Chapter 106 - It’s Exactly What You’re Thinking of (1/2)

It’s Exactly What You’re Thinking of

After school, I left from the entrance, alone. Normally, I would wait for Sana, but today, she had some supplementary math lessons, so she told me to go home first.

Just as I left through the school gates, there was an unfamiliar elementary school student in front of me. She was wearing a UFO like yellow safety hat, while wearing a red backpack.

I wonder if she’s waiting for her sibling or something. I felt some sort of gaze on me, but I ignored it and kept walking.

“U-ummm…”

Me? Is she calling out to me? When I turned around, she was looking at me.

“Me?”

“Umm… are you, Senpai?”

“……I don’t think so.”

I don’t remember having a small junior like this. The only juniors I remember having are the ones that were at my middle school when I was in my third year there.

While stammering out her words, the small kid spoke.

“Sanada… Seiji-san, right?”

“…That is right.”

Huh? How does this elementary schooler know me…?

“That’s a relief…”

The little kid made a sigh of relief.

“Senpai, it’s me. Shibahara Rei.” [1]

“………..”

No——who is this person? She’s giving off a feeling of familiarity, but I don’t have any connections with elementary schoolers.

“I’m currently 20 and—”

“You’re lying. You could only be in 3rd grade, right?”

“Ah, I see. The high schooler senpai wouldn’t know about me.”

What is this child saying? Is it just early eighth grade syndrome?

I squat down and spoke to her.

“Where’s your mother? How about your house? It’s not good to randomly talk to some stranger you know?”

“Gosh! Stop treating me like a kid!”

“I’m treating you how your supposed to be treated though.”

I should start by pacifying this elementary school girl that is busy hitting me. Doing something like this by the roadside is probably going to lead to a bunch of misunderstandings.

“There’s a park over there, so let’s head over.”

“P-park…?”

See. Her eyes are now shining.

What should I do to play around with this kid? I can push her around on the swing all she wants.

“A park date?”

“That’s not it, you precocious child.”

As I was starting to walk away, she cautiously stretched out her hand and grabbed onto my pinky. Our steps were completely different, so I decided to walk slower. That’s right, Sana also had a period when she was like this…

“Senpai, why do you have such a faraway look in your eyes?”

“I’m reminiscing on a lost past.”

“?”

She tilted her head in response. Well, of course she would. She keeps calling me Senpai, but if it’s an elementary schooler from around here, then I guess it could be a child from my alma mater.

Now that I think about it, it isn’t weird for someone to call a graduate Senpai.

“Senpai, you really haven’t changed at all.”

“I haven’t changed? What have you been talking about…?”

“Don’t be surprised, please listen to what I have to say.”

The tomboy elementary school girl made a serious expression, and so I stopped walking and waited for her words.

“—I, time leaped to now from ten years in the future.”

Aaahh. No wonder.

“I see.”

“Are you surprised? Even I can’t really believe it right now… Eeeeh, your reaction is pretty dull.”

Time leap… Well, I’ve done it as well. I don’t understand how though.

Since I wasn’t surprised at all, Rei-chan became sullen.

“You see, ten years in the future, I became your junior working together with you.”

“Hmm? Which means, you’re an employee at the HRG company?”

“Uuuh, not really, technically speaking, I’m just working part time…”

Part time? Working with me…? Shibahara Rei??

“Hmm? Why does the still virgin high school Senpai know about working at the HRG company?”

“Hey, you just nonchalantly dissed me there didn’t you?”

Besides, I’m probably still a virgin ten years later…

“Senpai is a young promising employee of the HRG company, that is a capable man rumored to be with the daughter of the owner. I-it’s just rumors though. Just rumors.”

Rei-chan smiled as she taught me about the present. Well, that’s something that I know very well. Before my time leap, I was just an unmotivated useless employee though.

“I know. Don’t think that you’re the only one that time leaped, Rei-chan.”

“Eh? No way…!?”

I made a cool expression and said it.

“It’s exactly what you’re thinking of.”

“Y-you’re lying!”

“It’s not a lie!”

This isn’t really something we should be talking about in a park. So, I invited Rei-chan, who seemed to be my junior, to my house.

“S-senpai… a-are you planning on doing that with me…?”