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“Hey, Touya, Nakajima kun.”
“What is it?”
“What’s wrong?”
“Don’t you wanna be popular?”
“!?”
“What…did you say !?”
They are so simple.
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“I knew this was coming !”
“You knew this when you told me to bring my workout clothes !”
“But you still came.”
The voices of Touya and Nakajima kun echoed from the left and right, respectively.
The three of us were all dressed in our workout clothes and sweating frantically as we moved our legs.
(I didn’t think they would be this easy to fool, but……)
We are at the gym.
I asked them if they wanted to be popular because it was the first time for me to come to such a gym by myself and I wanted someone to be with me.
The real reason is that I wanted to work out a little to be prepared for any emergency, although it would be nice to rely on NTR Sensor.
“Since we’ve come all this way, I’ll do my best ! !”
“Uwoooooooooooo ! !”
Even though they knew that they were coming to a gym, they didn’t particularly want to leave, and as they ran on the running machine like this, they moved their legs while exuding the spirit of wanting to be popular with women.
They’re too simple, really.
“I’m sorry we made such a loud noise.”
“It’s totally fine. I feel nostalgic seeing you work so hard like that…I used to be so fat that I was in the triple digits.”
“Eh !?”
The trainer who taught me how to use the running machine, such a smart gentlemen used to be in the triple digits !?
“That was in high school, so that must have been ten years ago.”
“Heh……”
“There was a girl I liked. I worked hard to confess my feelings to her.”
“Really !”
“So, what happened?”
It seems that I’m not the only one who’s interested in his story, but Touya and the others are also interested.
Of course, it was a bit surreal to see him keep moving, never stopping.
“However, I started dieting because I thought we wouldn’t see each other after we graduated from high school…by the time I lost weight and gained confidence, we’d both already graduated.”
“Ah……”
“That’s….”
Well, it happens, doesn’t it?
The story is a little bit more sobering, but there seems to be more to this story.
“But we met again at the reunion. At the time, no one in the class recognized me at a glance, but somehow she recognized me.”
“Oh !”
“Wow !”
By the way, I wonder if he has noticed.
This gym room was filled with many people, and it was a little quieter than it should have been.
He continued with a fresh smile on his face.
“That’s where the conversation got started…..I remembered my old feelings. So I took the plunge and confessed my feelings, and now she and I are husband and wife.”
“That’s….congratulations !”
“I’m so happy for you ! Congrats !”
“Haha, thanks.”
The three of us clapped as we ran to him without thinking.
Of course, we were not the only ones applauding.
“That’s why you should work hard. You guys said you wanted to be popular, right?”
“! !”
“……Phew !”
The older guy’s words seemed to ignite Touya and Nakajima kun even more.
The two were no longer satisfied with the running machine alone, so they shouted [let’s go] and walked toward the barbells.
“Your friends…they seem to be very motivated.”
“I guess,…..erm, it’s true, isn’t it?”
“Of course it is.”
The wedding ring on his finger was shining so beautifully.
“…..I’m gonna go work a little harder too !”
Apparently, I was simple, too.
Although I came here to train my body, that doesn’t mean I don’t have a desire to be popular with girls. I joined Touya and Nakajima kun, who were working too hard and causing the older guy to worry, and I also worked out as hard as I could and sweated even more.
“Well, I worked up a good sweat !”
“We worked so hard !”
We spent two hours in the gym, losing track of time.
We were sweating profusely, so we took a dip in the hot springs inside the gym before parting ways.
I was into it so much that Touya and Nakajima kun, who are relatively indoor people, wanted to head back, as did I. I guess that older guy’s story was quite inspiring.
“I wonder what I should do now…..”
It’s just before 4:00 p.m. since we started at noon.
The time is just right to go home now, but for some reason I’m not in the mood, so I’m walking around town.
Then, I was suddenly poked on the shoulder.
“!?”
It wasn’t with that much force, but I was startled.
I turned around at a speed that surprised even myself, and there she was, an unexpected person—Aizawa.
“Aizawa……?”
“S-sorry……I didn’t expect you to be so surprised.”
“No, no, you’d be surprised if someone suddenly touched your shoulder.”
“That’s….true…I’m sorry, Kamiki kun. I should have called out to you normally.”
“No,……you don’t need to apologize…..?”
“What’s wrong?”
Aizawa tilted her head, feeling slightly uncomfortable.
Of course I was shocked to see her wearing a cool-looking dress instead of her usual uniform, but it was the strangeness that immediately stopped me from worrying about it.
“Is there….something?”
“……………”
The moment I heard that, I looked down, and I was sure there was something wrong with Aizawa’s appearance.
Although I thought it was a bit presumptuous, I couldn’t leave her alone because she was a classmate of mine.
I took Aizawa and sat down on a nearby bench, and that’s when I had a hunch.
(……No, no, I don’t have any ulterior motives and…..that’s not what this is about !)
This is just out of concern for someone else.
I told myself this to calm down and waited for Aizawa’s words.
“….Can you listen to me for a minute?”
“Yeah.”
“back then, Kamiki kun helped me, right?”
“Oh,…….”
That time you almost got assaulted, righ…..?
“It was really scary……so I talked to my boyfriend because I wanted him to comfort me. He sympathized with me….but that was it.”
“……………”
“Kamiki kun said that I’m beautiful, right? After all, I’m really happy to hear you say something like that, and even if it’s meant as a compliment, I want him to say those words that he doesn’t always say to me–and he asked me when did I become such a hassle.”
“……Seriously?”
How is that a boyfriend?
Tokunaga wasn’t a bad guy, and he wasn’t the kind of guy you’d hear strange rumors about,…..even though he had a girlfriend named Aizawa, he was popular in class, and even if you factor in the fact that he hit me in the shoulder a while back, Tokunaga wasn’t a bad person.
“He’s not a bad person,…..I agree. It’s my selfishness that I said I wanted him to comfort me or say something nice to me. So it’s my fault that I got a little upset, I guess……?”
“Aizawa?”
Aizawa, who was sitting next to me, suddenly swayed and fell towards me.
The sudden weight that came over my body made me nervous at the same time…but I also noticed that Aizawa’s body was strangely hot.
“Aizawa,……could it be that you have a fever !?”
“……Eh……? Do you think so…..?”
Aizawa was clearly not acting normal, and I felt a slight panic.
However, someone appeared who could help us–Runa, someone called her and ran towards us.
“Runa !? What happened…!?”
That person looked a lot like Aizawa, and I had a hunch that this person was Aizawa’s mother.
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