Vol 1 Chapter 4 (2/2)
The young ladies became uneasy and heaved ‘My…’s.
“What might have happened?”
“Hanging up so suddenly is no common thing.”
“Could… her health suddenly have worsened?”
“Oh no! Ooh, what should we do…!”
“I will write a get-well letter!”
“How heartrending! If only I could be in her stead…!”
“Everyone, please stay calm.”
The second Arisugawa-san said that—— everyone quieted down immediately.
“Surely she must’ve had some important business to attend to. However, she did seem healthy.”
And everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
“If Reiko-sama says so, then there can be no mistaking it.”
“Well then, everyone, let us pray that her business goes well.”
“””””Yes, Reiko-sama.”””””
And so, the ojou-samas joined hands and prayed.
“…………”
While watching their sparkling appearances, I was dumbfounded.
Not even knowing about cells…
These ojou-samas really are super sheltered.
It was beyond imagination that such a place actually existed…
“All things considered, it was a real phone call!”
When they had finished praying, they observed the phone again.
“Kujou-san, would it sit well with you if I held it in my hands?”
“Go ahead.”
“Thank you very much—— My, how light!”
“You fold it up like this, don’t you? Amazing!”
While rotating my phone, the ojou-samas were deeply engrossed with genuine awe.
“That such wonderful, wonderful things would be used daily…”
“Amazing…”
“Commoners are amazing!”
Then Arisugawa-san looked at me,
“Oh, I’ve forgotten! Everyone, this is Kimito-sama’s property. We must return it at once.”
“My, that is true—”
And then, after they’d looked at my cell phone, they s.h.i.+fted their gazes towards me and—— their cheeks blushed slightly.
They mutually locked eyes with each other, as if worried.
What should we do~……
Just by thinking about it, my heart seems to leap out of my chest~……
When they whispered something in soft voices again——
“……I shall do it.”
Arisugawa-san tightly clenched her fists.
And with that, all the ojou-samas at once turned a look full of respect towards Arisugawa-san.
Why would the atmosphere tense up so hard just from returning my phone?
And so, while she politely held my cell in both of her hands, she walked up to me.
“Kimito-sama. I humbly thank you for having the chance to look upon this magnificent item.”
To address me in such a manner naturally was also incredibly ojou-sama-like.
“Ah, no problem…”
Just when I was about to take the phone from her, “R-Reiko-sama!” from behind came a voice that seemed fl.u.s.tered for some reason.
“!! F-For me of all people to…!”
“?”
“P-Please hold on for a moment, Kimito-sama! I shall write up a letter of grat.i.tude in just a moment!”
…Huh?
As Arisugawa-san turned around towards the door, a maid seemed to come in like the wind and held out a letter set.
“Ah, but what should I do, I wonder… To do something like writing while I stand would be quite immodest.”
“I don’t mind you using the table over there, you know?”
“Headmistress, I give my grat.i.tude.”
Arisugawa-san faced the reception table and smoothly finished writing out a letter with a fountain pen.
She then tied that letter of grat.i.tude up with a ribbon, along with the cell phone and a small cookie bag with cute wrapping, placed them in a seemingly high cla.s.s box, and then once again tied that all up with a ribbon——
“Please accept this—!”
With a *whoosh* she presented it to me.
“…………”
“——Ah!”
Arisugawa-san suddenly realized. She then put the box in a simple shopping bag that she had received from the maid.
“For you!”
It had become a lot easier to hold.
“As expected of Reiko-sama!”
“She is thorough to the very end!”
The ojou-samas praised her.
“If it was I, then I would’ve felt content with just writing the letter of grat.i.tude!”
“For me, I would’ve thought myself finished after only tying up the cell phone with a ribbon!”
“Ara, this is marvelous in its own way.”
“My, I thank you.”
I think I hallucinated the appearance of a royal flower garden right there.
…………Is this really j.a.pan?
For a moment I wondered whether I hadn’t just gotten lost in some kind of parallel world.
They were just way too different from the girls I had seen up until now.
While I felt like the ripples on my brain diminished, I took the paper bag from Arisugawa-san.
And as I did, our fingers touched ever so slightly.
“…………!”
With a *poof* Arisugawa-san turned so bright red that it looked like steam was coming out of her ears.
“Reiko-sama!”
“Do you not feel well?!”
“N-No, I’m fine… For just a short moment, Kimito-sama and my fingers…”
With a *flop* her body started to fall over.
“! Watch out!”
I extended my hands right away and—— caught her in my arms.
“””””~~~~~~!!”””””
The ojou-samas surrounding us also turned bright red and hastily backed away.
Once Arisugawa-san’s eyelashes moved out of the way and her eyes had opened enough, she looked at me.
“Ah… Fu…”
After letting out some incomprehensible murmurs,
“…Hau.”
She fainted.
“””””REIKO-SAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!”””””
Screams echoed throughout the room.
While I was perplexed with an, “Eh? Eh?”, a maid came in from the side and took Arisugawa-san. She seemed to glare at me a bit.
“It’s fine, Kiryuu-san. He has bears no interest in anything but muscles.”
Kujou-san said something that didn’t help me at all.
At that moment.
*BANG*
The door flew open all of a sudden.
We all turned around simultaneously, and standing there was——
A lone girl.
Semi-long twintails with ribbons on both sides that felt ojou-sama like and a lively ambiance about her.
Her eyes were big and wide with a small angle to them. Small nose, pink lips.
She had a cute flush on her face like the color of strawberries picked too early in the season. And she was all tensed up.
Translator notes and references
[1]He uses ‘ore’ the masculine p.r.o.noun for ‘I’ instead of more formal versions like, for instance, ‘watas.h.i.+’.
[2]j.a.panese potato snack, shaped like a fry.
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