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“Isn’t it kind of dramatic when we do this?”
Night. We opened the window of our room and looked at each other. The night breeze was pleasant on our cheeks, and it seemed to be becoming a habit of mine.
The night breeze was chilly for her, and she was wearing a scarf over her light nightgown. The pretty pink mug in her hand was steaming, and the night breeze carried the aroma to this side of the room.
She sipped from the mug once, took a sigh of relief, and then asked, “So?” She then went on to the main topic of conversation.
“You wanted to talk to me? Is it so important that you want to talk to me in person instead of on the phone?”
“It’s about love.”
Sumeragi blew on her drink.
“Kehokehok…..L-love!? W-with who?! who?!”
“With you.”
“WWWWWWWWWith me?! perhaps ……!?”
“With Himekano”
“Your—— yes?”
“You know? Himekane Wakana”
“Oh, ……, I know her, yes, but… But what’s this I’m hearing about her and me having a love affair?”
“I’ll explain now.”
I told her briefly about Himekinen.
“I knew she had feelings for me, but… I see. So, how about that question you asked at lunch?”
“I wanted to see if you could go out with Himekane. If you had a mouth that could handle girls, I wouldn’t have stopped you.”
” Isee…… you wouldn’t have stopped me. ……”
“You know, of course right? I have no right or reason to stop you.”
“Uuuu,……, well, I guess you’re right.”
For some reason, she was fidgeting with her mug. what happened?
“Well anyway. I’m sorry to reveal her feelings in this way, but …… you’re the one who matters to me. I promised Himekane that I would cooperate with her so that your secret would not be exposed.”
“I-I see.”
Hmm? This time, she seems to be somewhat happy. The expression changes from time to time.
“Anyway, if Himekane finds out about this, she’s going to resent me a lot, isn’t she?”
“I don’t know. You stopped her again and again, didn’t you? Then I don’t think it’s right to hold a grudge against you.”
“Human emotions are not that simple. What we can forgive and what we can’t emotionally, even if it is theoretically true, is up to each individual.”
“I agree. ……”
“Well, I don’t want to be a good person, and I don’t care if she hates me.”
“As far as I’m concerned, she doesn’t seem to have a grudge against anyone.”
“Hmmm? Let’s have a strategy meeting.”
“Strategy meeting?”
“We can’t just leave Himekane like this, can we? If you don’t do something about it, if anyone finds out about it, they’ll find out about your secret.”
“Is that so? I’ve never been exposed before, and even if I leave it alone, ……”
“You forgot I found out about you, didn’t you?”
“……”
She looked away.
“You’re a bit of a loose cannon, aren’t you? The other day, Saejima almost found out about it too.”
“Yes,……, I’m sorry about that,…….”
“And it’s not just about keeping your secret.”
“What do you mean?”
“Even Himekane, it would be cruel to make her fall in love that will never come true. In that case, I want to make her give up quickly…”
“Is it our role in deceiving her…?”
“But you’re not deceiving her, are you?”
“The same. I wish I could reveal my gender to her, but I can’t.”
“……”
If you reveal your gender, you may have to explain past traumas. The more people who know about the secret, the greater the risk that her secret will be spread.
If this were to happen, she would have to dig up the past of losing her brother over and over again. The unrestrained curiosity directed at her by others would trample underfoot the parts of her that she did not want to be touched.
I won’t let that happen, and I can’t let that happen. That’s the responsibility I feel I have to fulfill now that I have touched her painful past. Above all, she is the sister of my benefactor.
“So, let’s think about what to do about her.”
“Yes.”
Jiriririri
“Hey, Sumeragi. Your cell phone is ringing.”
“Oh, …… yeah. Well, you can leave it alone.
“Yeah? Then I’ll continue.”
Jiriririri
“Hey, Sumeragi. Your cell phone is ringing like crazy.”
“It hasn’t stopped ringing since a while ago….”
“Is it someone you know?”
“Yes, ……, it’s someone I know very well.”
Jiriririri
“Hey, Sumeragi. I don’t think this is the time for a strategy meeting.”
“Aaaa mooou! I’m sorry, I’ll be out in a minute!”
She is pissed off and leaves the room with the phone in her hand, which keeps ringing.
I waited for a few minutes for her return, taking advantage of the night breeze. she returned with a tired look on her face and said, “Sorry to keep you waiting.”
“I don’t know if you don’t mind me asking, but who is it? it was very persistent.”
“There was a junior student at my old school who was very fond of me. It was her.”
“By ‘fond,’ do you mean romantically?”
“I’ll leave it to your imagination, Tazuna kun. ……”
Hmmm? It’s hard being a prince charming, isn’t it?”
“Haa,……, she’s not a bad girl. She’s been following me around ever since before I transferred.”
“What a cute junior.”
“From morning to night, all the time. Whenever I noticed her, she would watch me from behind a telephone pole.”
“A stalker.”
“Yeah.”
It’s really hard to be a popular prince. ……
“I mean, juniors…… you came over here after you graduated from school, right Weren’t you still a freshman at your old school?”
“Yeah, that’s because my old school was an integrated junior and senior high school. When I was a freshman, the junior were in the third grade. So, well,……, a lot of things happened.”
She must have had an event like Himekane, and fell in love with her.
“Just like your junior, Himekane is also the same. Just shake her up like a prince and make her give up.”
“Well, that’s the thing…….”
“Hnn?”
What is it? What’s with this blank stare?
The same kind of indecisive and lazy reaction you’d see in an anime or manga.
“I-I …… can’t do that …… kind of thing, can I?
“Y-you’re serious?”
“I-I’m not good at this kind of love thing!”
“What do you mean by that?”
No way, is this prince a loser?
“Sumeragi. For example, let’s say there are two guys who like you. What would you do if you could only go out with one of them?”
“eeh? I can’t even imagine that.”
“Okay, just answer the question.”
“Well, …… I wouldn’t choose either one of them so that they wouldn’t get hurt….”
“!!”
I’m sure of it! she pretend like she has chosen a choice that won’t hurt anyone, but I feel like she’s actually making a choice that hurt!
“After all, I don’t want to see anyone else get hurt.”
This person is a loser! It’s a type of sloppiness rarely seen in recent years!
“……”
“Oh? What’s the matter, Tazuna kun? Look up at the sky.”
If it were left to this prince, nothing would be resolved about Himakane or that junior
In fact, there’s a good chance that her indecisive choices will end up making no one happy.
“Okay, Sumeragi.”
“Yes? What is it?”
“I’ll come up with a good solution to the Himekane issue. So all you have to do is what I tell you to do.”
“Eh? No, I don’t want to leave it up to you, so I’m going too…”
“No, no, listen. I’ll do my best. You don’t have to do your best.”
“Y-yeah?”
“……”
Maybe I’ve just taken on a big responsibility.
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