After Sendai-san — 213

Translated by KaiesV

Edited by KaiesV

It’s enjoyable.

It’s enjoyable.

It’s very enjoyable.

Trying round me with this in thoughts, I’ll see that the college, buoyed by the varsity pageant, is crammed with a cheerful ambiance, and I’ll really feel joyful simply by being there.

——So long as I don’t thoughts the noise coming subsequent to me.

「Sendai-san, what are you doing?」

I name out to the supply of the sound.

「Taking photos.」

「Don’t do this, simply look forward and stroll.」

I tapped Sendai-san on the shoulder as a crunching sound echoed via the hallway of the second faculty constructing because the three of us walked aspect by aspect. She continues to make use of her telephone as a digital camera, realizing that I can not say something robust in entrance of Maika.

It was actually annoying.

「Should you take any extra photos, I’ll confiscate your telephone.」

I ended and reached for Sendai-san, who was holding up her telephone. However she shrugs off my hand and lets the digital sound echo via the hallway once more.

If this have been my room, I might be throwing the alligator at her, however the college doesn’t have alligator tissue covers. I can’t kick her, so all I can do is name her exhausting,「Sendai-san!」

「Shiori, why not no less than take an image?」

Maika says, laughing.

「Utsunomiya, right here.」

Sendai-san fortunately factors his telephone at Maika, who smiles in response, and shortly a crisp sound is heard.

I take an enormous step ahead and stroll in entrance of them.

Don’t fear about it.

It’s no massive deal that Maika’s smile was captured on Sendai-san’s telephone.

「If we take photos right here, we’ll miss the speak present.」

I referred to as out to Sendai-san and Maika two steps in entrance of them and stepped ahead yet another step. However I couldn’t go any additional due to the tug on my hoodie.

「I don’t suppose there’s any have to panic. Lastly, the three of us.」

Sendai-san declared as she pulled on my hoodie, releasing her grip and crossing her arms. Maika, as a matter in fact, caught with me and crossed her arms, and the three of us have been proven on Sendai-san’s telephone.

「I took it.」

After Sendai-san’s voice, an digital click on sounds and the telephone is put away.

「Final yr, I by no means thought I’d get to take an image with Sendai-san.」

Maika says sincerely and begins strolling towards the venue.

「I by no means thought the three of us could be photographed collectively both.」

I heard Sendai-san’s joyful voice and he or she touched her neck.

Pictures usually are not one thing to fret about.

I informed myself, and the three of us walked down the hallway aspect by aspect.

Arrive on the venue and hand your ticket to the attendant.

As we sat within the again somewhat than the center of the lecture corridor, Maika approached a lady with glasses strolling down the aisle.

「Asakura-san!」

「Ah, Utsunomiya-san. Miyagi-san, too. You two got here right here right this moment with a good friend… A good friend?」

Asakura-san, who had grow to be a good friend of mine after I entered the college, stopped and checked out us, Sendai-san to be precise.

I informed her that I used to be going to see right this moment’s speak present with a good friend, however Sendai-san, who’s standing subsequent to me, was so unexpectedly a good friend that I needed to ask her again,「A good friend?」

「I’m Sendai. We went to the identical highschool collectively.」

As she introduces herself, Sendai-san smiles at Asakura-san with a reserved look on her face.

I’ve seen Sendai-san like this many occasions in highschool, however it doesn’t make me really feel excellent.

「Ah, eh, is that so? Err, I’m Asakura.」

Asakura-san mentioned in a slurred voice and bowed his head. The best way she did it was so awkward that Maika referred to as out softly,

「Asakura-san, aren’t you a little bit stiff?」

「I used to be a little bit nervous since you two are differing types.」

「Do I’ve to depart my seat?」

As Sendai-san smiled and began to stand up, Asakura-san pointed towards the entrance of the lecture room as if in a panic.

「No, uhm, I’ve a good friend over there. So long, Utsunomiya-san and Miyagi-san.」

After saying this, Asakura-san walks shortly down the aisle, and Maika stands up.

「Oh, wait, Asakura-san. I borrowed this ebook the opposite day——」

Asakura-san doesn’t cease, as if she didn’t hear Maika’s voice.

「Sorry. I’ll be again in a bit.」

Maika chased after Asakura-san, who left in a rush, and Sendai-san and I needed to speak alone, although not alone.

「…I’ve by no means heard the identify Asakura earlier than.」

Sendai-san blurts out and appears at me.

「I didn’t say.」

「Say it.」

「I don’t must exit of my strategy to let you know.」

I’m not obligated to inform Sendai-san all the pieces about my friendships.

I don’t know all of Sendai-san’s associates, and I don’t blame her for not telling her that I’ve a good friend named Asakura-san.

「…I see.」

Sendai-san, who was taking a look at me, appears to be like ahead. A small ache runs via the again of my chest as Sendai-san doesn’t take a look at me with out Maika.

I attain for the knit protecting her neck and contact it. After which, as if enjoying a prank, as if associates have been enjoying with one another, I pulled on her knitwear as if it was nothing.

「Miyagi, it stretches when pulled.」

Sendai-san appears to be like at me along with her eyes ahead and says in a voice like when she speaks with Maika.

At this time Sendai-san shouldn’t be the identical as common.

It’s my Sendai-san with my mark, however it’s not my Sendai-san.

She take photos with Maika and don’t even take a look at me.

I can not tolerate such minutiae.

Every part, each single factor, each single of it.

If it have been anybody else, it wouldn’t be an enormous deal, however with Sendai-san, it seems like an enormous deal.

「Miyagi, you possibly can see when you pull it any additional. If I don’t, I received’t be capable to maintain my promise, is that okay?」

「Preserve your promise.」

I believe Sendai-san is true.

However she received’t let my hand go.

「I don’t know if Utsunomiya will come again.」

Sendai-san blurted out the identify, and my backbone creaked because the identify got here out of her mouth.

My physique reacts to the smallest issues, and my emotions waver.

Why.

I don’t know why I really feel this manner.

The sensation of desirous to refuse to attach and type a relationship with Sendai-san and another person.

I’ve all the time been uncertain of what this sense is.

No.

I actually do know.

One thing I’ve been feeling all day.

How might I not know?

I’ve identified for a very long time.

That is,

That is——

It ought to be referred to as exclusivity.

It’s nothing however possessiveness to need to maintain Sendai-san just for me on a regular basis.

I pull my hand away from Sendai-san and let loose a skinny breath.

No, not like that.

Sendai-san and I are simply roommates, not the sort of people that really feel that type of factor. What I’m feeling now’s much like that, however totally different.

It’s not exclusivity.

It’s not like that. It’s not, it’s not, it’s not.

If that is exclusivity, the place did it come from——

「Miyagi?」

I hear Sendai-san’s voice and look ahead.

Don’t give it some thought.

We’re in the course of the varsity pageant now, and we must always take into consideration having fun with the varsity pageant.

「Sorry.」

「Eh?」

「I’m sorry for pulling it away.」

Breathe in, breathe out.

The phrases immediately seem and flicker earlier than my eyes, making me need to run away from right here, however I can not run away. Maika will probably be again quickly. And even when I escape, the phrases I’ve discovered in all probability received’t disappear from me.

「We’re again.」

I hear Maika’s voice and Sendai-san begins speaking as if nothing occurred. I speak with them too, desirous to bury the phrases I didn’t need to know within the backside of my coronary heart. After some time, the speak present started, and the voices heard within the anime echoed via the lecture corridor.

It’s entertaining to have the ability to hear what I needed to listen to.

However it’s enjoyable that covers my floor, and I don’t suppose it’s enjoyable from the underside of my coronary heart, with the phrases I couldn’t fill in popping up on my face. My coronary heart leans towards Sendai-san subsequent to me, and I proceed to stretch my antennae.

Play

Unmute

I really feel uncomfortable as a result of there’s a hole between my physique and my emotions.

My physique feels joyful in a brightly coloured capsule, however my emotions are being pushed right into a grey capsule with lead, and they’re sinking sooner and sooner.

Enjoyable doesn’t erase the phrases I discover like an eraser.

Enjoyable and boring separate me.

The speak present ends with me feeling midway via, and I go away my seat.

The college pageant has quite a lot of occasions, and I see a number of of them. We stopped by the sales space once more, taking photos and chatting, and the time flew by so shortly that Maika and I parted methods and acquired on the prepare.

Two individuals on a prepare that I normally take alone.

I really feel uncomfortable as a result of Sendai-san is subsequent to me.

The half of my physique closest to Sendai-san tries to show towards her.

I don’t know what to do with me like this.

The rocking prepare shakes my reminiscence of right this moment appropriately, and the varsity pageant I loved and the one I didn’t get pleasure from roll round in my thoughts as one.

Final yr, the three of us, myself, Maika and Ami, went round for the cultural pageant.

This yr, Sendai-san was the place Ami was. Ami and I aren’t estranged from one another. They simply modified the place they stay and the place they stand. This sort of factor isn’t unusual; individuals repeatedly transfer nearer and additional away from one another.

The identical could also be true for me and Sendai-san.

This yr, Sendai-san was subsequent to me.

However she will not be there subsequent yr.

I promised myself subsequent yr and past on my birthday, however I can’t cease excited about that.

I spotted once more the phrases I had inside me, pondering that I ought to lock Sendai-san up in the home somewhat than be terrified of the unsure future.

I want I might let these phrases out with each breath I take.

「Miyagi, let’s get off.」

She calls out to me and we get off the prepare, which looks as if a really lengthy journey. We stroll to the home, speaking in regards to the faculty pageant, and attain the entrance door. Sendai-san unlocked the door and opened it. We went to the frequent area collectively and have been approached earlier than returning to our rooms.

「I had enjoyable right this moment. How about you, Miyagi?」

「Do I’ve to reply that?」

「Should you had enjoyable, you promised to say you had enjoyable.」

I bear in mind making such a promise on the way in which house from the aquarium.

However I don’t need to say it right here.

「I’ll reply it, when you come to my room.」

With that, I opened the door and entered the room, and Sendai-san adopted me. I reached for Sendai-san’s neck earlier than sitting down in my common spot.

「All in all, I believe I had fun.」

I answered in a small voice and shifted the knit protecting the mark I had made on Sendai-san.

I can see the mark I made this morning.

It stays crimson and clear.

I stroked it with my fingertips after which bit it.