Ukyou asks Ema if they can walk together during New Year to the main shrine.
They walk and finish their business when Ukyou sees Wataru, Masaomi and Tsubaki by the takoyaki stand. Wataru begs Masaomi to buy him takoyaki and Masaomi hesitantly does so with the condition that Wataru shouldn't leave any leftovers during dinner. >_< (ya know, kids tend to not eat dinner at all when they get their hands on snacks).
Tsubaki sees Wataru with the takoyaki and asks for one (actually, extorts Wataru). Wataru doesn't wanna give Tsubaki and in turn, Tsubaki offers to teach Wataru something. (It can't be anything good, right? HAHAHA)
Jakunikukyoushoku 弱肉強食 - Law of the Jungle. . . it is.
(Wataru struggles to pronounce it. haha)
Tsubaki tells Wataru that the according to the Law of the Jungle, the weak get eaten by the strong naturally. It dictates that whatever the strong do to the weak cannot be helped at all. (way to deceive your younger bro)
Wataru protests that he's no weakling though.
Tsubaki taunts him further though and says he thinks otherwise as Tsubaki easily got the takoyaki.
As Wataru was about to cry, Azusa pops out of nowhere and tells Tsubaki that that wasn't mature of him. Tsubaki argues that it's just one piece of takoyaki. Azusa points out that it wasn't what he was talking about BUT the whole Jakunikukyoushoku business. HAHAHAHA Tsubaki defends himself by saying that he was only teaching Wataru the difficulties of reality. HAHA (as if...)
Natsume then pops out to invite the rest of his bros to eat when Tsubaki starts going hungrier after eating (the extortion-procured) takoyaki. They finally decide to look around the food stalls in the area.
The scene goes back to Ukyou who seemed annoyed/stressed about his brothers. Ema worries about dinner back at home but Ukyou says he would eat home since it was the dinner Ema and Ukyou cooked together. Ukyou then kids around and tells Ema to go home and eat dinner together (all to themselves).
The rest of the gang get to Ukyou and Ema. Tsubaki asks (jealously) why Ema has been with Ukyou, Masaomi gently just points out "Ah~ so you were together", Wataru tells Tsubaki on Ema about the takoyaki incident, and Tsubaki, once again, pointing out how Ema and Ukyou were together with such a good atmosphere. Ukyou just dismisses his jealousy telling him that they were just walking around together. Tsubaki wanted to walk around with Ema the whole time but Ukyou tells him how unfortunate it is that it wasn't the case.
Wataru then goes for the kill.
Wataru: Ah! So this is what you call Jakuniku kyoushoku, eh? Am I right, Akkun?
Azusa: ...EH?
Ukyou: Hou~ Wataru sees me as the stronger one/alpha than Tsubaki.
Tsubaki gets hit bull's eye and gets revenge over Wataru by aiming for the takoyaki (ONCE AGAIN) but this time, he wants to eat them all! Masaomi offers to buy another one for Wataru. Natsume comments on how Tsubaki has always been this childish. Ukyou then reminds everyone that he cooked dinner together with Ema to which everyone drops their plans to eat anything from the food stalls. Hurray for Roast Beef.
Everyone decides to head home while Ukyou tells Tsubaki to just eat the takoyaki or whatever.
Azusa just taunts Tsubaki... "Since you're the strong one, eat everything (the takoyaki) ok?"
Ema just laughs at Tsubaki who claims that he would eat the roast beef she cooked.
Memory 9: Past Ukyou
Whoah . . . this is pretty much the climax/turning point.
Ukyou is drifting away in his thoughts while standing around the intersection.
Man, his thoughts are about matters at home. Wataru's laundry, dinner preparations, etc.
HAHAHA
His thought bubble bursts when Amamiya Reiko appears out of nowhere like a pokemon he wishes to repel. >:D
Reiko basically talks to him like her usual gold-digger tone, asking him to spill beans and tidbits of his life recently. She then asks Ukyou if he's got a girlfriend but Ukyou dismisses her musings and pestering until Amamiya became a bit detailed like "how about a younger lady who picks your necktie?". (She must have witnessed them during Christmas shopping? I dunno.)
Ukyou does his ninja moves and walks away while she tells him how he's cold.
Ukyou: it's been a despicable memory. . .These aren't lingering feelings. It's just that it's a despicable memory that's smeared on me like mud. In a casual momentum (suddenly?), I remember my disgust for my past self. That's right. There's no mistaking it. It pisses me off, myself. My past self who got snubbed by one woman...
Then a flashback occurs. . .
She tells Ukyou casually that since she's tired of it anyway, she'll tell him the truth. She says that all the rumors were true and that she only wanted to get close to Ukyou and use him because he is (I forgot Ukyou's mom's name! HAHAHA. Update: Ah, it's Miwa) the son of Miwa Asahina.
Then, she tells him that the guy she was with was a lawyer and that she learned many things about his work (like the power-digger she is). Then she tells him that since he's going to be busier anyway, it was such a blessing that they will be breaking up (Ukyou and Reiko breaks up HURRAY!!!)
Ukyou goes home pretty disturbed and tired. Ema notices and decides to bring him food (YOU BETTER CHOOSE the one about worrying about him and not the one that simply hopes for him to be better miraculously by tomorrow. >_< )
Ema goes in to see Ukyou like this
Ema innocently (probably in an attempt to lift Ukyou's spirits) tells Ukyou about how Fuuto was demanding her to cook something (hidoi~ Fuuto). Fuuto was then being picky (being the conceited idol who wants low cal food) about his food. But since Fuuto works so hard anyway, Ema lets him get what he wants. Ukyou seems pretty taken aback listening to Ema letting Fuuto get things his way.
Ema also mentions how Tsubaki and Kaname also came in late from work and how she cooked for them too and that is why Ukyou shouldn't worry about her bringing him food late in the night.
Ukyou gets pissed off, thinking Ema is just like Reiko. 0_0 "A woman who wants to look cute before many guys yada yada". Ukyou holds Ema forcefully. :| And he vents his anger to Ema, telling her that she's just like Reiko.
Ema slaps some sense into him (OF COURSE! You go girl!). She EMPHASIZES that she's ASAHINA EMA. She reminds Ukyou that he's a kind, gentle person. Before she knew it, she was crying. Ukyou releases Ema and spills the beans to her.
He tells Ema that he met Reiko today, the woman he used to go out with back in his college days and how he got dumped. "It's a laughable story isn't it?"
Ema tells Ukyou that she will never do that to Ukyou because... yup, she got interrupted by Ukyou who's just happy to hear the words she said though he says that he doesn't deserve the words Ema just said. Ukyou also says that he has calmed down after that. Ema also tells him not to ever compare her to Reiko. He confesses that Ema and Reiko look alike. The first time he saw her, he was taken aback. 0_0 But the more he knew Ema, the more he got convinced that she's a different species. (WHY OF COURSE, MAAAN) It's also funny how Ema just noticed that they do look alike after remembering the photo she found in one of Ukyou's books. No wonder she felt as if there was something weird about the photo.
Ema goes about praising Ukyou, saying that he's going to be a good lawyer at this rate then...
Then Ema struggles to find something to talk about because of the awkward silence after he hugs her.
She suddenly asks Ukyou if there were times he would be a bit rough (because he's usually so much opposite that HAHA... polite and all). Ukyou says YES. HAHAHA And he even adds that the same blood (with Tsubaki and Yusuke) flows through his veins. It runs in the family (I wonder if Subaru talks rough sometimes too. WAIT. Louis would surprise me more. Never mind the blood matters.).
Ukyou: "When I see someone cute, it makes me want to bully them. >:D" (pertaining to EMA) He just says that he's so much comfy around Ema to the point that he's fine just letting loose and being himself.
Ukyou: " I've shown you many sides of my self and yet you told me you'll stay by my side...that's what you told me, right?"
Ema: (I'm happy I get to see Ukyou like this but can I really keep up with this change?) >_<
