Chapter 208 (1/2)

Chapter 208

Bringing your lover along to view the sakura, huh?

Tch, what an eyesore

To begin with, they re event, but not the Festival of Appeasing the Flowers?

From ancient times, the end of March, when the sakura bloomed, necessitated a purification ritual to appease the evil Gods of pestilence

That’s right

This was spring Aseason, when the Gods of pestilence most exercised their power

Making out? Flirting with your lover at a time like this…?

Those louts were just asking for divine retribution! Kiii!

Out of sight of the two, my cowardice had transformed into hatred

What the hell was that attitude?

Acting as though I was some kind of third wheel…!

As if that wasn’t enough, ry

You think I would let the tightness of my obi stop me!?

I grabbed some food and sat myself down in the closest chair

As I sat there, people came to chat with me from time to time

Some of themwere my parents’ acquaintances

Others, I knew because of the circles I moved in as a Pivoine

More importantly, for some reason they really believed in the rumour that I was a fathercon, and made comments to that effect

Sometimes older men even asked me for help, like,

“My teenage daughter is really cold to me these days What should I do…?”

In the end I just gave theue advice

Don’t make lame dad jokes

Pay attention to your appearance

Don’t go on and on about stories fro them

Don’t leer at young women

Praise her, but don’t try to flatter her too much

Basically stuff like that, and all of it with Kaburagi’s stylish gentleman of a dad in mind

Any girl would be proud to have a dad like that…

Gasp!

Bad Reika!

You need to accept reality! The tubby tanuki over there is your father!

After facing reality, I went back to eating when two beautiful women came my way

“Reikchan, it’s been a while!”

“Airsama! Yurie-sama!”

Uwahh!

It really had been a while

Although we still otten even busier since her 3rd year in university

started

But , the two of theeous as ever

I was really happy to see them!

“Have the two of you been well? You must be positively swamped”

“Yeah You really need to coe, so everyone has their own stuff to do,” said Airsama

“Have you two already decided on what you want to do in the future?”

The two of thelance and broke into hopeless smiles

“Ithat I want to do, you know? Butthe faoods friends,” said Airsama

“My parents don’t agree hat I want, so I’ a lot of trouble as well,” said Yurie-sama

They let out a huge sigh

Finding a job was hard stuff, wasn’t it

And when it came to the parents of rich women, they probably didn’t think of this as e profile

Of the girls from Suiran that actually joined the workforce, h connections, and plenty just treated it as soet married

Thatto strike it out on their own

I didn’t want to join my family’s company either

I’d just be nothing hter

I’d be given a wonderful position, but they’d tread on eggshells around me, and I’d basically be isolated

And the political e that lay at the end of that road?

Ueghhh~

I didn’t want my family to crumble, but I wasn’t fond of that option either

I was going to marry for love!

“Yurie, if it comes down to it, wanna run off overseas with me?” asked Airsama

“What the heck are you saying?” Yurie-sahed

The two of theh

“Hey, hey, ’s been going on with Masaya”

The two of the for gossip

They see this quite a bit

“Ineteresting,

bit

“Ineteresting, you say?” I asked

“He’s found a girl that he likes,” said Airchan

“Do you knoho it is, Reiksan?” Yurie-sama followed up

“Eh!?”

How did they know!?

Did Kaburagi tell them!?

“Going by your expression, it seems that you do, huh?”

“Did you hear this froi-sama?” I asked

“Tell her, Yurie”

“He was all nervous at Christirl you like?’ and he actually said ‘I did…’! Geez, when he cah ot all down Such an open book~”

The two of theether

“I ave up on Yurie I’d already suspected it was because he’d found someone else”

“It was pretty suspicious, come to think of it,” mused Yurie-sama

“Do you knoho it is?” I asked

“An External girl, right? Do you knohat kind of girl she is, Reikchan?” asked Airsama

“Well, yes…” I said evasively

Since I didn’t knohat Wakabchan wanted, it wouldn’t do to say anything careless

Diseases coh the mouth, but disasters come out of it

After chatting for a while longer, the two of the for them

Since that was the case, I decided to estion

I wandered the area for a while when I happened to irls

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