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Sakimiya-san joins us in front of the university, and the three of us, me, Yami-san, and Sakimiya-san, head for the conference room in Building 4.
It’s been a while since I’ve talked to Sakimiya-san since the day I gave her that present, but I don’t know where to start.
We’ve already talked about the present earlier. ……
“Sakimiya-san, Sakimiya-san!”
I was walking around thinking about it, when Yami san spoke to Sakimiya-san first.
“What’s wrong, Yami san?”
“How do I look today? I also wore landmine makeup today! It goes with my mine type clothes right!?”
“Mine type……”
Asked by Yami san what she thought of her, Sakimiya san suddenly stopped.
“What’s wrong, Sakimiya-san?”
Yami-san, if you could, I wish you would stop calling these fashions mine type.”
“Eh? But everyone calls them that.”
“I don’t want to wear this outfit because I’m a minetype girl, I wear it because it’s cute. …… I don’t really like it when people call this outfit mass-produced or minetype…. I’m sure you’re the same way, aren’t you, Yami san?”
“Umm, ……, it’s true. I don’t like it because it’s minetype, but because it’s cute.”
“I know, right? Then, okay?”
Sakimiya-san gave a soft smile as she spoke to Yami-san as if advising her.
Then Yami-san raised her right hand and said, “I understand,” as if she were an elementary school student who had been asked by her teacher to do a favor for her.
“Thank you, Yami-san. Of course, Kazakiri-kun, you understand, too?”
Her gentle smile now turned to me.
“Y-yes, I’ll be careful. I don’t want to make you feel bad, Sakimiya-san.”
“Thanks, Kazakiri-kun.”
Sakimiya-san’s smile …… is so cute …….
I’ve never said anything about mines to Sakimiya-san, come to think of it.
I wasn’t particularly conscious of it, but I didn’t say it in front of Sakimiya san because the word “mine-type” itself somehow sounded like a bad word, but it seems like that was the correct answer.
“Anyway, how do you like my makeup today, Sakimiya-san!”
“Yes, I think it’s perfect. However, there are some things that could make you look more–…”
As they walked in front of me, they started talking more and more about makeup.
I was walking behind them and listening to what they were talking about.
But still, I wonder if Sakimiya-san is a minetype to be called a minetype …….
Sakimiya-san is just a normal girl on the inside, with fashion leaning that way, isn’t she? (She does get a little emotionally unstable from time to time, though. ……)
I should be careful not to call her a mine type.
“Ah, we’re already at the conference room.”
We arrived at the conference room in Building 4 that Hinata had mentioned.
The lights weren’t on inside yet, and when I entered, no one was there.
Apparently, Hinata and the others had not arrived yet.
It’s a little early in the day, so it’s not surprising if they didn’t show up. …… usually don’t they show up early to welcome the three new members to the club?
The meeting place was a conference room similar in structure to the lecture hall we usually use, with a row of swing-up seats facing a huge blackboard in front of us.
We put our bags on the first row of desks.
“I’m going to go get something to drink, so do you mind if I step out for a bit?”
“Yes, I’ll let you know when Hinata and the others arrive.”
Yami-san was leaving the conference room.
With Yami-san gone, I was inevitably left alone with Sakimiya-san.
Up until we came here, thanks to Yami san, the conversation had somehow continued, but now that I was alone with Sakimiya-san, I had to immediately think about what to say!
Eh, let’s see…something, something..!
“Kazakiri-kun, how can I say it…… thank you.”
“Eh, what’s going on all of a sudden?”
As I was trying to bring up a topic in as much panic as I was looking for tools in my pocket, Sakimiya-san suddenly thanked me.
“You know, before I entered college I thought I didn’t need friends, but …… I’ve come to realize that it’s fun to have friends like Yami san who share my interests.”
Sakimiya-san said this in a different, calmer tone than before and sat down on a chair, beckoning me to sit down next to her.
I obeyed and sat down next to her.
“I became friends with Yami-san thanks to Kazakiri-kun who brought her to me that day. So I wanted to say thank you.”
“I-I see,……, even I was able to help Sakimiya-san.”
I was so happy that I couldn’t bear it.
Even though I was always next to Sakimiya san, I couldn’t do anything for him.
I wanted to look as cool as possible in front of Sakimiya san, and I wanted to be someone who wouldn’t be embarrassed to be next to Sakimiya san.
That’s why I’m working hard every day to become more like a cheerful person
That’s why I’m sincerely happy to hear Sakimiya san thank me …….
And I’m just as happy …… that Sakimiya-san is happy to have a friend.
“Hey, why are you smiling?”
“No. It’s nothing.”
“Really? Maybe you think it’s surprising that I’m so happy to have a friend.”
“That may be …… a little.”
“You’re terrible, Kazakiri-kun!”
“B-because when I first met Sakimiya-san, she seemed like a loner.”
When I first saw her, she had an aura of being a lone wolf.
That’s why I couldn’t approach her when I first saw her. ……
“But you know, that’s what was so cool about Sakimiya-san,……. As a former shady guy who had just debuted in college, I was dazzled. I was scared of her fashion at first, but when she was wearing it, she looked really cute. That’s the kind of Sakimiya-san I …… admired.”
“Hmmm. Is that so?”
Sakimiya san took out a plastic bottle of water from her bag and took a sip to moisten her throat.
I guess I said some aggressive things.
I wonder what Sakimiya-san thought about it.
“Do you think I’m a heavy woman, Kazakiri-kun?”
“Eh? I-I don’t think so!”
“Really?”
“I-I don’t think so. …… but at first. ……”
“At first?”
“I’m sorry. At first I thought you were a heavy girl because of your clothes.”
“…… I see. But it can’t be helped. Looks are 80% of a person.”
“B-But I’m!”
“?”
Say it. Say it.
Tell her that it’s different now.
The more I learned about Sakimiya-san, the more my feelings for her changed. ……
“Sakimiya-san is straight-forward about what she likes, she has a strong core, and her feelings for what she likes are many, many times stronger than what she appears to be! I don’t have anything that I can love that much, and I think that’s what makes you so wonderful!
“Kazakiri, ku……n.”
“So–so, you know, I–“
I’ve been talking with momentum up to this point, but I’m finally at a loss for words.
J-Just A-Another!
At that moment, the big door of the conference room was opened with a bang.
“Hey there, new students! Are you all here?”
Suddenly, a glasses-wearing girl, about the height of an elementary school student, wearing a white robe, appeared in front of us from the corridor.
She was the same height as Yami san, or maybe shorter, with long brown hair, red-rimmed glasses, and a navy blue jacket under her lab coat.
W-what a loli.
“Oh! There’s the rumored mine-type pink-chan too!”
“Minetype……!””
Sakimiya-san’s face clouds over at once.
This Loli! She stepped on a mine word within three seconds of meeting her!
“Ahh..! Let’s see..! Are you in elementary school? Are you on a school field trip or something?”
“Who is in elementary school! I may look like this, but I’m a student of Southeast University’s College of Science and Engineering!”
Loli wasted no time in pulling out her student ID card from the long sleeve of her lab coat and holding it out in front of me and Sakimiya-san.
It was indeed written there that she was a second-year student of the Faculty of Science and Technology.
“Hmmm. I’m Shinonome Inari, the new head of Southeast University’s travel circle. Nice to meet you, freshmen.”
“N-nice to meet you..”
“…………”
Another person with a strong sense of character has arrived. ……
Sakimiya san, who was sitting next to me, seemed alert from beginning to end.
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