NOVEL NEXT chapter 28
28. Lookism
28. Lookism
She may be a bit cruel to her.
Because she seemed to like me, she was going to keep away from tomorrow.
Yes, she’s been liking her for a while now, so she’ll be back to normal soon.
***
“Today ends here! See you all tomorrow!”
“”Yes~.””
The ceremony is over.
Today’s academy was also a very ordinary day.
But if there is something different from before, Kurutta only looks at me.
“Hey!!” I wonder if it’s just that she turned her head away.
It gave me a new feeling to see that I was doing what a bad-tempered kid used to do when I was young, now at that age.
The ceremonies must be over, I went to the bad-tempered kid when I was young and said.
“Hey, let’s go.”
“Yes, Shujinko!”
The guy who smiles at me. The guy even had a tightly closed eye smile, but he doubted whether he could see properly.
“Ah! Come to think of it, Shujinko-kun, today is the end with your girlfriend? What should I do because I’m sad, Shujinko-kun?”
“…”
“Shujinkoo-kun, I feel sorry… With the lover I love…”
“…”
When I reached a hallway with few people, Iinazuke looked teary-eyed.
“Ha…”
I didn’t raise this guy this way, but he lamented that her character had been tainted in other ways.
Ziying-
“?”
While I was lamenting like that, a message arrived on my cell phone.
The sender is Mori Akari-senpai.
Since it is the last day, I wonder if he contacted me to express his gratitude.
[Where are you, Haiseki-kun?]
A senior asking where I am. I gave her my location without questioning her.
Because it was obvious that I was going to meet you and say thank you.
Actually, getting a call from a senior was a good thing for me too.
After all, I was determined to apologize to her again later, for giving her cause.
“Shujinkoo-kun, did your ‘ex’ girlfriend send you?”
“Right, well. I think I contacted you to say thank you.”
“Hey-,”
If it was usual, Iinazuke would have started craving endlessly at this point, but today he just smiled.
***
It did not take long for the senior to arrive.
With a grim face.
Then, after taking a deep breath while standing in front of me, she opened her mouth.
“First, Haiseki-kun.”
“Me, senior?”
“…?”
Inazuke suddenly cut off his senior. The senior seemed a little taken aback by her eccentricity.
“Ugh, huh?”
“We’re not dating anymore, so wouldn’t it be right to call you by your last name?”
“Oh, yes…”
…What kind of things are you betting on?
I, the person in charge of her, was dumbfounded and said to the senior.
“I don’t care, senpai. Call it whatever you feel comfortable with.”
“Oh, yes…”
“…”
She seems to have been scared away by Inazuke’s aggressive attitude.
…That guy must be a nuisance as I say every morning.
“First of all, ha… Junior, I want to say thank you for listening to my unreasonable request and helping me like this even though it was not your job.”
“I provided the cause. What I did was nothing.”
I was sincere. What I did was, in fact, just taking responsibility.
“No, no. Actually, from the time my juniors apologized to me, my heart was already relaxed. I’m grateful for taking responsibility like this.”
“…”
…I wonder how people can really be this kind. I felt like a halo shone from behind.
As I was admiring her inwardly, after taking another deep breath, her words continued.
And the more her words continued, the expressionless expression on my face, which was a small smile. And gradually, it began to be stained with astonishment.
Because I realized that I had crossed a river that I could no longer go back to.
Now they have realized that they have crossed the line that can be solved by simply avoiding it.
“Actually, I was going to break up with you cleanly after the fake relationship was over. You didn’t seem to like me anyway, and I thought that was polite to each other.”
Then, she pointed at me and said with a confident look and voice.
“But, now I’ve changed my mind! Junior, I’ll make you like me!”
?!?!?!?!?!
My face was stained with amazement.
“That’s me, senior?!”
“Huh?”
“You said it wrong…Right..? Certainly good..What?”
I let go of my shocked expression and asked the senior. Because I didn’t want to believe it.
“I didn’t say anything wrong. Can I say it again? I’ll make you like me!”
She speaks triumphantly once again. Her face was full of confidence.
And my face was once again stained with astonishment.
“Oh no! Why the hell? Why did you fall in love?!”
That makes no sense! What have I done!
I was able to understand the level of liking, no, liking it a little! I thought so too in the morning! So, so, I thought that if I moved away just a little bit, my heart would disappear…
“Ha…”
I sighed and washed my face dry with both hands.
But if you declare it like this, it just means that you are at the stage where you completely like it… It means you love me…
What did I do wrong…
And to my question, the senior took a moment with a shy face and said.
“Four, actually… Before…”
Except for her words, she starts to hesitate again. She hesitated for a moment, then put her index fingers together and spoke shyly.
“When my juniors comforted me… To be honest, comfort wasn’t good… For some reason, I looked too handsome…”
“…Yes?”
What did I… Hear…?
“Only, only for that reason…?”
“Uh, yeah… Seeing that handsome face… Somehow it comforts me? It also makes me laugh.”
“…”
What kind of dog.. Is this nonsense…
“Ah! Of course, it’s not entirely because of that! Um… You didn’t like me, but you helped me, didn’t you?”
“So what about that ratio?”
“9 To 1..?”
“…”
It’s just because of the looks.
…I have to hit him. Yes, let’s hit it. My subject, what kind of harem are you interfering with?
It just increases my mistakes…
***
I broke up with my senior and went home with Inazuke.
My goal in life has been canceled for absurd reasons.
No, I was drowning in a sense of loss after seeing it fall in a worse direction than that.
I don’t know why, but thanks to Inazuke being silent.
I was able to calm my mind on my way home, and I was able to have time to think, albeit a little.
And after going through such peace of mind and time to think, I made a decision.
To not give up on the goal that I have dreamed of for 10 years.
After calming down, it seemed that earlier, I had been thinking too emotionally about the looming sense of loss.
If you were going to give up like that just because you only tasted failure once, then you shouldn’t have set the goal in the first place.
Besides, aren’t there already successful cases? This guy next to me.
So, it is still too early to give up.
***
The next morning.
Clap-
Kikki-
I heard the sound of Inazuke opening the door.
At that sound, as always, I reflexively woke up.
Actually, it hasn’t been that long since I’ve heard this sound.
Just because he didn’t wake me up every morning while I was going to school with my senior doesn’t mean he didn’t wake me up until the weekend.
I usually woke him up to eat breakfast. Thinking about the waking hours, he must have had a lot of intentions to tease me too.
“It’s morning, Shujinkoo-kun!”
Today, too, Iinazuke wakes me up with a bright smile and a refreshing voice.
Just hearing these words sounds like it will be a pleasant morning, but in reality, only my head hurts.
…By the way.
“Is today the day…”
Today is the first day of Golden Week.
And soon, she will have to take the car her father drove to her hometown.
Then I will move to the airport, to Hawaii.
Ha…
“Get up quickly, Shujinkoo-kun!”
A guy who starts doing anime moves.
I didn’t want to see that, so I quickly ran out of the room.
After having breakfast and finishing preparations, it was time for her father to come.
So we went out in front of the house.
“Dad!”
“Iinazuke!”
The impressive father-daughter reunion has begun.
“…”
I’ll say it again, but what she used to be angry about.
She and I. Except for when the two of us were alone, not once.
In other words, it also meant being a good and polite child in front of your parents.
Her mother looking at the touching father-daughter reunion with a moving face.
I greeted her.
“Hello.”
“Ah, Haiseki-kun, I’m sorry. This sight is so moving that I haven’t seen it before.”
“Ah, yes…”
…I feel it every time I see it, but these two’s love for Iinazuke seems to overflow.
Should I call them daughters fools…
“…”
After that, after a little time passed, the touching mother-daughter reunion ended, and the touching mother-daughter reunion began again.
I took advantage of the gap to say goodbye to her father.
A mother-daughter reunion that is still in progress even though she has said goodbye.
When I see her doing that in front of her parents sometimes, I feel that she is still a child.
We started moving in the car driven by her father.
While I was traveling by car, I was talking to her parents.
In the meantime, her mother said.
“Haiseki-kun, how far have you progressed? Hoho~.”
“Yes..? Jindo..?”
What does that mean…?
Then her father scolded her mother.
“Honey! You can’t talk like that..!”
“Oh, sorry.”
“I’ll tell you. Big! So, the condom is on well, right?”
“…”
No, what crazy. Did you mean that?
“Ah~ Dad, why are you asking such a thing?”
Why don’t you deny it?
In place of Iinazuke, who didn’t know what he was doing, I spoke to her parents.
“We’ve never done anything like that.”
Then her parents opened their mouths. I was a little taken aback by that reaction.
What, did you think we would have had a relationship? No what…
But apart from my bewilderment, the atmosphere instantly became more cordial.
“hahahaha, I’ll see my grandkids already, honey.”
“I will~ ho ho ho.”
“Ah~ It’s embarrassing~.”
“…?”
How did you understand… Ah…
Once I understood the situation, I was surprised and began to actively deny it.
“No, no! You didn’t have that relationship in the first place?”
“”Eh?””
At my active denial, her parents expressed their doubts.
“Then how far did you go…?”
“I didn’t do anything!”
“A kiss…?”
“You didn’t even hold hands?!”
“”…””
For an instant, there was silence in the car.
After a while, her father broke the silence and spoke to me.
“But don’t forget the condom…”
“There’s no such thing as a single thing! Don’t worry! No, there’s nothing to do with relationships in the first place!”
“Don’t…”
Her father, who was somewhat sullen about my active denial.
…Why are you grumpy?
So while I was dumbfounded, her mother approached her father and began to whisper.
…Even though it was whispered to them, honestly, I heard it all.
“They’re kids! It seems like they’re shy and can’t talk, but keep it a secret.”
And her father nodded again at those words.
“…”
Are you thinking about it while leaving it as an established fact…
My head was pounding.
“Ha…”