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A week has passed since the incident.
Tojo no longer came to his house or spoke to him at school.
The still inexperienced Amamiya did not know whether what he said was right or what he should have done.
Still, he had no choice but to move on, into a new normal.
Amamiya woke up before the alarm went off and got out of bed.
There were still two hours before school, so he changed into his school jersey for his morning exercise.
His sister Anna is still asleep, so he leaves the house quietly so as not to wake her, and heads to a nearby park.
It is a fairly large park and was crowded with older people in the morning.
Amamiya carefully softens his body with the stretching method taught by Kumatani, and then starts jogging.
It had only been five days since he started exercising in the morning, so Amamiya didn’t have enough strength to overtake the older people.
“You’re still young, keep going!”
“Y….. yes!”
Amamiya was patted on the shoulder by a muscular old man who had caught up with him from behind and encouraged him, leaving Amamiya feeling empty.
As expected, in the corner of the park, Amamiya vomits into the convenience store bag he brought with him.
He hadn’t eaten anything yet, so all he could produce was gastric juices.
“I’m back – I’m tired.”
“Ah, welcome home~and good work.”
When he came home, Anna, dressed in her pyjamas, was in the living room watching the news and brushing her teeth.
With 40 minutes to go before school, Amamiya hurriedly made breakfast for the two of them as he was on duty. He put the slightly burnt wieners, fried eggs and bread on the table and started eating with Anna.
“You go to exercise every morning, don’t you? If that’s the case, Anna will cook breakfast from now on.
It seems like a lot of work.”
“I’m fine, I’m fine. If I don’t do this, I’m going to be lazy again, and I’ve recently become addicted to making rice. When I look on the internet, I find all sorts of arrangements and I want to try them all.”
“Hmm, I see.”
“Hmm? What’s wrong?”
Anna grins.
Not understanding the meaning, Amamiya swallows the contents of his chewing mouth and then asks.
“I knew onii chan had changed. I was surprised when he said he was going to start improving himself, but I’m just glad things seem to be going well.”
“Eh, well, is that so……”
It was only recently that he started to seriously improve himself with advice from Kumatani, so he wasn’t expecting that much change, but if you look at it objectively, there may be parts of him that have changed without him even realising it.
“If you keep getting cooler like this, maybe you can go out with Karina-san.”
Amamiya blew out the tea he was drinking at Anna’s casual remark.
“Me and Karina? Impossible, impossible. Me and her, we’re just game friends and we’re not going out. ……”
“She doesn’t do special training on P-V-P in onii chan’s room every day just because she wants to pass the entrance exam. That’s…”
With a mischievous smile on her face, Anna whispers in Amamiya’s ear.
“She’s got a pulse on onii chan”
Amamiya was in a daze until he reached the main gate of the school.
This was because he couldn’t get the word ‘pulse’ out of his head, as Anna had said.
Amamiya, like most of the boys around him, had had a liking for Karina, but her liking for him?
He had never thought about it, or perhaps he was wrong in not thinking about it.
(Anna’s, how can you think like that, …… it’s heartbreaking to tease me).
As he thought about it while changing into his jacket in the shoe box, someone suddenly poked him on the shoulder.
When he turned around, he felt a pudgy finger on his cheek.
“Good morning, Takaaki-kun……outout ……”
There was a beautiful silver-haired girl, Karina.
She greeted him and he tried to return the greeting, but seeing her squinting and looking exhausted, Amamiya looked worried.
“A-are you alright, Karina? I feel like you’re going to fall over….”
“When I got home, I practised PVP until morning …… so I could win today and join the Game Studies Club …… Fufu …….”
She stayed up all night and trained by herself?
Is that why you’re sleepy? Even if it’s for the sake of winning, it’s a complete turnaround if you destroy your body because of it.
“That’s right, but… You have to do it in moderation. ……”
Amamiya, who cannot speak for others when he looks back on his previous lifestyle, warns her in a faltering voice.
Karina nodded
“If Takaaki-kun says so,…… I can’t help it,…….”
No good, this, she’s really going to collapse
When he approached Karina’s side while wondering how she was able to commute to school with this, she
Poof, arms spread open.
“…… hnn”
“What?”
Amamiya asked, unsure of the reason, and Karina replied sleepily.
“I might fall asleep in the corridor if I don’t, so I’d be happy if you carried me to the classroom …….”
His head went blank.
It is still school time, so there are a lot of students around, and some of them have already noticed Karina’s presence and are already paying attention to her.
And yet, this girl is asking him to carry her? To someone who is not her boyfriend?
No matter how much they are friends, they are of the opposite gender.
Is it that easy to be hands-on with skinship, or is it the norm where she comes from?
“You’re not joking or anything, are you?”
Betting on the possibility that she is making fun of him in the same way as Anna.
“Fufu, you say funny things, Takaaki kun. I only say what I really mean, you know?”
That was it, and Amamiya is eventually cornered.
He doesn’t see any particular reason to refuse, and if he leave Karina behind, she’s really going to fall asleep in the hallway.
While being mindful of the gazes of those around him, Amamiya touched Karina’s still-spreading arms.
Just as she looks, she is thin and slender. While being tormented by a sense of guilt as to whether it was okay for him to touch her, Amamiya lightly picked up her body.
“Hyah ……!”
Karina makes strange noises while telling him to carry her
Since there seemed to be no turning back now, after re-holding her in an easy-to-carry position, Amamiya set off towards the classroom.
“Are you alright? Are you in pain?”
“Muuu…… I’m fine.”
When Amamiya asked, Karina replied in a way that did not seem to add up.
Thinking that she might still be sleepy, Amamiya hurried ahead to avoid the painful gazes of the surrounding students.
(Although they’re not lovers, this makes them a perfect couple. ……!)
(I wanted to be held in a more loverly, princess-like embrace. ……)
Amamiya was walking quickly down the corridor with Karina on her ‘piggyback’, looking embarrassed.
He receives unexpected praise from some students for ‘carrying the injured Karina in his arms, gentle Amemiya-kun’, but others have already turned to him with the intent to kill him.
A shady boy called, a girl called ‘Takamine no Hana’.
Kumatani watches them doing funny things while drinking canned juice and smiling at them.
(I knew it, I hate you, Amamiya ……)
Kumatani’s heart ached as if he was watching his former self.
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