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The time is 13:20.
20 minutes have passed since the appointed time.
“T-this is not good……. Even though it can’t be helped, I’m late……”
[I’m going to be late because of my part-time job] Although I had informed them that I would be late ,irregularities have now caused more delays than I had anticipated.
Unable to mentally prepare for the reunion for the first time in ten years’, I just tried to run–I managed to get to the family restaurant where the meeting place was.
“Haa, haa…… T-this is where everyone is…..”
My step sisters are at this restaurant. The moment I think that, I get so nervous that it becomes hard to breathe even though I should be out of breath.
After all, it’s about my step sisters……the only useful information I have about them is their names.
Their height and features must have changed since becoming a university student, so my memories of those days aren’t helping.
It was no different from meeting someone for the first time.
“I-if it’s like this, it would be nice if I could get a picture of their faces….”
In my joy and happiness at seeing my step sisters again, I had left out something important.
If there was even one piece of information about their appearance, this tension would have definitely eased.
“Phew……. There’s no point in regretting it.”
Slapping his cheeks with both hands and taking a big deep breath as if to change his mind, Yuuto takes a deep breath.
Then, summoning the courage to not wait any longer, he slips through the doorway of the family restaurant.
“Welcome ! A table for how many people?”
Once inside, the waiter rushes to serve me.
“Um, there are people waiting at the table for four, and I think they’re already here……”
“Understood ! Then please go to your seats where they are waiting for you !”
“Ah…..”
Yuuto is left behind without being guided to that seat. ……However, in the case of a meeting, this is the basic customer service.
After all, situations like ‘meeting with someone whose face you don’t recognize’ are rarer. guiding customers to their friends and acquaintances is basically an unnecessary action.
“A-anyway, the place where the three of them are waiting is…. Probably in a non-smoking area……”
It’s scary because I don’t know the other party, but if I don’t move, I can’t do anything.
Just as I was scurrying around the seats, looking for a place where the three college girls were all sitting together, I heard a voice saying, [Ah !] came from the corner seat.
Reflexively, I quickly turned my gaze in that direction and saw a girl I met at my part-time job sitting there by chance.
“No way ! Mister, it’s you from Starbucks ! Long time no see !”
“Ah ! You’re the person who gave the seat to me !”
“Yeah, yeah ! I’m really glad you remember me. I’ll come visit you again when I get a chance.”
“Ahaha, thank you very much. I’m glad to hear that.”
Her communication skills are as good as the first time we’ve met.
She was able to communicate with ease, and her smile was so beautiful that I almost fell in love with her, she also dressed up as if it were a date.
When I was about to bow to her friend after finishing my exchange with her, another coincidence occurred.
“U-um ! Do you remember me?? You showed me around to find my classroom……”
“! Of course I remember you ! You’re here too, Senpai ! !”
“…..Y-yeah. Yahoo…….”
There is even a girl who looks like an elementary school student because she has no sense of direction, and a girl who gave strawberry milk candy at a convenience store on campus.
Yuuto wasn’t the only one surprised by the unexpected reunion.
“Wait a sec. You two are involved with him too !?”
“Yeah ! This is the senior who saved me !”
“I-I see. But if it’s this person, it makes sense. It’s just some kind of coincidence.”
It’s Miyu who started asking the details of the [Argument about who’s met the nicest person] a few days ago.
When she found out that it was him, she laughed at the futility of it all.
“So, there’s this person that you called ‘Senpai’ here.”
“…..It’s just your imagination.”
The grown-up girl’s eyes meet Yuuto’s for a moment, but her cheeks blush and she turns her face away from him.
Maybe it is because of her shy personality, but she is bad at deceiving him.
“Ahaha……. I’m really sorry for making you feel uncomfortable at that time.”
“N-no. I’m sorry too.”
“No, no, no. I was very happy to hear that”
“I-if you say it like that….I’m happy too…..”
The reason why she lied about being a “senior” at that time is because she knows the purpose of it, and it can be done peacefully.
And as expected of the blonde with her excellent communication skills—
“Speaking of which, Mister, if you don’t mind me asking, are you on a date? You look especially cool today.”
She doesn’t try to water down the conversation, but changes the subject as if she is reading the air.
By the way, the girl, who looks like an elementary school student, is watching them, smiling the whole time.
“Actually, I have an important meeting, and I wanted to look as good as possible.”
“Hee-! We had an important meeting as well, so we got really dressed up. We were all looking in the mirror until the very last minute to make sure everything was just right.”
“Haha, I see.”
I should be praising them, but I don’t have time for that now.
In addition, it was the same with the girls who were waiting for him.
“I’m sorry I talked for so long. It seems we’re both waiting for someone, so I guess I’ll just leave it at that.”
“I guess so. I hope we can be friends again when we meet at the university or at the café.”
“Got it !”
“I’d be happy to be friends with you too.”
“Y-yeah. Me too.”
“Thank you.”
The light chit-chat ended, and after bowing and parting, Yuuto went around to his seat once again.
[I-it’s like some kind of gathering with everyone having doll-like features…… They look a bit alike, are they sisters?]
He thought something like that. –thinking about it, I looked around the smoking area, but couldn’t find my step sisters anywhere.
“H-huh……? It can’t be that they didn’t come here as expected…….”
I was puzzled, but there was a possibility that they really were not here.
“Um…..I’m really sorry.”
“Yes ! How can I help you?”
The one person Yuuto relies on in shame is the waiter who served him when he first entered the store.
“I have a strange question to ask, but are there three customers who came to the store and said that they’re waiting for one person? It’s been over ten years since we’ve seen each other, so……”
“Ah, that would be the customer sitting in the corner seat over there in the non-smoking section !”
He politely points out the location.
“Eh……. Ah……thank you very much……”
“You’re welcome ! Then please take your time.”
That was the last conversation I had with the waiter. It was a conversation that took me by surprise.
With his eyes blinking, Yuuto returns to that seat with trembling legs.
“Hm? What’s wrong, Mister?”
“Can I help you?”
“……Yeah?”
He said to the three sisters who were asking the obvious questions.
Thinking about it, I should’ve noticed.
“U-um…..Mashiro san, Miyu san, and Kokono san, this is your seat, right? This is…..”
“Eh? That’s right, but how did you know our names?”
To her, who took the initiative to ask, he said it again.
“Um, it’s me…..Yuuto…..it’s the first time we’ve met in over ten years…..”
“……”
“……”
“……”
As he gathered up his courage to tell them, the three sisters fell silent, their blue eyes widened.
“Eh?”
“Huh?”
“…..Eh.”
The following reply came with a delay.
“H-hello. It’s been a really long time. It’s your….step brother. A-ahaha…….”
“H-h-h-huh…….”
“W-wh-whaa……”
“Ah…..huh.”
After everyone gave a wry smile.
[What in the world…….] the four of them covered their faces with their hands as if to say that.
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That has got to be awkward as possible bro.
Finally!
Thanks for the chapters