Heartbroken Chocolatier (失恋ショコラティエ)

This is bad. It’s not going well.

After I finish this chocobar to give as a present to Saeko-san,

it will be summer, then fall, then it will quickly be time for Christmas,

and when that’s over, Valentine’s again. Then White Day.

I wonder how we will be passing those times?

I wonder if Saeko-san will be with me?

Is that what I wish for?

Souta-kun. You’re working again?

Yeah, I’ll stop for today.

Looks delicious. Oh? This is -

Please make a chocolate

I can gobble up and feel better with.

Yup. Chocobar.

I still haven’t managed to make a satisfactory one, though.

But I’ll definitely present it to you soon.

I’m so happy. It’s a promise.

Yeah, promise. - I’m looking forward to it.

I wonder who it is, at such an hour.

Hiding in a place like this. Look, we're going.

I said no!

Erena. - I have to talk to you.

It won’t take long. - Ah, well...

Eh? Eh? - What do you think I am?

Don’t take me for an idiot! - Erena, calm down!

Calm -!

Huh? Um..

I love you. - Eh?

I love Souta-kun.

This is the ticket for that show I told you about before.

I don’t want it to end like this after all.

That’s why I came here.

I want you to think about being with me again, not as sex friends,

but properly.

You don’t have to respond right now.

If Souta-kun feels the same way, I want you to come to the show.

Eh? You confessed?

Yeah. I should fight too! So I thought.

That’s wonderful, you did well. - But,

I wonder if it was too much doing it in front of his girlfriend.

Eh? What? His girlfriend was there too?

Yeah, she lives in the shop after all.

Eh? You went into choco la vie?

Excuse me.

Hang on.

What did you say just now?

Did you say choco la vie? - No, I didn’t.

You did, right? You did! You definitely did!

Then, Erena’s sex friend is… Ahh!

That son of nobility who came from France?

No, no, it’s not Olivier-kun.

Eh?? Then… Ah!

Oh my, Erena, you were that type of person too?

No, no, it’s not Kaoruko-san.

Well, if it’s someone else from choco la vie, then...

What? No way.

Huh?? Is it Souta-kun?? It can’t be, right?

Wait, wait a second.

Then, Sekiya. What’s your relationship with Souta-kun?

Nothing, really. - What are you talking about?

Souta-kun loves Sekiya,

that’s why I pulled back? - Why would you think such a thing?

Don’t play dumb! You were exchanging messages, right?

No we weren’t. - You were.

No we weren’t. - You were!

No we weren’t. - You yourself kept going

choco-la-vie-san choco-la-vie-san

choco-la-vie-san choco-la-vie-san!

Oh.. That’s Inoue-san... - What? Who’s Inoue-san?

Kaoruko-san. - Eh? Eh?

No, but I gave Souta-kun your contact information.

So Koyurugi-san gave that to Kaoruko-san, and Kaoruko-san

messaged me.

So all this time, the back and forth between Sekiya and Kaoruko-san,

I misunderstood that it was with Souta-kun?

And without realizing I even

gave love advice to Erena about this?

What’s all this, jeez. I can’t believe it!

It’s not a joke. Don’t think I’m stupid! Jeez.

Get away from me.

Was Riku-chan in love with Souta-kun?

I’m sorry.

Are you doing well?

How about we have a meal together when you have the time? - Inoue

Did you send it?

Yeah, I did.

Then, how about wearing something like this?

It gives off a feeling of mature attractiveness. See, see, it matches you.

I wonder? - It's cute!

And let down your hair and make it into soft curls.

Let’s go to buy makeup too!

Yeah. - Sekiya-kun’s going to be really excited!

But there’s not even a reply yet.

I might be rejected.

That’s not going to happen. Well, let’s say it did happen,

in this world, there are millions and billions of

people who can become your boyfriend.

So don’t think of it as just for Sekiya-san,

if you think of it as working hard for all of your boyfriend candidates,

you can enjoy it, right? - Enjoy.

Okay, then, let’s go try on clothes.

Try on.

Yay, let's go! - Let's go.

Why did Saeko-san get married with Yoshioka-san?

Hmmm. I had a life plan that dictated

I would get married at 26.

And at that time there were two candidates to be the person I marry.

Two? - No, it should be 2.5.

2.5? What that 0.5?

There were both kind of lacking in some way, there was no deciding factor.

Ah. What luxury.

Then at that time I happened to meet Yoshioka-san.

I thought “Ah! It’s this person!”

He’s very mature and attentive.

He knew many places and had lots of connections.

It was more than enough.

Well, him having a bad side to match the good things,

I found out afterwards.

That marriage is both partners accepting each other’s bad sides,

that you have to put up with the poison of the other person,

I understand now.

I’m not suited for it at all.

If I have to put up with such things, I’d snap and explode.

And even then, I myself would spout a ton of poison.

I want to see this.

Ah, I wanted to see this musical too.

Really? Then let’s go together.

Okay, let’s go, let’s go! - Yay!

Then I’ll go get tickets.

When is Kaoruko-san available?

I wonder what kind of chocolate would make Saeko-san happy?

Just thinking of that,

I used to come up with ideas one after the other,

so much that I had a hard time keeping up with them.

But now...

Inspiration for chocolates,

won’t come at all.

I wonder since when it stopped coming?

What on earth do I have to do

to return to the me from that time?

I’m home. - Welcome back.

Where did you go today?

We went shopping with Kaoruko-san, and then had a meal afterwards.

What a strange couple.

Is that so?

Wow, even though it’s an off day, Souta-kun hasn’t taken any time off, right?

Yeah, I want to complete it already. The chocobar.

I see. Thank you. Work hard!

Thanks.

Saeko-san?

Saeko-san! Saeko-san! What’s wrong, Saeko-san!

Saeko-san!

Doctor.

She seems to be a bit anemic.

She’s fine now.

Did Saeko-san use to be anemic?

Since it’s an environment you're not used to, I wonder if you're too tired?

Don’t worry. I’m not sick.

Okay.

I’m pregnant.

Eh?

I have a little baby inside me. - Eh?

It’s not Souta-kun’s.

akamiso brings to you for the final time Shitsuren Chocolatier

What are you doing? You should rest.

Here.

I’ll quickly search for a place.

Even if you always stay here, you can’t rest properly,

and it’s not good for your body either.

Anyway, let’s leave here and live together.

It’s okay, there’s no need to worry about anything.

With me and Saeko-san and the little baby, let’s all work hard. Okay?

I can’t.

I can’t do such a thing.

I have to go back home.

Back home, to Yoshioka-san’s place? Why?

The time I spent here with Souta-kun is fun and gentle and sweet.

I was really happy.

I wish it could go on like this every day,

there were moments I thought like that. Until I found out I was pregnant.

I wasn’t disturbed at all.

Eh?

Like what should I do, I became pregnant,

or I’m scared of not being able to live with Souta-kun,

or I feel sad, I didn’t have any of these thoughts.

I was calm to the point I think it’s strange.

That’s when I realized. This is my reality,

what I had with Souta-kun is no more than my escape.

I thought “ah, I have to go back”.

I thought, the place where I live with him is where I’m supposed to be.

I’m sorry.

But...

Souta-kun is the same, right?

Eh?

Who Souta-kun loved was not the real me,

it was just an illusion, right?

So we both have to go back.

We can’t live in an illusion forever.

Saeko-san is an illusion to me.

That’s right. That’s something I myself had realized.

That’s precisely why I was trying to settle things.