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(*Mikan viewpoint)
“Well, have a safe journey home.”
“Thanks for seeing me off, Ikkun!”
On the station platform, Ikkun waves to us.
The time is just right, not too late and not too early. Usually we would have stayed a little longer, but today we decided to break up early because it was nice to meet Raika-chan.
I’ll have Ikkun’s dinner on my next day off.
“……n, today was fun.”
Beside me, I saw Raika-chan waving her hand a little shyly.
It seems like we’re on the same line, so it looks like we’ll be able to go home together halfway.
“…I never thought it would be a pure love story with the title ‘Nururu☆Otome!'”
“Right!”
“…… I’m surprised that the slimy meaning of the stabbed body was a foreshadowing of the title.”
“Mm-hm! Yeah, that was hot!”
Well, however much it was foreshadowing, I think you should change the title.
(Or rather, she’s really beautiful.)
Should I say that she’s a celebrity? I can understand why Ikkun wants to take pictures of her.
She is more beautiful than pretty. Her slightly slanted eyes, her long eyelashes, the bridge of her nose, her slender physique – everything about her is so perfect that you want to call her perfect.
She looks like a cool beauty, but she is calm or a little out of it,…… and it is this gap that makes her so cute.
We’re in different classes and don’t come to school often, so we haven’t talked much, but today we talked a lot and it was fun.
“Well, shall we go too?”
“…… yes.”
When Ikkun’s back was turned, we started walking towards the platform.
…I think about it every time, but when I try to go home, I just want to turn around.
I still want to be with him. I’d like to stay the night.
(ehehe…… When I think about it, I’ve had a crush on Ikkun for quite a while now, haven’t I?)
Until a little while ago, I was convinced in my mind that he was a good friend, but now that I’m aware that I like him, I find myself thinking that what he was convinced as a friend isn’t actually true.
It’s not that I don’t like it or anything.
It’s just that it makes me happy to think, ‘I really like Ikun’
(If only I could get Ikkun to like me, then I’d be fine! Mikan-chan’s first love story has a happy ending!)
Well, I’ve never been in love before, so I’m not sure how I’ll be able to get him to like me.
Especially since Ikkun is so uptight. He’s surprisingly guarded. My friend says, ‘That’s the way it is with virgins…’
(or rather ……)
glance at Raika-chan walking beside me.
（I wonder how long Ikkun and Raika-chan have been friends?)
I’m sure they’re close, judging from the atmosphere today.
But I don’t think I’ve ever seen any signs of that in Ikkun. If they were good friends, he would proudly show me the photos he took of her
“What’s wrong ……?”
Whether she noticed that I was watching her or not, Raika-chan tilts her head.
“No! Nothing special———”
“……Ikkun and Raikatsu-chan have been good friends since when? it shows”
Wait, wait, wait, scary, scary, scary.
“……we have been good friends for a long time. Well, one-sidedly.”
“Since a long time ago?”
“……, the rest is a secret.”
Raika-chan puts her index finger to her mouth and gives me a small smile.
With that somewhat bewitching atmosphere, I unintentionally got a kick out of it.
“……Thank you for today.”
“Uh, uh… that’s me. I’ve wanted to talk to Raika-chan for a while now.”
“…I’m glad to hear that. It was my first time playing with someone my age.”
Well, Raika-chan is a celebrity, and she’s busy with work.
Since the time she spend with everyone and the environment she find herself in are different, she may not have been able to make much time for that.
“….When I told my father that I was going to play at my friend’s house today, he was really happy.”
Saying so, Raika-chan showed me the screen of her smartphone.
Her Dad said, ‘When I get home, it’ll be red rice, won’t it? Or thai?! Thai is good! Let’s go on a celebratory trip!’
Wow, the joy in the text is on a par with a father whos kid passed his university entrance exams.
“…… it was fun being with you two.”
While climbing the stairs in front of the platform, Raika-chan continues her words as if leaking.
“……others treat me like I’m “Raika on TV”, so it’s a bit constricting.”
“Ah,…… it’s not that I don’t understand how you feel.”
“…… but you see me as me. That made me happier than I think.”
I know how you feel about this too.
I want people to see me as a girl, not as a looker or a status.
I understand that they are conscious of me because they can’t help looking at my appearance, but appearance is not the only thing that makes me who I am.
If we are together, I want you to get on with me as me.
(……Ikkun will look at what’s on the inside.)
I suddenly think of Ikkun in the back of my mind, and my mouth unintentionally relaxes.
“…… I want to be friends with Ayase from now on.”
“Eh? Ah, yeah,…… I want to be friends with you too!”
It was fun being with her, and I feel a sense of camaraderie.
I would love to be friends with you too.
“But………”
At that time when I climbed the stairs, in an instant, Raika-chan’s atmosphere changed.
And then, a provocative smile is directed at me that makes me believe that she is …… a different person, as if I couldn’t believe my eyes.
“I have no motivation to lose…I’m not willing to give up on anything I can’t give up, no matter who Ayase is ♪.”
I didn’t know for a moment what she was referring to.
But why?
The moment the cold wind caressed my skin, I understood that ‘yeah, that’s what this means’ and—.
“I’m not going to give it up either, idiot!”
In the same way, I turned a provocative smile at Raika-chan.
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