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“This omelette rice is so delicious!”
“Ara, Kirito-kun. You make me so happy.”
I took a bite of Yumi san’s omu-rice and was surprised at how delicious it was.
It was not the fluffy omelet rice with a half-boiled egg that has become popular recently. The egg was cooked and covered with rice that was well flavored with ketchup.
There is cheese in the rice, which is also very tasty.
I thought the taste was on par with what you would get at a restaurant.
“Fufufu. Kirito-kun. Our omelette rice is not the fluffy omelette rice that is all the rage these days, but the old-fashioned kind. This is something that has been passed down in Yumi san’s family from generation to generation.”
Yuhei san says with a smug look on his face.
“Honey. You say ‘generation after generation,’ but it was only passed down from my mother, you know?”
Yumi san said, a little taken aback.
“No, this taste has been handed down forever, and even to the children born to Kirito-kun and his grandchildren …….”
“Oh, that …… Yuhei-san. It’s still too early to tell.”
I said so as if I was a little troubled.
“Oh? Kirito kun. You said you wanted to have a serious relationship with our Towa on the premise of marriage, didn’t you? Is that a lie?”
Yuhei-san says this with a mischievous smile on his face.
Really, Towa san’s way of laughing is inherited from her father, isn’t it?
“No, it’s not a lie. I want to marry Towa-san and make a happy family.”
“……Ki, Kirito-kun.”
At my serious tone of voice, Towa-san’s face turned a little red as if she was a little embarrassed.
While talking like this, we tucked into our delicious omelette rice.
Then, when we had finished our lunch and our stomachs had settled down.
I decided to talk to Towa san’s parents.
“Yuhei san. Yumi-san. I have something very important to tell you both.”
My serious tone of voice causes their eyes to narrow slightly.
“Yes. What is it, Kirito-kun?”
Yuhei san replied on behalf of the two of them.
“I have been thinking until just the other day that I would like to share my life with a different woman, not Towa-san.”
“Ki, Kirito-kun …….”
Towa san looked at me with surprised eyes.
I’m sure.
[We don’t have to talk about it right!?]
Like that
But that’s not true.
If I don’t get their approval, I can’t have a relationship with her in the future with my heart pounding!
“Hee……I see. So?”
I spin my words without escaping Yuhei san’s sharp-eyed gaze on me.
“The day before the entrance ceremony at Kaiho High School. I confessed my feelings to the woman. However, I was harshly rejected. Then, with a broken heart, I went to the entrance ceremony and found Towa-san in front of the class placement paper. She looked at me and immediately recognized me as the person I once was. I was ashamed to admit that I didn’t realize it was her until she said my name.”
“Then, Towa-san told me that she had been in love with me since elementary school. She told me that she had been thinking about me since elementary school.”
“The day after you were dumped, Towa confessed her feelings for you, and you immediately switched?”
I shook my head at Yuhei san’s words.
“No, that’s not true. What I did was even worse. I put the confession on hold.”
“No, I asked you to do that ……!!”
I restrain Towa-san who tries to defend me.
It’s not that. I just took advantage of her “kindness.”
“I had a crush on this woman for ten years. It’s a childhood friend of mine. I didn’t give up just because she dumped me once. But the next day, something happened that convinced me that I no longer had a chance”
“…… I’m not going to ask you about that incident. I’m sure it’s not something you want to talk about, is it?”
I shook my head at Yuhei san’s words.
“…… No, I will tell you. I want you both to know everything. This is selfish of me. That childhood friend told me that …… I am not the opposite gender, but a ‘little brother’.”
A bad choice. I didn’t want to say that part.
I thought I shouldn’t say that.
“I see. Maybe it’s because you were with her for so long that causes her to feel that way.”
“And I wanted to die right there and then. That’s what I thought.”
“”……!””
Yes, that’s what I really thought at the time.
I want to disappear from this world.
That’s what I thought.
“It was Misuzu who saved me from myself. She is my own beloved sister. And it would be dishonest to fall in love with Towa san, who told me she loved me the day after I was dumped, on the assumption that we would become lovers. She kicked me out of my mind that I thought so.”
“She is a good sister.”
“Yes, she is. I am proud of her.”
“And I decided to fall in love with Towa-san.”
“Well, you’ve given it a lot of thought, …….”
“……, but my pathetic story continues.”
“…… what?”
Yuhei-san raises a question mark, and I continue.
“There was a difference of feelings between myself and a childhood friend. Because of that, I had a fight with her. But I shook her off and went to see Towa-san.”
“I met with Towa-san while concealing the fact. However, I knew that my feelings were not lost on her. And I received a very severe scolding from her about what I had done to my childhood friend.”
I say this and look at Towa san and smile.
“I really appreciate all you have done for me, Towa san.”
“Kirito-kun ……”
“And then Towa-san sent me off to have a good talk with my childhood friend. She sent me off with the following message. When all is said and done, we will talk. I promised her that I would.
Afterwards, I was able to talk to my childhood friend and come to an understanding as to the cause of our differences. We were also able to make up and start anew. I don’t think that would have happened without her scolding.”
“I didn’t know that happened. ……”
Yuhei san said and closed his eyes.
“Here, I should have called Towa-san myself.”
“…. haha. What’s more?”
I smiled bitterly at those words.
“Yes. This is why she came to your house, isn’t it?”
“Towa?”
Yuhei-san looks at her as he says this.
“Yes, that’s right. Well, Kirito-kun has been deeply sorry for what he did, so I forgive him now.”
“I slept on the bed in my childhood friend’s room without notifying Towa san. Such things were a common occurrence until I was in elementary school, so I couldn’t say no to her. I regret that it was an extremely thoughtless and dishonest act.
And then Towa-san came to my home to meet and talk with me after I had neglected to contact her”
“…… Fufufu. Because I’ve been waiting and waiting, but I haven’t heard from you at all. It’s only natural that I’d want to see you and talk to you, right?”
“I swear I’ll never do that again.”
When I said this, Towa smiled with satisfaction.
“Towa-san then asked me to spend two nights with her as a condition of her forgiving me for the incident with her childhood friend. Including last night, that makes one more day.”
I tell them this much and bow my head.
“The man called Sakurai Kirito is such a miserable man. I am a man who is lost, who wanders this way and that, who cannot walk straight on his own. But even though I am like this, I will not give up my desire to make Towa-san happy. I will bet my whole life on it, and I will make her happy!”
I look Yuhei-san in the eye and say.
“I would like you to allow Towa-san to stay for one more day! Please do so!”
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