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Amamiya’s sister pointed out that he grins at home from morning till night.
She told him to fix his bitter smile, but not to make it more uncomfortable, she said.
Amamiya, who had no intention of doing so, was shocked when it was pointed out to him, but he tried to weigh himself up as much as possible.
However, her lips would part when the incident at the offline meeting the other day came to mind.
(It wasn’t a dream, it really was Karina-san.)
Like a maiden in love, his heart was pounding and he couldn’t sleep.
He had despaired that he would never recover from Tojo’s rejection, but it was undeniably thanks to Karina that he was able to feel such peacefulness.
“Thank you for the food.”
“Onii chan you ate so fast!!”
“Well, it’s because I want to get to school as soon as possible. I’ll leave the house as soon as I finish washing the dishes, so please lock the door, Anna.”
While he was saying that, Amamiya finished washing his own dishes.
Anna, who had not yet finished half of her salmon, smiled with her cheekbones as if she had guessed what was going on.
“I see, I see. That dark-natured brother of mine has finally had his spring…”
Amamiya, who was about to leave the living room, stopped and looked back at Anna, who was grinning at the dining table.
What a perceptive little sister.
She was doing cute little sister moves in front of Tojo, but he didn’t realise she had grown up to be an esper who can read people’s minds.
Thinking with a buoyant mind whether she would be a magician or something in the future, Amamiya told her just one thing.
“Don’t put your elbows on the table, it’s bad manners.”
“Ye-s, I understand.”
Amamiya smiled at Anna who answered appropriately and headed towards the entrance.
Amamiya, who had been buoyant, put on the new sneakers he had bought on Sunday and checked his hair set in the mirror.
The finish is less than third-rate because he just imitated what he saw in videos and magazines, but he’ll get used to it in time.
Thinking things through as positively as possible, he opens the front door.
“……?”
The moment he stepped outside, he saw the back of a girl he recognised.
As soon as she noticed him, she probably ran away in a hurry. It was a back Amamiya knew well.
Tojo Chika.
She had said she wouldn’t be coming for the time being, but why was she in front of the house?
Amamiya thought it might be, and checked inside the mailbox.
There was a utility bill, a mobile phone bill and a pink letter.
Tojo must have mailed it.
[Have you reflected on this by now?]
Only one word was written.
It is easy to imagine Tojo standing over me, looking down on him like a big shot.
He was a man who deserved to be rejected, and he was certainly at fault for not trying hard enough.
However, not satisfied with being blamed so unilaterally, Amamiya tears up the letter and throws it in the rubbish bin at home.
Don’t just litter, everyone.
On the way to school, Amamiya was in his customary state of preoccupation.
Now that school had started, he was finally starting to realise.
(How am I supposed to talk to Karina at school?)
Karina at school is famous for her quiet and dry personality, but several times He has overheard her talking about normal, jovial topics from the seat in front.
It was all about new products from a certain brand, celebrity scandals, or Amamiya’s unfamiliarity with the idol group 00-kun.
He watches the TV channels he has a subscription to, and cannot watch terrestrial TV.
Even if he could have a conversation with Karina, it would be outrageous to talk about games.
This is not to say that gaming is only a hobby for modest Japanese boys like Amamiya, but in the world we live in, fantasy RPG netgames are firmly established as the preserve of otaku.
There are certain numbers of cheerful people who like such genres, but no one bothers to talk about them.
Even if it’s a big-selling title, not all of their friends play it.
If it’s a topic that only certain people know about, there will be people who can’t keep up.
If that’s the case, it’s better to talk about the latest trends, to avoid the risk of a whitewash, and it’s much more fun to have a common topic of conversation.
(If she thinks I’m that kind of person, it would bias my image, and I don’t want to cause as much trouble as possible.)
Besides, exchanging contact details is not the same as saying “We’re best friends!”
It’s possible for people to become friends with a group they formed on a school trip, only to find themselves back to being strangers the next day.
Being careless can be a real downfall, so you have to act with caution here.
In order not to be like that day when he got carried away and confessed his feelings to Tojo.
Last week, Amamiya was dumped by his childhood friend, his friend was Karina, and he had experienced developments that would have been impossible if he had lived a normal life, but inside the classroom, it was the same as ever.
Before homeroom started, the group gathered together to chat and study, and the usual routine prevailed.
(…… Chika)
He locks eyes for a moment with Tojo, who is placing the printouts she is supposed to hand out on the teaching table, but they both awkwardly look away from each other.
(Let’s pretend that I haven’t noticed the letter in the mailbox.)
Even if he had noticed, Amamiya didn’t know what to say to her.
Even if he apologised to her, he didn’t think they would ever be able to return to their previous relationship, and if that was the case, it might be easier to just spend time as strangers.
Amamiya went to his seat by his window with a melancholy mood.
Kumatani was not in front of him, and behind him was Karina, who was listening to a song on her headphones.
She seemed not to notice as she turned her face towards the window.
“Oh, good morning”
“……”
Amamiya tried to greet her, but perhaps she didn’t hear him due to the blurriness of his voice, or perhaps she remained unresponsive and looked at the scenery outside.
A group of people close to Karina who were chatting nearby asked, “Why is that shady guy saying hello to Karina-chan?” Amamiya, who was being looked at with obvious contempt like that, felt embarrassed and sat down as if nothing had happened.
With his face in his bag, he regretted what he had done earlier.
After all, it was no good, and it was wrong for such a bottom to talk to Karina, who was very popular in the class.
It would have been better if the bottom had been buried in damp soil and pretended it wasn’t there.
Amamiya was about to cry with tears in his eyes when he felt a finger poking him on the back and he slowly turned around.
There was Karina, leaning forward from her desk, her cheeks puffed out in a sulking manner.
“You were there, Takaaki-kun. Could you have called out to me? No, I need you to tap me on the shoulder or rub me. Even though I look like this, I have a natural side to me, so there are many things that I don’t notice. Next time, be proactive and don’t hesitate to call out to me.
I’ll do the same.”
“……”
Amamiya stiffens at the fact that she speaks to him normally.
It’s not just him, all his classmates fall silent and the classroom is enveloped in silence.
That’s because the always salty and quiet Nagase Karina spoke to someone on her own.
And she’s talkative, sweeter than usual, like a friend.
“answer?”
“Yes, Karina-san.”
Karina gives Amamiya, who is stunned and replies, a decapitating blow on the forehead.
She apparently did not like the way Amamiya spoke.
“Honorific language, please stop”
“Y-yeah. Karina…?”
“Fufuun, well done. Come to think of it, I was tired last night. I was sweating a lot.”
The adolescent fierceness of a dull man and a beautiful girl in the classroom, and the meaningful exchange between them from the point of view of an uninformed third party.
The classroom, which had been quiet as a scene, gradually becomes noisy.
Because of the atmosphere, Amamiya was unable to be honestly embarrassed.
The stares directed at him by his classmates were painful.
Tojo’s eyes, which glared at him like a snake from the other side of the classroom, were particularly terrifying.
“What’s wrong, guys?”
Kumatani, who had returned just before homeroom with a glass of juice, sensed the heavy atmosphere in the classroom and asked a question.
No one answered, as if they were not in the mood for that right now.
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I’m curious about Tojo’s pov. Is she just that big of a jerk to send that aggressive letter, or is this some high level tsundere thing.
That’s not a tsundere anymore, that’s a WOKE american woman~
You have no right to look at him that way scum. She already burned all the bridges with him It’s as he said, there’s no going back to being friends of any kind after all the vitriol she spewed at him.
Lol, im sure the childhood friend « loves » him and said all those horrible thing to make him realize how he was not good enough and to make him change to be at her level and then they would be a perfect couple !
Such a stupid girl
Honestly, MC is frustrating, what’s worse the class hates him and outcast him and he will give a fudge about it when she herself doesn’t care.