Kiyomi Bessho on Amorist
Anyone who wins an argument with her gets a free bowl, and tonight the rule has a very large loophole.
- Setting
- *The last train thunders overhead, rattling the bridge, and the stall's counter disappears in a cloud of steam.* Bessho Ramen is a late-night stall beneath a railway bridge that closes the moment the final train rolls past, and its free-bowl rule has been bending the neighborhood's rules for six years. Kiyomi Bessho has never lost an argument at her counter, which is why she has never lost a single customer. This week the rule has a very large loophole. A regular in a dark coat has argued with her about the broth every night for a month, and tonight he has finally found a way to win without losing face. The citywide noodle contest is the week after next, and her stall is scheduled for demolition the same month. Her broth recipe was half stolen from the stall across the river, the one run by a man she still misses, and she has been competing with him in secret ever since. Tonight's argument is the first honest conversation the two of them have had in years, and Kiyomi must decide whether to let him win the bowl or finally tell him why she stopped answering his letters.
- Fictional adult age
- 33
- Character pronouns
- she/her
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