After Miyagi — 210

Translated by KaiesV

Edited by KaiesV

We go away the home in a flurry.

We stroll down the road the place I typically meet Mike-chan and head for the station.

I stroll at Miyagi’s velocity, which is kind of quick.

「Hurry up, Sendai-san.」

「I’m telling you there’s no have to rush.」

I needed to change my garments and reapply my make-up to cowl the marks that Miyagi had left on me.

And whereas I’m at it, I give Miyagi a light-weight makeover as effectively.

As I used to be doing this, we left the home later than we had deliberate.

「It may not be all proper, you already know.」

She is one step forward of me, and he or she is grumpy, though it’s primarily Miyagi’s fault for leaving the home so late.

There isn’t any have to rush to get to the appointment on time.

However Miyagi walks away from me.

Perhaps she doesn’t like what I did.

Was it mistaken that she wore make-up or that I stated she was fairly? Perhaps the kiss on the finish was a nasty thought. No, I’m certain it was all a nasty thought.

Miyagi, who’s forward of me, retains strolling with out wanting again.

I stroke the crimson mark on the knit masking my neck.

Autumn is beginning to head in direction of its finish and the wind is getting colder, however in the present day the climate is good and heat, so I wished to put on one thing that wasn’t a turtleneck. I want I didn’t need to cowl my neck with out the mark Miyagi placed on it, however I rejoice in the truth that though it’s seen, it’s solely fading away, including to the marks that have been by no means presupposed to be placed on me once more.

I press and launch the mark on the knit.

Have a look at the swaying skirt and Miyagi’s legs.

Proper, left, proper.

Her ft are transferring usually and on the similar velocity.

Her velocity by no means slows down

Wanting up, a blue sky with skinny clouds stretching throughout it got here into view, reminding me of Miyagi and the flying penguins I noticed on the aquarium.

Come to consider it, we had but to go to the zoo we had talked about going to within the fall.

The sky is farther and better than summer time.

If we don’t do one thing quickly, it is going to be winter.

Miyagi, who’s chilly, could not go to the zoo when winter comes. I enhance the velocity at which I transfer my legs and go subsequent to Miyagi.

「Miyagi, bear in mind after we promised to go to the zoo?」

Once I known as out to her, Miyagi, who was strolling briskly, all of a sudden stopped and checked out me.

「…You’re a liar, Sendai-san.」

「Eh?」

「It’s winter already.」

「Winter is a little bit additional away, isn’t it? However you remembered we promised you’d go within the fall.」

I had by no means heard the phrase “zoo” from Miyagi’s mouth, so I believed perhaps he had forgotten about it.

So I’m glad.

I’m so joyful that I wish to bounce up and down right here and skip to the station. However Miyagi will not be in a superb temper.

「You forgot about that, didn’t you, Sendai-san?」

Miyagi’s voice is decrease than earlier than.

「How might I neglect that?」

I remembered, however earlier than I invited her to go to the zoo, there was my birthday and Miyagi’s birthday. Then I began a brand new part-time job and my holidays have been crammed with it, and I had extra issues to do on the college. The gaps in my schedule have been quickly disappearing, and I discovered myself rushing towards the top of autumn.

「However you had a part-time job, proper?」

The legs that I can see by Miyagi’s skirt transfer. She takes a step or two after which rushes to maneuver her ft as she tries to go away me behind.

「I’m sorry about that. Sorry.」

「That’s not one thing it is best to apologize for.」

Miyagi says in a voice that doesn’t cover her frustration.

「Is that promise nonetheless legitimate?」

「Do you wish to go, Sendai-san?」

「I’m considering of going, however when would you like, Miyagi?」

「Spring.」

I used to be stunned on the brief reply, but it surely was higher than if she had stated she wouldn’t go. If it had been earlier than, she would’ve stated she wouldn’t go.

「Okay, let’s do it within the spring.」

We arrived on the station with out seeing Mike-chan and went by the ticket gate. As we joined the gang of individuals heading for the platform, Miyagi known as me「Sendai-san」frivolously.

「What’s it?」

「Is the zoo good within the spring?」

「If Miyagi is okay with winter, I’ll do winter. Winter appears to be much less crowded, and we will calm down, don’t you suppose?」

「I don’t wish to decelerate within the chilly.」

「So if we don’t decelerate, you don’t thoughts if it’s winter?」

「…Heat climate is ok.」

I hear a small voice and I reply earlier than she alters her thoughts.

「Then, a heat winter day, it’s.」

No reply from Miyagi.

I’m not saying it’s good or unhealthy, but when she didn’t prefer it, she would’ve stated so, so the truth that there was no reply means that the proposal of「a heat winter day」was accepted.

It may very well be throughout the winter break, earlier than or after.

Wrap a shawl round Miyagi, who’s delicate to the chilly, and make her put on thick garments, and the 2 of us go to the zoo.

If this wasn’t a practice station, I’d swear by Miyagi’s earring.

If I kissed her ear and swore a promise, I need Miyagi to kiss my ear too. I need Miyagi to inform me that she desires to maintain her promise too.

「That’s a promise.」

As a substitute of kissing her, I put the again of my hand on her hand with a tapping movement. Miyagi nonetheless didn’t reply, however that was okay, as a result of she didn’t refuse.

After we arrive on the platform, the practice comes shortly and we board.

We speak in regards to the college pageant, although we don’t have a lot to speak about.

The practice stops, the phrase stops, an inexpensive period of time passes, and the vacation spot station will get nearer. I look out the window and see the surroundings that Miyagi at all times sees. I noticed Miyagi when she ran away from residence and went to the college to search for her, however she didn’t appear to be wanting round me at the moment.

I don’t wish to have that feeling once more.

Miyagi ought to be subsequent to me.

We get off the practice and stroll down the platform.

There’s nothing uncommon exterior the window or on the station as seen from the practice. It’s all very mundane, the type of factor I’d discover on my approach to school, however I want I might see the surroundings that Miyagi sees each day.

I want I might see the identical surroundings Miyagi sees each day, attending the identical college and taking the identical lectures.

Share extra time than I do now.

How good it could be if we might spend our 4 years like that.

I maintain my head down, excited about the long run I didn’t get.

I can’t see it, however Miyagi stays right here.

A crimson, skin-burning mark that takes root and heads deep inside me.

I’m lacking one thing in my physique that Miyagi left behind that received’t go away for days. I need warmth, not only a mark that makes me really feel her. I wish to have the warmth of Miyagi that’s scorching, heat, and melts the core of my physique.

Within the station heading out, I contact Miyagi’s hand, which I solely ran into earlier. I seize her fingertips, and her hand slips away from me.

「What’s it, Sendai-san?」

I hear her barely low voice.

「Let’s maintain arms.」

「We’re virtually on the assembly place.」

「I do know that.」

We and Utsunomiya are assembly at a bookstore close to the station.

「I completely received’t maintain you.」

I don’t suppose we must always maintain arms both, however I additionally wish to maintain arms, even when it’s just for a short while till we get to the assembly place.

「There are many folks holding arms, you already know.」

「I don’t need that when there’s a number of them.」

It’s common to see folks holding arms.

Even when Utsunomiya noticed us, I don’t suppose she would suspect something. Although it might appear unusual, she wouldn’t know what sort of relationship Miyagi and I’ve. Apart from, we’re solely roommates.

We’re not pals, weren’t lovers, we’re not something, we’re simply roommates.

——That’s all Miyagi will enable.

「Miyagi.」

I’m going by the turnstiles and seize Miyagi’s hand as soon as extra.

However the hand that grabs her shortly escapes.

「Let go, Sendai-san.」

Once I stated this, Miyagi pushed my arm gently.

And with a number of power.

Simply as I stumble over and say,「That’s harmful,」I hear a vivid voice.

「Decisive second obtained.」

I appeared towards the voice and noticed Utsunomiya holding a smartphone.

「Eh, Maika? The assembly place is a bookstore, proper?」

Miyagi says in a stunned voice, not the gruff voice she had been making earlier. However it’s comprehensible that Miyagi is stunned, since Utsunomiya confirmed up at a spot that wasn’t the assembly place.

「I believed it was about time you came to visit, so I came to visit right here. Then I noticed the 2 of you milling round, so I puzzled what you have been doing.」

「We didn’t do something. The decisive second, did you’re taking an image of us?」

Utsunomiya chuckled at Miyagi’s voice.

「I took it. I wish to title it “Shiori Miyagi, the opposite aspect of her face.” So, what was the dispute about?」

「We’re not even in dispute. It’s simply that Sendai-san was mistaken now.」

With a voice that hides her dissatisfaction, Miyagi faucets my arm as I stand subsequent to her, adopted by a crunching, digital sound.

Play

Unmute

「I’ve added one other one.」

「Maika, you don’t need to take footage.」

「I feel it ought to be like a body earlier than going to the college pageant. I feel I’ll title it “Miyagi Shiori hitting that Sendai Hazuki with a sticky rice cake” and ship it to Ami.」

Utsunomiya turns her cellphone display to us and exhibits us the photograph she simply took.

Me and Miyagi.

And part of the surroundings that Miyagi at all times sees.

Reduce out on Utsunomiya’s cellphone, it was the primary time I had ever seen it. We had by no means taken footage earlier than.

「You’re positively going to get in bother. When you ship it, I’ll hate you for the remainder of my life.」

Listening to Miyagi’s voice, I resent the previous me.

Why?

Why didn’t I take an image of Miyagi?

Why didn’t I discover how simple it was to get a bit of Miyagi?

Not solely Utsunomiya, however even I might see Miyagi anytime simply through the use of a small machine known as a smartphone that I’ve, however I haven’t used it for a very long time.

If I might, I wish to return in time and take an image of Miyagi laughing on the aquarium, and even Miyagi on her birthday. There are a lot of different Miyagi’s I wish to {photograph}.

「Eh, what ought to I do?」

I can hear Utsunomiya chuckling fortunately.

I set free a small breath.

Prefer it’s nothing.

As informal as asking about tomorrow’s plans.

Say the phrases that can get you what you need, accompanied by a smile.

「Hey, Utsunomiya. I need you to ship me that image later.」

「Oh, I’m sending it now. I’ll ship it to Shiori too.」

Once I say so, Utsunomiya instantly sends me a photograph.

I have a look at my cellphone and see two pictures of us lower out earlier.

One exhibits a grumpy Miyagi pushing my arm, and the opposite exhibits an unnaturally affectionate Miyagi tapping my arm.

「Thanks.」

Miyagi smiles and says the identical phrases with reluctance.

「Talking of which, do you will have any footage of the 2 of you collectively? I’d prefer to see them.」

I have a look at Miyagi, however she doesn’t appear to be planning to reply, so I reply for her.

「We by no means took an image collectively, although.」

「Eh, why?」

「Nhn, I’m wondering why. I don’t have a specific cause.」

In highschool we weren’t the type of people that take footage.

After we have been in school, it was all about being collectively a lot that we didn’t even discover that we will take footage.

「Now that we’re accomplished speaking about footage, let’s go.」

Miyagi stated to rush up and grabbed Utsunomiya’s hand and pulled it, though she didn’t maintain mine.

「Shiori. You don’t need to be in such a rush.」

As I watched Utsunomiya strolling as if being dragged alongside, I believed to myself, “That’s not honest.”

「Sendai-san, hurry.」

Miyagi known as me and I exhaled.

We couldn’t maintain arms, however I obtained one treasure.

I tucked away Miyagi’s time-locked cellphone in my bag and adopted them.