Chapter 168 - After That (1/2)

◆Sanada Seiji◆

It was after school.

“Hiiragi-chan fought with another girl in the preparation room. Is that about you?”

“No idea.”

From the perspective of students who only had a graduation ceremony left, it was quite an important event as the information about the first-year girl spread throughout the school.

Fujimoto, who had heard about the information pretty quickly worriedly told me that it was about Sana.

I have somewhat of an idea why they fought.

“You won’t get mad?”

“Huh? Why? You don’t know anything right?”

“T-that’s right.”

She’s so easy to understand.

“I don’t know why it became like that, but… rather, isn’t it that? If she makes you cry, I’ll hit her…?”

Sana looked downward without any expression. Aah, that seems to be it.

As she was so easily let off, so it probably ended with just an attempt.

“If you got mad for my sake, then thank you.”

“It wasn’t for you Nii-san. Sana was just really annoyed.”

So, it was you.

For the few days left in that week, Sana didn’t go to school.

She said it was for self-discipline, but it was really nothing like that. It seemed like she just wanted to skip school.

As for Hiiragi-chan, we hadn’t contacted each other since.

Even during world history class, she would never make eye contact, and having the reality of us breaking up hit me like that really made me want to cry during class.

I knew this would happen as I’ve seen it multiple times in the present time, and yet—the shock should have been about half—however, actually experiencing it directly, I am experiencing a whole different level of sadness.

Hiiragi-chan, of course, no longer appears for club activities. The world history preparation room was also locked, and our points of contact were finally beginning to disappear.

Originally, this is how the distance between a student and teacher should have been…

I now understand how much Hiiragi-chan went out of her way to come to me.

Soon, the graduation ceremony ended, and it was time for the closing ceremony. There was a sense of release as it would be spring break starting tomorrow, however, I had no idea what to do.

…We had even promised each other that we would go view the sakura trees together as we couldn’t do it last year.

After the club activities award ceremony and some closing words from the principal, he informed everyone with a statement “There are a few teachers that will be leaving this school in March.”

About five teachers that were lined up along the wall went up on the stage. Everyone in the gymnasium made some noise.