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“Hey, are you free today? Let’s go to the beach now!”
Such a single phone call was hung up without giving me any chance to refuse.
The caller was Mukai Ryuki.
Well, this is what he usually does, so I’m used to it.
I slowly prepared the necessary things, such as sea pants, and headed for the nearby beach.
“You’re late, Hikaru. I waited too long, the sun was baking me and I was about to dry up.”
“I’m pretty fast for being called out on such short notice, aren’t I?”
I look around the beach while retorting to Ryuuki who is complaining.
Since it is the sea season, the beaches and sea are filled with many people, including families and students.
“You called me out of the blue and you’re all alone?”
“Isn’t it obvious? Otherwise, there’s no point. I’m wearing sea pants.”
“Eh, yeah”
“All right, let’s jump in the sea! Take off your clothes!”
I don’t understand what Ryuki means, but he pulls me along to the seaside.
‘You, the star of my expectations, are meaningless dressed like that!”
Ryuki says that and throws me towards the sea.
Unable to resist the force, I plunged into the sea and got soaked from head to foot.
“What the hell are you doing?!”
I questioned him as I got out of the water and brushed my hair out of my eyesight.
“Yes, yes, that’s it.”
“Oh?”
“I need a good-looking guy like you to pick up girls.”
“Pick-up?”
“Ah. What? Did you think two men would casually splash water on each other in the sea? That’s fine if there’s a girl. It’s summer, right? It’s the sea, right? It’s a pick-up!”
Hearing those words from Ryuki, everything connected.
I-I’m a good-looking guy?
Did this guy finally get his eyes wrong?
I don’t know why he asked me out when there were probably better guys out there, but now that I’ve come this far, I can’t run away anymore, so I accept his offer to just stand next to him
“Alright! Let the pick-up begin!”
Ryuki declared so vigorously, pulled my arm and started walking on the beach.
I’m used to keeping up with his intensity, but today he seems particularly enthusiastic.
Although I’m told I’m ‘just standing to the side’, I’m starting to feel a little uneasy.
“Hey, how about those two?”
Ryuki spotted two girls drinking juice under a beach parasol.
The two girls were drinking juice under a beach parasol, and I had a bad feeling about it, but I decided to go along with him.
“Hey, hey, are you really going to talk to them?”
“Of course I do! Otherwise, it’s not a pick-up, is it? All you have to do is smile.”
Ryuki confidently headed towards the duo, waved his hand lightly and spoke to them.
“Hey, you guys! Enjoying the sea?”
However, the girls reacted subtly to his words and quickly replied, ‘Sorry…..’ and slunk away.
After that, he continued to be turned down again and again
However, no matter how many times he was turned down, Ryuki was undeterred and approached other girls one after another, but they all ended with the same result.
“……Why, why doesn’t it work!”
Ryuki sits down on the beach and blurts out, his shoulders drooping.
I sympathize with you a little, but picking up girls isn’t something you can easily succeed in.
If it were that easy to succeed, then every man in the world would be picking up women.
“Why don’t you think about a different approach?”
“No, my approach should be perfect. The problem is ……. No, …….”
He stopped speaking there and stared me in the face.
“Maybe if you were more proactive, you’d succeed?”
“Ha? Me?”
“Yes, you’re right! It’s not working because I’m the only one talking! If you could just join in a bit, we’d be successful!”
“…… I don’t want to. I’m only standing”
“That’s the thing. Just one time, just one time.”
He puts his hands together in front of my face and realized that I couldn’t run away from Ryuki, who was coming so close to me this summer that it was painfully hot, so I decided to accept him just once.
Unbeknownst to me, accepting this one event would be a huge mistake on my part.
“All right, all right, it’s just one time.”
“Okay, then I’ll take the five girls walking over there. Go on, shine!”
“Ha? I’m the one who’s going to talk to them? And what’s more, a group of five?”
“Of course.The first time is the crucial time. Here they go, here they go.”
Ryuuki pushes me on the back and forces me to the back of the girls who are walking.
When I looked at Takaki again, he was mouthing the words ‘go, go’ to me, so I reluctantly decided to talk to the girls.
“Hey guys, swim with us——…?”
The girls turned their heads at the sound of my voice and I covered my mouth with my hand, but it was already too late.
“Hikaru!?”
The one who calls my name is someone I’ve recently been interested in, and who I’m good friends with.
The class madonna, the one who knows it’s me when I lift my hair.
It was Matsumura Hina.
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