Volume 5 Chapter 4 (1/2)
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”-Anyways, while I knohy everyone may become over-excited, but please conduct yourselves in a manner appropriate to a Lillian student After all, classes will go on as usual”
After listening to their homeroom teacher, Yamamura-sensei, with faithful ears, the students answer, ”Yes” But they weren't really payingthem beforehand, but that was also a bitvery high expectations tomorrow, either The students were this excited, so it was far, far too late to expect that to settle down
Homeroom was ended quickly, too If there were any important papers to distribute, it would be more definite if they were distributed the day after tomorrow She's a veteran as well as a Lillian alumni, so sensei knew exactly hoe felt and would act
”That's all”
Stand, bow
After homeroom, the teacher disappeared on the other side of the door And Yu up and hurried out, was stopped by a classmate
”Yumi-san, we don't have to clean the music room today”
”What?”
”The contracted floor cleaners are in today, so feel free to spend time as you please”
She was in Yuroup, so she knehy Yumi was in such a hurry
”Thank you, gokigenyou”
She was told to ”feel free to spend time as she pleased,” but Yumi dashed out to the hallway anyways After all, it wasn't a warning about her hasty departure Rather, Yu to thetold that she didn't have to scurry to the music room after she was done
Tomorroaited a joyous Valentine
As well as a somewhat suspenseful Valentine
Moving her legs forward, she began silently singing impromptu
Trotting down the hallway, and then resu the courtyard, she went straight to the Rose Mansion And it didn't feel like anyone had gotten there
”Safe”
Creak, creak, creak, creak, she climbed up the stairs, opened the biscuit-shape door, and walked straight toward the electric pot and began setting things up
When she glanced at the sink, she noticed there were no dishes awaiting cleaning shi+ lunch break and finished that With that aside, Yuht sweeping of the floors, wiped the table, rinsed the washi+ng rags, and was done She didn't have cleaning duty at the music room today, so she didn't really need to hurry back to the school, but she didn't feel co
-And then
”Are you gongitsune?”
”Gyah!?”
The person who'd been standing in the shadow of the door suddenly spoke, so Yumi almost had a heart-attack
”- Haven't I been telling you to start using 'kya'?”
”…R- Rosa Gigantea”
Yuht that most people can't control what they say when they're surprised ”You didn't even noticeby the entrance when you flew into the Rose Mansion, so I ondering as going on”
Rosa Gigantea coldly said
”So, what is this? Yu here every day without being seen, cleaning everything up, and then leaving?”
”Umm”
She wasn't really doing this every day Because if homeroom ended late, or if shi+mako-san beat her here, she didn't come
”Oh well, not really… It would be coarse to dampen Yumi-chan's sense of self-satisfaction”
Rosa Gigantea groaned as she stretched, and then began walking down the stairs But Yumi couldn't let those words be, and she quickly pursued
”U a mistake!?”
”Hmm?”
Thump, thump, thump, thump, the stairs sounded
”Because, self-satisfaction, da…”
”I said those words, yes?”
When they reached the bottoantea finally turned to Yumi
”You know, I think Yu ahead with your e ohyakudo for the success of her child”
”Ohyakudo”
She'd seen that acted out in historical plays She couldn't remember if it was a shi+nto shrine or a Buddhist teo back and forth to pray If she remembered correctly, soht doing it
”But you shouldn't stop so ohyakudo and say 'come come, that's eerie, so stop,' either ”
Said Rosa Gigantea, as saying she shouldn't be doing so, but had already done it
”Eerie?”
”Yep” ”How direct”
”Well you followed me because you wanted to hear me be direct, didn't you?”
”Umm”
Yumi didn't think that was her exact reason, but it wasn't wrong, either
”Rather than aohyakudo or cold-water ablutions, I'd prefer a mother who'd make me warm dinner every day”
”Huh?”
”Just my personal opinion Because my mother's more like the former, so a delinquent child is too heavy a burden for her … Umm, but that's an example, my mother doesn't actually use sorcery, so you don't have to worry there”
”Uhhh”
Wow, she was able to understand Rosa Gigantea before, but now the conversation was taking quite the detour and was going beyond her grasp
And that's when shi+ finished her cleaning duty, so the conversation abruptly ended Of course, it antea's mind anyways
”Ah, onee-sama”
Noticing Rosa Gigantea, shi+el She was already like an ephemeral beauty, but her sh they were of the sae, how could people be so different?
”I passed”
No preface Rosa Gigantea faced shi+n
(Eh……? What?)
”Congratulations, onee-sama”
But shi+mako-san's bouncy reply antea was accepted into her first-choice school
(Oh, so that's what happened)
Rosa Gigantea wanted to let shi+mako-san know first, and that's why she'd come here
Because the way she looked at shi+entle and kind It wasn't the old- Yumi
”Congratulations”
She felt bad for intruding on their world, but she felt co a bystander
”Thanks, Yumi-chan”
Rosa Gigantea patted Yuhed
”Gosh, it was tough Ito university at all, so I only started studying after the turn of the year But whatever, I'll be a student at a wo”
She only had one university she was aiet into a university after a little antea was definitely superhuman
”Then you must feel relieved” ”But Eriko and Youko aren't done yet, so…”
Yumi didn't even think about Rosa Foetida and Rosa Chinensis there But Rosa Gigantea didn't seem to notice she'd called her friends by their names, either
The university exa on the universities, so some people had even finished last year, while others will be waiting until graduation Of course,January and February
”But, anyways, it looks like I can enjoy myself to the fullest tomorrow”
Snap, crackle Rosa Gigantea cracked her white knuckles and let the so
”Then I shall have to do my best for onee-sama, too”
shi+mako-san forced a smile
Knowing Rosa Gigantea was going to participate, sheit in an easier spot? No, probably the opposite
shi+antea understood her So if she hid it in an obvious spot, it'd be too easy And Rosa Gigantea wouldn't be able to have fun
”I'll be waiting”
She looked coantea was like a child when she was like this
Like, I won't let anyone else get Rei-sa it, but Rosa Gigantea wasn't like Yoshi+no-san in that regard, because Yoshi+no-san would use any antea was more the type of person to enjoy the treasure hunt, itself, so the harder the better
Then how about herself? Yuht, but she didn't really know
Thinking is hard
She didn't kno she felt, so it was even ht feel Or maybe she didn't kno she felt because it was herself
That's when she noticed a person was standing on the other side of the wooden door to the courtyard, the person's shadow visible through the orna
Yumi quickly opened the door
”Ah”
There stood Sachiko-sama
”Onee-saenyou”
But she knew onee-saood spirits, before the fact that a response never ca at her She didn't knohy, but Sachiko-sary Her whole body screamed ”displeased”
However
Why didn't she co outside? Just as Yu to wonder, Sachiko-sama's mouth opened
”You see yourself”
Yu outside, but their laughter had definitely been heard ”Oh Rosa Gigantea was here, and-”
She was going to relate the news of Rosa Gigantea's university acceptance, but Sachiko-sama cut her off
”I see If Rosa Gigantea is here, you can enjoy yourself”
”… Huh?”
”So? Since when have you hated me so much you don't want to look at me?”
”What?”
She didn't knohat Sachiko-sama meant
Because she'd never even i such words, so even if her ears could take it in, her brain wasn't able to keep up Peoples' nervous system works better when there's a precedent
”I… hate onee-sama?”
She repeated the words she'd heard, and immediately doubted theht?
”Are you saying I' me?”
”I haven't been avoiding…”
But Sachiko-sama didn't believe her
”You are”
She stated clearly, and didn't budge Yumi didn't intend it that way, but her actions and behavior ainst her
”At first I tried to understand, because I a with Rei and shi+mako just fine Even when you come to the Rose Mansion you leave before I come, and when I arrive earlier than usual, you dash out like you're escaping”
”That's-”
Because she was going to be late for cleaning duty
And she was speaking with Rei-saht how to make chocolate for Sachiko-sama
”What's theto say, speak it clearly”
But she couldn't
She couldn't say it was for Sachiko-sa on her
She'd been conceited
As Rosa Gigantea said, self-satisfaction No, even worse, she finally realized it
Yumi looked at Sachiko-sama
”Why are you silent? Why don't you throw your thoughts at me? I can't possibly understand otherwise”
Onee-sama looked extremely scary
”I'm sorry… onee-sama”
That was all she couldonee-sa onee-sama to speak like this
But no matter what, she would never hate onee-sama
Still, all Yumi could do atch as her vision of her most beloved person became blurred
”Um, Sachiko-sama?”
Perhaps realizing the situation was going downhill, shi+mako-san stepped toward the door and spoke, but she was powerless in this strained atmosphere
”… shi+mako, come”
Rosa Gigantea held shi+ed her away
”Why do you cry?”
With the foyer left to the two of them, Sachiko-sama whispered
”Please, stop Now it just looks like I' on a kouhai I' avoided by my sister, and I don't knohy-”
”Ukk”
A strange sound was emitted from Yumi's throat She tried to speak, but she couldn't fored in
”Why won't you tell me? Is that all I was to you? Then why are we sisters? Why did you accept my rosary?”
She wanted to say that's not how it is, but her tears just kept flowing She could tell her eyes were beginning to swell
She felt incredibly stupid Sachiko-sa
But, this was the first ti emotions, and it confused her
”… Enough”
Sachiko-sama said, exasperated
”Let's talk about this again so, myself, so I may have been too harsh”