After Sendai-san — 212

Translated by KaiesV

Edited by KaiesV

Kashari.

An digital beep sounds as soon as, and Maika makes a intentionally tough face as she seems at her telephone.

「Shiori, your expression is stiff. Smile extra, smile.」

「I’m alleged to be smiling, although.」

「Okay, now double your smile. I’ll take one other image.」

Unattainable.

I managed to make a face that was just a little more durable however nonetheless adequate for anybody to see, and I hope you’ll forgive me for that.

The corners of my mouth, subsequent to Sendai-san’s, don’t obey my will. I can’t smile effectively, and I can’t make a very good face that’s nothing. If I may make a smile that Maika could be happy with, I’d have already made it.

「Shiori—」

A urging voice echoes, and I command my mind to smile. However the corners of my mouth solely go up midway, and Maika’s telephone doesn’t make a crackling sound.

I wish to banish the phrase “smiling” from this world. If I can’t banish them, I wish to change the that means of the phrase “smile.” I would like the phrase “smile” to imply a delicate look or a tough expression, only for immediately.

Haah.

Sighing inwardly and resuming his battle with the corners of his mouth, Sendai-san stated in a cheerful voice,「Utsunomiya.」

「Possibly, Miyagi can’t smile proper now.」

Sendai-san stated one thing like she seemed into my thoughts and I checked out her involuntarily.

「Eh, is one thing unsuitable, Shiori?」

「Miyagi’s tummy is making noisy noises. She’s attempting to inform us she’s going to die from starvation.」

With a joking voice, a hand reaches out from subsequent to me and faucets my abdomen.

「It’s not rumbling.」

「It does rumble.」

「It’s not rumbling in any respect.」

I retrieve my arm, which remains to be held by Sendai-san, and push her arm that she says my abdomen rumbles, which it doesn’t, and he or she responds,「that’s harmful.」As well as, I hear a giggle and a small chuckle, and this time after I pull on Sendai-san’s arm, she says one thing that isn’t true,「your abdomen rumbles once more.」

I’m disgusted that Sendai-san appears to be having fun with herself a lot.

「Sendai-san.」

I hadn’t considered the phrases that might observe, however I used to be about to complain after I heard a crack and I checked out Maika.

「I received some good footage, and I’ll save the smirking for later.」

It sounds satisfying, however I undoubtedly assume it’s a bizarre photograph.

As proof, Maika is wanting on the photograph with a smirk on her face.

I want the corners of my mouth moved as a lot as Maika’s after I was subsequent to Sendai-san.

I don’t imply to smile, however I would like to have the ability to make a minimum of one smile even when Sendai-san is subsequent to me, in any other case I’d be in hassle at occasions like this. It will be good if Sendai-san and Maika wouldn’t get entangled in any respect sooner or later, however since they’ve turn out to be mates, this stuff are certain to occur sooner or later.

「Maika, present me the image.」

Once I gave up on transferring the corners of my mouth as I wanted and approached Maika, Sendai-san adopted me, saying,「I wish to see it too.」

「It’s an fascinating photograph, look.」

「It’s not a very good image, it’s an fascinating image.」

I complained and requested to see her telephone, which confirmed me pulling on Sendai-san’s arm with a grim look on my face.

「I informed you it was a very good image. Sendai-san is smiling. Wait, huh? Sendai-san?」

Maika seems up from her telephone with a doubtful look on her face.

「What’s unsuitable with me?」

「Your ears. Did you have got your ears pierced earlier than, Sendai-san?」

Maika says, observing Sendai-san’s ear.

「We’ve been doing it for some time. I did it the final time you two got here to my part-time job.」

「Actually. Possibly as a result of I used to be taking a look at your uniform, I didn’t discover. When did you open it?」

「Greater than a month in the past, I believe.」

「That’s the piercing that was on the piercer, proper? Aren’t you going to alter it?」

As if in response to Maika’s phrases, Sendai-san places her fingers to her ears. Then she gently strokes the earring I placed on.

My gaze is caught on her fingers and gained’t come off.

Her fingertips tugged at her earlobe, and Sendai-san opened her mouth.

「I’ve been fascinated with altering it, however… it’s the primary piercing I ever had, and I’m very hooked up to it, and I really feel prefer it’s a waste.」

Sendai-san’s earrings have been there ever since I put them on her on her birthday. It holds a promise to her physique and continues to adorn Sendai-san in a means that I can see.

I may change my earrings identical to I alter my garments relying on the day, however Sendai-san doesn’t change hers. A month has handed, and he or she continued to put on the identical earrings she wore on my birthday.

「Shocking. Sendai-san, you appeared such as you would change it rapidly with out ready a month for one thing like this.」

「Shocking even to myself.」

Sendai-san laughs at Maika and smiles at me.

The phrase “surprising” was uttered by each of them.

It’s a phrase that I’ve in my thoughts as effectively.

I’m not saying that she shouldn’t have completely different piercings, and if she needs to alter them to one thing completely different, like I’ve the piercings that Sendai-san gave me, she will be able to accomplish that.

If I don’t change it with out my data, if I don’t let another person select it with out my data, I can at all times change it.

「Nicely, I’d change it if I discover some cute earrings. Anyway, how about we eat one thing? Miyagi seems like she’s too hungry to die, and we’ll proceed with the photographs after we’re consuming.」

「Nice. Let’s do this.」

Maika agreed with Sendai’s phrases, and I nodded「sure.」

「Then, what lets eat? Is there something you wish to eat, Utsunomiya?」

「Okonomiyaki.」

「What about Miyagi?」

「Yakisoba. What about Sendai-san?」

「Nhn, let’s see. Why don’t we share okonomiyaki and yakisoba collectively?」

「Ah, that’s good!」

Maika answered in a cheerful voice, and we purchased okonomiyaki and yakisoba, in addition to juice, from a sales space, and the three of us sat down on a bench. We then sat down on a bench, dividing the okonomiyaki and yakisoba equally, and ate our lunch.

「Talking of which, isn’t your college having a college competition proper now, Sendai-san?」

Maika, who has eaten half of her okonomiyaki, seems at Sendai-san.

「Till tomorrow. I’ll present you round if you wish to come.」

「I’ve an errand to run tomorrow. Can I’m going with Shiori subsequent yr?」

I used to be blended up within the dialog with out asking, and earlier than I may deny that I had stated I needed to go, Sendai-san responded smugly.

「In fact. I’ll present you round. Come to our faculty subsequent yr.」

「Yay.」

「Miyagi. You seem like you’re speaking about another person, however Miyagi is coming with us subsequent yr.」

I gained’t go.

I wish to reply that, however I can’t.

If I stated I wouldn’t go, Maika would certainly should go alone, and I’d be left with just one reply.

「I do know. I’m coming with you.」

I don’t need Maika to go to Sendai-san’s faculty alone.

So, even when I don’t really feel comfy, I had no alternative however to go along with her.

「Then, it’s determined.」

Sendai-san smiles and brings the yakisoba to his mouth.

We continued to eat the okonomiyaki and yakisoba whereas chatting about nothing, and when most of it had settled in our stomachs, Maika stated one thing that jogged my memory of her.

「Ah, the photograph.」

「Miyagi, you’re the cameraman.」

With a faucet on my shoulder, I awkwardly pull my telephone out of my bag like a machine and get up. I took a step or two away from the bench and seemed again at a good way to see Sendai-san sitting subsequent to Maika.

I maintain up my telephone.

Sendai-san pulls herself nearer to Maika.

My coronary heart thumps rather than the shutter sound, and I set free a small breath.

On a small display screen lower out of a scene from the college competition, Sendai-san is smiling with a face I used to see in highschool.

The superbly crafted smile will not be mine, however Maika’s.

Subsequent to her, in fact, Maika can be smiling.

I believe that’s my place.

I used to be at all times there, it was pure for me to be there, and there was nobody there however me. I don’t know a lot about Sendai-san exterior, but when we exit collectively, there will probably be nobody however me subsequent to her.

And but, immediately, Maika is the place I needs to be, and I take her image.

Boring.

Not fascinating.

Nevertheless it should be taken.

「Shiori, take the image.」

I hear Maika’s voice and faucet the shoot button as if my fingers weren’t my very own.

Kashari.

One sound I’ve heard many occasions immediately, and the 2 individuals on the display screen are recorded on my telephone as a photograph.

「I took it.」

“Right here,” I stated, strolling towards them and exhibiting them my telephone.

Sendai-san and Maika are fortunately saying one thing, however I can’t hear them. My eyes are mounted on my telephone and I hold wanting on the two individuals I simply noticed, although I don’t wish to see them.

The smile on the display screen is extra stunning than the smirk that might’ve been my distortion.

My telephone is heavy when it needs to be mild.

So heavy that I wish to throw it away.

I sit down on the bench and put my telephone away in my bag.

I squeeze the finger that pressed the taking pictures button with the other hand.

The scab is forcibly peeled off, and I really feel a ache just like once you harm your self silently. Jiggle, zing, and ache. The discomfort spreads as if the wound is small but it surely’s soaked with blood, and with out understanding it, the blood is all over the place.

Now I wish to put a mark on Sendai-san’s physique and make extra pink marks.

If that doesn’t work, I wish to contact her neck and present the pink marks to Maika.

「It’s time to go to the speak present corridor.」

I hear Sendai-san’s voice and lookup from my slumped place.

I see her neck, which ought to have a pink mark on it, and I virtually attain out my hand and stand as much as cowl it up.

The pink mark on Sendai-san’s neck.

There was no means she would assume I had made it, however I couldn’t let Maika see it. That mark is one thing that solely Sendai-san and I do know exists, and it’s a secret between us.

「Shiori, the venue is the second faculty constructing, proper?」

I hear Maika’s voice.

If I shift the factor protecting the pink mark just a bit, I can present it to Maika.

I may even inform Maika that that is mine and that Sendai-san is mine.

——Not good.

If I solely take into consideration Sendai-san, I’ll go loopy.

At the moment is a day stuffed with enjoyable issues to do, so I ought to look extra elsewhere as an alternative of subsequent to me.

「Yeah.」

I made my voice as cheerful as doable and began strolling with them.