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July quickly approached the second half of the year and the summer holidays began.
Students probably like the summer holidays the best.
Especially in the second year of high school, they get to know their new friends better and spend time together without thinking about their studies, or if they have a girlfriend, they spend time together with her.
I, on the other hand,
“It’s summer! It’s summer holiday! I’m going to work every day!”
In July, I worked part-time like a demon.
“Tahara-kun, you’ve been working hard lately. Why don’t you play with someone during the summer holidays? You know, like that young lady the other day.”
“I’m working because it’s summer holiday.”
“What are you going to do with all that money? ‘It’s a waste if you don’t use the money you’ve earned. Ah.”
During a break from her part time job, while I was talking with Aunt Muraoka, she suddenly got up from her chair as if she had remembered something and took something out of her locker.
“This is something I found when I was cleaning out the house, but I won’t use it, so I’m giving it to you.”
“What is it? ‘This.”
“It’s a yukata. Here, there’s a fireworks display next week, isn’t there? I thought maybe you could wear it.”
“I’m not going.”
“Oh, well, don’t say that, I’ve brought it with me, so please take it.”
I reluctantly accepted the yukata and went back to work.
The work inside the stuffed animal during this time of year is a hellish environment, with just a few fans and circulators attached to the inside, it’s like a sauna inside.
This is still bearable because the work is done in a shopping mall, but when the work is done outside, a number of people have to work in shifts or they will die.
“Hikarun Onii chan?”
In the midst of all this, I faintly heard a familiar voice, and when I moved my heavy stuffed animal and turned my body in that direction, I saw Sakine-chan’s figure there.
Thinking about that, I looked around and saw Matsumura Hina looking at me from a distance.
Since I don’t have many children these days, I pat Sakune-chan on the head.
“Hikarun onii chan! Can I take your picture?”
When I nodded with Hikarun’s whole body, Sakine-chan went to ask her sister for a photo.
“Yes, I’ll take it~.
Yes, cheese!”
In the first one, Sakine-chan’s peace. The second photo was taken in a pose where she was hugging me (Hikarun).
“Thank you, Hikarun onii chan! onee chan too!”
“I don’t, I’m embarrassed.”
Matsumura-san says that and refuses, but Sakune-chan forcibly pulls her hand and brings her towards me, and Sakune-chan herself holds her smartphone at the ready.
I’ll keep to myself the moment about not shooting with just the three of us.
“Yes, cheese!”
Matsumura-san responds to Sakine-chan’s call with a peace sign.
In contrast, I was wearing a costume, so even though Hikarun’s eyes were looking in the direction of the camera, my own eyes were looking at Matsumura-san, who was right next to me inside.
I had been avoiding her recently, but seeing her this close up for the first time in a long time had made me involuntarily nervous.
I couldn’t believe that the girl I had been trying to keep my distance from was so close to me.
“One more time! Yes, cheese!”
The moment I heard that call from Sakine-chan, pressure was applied to me (Hikarun) from the front side.
For a moment I wondered what was going on, but it didn’t take me long to realise it.
Matsumura-san was hugging me (Hikarun).
She let go of me and moved away, her face a little flushed and very cute.
“Sakine, did you get a good shot?”
“Yes! It’s perfect! See you later, Hikarun onii chan!~”
The Matsumura sisters were satisfied with the photos and left me.
I waved briefly at the backs of the sisters as they left, talking amicably, when Matsumura-san stopped and came back towards me again.
She stops in front of me,
“Ah, I have something I want to talk to you about later, so I’ll wait for you at the café.”
After telling me that, Matsumura-san turned on her heel again and went back to Sakine-chan.
I was so lost in my thoughts about the sudden invitation that I didn’t notice the person who had replaced her and was coming towards me.
“Takahara Hikaru-kun~!”
The name of the stuffed animal I was wearing, but the name of myself, was shouted in a rather loud voice.
The identity of that voice was Mukai Ryuuki.
That’s right, this guy invited me to hang out, so I told him about my part-time schedule.
“Let’s go to the beach together instead of just working part-time~. It’s a well-deserved summer vacation, so let’s enjoy it. Okay—“
I quickly covered Takashi’s mouth, but that was after he had finished most of what he had said.
I timidly turned my head in a certain direction, and there I saw the faces of the Matsumura sisters, standing there looking back at me.
Perhaps they had heard me when Ryuuki called my name.
Ryuuki also noticed them, ‘Matsumura Hina?!’ he raised a surprised voice.
Matsumura-san changed her appereance and came towards us vigorously.
“I have something I want to talk to you about later, so I’ll wait for you at the café!”
She then left us with a quick pace.
“Did I do something wrong?”
After they left, Ryuki said something like that, so I gave him a slap on the cheek, even though I was in stuffed animal form.
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