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I thought it might be a good idea to make a thread for this purpose instead of discussing it on the hangout thread like some time ago
I finally began reading the novels and I thought I'd give you a brief summary of what I read (and discuss in case anyone else has also read them)
Anyway, so far I've only read the first story of the first volume, "Megumi's Trip", the spoiler-less summary would be that it's about the trip Megumi makes when Souma goes back home for the Karaage arc.
Here's a really detailed spoiler-ful (XD) summary
Anyway, I really like the feeling of this first story, the novels' author got a really good grasp of Megumi's character. I can't wait to see what the other stories have in them.
I finally began reading the novels and I thought I'd give you a brief summary of what I read (and discuss in case anyone else has also read them)
Anyway, so far I've only read the first story of the first volume, "Megumi's Trip", the spoiler-less summary would be that it's about the trip Megumi makes when Souma goes back home for the Karaage arc.
Here's a really detailed spoiler-ful (XD) summary
Megumi is supposed to go to Ina city in Nagano to eat the famous food from that place.
She wakes up early that day and makes lunch to share just in case they need it and to eat it as a bit of a breakfast, but she ends up missing the bus they were going on because she misunderstood the meeting place and in her hurry to contact her senpai she breaks her phone.
She ends up calling the dorm from a public phone and learns from Fumio that her senpai are worried and that they want her to meet them somewhere along the way as they're going to go through the place as scheduled first.
Megumi decides to catch with them by train, despite it being more expensive, because the next bus departed in one hour, she has to take an express train and then change to a normal train for her trip.
After going down from the express train, she must hurry to the next train or else she'll have to wait for more than an hour for the next one, just then, she sees a kid around 7-9 years-old who looks like he's lost, she decides to talk with him and after calling the station officer they find out the kid got separated from his classmates and teacher, they call the teacher who'll come for the kid but won't get there for an hour.
Megumi decides to keep the kid company, they start playing shiritori and during it Megumi remembers the lunch she made, she has a three-layered box and opens the first one, it has onigiri like the ones she made when they worked on the dorm's field, Megumi gives some to the kid who gladly eats them and even makes Megumi eat some too.
After that, the teacher comes pick the kid who gives Megumi his bug-catching net as thanks, Megumi doesn't know what to do with it but doesn't have time to think as the station officer tells her the train she has to take has almost arrived.
Megumi arrives to her desired station and asks an officer there how to get to a castle park where the first of the foods they were supposed to eat was sold, she gets on board a bus and arrives to the park, she has to go uphill and when she gets to the uppermost point, there are still some stairs to get to the castle, she then sees an old woman who seems to have trouble going up, and of course, Megumi helps her, she lends her the net the kid gave her as a cane substitute and has her grab hold of Megumi's arm.
After they get to the top of the stairs, the woman thanks Megumi and asks her what her aim was, she then tells her about her senpai and the food they were supposed to eat to what the woman answers saying that the places who sell that are closed because the main attraction of the park are sakura trees and it's currently almost summer.
Megumi dejectedly goes ask an old man nearby if he saw her senpai, he says he saw them about an hour ago and points Megumi to where they went, Megumi goes around that place but has no luck finding them.
On her way back, Megumi sees the old woman again, she's sitting below a tree making one of those "crowns" made of grass or flowers, Megumi sits with her and the woman tells her about how she once came here with the man she loved and that that made her want to come again. The woman then gets hungry and Megumi opens the second layer of the lunch, it contains tamagoyaki, octopus weiners, and some salad, the woman eats it gladly and we learn that Megumi learned to make the tamagoyaki from her mother.
When they part, Megumi lets the woman keep the net while the woman gives her the crown she made, Megumi notices the crown had a four-leaved clover which makes her so happy she keeps the crown on.
Megumi then remembers that she was looking for her senpai and hurries, she then notices that the schedule after that is rather random in that it doesn't mention specific places but only that they'll eat some certain food, Megumi goes around asking where the most famous places that sell those foods are and asking on those places too she finds that her senpai also went through there but they already left.
Megumi decides that she better just go to the station, but after three hours of walking she ends up on a rather rural place and she just doesn't know how she got there.
Just when Megumi was shouting in despair, a cow answers her call and starts rushing towards her, Megumi just stands still and the cow stops in front of her and starts pulling on her skirt. Megumi panics and just then a couple arrives and tells her to stay still, the couple was looking for that cow. In Megumi's struggle to avoid her skirt being ripped, she drops her crown, after that, the cow stops pulling from her skirt and begins eating the crown, apparently, it was made from the cow's favorite kind of grass/flowers.
The couple is really thankful towards Megumi and ask her where she's going, Megumi tells them the situation and ask them where the most famous "Romen" restaurant is, the couple tell her it's about two hours walking from there and Megumi just lets herself fall to the ground, the couple offer her to take her there since they're heading on that direction too and Megumi happily accepts.
During their trip, they begin talking and Megumi learns the couple has eaten almost nothing in the whole day, she then offers them the third layer of the lunch, some "Roast pork, just kidding" Souma taught her to make. The couple eats it gladly and they then arrive at the restaurant.
Megumi finally reunites with the other members and notices she's really hungry as she only ate the onigiri with the kid but just when they wanted to enter the Romen restaurant, the owner comes out and begins closing the place, he tells them he can't make more Romen because he doesn't have mutton meat (romen are noodles a bit thicker than soba which are eaten traditionally with lamb meat), this makes Megumi and the others feel almost tragically dejected, but then, the couple who drove Megumi there offers their own lamb meat just so Megumi and the others can eat the romen, they say it's as thanks for the food Megumi made.
Megumi and her senpai get to eat the romen they had all been craving for.
And that's the end.
She wakes up early that day and makes lunch to share just in case they need it and to eat it as a bit of a breakfast, but she ends up missing the bus they were going on because she misunderstood the meeting place and in her hurry to contact her senpai she breaks her phone.
She ends up calling the dorm from a public phone and learns from Fumio that her senpai are worried and that they want her to meet them somewhere along the way as they're going to go through the place as scheduled first.
Megumi decides to catch with them by train, despite it being more expensive, because the next bus departed in one hour, she has to take an express train and then change to a normal train for her trip.
After going down from the express train, she must hurry to the next train or else she'll have to wait for more than an hour for the next one, just then, she sees a kid around 7-9 years-old who looks like he's lost, she decides to talk with him and after calling the station officer they find out the kid got separated from his classmates and teacher, they call the teacher who'll come for the kid but won't get there for an hour.
Megumi decides to keep the kid company, they start playing shiritori and during it Megumi remembers the lunch she made, she has a three-layered box and opens the first one, it has onigiri like the ones she made when they worked on the dorm's field, Megumi gives some to the kid who gladly eats them and even makes Megumi eat some too.
After that, the teacher comes pick the kid who gives Megumi his bug-catching net as thanks, Megumi doesn't know what to do with it but doesn't have time to think as the station officer tells her the train she has to take has almost arrived.
Megumi arrives to her desired station and asks an officer there how to get to a castle park where the first of the foods they were supposed to eat was sold, she gets on board a bus and arrives to the park, she has to go uphill and when she gets to the uppermost point, there are still some stairs to get to the castle, she then sees an old woman who seems to have trouble going up, and of course, Megumi helps her, she lends her the net the kid gave her as a cane substitute and has her grab hold of Megumi's arm.
After they get to the top of the stairs, the woman thanks Megumi and asks her what her aim was, she then tells her about her senpai and the food they were supposed to eat to what the woman answers saying that the places who sell that are closed because the main attraction of the park are sakura trees and it's currently almost summer.
Megumi dejectedly goes ask an old man nearby if he saw her senpai, he says he saw them about an hour ago and points Megumi to where they went, Megumi goes around that place but has no luck finding them.
On her way back, Megumi sees the old woman again, she's sitting below a tree making one of those "crowns" made of grass or flowers, Megumi sits with her and the woman tells her about how she once came here with the man she loved and that that made her want to come again. The woman then gets hungry and Megumi opens the second layer of the lunch, it contains tamagoyaki, octopus weiners, and some salad, the woman eats it gladly and we learn that Megumi learned to make the tamagoyaki from her mother.
When they part, Megumi lets the woman keep the net while the woman gives her the crown she made, Megumi notices the crown had a four-leaved clover which makes her so happy she keeps the crown on.
Megumi then remembers that she was looking for her senpai and hurries, she then notices that the schedule after that is rather random in that it doesn't mention specific places but only that they'll eat some certain food, Megumi goes around asking where the most famous places that sell those foods are and asking on those places too she finds that her senpai also went through there but they already left.
Megumi decides that she better just go to the station, but after three hours of walking she ends up on a rather rural place and she just doesn't know how she got there.
Just when Megumi was shouting in despair, a cow answers her call and starts rushing towards her, Megumi just stands still and the cow stops in front of her and starts pulling on her skirt. Megumi panics and just then a couple arrives and tells her to stay still, the couple was looking for that cow. In Megumi's struggle to avoid her skirt being ripped, she drops her crown, after that, the cow stops pulling from her skirt and begins eating the crown, apparently, it was made from the cow's favorite kind of grass/flowers.
The couple is really thankful towards Megumi and ask her where she's going, Megumi tells them the situation and ask them where the most famous "Romen" restaurant is, the couple tell her it's about two hours walking from there and Megumi just lets herself fall to the ground, the couple offer her to take her there since they're heading on that direction too and Megumi happily accepts.
During their trip, they begin talking and Megumi learns the couple has eaten almost nothing in the whole day, she then offers them the third layer of the lunch, some "Roast pork, just kidding" Souma taught her to make. The couple eats it gladly and they then arrive at the restaurant.
Megumi finally reunites with the other members and notices she's really hungry as she only ate the onigiri with the kid but just when they wanted to enter the Romen restaurant, the owner comes out and begins closing the place, he tells them he can't make more Romen because he doesn't have mutton meat (romen are noodles a bit thicker than soba which are eaten traditionally with lamb meat), this makes Megumi and the others feel almost tragically dejected, but then, the couple who drove Megumi there offers their own lamb meat just so Megumi and the others can eat the romen, they say it's as thanks for the food Megumi made.
Megumi and her senpai get to eat the romen they had all been craving for.
And that's the end.
