Vol 4 Chapter 7 (1/2)
Chapter 7
When the concert at shi+nujuku ended on the fifth day, I couldn’t even get up froy The so-called event coordination ation to solve various proble of mostly newbies, the vast amount of workload couldn’t be dealt with even if one has three bodies
“Fujishi+o celebrate? To celebration! The band members said that they want to celebrate with Fujishi+ma-san as well!”
Rushi+ng into the lounge, Mika-san said in excite my hand repeatedly
“No, I really can’t do it I have to go back to sleep And also, I still haven’t coe”
“The shop is at the east pass! We’re getting slightly late now, so I’ll go over first!”
Did you even hear what I was saying?
“Then how about I go in your place?”
Hiro-san said while cleaning up the lounge
“Ohh, I’ve already suppressed myself for five whole days not to flirt with them as we’re on a job But since its already ended, the ban is lifted The girls in the band are so cute, it’s hard for me to decide”
“What on earth are you thinking!?”
“Good, good Hiro-san is welcoo book additional seats!”
Mika-san rushed out like that To guard the innocence of the bandmy exhausted body there just to accompany him
“If there’s free booze, I’”
“Tetsu-senpai, you didn’t help out much, did you!?”
“I baited the people to the air conditioned room all by myself”
“Wasn’t that just on the first day? On the others, you kept going to play pachinko, even though you’re a!”
“Ohh— Ohh— Narue of the system Actually, it can count as a business loss”
“Don’t joke with me
“Of course I’ll take part as well”
Can the money lost in pachinko be counted as expenses? That probably won’t do, right?
Major reclaie of security and returned to the lounge
“WhichYondaireat party so often”
“Major, weren’t you always mistreated as a primary school student each tiive up?”
Tetsu-senpai laughed at Major
“Ha! Ha! Ha! Actually, I’m already two thousand years old! And I have a student ID to prove that for me as well!”
That isn’t anything worthy of showing off to other people I should say, so even such a person can become an adult? Duh I, h I have neither awareness nor resolution for this
The restaurant that Mika-san reserved for us was a trendy restaurant with numerous stand-alone roo of fee students or Hiro-san, it does match them quite well However, the ones who sat by my side were Tetsu-senpai, Major, Pole and Rocky respectively, h the dishes weren’t too bad, there was too little of them
However, the sake seemed to be quite nice, which hy Tetsu-senpai was so happy
“Why don’t we get Yondaime some sake as well? We can order a whole bottle of Juyondai sake as well”
“Nononono I’ like he was scolded to death by the doctors, his as locked and the like”
After all, he was a severely injured person who entered ICU for less than five days, but he slipped out of the ward, having a fight with someone else as well If soled wine in, he’ll probably be thrown into a ith steel s
However, it’s fortunate that we can be so busy
That would be due to the fact that I didn’t have the time to think back on Renji-san these four days
Just like that, with the s er soda while i myself in the commotion exclusive to the restaurant At these tihlighted hairstyle that had a sense of frivolity, the gaze blocked by the goggles sunglasses that was like thin needles, the evidently fake Kansai slang, the slightly hunched way of walking, the penguins and polar bears that atched together, the sweet taste of the cola that we drank e became sworn brothers
That person, what happened to hi to tell me
Just like that, I had lost consciousness before I went home from the restaurant I was already onto e’ escorted me back home I had to trouble Hiro-san to sendalcoholic drinks? No, that person was really just pretending to be drunk when he flirted with the wine, wasn’t he?
Oh well, whatever I’m tired
There was less than a week of the su on my bed a whole two days after the celebration party ended
It was already the last Tuesday in August when the lethargy in radually disappeared, and I was able to show up at Hanamaru Ramen once more When I walked into the empty ramen shop that was in its preparatory phase, I saw a brand new red portiere spread out on the counter table, giving ht
“Ahh, seee And it’s sewn on as well It feels soht? I’ to use the new one from today”
Min-san, as cooking soup, spoke in a nonchalant tone Somewhat too flamboyant? It couldn’t be described with these words at all It’s aI checked out the texture with iven to me, it was detailed e red thread that has slightly , the picture that seea, perhaps? The background of the portiere was a picture of frogs, eels and , while the words Hana white threads
I leaned aze fro here and there in the kitchen
That person should have known long ago as well Yoshi+ki-san’s— true name
“What? You won’t get anything to eat even if you keep staring at h you knoe’re in preparations, what on earth are you here for? Why don’t you learn fro homework for the summer holidays”
“W- Well…… Alice called me over”
“Then why don’t you hurry up and get up?”
However, I still had so to ask
I lowered aze to ask:
“Did…… Hison-san say anything?”
“What do you mean?”
“For exas about Yondaime…… or Renji-san?”
“Nope”
Is that so? I slowly breathed out That’s true How could she have said anything?
Even so, Min-san extended her hand froht corner of the portiere
I noticed two foxes— No, wolves, in the crowd of rabbits and frogs, and let one of theh so in my body, and immediately folded the portiere
So, this is that person’s answer?
Without saying a word, folding everything together, and continue playing that person’s current role
“…… You knew about it long ago, right?”
For quite so and the cooling fan spinning Thus, I didn’t even dare to raise my head
I was afraid to see what expression Min-san earing
“I knew”
Min-san’s voice rance I clenched h I knew that it was a dumb question myself, I must still ask on
“Haven’t you thought of doing anything?”
“What does ‘doing anything’ mean?”
Min-san’s voice that seemed somewhat displeased burned directly into rabbed, and I was pulled over to her
“Listen well, I’ a ramen shop”
Min-san’s furious gaze was just beforestuck somewhere in the depths of my throat
“I won’t and can’t do anything other than letting other people eat Isn’t that a given?”
I was attacked with a flick on the forehead that was visibly her going easy on me, and I was thrust out of the counter just like that That’s right, it’s a given After all, there weren’t any other ways at all We are all insignificant Since we already can’t take care of ourselves, we can only be in pain alone, survive alone, and die alone
The main reason that I still felt that Min-san’s words were cold was because I cahtly, Alice’s unanticipated passion
Because we are still living on, we must make choices
Those words were just like a scream from the sorrow of Alice’s body What in the world happened? In that small body, how much more darkness that I cannot comprehend is hidden?
Alice did not tell h for her to experience the pain once Does that mean that the current me cannot be the one to share her pain as well? Even if it’s only five percent, I still wish to help shoulder her pain— Are these thoughts only my own delusions?
It was like Min-san, who could only allow the others to eat ramen and ice cream Does a so-called assistant detective have to obediently stay by a detective’s side, accepting the words that she spoke because of her inability to tolerate the pain?
If that’s true, it’s just too sorrowful
However, when I silently stood up, so flitted past the corner of my vision I supported myself on the chair and blinked repeatedly
The very edge of the counter It was hung on one of the sake bottles that were tidily arranged I picked it up with tre hands It’s unmistakable
“That’s right, he came yesterday”
I raised my head to look at Min-san, while she smiled wryly as she stirred the souop
Looking at the goggles sunglasses I ran over
“That annoying dolt just re like ’This definitely ain’t Hanamaru’s taste’, ‘Give me back that awful taste!’ and other idiotic stuff And he even planned to eat ralasses He just wouldn’t listen no matter how many times I scolded him, so I just beat him up”
And his bad habit of forgetting things easily hasn’t changed at all, Min-san chuckled heartily