Editing Maria-sama Ga Miteru:Volume17 Chapter 5 3

===<noinclude>What Kind of City is the Capital of Flowers? </noinclude>Part 3===

That night's dinner was huge.

Even though young girls should be thoughtful when choosing from a menu, the volume of food piled on one plate was not particularly varied.

A donburi-like bowl filled with soup cooked with vegetables was plopped in front of them with a big "don!" Roast beef, not sliced, just served as a lump. "Plop." And more. Pasta and bread, "ba-ban." They were growing children, but they could not eat all this.

"What a waste!"

While such laments continued, not a single student could finish their meal.

An elderly local couple was seated a bit from the Lillian students. While eating a meal even more voluminous than the students', they drank wine, "glug glug."

When their bellies were full and they still had food left over, Yumi thought "if only Yuuki were here." With an "it would be my pleasure!" he would eat it all up. "Chomp chomp."

"Not just Yuuki-kun. He'd have to call Kobayashi-kun, Takada-kun, maybe not Alice, but also Nikko/Gakkou-sempai, too."

Yoshino-san said while laughing. If he did that, there would certainly be no leftovers after they ate.

"Yuuki-kun is Yumi-san's younger brother, right?" The current Hanadera school council president. Has anyone asked if he's coming to help with our own school festival? Like last year's prince or something?"

"Prince!?"

That's way past his limits, Yumi denied and shook her head. The Fukuzawa family had a couple tanuki-faced siblings. The only time Yuuki could play the prince is when the story takes place in the Tanuki kingdom.

"Maybe it's a more incredible role than the Prince!"

Yoshino-san, with a slightly indiscriminate mouth, threw a pick-off ball.

"Yoshino-san... That's confidential until we return from this school trip. Sorry."

"All right, I'll stop talking. Just one more little hint? Hey, it's okay, Yumi-san."

"It's a secret."

"No way, a love scene between siblings!?"

"... Stop it already!"

Originally her stomach was full, but Yumi clenched a fork.

A love scene between siblings? That's not something to joke about. Ew, gross.

That notwithstanding, she still could eat: a lady came carrying an after-dinner cake. A girl's dietary needs are a great mystery, constantly changing.

"Florence is a cake shop town, so I have to eat this."

What an excuse.

Tonight, another image was added to the cake town.

A lump of meat.

Yumi thought that from now on, whenever she saw a lump of meat, she would remember Florence.