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Why is it that life is so …… difficult to get things right, Amamiya thought.
If you fail, you can’t get it back, and if you can’t, you have to change.
You have to act to avoid failure next time, especially since you can’t retry like in a game.
However, no matter how much we try to change, there are times when there is nothing we can do.
(— that is now.)
“Eh? Not girlfriend? you won’t go out with me? Haha, don’t joke about it, senpai.
Are you embarrassed to receive a favor from such a cute girl?”
While leaving the school.
A girl named Asumi, who was one year younger than him, who was said to be the idol of the first year, was hugging his arm.
From the boys’ point of view, it’s a delicious situation.
From behind, Karina was glaring at the strange distance between Amamiya and Asumi.
Was it luck or bad luck?
“No, that’s why I don’t know how many times I have to tell you that I’m not going out with you…can you please just leave me?”
Even though she is a junior, she is a girl, and moreover, she is as beautiful as Karina.
That alone almost makes Amamiya’s voice muffled, but he manages to refuse.
“Fufu, I knew it, you are embarrassed.”
Asumi doesn’t take him seriously and surrenders herself to him even more.
This close contact, like they are now lovers.
Amamiya’s ears turn red, but he tries to forcefully pull her off of him.
“I don’t think that kind of thing is good……, Asumi san? Since a while ago, my tTakaaki…No, my friend….., has been in trouble, so why don’t you start to get away?”
“Oh, Nagase-senpai. Were you still following? You’re going to the station on your way home, right? It’s already been a long time, what’s wrong?”
“H-how do you know my route to school… No, let’s leave that aside. No matter what we do, if a friend is in trouble, I care, you know?”
Pulling Amamiya away from the persistent Asumi, Karina steps in between them.
Asumi looked at her with disapproval.
“Please stop pretend that he’s in trouble or that he’s paranoid. There’s no way Amamiya Senpai wouldn’t be happy to be shown favor by such a cute junior, right? He’s just too happy to say what he really thinks.”
Asumi raised her hands in the air and said with a proud smile.
At her comment, Karina’s eyebrows twitched and she shifted her gaze toward Amamiya.
“Takaaki kun, is that really ……?”
Amamiya shakes his head as hard as he can and makes a batten with his arm.
“No, it’s not true!”
“But I can’t say for sure that there’s zero chance, so I’ll do my best until he says what he really thinks.”
Asumi winked at Amamiya, who was standing behind, while sticking out her tongue.
It sounds like a joke, but Amamiya shudders as he senses through one open eye that she is being serious.
“And is there something wrong with that?”
“Eh? What……?”
“I’m talking about the fact that Amamiya Senpai and I are dating. If you are just friends, shouldn’t you be happy? and say like ‘Congratulations, your friend has a cute girlfriend'”
These are the words that strike at the heart of the matter.
That was enough to dampen Karina’s rivalry.
“If you were already in a relationship with Amamiya senpai, I would have backed off. But you two are just good friends, not lovers, right? So there is no reason for me to give up”
“No, you see, ……”
“Or does Nagase-senpai have a clear reason for interfering with my and Amamiya-senpai’s love affair?~”
What Asumi says is so true that Karina loses her power.
As if expecting this, Asumi continued, as if to say the final blow.
“In fact, Karina-senpai is in serious love with Amamiya-senpai, but she doesn’t have the courage to confess it to him, so she is satisfied with the relationship between friends and lovers, right?”
“Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?!”
Karina let out steam from her head like a steam locomotive, her entire face turned bright red, and her voice came out from her belly, almost echoing off the mountains in the distance.
She drew the attention of passersby.
“W-wwwwhat are you suddenly talking about!? I didn’t mean to…I didn’t mean to…”
Karina’s whole body was shaking up and down, not just her trembling hands, but her whole body.
Even if she was upset, she could not have been more restrained.
No, a poker face is extremely difficult for Karina, who is very honest with her emotions.
Amamiya, who was watching Karina behind her, had a question on his mind.
He could not understand why she was so upset.
It had never occurred to him that Karina might have feelings for him as a member of the opposite gender.
“She is a poor, beautiful girl who can’t even have a proper love life. She has the beauty that makes both men and women fall in love with her, but she’s a waste of her treasure, isn’t she?~”
“WWWWWWhat?!”
Asumi’s rapid progress is not over.
Karina, who defeated the class queen, is being cornered.
“Um, could you stop going any further? I think you’re making a point, but it’s disrespectful to your senpai. I’m not going to date you, and there’s no reason for me to be.”
“But am I cute☆”
“I don’t deny that, but just because you have a nice face doesn’t mean…..”
“But you also take care of your skin and wax your hair because you want to look good, don’t you, Amamiya-senpai?”
You can’t be liked by people only on the inside.
We have learned that it is also important to have a good face, clothes, and grooming.
Amamiya could not deny that at this point in his life.
“You may think I’m being overly self-conscious, but I don’t see any downside to going out with me. As you can see, I have a lot of friends, I play volleyball and am athletic, and my grades are in the upper-middle range, okay?”
“…. That’s honestly amazing.”
“That’s right☆ And yet, not dating… isn’t it quite a waste? Let me ask you one more time. I like Amamiya Senpai, would you be my boyfriend?”
“……”
I knew it.
Only at the moment of confession, her tone of voice did not sound joking.
Her eyes were slightly trembling, and you could sense a hint of fear in them.
Kaede Asumi really likes Amamiya.
“I’m sorry, but still. I can’t go out with you after all.”
“…. embarrassed?”
Amamiya looks at Asumi with a serious gaze as he replies again, even though he has already refused.
“I don’t know you. I don’t remember meeting you, and I don’t remember doing anything that would make you like me. I’m really sorry if I seem to disrespect Asumi’s feelings.”
Amamiya bows her head.
Asumi’s eyes widened and she backtracked, not expecting that she would be treated so poorly.
“I see. …… you don’t remember?”
He wonders if Amamiya’s feelings were conveyed
Asumi looked at Amamiya and Karina in turn, then slowly showed her back.
(remember ……? What?)
It was as if something had happened before.
He knows he is repeating himself, but if he had contact with such a cute girl, there is no way he would forget.
No girl in high school had ever been involved with him.
Maybe outside of school, but he doesn’t know.
As Asumi was about to walk away from Amamiya, who was trying to remember, she turned her head one more time.
“—I won’t give up on you, Senpai.”
She was laughing, but after saying a line that made her feel lonely, Asumi ran off in the opposite direction.
she was fast, and he lost sight of her immediately.
Amamiya’s shoulders slumped, wishing she had just given up on that part.
However, Amamiya’s mind was still stuck on Asumi’s words, “Don’t you remember me?”
Did he really have something to do with that girl, just because he did not remember?
Amamiya tried to dig up his memory, but he still couldn’t remember.
Amamiya feels frustrated.
No, let’s forget about this for now and put Karina first.
If he thought about other girls, Karina might become a jealous Darkness Karina once again.
“I-I’m sorry, Karina! I’m sorry I got you involved in my problem….eh?”
He tried to turn around to face Karina, who was standing behind me, but she grabbed his hand before he could.
A woman’s thin, soft hands.
“Ka, Karina,…… what’s wrong?”
Expecting a reply, Karina did not reply and quietly turned over.
The girl’s ear seemed to be reddening.
He wonders what her intention was in squeezing his hand and being silent.
Amamiya, who does not know enough to understand the female mind, could only read the air and go along with Kalina’s silence.
“You know,…… Takaaki-kun,…….”
Karina’s voice vibrated with embarrassment when she finally opened her mouth.
The tension of the situation was felt even by Amamiya, who was holding her hand, causing his heart to beat faster as well.
Even with the air of embarrassment, Karina tells him her intention.
“After this …………will you come to my house?”
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