Reika-Sama – 103 (1/2)
Mount Hiei is aon the border between the Kyoto and shi+ga Prefectures, japan
Enryaku-ji is a Tendai monastery located atop Mount Hiei by the monk Saichou in 788
Mount Kouya is the name of mountains in Wakayama Prefecture to the south of Osaka First settled in 819 by the monk Kuukai, Mt Kouya is primarily known as the world headquarters of the Kouyasan shi+ngon sect of japanese Buddhism
Saigyou was the name of atales of lonely ogres gathering huyou was said to have used the secret necros of the Tokudaiji noble house to create a human from human bone remains
I met Aira-sama in a café the next Sunday in the early afternoon
“Sorry foryou come out here, Reika-chan”
“There is nothing to apologise for Being able to meet with you is a pleasure”
I ordered a latte This café did latte art, so I asked for a sheep
“Cute sheep Speaking of which, you wore sheep ears during the school festival didn’t you?”
“Yes”
The reception that ood, so I had become a little fond of sheep since H it
While I was appreciatinghesitantly
“So you see, I’uessed why I’ve called you out today It’s about Yurie and Masaya”
Here it was… I had prettythe sheep It was delicious
“You’ve noticed too that Masaya’s been acting strangely, right?”
“…Yes”
After seeing that it would be stranger if anybody failed to notice He was like an empty cicada shell of himself Even if I had somehow missed that, Enjou had already told me about hoent on a journey, and then handed over those unlucky souvenirs
“You see, Yurie has finally given him her decision”
“Aahh…”
I thought so…
“Yurie cares about Masaya a great deal as well, but it’s always been the love for a younger brother That’s why she thought it was about tis clear I mean, the two of us are already twenty In a sense you could say she was taking responsibility”
“Hahhh…”
It wasother than a brother, so I can’t answer your feelings’ or soive up!” and was pretty persistent about it In the very end though, Yurie-sama wouldn’t take back her words, for both their sakes
“It happened a little while after the school festival Truthfully though, Yurie’s been trying put soh school She’s been trying to create chances for hiht with her to the school festival?”
“Ah, Maihama Ema-san”
“Right The two of theo back quite a while Ema-san looks up to Yurie and adores Masaya too, and has been to his house a few times with Yurie Since Yurie dotes on her, Masaya can’t flat-out reject her either…”
“I see…”
“Originally we had planned to co to the school festival as well Masaya was really unhappy about that He had planned to walk around with Yurie but then Ema-san was stuck to him the whole time instead And then later when he went to Yurie’s house to visit, Eain… Eventually the stress built up and he de on”
“And so Yurie told him that she could only see hiive up on her It went sos wouldn’t change no ood opportunity to set things straight”
“So the exam results…”
“…Yeah Masaya of all people dropped ranks, didn’t he I heard about it later Yurie orried too What’s worse is that after that a young man we one to welcome him, but then Masaya saw He assumed that Yurie had said all that because she had found a boyfriend and flipped out The guy took a lot of care of us while ere overseas so Yurie was furious at how rude Masaya had been So she went and said, ‘Who I date is none of your business, Masaya! I don’t want to see you any, you see”
“I see…”
So that’s why he went on his journey
But , Kaburagi hadn’t matured since priain
“Did Shuusuke tell you that Masaya went one, but Yurie hite as a sheet ith the destination and all She ca to me that she hadn’t expected him to take it that badly and askedMasaya down until he knew enough to go pick Masaya up… Ojisama and Obasama were obviously horrified and wanted to knohat happened to their son, so it was chaos over there too Yurie’s been depressed and guilty towards them and told me that she couldn’t face them It’s been a horrible start to the year”
To think that while I was nouys were going through so like this…
“AnyhoeMasaya home, and you remember his cold? Because of that he had to call off the rest of his journey, but he’s been completely listless, like a different person We’ve all been really worried”
“I see”
This went into a lot oing
“Are you certain that you should be telling an outsider like me about all this?”
I ht it would save me at this point…