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On the day after I thanked her, I left home earlier than Ayaka, took the train, and waited at the meeting place.
The reason why we did not leave together was because Ayaka said that she wanted to meet up with me.
I thought it was a hassle, but I agreed to do what I could to make it happen because it was my way of saying thank you to Ayaka.
She also specified my hair, and parted my bangs so that she could see my face, just like when I went out with Fuyusaki.
It is unclear why she went to the trouble of specifying this.
The destination was supposed to be a park, but I somehow convinced her to go shopping as usual.
Because of Ayaka’s words, I remember that scene every time I see the park.
“…..Thanks for waiting.”
As I waited while looking at my phone, Ayaka showed up 5 minutes before the meeting time.
And I was astonished at her appearance.
“What?”
“No, that outfit…”
Ayaka is usually dressed in a girly, flirty outfit, but today she was dressed very boyishly.
“It’s okay, sometimes. Come on, let’s go.”
She said in a somewhat pouty voice and started to walk away.
I silently followed her.
“How do you like this?”
“Yeah, it looks good on you.”
“How about this?”
“Yeah, I think it looks good.”
“Aren’t you tired of saying that?”
“….Not really.”
For the next hour, Ayaka tried on clothes in the store, and was asked for her opinion of them.
That’s all there was to it.
I’m not really interested in clothes, and to be honest, I was bored.
Ayaka herself seemed to enjoy looking at the clothes, so it was fine…
“Hmmm, I’ll think about it after we go to the next store.”
I sigh a little, wondering if this will continue.
While Ayaka is changing, I look around the store.
Where summer clothes used to be laid out, long-sleeved clothes are laid out, and short-sleeved and other items are sold at discount prices in the store.
In front of the discount section, I find an intelligent looking girl with her hand on her chin, thinking about something.
She wears glasses and her hair is tied up in a straight knot, and she looks like an honor student herself.
“Sorry for the delay.”
Ayaka comes out of the fitting room and puts back the clothes she tried on without buying them.
“You’re not going to buy anything? I’ll buy it for you, okay?”
“I’m good, I’ll come back if the next store doesn’t have anything good.”
After putting back all the clothes, we head to the next store.
After that, Ayaka tried on the clothes and went to the next store repeatedly, and in the end we never bought any clothes and we ended up at a store on another floor where anime goods are sold.
As we stood in front of the store, Ayaka took out a pair of sunglasses and a mask from her bag and put them on.
“What are you doing?”
“Of course it’s for a disguise ! What if I run into a girl from my class?”
“What’s wrong with that?”
“What would they say if they saw me, the girl in my class, buying a book with a strong BL image !”
Indeed, for Ayaka, who wears a double face, it may be something to be careful about.
“So? Yu didn’t buy any clothes, but you’re buying books?”
“I’ll buy some books, but first I’ll buy goods.”
“Then call me when you buy it and I’ll take a look.”
Saying that, Ayaka enters the store and heads straight for the shelves where her favorite goods are lined up.
She has been here many times and seems to know where it is.
Since this is my first time here, I don’t know where everything is, but as soon as I enter the store, I see a shelf with new manga books, and I look at them.
I find a sequel to a manga I used to watch, and I’m having a surprisingly good time,
“Onii chan !”
Suddenly, I was called out and looked around.
I wondered if Ayaka had called me that, but she never calls me big brother.
But there was no one around, and just when I thought it was someone else, my pants were yanked down.
I reacted and looked down to see the girl I met at the amusement park one day grabbing my pants.
“K-Koharu chan !?”
“I knew it ! It’s Onii chan !”
I smile to see her cackling and laughing.
“Wait ! You’re alone !? Don’t tell me you’re lost again !?”
I panicked, but she shook her head.
Then, a girl comes running toward her.
“Don’t go too far ahead of me, Koharu～”
That girl was the intelligent looking girl who was looking at clothes at the store earlier.
“Onee chan ! This is the Onii chan I told you about the other day !”
“The other day? The person I met at the amusement park?”
“Yeah !”
The girl who was called “Onee chan” by Koharu chan picks her up and looks at me.
Judging by her appearance, she looks like she’s about the same age as me.
“Erm, thank you for taking care of Koharu? No, that doesn’t sound right……”
She seemed to be at a loss as to how to greet me, so I introduced myself.
“I’m Mitsui Kenshiro, who played at the amusement park with Koharu chan.”
“Eh !? Mitsui Kenshiro !?”
When she says my name, the girl’s eyes suddenly open and she approaches me.
I backed away from her with such vigor.
“R-really !? Are you really Kenshiro?”
The girl says as if she knows me.
“Erm, I’m sorry, do I know you from somewhere?”
I ask back because I don’t recognize her.
“Oh, sorry, yes.”
The girl takes off her glasses and winks.
“Do you recognize me now?”
Unfortunately, I can’t remember.
“No, not at all……erm, what’s your name?”
“You really can’t remember ! It’s no use, I’m Uchida Kanata, we used to play together a long time ago, didn’t we?”
“Uchida Kanata…..I think I heard that name somewhere……”
Yes, I heard that name somewhere.
But I can’t remember it.
“You see ! In that big park, with the white trampoline and everything !”
“The big park…..white……ah !”
That word reminds me vaguely.
There was a time, shortly after my dad remarried Kanna san, that she and I used to go to some park on the weekends.
I didn’t know why, but my dad was talking to someone while I was playing with someone else.
(Yes, that reminds me !)
Uchida Kanata.
A girl like a boy who used to play at the park for a while when I was a kid.
And my first love.
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