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(Why did I accept that challenge…..)
After school, while chatting with Makoto and Rikuto at a café, I was regretting my day.
I got carried away and took Tokumatsu’s suggestion.
“What’s with you Ken, you’ve been looking so unflattering since a while ago, what’s troubling you?”
Rikuto asked me in a mischievous way, and I told them what had happened during lunch break.
“Haha ! A duel, what era do you think this is !”
“It’s so typical of Tokumatsu.”
“Do you know him, Makoto?”
“We’re in the same class, after all. He’s quite famous within the school. He’s a strange guy, but he’s a good guy at heart, and his big body makes him stand out. He also had good results in the track and field club.”
“Eh !? He’s on the track team?”
“Yes, but is it really that surprising?”
I never thought there would be other boys from the track and field club in the same grade as me other than Ayaka’s Guards…
“Well, even though he’s on the track and field team, he’s challenging you to a competition at the sports festival…isn’t that cowardly?”
As Rikuto said, the only special event at Koushin High School’s sports festival is a scavenger hunt, and all the other events are running events.
In other words, the track and field club is in a league of its own.
“Well, if it’s a relay or something like that, it’s not just about individual strength…….”
Makoto, too, can’t seem to deny that he is a coward, and he makes a bitter defense.
“Well, if it’s a relay, you should just cut back on Makoto.”
“I’m sorry, but I won’t do that. The sports festival is a place for serious competition.”
“What is more important, the danger to our friends or the victory of our class?”
“That’s a hard question to answer, but in this case, I agree with Tokumatsu.”
Makoto smiles, looks at me and says.
“I thought you and Fuyusaki san were suspicious, too. I don’t wanna be too harsh, but I thought I’d make something clear.”
“Suspicious……but we’re just regular classmates, aren’t we?”
“No, it’s true that Fuyusaki san’s sense of distance towards Ken is different from other guys…Ken, don’t tell me !”
“Don’t be like Tokumatsu…..”
I denied Rikuto’s imagination, which agrees with Makoto’s opinion, with amazement.
“Well, in any case, the relationship between you and Fuyuzaki san is close enough that people around you are suspicious of it. What do you think about that?”
“What do I think……we’re really just classmates. At best, we’re friends, okay?”
I said exactly what I was thinking, but Makoto continued.
“Then why did you accept Tokumatsu’s challenge? If you were your usual self, you would have declined right away.”
“Like I said, it was more like a sales pitch.”
“Is that really all there is to it?”
Makoto interrupts me and looks straight at me.
“You need to face your own feelings, not just those of those around you.”
Makoto says as he drinks his coffee.
“…You’ve talk a lot today.”
“I’ve always wanted to try it. Pushing my best friend’s back.”
We laughed at that.
“Have you guys forgotten about me?”
Rikuto’s words didn’t reach us.
In the homeroom the next day, it was decided that the three events that Tokumatsu and I would face off in were the individual 200m run, the anchor of the relay, and the obstacle run.
On my bed, I recalled what Makoto had said to me yesterday.
Recently, my environment has changed.
My trauma is gone, I have more opportunities to interact with the girls in my class, and I don’t eat dinner outside but with Hitomi san and Ayaka.
So, have my feelings changed because of the change in my environment?
(What do I want to do…..)
What do I want with Fuyusaki?
Do I want to be brother and sister?
Do I want to be friends?
Or……
(I don’t know how I feel…..)
Is Fuyusaki unimportant to me?
No matter how much I looked back and forth, I couldn’t find an answer.
And without an answer, the day of the sports festival arrived.
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