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“I got lost.”
I was supposed to have been with Himekane earlier, but we got separated. I was just looking at the sexy mannequins.
“But why are mannequins so glamorous?
I was strangely intrigued when I looked at them. The boy of elementary school age who had just come with his parents was looking at the mannequins with very curious eyes. …… men may be fine with anything as long as the silhouette is good.
Is this the nature of men?
Anyway, it is often called the lost forest area. I am walking around here and there to meet up with Himekane and the others, but I have been going around the same place since a while ago.
I’m sure it’s because I’m walking with a very glamorous mannequin as my landmark.
“I’m in trouble. ……”
I remembered that I had exchanged contact information with Sumeragi and Himekane. I remembered and pulled my phone out of my pocket to get in touch with them right away. However, my phone had run out of charge.
“What should I do? ……I’m really in trouble. ……Oh?”
Suddenly, I shifted my gaze to the side and there was Shigenawa.
She didn’t seem to notice me and was riding the down escalator with an old lady.
At first, I thought I could finally join one of them, so I moved to the lower floor using the escalator, too. I finally get off the escalator and see Shigenawa and the old lady talking right next to each other.
“Thank you so much,…… you are so kind for being so young.”
“I suggest you use the elevator next time.”
“Maybe I will. ……”
“Well then, I’m going to leave you to it.”
Then, Shigenawa turned around and her eyes met mine.
“Ah, there you are. You.”
“You seem to treat me very differently from the old lady who just came in.”
“The old people are our predecessors who created the world we live in today. Isn’t it natural to respect them?”
“I am surprised. I wish you would share some of that respect with your seniors.”
“I refuse. Why should I respect you, Tazuna senpai?”
“……”
I thought she opened up to me a little bit, but I guess I’m just Sumeragi’s friend A.
“Well, it’s not that I don’t respect you at all.”
I grinned bitterly at the words that Shigenawa told me to throw out.
It doesn’t really seem like that, but if Shigenawa says so, then it must be true.
“So? What about the other two?”
“We got separated. …… It seems to be very easy to get lost here.”
“It’s a nice place, even flawed as a commercial establishment, isn’t it?”
“Not really. I hear it’s a big maze and a lot of fun for kids and adults alike.”
“No way.”
“I hear it’s popular with couples. The maze is also a great place for couples who have lost each other once and are reunited again to stay together for years to come. That’s ridiculous.”
“Once you get separated and reunite, you’ll be together forever. …… So does that mean me and Shigenawa will be together forever?”
“Ha?”
The real tone came back. I was just joking.
“I said Couple, right?”
“Yes, yes, my bad. …… So you can’t get in touch with the two of them?”
“My phone ran out of battery.”
“Shigenawa too?”
“And Tazuna-senpai too? He’s not use huh.”
“It’s a mutual problem. Why is your phone out of charge?”
“I was trying to take lots of pictures of Sumeragi senpai, so I had my camera on all the time, and it ran out of charge.”
“You’re the same as ever. ……”
“How did you manage to do that, Tazuna-senpai?”
“I forgot to charge it.”
“You’re not helping”
“So, it’s a mutual thing.”
After that, Shigenawa and I wandered around the Lost Forest area to meet up with Himekane and Sumeragi
“Hey, Shigenawa. I’m not going to walk around in silence, so why don’t we make some small talk?”
“Are we going to talk about the weather or something? It’s not very interesting, is it?”
“It’s a beautiful day, isn’t it?”
“It’s really boring. ……”
“So, why are you so kind to the elderly?”
“What’s the point in asking that?”
“Just curiosity. Shigenawa which is always prickly, is kind to the elderly. There’s some reason, right? ”
“Can’t I be nice to her if I don’t have a reason?”
“Yes.”
“You nod your head there right? Usually.”
“I don’t believe in good intentions without ulterior motives. Behind every good intention, there is a selfish ulterior motive.”
“Did something happen to you in your past?”
“No, because I’ve heard that line in a Manga”
“Weak,…..Tazuna senpai is so weak”
I feel like something really terrible was said to me.
Shigenawa lets out a sigh and starts talking, saying, “It’s not a big deal.”
“One day, a crack appeared in our happy family.
The cause was my father’s infidelity. When my mother found out about the affair, he ran away in the night, leaving me and my mother behind. My mother left me at my grandparents’ house to pursue him, and soon after, she disappeared.”
“……”
The air of lighthearted small talk was no longer there.
“People around me pitied me, saying I was a poor child who had been abandoned by my parents. My relatives often told me bad things about my father and mother.”
“How do you …… feel about parents like that?”
“I love them, you know? I still like them as much as ever.”
“Is that …… so?”
“My father is the reason I’m in this situation. He was not a very respectable person,…… but I still liked my father. And I like my mother, too, for going after him.”
“I see.”
“My mother always said. If my father betrayed her, she would definitely stab father to death. My father also told that if that happened, he could stab her to death.”
“Hmmm…….?”
“I was very jealous of their kind of relationship.”
“Hmmm…”
I see. They say that parents and children are alike, but this is terrible.
“I wish I could have that kind of relationship with senpai”
Sumeragi! Run away!
“Well, then I was brought up in my grandparents’ house, where I was left without any inconvenience. My grandparents’ house was from a very wealthy family.”
“Famous family, huh?”
I thought Shigenawa had a good upbringing, but I guess that’s how it was.
“By the way, my grandparents had the same relationship as my father and mother,”
“Your grandparents, too?~”
“That’s why I love my grandmother and grandfather so much. I was suddenly left in their care, and they took good care of me. …… I wanted to repay them when I grew up someday. But …… grandpa passed away when I was little,……”
“…… is that so?”
“Maybe the reason I’m so kind to the elderly people on the street is because I want to repay …… what I couldn’t repay Grandpa.”
“Returning the favor, huh? Maybe me and Shigenawa are more alike than I think.”
“Eh? You also long for a relationship like my father and mother?”
“Not there.”
At the same time, Himekane pointed at us and said, “Ah!” and came running. Behind her was Sumeragi, who was breathing a sigh of relief.
Thus we succeeded in rejoining the others.
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