"Wow!" "Chocolate bon-bons from L'atelier de Bonheur." "To be honest, I've never had one of these before." "You can't find Bonheur chocolates in Japan." "My friend who went to Paris for vacation brought these back." "These are for you." "How is it?" "It's very smooth." "It's not too sweet, it has just the right amount of bitterness." "With its rich chocolate aroma and wonderful texture, the overall impression it gives is amazing." "Yeah." " It's a tender taste, right?" "It gently unravels your heart." "To be able to eat Bonheur chocolates in Treluyer's shop is such a luxury." "But this means we've brought in food from outside, right?" "Ah, I'm sorry." "But I, love Bonheur's chocolates the most in the whole world." "Geez, I'm totally jealous of French people who can eat this every day." "Mmmm!" "I want to make chocolates like this one day." "If it's the chocolates that Saeko-san loves the most, then all the more." "The confectionery school's graduation exam is today, right?" "Yeah." "Well, since my family has a cake shop..." "I think I'll be fine." "Rather, I can finally show my performance." "Performance?" "Eh?" "What?" " Ah, nothing." "Ah, hey." "Can we meet on the 14th?" "Valentine's day." "I'm a bit busy on the 14th..." "Ah, I'm sorry." "Well, that's right." "A guy shouldn't be asking you out on that day, right?" "Sorry." "Then, the 13th?" " That's fine." "Ah, thank goodness." "Then, the 13th." " Yeah." "Then, on the 13th." "Yeah." " Yeah." "I'll text you later, okay?" "Bye bye." " Yeah, bye..." "I feel like I've been casually rejected..." "Oh, that's right." "The place was bad." "But rather, Saeko-san, lately carries a faint smell of cigarette smoke..." "Well, it's fine anyway." "I began dating Saeko-san one week before last Christmas." "And, our first kiss was on Christmas Eve." "That was the only time we kissed, after that things have been in a unclear state of deadlock." "We met on the spring of my 15th year," "Ah!" " Ow, that hurt." "I'm sorry, are you okay?" "Ah, cute." " Are you okay?" "The me that just started high school, fell in love with Saeko-san, who was one year my senior, at first sight." "The girl who went out with the good looking guys of every year one after the other." "Hearing such a rumor, I got all excited thinking that next would be me from the first year, but," "Saeko-san," "didn't even consider me as a partner." "I don't know if our first year was a bad crop, but, before I realized, Saeko-san had began going out with good looking guys from other schools." "She was someone I couldn't reach." "That hairstyle is super awesome." " Really?" "That's why, in order to get closer to Saeko-san," "I began trying to butter up her boyfriends." "Can you go buy yakisoba bread and melon bread?" "With pleasure." "I'm Koyurugi Souta from year 1, class 1." "In the end, I would be made into a gofer," "I would join the crafts club as the only guy, even though I have no interest in it, just because Saeko-san is there." "I'm done." "Wow, amazing!" " Thank you." "I'm Koyurugi Souta from year 2 class 2." "Anyway, I kept hanging around Saeko-san." "Then one day..." "Congratulations on your graduation." "It's beautiful." "Thank you, Kojima-kun." "I even managed to get a kiss." "Next is, at last, Valentine's day." "Lately we're not selling well." "Dad, I'm going to be using the kitchen." " That's the working place of a pro!" "If you're doing things for your hobby, go do it in the kitchen at home." "Since we don't have any customers, it should be fine, right?" "Ah, Souta-kun." "Are you making chocolate again?" "Should I help?" " Thanks, Kaoruko-san." "But I'm making this for my girlfriend," "I have to do it on my own." " Well, I guess." "An adult man making chocolate for a woman." "After asking to go to a confectionary school, then making things that won't even be for sale, it's hard to bear as a parent." "Then we should put them up for sale." " Eh?" "Souta-kun's chocolates." "The prototypes from the other day were high quality, with a delicate impression." "I think it's on a higher level than the chocolatiers around here." "Really?" "Thanks." "That's thanks to my DNA." "DNA?" "DNA, he says." "Alright." "But, well, there really aren't many guys who make chocolates for their girlfriends." "She must be really pretty?" "Who does she look like?" "She doesn't really look like anyone." "Hmm..." "What kind of person is she?" " Hmmm." "Like a fairy?" " Fairy?" "Ah, no, well." "Calling her a fairy is a bit of an exaggeration, but, like she's out of reach?" "After meeting her, I thought nothing else would do for me." "Many things happened before reaching this point." "Hmm.." "But, you know." "Confessing one week before Christmas, and instantly "Ok"." "That girl broke up with her boyfriend right before that, right?" "Well, yes." "Since she became alone just before the event, it feels like she just went along with it for the time being." "Are you fine with that?" "If you put it like that, I have my selfish calculations too." "I told her then because I knew about her situation." "I see." "I know about it all." "But it's okay." "Anyway, because Saeko-san is my girlfriend now." "You've become really good at tempering." "You don't even need a thermometer." " I can just tell by how the texture feels." "Its heaviness changes according to its temperature, right?" "Alright, right now its 28 degrees." "Ever since I was a kid, I vaguely thought I would probably continue with the family cake shop, it wasn't something I took seriously." "I found how I wanted to shape my life after meeting Saeko-san." "Saeko-san loves chocolate more than anything else." "That's why I will make chocolate that can make Saeko-san happy." "Saeko-san." "I know everything that Saeko-san likes." "High cocoa chocolate." "Strawberries." "Caramel ganache." "Orange peel." "Rum soaked raisins." "Light green pistachios." "Bright red kirsch soaked cherries." "Ah." "Does this silence mean that she's touched?" "No, it was a miss?" "Souta-kun." " Yes." "I'm sorry." "I can't accept this." " Eh?" "Because this is totally serious chocolate." "Eh?" "Ah." "Did you think I'm a really serious guy?" "A guy making chocolate is really weird, right?" "But, you know, my family is a cake shop, so making this sort of thing is no big deal." "So, see, there's no deep meaning to this or anything." "There's someone I'm going out with." "Huh?" " After Christmas," "I got back together with my ex-boyfriend." "Since he likes to travel around, I'd been neglected," "I thought it would be fine when Souta-kun confessed." "Souta-kun is a good person, and kind too, and we get along well, and it's fun to spend time together." "That's why..." "I was being two-timed, huh." "Two-timed?" " Eh?" "Why does that sound like a question?" "Well, it's a regular two-timing, right?" "You were continuing with your boyfriend, and also going out with me." "Going out..." "Eh?" "!" "Umm, Saeko-san." "Saeko-san and I were going out, right?" "I asked you to go out with me and you said okay." "Eh?" "Ah..." "Yeah." " These two months." "It's just been two months, but." "Well, look, we even kissed, right?" "Ah, but, we didn't have sex." "Oh, I see." "If you don't have sex, it's not called going out." "So it's not two-timing either." "...What?" "!" "Is that how it is?" "Is that how society works?" "Saeko-san is correct, and I'm wrong?" "I don't know what's what anymore." "Wait." "Let me collect my thoughts." "Ah, I don't really want to do it, but." "The one who brought back the Bonheur chocolates, was this boyfriend." "The guy you're spending tomorrow's Valentine's Day with is him." "That guy smokes, right?" "What, so you had noticed." "If that was the case, you should have said something earlier." "This girl." "This girl is..." "It's okay!" "It's fine to go on like this!" "What?" "Two-timing is fine." "If that boyfriend takes off for some place again," "I'll help Saeko-san pass the time." "It's fine like that." "What's wrong with it?" " What?" "I'm totally fine with it." "Or rather, I don't mind it much." "If I can be with Saeko-san, and one day, be loved properly, then I'm fine with that." "It's fine even if that's far out in the future." "So, okay?" "I'm sorry." "Saeko-san, wait." "If you feel even a little sorry for me, at least accept this." "But..." " It's fine if you throw it out somewhere nearby." "It's pretty harsh to personally throw out something you made for someone." "So, if Saeko-san could do it," "I would be a little saved." "Akamiso is excited to present..." "Shitsuren Chocolatier 1" "Until when are you going to be like this?" "We're not rich enough to take care of a shut-in!" "Since you graduated already, start helping out with the store already!" "Yeah." "Souta-kun." "I love Bonheur's chocolates the most in the whole world." "Oh, onii-chan woke up." "(T/N: onii-chan means older brother)" "What, at this hour?" " I'm going to Paris for a bit." "See you~!" "Paris?" "He said Paris, right?" "He said Paris." " He did." "Bonjour." "I come from Japan." "I would like to work in L'atelier de Bonheur." "As expected, was it too suspicious?" "Eh?" " Hi." "Eh?" " You came from Japan?" "I'm begging you!" "I want to work here!" "Huh?" "What are you saying?" "That's impossible." "I admit that it's unreasonable, but - after coming all the way here, I can't just go back." "Ah, if you want, I can talk directly to the mana" "Wait!" "This is weekly shounen monday, special extra-large spring edition!" "Eh?" " Ah!" "Talk to the manager." " Eh?" "Say I'm your friend or something, anyway, do some negotiation." "If you do, I'll give you this." "Also." " What else?" "Is that guy new?" "Ah, he's a recently joined apprentice." "I don't think the tempering is going well." "No one seems to be checking it," "I think it should be redone." " You can tell by looking from here?" "I can tell." "Ah, he's here." "Eh?" "Wrapped up in the fragrance of chocolate, without good or bad feelings, she pops in my head." "A chocolate that all the passion is poured into, like an extension of my own being," "I want her to hold it in her mouth." "I want it to pour into her body." "These kinds of dirty aspirations," "brought me all the way here." "Saeko-san." "I will definitely become a chocolatier." "No matter how many years it takes." "I will become a chocolatier that everybody acknowledges." "I will become famous enough to stay in your mind, to make you think "I shouldn't have abandoned him back then"." "I will make you regret it." "And then, after stealthily eating my chocolate, you will say "C'est bon"." "That's my dream." "Even if that voice," "never reaches my ears." "A Japanese that is active overseas." "Today, we're in the popular chocolate shop in Paris, L'atelier de Bonheur." "Ah, it's Bonheur." "Geez, I want to go to Paris." "I want to eat Bonheur chocolates." "No matter where you get them, chocolates won't be much different, right?" "What are you saying, onee-chan?" "It's totally different." "(T/N: onee-chan means older sister)" "Bonheur is special." "And in this place that's called the world's best chocolate shop, there is a Japanese employee." "Hee..." " It's been six years since he came alone to Paris." "Built up his expertise, the young chocolatier Koyurugi Souta." "Making chocolates in Bonheur was my dream." " No way." "But next week, I will be returning to Japan, and opening my own shop." "Chocolates that won't lose to the taste of Bonheur," "I want to let the Japanese people enjoy them." "Then, I'll be taking it." " Yes." "Wow, it's as pretty as a picture." "As expected of the prince of chocolate." "Not at all." "Ever since I came back to Japan, there's been nothing but good things." "Dad accepted the renovation of the shop without any complaints, thanks to Bonheur's reputation, for good or bad, right after I landed in japan," "I even got the label of prince of chocolate." "Take care." "Ah..." "Excuse me." "Souta-kun." "See." "Lately nothing but good things happen to me." "This is incredible." "You have your own shop, huh?" "You turned out amazing, and now you're the prince of chocolate, right?" "No, that's just an exaggeration." "That's not true." "Souta-kun, you're really shining." "This is just the beginning." "I will make this shop into the most delicious chocolatier." "I'll make lots of stuff that Saeko-san would like." "So, Saeko-san." "Will you come to buy them?" "Of course." "Then, when the shop opens, I'll be the first to come." "Thanks." "Then, see you." "Yeah." "Ah, umm." "The handmade chocolates I received from Souta-kun six years ago, were really delicious." "They were so delicious, every time I ate one I got sad." "Because," "Souta-kun's chocolates weren't sold anywhere." "For all of these six years," "Souta-kun was stuck in my heart." "So I'm really really happy that we could talk like this today." "Yes." "I'm really happy too." "Ah." "Can you meet me again?" "I want to properly meet you and properly talk about something." "Of couse." "Ah, I'm glad." "Then, see you." "You did it." "You finally did it, Souta." "Is that so?" " Yes." "Is that so?" " Yes." "Is that so?" " Yes." "Is that so?" " Yes." "When I came back to Japan, this guy followed along." "Nice to meet you." "I'm Olivier Tréluyer." "O..." "Olivier?" "Even though he looks like this, he's a Japanese-French." "Eh?" "With that face?" "His mom is Japanese." " Your dad is Japanese too, right?" "His dad is that famouse Pierre Tréluyer." "Eh?" "!" "Tréluyer?" "You mean, that Tréluyer?" "He's the son of world famouse Pâtisserie Tréluyer." "Eh?" "And he's a freeloader in our house right now." "Souta-kun." "About the type of this bonbon chocolate." "Since Kaoruko-san is reliable about product ideas and sales strategy, we've been leaving various things up to her." "We've been having meetings every day in our living room for the opening." "Oh, that's right." "The people in charge want to meet face to face." "On saturday." "Saturday?" " Yeah." "That's the day you're meeting Saeko-san, right?" "Ah, yeah." " Is that so." "Then, on friday..." "Saturday, huh?" "Saeko-san, she'll probably ask you to go out with her, right?" "No way." "That wouldn't happen, right?" " Actually, that's what you're expecting." " No, I'm not." "And we have to quickly decide on the shop's name " " Right?" "How was it?" "How was the mood today?" " I don't know how." "We have to order the store sign too." " Meeting after such a long time." "Well, you two were alone, right?" "So, like "I've always ... to Souta-kun"?" "Eh?" "!" "Did she say that?" "No, she didn't." "Well, she did say something similar, though." "Then is Saeko-san going to become my sister?" "You dummy." "That's not going to happen." "Anyway, the store name " " Well, today, normally, you kissed, right?" " That's right." "Wasn't she waiting for it?" " That may have been the case." "But the prince of chocolate won't be greedy." "You call yourself that?" "Hey, the store's name " "It's decided." "Let's name the store "Chocolate de Saeko"." "Behave already!" "Somehow, it's been going too well." "Maybe God is opening the door to the path I should be taking." "As if." "Am I getting ahead of myself?" "So, what is it you wanted to talk about?" "Umm, you see." "Saying something like this..." "I also think it's shameless of me to do so." "Mm." " But, I at least wanted to try, please listen to my honest request." "If it's Saeko-san's request, I'll listen to anything." "Umm, I." "I'm getting married next month." "So, about the wedding cake and the desserts for the reception," "I was wondering if I could ask Souta-san to make them." "Ah, I thought it would be something like that." "You're meeting a woman for the first time in six years, right?" "You have to check her left hand ring finger." " Right?" "Who is she marrying?" "12 years older than her, divorcee." "Apparently he's the editor of a magazine." "She went to an adult, huh." " Will our shop's name be okay?" "It will become heartbroken chocolatier." "Wow, that totally works." " The logo can be something like this." "Cute!" "This is good, right?" "What idiotic things are you saying?" "What kind of ominous name is this?" "What is this?" " The design for the wedding cake." "Eh?" "Well, the party seems to be for about 50 people." "What are you talking about?" "She wants various types of chocolates for dessert, that's the order of the bride." "And then there's the wedding cake, and baked sweets as souvenirs." "Even though we've got our hands full with the opening," "I'm sorry that we'll get even busier." "Let's work hard with our first job." "I'm counting on you." " Eh?" "You really " "You really accepted it?" "I did." " Are you an idiot?" "Why?" "I do think it's a big job, though." "You're busy enough with your own shop's opening that you don't even have time to sleep." "This is an important time when you have to make the shop's chocolates with all your power." "In such a time..." "You're going to act like an idiot and say "Okay got it", to the shameless woman that made a request from the man she rejected in the past as if nothing happened, and make a cake?" "I will make it." "It's her wedding cake." "It's a very important cake that Saeko-san will eat only once in her life." "There's no way I would let another man make that." "And besides, Saeko-san's husband is apparently the vice editor-in-chief to a magazine called "Gourmet Seeker"." "If he likes the wedding cake, he will do a two-page new store feature on us." "Don't you think this is a good deal for the shop?" "Right?" "Souta." " Hm?" "What do you want to become with Saeko-san?" "Nothing specifically." " Think about it properly." "Saeko-san is going to become another man's wife, she's going to sleep with him every night." " Ever since we met," "Saeko-san's already been sleeping with other men." "That person has always belonged to someone else." "So nothing's changing from now on." "What is Saeko-san to Souta?" "A goddess?" "Ah, a fairy, right?" " What are you talking about?" "I know, how about you hold the wedding cake tasting in the house?" "Call Saeko-san here, and do her." "I can't make moves on a woman about to get married, you know." "Isn't Souta idolizing Saeko a bit too much?" "Is it fine to just keep seeing her as a fairy from now on too?" "Or, making your resolve, you want to treat her like a real woman?" "Well, that would be adultery, though." "I never thought I would get to hear such a thing from you, who's not interested in anything that's not two-dimensional like games or manga." "Two dimensional is art." "Papa said so before." "Art is a precious flower that paints life." "But love is not art." "It's the essence of life." "La vie?" "Life?" "It's something that harshly gets dirtied with mud." "Hi." "I've taken you up on your offer, and ended up coming." "Welcome." "Short." "What is she thinking?" "I told her it would be just the two of us today." "No, maybe she's not thinking anything." "So cute~!" "Can I take pictures?" "Sure." "Oh, it's good." "This person has her guard too low." "Or rather, the very concept of having a guard up, she doesn't have it." "You should do Saeko-san." "It's something that gets dirtied by mud." "Souta-kun." "Ah, you can't, stop." "I'm getting married to another man." "If I can't, then you can't wear something as short as this when coming here." "It's like you're asking to be captured." "Am I going to be captured?" " I'll do it." "Ooh, I managed to get a cute shot." "Hey, Souta-kun." "Eh?" " This is really cute." "Aren't you going to offer this for sale?" " Ah, yeah." "If it's popular at the party, I'll maybe sell it in the store." "You should, I'm going to totally advertise it to everyone." "Thanks." "Ah, cute." "This is a pansy..." "Hey." " Hm?" "Why did you think you want to marry the groom?" "Eh?" "I wonder why..." "But it suddenly came to me." "Marry this person and become a wife, like a map." "It wasn't some dream or fantasy." "Dream or fantasy?" "Ah, I'm going to end up like this, is what I thought." "Probably God softly opened a door, and led me through it like saying "This way"." "Eh, you didn't do it?" "I'm so disappointed." "After I gave you a chance and everything." "It's already 1am, you guys can leave." "I can do the rest by myself." "No, but..." "Hey, can't we turn down the baked souvenirs, after all?" "It's impossible considering both time and manpower." "Souta-kun." "How many days has it been since you slept?" "Look here." "Between the shop your whole life depends on, and the woman who rejected you in the past, who's getting married soon, which one is important?" " I want to do this much no matter what." "Since he couldn't do that one." "Eh?" " Even after I went through the trouble of getting the two of them alone, this guy couldn't do it." "Right?" "Saeko-san and I probably haven't had our time yet." "So there's no point in destroying it." "Then, when is that time or whatnot is going to come?" "I'm the one waiting, I'm totally fine with it." "What are you saying?" "She's going to become someone else's wife." "You won't be able to touch her!" "Making a cake for a woman like that, is just stupidity!" "I understand that too." " Then why?" "I want to see her smiling face." "I can't do anything, but, if it will make Saeko-san smile, then I can do it." "When I was a child, the feelings I had when I was whipping cream for the first time," "I still remember them." "Wondering if this liquid can become soft and fluffy like that," "I hopelessly kept turning the whisk." "Thinking that nothing would change like this, for all eternity." "But it suddenly appears." "The time when you can feel the response, suddenly appears." "Of course I know that and this are different." "And that it's nothing but my dream and fantasy." "But I don't mind." "Then, with this, let's dirty it with mud." "Thank you, thank you." " Congratulations." "Thank you, really." " You're beautiful." "Really?" "Really?" "Thank you!" "Sorry to interrupt you." "We've brought your order." "Wow, wow, it's beautiful!" "It's amazing, I'm so moved." "Ah, where is Souta-kun?" "Souta-kun." "He collapsed this morning." " Eh?" "Don't worry, because he collapsed after finishing the cake." "Did something happen?" "Where is Souta-kun now?" "It's your fault." " Eh?" "No matter how passionate he is, because he's human, if he goes over his limits, he will collapse." "Do you really think that that person did your wedding party preparations without thinking anything of it?" "Congratulations on your big day." "May you be blessed." "Eh?" "Aah- aah." "I first met the bride Saeko-san in the first year of high school." "I still can't forget the beating of my heart at that time, defying logic like my whole being felt an omen." "Saeko-san has been cute, fair-skinned, and lovely ever since then." "Always smiling, kind, and shining." "She rode the good looking guys of the school year one after the other, she was called the bitch in heat by those around her." "I also confessed to her once, and we've even kissed, but" "Saeko-san had another man at that time too." "That's right." "Basically, I was two-timed." "After that, until today," "I don't know how many guys she rode to come here, but I really wonder about this woman." "I think there's something wrong with her!" "But... the cake that everyone is eating right now, this cake called forêt noire, (T/N: it's black forest cake) is the ashes of my love for Saeko-san." "What this pure white whipped cream is hiding is, dark bittersweet biscuit chocolate." "Nestled inside that is ruby colored griotte cherries, the crystallization of my tender feelings." "That's right." "In other words, this cake is, a bundle of my passion for Saeko-san." "I, I won't give up on Saeko-san!" "In any case, there is no way this woman's marriage will go smoothly." "Adultery permitted!" "I definitely will not give up!" "A dream." "Yes." " Souta-kun, are you okay?" "Saeko-san." "Eh?" "Is it okay?" "You should be at the party, right?" "Souta-kun, I heard you collapsed." "I was really worried." "Eh?" " I'm sorry." "It's because I made you do it." "I'm really sorry." "Ah, I'm fine." "It's an exaggeration to say I collapsed." "When I finished the cake, I was so relieved I just gave in to sleepiness." "Souta-kun." " Hm?" "Thank you." "Yeah." "The cake was really wonderful." "Just like I thought." "Souta-kun really understands what I like, after all." "It was almost a waste to cut it, we were troubled." "It was really delicious." "I'm glad." "Saeko." "What are you doing, jeez." "If the bride disappears from her seat, Yoshioka-san will be troubled." "Sorry, I have to go." "Yeah." "Thanks for the call." " Yeah." "Saeko-san." " What is it?" "Congratulations on your marriage." "Thanks." " See you." "Um, you know." " Hm?" "I'm looking forward to Souta-kun's store opening." "Ah, yeah." "I realized something amazing." " What is it?" "If you open a shop, I will be able to eat Souta-kun's chocolates every day, right?" "I don't have to be sad anymore that it's not sold anywhere, right?" "I'm happy just thinking about it." "I'll go every day, I'll stop by." "See you." " Yeah, see you." "Saeko-san." "I, want to be hurt more and more by you." "Tell me even worse things, knock me down until I can't get back up." "If you do that, then surely," "I will grow to hate you, and be able to put an end to this love." "The pain still isn't enough." "If it goes on like this," "I'll fall for your innocence, which I don't even know is real or fake, more and more, I'll be addicted to you." "Say, Kaoruko-san." " Hm?" "Does Kaoruko-san like Souta?" "The one who ate the first chocolates Souta-kun made was, me." "At that time, I thought that this kid was the real thing." "My heart beat so strongly, defying logic like my whole being felt an omen." "I don't have any dreams about myself, but, when I look at Souta-kun, I feel like seeing various dreams." "I sincerely think that I want to make him succeed." "That's what I think." "That's all." "Souta, I made the ganache." "What else?" "Then help with the macarons." "Got it." " Ah, can you give me the raspberries?" "Sure~." "What, are you concerned about it?" "Well, since he got his training at Bonheur, his skills should be at that level, right?" "Yeah." "It's like you got a rival?" "No way." "But I guess it got a bit interesting." "Hmm." "It's here at last." " Yeah." "Please do the opening, chef." "My shop opens today." "Saeko-san." "For the time being, I've become a chocolatier because of you." "I wonder, can my chocolates make you happy?" "Next episode, Saeko continues to tantalize Souta." "Olivier tries to hook up the realistic couple of the show." "Is Souta's sister taking some lessons from the evil onee-chan Saeko?" "I think Saeko's evilness alone is enough for this whole series, imouto." "Kaoruko asks Saeko if she's stupid." "Yes, Kaoruko." "Saeko is stupid." "In fact I was genuinely thinking she needs to be slapped throughout the episode." "Go Kaoruko!" "Souta gets someone else to be naughty with." "And then he tries hard to show us an even wilder side of his." "Brought to you by akamiso." "Matsujun wants you to tune in next week too."