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“Um, erm……Konno kun, you’re mad at me, aren’t you?”
“I’m not.”
Kuzugaya asks timidly, looking up at me, and I reply curtly.
“I’m sorry. It’s natural for you to be angry. I hurt Konno kun…and you’re refusing my calls…..”
In contrast to me, Kuzugaya was rather fidgety.
We had been dating for a full year before that incident, but this was the first time I had seen Kuzugaya in such a manner.
“I don’t care if you apologize now. It’s just another event. You shouldn’t have done that in the first place.”
“Yeah…..”
“So, this is what you wanna talk about?
If so, can I go now? I’m not angry, but I still don’t feel good if you keep coming back.”
When it’s brought back like this, I can’t help but remember that day—on the one-year anniversary of our relationship–when Kuzugaya and a handsome medical student came out of a love hotel arm in arm.
I already have no regrets about Kuzugaya as a lover.
But still.
When I talk to her face to face like this, various feelings of despair, emptiness, and humiliation that I felt at that time are rising in my chest again.
I almost clicked my tongue at the inexpressible discomfort.
But I thought that would be lame of me as a man, so I managed to hold back.
I want to praise myself for holding back.
I turned my back to Kuzugaya and walked away, sighing in my heart instead of clicking my tongue.
I’m not angry.
That is true.
It’s not like I’ve completely lost my mind, but for me, Kuzugaya is already in the past.
It was the worst day of my life that I can’t even think back on.
But I was lucky enough to be able to put it behind me after I went to save Mizuki chan from drowning on the way home.
So I’m not angry.
Still, I wonder if there’s a guy out there who feels better when his ex-girlfriend tells him about her affair to him.
If you’re going to make such a half-hearted apology, you don’t need to do it in the first place, so just leave me alone.
We are supposed to be strangers now, right?
But now, I’ve made a clean break with her.
We will never speak to each other again.
Only on that point, I found some kind of significance in this conversation and was half refreshed.
Then, Kuzugaya took a surprising step.
“Wait–!”
Kuzugaya said in a loud voice and hugged me vigorously.
She quickly put her hands around my waist, and my back and her body were tightly pressed together.
It was like I was in a back-hugging position.
The soft feeling that I had experienced several times when we were dating was gradually transmitted to me through my back.
“What the hell do you think you’re doing all of a sudden? I don’t understand.”
“I’m sorry……”
Kuzugaya buries her face in my back as she mumbles her words of apology in a muffled voice.
“Don’t apologize to me, you should do that to your handsome medical school student boyfriend, right? You went to a love hotel together.”
As you can imagine, I’m annoyed.
I really don’t get it.
We’re not even lovers anymore, we’re strangers.
This is not a good idea.
Of course, if I wanted to shake her off, I could easily do so.
Kuzugaya is a slender girl, and I am a man, albeit an ordinary one.
But I was not comfortable using force against a girl, even though I was annoyed with her.
I don’t like violence.
If possible, I’d like to solve the problem through discussion.
“About that….”
“What?”
“I wanted to get back together with Konno kun if he was okay with it.”
I spent a good five seconds chewing over the meaning of those words in my head,
“………..Huh?”
I couldn’t help but make a dumb noise.
Get back together—-you say?
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