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“Okay, Let’s go.”
Aoto, who had been standing still under the street light as soon as the pleasant night breeze hit him, started to walk.
The sand on the ground was covered with the footprints of Koharu, who had returned home one step ahead of him.
Aoto is told by two of the three most beautiful girls in his class, or rather in his grade, that they still love him.
He doesn’t know what the right thing to do is, and the right answer may not exist.
But that’s okay.
Just be yourself as you are.
Aoto decided to be honest with his feelings.
After a five-minute walk from the park in just the right temperature, Aoto entered his house without incident.
It was the safest place to be during the turbulent day.
“I’m home~”
“Ara, welcome home.”
It was his mother’s voice coming from inside.
Somehow, today’s voice seems to sink in more deeply than usual.
His father had not yet returned from work.
“You look tired.”
“Well, it’s my first day.”
“Did you really do a gag?”
“No way I’m doing it. ……”
Although he thought, “How much do you want me to do it,” he could not say such a thing out of fatigue.
He would rather have done the one-shot gag, and considering that his ex-girlfriends might have avoided him if he had done it, it makes him think that his mother was right.
In that case, however, he would certainly not have made any friends.
“Dinner isn’t ready yet, so you should go take a bath.”
“Ui, thank you very much.”
When he returned, there was food.
Wven if the food is not ready yet, the bath is ready.
Even though he is tired from work, his mother is great at what she does, as if it were a matter of course.
Taking advantage of his mother’s greatness, Aoto decided to take a bath.
When he got into the bathtub, his true feelings came over him at once.
“Nothing has changed, all three of them.”
Nothing had changed in the appearance of Himari, Koharu, or Noa.
As for Himari and Koharu, nothing has changed from what they talked about.
If it is Himari, she gives a cheerful atmosphere.
If it is Koharu, she makes him feel calm.
As for Noa, he has not spoken to her yet, so he doesn’t know yet, but he is sure that she will give him an atmosphere that will be very Noa-like.
“Even so……, those three are certainly exceptionally cute.”
Aoto mutters something like that in the bathtub, completely naked.
The situation and words are just perverted, but it’s offset by the fact that they are ex-girlfriends.
When he was in the bathtub, he was reminded that it is important to take a rest in a place where he can still feel safe.
Aoto, having washed away his fatigue with the hot water, exited the bathtub.
“Ah, welcome home, Dad.”
“Ou, I’m home.”
When he left the bath, his father had returned home.
“Dinner, Aoto.”
“Oh, just in time.”
When he looked at the dining table, there was already a hamburger steak on the table, and steam was rising from the hamburger steak, which looked delicious.
The three family members gathered around the table and said, “Itadakimasu” with their hands together.
“Aoto, how was school?”
After work, the father asks Aoto a question that is very much like a father’s question.
His mother followed suit with a curious question, “How did it go?”
“Well, it was fun.”
“You look a little tired for that, don’t you?….”
“Is that so?”
His father sent Aoto the same words as his mother.
The father also said that he was feeling more tired than he had imagined.
“So, were there any pretty girls there?”
“Huh? Kakeru is my father, isn’t he?”
“Kakeru? I see. I see you had a cute guy.”
Father asks questions just like Kakeru.
His father is a very short-sighted person and he really thinks that Kakeru is a cute boy.
Aoto couldn’t help but laugh when he saw his father like that.
“Well, I look tired, probably because it’s my first day. I’ve made some friends and I think I’ll be fine.”
“Yeah? Even though you do the gag?”
“I said ……”
“Seriously? Aoto did it?”
Aoto interrupts his denial, and his father proceeds with a one-way conversation.
“I didn’t!”
It was getting annoying, so he thought of saying, ‘I did it,’ but Aoto strongly refused, since it would be the most troublesome to be asked to `show me.’
“I see~”
“I see~”
Really, they are family.
The way they think, the timing of what they say, the content.
Perhaps it was the bath, but he felt warm inside.
Time passed, and it was late at night.
Aoto goes to bed early because he has school tomorrow.
However, he does not sleep for less than an hour because his smartphone time starts from here.
He fishes for recommended videos at random, checks out videos of his Oshi, and watches anime that he was still in the middle of.
Although his smartphone is only the size of the palm of his hand, the sense of happiness he gets from it is incomparably greater than anything else.
Aoto was making full use of such a civilized device today as well.
He called back to his middle school friends and was about to fall asleep.
His phone, which was plugged into the charger, was vibrating.
It seems that he was not mistaken, and the same music as the alarm was playing from his phone.
However, he had not set an alarm for this time of night.
In other words–someone is calling.
“……Who is it?”
Aoto could have ignored the call, but he thought it would be more troublesome to receive several calls after that, so he looked at the screen of his phone to confirm the caller’s name.
The person the screen showed was–.
“–Eh?”
Looking at the screen, he sees the words: “Noa”.
Aoto knows only one girl named Noa. —his ex-girlfriend.
Aoto decides to answer the phone, since it seems like it would be troublesome if he refused her.
“Hello?”
“Yes? it really connected.”
He would like to say, “You called me,” but Noa has that kind of personality.
“It’s connected, of course.”
“No, I was just wondering if you’d turned off …….”
“I don’t see any reason to delete your contact, though.”
“What’s with that tone of voice? I can delete your contact information anytime I want.”
Noa’s reply, when Aoto told her that there was no reason to erase it, was laced with a little joy.
“Then why don’t you just erase it?”
“I was just going to erase it today. and then you transferred.”
“Is that relevant ……?”
“It is! Shut up”
Although Noa spoke harsh words to him, Aoto didn’t feel any particular discomfort.
The over-familiar atmosphere and language.
“I was just about to go to bed.”
“No need to complain all the time. This is your last call before I delete your contact information, so talk to me. …We haven’t talked even once today.”
It is this occasional deleteriousness that makes the stinging words less offensive.
It is also the reason why she reigns as one of the three most beautiful women in the world.
“…So, did you talk to the other two?”
“Yeah, well…”
“Haa?! Why didn’t you talk to me?!”
Noa is a little angry at the fact that she is the only one who has not been able to talk to him.
“No, they talked to me. I didn’t talk first.”
“Hmph. Then that’s good”
“What?”
Aoto questioned Noa, who seemed to be displeased with the way she said it.
Then, after a moment of silence, Noa whispered in a low voice.
“…… you should talk to me.”
“Because I’m scared.”
“What are you saying the same thing as the other boys…. you’re used to it, it’s fine.”
“Well, yeah, but you know?”
“I mean, you’re too shy. When you introduce yourself.”
“Well, yeah, that’s true. I admit it.”
“You’re …… so cool, you should just stand tall.”
The reason why he used to it – it’s because it’s his ex-girlfriend.
Noa and hun were both in love when they were in kindergarten.
He doesn’t know if he can call her his ex-girlfriend, but one day, under the slide, they made a promise: “Let’s get married, okay?”
However, as soon as they entered elementary school, they became less involved, and he realized that such a promise had disappeared.
She used to be so sweet and lovely that I can’t even imagine how sweet she is now.
“You used to be so sweet.”
Suddenly, Aoto said to Noa as if teasing her.
“Seriously, you’re being so annoying! I’ll turn it off!”
“I thought you were going to erase my contact originally?”
“I’m not saying I’ll erase your contacts, I’m saying I’ll erase your existence!”
“That scares me, so please don’t do that.”
Noaa exudes an atmosphere of easy contact.
Thanks to her personality and her strong language, she does not need to be strangely cautious.
In this light, Noa had a different vibe than the other two.
“So, what are you calling about?”
“I told you. I told you this was the last call I made before I delete your contact.”
“Well, goodbye.”
“Hey, wait, don’t hang up! I’ll tell you!”
When he tries to cut it off as a joke, Noa desperately tries to stop him.
She’s usually very strong-willed, but when she talks, boys are probably attracted to her surprisingly weakly side.
–But that’s only for Aoto.
Soon after, Noa opened her mouth, blatantly embarrassed.
“…… okay? You don’t have to reply to anything I’m about to say, so just shut up and listen.”
“……’”
“Do you understand?!”
“Yes. I understand.”
Aoto did as he was told
He did as he was told, but for some reason Noa became angry.
-The reason being that she wanted to hear Aoto voice a little before she gathered up her courage.
“I don’t know if you remember, but I remember the “marriage promise” we made in kindergarten,”
“—”
“So, I didn’t expect you to come here as a transfer student. ……I never imagined it, but now I’m a little bit happy. Just a little bit.
The tone of Noa’s voice is clearly happy.
Then, in order to convey the real purpose of the call, she continued her words.
“Well, I’ll tell you the real story! Listen to me for sure! But don’t ever reply.”
“—”
“I still want to marry you. I really, really want to marry you!”
Noa said over the phone the reason for her courage.
The way she hid her embarrassment was just like Koharu.
But still, the fact that she couldn’t directly say “I love you” was somewhat Noa-like.
“Well, that’s all I have to say. Good night!”
“–“
“Good night!?”
Noa, who had done her best to say it out loud, begs for Aoto’s voice as if it were a reward.
Aoto broke his rule of not replying and replied, “Good night.”
And the moment she heard Aoto’s voice, Noa hung up the phone without answering.
Such a way of hanging up is truly Noa-like.
Himari, Koharu, and Noa
With this, love was conveyed from three ex-girlfriends.
Each in their own way and in their own words.
The answer cannot and will not be given immediately.
Anyway, you just have to be honest with your feelings and wait for the answer that comes to mind.
–Just like these three people.
When you want to tell them, how you want to tell them, what you want to tell them.
Himari said, “Be yourself”
.
Koharu told me, “Be as you are.”
Noa said, “Withouth hesitation”.
These words seem to describe the three of them, but they are all important words.
He feels that the three of them have made him realize something important before the relationship.
With a little gratitude and a trace of happiness at receiving confessions from the three beautiful women, he let go of the drowsiness that had been his limit.
He had not expected his first conversation with Noa to be over the phone, but let’s just call it Noa-ness.
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