Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi Volume 09 Special Edition Booklet

:This page focuses on the special edition exclusive content of Volume 9. For information on the regular edition content, please see Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi Volume 09.
Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi ~Onodera Ritsu no Baai 9~ Special Edition with Booklet (世界一初恋 〜小野寺律の場合9〜小冊子付き特装版), or The World's Greatest First Love: The Case of Ritsu Onodera 9 Special Edition with Booklet, is a limited release of the ninth volume of the Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi manga series.
The special edition of Volume 9 came with a booklet that contained a prologue, Valentine’s Day stories for each of the main couples, and a White Day story for the pairing of Masamune Takano and Ritsu Onodera.
All of these stories, with the sole exclusion of the White Day story, were previously animated and shown at the end of The Case of Takafumi Yokozawa movie in 2014 under the title of Valentine’s Edition (バレンタイン編, Valentine-Hen). They were first released via animation, and later adapted into this booklet, the reverse of the usual order.
This booklet and its stories have not been made available in any language's release outside of Japan in manga form.
==Contents== 
*Prologue
*The Case of Takafumi Yokozawa
*The Case of Yoshiyuki Hatori
*The Case of Shouta Kisa
*The Case of Ritsu Onodera
*White Day Edition
==Plot==
=== Prologue ===
In the Prologue section of the Valentine’s Edition story, Ritsu arrives at work and is shocked at the amount of chocolates in the Emerald department. Ryuichiro Isaka comes in and explains to him how each member of the Emerald department, Ritsu included, holds the affections of many other people at Marukawa Publishing, hence the sheer quantity of chocolates. Later on, Takano comments on how he was expecting some chocolates from Ritsu, which despite Ritsu’s very vocal protests, leaves him considering it for the remainder of the day.
=== The Case of Takafumi Yokozawa ===
"The Case of Takafumi Yokozawa" starts with Takafumi Yokozawa receiving an e-mail on his phone from Hiyori Kirishima requesting he come to the Kirishima apartment as soon as possible. He complies, and Hiyori receives his help in making chocolates for Zen Kirishima. After Hiyori has gone to bed, Zen arrives and is very happy for the chocolates from his daughter, but then immediately asks if Yokozawa has made him any. Yokozawa avoids the question at first, jealous of all the chocolate that Zen had received at work earlier, but eventually relents and admits that he made him some as well and hands them over. Zen doesn’t leave it at that though, and is also requesting a love confession out of him to go with the chocolates, to which Yokozawa most definitely does not give him.
=== The Case of Yoshiyuki Hatori ===
“The Case of Yoshiyuki Hatori” opens with Yoshiyuki Hatori thinking about how every year he’s usually the one making chocolates for Chiaki Yoshino on Valentine’s Day. Unfortunately, this year he was so swamped with work that he couldn’t manage to find the time to make any chocolates. When he arrives at Chiaki’s apartment, chocolates fans sent for Chiaki to the publishing company in tow, he finds Chiaki washing off what had been used to make chocolates. After denying it for a bit, Chiaki admits that he was cleaning up after having made chocolates for Hatori. Hatori is very grateful, until he hears that Yuu Yanase had also received some, even if Chiaki insisted they were meant to be in a friendly context. It ends with Hatori dragging him to the bedroom, much like the end of “The Case of Chiaki Yoshino” in the Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi Volume 07 Special Edition Booklet.
=== The Case of Shouta Kisa ===
“The Case of Shouta Kisa” opens with Marimo Books being absolutely filled with customers lined up to meet Kou Yukina, all holding chocolates intended for him. Shouta Kisa waits for Yukina outside, and ends up witnessing a group of girls who were waiting for him to come out from the store attempt to give him chocolates, but Yukina turns them all down. While walking home, Yukina gives KIsa some chocolates that he made, making Kisa feel bad that he didn’t get Yukina anything. Yukina suggests Kisa give him a kiss as a return gift, and after that is rejected, asks for a love confession. After a bit more back and forth, Kisa ends up giving him a kiss, to which Yukina is overjoyed.
=== The Case of Ritsu Onodera ===
Picking up after the prologue, in “The Case of Ritsu Onodera,” Ritsu is out shopping after work, and still finds himself thinking about what Takano said to him earlier that day. He texts Takano, telling him that he made too much curry, and Takano, saying that tupperware is annoying to clean and return, insists on eating at Ritsu’s apartment. While going to get another serving, Takano discovers a chopped up bar of chocolate, and figures out that Ritsu had given him Valentine’s chocolate, just in his own indirect way. Ritsu denies that being the intention, instead insisting it was a secret ingredient, but Takano calls him out on it. As later mentioned in “The Case of Ritsu Onodera No.28.5,” Takano ends up having three servings.
=== White Day Edition ===
In "White Day Edition" (ホワイトデー編, White Day-Hen) Takano asks Ritsu what he wants in return since he gave him the chocolate curry on Valentine’s Day. Ritsu asks Takano to do whatever he asks of him for the day, and Takano plays along with it. Ritsu is shocked but was definitely not opposed to it, and relied on Takano a lot throughout the day, right up until midnight, after which Takano immediately switches back to his normal attitude.
==Image gallery==
===Japanese edition===
Volume09cover special edition.jpg|Japanese special edition cover
Vol9BookletFront.jpg|Booklet front cover page
Vol9BookletBack.jpg|Booklet back cover page
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