Episode 22 – Unexpected seriousness
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We come to a calm coffee shop in front of the station.
Sakuragawa sits down in front of me, takes a sip of her café latte and smiles at me as she takes a breather.
The sequence of events looks like a scene from a movie.
“Are you sure? Acting like that to someone you know?”
“Eh? What do you mean? What are you talking about?”
“The three guys from earlier. Sakuragawa said she had something to do and refused.”
Sakuragawa finally remembered what I said and let out an “ah” sound.
“I don’t know those people. In fact, this is the first time we’ve met.”
“Eh? Is that so?”
“There’s no way I’d lie here~! I was just playing in a game center before and they approached me. It’s what you call a pick-up.”
“I see.”
“So I don’t know them or get along with them. It’s all an embarrassing misunderstanding on the part of those three. There are some unfortunate guys out there who would be mistaken for someone just by being a little bit nice to them~
Sakuragawa sighs openly, as if in venom.
Then she came to her senses and smiled as if to make up for it.
“That’s the general public’s way of thinking, but I think it’s just my charm and I can’t help it! It’s what they call unavoidable!”
“I see.”
I nodded my head.
“But I’m having a bit of trouble with it. I’m often pestered like that, or misunderstood~….*glimps”
“……?”
“……, it’s nothing.”
I tilted my head and Sakuragawa looked straight at me.
“That day, I were targeted by someone who’d had eyes on me for a while.”
“That day?”
“Yeah. The day I met Mizuki senpai for the first time.”
It seemed that Sakuragawa and I knew each other after all.
This is completely the same pattern as Yukimiya and Nishiumi.
However, I still didn’t have any idea in front of Sakuragawa.
“You really don’t remember me ……, do you? That’s too bad.”
“I-I’m sorry.”
“I-I can’t help it. I’ll tell you exactly what happened that day”
Then, Sakuragawa began to talk.
It was half a year ago.
Sakuragawa, who commutes to school by train, was riding the train after school as usual.
However, the train was packed with people during the rush hour when she was leaving for school.
While she was stuck in the train, Sakuragawa felt something strange.
A businessman in his fifties, whom she had always felt eyes on, was now standing next to her.
She also felt a hand on the lower half of her body.
“!!!!!”
She knew immediately that she was a pervert.
So she grabbed that hand, raised her voice, and decided to expose the businessman.
Sakuragawa had the strength to do that.
–But….
“(Why …… voice ……!)”
Her voice didn’t come out the way she wanted it to.
It was as if she had suddenly lost her vocal cords.
Fear seeped into Sakuragawa’s face.
The creepy hand was coming closer and closer to the most dangerous place.
Her mind went blank——then
“—-What are you doing?”
“⁉⁉⁉⁉”
A man grabbed a businessman’s hand.
That was me, Saku Mizuki.
“Oh, hey! Let go of me! What are you doing all of a sudden?”
“That’s my line. You were molesting her, weren’t you?”
“!!!! I didn’t molest her”
“You can’t get away with it. I was watching you.”
At that moment, the train slides into the station and we get off at the station platform as if we were being thrown out.
Sakuragawa, I, and the salaryman all followed the current and got off at the platform.
“! (N-now ……!)”
The businessman shakes off my arm and tries to escape in a panic.
–However.
“!?!?!”
I kicked the ground, caught up with the businessman, grabbed his arm, pulled him back, and knocked him to the ground.
I then restrained him so that he couldn’t escape.
“Hey, hey! Let go of me!!!!”
After completely subduing the jittery, struggling businessman, the station attendant rushed to the scene and took him away.
“After that, thanks to senpai, we were able to arrest the pervert.”
Sakuragawa finished speaking and I finally remembered.
“Yes, I think that sort of thing happened.”
“You can’t even remember it perfectly, you just “think” it happened… I’ve been really curious about what kind of life you lead, senpai.”
“I think it’s normal.”
“Normally, it would be like fighting off a molester, but that wouldn’t be the end!”
The Sakuragawa’s cheeks puffed up.
The sweet, fluffy atmosphere soon changed to a serious, drawn-out expression.
“I’ve always wanted to thank you, senpai. I was so scared that day, but you saved me.”
“Sakuragawa……”
“I looked for you on the train, but I couldn’t find you at all.”
It’s no wonder she couldn’t find me
I’m sure I just happened to take the train that day to go to the hospital, but I rarely take the train normally.
“I saw the video and thought, “That’s him!”!
It was a disgusting video, but……! No no, It was a terrible video!
Really!”
She coughed and Sakuragawa looked at me and said
”Once again–thank you very much for helping me at that time, Mizuki Saku san“
Sakuragawa’s serious expression.
“You’re welcome.”
Sakuragawa smiled in satisfaction when I replied.
“So, if there’s anything you want me to do, please let me know, okay? Even if it’s something a little extreme,…… fufu♡ I won’t hesitate about it, okay?”
Sakuragawa looks into my face and says teasingly.
“It’s fine. I’m just doing what’s natural.”
I replied, and Sakuragawa’s eyes widened in surprise.
“…Senpai, don’t you think you’re quite strange or selfless? Especially when it comes to girls.”
“Eh? I’ve never been told that.”
“Is that so… hmm, I see. This person, Yukimiya-senpai and Nishiumi-senpai…”
“Hmm?”
“No, it’s nothing.”
Sakuragawa looked at me meaningfully and took another sip of her cafe latte.
I left the store with a clang.
The area was completely enveloped in the evening sun.
I walked along the street with Sakuragawa.
“I’m sorry for taking you up on your offer,”
“No no. Please let me do this much! I mean~… you’re my benefactor, after all.”
“O-ou”
“Fufu ♡”
After smiling with satisfaction, Sakuragawa turns to the front.
She suddenly stopped in her tracks when she saw a male student appear from behind a utility pole.
“……Who is that man? Sa, Sakurako-chan ……”
“Geh! K- Kimura ……”
Sakuragawa’s face contorted at the sight of the plump, bespectacled male student.
I know she said she was prone to being followed, but …… could it be again?
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