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After the lunch break, the afternoon session begins.
The afternoon session began with the club relay, followed by the individual events, the relay finals, and finally the scavenger hunt to close the event.
I was watching the relay while waiting at the entrance gate to compete in the next individual event.
As expected, the first team was the track team, and the one running now was Tokumatsu.
He took the baton at the front and was widening the gap between himself and the rest.
“Hmmmm, as I thought, Tokumatsu kun is fast~.”
Wado, who was also competing in the individual event, put her hand on her chin as she spoke about Tokumatsu.
“You know that guy?”
“We were in the same junior high school, and he was a rather strange kid.”
“Strange kid?”
I have an image of him as a good guy at heart, albeit a little hotheaded, so I nodded my head at Wado’s words.
“Weird or maybe a little creepy?”
When Wado told me the legend of Tokumatsu’s middle school days, I was speechless.
Not out of despair, but out of dismay.
“The girls around him were a little taken aback.”
“Somehow, the way I look at him has suddenly changed…”
I muttered as I looked at Tokumatsu, who was changing back into his gym clothes after finishing his club activity relay.
The girls’ club relay relay is over, and they move on to the individual events.
The girls’ individual event will be held first, followed by the boys’s event.
Regarding the girls’ results, Wado had a good third place finish.
Then the second year boys’ event started, and it was Umeki senpai who took first place.
He was indeed a member of the track and field team, and he had reached the goal by a landslide.
Finally, it was our turn.
As in the obstacle, Tokumatsu was next to me again.
“Ah, Fuyusaki san, it’s time to release you…”
After learning about Tokumatsu’s past, the idea of him as a single-minded guy changed to one of a bad guy.
(However, if I lose this…)
If I lose, I will reject Fuyusaki.
As I recall, that was the deal.
I thought it might be okay.
Until a while ago.
“On your marks.”
The teacher signaled for us to take our starting positions.
“Okay…..[Bang !]”
The pistol sounds and we all start at once.
Halfway around the corner, after 100 meters, the lanes are no longer relevant and we all go inside.
I can see Tokumatsu’s back on the outside lane.
Little by little, I can see the gap widening.
(Damn it ! I knew I couldn’t do it !)
My opponent is a member of the track and field team that specializes in this event.
He’s bigger than me.
(Damn…)
“Is that all you got? Kenshiro !”
Just when I was about to give up, I thought I heard an angry voice from somewhere.
（Ah, shit ! There’s no way he’s here.)
Even as I thought this, I looked ahead.
With 70 meters to go, I saw Tokumatsu’s back getting bigger.
I approached him and we lined up side by side at the last corner.
I couldn’t see his expression, but Tokumatsu must have been surprised.
(I’m really pissed off.)
My dad’s voice always makes me angry.
But every time my dad’s voice makes me angry, it gives me more strength.
Just before the finishing tape, I passed Tokumatsu and came in first.
“Eh? Tokumatsu lost.” ”Who won?”
No one had expected Tokumatsu, a member of the current track team, to lose, and the crowd began to murmur.
However, there were not as many voices as during the cheering, and it was not too much to say that it was quiet.
“Kuh ! I never thought I would lose……”
“…Honestly, no matter who Fuyusaki goes out with or who she likes, it’s up to her, and it’s not for me to interfere. But-“
I shout loudly to Tokumatsu, who has a frustrated look on his face.
“I won’t give Fuyusaki to a playboy like you ! !”
Their cries echoed well on the quiet ground.
Perhaps the entire school heard it.
“Eh? What? A confession?” “Fuyusaki, you mean Fuyusaki san, the first-year student?” “Eh? Tokumatsu kun and that guy are fighting over Fuyusaki?”
I began to hear the sound of people talking.
I couldn’t believe it would resonate this much, and my face turned bright red.
Tokumatsu in front of me also opened his eyes wide in surprise.
“Huu ! Now you said it~”
Makoto is whistling and saying casual things.
“Reina chan ! What did he mean by that?”
In the 1st grade class, the girls were screaming and the boys didn’t seem to know what was going on.
(Seriously, what am I saying !)
I myself felt like running away from the unintentional words right now.
“Uh, let’s see, for now, third graders, get ready……”
In the delicate atmosphere, the competition for the third-year students took place, and after it was over, they were dismissed directly from the competition.
During that time, Tokumatsu did not say a word.
“Mitsui ! Explain what’s going on !”
When I returned to my seat in class, the boys questioned me.
“You ! Did you like Fuyusaki san?”
“No, that’s not……”
“Then what was that declaration? That was almost a confession ! Don’t dodge the question !”
“That’s right ! Fuyusaki san is everyone’s Fuyusaki san !”
While the boys are fuming with anger and jealousy, one girl says.
“Everyone please be quiet !”
At her words, the boys fall silent.
The girls look with curiosity.
The girl who shouted, Fuyusaki Reina, comes in front of me and says with a smile
“Can I talk to you for a moment? Mitsui kun.”
“Ah, yes……”
Her smile was filled with anger.
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“Even though you’re hiding, you’re still screaming in the end.”
“well–that was.”
When Kenshiro was being questioned by the class, Kanna and Kenya were talking a short distance away from the parents’ seats.
“And what? Isn’t there a better way to express that support?”
“He doesn’t like me, you know. That’s what works best.”
Kenya said with a look of heartfelt happiness on his face.
“Well, then I won’t say anything.”
Kanna says to Kenya, looking at Kenshiro and Reina in the distance.
“Sakura chan, I heard she met Kenshirou kun.”
That’s what Kanna heard directly on the phone.
Sakura chan’s current daughter has brought Kenshiro kun with her.
“….I see.”
“She didn’t even tell him she was his mother.”
“If that’s Sakura’s choice, I’m not going to say anything.”
When talking about Sakura, Kenya looks very calm.
This increases Kanna’s guilt.
“….If you’re going to make a face like that, you shouldn’t have let her go.”
After saying that, Kanna was taken aback.
He took away Kenya’s family, he destroyed Sakura’s happiness.
“……I’m sorry.”
“It’s okay. It was my decision to help you. At that time, saving you was the most important thing.”
“But ! It was because of what happened to your sister….and if it hadn’t been for that, I wouldn’t have……”
“If it hadn’t been for my sister’s incident, I wouldn’t have met Sakura. I wouldn’t have become the person I am in the first place.”
Kenya thinks.
If that incident hadn’t happened, he would never have talked to Sakura, who was studying alone in a university classroom.
“I saved you, and my sister has nothing to do with it.”
“…..Well, then I won’t say anything else.”
A few seconds of silence passes.
“……I’m going home soon. I have work to do.”
“You’re not going to watch till the end?”
“If Kenshiro finds out I’m here, I’ll be in trouble.”
“……I know it’s probably not my place to say this, but maybe it’s time you stopped running away.”
Kanna’s words hit Kenya where it hurts.
“I was able to face my daughter thanks to you, Kenya. You have given me the time to be happy with Reina. I don’t think Kenshiro kun are as much of a child as you think.”
“……Well then, please give my regards to Reina.”
Kenya returns to the car without giving a clear answer to Kanna’s words.
“Not a child, huh.”
While muttering, Kenya looks at a photo.
A photo of him wearing a large uniform and a girl wearing another uniform, arm in arm.
“I wonder if my sister could have done better…”
While imagining such a scenario, Kenya started the car’s engine.
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