Vol 2 Chapter 4 (1/2)
Chapter 4: Ordinary days with the man eater and the bullied child
“It’s a good weather today too ne.”
During recess, Tooya and Kuroe went to the rooftop together with Mas.h.i.+ro as promised. They found a nice place to sit and placed the lunchboxes. It was a clear sunny day like Mas.h.i.+ro said. There shouldn’t have something silly happened like the thought of someone could affect the weather.
“It’s a great help at that time, those people just wanted to bring me to somewhere I don’t know again.”
Tooya replied with a bitter smile to Mas.h.i.+ro who said that.
“It’s great that we went to meet you just in case.”
She was surrounded by the group when Tooya reached her cla.s.sroom. They left after noticed Tooya…….perhaps they didn’t want to cause any uproar.
“That way seems effective, I can go to meet you tomorrow too if you don’t mind.”
“Although that was a great help to me……….”
Mas.h.i.+ro looked at Kuroe while saying that.
“Won’t that disturb you two?”
“Pff!?”
Tooya spouted the tea in his mouth.
“Why, why you say that all of a sudden……..”
“Eh, because the two of you were engaged?”
Mas.h.i.+ro was stunned because she didn’t expected Tooya to react that way.
“Yeah, that is it.”
Kuroe just smiled on this.
“Ne?”
Then she threw her gaze to Tooya. On her face was a cheerful smile, it didn’t look like there was any mean of ridicule at all.
“Ah, well.”
He nodded. Although that was a setting created by Kuroe herself…………the others regarded it as a fact already despite it wasn’t by his own will.
“But, why would you mentioned this?”
“Because…………you two were actually quite famous in school?”
Mas.h.i.+ro looked confused.
“That, especially Kamisaki-senpai……..”
Mas.h.i.+ro hesitated to continue, Tooya could roughly guessed what she wanted to say. The three students that went missing suddenly. Since the three of them always bullied Tooya……..Tooya was suspected as the criminal by the police for a period of time, even if the rumors were silenced the doubt on Tooya wouldn’t disappear along with it. It would be a different case if those went missing were found or the criminal was caught……….but that was something impossible to happen.
In conclusion, Tooya became popular in school. The matter of he having a fiancee were spread along with the rumors. Things spreaded to quite an extend if Mas.h.i.+ro, who was isolated by her cla.s.s at that time already knew about this.
“Well, my circ.u.mstances are almost the same as yours anyway.”
Mas.h.i.+ro laughed bitterly.
“…….”
What she said was just out of a whim if one thought about it. If Mas.h.i.+ro was the same as Tooya………..then it was like he was trying to escape from his own sin by pus.h.i.+ng it into Mas.h.i.+ro and punis.h.i.+ng her.
Yet Mas.h.i.+ro didn’t know what Tooya was thinking and continued.
“So I was thinking is it alright to disturb you two.”
“You don’t need to worry about that.”
Kuroe still smiled to reply her worry.
“Because I am always together with Tooya-kun at home.”
“That means you two live together right!”
“Yeah.”
Kuroe nodded to the surprised Mas.h.i.+ro.
“That, that means you two had already done this and that…….”
“No no, my parents stay with us too.”
Tooya interrupted in panic. He would be troubled if the others thought he had done those shameful things.
She looked at Tooya with a stare.
“But, you two stay in the same house right?”
“Even if what you said was correct……..”
By the way, it should be staying in the same room.
“Then, something certainly happened at places that your parents can’t see……..”
“That’s what I said, why you just want to think it to that direction.”
He felt a slight headache………..finally Mas.h.i.+ro showed an expression that she had noticed something.
“That’s right! It’s my mistake!”
“You finally under…….”
“It will be a problem if you have child when you are still a student right!”
“……..Yeah, well, forget it.”
As long as she could accept it.
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“I am full!”
The time for Tooya to answer something that made his head hurt so much have ended after they finished their lunch. There was still some recess time, what information should I gather—-when Tooya was thinking that, Mas.h.i.+ro lied down on the floor.
“Feel like sleeping after eating ne—-”
“………The remaining time is not enough for a sleep.”
“But I want to sleep～”
Mas.h.i.+ro closed her eyes and looked very comfortable……..if she was left here, she would enter the world of dreams immediately without doubt.
“You still want to skip cla.s.ses?”
“Because I don’t want to go back to cla.s.sroom.”
Tooya couldn’t reply something tough to what Mas.h.i.+ro said. Something like going back to the cla.s.sroom was the same as going the territory of the bullies. Although they wouldn’t do anything explicit, but there were no Mas.h.i.+ro’s ally so in the end so Mas.h.i.+ro would feel mental fatigue by staying in the cla.s.sroom.
“Morever, I always felt that I didn’t get enough sleep～”
Mas.h.i.+ro was like talking in sleep.
“Did you stay up late at night?”
“I did sleep～I slept a lot but my drowsiness and tiredness didn’t go at all……..”
“That is……..”
Although Tooya wanted to continue asking but he stopped. A soft snoring sound can be heard from Mas.h.i.+ro. She was enjoying the sunbath comfortably, seemed like she wouldn’t wake up even if the sky fell down.
“Seems like it’s decided to skip cla.s.ses after recess ne.”
“………Yeah.”
They had to lock the door at the rooftop if going out. Leaving Mas.h.i.+ro here was the same as imprisoning her. For Tooya who couldn’t do this had to wait until Mas.h.i.+ro woke up naturally.
“………I feel like sleeping too.”
Tooya felt sleepy after looking at Mas.h.i.+ro.
“You can sleep at my side oh?”
“I refuse to.”
He slept after the reply. Although the floor on the rooftop was made from hard concrete, but the sun produced a nice and warm air around here.
[Why you guys are sleeping eh.]
“!?”
Tooya couldn’t help but stood up because a voice was heard from the earpiece suddenly.
“I, Inaba-san?”
[Don’t reply loudly, or else the girl over there will wake up.]
[If that was it then it’s better I don’t speak out my voice.]
Kuroe replied with her telepathy, like she could hear what Akane said.
[Then, what’s the matter?]
[Nothing.]
Akane said.
[I just want to hara.s.s those idiots that are going to sleep when the others are still working seriously over here.]
[Huh.]
Kuroe laughed pleasantly.
[Even if we want to have a nap leisurely you also don’t allow to?]
[Of course.]
She answered immediately.
[It’s better if you guys go die now, but that was impossible, so I can only let you guys stay alive for now to work hard as the compensation.]
[Rest is important for a more efficient work?]
[You guys just go work until death.]
She was still a person that spoke absurd things as usual.
[And do you guys dare to say you have worked hard? Just now you all were just having conversations that were worse than those love comedy.]
Seems like she heard those too.
[We had done our task today oh?]
[What?]
[I said it’s been done.]
Kuroe pointed at Mas.h.i.+ro. Akane should able to see it if she was monitoring properly.
[Wasn’t she was just sleeping.]
[Yeah, that’s right ne.]
Kuroe nodded.
[She looks sleeping comfortably ne………even though she said she had enough sleep, ne.]
[What are you trying to say?]
[Looks like she had used up a lot of physical strength before this no matter how I see it. It’s like she never slept before……..did the surveillance from the order of black magic mentioned the reason or something that caused this?]
[No.]
Looks like what Kuroe was implying had been conveyed, Akane snorted.
[Is this what you are trying to say? The demon sword took over her body when she was sleeping, that’s why she cannot remove her tiredness no matter how long she sleeps.]
[It’s not certain, but it is possible am I right?]
[Indeed.]
Although Mas.h.i.+ro has no conscious at that time, but if the body was moving around then naturally the tiredness couldn’t be removed.
[However, that girl did not have any suspicious activities recently. She never went out from the house at night before.]
Unfortunately, the possibility for what they were saying was very low………it was impossible that the demon sword took over her consciousness to just stay in the house without doing anything.
[But results are results ne. It’s fine if we just take a little rest ne?]
[……..Just do what you like.]
Akane’s voice cannot be heard anymore after saying that. She didn’t say goodbye at all. She was just as unexpected as usual no matter during interrupting or leaving a conversation.
“Disconnected ne.”
“………Seems like it.”
Tooya sighed.
“What’s wrong?”
“No, just feeling that person really came to disturb me from taking a nap.”
To disturb others wholeheartedly.
In the end, Tooya didn’t felt tired at all already.
By the time Mas.h.i.+ro woke up, the surrounding was painted crimson by the sunset.
“Such an energetic child.”
“Yeah ne.”
Couldn’t imagine at all that she was being bullied now.
“It’s a kind of cheerful aura that different from Rikka’s ne.”
“……..What are you saying all of the sudden.”
She said that name unexpectedly.
“It’s just my impression on them?”
Like who would believe that.
“That’s all, don’t stare at me.”
Kuroe shrugged her shoulders.
“Rikka’s name doesn’t appear when talking with master recently……..I thought you had finally forgotten her existence ne.”
“It’s impossible.”
There was not even a little possibility for that.
“If I had forgotten her……..you will be killed.”
Because that was the only reason why Tooya allowed Kuroe to stay alive until now.
“Yeah.”
Kuroe smiled.
“It’s because I can only stay alive by granting master’s wish.”
It was what Tooya’d wished for, let Rikka forget everything and sent her back to her ordinary days………Rikka can live happily by forgetting everything about her father and Tooya. Their gazes wouldn’t come across even they studied in the same cla.s.sroom. Because Tooya’s existence was not in Rikka’s perception.
Remove himself from Rikka’s ordinary days……….this was the reason why Tooya allowed Kuroe to stay alive. Because Tooya thought that Rikka could live happily this way.
It was not related to others……….not even Rikka’s own will.
What Tooya made was just a merely selfish wish.
“As long as Rikka was happy……….then I got nothing to hope for.”
“Is that really what you think?”
Suddenly Akane’s voice was heard. It was not from the earpiece in his ear, instead it was on the spot.
“Eh, why you are……..”