Chapter 47: The Angel and Friend (1/2)

“Hey~hey~Amane, lend me the Angel, will ya?”

Chitose called in after dinner.

Usually, they would contact each other through app, but for some reason, she called Amane, asking the latter about Mahiru. He had no idea what she was planning.

She said to lend her, but Mahiru was not Amane’s belonging. Chitose should have asked her directly.

“Don’t ask me, ask Shiina.”

“She’s next to you now, right?”

“…She is.”

“Then ask her if she wants to go out with me tomorrow.”

“Ask her yourself.”

She doesn’t have the number? He wondered, but he remembered then that during Christmas, Chitose was fully focused on teasing Mahiru, and did not have time for that.

And also, Amane would surely have Mahiru’s contact, and was often with her. It was to be expected why he was contacted.

Chitose’s thought process was understandable, but he wanted to tell her that he was not a mail pigeon.

In any case, it would better for Mahiru to discuss this instead, so he thought as he handed the phone to an incredulous looking Mahiru next to him. “Chitose wants to talk to you.” So he said, and slumped into the sofa.

Mahiru looked a little perturbed, but she obediently brought the phone to her ear.

“I am taking over…eh, tomorrow? Y-yes, I have no special arrangements…”

It seemed Mahiru was taken aback by Chitose’s sudden rapid fire talk, and he could only watch her perturbed look with a wry smile.

She did not seem impatient, but was taken aback by the sudden suggestion, hapless, not knowing what to do.

She glanced aside to him, “Just see what you want. She wants to go out with you, not me” he answered.

Mahiru would go out with her friends once in a while, but her priority was to return home and prepare dinner hours later.

He thought she should have a break once in a while, leaving aside whether she would be getting a break going out with Chitose.

“Y-yes…erm, I will like to accept this invitation…”

She might have made up her mind after hearing Amane’s words. When she answered Chitose, he could hear the latter go “Alrighty!” over the phone, and Mahiru instinctively pulled the phone away from her ear.

He chuckled in amazement as how Chitose was being all enthusiastic, and met Mahiru in the eyes

She looked a little worried, but her lips still showed a smile of relief and joy.

Once Chitose had quieted down somewhat, Mahiru picked up the smartphone, and started talking.

She was smiling as she talked, and Amane too smiled as he looked at her.

“Thank you very much. I shall return this to you.”

She ended the call, and carefully returned the smartphone to him.

It seemed they had made plans, and she would be dragged somewhere by Chitose.

“That was sudden, wasn’t it? That’s basically Chitose.”

“W-well, that shocked me.”

“She’s not a bad person, just a little too forceful.”

Though he felt the ‘a little’ might be understating it, he gave her a mild appraisal. She definitely was not a bad person, just a little pushy.

Mahiru might have understood the personality well as she gave a wry smile, but luckily, she did not seem annoyed by that. It was a little tragic that while she was the girlfriend of his own close friend, he just could not get along with her, even though it was common.

“You don’t have to worry about me tomorrow. Just go enjoy yourself.”

“Yes.”

“…Ahh, right.”

“Yes?”

While he wanted her to enjoy it, he had to remind her of something.