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“Arisa……, it hurts me when you put it so clearly.”
“How did that happen?”
“Kokoro seems to have noticed it recently, but to be honest it’s been a long time ago. Kokoro get along too well with boys. Also, they don’t like her because she naturally dominates them with her looks and sports. She’s too much of a communicator.”
“I have this personality that makes it easier for me to get along with boys than with girls. I’m not good at that particular …… thing with girls. That’s why I didn’t fit in at all after I entered high school.”
I think Tsumugi was being confronted with the same thing.
But Mizuhara san seems agitated, so I wonder if she has some kind of secret plan.
“My childhood friend is going through the same thing, and she’s blocked up. What do you think I should do? How did you get over it?”
Mizuhara-san glanced at Arisa.
“I had Arisa and Shizuku. As long as they were by my side, it didn’t matter if people of the same gender didn’t like me. They were the only friends I had.”
“Me and Shizuku don’t have any problem with her because we know her personality. So I don’t have any bad impression of Tsumugi.”
“I see. Tsumugi’s childhood friends are me and Reo, we are boys. That’s why I don’t understand her.”
“But now that we’re going to different high schools, she’s been calling me and Shizuku every day. She said, “I can’t do this, Shizuku, please help me””
“I only find out after they leave my side. Even in the swimming club, everyone hates me. Because they’re all bad swimmers.”
When I saw her laughing out loud, I felt like I understood why she was hated.
“onii san came to me when Arisa and Shizuku weren’t there. He was so kind…I was excited even though I must have known him since we were little.”
So that was the story. I guess Mizuhara-san had a hard time with relationships, too.
Perhaps Shizuru-san also knew Mizuhara-san’s personality.
While she was paying attention, the two of them became intimate…I guess that’s what it felt like.
“That’s why I think Tsumugi should get a boyfriend too. Then she won’t have to worry about same-gender troubles. Who is the boy she’s best friends with? That girl is pretty cute, too. Then
it’s easy”
“If it’s …… a childhood friendship, I guess it’s me.”
“Then you should go out with her and protect her.”
“No, you can’t do that!”
Arisa shouted loudly and stood up.
“Ryouma cannot! Never …… ever!”
“Why?”
“T-That’s …… that …….”
Arisa looked at me and Mizuhara-san alternately as if she was confused.
But to be honest, it’s not a problem that can be dealt with just because we’re dating.
If I were to go out with her so casually, what would have happened to the vows I made to various people?
“I’m going to the bathroom!”
Arisa left as if she was running away.
What should I do in this situation?
“Yoisho”
Mizuhara-san suddenly got up and sat down next to me, where Arisa was not. She then moved her face closer to mine.
It was impossible for me not to be conscious of the fact that a beautiful girl comparable to Arisa was approaching me.
This person may indeed resemble Tsumugi. The distance between her and men is……
“I heard from Shizuku that ……. Kogure-chi knows how Arisa feels, right?”
“Well, …….I didn’t hear it from her, so there’s a possibility that she doesn’t.”
“Of course not. I’ve never seen Arisa like that. She must like Kogure chi a lot to act like that.”
“Please don’t. I’m not used to being liked. ……”
“Kogure-chi really does look like Shizuku. When I asked Shizuku about her handsome boyfriend, she felt the same way and was embarrassed.”
Reo is quite smitten with Otsuki san.
Otsuki san’s feelings of happiness but also embarrassment, I can understand.
Even now, I’m honestly happy, but …… I’m also embarrassed.
“When I started going out with onii chan, I still felt bad for Shizuku. I don’t want it to get awkward with Shizuku like this. And I caused Arisa trouble…I think it was my fault.”
“Mizuhara-san.”
“Still, I fell in love with onii chan. But I’m really glad to hear that Shizuku is happy now. So, I guess I want Arisa to be happy too.”
“It’s surprising, but I had the impression that Mizuhara-san was a self-paced person, but it seems like she has strong feelings for Otsuki-san and Arisa.”
“That’s right. I’m not a strong person mentally, you know.
I get depressed easily and I don’t like to be disliked. Isn’t it the same with that girl? Do you think that girls who go at their own pace have a mentality of steel?”
Maybe so.
I thought Tsumugi was a girl with a strong mentality from my old impression of her, but …… what if she wasn’t?
Arisa and Reo have a mentality of steel against attacks from anyone other than their best friends. They never break and fight back.
Me and Otsuki-san are probably just like anyone else. But we all have a strong mentality at times.
Mizuhara-san looks like she has a strong mentality, but …… she is actually quite fragile.
“How can I help her? How can Tsumugi return to her normal self?”
Mizuhara-san nodded once and laughed.
“I think she can’t handle her mental weakness, so she’ll just have to go with being herself. If you are a communicator and try to mix with others, you will be disliked, hurt, and depressed.”
“Be yourself…..”
“I’m sure that Kogure chi and Shizuku’s boyfriends are by her side as her childhood friends. And Arisa and Shizuku are by her side. I guess we just have to make her understand that.”
I see. What Mizuhara-san said is the most reasonable.
Tsumugi thinks she is alone now. That’s why she’s shutting herself away. But it can’t be helped. We have lived apart for 10 years.
So what can I do? I think I have found a way.
“Thank you, Mizuhara san.”
“It’s fine. Kogure-chan is so stiff, isn’t he? Let’s be more frank instead of using such honorific tone. You can call me Kokoro if you like.”
She comes on so fast.
I guess because she does this kind of thing unnecessarily to other boys, she is liked by them and hated by her own gender. I guess this area is already innate.
Well, when I thought of it ……, a reluctant Alisa approached me.
“You’ve become quite good friends. Both of you.”
“Right~ Ryoma chi”
She called me by name!
“What were you doing where I wasn’t here!? Really Kokoro”
“I didn’t do anything. Ryoma chi is very stiff, so he should loosen up his language. He should call me Kokoro.”
“No.”
Arisa’s voice interrupted her
“I told you before. I’m the only one Ryoma doesn’t use a polite tone with girls. He has to speak politely to other girls and call them by their last names. Have you forgotten?”
“Yes, I’m sorry.”
“I see– a tsundere becomes a yandere when she falls in love–”
I had no choice but to follow that eye power of Arisa.
Now, when I return home, I will start preparing as soon as possible.
This is the best I can do for Tsumugi.
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