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The following day, Sunday.
Today, Miyako invited me to go to the flat of the three Shirota sisters …….but
“…. that’s strange. Underwear, why are there so few?”
Mom keeps my underwear in the wardrobe in my room after washing, but today none of them were inside, and I felt strange.
I always put the underwear I take off in the laundry and I put them in the laundry basket in the bathroom, so they should have been washed. ……
Maybe my mum put it in the wrong one. I’ll have a look at the bottom bunk too. ……?
“Hmm?”
For some reason, there were four brand new underwear in the bottom shelf where I usually keep my washed underwear.
“Did mom put these in? Come to think of it, they might have been a bit loose or something, so maybe she gave me new ones.”
I thanked my mother and headed to the bathroom with a new pair of underwear in hand, and rinsed myself off in the first hot shower of the morning.
“…. So how long has it been since I’ve played with all three of those sisters?”
I think I played with those three sisters two days before they changed schools. ……
That day we were playing games of Sugoroku or something, and as usual I lost, and Haruka, who was in first place, gave me an order …….
“Huh, what was the order at that time ……?”
It was nothing important, I think.
Because that day, strangely enough, even though I lost the match, I wasn’t bullied.
However, I can’t clearly remember the contents of that.
Maybe it wasn’t a big deal, so it didn’t stick in my memory, but …… that time …….
I picked up the fragments of memory that had been scattered around in my brain and recalled them little by little.
As I recall, I was invited to the three sisters’ house that day and the four of us played Sugoroku, a game of Life Sugoroku that they had newly bought.
And I came last and Haruka took first place. ……
“Haruka was first, so Haruka can give Yuichi kun orders!”
“Haruka nee san…… hurry up with the orders.”
“Right, hey…… Y-Yuichi, lend me your ears!”
Yes, that’s right! That time Haruka gave me an order in my ear.
So the content was …….
“…..Next time we meet, …… definitely go out with me. Absolutely.”
Did she give me this kind of order in my ear?
“But what did she mean by [go out with me]?”
The person herself said it before, but Haruka didn’t like me at that time, so it wasn’t in a romantic sense.
It’s a vague memory, so there may be a mistake in what Haruka said in the first place, but if she asked me to go out with her, does that mean she had somewhere she wanted to go or something?
If I think so, it’s possible that the ‘absolutely’ (zettai) part of what she said before ‘go out with me’ was the destination.
“Like a ramen shop named ‘zettai’? Or Zekkai? No, that makes too much sense.”
I wonder where Haruka wanted to go.
Also, the way she said “the next time” sounds …… like she’s telling me …… that she’s changing schools.
“Well, maybe Haruka was trying to tell me about changing schools.”
I soak in the bathtub and look up at the steam vaguely.
“It’s about time…I have to go to their apartment.”
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