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About an hour before the summer festival began I started to prepare.
I started preparing about an hour before the summer festival began, in order to dress myself in a yukata by myself.
I had been taught how to put on a yukata by my parents, but I had never practised it, so I was worried about whether I was doing it well or not.
“Is this ok?”
I check in the mirror after I’ve finished, but it’s in shape and I’m sure it’s not out of place.
The yukata given to me by auntie Muraoka was a simple, plain navy blue with an azuki red obi sash, and I don’t really like anything too flashy, so my worries about what to do if it was so were unfounded.
The self I saw in the mirror had a typical Japanese body shape, which may have helped, but it also gave me an air of being like that.
My hairstyle has been changed to a calmer set than usual, and the overall atmosphere is calm, and I’d like to think that I probably falls into the category of looking good, but not good enough as a man walking next to Hina. I’ll leave it up to people to decide.
Then, 15 minutes before the scheduled meeting time, I arrived at the meeting place.
I thought that going to a summer festival together with Sakine-chan, even though she was there, might be a date, but I drown out such thoughts as we have studied and played together so far.
Then, I soon heard a familiar, pretty voice.
“Hikarun onii chan!”
I turned my eyes towards the voice and found Sakine-chan and Hina dressed in yukata amongst the many people passing by.
Sakine is in an ivory yukata
The pattern is pink, dark pink, reddish pink, white with pink shibori camellia flowers, celadon and green leaves. The whole is tightened by a deep red obi with blackish tints. Sakine-chan is always fluffy and pretty, but she also has a retro, cute atmosphere.
“Sakine-chan, you look good in a yukata”
“Yes! onee chan picked it out for me!”
Saying this, Sakine-chan spins around and shows me her whole body.
“Compliment …… too.”
“Eh?”
“It’s not fair that you’re only praises Sakine. Please praise me too!”
Hina said with her face puffing up.
I thought she was not a character who would say something like that, but I thought it was cute, so I turned my attention back to Hina in her yukata.
Hina’s is a very pale white-green ground.
The pattern of the hinapoppy flowers drawn with fine pen-drawing style lines, bright blue, blue-purple and pale purple with bright yellow flowers, and pale antique green leaves contrasted with the bright white obi.
The hair was also tied up, and there was a mature beauty that was different from the usual cuteness.
“Is everything in place?”
Hina asked anxiously, as if she was worried that she hadn’t received an answer.
“Oh, it’s so cute. It suits you well.”
When I said that, Hina breathed a sigh of relief and said, ‘Thank you’.
Then, as if to make an excuse, she said.
“Actually, I haven’t worn a yukata in years, so I looked it up on the internet to see if I should wear it this time …….”
“I see.”
“By the way, that. Hikaru’s looks good on you too… very, very cool.”
“I see, thank you.’
I felt a little embarrassed because it’s rare for me to receive such direct praise.
“Then let’s get going.”
“Let’s go go! I want to eat cotton candy.”
So we decided to walk to the road lined with food stalls. Maybe it was a good time, but there were a lot of people, and I felt like we might get separated, so I grabbed Sakine chan’s hand.
“Don’t get separated”
“Yeah!”
“Hina can also hold my sleeve so that we don’t get separated.”
When I said that, Hina’s cheeks puffed out again for some reason and she squeezed my sleeve a little.
Even though I wondered if I had said something to offend her, we were engulfed in the atmosphere of the summer festival.
‘There was cotton candy!’
There were still fewer people in line than at other stalls, and soon it was our turn.
“One cotton candy, please!”
“Oh, you’re so clever for being so small~. Uncle will serve you.”
When Sakine-chan was given cotton candy after being told that, it was a cotton candy about one size larger than her face.
“Hnnn~! It’s sweet and delicious! You can have some too, onii chan”
I also took a bite of the cotton candy that Sakine-chan handed me.
It has been a long time since I’ve had one, but it’s very sweet. The old me’s stomach is a little bit damaged.
“What about you, Hina?”
For some reason, she blushed and said, ‘I don’t want it’.
I wonder if Hina also has a stomach for things that are too sweet.
I gave the cotton candy back to Sakine-chan.
I was worried about whether she would be able to finish such a large piece of cotton candy, but it was gone in no time, whether Sakine-chan was a big eater or whether the cotton candy was not something that would fill her stomach.
“What do you want to eat next?”
“Hmm, I wonder what…”
“Is there anything you want to eat, Hina?”
When I asked her that, for some reason she still seemed to be a little angry, and then she turned her face away from me.
Realizing that this must have been something I did, I looked around at the stalls and called out to the girls.
“Sakine-chan, do you want to play a game once? Hina, too.”
“Game?”
I point to one of the stalls and then suggest.
That’s a game I’m good at among stalls.
With this, I’ll somehow get Hina back in a good mood.
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