Chapter 12 - Lunch and Sana’s Misgivings (1/2)
Lunch and Sana’s Misgivings
And so, the month changed and it became May.
Sana and I officially entered into the home economics club, and Hiiragi-chan officially became the advisor for the club.In order for Ii-san to deepen her friendship with the two of them, she had invited the siblings to have lunch with her in the home economics classroom where she always was.
By the way, my bentou today was the same as Sana’s for the first time in a long time. That’s because I can’t very well have Hiiragi-chan make me a bentou and feed it to me in a situation like this.
As we were waiting, we caught sight of Ii-san, who we were waiting for. Sana called out with her voice.
“Kana-chan! Hello~”
Kana-chan? Aah, she means Ii-san. More importantly, when did they get so close?
As usual, Ii-san kept her usual politeness by standing up and giving a slight bow.
“Hello.”
Her quiet voice was also normal.
As they were having lunch together, a conversation about that games that Sana had been playing, and the ways in which she cleared them, began. I was the only one left out and it felt a little lonely. Hm. Kana-chan… does it mean that Kana-chan…?
I somehow had the impression that I heard that name before from the Sana ten years in the future. They knew each other from their company as she was her senior and that they had come from the same high school…
“Ah, so that’s what it was!”
“Nii-san, please don’t let out such a loud voice so suddenly.”
I didn’t know anything about Ii-san. Last time, I had graduated from high school without knowing who she was.
Neither should she have had any point of contact with Sana during high school. Both Sana and I were, as far as I could tell, loners in high school and didn’t really know very many upperclassmen or underclassmen.
However, Ii-san was the Kana-chan that Sana had met at the company that she had joined…
“So this is what destiny is.”
“Hello, are you okay? You’ve just been muttering to yourself for a little while now.”
Sana was looking at me suspiciously, but there’s nothing she needs to concern herself with. I held onto Ii-san’s small hands.
“!! W-what is it…?”
“Ii-san. I leave Sana to you. She has a bad mouth, is pretty shy, and has a flat chest, but she’s not a bad person.”
“??”
“What are you doing, Nii-san? Stop it. And having a flat chest has nothing to do with this!”
In order to force me to sit down, Sana pulled on my belt.
“Don’t you see that Kana-chan is surprised and troubled?”
Ah. It’s true. Her cheeks were dyed red and she had stiffened up.
“It’s because Nii-san suddenly grabbed her hand.”
“No… well, I’m sorry for that.”
As an older brother, I had to give a greeting to the person that would be looking after my younger sister in the future. All I was doing was acting on adult common sense.
“Everyone’s here, right?”
Hiiragi-chan, who walked in us, called out while smiling. She seemed to want to shorten the distance between herself and the club members that had entered. No matter how sharp Sana is, there still hasn’t been anything to point out that Hiiragi-chan likes me…
“Sensei, are you going to be eating two bentous?”
“Ah, this?”
Wait, she brought it!? The bentou with only touaage in it!
Even though I told her that today was a day where everyone was going to eat together, so there wasn’t a need for it. No matter how you think of it, me eating Hiiragi-chan’s homemade bentou in front of these two people is completely out of the question.
“What are you thinking!”
Perhaps it was because I was making an upset face, Hiiragi-chan went “Ah,” and made a face that seemed to show that she had noticed her mistake. Sana was gazing suspiciously at the bentou wrapped in a blue handkerchief.
“Ummm, you see. I made a mistake, so I was wondering if we could eat it all together…”
Made a mistake and made more? Are you my mother!? It felt like the time when my mother had made me a bentou even though I had told her that we were ending school in the morning.
“Hiiragi-sensei’s homemade food? Uwah, I’m looking forward to it.”