we only have one worn-out vehicle.

If we took turns, I don't think I'd ever get to use it.

Oh my.

It's fine. I like trains.

Plus, it's not an urgent errand that warrants taking a car.

Is that so?

Yeah.

You want me to pick up the money?

It's a simple task, so you should be able to do it.

If you have something to do, I guess there's no helping it.

I was going to invite you over to my place to play.

Sorry about that.

It's okay. I just wanted to show you something.

This!

Oh, it's "Girl's Notebook"!

This month's? It's out?