Vol 4 Chapter 4 (1/2)
It was break time
“Akki, I wish to speak with you”
It wasn’t my sister but the student council vice-president with her trademark blonde hair and poker face (Later I found out that Akiko’s next lesson was PE, so she didn’t have time to play around here)
“Um, about what, Nasuhara-san?”
“There’s an old general store, called ‘Elegant Wisteria’, on the route to this acade from sweets and bentos up to their considerable collection of stationary It’s an old general store frequented by students of Liliana It appears, however, that the couple in charge have disagreements almost daily It seems they quarreled today as well Akki, what’s your honest position on this matter?”
“…I honestly think fighting isn’t good”
“I see Fighting is undesirable”
“Also, I don’t think you need to be worried about this”
“Well, that’s quite the thing to say Even though I graciously introduced this extreratitude or respect whatsoever”
“No, errr, it’s just… So deal, you know? It’s like a story about so with his wife after she finds out about his affair”
“I wonder, did so of that sort happen?”
“Errr, no, that was just an exa about”
“Perhaps, but even if it’s not worrying for you, don’t you think it is for the people involved?”
“Errr, well, maybe, but—”
“Reant Wisteria? Apparently, this time she couldn’t take it anymore, so she ran off with the store’s official seal and all the money on hand Her current whereabouts are unknown”
“Eh? Isn’t that kinda serious?”
“And the husband was very displeased when he found out, so he ran off with the store’s deed… His current whereabouts are also unknown”
“…Sounds like a lawsuit’s underway, doesn’t it?”
“Additionally, the couple had a child who only just graduated froarten, and they left him all alone in the store Both of them have abandoned their duties as parents, and it looks like he doesn’t have any other relatives either”
“That’s incredibly serious!”
Is the kid alright?!
The police and child services are doing what they’re ought to, right?!
“U to survive on his o?”
“Who knows? I wonder what happened to him”
“’Wonder what happened’, huh… So you don’t knohat happened afterwards?”
“No I knohat happened”
“If you know, then tell me!”
“Curious?”
“Of course I’m curious! You stopped at the juicy part!”
“I see Well then, if you swear absolute obedience and loyalty toyou”
“Isn’t that deal a bit too much for just a rumor?”
“Then proed with me”
“The terh”
“As always, you drive a hard bargain… I suppose I’ll have to be content with less Beco my sex slave will do”
“U that unreasonable”
“Unfortunately, this is as far as I can coo any lower”
“Eh? What part just noas a compromise…?”
“Please don’t concern yourself over such a trivial matter”
Co my humble protests, Nasuhara-san took the seat in front of me This seeed to ashi+-san
“How’s your health faring, Akki?”
“Errr, well, I’ears and call it a ‘trivial matter’?”
“Ascertaining your health is far ossip isn’t related to us anyway”
“…I feel like that’s the coh”
“At any rate, isn’t the weather lovely?”
shi+fting her gaze to the , Nasuhara-san changed the subject again
By the way, today was cloudy, and, according to the forecast, there was a sixty percent chance of rain
“Seeing such fine weather o on a picnic”
“So you’re insisting on calling it good, huh…? It’s fine, I’ll play along Hm, let’s see Well, a picnic sounds pretty nice The cherry blossom season’s almost over, and the temperature will rise soon – a picnic would be quite timely”
“Well then, why don’t we depart at once?”
“Eh?”
“For the picnic It’s a timely event, isn’t it?”
“No no no, that’s absurd We still have school, you know?”
I ht not considerto ditch school and run off like so to get worse
“Youthat there’s no ti, ‘A horse co you claim is absurd can suddenly become reality?”
“Errr, well, that aside, I’ school We’re student councillike that is a bit… you know?”
“Do you know the saying, ‘Lose a fly to catch a trout’?”
“No, I knohat itschool for a picnic? By the way, look around; the whole class can hear us If we keep talking like this, they’ll get the wrong idea, right?”
“Incidentally, isn’t there also a saying that goes, ‘Truth comes out of falsehood’?”
“Give up already!”
It seemed like she randomly came up with that talk about picnics on the spot
Ito talk about Shouldn’t she have so more important to say?
“No oes, doesn’t it?”
With her usual poker face, she continued, unperturbed by aze
“Going against the flow and utterly refusing to picnic; it’s not like the world will end if you go Act like an adult and go picnic”
“…You’re using soic”
“Is that so? This is only because it’s a pain persuading you”
“If it’s that ive up?”
“I can’t do that Besides, you’re half the reason our conversation got to this point, Akki If you consider yourself a man, take responsibility”
“Er… No matter how you look at it, it’s 100 percent your fault that things have come to this”
“If you won’t go on a picnic, then you’ll just have to die”
“Threatening me all of a sudden?!”
She was as crazy as ever
It was almost like a child would say, ‘If you don’t buy me candy, then you’ll die!’
“It’s because persuading you is a pain”
“It’s a pain, huh? Please stop saying things like that… It’s especially scary when you say it with that emotionless expression of yours”
“Well then, if you refuse to go on a picnic with me, then I’ll scribble in all of your textbooks”
“Huh… Your threats are suddenly on a smaller scale”
“I’ll draw raphs of important people in your history textbook”
“So you not only lowered the scale, but you’re getting cliché”
“Then how about this? I’ll write your name in all of your textbooks Your full name”
“Then I’ll be able to find my textbooks if I lose them”
I think that would be a rather nice thing to do, wouldn’t it? Especially since I wasn’t the type of person who’d write their names in their textbooks
Incidentally,she owned
“At any rate, no means no I just transferred here, so I don’t want to e us weird looks because we’re having this pointless talk, right? That’s quite painful for someone like me, you know?”
“I see It’s unpleasant to go on a picnic with me no matter what”
“I didn’t go as far as ‘noschool is absolutely out of question That’s all”
“I-It’s not like I wanted to go with you on a picnic or anything, okay?!”
“Wha—?! Please don’t yell so passionately all of a sudden Plus, it’s just wrong when you deviate that far from your character”
“I-It’s not like I wanted to go with you on a picnic or anything, okay?!”
“Errr, no, you don’t need to say it twice But I o I have no problem with that”
“You don’t understand, Akki This is the ‘tsundere’”
“Yeah… tsundere, you say?”
“Correct In truth, reat, it’s unbearable, but I lack the ability to honestly express those feelings I tried to play that character”
“Right…”
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