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After the study session, in the hallway just outside the library, I put my phone to my ear.
“So? What’s with the sudden blind date?”
After a delay, Sumeragi comes out of the library and lines up next to me, who is on the phone with Saejima.
Incidentally, Himekane left a few minutes ago, saying, “I have a part-time job!”
“Noo, I really wanted to ask Sumeragi to come to the blind date so that I could arrange a blind date with a student from another school.”
“Sumeragi?”
“You know, because he’s super handsome, right? If they know a good-looking guy like him is coming, I think they will definitely come.”
In other words, you’re using Sumeragi as an excuse.
“So you want me to invite Sumeragi?”
“That’s what I’m saying! And, you should come with me, too, Tazuna! We’ll make up the numbers!”
“I’m not going.”
I hung up the phone and told her about the blind date. I told her I wasn’t going, and she immediately shook her head.
“I don’t see the point in going to a blind date,”
“Well, you’re right.”
“If you know what you’re doing, why didn’t you just say no over the phone?”
“Just in case, I’m just asking. Besides, I think it would be a good idea to go to a party, right?”
“Eh? Why?”
“You can get a little experience in love at a party, right? You’re going to be mass producing more and more girls like Himekane, and you might get stabbed in the back someday.”
“Uuu.”
She seems to be aware of it. She shows a look of distress.
“How about it? I think you should take this opportunity to fix your lame-ass attitude, don’t you?”
“I-I understand…I think you’re right too, so I’ll join in.”
“I see. I’ll tell that to Saejima.”
“However!”
“?”
“There is a condition.”
“Condition? What’s that?”
“You have to go too …….”
“Eh?”
“Cause I’m not going to a party alone”
“……”
If I don’t nod my head, she’s not going to the party.
“Okay, okay, I’ll go. I’m in. Is that okay?”
“Y-yeah! Thank you, Tazuna-kun!”
And so, I informed Saejima that I and Sumeragi would participate in the event.
A few days later.
We decided to have a blind date at a coffee shop in a prosperous town about two stations away from the nearest station to Otobigihara High School.
The floor is made of geometric-patterned tiles, and the interior is slightly illuminated by orange lighting. The spacious red sofas softly sink into the floor when you rest your back against them. Six of them, each large enough to accommodate one person, were lined up around one table.
The table was rather cramped and rectangular in shape, with six glasses on it. The contents of each glass were different, and mine contained oolong tea.
“I am Sumeragi. Nice to meet you.”
And Sumeragi, sitting to my left, smiles at the girls sitting on the sofa across from me. Furthermore, Saejima is sitting a little to the left of me and looks terribly depressed.
That is as it should be. Ahead of Sumeragi, Saeshima, who had introduced himself with great enthusiasm because he was the secretary of the party, slipped up unexpectedly. I won’t tell you what happened, for Saejima’s honor, but let’s just say that the girls’ stares …… that time were very cold.
“Cool …….”
“You look like a prince.”
“Bad”
The girls’ reactions were three different, but at least their first impression was probably the exact opposite of Saejima’s. Next, I finished my self-introduction in a safe manner and turned the order to the girls. And so the party goes on.
“What about you, Sumeragi-kun? What kind of girl is your type?”
“Oh~, I wish I could ask you that, too~”
“Me too, me too!
“Aaaah umm. I see… haha”
“”Hnnn—-…””
While Sumeragi was being pressed by the three girls, Saejima and I were completely at ease. I don’t really care, but Saejima seems pretty depressed when he sees the girl he was after chatting happily with Sumeragi.
I was passing the time while sipping the drink I had ordered. After a while, the girls start talking about something and Sumeragi is finally released.
“Phew…….”
“You’re still a slacker.”
“Ugh.”
“You’re just trying to look good for everyone.”
“I know, I know. ……”
“But still, you’re really popular, aren’t you, Sumeragi?”
“B-By the way ……? T-Tazuna kun…..? What would you think if I went out with someone?”
“I wouldn’t think anything of it.”
“Kachin.”
“Hnn? What?”
“Nothing?”
“No, you’re mad at me?”
“I’m not mad at you though?”
“You’re mad at me.”
“I said I’m not mad! Hmph!”
She, clearly angry, snatched a glass from the table, picked it up, and gulped down the contents. I looked at her sideways and spoke to her in a calm voice, “Sumeragi”
“What?”
“That’s mine.”
“Eh?”
Watching her face grow redder and redder, I ask the waiter for a new drink.
The party ended without much fun, and each of the three girls exchanged contact information with Sumeragi before parting ways.
By the way, none of them exchange contact information with Saejima. Saejima was depressed, probably because he was so shocked.
“Well, don’t be so downhearted.”
“Tazunaaaa …….”
While I was encouraging Saejima like that, Sumeragi was muttering to herself, ‘Maybe I….’. Was there something that bothered her about the group date earlier?
“Sumeragi? Is something wrong?”
“Ah, yeah,……, I was just thinking about you—wait, nothing! I’m not thinking about you or anything!”
“Yeah? I see? more importantly, please help me cheer up Saejima.”
“Why are you depressed, Saejima-kun?”
“Because you took the girl I was after.”
“Aah, …… that’s, umm …… your loss?”
“Gusun…….”
That’s not very encouraging, Sumeragi.
“Tazuna, and Sumeragi. I’m all right now.”
“You’re back on your feet, Saejima”
“Oh ……, if I stay depressed forever, girls won’t come to me from the other side! I just have to try again!”
“I see.”
“So! Thanks for hanging out with me today, both of you! Here!Take it as a thank you!”
Saying that, Saejima handed me a pair of tickets to a theme park.
“What’s this?”
“It’s a pair of tickets I had prepared for the girl I was going with today. I’ll give it to you!”
“You …… mean you want me and Sumeragi to go together with this?”
Sumeragi blurts out in a voice that only I can hear, “Just the two of us …….” I wonder if she doesn’t want to be alone with me…I’m kind of shocked. However, Saejima tilted his head and continued, “What are you talking about?”
“It wouldn’t be fun to go to a theme park with two guys, right? Why don’t you invite a girl to go with you? There’s only one card, so play rock-paper-scissors to decide who gets to use it.”
How about that as a thank you?
But, I see. From Saejima’s point of view, Saejima and I are two men.
“Well, I’m going home~”
“Ah, see you later, Saejima”
I look down at the pair of tickets in my hand as I look away from Saejima back. Then, after thinking for a while, it suddenly hit me.
“This….. Hey, Sumeragi. Can I have a word?”
“Tazuna-kun and me …..alone…..alone…”
“Sumeragi?”
“Hee? W-what is it? I’m not picturing you and I on a private date, not even a little bit!”
“What are you talking about?”
“……”
“I have a better idea.”
“…… have a better idea?”
“Sumeragi. Take this and go on a date with Himekane.”
“Eh?”
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Bro bro bro…
WTF?
is he feeling guilt from her brother? or is he projecting his insecurities or something?