Chapter 39 - Fortune-telling (1/2)

Fortune-telling

“The compatibility between the two of you is…”

Gokurin, Sana swallowed her saliva.

“… 76%”

Kanata lightly informed us while turning the cell phone screen towards us.

On a somewhat suspicious looking fortune-telling site, and in some dubious font, the numbers for 76% were written there.

“Muuu…!? 76…? Is it better to be happy, or is it better to be sad. I really don’t know…”

During lunch break, the conversation topic went into fortune-telling, when Sana started it off by mentioning that there was a recently popular site for it.

“What happens if you switch the order of the people?”

“… Switching it, it’s 86%.”

It seems that changing the order would also cause the values to change.

“As friends, being around those values should be just right. Right? Being able to say what needs to be said to each other, something like that.”

Hiiragi-chan, in teacher mode, smiled as she watched over Sana and Kanata. What was just rated, was the compatibility between Sana and Kanata.For the fortune-telling, all that’s needed is to enter the number of strokes in your name and birthday for both you and your partner. Then, the compatibility would be shown.

“Are you really that interested in this? Compatibility…. Or rather, fortune-telling.”

“Even you though, Nii-san. Before you leave home, you always make sure to check your horoscope fortune for the day.”

“That’s just because the show happens to go into the fortune-telling corner when I’m just about to leave. It’s not because I’m interested.”

I wonder if Hiiragi-chan also likes things like this. When I glanced at her, our eyes met, and she smiled. Even now, when she smiles like that in her teacher mode, my heart ends up skipping a beat…

Her smile just seems to be a different type of smile.

“Sensei, are you also interested?”

As I turned to conversation to her, Hiiragi-chan tilted her head in thought.

“I wonder. If it’s whether I’m interested or not, then yes, I’m interested. But, same with the morning fortune, if it’s good, then I’ll believe in it, if it’s bad, then I won’t. That’s the type of person I am.”

Oooh… I haven’t seen this in a while, an adult Hiiragi-chan.

“T-then… N-nii-san, how many is it?”

Hiiragi-chan also reacted to that.

“How many, as in?”

“The number of strokes.”

How many is it? After doing a bit of calculating in my head, it turns out it is 37.

“… Sana. You aren’t planning on doing a compatibility check with me are you?”

“————I-I’m won’t! Just because I know your birthday, i-i-it d-doesn’t mean I’m going to do the fortune-telling!”

“I suggest you don’t, it’s not like we have bad compatibility.”

“I-I said that I wasn’t going to do it! Nii-san, you, Super Self-Conscious Man.”

She really created a weird hero name there.

“… Seiji-kun, the number of strokes, how many?”

Kanata also asked me. Hiiragi-chan also seemed to want to know, as she was strongly nodding her head.

“It’s 37.”

Batto, Sana started entering something into her phone.

“And you’re going to do it anyways?”

“I-it’s not that! Nii-san, you, Super Self-Conscious Man. I-it’s a different person…”

Staring at her phone Sana muttered something like, “Ah…. 100%…”

Pishi, Hiiragi-chan froze. Niheheh, Sana laughed to herself. She was in a good mood the whole rest of the day.

“By the way, Sensei, doesn’t know your birthday, Seiji-kun. It’s already been two months since we’ve started dating though.”

That evening, after work was done for her, a call from Hiiragi-chan came.

“Haruka-san, you also want to do some fortune-telling?”

“I want to… I don’t want to… but I can’t help but be interested…”

I felt the same way. It would be great if a nice result came out of it, but if, on the off chance, a bad result were to show up, it would come as a great shock.

“Me too, I don’t know Haruka-san’s birthday.”

“Mine is December 2nd.”

“Eh? Me too.”

“No way? Really!? Our birthdays are the same, that’s so romantic!”

“Let’s celebrate together.”

“Yeah ♪ Yeah ♪”

“That means, this year, you’ll be 25?”

“Wrong. This year is 24. I’m currently 23.”

Hmm. That means, I made an awkward mistake there. Well, this year turning 24, and currently 24, there isn’t that much of a difference. If I actually say that though, she’ll probably get mad, so I won’t. I should probably stop any idea of attempting the fortune-telling though. If the result is bad, Hiiragi-chan would probably end up feeling down.

“If a bad result comes out of fortune-telling—”

“It’s okay. Completely believing in fortune-telling, I’m not a child.”