Chapter 7: Transparent Conversational Space (2/2)

When he was returning to his class room he encountered one of the three twin sisters. It was the tallest one Kotone.

「Kotone…….. You are by yourself? 」

As per usual he was awkwardly trying to suppress saying “-san” as he gulped down his words. Taiyou’s image of the girls were that they were a single unit that acted together, when he encountered just one of them in specific, to him it felt almost like he encountered a rare character within a game.

「Yes, I was trying to find you. We didn’t know where you went, so the three of us split up and searched」

「Oh, you guys separated? 」

「Yes, I will call Suzu-chan and Kaza-chan here alright? 」

「Ahh, ok」

Although he gave her his consent, she just stood in place, she continued to look at Taiyou whilst smiling at him and it seemed that she was happy about something.

「……..」

「…….」

「Umm…….Weren’t you going to call the other two? 」

He wasn’t really comfortable with pressing the matter but, even more than that he was a little weirded out by her behaviour that he asked without thinking.

「I already called them」

「Eh? Did you do something? 」

「Yes, I became delighted」

「…….Hm? 」

Taiyou tiled his head in confusion. He was trying to imagine/think of situations that he encountered before that would clarify the matter, but he couldn’t pin point any certain thing and he inadvertently tilted his neck in confusion.

「Like I said, I became really happy. Because I became really happy, Suzu-chan and Kaza-chan will be able to know that I found you」

「Don’t tell me, Is this Telepathy? 」

「It most likely is, Even we don’t really know how it works. However, we can kind of convey/transmit to each other what kind of feelings we are individually experiencing.」

「Hee–」 (a way Japanese people acknowledge something)

Taiyou spontaneously leaked out a voice of admiration. Although the person in question doesn’t really understand how her ability works, but if they are actually able to convey each other’s feelings from such a distance then most likely it was a type of telepathy.

The twin triplets that were deeply connected with each other’s feelings, that kind of telepathy. For Taiyou this matter was extremely interesting…..In a good kind of way, it sparked his interest in them.

「May I, ask various questions regarding this matter? 」

「Yes, of course」

As he received Kotone’s consent, Taiyou wanted to ask her various questions whilst walking, thus he started in the direction of his class room and began to converse with her along the way.

「Is the connection, merely based on feelings? Or can you use words….to converse with each other in your mind? 」

「We used to able to do such things when we were kids」

Kotone said that with an apologetic face.

「However now we can’t do such things any longer, please forgive me」

「No it’s not really anything you should apologize for. So now its only feelings that get transmitted? Can you clearly send the feelings across? 」

「Yes, if it’s just that we can transmit it clearly. In actuality, it is closer to say that we share joint ownership of each other’s feelings. We are unable to hide each other’s feelings. When we get worked up or excited our feelings get transmitted with each other without permission」

「So it just leaks out? 」

「Yes, the feelings between us that is」

「That’s amazing, this ability. As expected of you three twins. Ah, but if that’s the case….」

Whilst walking Taiyou held his hand to his jaw, and puckered his eye brows in reflection/deliberation.

「If that’s the case, what? 」

「Ahh, I’m not too sure but I believe in your case, your hearts are linked because there is no barrier. I think, because your hearts are always connected, It amplifies…… the effects of what you experience on your actual body more than you know it, just like how your minds can share emotions your body seems to also transmit its feelings. However back in the days you used to be able to have a conversation within your minds but now you lost touch with the ability, I think it may be caused by a side effect of you sisters growing apart? If that was the case, I believe it’s a bit of a shame.」

「It’s a shame/waste? 」

Kotone opened her eyes widely and stared at Taiyou with an astonished expression.

「Yeah, Sorry I spoke out of turn, please forget what I said just now」

Taiyou waves his hands in panic, and he had an apologetic face.

For the sisters who had the power of telepathy. He thought that this was an immensely adventurous/exciting conversational topic. But this is probably only what he thought, it could be that the person in question themselves did not find this topic to be interesting in the slightest.

For twins or triplets in general this was most likely a touchy/sensitive topic to talk about, but instead Taiyou was pestering her and asking her all these sensitive questions.

Suddenly, Kotone spoke aloud and stood still/stopped moving. She had a surprised look on her face and when Taiyou followed her gaze, at the end of the corridor a lone young woman stood in place, and was staring directly at them.

「You are?……. This morning’s…..」

It was a figure he remembered seeing before, the person who was talking to Katsuki, the figure of a girl with the perfectly styled pony tail. Just like the time when he encountered her in the morning she was still glaring right at Taiyou.

「Ummm, you are?—

「Natsuno Taiyou, you, which of the three Hayakawa-san’s do you like the most?」

Before he could even complete his words, Taiyou was interrupted by the girl, she then proceeded to make this shocking declaration!