Episode 15 – What in the world with Sumeragi senpai!

When I joined them after that, they didn’t seem to have changed. On the way home, I asked Himekane about it, and she told me that she had not confessed to him.

As expected, Sumeragi was nearby, so I could not ask her anything more. So later at school, when I tried to ask Himekane for more details, she bowed her head and said,

“I-I’m sorry. …… really. You helped me a lot.”

“No, well, it’s okay, but …… why couldn’t you confess in the end?”

“T-that’s…”

“Ah, no. I guess that question was a little bit wild.”

There may be times when you don’t have the courage before the actual performance. I have no right to blame Himekane for not being able to confess. I have no intention of doing so.

Then I’m done talking about it.

“Iku….Tazuna-kun… how much do you remember from the past…? ”

“What? What’s that?”

“I-I’m just making small talk! Small talk!”

“Really?”

Past huh

“If it happened in elementary school or so, I remember it pretty well.”

Perhaps it was because I met Takumi, the older brother of Sumeragi. In particular, I feel like there are many memories from my elementary school days that left a deep impression on me.

“I-I see.”

“Hnn? Is something wrong?”

“Eh, Ah, no! Nothing! Yes!! It’s nothing!”

“It seems like anything could happen, right? If there’s anything, let me know. we are partner, after all.”

“Partner?”

“Yeah? Because, you know. I’m helping to make sure that you and Sumeragi, who has no chance of getting together, get together.”

“Ah ……”

What’s with that “I see, that’s too” kind of reaction? If it was the usual Himekane, she would probably get angry and say, ‘It’s terrible that there’s no chance!’

“Hey, what’s really wrong with you?”

“…… I-I wonder what will happen to me and Tazuna-kun if we are no longer partners.”

“Well, won’t we just go back to our old relationship?”

“What do you mean, like before?”

“We’re just acquaintances.”

“We’re practically strangers!?”

“But isn’t it? If it weren’t for Sumeragi, we wouldn’t be talking like this, would we?”

“I’m sure that’s true. But I feel …… lonely ……”

“?”

“I want to be friends with you at least.”

Himekane shot a straight line through my face with her strong-willed eyes. In the empty hallway, no sound existed at all, and complete silence reigned.

The slightly open window let in fresh air before the start of the school day, shaking Himekane’s golden threads of hair.

“Oh, uh, …… sorry for suddenly saying something weird! Forget what I just said–“

“I don’t mind.”

“Eh?”

“It’s fine. Friend.”

“Is it okay….?”

“I’m not cold enough to say no here.”

“No, I think you’re cold enough.”

“I think I’m gonna stop being your friend.”

“Sorry, sorry, sorry. lies lies lies”

“All right, well, nice to meet you.”

“Y-yes ……, nice to meet you!”

Saying this, Himekane smiled happily.

How much she wanted to be my friend, right?

After school that day, when the relationship between Himekane and I had changed a little. Sumeragi went home first because he had something to do. Saejima also ran out of the classroom as soon as homeroom was over because the new album of his idol was released.

Well, when I ran down the hallway, Okuda-sensei found me, grabbed me by the neck, and took me to the staff room.

So I was walking home alone.

“What am I going to do when I get home?”

“You there.”

Suddenly, I heard a voice. I reflexively turned around, but no one was there.

“Was it my imagination?”

“You! Over here! Down here!”

“Yeah?”

I looked down, and sure enough, there she was.

“So small.”

“aaa?!!”

There she was, a little girl. The little girl protested my comment, “You’re the one who’s big!”. She was right, I am 180 centimeters tall.

Come to think of it, I was numbing my senses because Sumeragi and Himekane are very tall for girls.

I look again at the girl in front of me.

Her reddish brown hair is tied in two twin-tails. She was slightly shorter than Sumeragi and Himekane, but I guessed she was about average for a girl. Her long, slit eyes are staring at me with a fierce, hard look in them.

The expression on her face seems to tell the story of her fierce personality. Her snow-white skin is slightly tinged red by the setting sun.

I see, this is cute. She is neither as cool as Sumeragi nor as beautiful as Himekane. But I could tell that she was as good a girl as the other two.

But what caught my attention more than her appearance was the clothes she was wearing. She was wearing a uniform that was clearly different from the one I attend at Otogihara High School.

It was a uniform based on the color white, the exact opposite of the black-based uniform of Otogihara High School. In other words, she was a student from another school. Why would a student from such a different school suddenly call me “you”?

I have no idea.

“WUmmll, who are you?”

“You”

“Yeah?”

“You…..what in the world with you and Sumeragi senpai!”

“……yes?”

I looked up at the sky at dusk.

I felt like I am getting tangled up in something strange again.

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