Volume 4 Chapter 5 (2/2)
If you focused enough, you could see the thick, heavy clouds slowly but certainly drifting
”If you ere you going to do?”
Rosa Gigantea asked
”Of course, I intended to re my departure by a year … But let's stop with the ”if,” please? Toudou shi+antea”
One step
Rosa Gigantea closed the distance between them
”You're fascinating, Rosa Canina If we'd ood friends”
”But you wouldn't have made me your sister?”
”Did you want to?”
But Rosa Canina clearly shook her head
”I'm not shi+mako-san”
”… Rosa Canina”
Another step
They were close enough that their breaths landed on each other
”Will you call me shi+zuka?”
”shi+zuka”
Rosa Gigantea lifted shi+zuka-sama's chin with her hand and kissed her cheek Extremely close to the lips In front of Maria-sama
”A farewell gift”
Leaving those words, Rosa Gigantea walked away shi+zuka-sa the other way, so she didn't knohat sort of expression she had, but even Yumi could hear her soft whisper, ”Thank you”
Rosa Gigantea took a few steps, then reached into the thickets by the gingko trees, grabbed the unifor tom out
”Hey Peeping is bad”
”I' by, and-”
Yuht, desperately tried to explain herself
Right after the results were posted, Yue of the crowd of students But Rosa Gigantea, after a quick glance at the imitation paper on which the names and nu cut off from Sachiko-sama and others, squeezed out of the crowd and followed after The three boutons, having safely won their elections, were swept up in a storet out any time soon
So, when she followed Rosa Gigantea, there was an unexpected preceding visitor, so she was immediately taken aback And she hurriedly hurled herself into the hedge Because it was a special atantea and shi+zuka-sama
”Well, I didn'tseen”
As they walked back to the sanctuary, Rosa Gigantea prodded Yuhed
”I won't tell shi+mako-san”
”You can tell, I don't mind”
”I won't tell”
”You're persistent”
”Of course”
If Sachiko-sama kissed someone, even if it was just on the cheek, she wouldn't like it, at all -Yuht So she couldn't tell shi+mako-san No matter what
In shi+antea to the sanctuary by the hand, but in by pinching her hand a bit She needed to feel a bit of pain
The sanctuary had actually been somewhat vacated by the time they returned They became extremely excited, and then the wildfire had been blown out Everyone left in threes and fives It was a Saturday afternoon As the main event had ended, they had other plans to attend to
And in thepeople were Sachiko-sama, Rei-sama and shi+mako-san
”Well, first of all, congratulations”
Rosa Gigantea cackled, as she walked to them The ”first of all” was so unnecessary
”Thank you very much”
The three of them bowed
”Looked like an easy victory”
”Not entirely”
shi+mako-san shook her head and smiled
For someone asn't as faht Of course, the results weren't especially close, but she had certainly been up to the task You could say that much
If Lillian didn't have a system of sœur, and the four candidates had been lined up at the same start line, shi+zuka-sama may have beaten shi+mako-san to become one of the Roses Of course, that was an ”if” No one could co the election, and beco a Rose in her second year was a brilliant achievement
”Sorry to keep you waiting”
She had no idea when Yoshi+no-san had gone round-trip, as she showed up carrying two peoples' coats and bags And Rei-sanet, and took hers
”Well, apologies for leaving early, but we have plans”
Rei-sama and Yoshi+no-san lined up like ohina-sama and bid their farewells
”How enviable Hasekura + shi+mazu double celebration?”
Sachiko-sama said
”Yes”
Yoshi+no-san looked happy She was constantly s, as if she herself had won
”Well, see you all next week”
”Gokigenyou”
After watching the two of therabbed Yumi's hand ”Come”
”Onee-sama?”
”Let's have Rosa Gigantea do so onee-sama-like, for once”
She whispered, and pulled Yumi away When they blended into the crowd of students and looked back, shi+, and just as rare of a scene was Rosa Gigantea e her closely
”It ht be meddlesome, but sometimes you have to be over-considerate with the, but shi+mako is just a first-year, like Yumi”
She's been so tense for so long, she has to be given space, sometimes, Sachiko-sama said
”How about onee-sama?”
Yumi asked If shi+mako-san was just a first-year, Sachiko-sama was just a year older, herself
”Me?”
She tilted her head to the side, thinking
”Really, I may have been too tense, too Then I shall have Yumi make me relax”
”Okay!”
Yumi excitedly answered, like a puppy
”I'll do anything, go on”
Not a lie, not an exaggeration, she thought she was capable of anything, right now If onee-sa jet coaster, that's how excited she was
But Sachiko-sarounded, and made an extremely simple request
”First of all, pour me hot tea at the Rose Mansion And then let's eat the reether”
”Huh…? Lunch, remainder?”
”Let me confess that I only ate half, too I just wanted to look strong, in front of you”
Ducking her shoulders, Sachiko-saether”
”You ain my appetite”