Summit of Smiles

Send in ✥ for my character’s reaction to finding out yours is a dominatrix

[ an Arakita Yasutomo fanmix - Anger is like fire, it burns it all clean ] 

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That’s so sweet of you! ♥

Toudou was… surprised, to say the least. “Surprised” was a gross understatement, but it was the only appropriate way to describe his reaction. Manami, out of all people? But the boy was as innocent as a baby lamb - or so he had thought, anyway.

He was even more surprised when the assistant actually gave Manami his number.

He paid and flashed the cashier another smile before grabbing Manami’s hand. “Alright, Romeo, come on,” he said, dragged him to an empty table and sat him down. 

"What do we do with the numbers?" Manami didn't see any indication of the female cashier complying, but he could've missed it easily. "Do they become new acquaintances? That's a forthright way to make friends!"

The youngest climber first dug into the ice cream with his eyes. Then he looked over to Toudou's strawberry cone. He looked over to the condiment counter, then back again. "Uhhmmnnn.."

"Wait - here - !!"

Before Mr. Sleeping Beauty could get a straight answer out, he went off on his own again, never ceasing in his abundant energy, and walked up to the condiment counter. He picked out two tiny plastic spoons, a couple napkins, and moved to sit back down with that perpetual smiley face.

"Here, Toudou-san!" Using the spoon, he scooped a little ball of ice cream from the previously untouched cone. "I actually wanna try a bite of yours, so here I'm being fair." So assuming he'd get a taste, without permission yet, he went ahead and...

He shrugged and followed the younger teammate inside the store, finding relief when the AC hit his skin. It was already annoyingly hot outside for his standards, so they could have stayed there forever for what mattered to him. 

"Hmmm..." He pressed his fingers down against the cool glass, peering into the multitude of options. "Did you know Toudou-san's favourite ice cream is strawberry? I'm getting that." In one corner of the freezer, there were strawberry, banana, and mango all mixed in together without labels. He slid the small door open and grabbed a white package. In the light, it seemed a bit pink through the plastic. The kid nodded to himself. Got the right one.

YOWAPEDA SPOILERS. (Spoilers if you only follow the anime and english scanlations. Otherwise, it’s trivia) Friend on twitter asked me if Makishima’s brother being a fashion designer or not was a headcanon, and then things exploded. www

Source is from a friendly twitter who gathered up all the info that Watanabe-sensei talked at an autograph session about the characters. You can view here. If you also browse through the #pedal night hashtag on twitter, you’ll see lots of other stuff!

Since the info is from twitter, a warning that there may be mistakes, and Watanabe-sensei may choose to change his ideas in the future! So nothing is really set in stone.

Bold parts updated 06/06/14! My comments in ((double parentheses))

Ahh, let me try to answer you by memory since I don’t have the volumes on me now to check…

"Evil" is definitely not the correct word. I think fans were surprised by the 180 degree change in Manami’s usual personality on third day IH (what actually made me like him better) that they call him that out of reflex. But he’s not evil.

Third day IH spoilers behind cut.

That literally left him in cold blood for a few seconds. He was holding his hand and dragging him? The first solution that came to mind was shoving the smaller male into the traffic and watch aside, but luckily it was quickly shrugged off. 

It was a habit he kept with his relatives. Ever since he was a sickly child, they wanted to keep him near. He hadn't really any other older friends to hang out with, so naturally...the atmosphere was too similar for him, and by not realizing early enough--it just happened.

"Gwaaaah?!" He wasn’t expecting the other male to grasp his neck and bop their foreheads together like that. What was with this kid?! He couldn’t help but stare in shock as his hand instinctively made its way to his head. "You’re so gross, it’s flat-out annoying! Gross gross gross!" He grabbed hold of the other male’s arms to make him release his neck. He was rarely touched by people as it was, and yet this kid had the gall to do such a thing to him? He clanked his teeth together in disgust. 

Peering more closely at the distance, he saw what was the base of a slope that steeped very slowly and steadily upwards on the path. It wasn't much of a climb, but when he moved his head he could see with a squint that it ascended further into an area of middle-sized summits. He didn't notice them earlier for they were mostly obscured by several buildings from his stand point.

So this was going to be a bit of a long race, huh?

Before he could feel his face lift, Manami was smiling again.

"I'm up for it if you are! Let me grab a bar from the machine, and I'll hop on and we can do this." He said it so excitedly - so nonchalantly. The kid already forgot his opponent was a high and mighty rival. He treated him like some friend instead.