Episode 42 – I like you, so what?

I have tried many times to talk to Sumeragi since then, but she says, “I’m kind of in the middle of that thing right now! I’m sorry, but I’ll see you later!”- it is certain that she is avoiding me.

But I have no idea why. Just the other day, Himekane and Shigenawa were avoiding me and Sumeragi, and I was trying to make up for it. But now even she has started to avoid me.

I don’t understand. This is what has been happening to me lately.

While I was walking down the hallway wondering what I was going to do now, I saw Himekane across the hall. She also found me and ran up to me, and asked, “Have you seen Sumeragi chan?”

“No, I haven’t seen her”

“I see. ……”

“What is it?”

“Uh, yeah. You know, Tazuna kun asked me to talk to her, right? So I tried to talk to her the other day, but she …… kind of avoided me completely after that.:

“Even you?”

“Even? Does that mean she’s avoiding you, too?”

“Yes, that’s right. To be honest, I have no idea why she is avoiding me…What about Himekane? Do you have any idea? ”

“Eh? Well……various things”

Her eyes were swimming as she said that. I was aware of those “various things”. To be honest, I was wondering whether I should say it or not, but I felt like it would be wrong if I didn’t.

So I bowed my head and said, “Actually, you know.”

“I heard the conversation between you and Sumeragi…….”

“Eh? What?”

“I heard that you are in love with me.”

“Eh”

“Sorry.”

“……”

I glanced up and saw her face turning red. her shoulders trembled, she took a step or two backward, and finally covered her face with her hands.

“……I-I can’t believe you heard me.”

“I’m so sorry.”

“Well, it’s too late to hide it now, so I’ll confess. I… love you, Tazuna-kun.”

“O-ou”

“…I like you, so what!?”

“Why did you open up all of a sudden?”

“Because I’m embarrassed!”

She stared at me with a bright red face, but was too embarrassed to make eye contact, turned away and said in a faint voice, “That’s the worst!”

“Hey, can I ask you something?”

“W-What is it? ……”

“You liked Sumeragi, didn’t you? Why did you like me? Was I too good-looking?”

“Ha?”

It came back in a serious tone. It was just a little joke. …… You don’t have to make such a serious face.

“I don’t like people because of their faces.”

“Then what about Sumeragi?”

“The face is the most important thing……Right?”

“After all, it’s all about the face, isn’t it?”

“N-No! I like her because she saved my life on the bus!”

“That’s a bit of a easy, though.”

“Tazuna-kun is a man, so he doesn’t understand! you can’t imagine how scary I felt on the bus…”

“Sorry. So? If that’s the case, then why did it go to me and not Sumeragi who helped you?”

“…At first, it wasn’t that big of a deal. I wasn’t really conscious of it, you know? But once I realized that Tazuna-kun was… my first love, I started to become a little more conscious of it.”

“Ha? First love?”

“Actually, Tazuna-kun and I seem to come from the same kindergarten.”

“Seriously?”

“I’ve heard the exact same thing about the play. Tazuna kun, your surname used to be Ikuno, right?”

“That’s how you knew? That’s amazing. I didn’t notice it at all.”

“I’m sorry I’m such an unimpressive woman.”

“It’s true.”

Himekane said, “Are you someone who doesn’t understand sarcasm?”

“Even after I found out that you were my first love, I still loved Sumeragi-chan.That’s what I thought. I had mixed feelings about it.”

Suddenly, I remembered the conversation between Saejima and Himekane. She said that there was someone she was interested in apart from the person she liked, but was that about me?

“I clearly realized that I like Tezuna-kun …… rather recently.”

“Recently?”

“When I found out that Sumeragi chan is really a girl.”

“Why did you realize it?”

“There are a few reasons, right? One was that I wasn’t as shocked as I thought when I found out that the person I loved was a girl. Also… if Sumeragi-chan was a girl, I thought she would become my enemy. I guess I was surprised that I thought that…”

“????”

What do you mean?

“Well, anyway! Don’t reply to me right now, okay? Besides, right now, I want to do something about Sumeragi-chan…umm… Sumeragi-chan too…”

“She likes me, huh?”

“Eh, you know about that too?!”

“Shigenawa said.”

“I wonder if she has any delicacy or not. ……”

“Why did you tell Sumeragi how you felt?”

“Umm, I thought it was a declaration of war…..”

“A declaration of war?”

“I thought that Sumeragi-chan liked Tazuna-kun. After all, we are romantic rivals, right? So, I didn’t know how to interact with Sumeragi-chan from now on… so I avoided her.”

“……”

“But when Tazuna-kun told me, I thought it was no good for me to go on like this,……, so I decided to be honest about my feelings and fight her as a rival in love! That’s why I tell Sumeragi-chan about my feelings for Tazuna-kun.”

“I see,…… is that the reason why she is avoiding us,……?”

Himekane snorts “hmmm” at my question.

“I feel like that’s the reason why she started avoiding me. But I don’t understand why that would be a reason to avoid me. Above all, it has nothing to do with Tazuna-kun, right?”

“That’s true.”

I don’t think that’s the reason why I’m being avoided. In the first place, Himekane and I aren’t necessarily related for the same reason.

I and Himekane thought about it together, “Hmmm,” but in the end, we couldn’t come up with an answer.

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