Vol 2 Chapter 9 (1/2)
9: The Gray World Split Apart is Mayhem
After a few days, it was Sunday afternoon
Although it was a rare day off school, we in ｢Jien-Otsu｣ were ordered to the clean the school’s swi pool, which is otherwise known as punishht of summer, we brushed the deck and brushed the pool drained of water; this bitterness was enough to s
”Why does a swi pool without water exist in this world? We obviously don’t need it”
Chiwa rested her chin against the handle of her brush,nonsense to herself
”Even swi pools ater have no reason to exist in this world”
Masuzu indifferently moved her brush
The two of theym clothes, and because of their sweat it stuck to their skin… and as a result the outline of their underas visible It made me unsure where to look
Incidentally, we did not ask Hi this hot weather, that would be bad
”Ah --- Do you mean, Natsukawa is useless?”
”You’re quite rude I can swim”
”But before you alht? How can you drown at a depth where your feet can touch the bottom of the pool? Why don’t you tell me the details?”
Having identified her enemy’s weakness, Chihuahua-san drew closer to Masuzu, unable to contain her joy, but ---
”I refuse To compensate, should I describe to you the flavor of Eita-kun’s lips?”
Chiounded by the response, and the corner of her mouth trembled for a moment
Thousand and was sharply riposte,a bit
Then, for reasons I didn’t understand, she stared at me and said,
”Ei-kun, you’re about to drown! I’ll give you artificial respiration to eliminate the memory of this bitch!”
”Wouldn’t it be better if Harusaki drowned? That way, I’ll give you artificial respiration, so that way you can have an indirect kiss with Eita-kun You’d be happy, right?”
--- They were really at their wits’ end
I tried to clean far away fro froht in it, it would be unbearable But even though Masuzu said that she’d ｢forget about the artificial respiration business｣, I didn’t understand why she let herself be provoked by Chiwa
After we cleared the bottom of the pool of filth, a black li lot as we sprinkled the side of the pool with a hose
Just as I was thinking that I had seen that somewhere before ---
”Hi --- Nii-san ♪”
Natsukawa Mana
Masuzu’s little sister shook her blond hair and got off the liot off from the driver’s seat, and followed from the side
”You again?”
I fir to spray her with the water hose Because this girl kissed me and caused so much trouble for me
Mana condescendingly returned the stare,
”So it looks you , especially after all my trouble to start some chaos”
”Mana, what are you doing here?”
Masuzu spoke, with her face stiff and body frozen next to me
”This is my school, and I don’t want you to take one step in here”
”Such a rude greeting, even though I particularly caize”
”Apologize?”
As Masuzu and I tilted our heads, puzzled, Chiwa finally returned fro away the deck brushes
”That’s weird Ei-kun, who is that girl?”
At that ave out a ｢Wahh- ♪｣
”Is this girl Harusaki Chihuahua? Huh --- she’s quite cute”
This girl even knows about Chiwa?
When she said she even knew ｢the head? Perhaps she even found out that ould be at the swih that means
”So, Nii-san irl in one ar Suzu in the other---”
Chiwa stared at her intently, feeling quite uncomfortable
Masuzu spoke in an irritable voice,
”Get to the point What are you apologizing about?”
”Ah, well ”
Mana deliberately clapped her hands together as if pretending to beg forgiveness from Masuzu:
”You know that tiood ♪ Dad got extre about it”
Masuzu’s expression visibly froze
”He wants you to go hoht now, and he doesn’t want you to wait until the end of the seo directly to your apart you back”
”No!”
Unexpectedly, Masuzu cried out in an emotional voice
”My apart I don’t want him to touch! I absolutely don’t want that person to come!”
”If that’s the case, you can only listen obediently, right?”
A triued on Mana’s face
”I’ll arrange your luggage and so forth, so Suzu-chan can just go home If you don’t leave by tomorrow or the day after well I can’t say for sure ill happen, hm?”
Masuzu did not respond
Masuzu eating so htly
”Nii-san, why don’t you use this to throw a goodbye party for Suzu?”
Mana took a purse frorabbed a ten thousand yen banknote and stuffed it inside the fence of the swi pool Even if she was a stupid middle school student, she was rich
”I don’t want it, take it back”
”Really? It’s better to turn down gifts of money Is that how your aunt raised you?”
”Why do you even know about that?”
”Haven’t I said it already? I have investigated Everything”
Mana tored apart the ten thousand yen bill into shreds, and let it be scattered by the wind
The ot into the limousine
”So, to each of you young maidens in the club, farewell---”
Mana waved her hands like a naïve child and left
damn, she really did what she wanted
Chiatched the taillights of the limousine and said,
”What?! That girl is so arrogant! Does Natsukawa know her?”
”That girl is a Masuzu’s little sister”
”S-sister? Really? But their hair color isn’t the same!”
Although I was also curious about this, I didn’t want to ask Masuzu, so I could only ignore it My best guess is that they didn’t share the same mother or father, and perhaps they had a very complicated family
Even at this point Masuzu still had her head bent doordless
”What are you going to do, Masuzu?”
”I can only go back Go back home”
”Ah, there’s nothing you can do about it, right? Since your father even said it to that extent… at least it’s almost summer vacation”
Chiwa probably still did not understand the situation
She thought that ｢go ho relatives｣
I was afraid that ---
”Where is Natsukawa’s family from? Kanto? Northeast? It can’t be Hokkaido?”
”From Sweden”
””
Chias stunned
”I'ht never come back to japan”
”Really?”
Masuzu did not htly
Then, she suddenly spoke out in a refreshed voice,
”Ah --- it looks like my relationshi+p with Eita-kun will end here I can’t try to -distance relationshi+p while separated by an ocean Although our tiether with you”
””
Only Chias speechless As for
Because, after all, I was fake
If she dropped out of school, the ｢boyfriend contract｣ didn’t make any sense
For irlfriend｣, I would be able to return toto an end
But
”Do you think this is okay?”
”After all, I’et senti to leave this school, I don’t intend to prolong my relationshi+p with you”
Masuzu’s cold indifference was astonishi+ng
”Eita-kun, duht now”
””
”Heh, I kneould be impossible for Eita-kun”
Masuzu exposed a slightly lonely smile, and said,
”Then let me do it I'm tired of you, I hate you, and I don’t even want to see your face I will return you to your childhood friend, and ask both of you to be happy When the two of you have your wedding --- don’t bother looking for me, I don’t care”
”Ei-kun was mine in the first place”
Chiho had been silent the entire time, whispered resolutely
”I don’t re, I didn’t intend to invite you to the wedding”
This was beginning to turn quite extraordinary, but noas not the time to tsukkomi
Chiwa glared at Masuzu and said,
”Why are you giving up so easily? What did you just tellto tell me what Ei-kun’s l-l-l-l-lips tasted like? Even if it was just artificial respiration, you had such an arrogant expression You aren’t attached to the past? Who do you think you are? It’s really pitiful for Ei-kun! More importantly, it’s pitiful to me! Just because you showed up, I”
I patted the speechless Chiwa on the back
”Masuzu, I think you misunderstood”
”Misunderstood what?”
”When I asked, ｢Do you think this is okay?｣ I wasn’t talking aboutmaiden’s club, and Hime’s business”
Masuzu’s icy expression was obviously shaken
”The person who proposed to let Hiave her the assign it very seriously Even though she’s surrounded by electric waves, is extremely shy, and lacks aa new step out despite her worries to atte to run away?”
”I can’t do anything about it”
Masuzu just said that one phrase
”Thatto achieve what he wants If I don’t go back, I don’t knohat means he’ll use, perhaps even hurt you all Mana said it already He already knows about my situation at school here”
When Masuzu said ｢that man｣, she probably meant her father
”Then what?”
”There is no, ｢then what｣, so ---”
”Then what do you want?”
Masuzu distinctly gasped
”What do you want? Natsukawa Masuzu, do you want to stay here? Or do you not want to stay?”
”I don’t have the power to choose”
”You bastard!”
I didn’t ask you this!
I don’t want to hear you say that kind of thing
Do you want to stay here, or do you not want to stay? That’s all I asked
If you say, ｢I want to stay here｣, then
I will… ill---
”Ei-kun, let’s go?”
Chiwa ignored Masuzu with her head down, and pulled on my arm
”Do not worry about her, okay? Hey! Today I want to eat a ha at ｢Wonder｣[1] and then go back?”
I reluctantly nodded
I grabbedon the wall, and walked out with Chiwa
While I was leaving the pool, I only looked back once
As the sunlight began to tinge orange, it illuminated Masuzu’s pale profile
”Hey, Masuzu!”
I shouted to her
”E-even if you go back, at least collect Hinment! Can you do that at the very least? Hey, Masuzu---”
”Hey, Ei-kun, let’s go!”
Chiwa kept pulling my hand away
Masuzu
My ｢girlfriend｣ was getting farther and farther away from me
♦
I was eating dinner with Chiwa
With a huge ha bowl of rice three times Since she nor nearly twice her usual Although shethe pool, this a
”I’ry! Rawr!”
Chihined while she crunched and snapped at aof that rawr? It wasn’t cute at all
”Why are you so angry?”
”What? --- Ei-kun isn’t angry? Natsukawa’s attitude is really unbelievable! Even if her parents ordered it, why is she suddenly breaking up?! Really! Really!”
She turned into a cow again, [2] which definitely was not cute
”No, for ry”
It’s a lonely feeling
If Masuzu were upset or resisted it all, then I would try to do so
But since she gave up, it made me feel lonely
It felt like I was rejected
Our relationshi+p as ｢Fake Lovers｣ only went to that degree
”I’ry”
”Huh? Why?”
”Because your natural predator Masuzu is going to disappear I thought you would definitely be happy”
Chiwa drank her barley tea in one gulp, and slalass on the table
”You, Ei-kun You know my personality”
”Personality?”
”If I don’t have a rival, I can’t get fired up! That’s because oal is to become someoneme, that’s what I can’t accept”
”I see”
Right
Chias that kind of straightforward person
”Even though I hate Natsukawa, I still like our ｢Young Maidens Club｣ After all this trouble, she leaves just e’re about to get !”
”Aren’t you against Hi the club?”
”I used to be against it”
Chiwa’s momentum suddenly disappeared, and she looked down
”Because that girl always sticks to Ei-kun’s side, and said stuff like ｢it’s vulgar to be popular｣ If her only goal is Ei-kun, I originally did not want her to join our club, but”
Chiwa took out her cellphone from her pocket, and placed the screen in front of me
”Woo, wuahh!”
I couldn’t help but let out a sound
Displayed on the screen is ”guh!” the face of Hi her eyes
Bloodshot eyes
Saliva dribbled from the corner of her mouth
I think this must have been a mental breakdown
”This one too Look, and then this”
Every tie switched, and each one was of Hi her eyes
”What is this? You wanted to get pictures of supernatural things?”
”This was practice for looking up with the eyes”
”Eh?”
”Hiital ca up with the eyes, one hundred times”
Now that you mention it, Chias the one who previously advocated that Hi｣
I didn’t think Hime would actually do it
”Last night, she sent a lot of texts to my phone The subject was, ｢Eyes Really Tired｣ Once I saw her perseverance, who could oppose it?”
”I see”
Hieous
Maybe this is what she ray-colored world｣
”Let’s talk to Masuzu again at the club room”
I mumbled to myself
If ｢Jien-Otsu｣ ended in this kind of way, it didn’t matter if it was Hime or Chiwa or --- of course, me --- our hearts would not be happy
Even if Masuzu intended to leave, I had to settle this uncomfortable mood
”I won’t go”
Chiwa shut up as she chewed the last piece of haer steak, and turned away
”To a party to celebrate the end of exa to a barbecue buffet I’ve been looking forward to it for a long time”
”Well, leave it to me then”
Right
Even if it was for this totally un-cute ｢childhood friend｣, I had to try to get Masuzu to stay
♦
The next day, Monday
As expected, Masuzu did not come to school
The class rep clai classes… so did she intend to drop out of school?
Based on yesterday’s conversation at the pool, Masuzu was going to leave today or tomorrow, but she’d probably return to the clubroom once, since her first edition set of ｢JOJO｣ was still here Although she had another set at hoet it Even if she was the kind of wouess, I could only have confidence in her love for JOJO
As soon as the school bell rang, I ran to the club rooot there early Don’t tell me she could actually leap across space?
Hime scurried to my side and said,
”Eita, I finished it ｢The Ideal Maiden｣”
”Oh! You’re finally done?”
Hihtly to her chest and nodded Even though she still wore a poker face, as really pitiful was her nose ｢Gururru｣-ing up, exposing how satisfied she ith herself [3]
”Where is it? Let me look”
Seeing my hand extend towards her notebook, Hime quickly retreated backwards with her face flushed
”N-n-no, let’s wait until the club president is here”
This tiht this girl was an alien, but recently she has been full of rather rich expressions
Then ---
”Wha---? Don’t say that, let me see~”
Thinking it was Masuzu’s voice, I turned ot to close, there was a young maiden of blond hair and blue eyes, and next to her a bald lasses
Natsukawa Mana
In the end, she even turned up at our club room!
”Hey, let me see that notebook! I’m very interested in Suzu’s club activities, and I want to investigate what kind of things you do to report back to dad
Mana entered the club roohtened Hime
”Stop! Give it back to her!”
When I was about to grab Mana, the man in the black suit stepped in, and I was instantly swept and pinned to the ground
”St-stop ”
Barely able to breath, I was nearly overwhel my back, when I shouted,
”Hi that notebook! Give it back to her!”
”Oh , really? I want to read it even more now ♪”
Mana sneered while she sat on the table and began to flip through the notebook
Hihtened and pitiful look, and shuddered and sneezed as she clung to thecurtains Right, she was an extrele with Chiwa and Masuzu, I nearly forgot she practically has never spoken to her other classmates---
--- ♪ a real ive in
Ah ---
She’s reading it aloud!
Against all expectations, she’s reading it aloud