Chapter 215 (2/2)

“Sorry that it’s only leftovers”

Then Wakabchan’s father drove me to the train station

There was nothing more I could want from them

When I got off the car, Wakabchan and her dad waved goodbye and saw me off

“See you tomorrow!”

I waved back

Aah, that was fun

I wanted to visit again already

While I sat on the train I wrote Wakabchan a thank you e

Since Otousaht, nobody asked one

I had just made it in time for my curfew, and only Oniisama was there

“Welcome back, Reika”

“I am home, Oniisama”

Oniisaave a sniff

“You smell like cooked meat,” he said

Oh gosh!+

To the bath it is!

After washi+ng ed into so room

“Oniisama, I have some cake Have some with me?”

“Thanks, I will”

After an eating the strawberry shortcake

“Say, Oniisama? What kind of friends do you mostly have?”

“Friends? Huess thethe workforce most of my relationshi+ps becauess”

“I see Then by student days, you mean from Suiran?”

“You could say that Hmm, besides them, also some people I knew fro Different sorts”

“I see… Oniisama? Are any of your friends from normal households?”

“By nor class?”

“Well, yes…”

Oniisama looked at me for a while, before he eventually replied

“…I do After I becah schooler, I made some External friends, and I have a lot of friends like that from university as well”

“I see…” I muttered to myself

Having finished eating, I put down ht

Oniisa and patted my head

“Reika Don’t worry about how our parents think Don’t worry about where they come from If you think they’re worth it, then be with them,” he told me

“Yeah…”

I hoped that one day I could introduce Oniisama to Wakabchan

I was a bit worried aboutFuyuko-sa different to me

Phew, thank goodness…

Hopefully nobody would find out about the things the tanuki spirit hadthe weekend

Still, the person I was even i

At first I had just considered his ro seen what happened to the fruits of his efforts with my own eyes, I just couldn’t help but sympathise with him now

Thanks to that, it was hard to treat his issues as flippantly as I used to

God, seeing that necklace was sorrow itself

If I left that guy alone, he was just going to produce tragedy after tragedy for himself, mark my words

And the one who’d end up watching every step would be me

Which was bad, because eventually I’d cry

Like, seriously bawl

I h

Just how long did he spendthat?

I’d never done anything like that h it was, but it had to be like when a girl knit a scarf for her crush

Well, leaving aside how much heavier the jewellery was, at least…

Forto have to be a bit kinder to hi our discussions