What Sendai-san likes — 246

Translated by KaiesV

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Snap, snap.

I hear the sound of the shutter repeatedly.

It’s the sound of Sendai-san taking footage, and he or she continues to avoid wasting the shoebill to her cellphone with a severe face.

「Are you getting good pictures?」

After I requested Sendai-san, who was attempting to maintain her promise to『take a lot of footage of the shoebill and provides them to Miyagi,』she stopped tapping the shutter button and checked out me.

「After all. I’ll provide you with a lot of footage of the shoebill later.」

「Thanks… Sendai-san, do you assume the shoebill have been cute?」

「I feel. This pal appears to be like scary, however it appears charming.」

Actually?

I stare at Sendai-san’s face, however I can not inform if her phrases are coming from her coronary heart. Her emotions are obscure, as if behind a fog, and I can not see them clearly.

「Did you just like the shoebill, Miyagi?」

「Yeah. They’re cute.」

「That’s good, then.」

A superb smile is directed at me.

Her ponytail, which reveals off the blue stones, enhances her shiny smile. Her hair appears to be like extra applicable for summer time than winter, however when she wears it, the season doesn’t appear to matter in any respect. It makes me wish to depart her ponytail on my cellphone, swaying within the freezing wind.

I feel it’s crafty of her to have even winter on her facet.

「Sendai-san, what number of footage are you going to take?」

I can’t look straight at Sendai-san, so I take away my gaze. I take one crisp image of the civet and tuck my cellphone into my pocket.

「Till you’re glad, Miyagi.」

「Okay, that’s sufficient then. I’ve taken my very own footage. Isn’t there something you wish to shoot, Sendai-san?」

As quickly as she completed, I heard a cracking sound, and I mentioned,「No, not that,」and flicked her arm as she was taking my image.

「That being mentioned, there’s nothing else I wish to shoot.」

「Then you need to be taking footage of the shoebill.」

「You simply mentioned that was sufficient.」

「I take again my earlier assertion. Use your cellphone just for the shoebill.」

I catch Sendai-san by the arm and level my cellphone towards the shoebill. She took one picture as if she had no selection, and instantly turned her cellphone towards me.

「Look over there.」

I glanced at Sendai-san’s cellphone and pointed on the shoebill.

「I’m wanting there.」

「No, you’re not. Your cellphone is dealing with this manner.」

「You’re stingy, Miyagi.」

Sighing exaggeratedly, Sendai-san turns to the shoebill. I too take a look at the massive chook, the hairs on the again of its head standing up loosely.

The shoebill spreads its wings with a flourish.

Sendai-san says in a small voice,「Ah!」and I do know that we’re certainly wanting on the identical factor, however it doesn’t appear to be we’re wanting on the identical factor.

It’s as if we’re seeing the identical factor however various things.

That type of factor has been with me ever since I got here to the zoo.

「Sendai-san.」

「What?」

What’s your favourite animal?

Are you having enjoyable as we speak?

This isn’t time to ask this.

Sendai-san is just saying bland issues.

Then.

If that’s the case.

——Inform me how you actually really feel, Sendai-san.

I might make her swear on my piercing and have her reply, however most likely not. It’s improper to make use of her earrings to make her communicate her thoughts.

「…The shoebill, they’re lovely.」

I swallowed what I needed to ask and gave my not-so-interesting impression.

I exhale and put my hand on the plumeria earrings. I calmly stroked the small flower after which tried to cover the earrings with my hair, however Sendai-san grabbed my arm.

「They’re cute, simply depart it at that.」

「They’re not cute.」

I reply in a low voice to Sendai-san, who’s watching me.

「I feel the earrings look good on you and I feel you look cute.」

「Shut up, Sendai-san.」

「It’s alright. I’d even say you’re cute.」

I sigh at Sendai-san, who smiles at me.

She by no means tells me what’s vital, she simply says pointless issues.

「My hand, let go.」

「Can you permit my ears the place they’re?」

「Let go of me, so I can do it.」

「Bought it.」

Sendai-san’s hand leaves my arm with an open hand, and my arm is free.

Her ears, which don’t have anything to cover, are chilly.

I shove my arms in my pockets and take a look at the grim-faced shoebill.

「…Sendai-san. Are you actually having enjoyable on the zoo?」

Even once I strive to not ask, I discover myself saying the identical issues over and over.

「I’ve at all times mentioned that I used to be having enjoyable.」

I get the reply I anticipated, and I exhale a small breath. Then I breathe in as a lot as I exhaled. Tough, undigestible materials enters the physique together with chilly air, passes via the esophagus, accumulates within the abdomen, and turns into painful.

「…I’ll hold asking it as a result of it bothers me.」

I answered in a blur and searched my reminiscence.

What concerning the time we went to the aquarium?

That day was very similar to as we speak. Though there have been no shoebill, I noticed seals and penguins with Sendai-san. However I feel I used to be all about having fun with myself then and didn’t take into consideration Sendai-san as a lot as I do now. And relatively than asking her if she was having enjoyable, I needed to listen to the reply to the query Maika had requested when she came over,「Is there anybody you want, Sendai-san?」I needed to listen to the reply to that query.

In the long run, although, I couldn’t hear Sendai-san’s true emotions on the aquarium.

I ended up being fooled into considering that the particular person she appreciated was Mike-chan, the cat.

Sendai-san is troublesome.

There are various issues I don’t perceive, and I hate it.

I clench my arms in my pockets.

The ideas of my fingers are terribly chilly.

The climate is okay, however the wind is choosing up and I get a bit of nearer to Sendai-san.

Our shoulders calmly hit.

I can’t really feel her physique warmth due to her thick coat, however I can odor the identical shampoo on my nostril. No, perhaps it’s simply my creativeness. Nonetheless, it’s a aid to search out one thing in frequent together with her as we speak.

「Don’t fear, it’s all in good enjoyable.」

Sendai-san smiles and continues,「We could watch the crocodiles?」

「Why crocodiles?」

「Why was that? As a result of the tissue cowl in Miyagi’s room is a crocodile.」

「And it simply so occurs that the tissue cowl is a crocodile.」

「Then, you don’t wish to look?」

「…I’ll look.」

「Since we’re right here, let’s see the okapi after which the crocodile. The okapi is true there.」

As she mentioned this, Sendai-san began to stroll away, and I reached into my pocket and caught her hand.

「You don’t wish to see the okapi?」

Maybe bodily proximity is meaningless, however proper now, nearer is best than farther. It might soften away the uneasiness within the nook of my thoughts.

「I’ll look.」

I grab the hand I grabbed and put my foot ahead.

One step, two steps.

I stroll as if dragging Sendai-san, who has a curious look on her face.

Our joined arms are chilly, but when we maintain them collectively, our physique temperatures will finally return, and I hope they are going to quickly be as heat as typical. I want a physique hotter and the one different is Sendai-san. After all, she shouldn’t be disposable like a hotter, however she ought to heat my chilly arms. Gloves received’t heat my arms.

We see the okapi and go to the constructing the place the crocodiles are. It’s not as chilly as outdoors due to the greenhouse, however I hold holding arms with Sendai-san.

「Sendai-san, inform me your favourite animal you noticed as we speak.」

I tug on her hand, that are nonetheless held collectively, and ask her what I do know she received’t reply if I ask. I do know it’s not the proper factor to ask, however as we speak I can’t assist however ask.

「What about you, Miyagi?」

「Reply my query first, Sendai-san.」

「Why don’t you reply, Miyagi?」

「It’s best to reply, Sendai-san?」

「Nhn. Isn’t that the toughest factor to resolve?」

「It’s not laborious, simply inform me what’s your favourite.」

I squeeze Sendai-san’s hand, which isn’t simmering.

After I put sufficient power into her hand to make her wish to say, “It hurts,” although it wasn’t sturdy sufficient to crush her bones, Sendai-san started to talk quietly.

「I don’t know if I can say that. It’s not that a lot of an obsession, is it? What animal do you want essentially the most?」

「Sendai-san.」

After I tried to launch my hand, which she was holding tightly, she mentioned in a flustered voice,「Okay, okay. I’ll reply you.」

After I take a look at Sendai-san, she is unusually wrinkling her forehead and considering significantly. her, I really feel like I’m doing one thing horrible, so I modify my query.

「When you can’t inform me your favourite animal, inform me one animal you noticed as we speak that you simply wish to see once more.」

「An animal I’d wish to see once more?」

「Sure.」

「Nhn, let’s see… If I had to decide on one, I’d go along with the shoebill.」

「It seems like a lie. Reply me correctly.」

「Then, Miyagi, the place you see the shoebill.」

「What’s that? Reply me significantly.」

I stare at Sendai-san, in entrance of the crocodile who doesn’t know what she is considering.

「Now that’s severe. I’m simply saying, I’d like to see Miyagi watching the shoebill once more. Look, Miyagi doesn’t exit with me a lot, proper? So, you understand, after we exit collectively, I need you to see what you needed to see, and I wish to see you taking a look at it, Miyagi.」

I suppress the urge to kick Sendai-san within the leg as what seems like an excuse rushes into my ears.

She doesn’t appear to have something she likes or desires to see.

What I like.

The place I wish to go.

I assumed Sendai-san, who cares about such issues on a regular basis, was involved about me, however I don’t assume so.

Applications to swimsuit me.

It looks as if that type of factor is constructed into her.

「I’m not somebody to be watched.」

After I categorical my dissatisfaction in a small voice, Sendai-san says in a softer voice.

「I do know, however I wish to see them. Present me Miyagi wanting on the shoebill once more.」

「You’re faking it.」

「I’m not faking it.」

「…I’ll ask you once more which animal you want finest or which one you’d wish to see, and also you’d higher reply me then.」

There isn’t a level in persevering with the push and pull.

The problem shouldn’t be whether or not she was misguided or not, so I’ll give her some homework to observe up on.

「I’ll give it some thought.」

「It’s not one thing you could take into consideration.」

Sendai-san is improper.

What you want shouldn’t be one thing you consider and put together a solution for.

We depart the constructing the place the crocodiles are and go outdoors.

The wind whistles and my shoulders shake.

「Miyagi, it’s chilly.」

After saying this, Sendai-san let go of the hand she was holding and gently stroked my earring. She then pulled my hair again over my ears to cover the earrings, and with out asking, slowly rewrapped the headscarf that had been warming my neck.

「It’s getting windy, ought to we depart now? We’re near the exit. There’s nonetheless some animals we haven’t seen but, so we will return.」

「It’s alright. We’re leaving. We are able to go once more to the zoo.」

I seize the top of the rewrapped scarf.

「The zoo, can we come again once more?」

「You mentioned it earlier. You mentioned you’d ask me what my favourite animal is or what I’d wish to see.」

「That meant coming again to the zoo with me once more.」

「When you don’t prefer it, effective.」

「I don’t thoughts. There’s the aquarium, so I assumed it might be okay. Are you positive?」

「…We’ve got time earlier than we graduate from school.」

Subsequent time I wish to know what she likes aside from Mike-chan.

Since we are going to nonetheless be residing collectively for some time, I wish to know a minimum of another factor she likes.

「Meaning we’re going to go each methods, proper?」

「I’ll let Sendai-san resolve.」

「Effectively, let’s go each methods and go dwelling for the day.」

Sendai-san, who I’m unsure if she actually desires to go, smiles gently and shakes my hand.

Her hand continues to be chilly, however not so chilly that I wish to let go.

She squeezes again the softly grasped hand.

Sendai-san started to stroll slowly and we left the zoo.