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[You idiot! The girl is waiting for you!]
It was the summer of my eighth grade year. It was a phrase from a comic book I happened to read in the hospital where I was hospitalized.
[The girl is waiting for you! Because it’s you! Because she loves you! You said goodbye to her without saying a word!]
His hot-blooded friend A always pushed the hero’s back and encouraged him.
Sometimes they fought, sometimes they got upset
But he never betrayed him, no matter what.
“Go, go, go! Run! She chose you, not …… me!”
No matter if the heroine you have a crush on doesn’t choose you, it doesn’t matter. You have to carry on and carry on with yourself.
That’s why I longed to see that. I admired the one and only friend A who supports the hero in the shadows without giving anything in return, more than the hero who is troubled and suffers, but still comes to a happy ending.
It is the first day of school after entering the second year of high school.
A beautiful spring has arrived, with the petals of the cherry blossoms gently blowing in the wind.
They often call such a spring the season of encounters and partings, but if you are a sophomore in high school and not even involved in club activities, it is mostly just a season of encounters.
On that day, I, Hayami Ren, had come to see the new class assignments posted in front of the school building.
Well, what happened to the classes? I crawled across to the first, second, and third classes…… and checked the names.
“Oh, there it is, there it is. Good.”
I struck a gut-punch and returned my gaze to the bulletin board again. Just then.
“Hey, hey. Isn’t that guy cool?”
“Oh, he’s really …… cool.”
I hear a new student’s voice from behind me.
I missed this feeling. It seems that the exact same thing is happening as last year.
“───Ren, hey. We are in the same class this year too.”
Hasegawa Aota, the protagonist of this (hypothetical) work, is in the same class as last year. He belongs to the soccer club.
He is a fresh and handsome guy with an impeccable appearance, who has a good-natured and friendly personality, is a good sportsman, and has a clear head.
“Aota? Well, I guess this rotten relationship didn’t break this year either, huh?”
He smiled friendly when I made a light remark.
“Seriously, I thought we were best friends.”
“No way. It’s a long-standing relationship. Who would willingly hang out with a good-looking guy like you?”
Of course, there is no such thing, but it is one of the important jobs of Friend A to make light remarks like this.
“That’s a compliment. I mean, you’re good-looking enough, right? I don’t know”
“It sounds sarcastic even if you say it.”
Of course, as his friend A, I can’t afford to be taken advantage of. I try to look good, but unfortunately, I cannot become a naturally good-looking guy like Sota even if I try to stand on my head.
I have neither naturally straight hair nor a sweet mask like an idol.
“Let’s talk over there. I don’t want to get in the way here.”
We left the crowded bulletin board and sat down by a nearby flower bed.
“Oh no, it’s already been two years. I’ve got to decide what I’m going to do.”
“That’s right.”
As we continued our usual conversation, we saw a girl walking toward us from the bulletin board.
“Good morning, Aota-kun, Hayami-kun.
We are in the same class again this year.”
It was a modest and small greeting. Sota and I turned around.
“Oh, you’re the chairperson, good morning.”
“I-I’m not the chairperson anymore. I don’t know if I will be the class chairman this year. ……”
The girl whom Sota called the chairperson.
Kazekawa Tsuki.
“I see, so should I call you Kazekawa from now on?”
“…..! Well, well, you see!”
The girl is flustered. Is she happy or embarrassed?
“Hmmm…”
I instantly gasp, sensing the presence of a romantic comedy, and step out of their line of sight.
Kazekawa Tsuki. A literary girl with pigtails and glasses. In a word, she is a serious and timid little animal heroine.
Her language is polite and her shy nature sometimes causes her to run on empty, but she is a hard-working heroine who never fails to make an effort in everything she does (I assume).
I don’t know about this, but the two of them have known each other since elementary school. They have known each other since elementary school, so to speak.
“Hn? What’s wrong?”
Aota tilted his head to see if he felt Kazekawa’s eyes on him.
“N-No, it’s nothing.”
I always think this, Aouta. You’re really insensitive. Normally, wouldn’t you have some inkling? she was definitely mesmerized
“Well, let’s go to the classroom, shall we?”
“Oh, yeah. Kazekawa”
“!!!”
From the outside, it is easy to see that Kazekawa Tsuki is in love with Aota. Just by calling her last name, she blushes as if she were about to burst into flames.
“…… Ren? You, what’s wrong?”
Sota tilted his head as if he felt uncomfortable with me who was in the position of taking a step back.
“No, I felt it would be uncivilized to get between the two of you.”
“What are you talking about?”
The three of us then headed to a new classroom on the third floor of the west wing. And on the way there.
“Oh, hey, look at this!”
“What the hell!? That beautiful girl!”
“Beautiful ……”
After climbing the stairs. The corridor in front of the first grade classroom on the second floor was noisy.
“Somehow, it’s all the more exciting.”
“Yes, last year I was very excited too.
This year’s first graders. Come to think of it, I didn’t do enough research. The fact that I am now a sophomore in high school means that I will have juniors.
The introduction of a new character is an important event in a romantic comedy.
“Hey! That’s dangerous! Get out of the way!”
While Aota and I were distracted, a girl was running from the opposite corridor.
“Soooooo”
I pulled myself up loosely and avoided her.
My role is friend A. I can’t have a romantic comedy event happen at a place like this.
“Gghhhh!”
As I had expected, it was Aota who collided head-on with the girl.
Aota, while raising an unreliable voice, firmly caught the girl with his chest and fell down backward.
As expected, he is an all-around sportsman. It is a quintessential hero (assumption) to be able to do such a thing on the spur of the moment.
“Ouch….. are you alright?”
“Ouch. Haa!?”
The girl seems to have understood the situation immediately, and immediately stood up and turned away with a pout.
“Oh, it’s Ayla.”
“Don’t get the wrong idea! I wouldn’t have been hurt even if you hadn’t gone out of your way to protect me!”
The one who hit him with the template tsundere is one of last year’s classmates, Nishimiya Ayla.
She is a beautiful girl with twin-tailed blonde hair and strong, narrowed eyes. Rumor has it that her mother is British and her hair color is natural.
She is our second heroine (I assume).
“Geez, be careful. I can’t always be there for you.”
“! I didn’t ask anyone to do that!”
If Nishimiya Ayla had a cat-like or dog-like tail, it would be buzzing around right now.
Nishimiya Ayla is just not very good at expressing affection. Her seemingly domineering personality is a reflection of the affection she shows only to those she trusts. I believe this.
“Well, if you’re not hurt, that’s all right. You shouldn’t run in the hallway.”
“Yes, I know.”
Ayla turned away again and went up the stairs to her classroom.
“C-Come on, let’s go,”
I called out to the two of them.
As much as I’d love to do some research on first-year students, right now I’m just trying to get a hold of …….
“───Hayami senpai, right?”
“!?”
I was called by name. It was only that, but I was surprised.
I could understand if she called Aota’s name. After all, Aota is the best looking guy in this school. It is not surprising that he has already become a rumor among new students.
However, I am just friend A who is standing next to the handsome guy, a shady person who supports Aota without doing anything conspicuous. ……
“Fufu What’s the matter? You’re in such a hurry.
I just called your name, didn’t I?”
“Oh, sure. I’m Hayami,…….”
The crowd split in two, making way for the owner of the voice. Then a girl appeared in front of me.
“Do you remember me?”
“…..?”
I was in a state of shock. Partly because this situation was not very good for a friend like me, A, but more than that, …….
“Do I have something on my face? Senpai?”
She had long, pure white, snowy hair with two black hairpins. Long eyelashes the same color as her hair and red eyes.
Her features are not just neat, but rather beautiful, and if you were to give form to the word beautiful, it would be this girl.
“No, no,……, nothing.”
Her delicate build and each and every one of her movements were so graceful and pretty that they brought to mind the term “housed young lady.”
“Ren, do you know each other?”
Aota asked, blinking.
“I don’t know …… her.”
At least such a beautiful girl, once you’ve seen her, there’s no way you can forget her.
“Sad …… even though I’m so impatient with senpai.”
The yellow screams of the girls echoed down the corridor. It’s bad, it’s too conspicuous.
“But that’s okay. Memories are things that are forgotten. That’s why ……”
“Hii!?”
We suddenly got close and I could smell the scent of flowers. Then, my hand was wrapped around her slender fingers.
“Can we meet alone after school today?”
A face like a work of art approached me suddenly.
The distance between us was so close that our breaths almost mingled with each other’s.
“E-Eeh?”
What is this super development?
I was confused, but tried to open my mouth to refuse.
However, the girl whispered in a quiet voice that only I could hear.
“–If you refuse, I’ll tell a lie about what you did to me in the past.”
…She’s a scammer at this point. She talks as if she wants to take me with her when we die. She’s no ordinary guy.
In the spring of my sophomore year of high school, I met her
She was like an angel, but she was a devil ……, or rather, a devilish junior.
─ ─ Shiramine Hisui.
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