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[Q. Who is Friend A to you?]
If you were to ask me such a question, like in a show I’ve seen before, I’d answer
friend A is a dream, a longing, and a hero to me. I dreamed of him like a boy dreams of a righteous deputy in a shiny costume.”
None of this is a lie. Just as a baseball boy dreams of a professional baseball player, just as a girl dreams of a prince on a white horse. That’s what I longed for.
And I would say with a smug look on my face.
“This is my Another.”
Yeah, I know. I feel like it’s not quite right, but I’ll settle for something like that.
………
……
…
“Hey, Hayami. Hayami …… Hayami Ren!”
“Y-yes!!!”
My body trembled with fear, and I regained consciousness in an instant. Ah, I’ve messed up, I thought to myself. When I raised my face from the desk, my homeroom teacher was looking at me with a ferocious expression.
“G-good morning? Aoi-sensei.”
Aoi Haruka. She’s our homeroom teacher, and she’s a spiffy twenty-six-year-old …… who’s on the lookout for a boyfriend. I found that on a social networking account I stumbled upon the other day.
“Solve this problem, okay?”
“Yes! Leave it to me!”
“No jokes.”
I stood up, listening to the giggles and laughter of my classmates.
Apparently, I had fallen asleep during fourth period.
The subject was math, with x, y, and z all lined up on the blackboard in a row of mathematical formulas.
“Let’s see…”
It was not a very difficult problem. At most, it was an application of what I had learned last year.
I lifted a piece of chalk and wrote the equation on the blackboard.
This is here, this is here, and this is …….
“Ha!?”
“Hnn? What’s wrong, Hayami?”
“No, no.”
Watch out, watch out. I was about to solve it normally. If I had solved this one…..
[What, he was sleeping a while ago, how can he solve it?]
[He’s so smart, huh?]
[That’s not how I pictured him.]
[He’s really smart, isn’t he? ……]
The whole class would be in a weird mood, and as a result, the teacher would say, [Who does he think he is, cutting corners or whatnot?]
“Sensei!”
“W-What is it? You suddenly started yelling.”
“I tried, but I can’t solve it!”
I erased a part of the equation while camouflaging myself with words, and then reported it to the teacher.
“Yeah, I thought so. Take a seat.”
“hehe, sorry.”
I return to my seat, and she begins to explain the formulas. Aoi-sensei’s lessons are always easy to understand because she teaches one thing at a time in a clear, concise manner.
“That’s all for today. I understand that you are excited about the start of a new semester, but please take the class seriously.”
At the end of the lesson, she glared at me. I guess I shouldn’t have fallen asleep.
Just then the chime rang. Oh, come on, a premonition of the future, huh?
“Well then,”
At the same time, I was tapped on the shoulder.
“It’s unusual, Ren. I didn’t expect you to fall asleep during class.”
I turned around and saw Aota. Aota was looking fresh and handsome again today.
“Yeah, I’m a little sleep-deprived.”
“What’s the matter, are you having trouble?”
“No, well, …… a little.”
The reason for the lack of sleep is because I was woken up late at night by my drunken sister coming home from a blind date, no deeper reason. …… she doesn’t seem like the kind of person who would have any troubles in the first place.
“Hayami-kun. You have a visitor.”
One of the girls called my name. I turned towards the classroom entrance.
“…… Shiramine-san.”
“Senpai, I’m here to pick you up.”
Today, as always, there was a perfectly beautiful girl there.
“Oh, it’s the girl from yesterday.”
“She’s so cute, isn’t she?”
“What’s the connection between them?”
It seems that all of the classmates are quite curious about it as well. To be honest, even I’m curious about this mysterious relationship…or rather, what Shiramine is thinking.
“Hey, popular guy. Come on, go ahead.”
It should always be me who says that, but I feel like I’m getting one over on him.
But she had come all the way here, so there was no way I could not go with her.
“Let’s go, senpai.”
“Oh, yeah.”
Shiramine pulled me by the hand and we left the classroom. I could hear my classmates whispering from behind, but I decided not to think too deeply about it…
“What do you think is for lunch today?”
“O- omelette rice. ……?”
There is no way to eat omu-rice two days in a row, so I dared to go out of my way.”
“…..hmm”
But Shiramine puffed up her cheeks and turned away.
“What? Was I right?”
“I can only make omelette rice anyway.”
“I-I see.”
It’s a little different from the image I had of her. I thought Shiramine was the kind of girl who could handle anything, but it seems that’s not the case.
Actually, didn’t she say she was good at cooking?
“—Oh, I’m sorry, can you step aside for a moment? Would you mind stepping aside for a moment?”
I was called from behind. Apparently, we were walking slowly down the hallway side by side and I was getting in the way.
I reflexively grabbed Shiramine’s hand and pulled her to me.
“Uuu!?”
Standing behind me was a slender, beautiful woman with black hair. She was a little over 160 cm, with a small mole around her mouth and a strangely mature appearance.
“Excuse me, please”
In her hand, she was holding a cardboard box filled with documents.
“No, no, no, I’m sorry too. Hayami kun.”
“Hnn, You know my name?”
The face looks somehow familiar.
“I am the student council president. I know the names and faces of most of the students. Then, I’m going to go. Sorry to bother you.”
The beautiful woman went away smoothly and coolly. She was stylish.
“The student council president, huh? So she recognized me”
“Um, …… senpai.”
A strangely weak voice came from the voice. When I turned my eyes to Shiramine’s face, it was dyed a redder red than ever before.
Her eyes were darting around in circles.
“Hmm? Shiramine-san?”
“Yes, uh, that …… hand, ……”
“Oh, sorry.”
I noticed that I had naturally put my hands on her shoulders, I immediately raised both hands and stepped back.
“Senpai”
“W-What?”
“When shall we have the ceremony? The chapel is nice, but I’d like to try on a white kimono,……, but if senpai says he wants a dress, of course,…….”
“Hey, are you okay?!”
It’s no good. I don’t know what’s going on, but her thoughts are going haywire. We’re not in that kind of relationship, and we’re not that old.
“Anyway, let’s have lunch.”
Shiramine then immersed herself in her own world for a while until we reached the back of the school building.
“I’m sorry, Senpai. I seem to have become distraught. ……”
After sitting on the bench and regaining her composure, Shiramine handed me one of her lunch boxes, somewhat apologetically.
“Well, well, those sorts of things happen. Haha.”
At least, that has never happened to me. Well, I guess it depends on the person. Thinking this, I opened my lunch box.
“Yeah, it looks delicious again today.”
“Fufu, Thank you very much. Please enjoy your meal.”
I put my hands together and open the lid.
Today’s omelette is a demi-glace with a twist, unlike yesterday’s orthodox one.
“It tastes good, even though it’s …… cold.”
I take a bite with a spoon and find that inside is chicken rice. It is as good as yesterday’s simple omelette rice.
“…. are you really going to collaborate, senpai?”
“Eh? What are you talking about?”
“The thing we were talking about yesterday when we met Kazekawa-senpai at the supermarket.”
She looked somewhat displeased, or perhaps annoyed. Yes, if it were made into a painting, it would probably fetch a considerable amount of money.
“Ah, about that”
What I talked about with Kazekawa Tsuki at the supermarket by chance. It was.
[Umm, my father won four tickets to an amusement park in a lottery, but both he and my mother have to work on the day of the event, so, um, if you don’t mind, would you like to come, Hayami-kun and Aota-kun?]
It was, so to speak, an invitation for fun.
“I disagree. I am against it. Why don’t she ask him directly? Kazekawa-senpai’s purpose is just to go to the amusement park with Hasegawa-senpai, right?”
Shiramine Hisui’s lips pouted in displeasure. Somehow, I get the same vibe as when someone makes fun of something I like.
“Maybe so, but that’s okay. Kazekawa-san is a bit reserved, and it’s okay to be a little bit lenient with others.”
“I don’t really understand that. Because, if you like someone,……, helplessly like, your body and mind will move on its own accord.”
For some reason, Shiramine seemed embarrassed.
She was twirling her beautiful, pure bangs, like the first snow, around her fingertips and looking down.
“I guess so. I don’t really know.”
Unfortunately, I’ve only seen other people’s love lives, and somewhere in my mind I think it has nothing to do with me. This may also be because I’m not very interested in, or even cared about, my own affairs.
“But you know what? Maybe she couldn’t help but be troubled”
Falling in love with someone is surely not only a happy thing. When you fall in love, you may be troubled or even suffer. That’s how human emotions are made.
“If that’s why she asked me for help, I’d like to give it to her,”
That’s me, and that’s my dream.
It may be impossible for all the heroines to be happy. Even the heroes may have many difficulties and sufferings before they become happy.
But that is why. I want to be on the side of such heroes and heroines as much as I can.
“… senpai is really a sinful person.”
“That’s not me, it’s Aota. I’m sure of it.”
She chuckled. It made me laugh.
“—But, senpai, if you don’t even look at yourself, then I have an idea.”
“Eh?”
The smile on Shiramine’s face was like a princess from a fairy tale, but with a hint of mischievousness.
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How does one become sixteen feet?
fixed XD, it’s 160 cm