Episode 8 – Thoughts of Each

★ Yano Ai（side)

“Haaa~, that was close~that smile is not fair ……”

Ai said, taking a deep breath after leaving Akuru

Ai was surprised at herself that her heart was beating faster every time she saw the unexpected smile of Akuru
　

“Then again, Sano kun, he looked so happy when he was playing basketball, his eyes were sparkling like a child’s.”

I try not to think about it, but I am clearly aware of the change in my own feelings.

While talking to Sano-kun, I was showing emotions that I had never felt before.
　
I thought I was in love with Suguru, but when I realized what I was feeling for Sano kun, I understood that what I was feeling for him was not love.

“But it doesn’t suit me. ……”

Ai’s evaluation of herself is that she is an uninteresting person whose expression does not change at all, and that she is the furthest thing from being in love.

Therefore, she decided that she would do her best not to show her feelings.

She arrived home and jumped into bed.

“Ah, that’s right, I need to tell Sano-kun about what I told onii chan earlier.”

Saying that, I picked up my phone.

[Thanks for your hard work today.

Onii chan told me to ask Sano kun if you’re going to join the club, how do you feel about that?]

[I think I’ll probably join, he was totally more welcoming than I thought he’d be.]

[I see, Okay, I’ll tell him that.]

Sano kun, he will join the club activities.

I smiled a little at the thought.

[Yeah, thanks for everything]

[Well, you helped me out, so this is normal.]

[Still, it’s true that you’ve helped me a lot, and I’m really grateful for it. Yano, if you need anything, please feel free to talk to me.]

[Yeah, well, I’ll take your word for it.]

[Yes, I’ll help you in any way I can.]

[Well, tomorrow’s another day, so if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go now. Good night]

[Right, good night.]

After such an exchange, Ai grabbed the pillow tightly.

Ai never usually relied on anyone, because she didn’t want to show her weak self, even if it was a childhood friend.

Even so, when Akuru told me that, she was honestly happy and felt like it was okay to ask for help.

“Even so, I don’t trust rumors after all~”

I have never had a bad feeling when I was with Sano kun, and the more I talk to him, the more I feel that he is a good person.

“Come to think of it, Sano-kun was really good at basketball, and he was really cool. Honestly, I couldn’t take my eyes off him, and with him acting like that, I’m sure the rumors will soon be dispelled and he’ll become popular.”

Sanae senpai looked at Sano kun’s play with a surprised look on her face, but that was the kind of look that says she is happy that the basketball team has been strengthened.

The most surprising one is Sara. I didn’t expect such an expression from the girl who is devoted to Suguru, it was like she was on the verge of falling completely in love.

Come to think of it, Sara had been saved by Sano kun before, so maybe that’s why she didn’t have a bad impression of him in the first place.

Anyway, it was a surprise. I might talk with Sara about Sano kun soon, even though I was a little embarrassed.

I was asleep before I knew it.

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◆ Kamiya Suguru（side)
After basketball team practice, I went home and thought.

“What the hell is going on?”

Hopelessness, frustration, I muttered with such feelings.

Suguru was more shocked by the fact that he couldn’t do anything in the game, and even more shocked by the fact that Ai came to club activities with him and went home with him.

Besides, Suguru was irritated that Ai and Sara were showing him pathetic form during the match, even though he felt he was weak.

When he looked at the two in fear, their eyes were fixed on Sano. After that, he glanced at them, but they kept looking at Sano.

He couldn’t accept that reality.

“It’s almost strange that the serious Ai is with Sano.”

Sano, who has a lot of bad rumors, must be the type that Ai dislikes the most.

The two had never had any contact with each other before, and since they had been at the same school since junior high school, there was no way she did not know about the rumors.

After thinking about it, he came up with his own answer.

“He must have some kind of a weakness and be threatening her.”

That was the conclusion he came to.

“I will definitely help you, just wait a little longer, Ai.”

He lost at basketball, and at this point he should have been so frustrated that he tried even harder to practice for the basketball team.

However, he was already not thinking much about basketball because of the despair of having Ai taken away from him.

This was because Ai was more important to Suguru than basketball.

Suguru took it for granted that his three childhood friends would always be next to him.

Because this world is an eroge world, it is a polygamous one, and he planned to marry all three of them when he grew up, so he usually bragged to his male friends that he was going to pledge his future to them and get married to them.

Of course, no one had made such a promise, but for some reason he never doubted it.

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★ Aizawa Sara (side)

I could not understand my own feelings.

I cannot forget that face on that day when Sano-kun saved me.

When I am talking with Suguru-kun, I can think only about him, but at other times, I remember him unexpectedly.

At that time, Suguru-kun invited me to visit the basketball club.

There I was surprised to see Sano kun, and even more so because he came with Ai chan for some reason.

I watched Sano kun’s game, and even to the untrained eye, the level of his game was clearly different.

For some time, I had a sneaking suspicion that the rumors about Sano kun were not true, because I didn’t get a bad feeling when I talked to him.

I was caught by the sight of Sano kun playing basketball with a happy smile on his face and muttered in a voice that no one could hear.

“He’s so cool.”

Of course I like Suguru-kun, when I was in elementary school, I was teased daily by boys about my fast-growing breasts.

I know those boys didn’t mean to bully me, but I thought they were harshly abusing me.

It was Suguru-kun who helped me out, and I was so happy about it that I fell in love with him from that moment on.

That fact has not changed, but I definitely felt the same feelings for Sano kun, though not as big as for Suguru kun, but just a little bit.

After the club activities were over, Ai asked me to go home with Suguru-kun because she was going home with Sano-kun for some reason.

To be honest, I felt lucky, but at the same time I wondered why Ai-chan and Sano kun were going home together.

And Suguru-kun seemed to be so frustrated that he lost the match that when I talked to him on the way home, he only replied in a curt manner.

He kept asking me, “Why isn’t Ai-chan here?”

I honestly thought that he should at least think about me when he was with me, but I honestly told him that Ai-chan had gone home with Sano-kun.

When I told him that, Suguru-kun looked surprised, and then he bit his lip and looked frustrated. Then he said

“I’m sorry Sara, I’m going home first.”

With these words, he ran back home.

“Even though it had been a long time since we had been alone together, ……”

I was thinking about that as I stared at Suguru-kun’s shrinking back.

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