Chapter 80: The Angel’s prank (1/2)
“…Erm, I am really sorry.”
Once Chitose left, Mahiru suddenly apologized to Amane.
Amane had no idea why she had to apologize, and he widened his eyes towards her, who was next to hi. She wriggled and fidgeted, her eyebrows lowered.
“…About the prank.”
“Prank?”
“…Chitose-san never did anything to you, Amane-kun…but I…”
“Eh? You did?”
Chitose did mention that she never did anything, and Mahiru said that Chitose never did anything. However, Mahiru never said that she never did anything.
Amane never thought about what Mahiru would have done to her, so he unwittingly absolved her from the possibility. It appeared she did though.
She might be feeling guilty when she decided to confess, and she looked a little restless.
“What did you do?”
“Erm, I poked your cheek…”
“…Is that even a prank?”
“A-and then I ruffled your hair while seeing you sleep, Amane-kun.”
“You like to do that huh, Mahiru?”
“…Y-yes.”
“Is that it?”
“…Yes.”
Mahiru was looking downhearted, and clearly she was showing remorse, but Amane wanted to retort, saying that it was not really a prank.
What Mahiru did was mere skinship rather than a prank.
If that was a prank, then anything he did to her would have been pranks, and he would be troubled by that.
“Look, I’m not angry. If that makes you happy, that’s fine. I just got careless sleeping in front of others.”
“Th-thank you…”
“I think it isn’t fun to see the sleeping face of someone like me though…”
“…I-it is cute.”
“You’re the only one who’ll say a boy’s sleeping face is cute.”
“Of course not. Chitose-san said so too.”
“She clearly wants to mess with me…”
Chitose definitely said it was cute out of her own bemusement.
The cute she spoke of was different from Mahiru’s, and Amane hoped that Mahiru would not trust her that much.
“…I could not help myself as it was really cute.”
“Help yourself?”
“I poked you however I want.”
“Is poking a guy’s face really something to be happy about?”
“Very.”
Amane himself would say his cheeks were harder than a girl’s, and there was no point poking.
He had no idea what Mahiru was interested in, but if the act itself was something she would be happey about, he had nothing to complain about.