Chapter 126 - Black Hiiragi-chan (1/2)

Sana was being quite noisy for this early in the morning. What is she shouting about anyways, while in her room?

Thanks to that, I ended up waking up.

I changed, went downstairs, and ate breakfast. Normally, Sana would be eating breakfast with me, but she didn’t come down from the second floor at all. My mother also seemed to think it was weird and ended up looking towards the ceiling.

“Saa-chan, I wonder what she’s doing?”

“Who knows? She shouted something earlier though.”

I slurped down on my miso soup. Miso soup in the morning is delicious.

Usually, Sana would also get up earlier than me, and more often than not, she would be the one finishing breakfast first.

While tilting her head, my mother left the dining room. I could soon hear the sound of some conversation coming from upstairs, and then, she came back.

“Saa-chan, doesn’t seem to be feeling well today it seems.”

“Heeh. Is that so?”

… She shouted quite energetically earlier though… Was it just my imagination? I guess Sana is resting today.

I finished breakfast and left for school.

Today, it seems that Hiiragi-chan is also resting, and so world history class turned into self-study.

Hiiragi-chan as well? Is there a cold going around or something?

After quickly finishing up the assignment for self-study, I sent Hiiragi-chan a text.

[Not feeling well? Are you okay?]

Getting a cold while living alone can be quite tough. I should buy something for her when I go home.

I was thinking that, when a reply came back.

[I’m not okay.]

… The text didn’t have any of the usual emoji’s and seemed a little more bland. From this, I can guess it’s quite bad.

Today was supposed to be a day where I eat with Hiiragi-chan in the reference room, so I didn’t bring a bentou… The classes from here are… English, math, art electives, and physical education… I guess it should be fine if I skip one of those.

“Heeey, Sanada, let me see you printout.”

“Do as you like. Pass it to the front later.”

I placed the printout on the desk of Fujimoto. As I was preparing to leave,

“Sanada, what, are you leaving? Don’t just skip out.”

“I’m not just skipping out. I have something important I remembered I had to do.”

“If you leave, I’ll be troubled during physical education. When we split into partners, what am I going to do?”

“I’m not your exclusive partner, okay? See you.”

I patted Fujimoto on the shoulder, and quickly left the classroom.

[I’ll head over right now. Is there anything you want?]

As I was walking down the hallway, I sent a text. I feel like she would get mad at me skipping out of school though. She’ll probably also be happy that I’m coming to visit her so it’ll even out.

[Nothing in particular.]

Hmm. It seems to be quite bad. Normally, I feel like she would say something like, [Thank you. But you don’t need to worry about it.] On the way to Hiiragi-chan’s place, I stopped by a convenience store to buy some pudding and drinks. When I pressed the doorbell, I heard someone coming to the door, and the lock opened.

A slight gap opened and Hiiragi-chan peeked out.

“I brought some pudding…”

She seems a little weird. It was as if she was a domesticated cat, let go into the wild only to be forced to survive on its own instincts.

Hiiragi-chan looked at me, then at the bag in my hand, before finally swiping away the pudding. What a quick worker.

“Why do you know this place?”

“Why… what do you mean?”

What is she saying all of a sudden?

“School should be going on right now. Why did you come here?”

“Well, I mean, I heard that you weren’t feeling well, you see…”

Ah, I see. It’s that. She’s trying to act stoic while reprimanding me for skipping school, right? Usually, she’s super sweet, so that’s probably why she’s not lacking in salt today.

“I get it. If you go as far as to say that, I’ll head back to school. If I go now, I should make it in time for afternoon classes.”

“That’s not it. I didn’t tell you to leave, yet…”

Which is it? She doesn’t seem to be feeling well, her eyes don’t look in her eyes isn’t great, and she doesn’t seem to be in a great mood either. For the time being, I guess it’s Black Hiiragi-chan.

“A-are you coming in…?”

“Eh? Are you fine not sleeping?”

Hiiragi-chan nodded, and after removing the door chain, she let me inside.

Her living room, which was normally neat and tidy, now had drinks and snacks scattered everywhere.

Did her split personality come out or something?

“Aaah, it’s such a mess.”

“It’s fine, isn’t it?”