Chapter 14: Volume 1 - CH 3.1

The next day after club activities, I headed to the bicycle parking lot and found Yuriko and Tachibana there. It seemed that the two of them were standing around talking, looking toward the field.

"Oh, Kenichi. Are you free now?"

Yuriko, who was wearing a short-sleeved school uniform and had a school bag slung over her shoulder, said to me as I was about to walk past them. Tachibana was carrying a backpack with the straps stretched out, and her hair, which had been tied up in two during club activities, was down. When her eyes met mine, she smiled and made a small bow.

"Why?"

"Akari asked me if I wanted to stop by a family restaurant in front of the station on my way home. Oh, Nagai. Nagai, come here for a minute."

Yuriko did not wait for my answer but called out to Nagai, who was walking with an enamel bag slung over his shoulder and his hands shoved into his pants and beckoned him over.

Nagai looked up, approached us, and asked Yuriko, "What?"

"Why don't we stop by the station together? Kenichi's coming too."

"What kind of gathering is this?"

He looked at the three of us and asked suspiciously. Leaving aside if it was just me and Yuriko, but the three of us, including Tachibana, rarely hang out together.

"Nothing in particular. I just felt like it."

Yuriko answered with a smile as she folded her arms under her chest.

"Um. I'm on dinner duty..."

As I stood next to Yuriko and started to say this, she quickly moved her face to my ear. The sudden whisper tickled my ear and gave me goosebumps.

"It's okay if it's just for a while, right? I don't mind if you leave halfway through. Just help me invite Nagai."

"Well..."

I guessed from Yuriko's words that she was asked by Tachibana to invite Nagai to play together with her. I was either bait to catch Nagai or camouflage to appear natural. 

The station is the opposite of the way home, so it's a hassle. When I was mumbling, Yuriko gave a small, frustrated click of her tongue, and quickly pulled her face away from mine.

"Somehow, I feel like I want to say something to myself."

She said, looking into the distance and trying to sound heard.

"Hey, stop it, you."

I said hurriedly, and Tachibana asked Yuriko happily.

"Mori-senpai, do you have some kind of a weakness for Sakamoto-senpai?"

"Fufufu," Yuriko laughed unnaturally as she looked at me.

"Please tell me too."

"What should I do. It depends on my mood whether my soliloquy will come out of my mouth or not..."

"Alright, I'll go.......Nagai, come with me."

I pondered, pushed Nagai's back with my palm, and walked away from the two girls. Nagai looked back at Yuriko.

"What the h*ll do you have on Sakamoto?"

"What are you talking about?"

Fufu, Yuriko said, tilting her head slightly, with a nonchalant expression on her face. ---I knew I should have hidden Izumi from her at the time.

space 3

Yuriko and I were pushing our bicycles as the four of us walked toward the station nearest our high school. Dark brown clouds were floating in the dark sky, and an old street lamp on the edge of the road was casting a slightly yellowish light.

Nagai and Tachibana were walking ahead of me, side by side, while Yuriko and I, pushing our bicycles, were walking a bit away from them. As we looked at Nagai and Tachibana, who was two heads apart, Yuriko asked, "Are you cooking the dinner?" Yuriko asked.

"Yes, I am."

"Really? I didn't expect that. Do your relatives who have moved in help you too?"

"Izumi is in charge of breakfast. But when she has time, she also helps with dinner."

"I see. I see."

Yuriko mumbled as she looked ahead.

The road from the high school to the station was quiet with only a few students from the same school walking along. I could hear the sound of the bicycle chain we were pushing and Nagai and Tachibana talking.

After walking for about ten minutes, we arrived at a family restaurant on the street in front of the station. We entered the restaurant and sat down at a table for four, separated into men and women.

Perhaps because it was a weekday, the restaurant was not so crowded. In the non-smoking section, there were lone customers operating laptops and tablets, young men who seemed to have come to chat, and a group of girls wearing different high school uniforms.

Yuriko and Tachibana chose a parfait and drink bar, while Nagai and I ordered French fries and a drink bar. After we finished ordering, Yuriko got up from her seat and said, "I'll go get you your drinks." Tachibana tried to follow her, but she said, "It's fine," and went off by herself.

Tachibana and Nagai were somehow having a warm conversation that was typical of high school students. I decided to read the news on my phone so as not to disturb them. I ignored the conversation that came into my ears and followed the words in my phone.

On the news site I connected to, there was news of a scandal at a major company, with pictures of men with their heads bowed.

“Nagai-senpai, you are very popular among first-year girls, you know.”

"That's just a flattery, right."

"It's not flattery. You're in the top three in the soccer club."

I looked at a column about the health benefits of a soy-based diet.

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"Is there such a ranking..."

"To be more precise, Mori-senpai is in the first place, and Nagai-senpai is in second."

"Mori is number one?"

"Yes. She can lead the boys even though she is a girl, it's dignified and cool."

The Japan Meteorological Agency announced that this year's rainy season has been rainy throughout the country and that there seems to be no concern about water shortages.

"Hee. How about Sakamoto?"

As I was about to touch an article about this summer's featured movie, my name came up and my attention turned to Nagai's conversation.

"Sakamoto-senpai is..."

Tachibana turned her mischievous, cat-like eyes on me. I looked up from my phone and said shortly, "You don't have to tell me."

"Ah...," Tachibana smiled with a bitter smile and then continued.

"To be honest, Sakamoto-senpai's popularity is not so great, but some people thought he was dating Mori-senpai."

"Huh?"

"You often go home with her. Because of that, I've been asked several times who is with Mori-senpai."

"That's a misunderstanding."

As I said this, Nagai continued to ask questions.

"But you guys really don't have that kind of relationship?"

"No, absolutely not."

I answered immediately. When we first joined the club, the club members had many ill feelings toward us because we called each other by our first names, and some of the senior members looked at me with annoyed eyes. There were times when I worried about it, but after half a year, they understood that our relationship was a natural progression. Nagai must have known that we were not in that kind of relationship.

At that moment, Yuriko returned, saying, "Sorry to keep you waiting," and put four glasses on the table. The conversation flowed on, and I sat down on the sofa with a deep sigh of relief and sipped the glass of Coke that Yuriko had brought.

The drink was already in my mouth when I noticed that I smelled something strange.

There was something mixed in the cola, and slowly, over time, the surface of my tongue began to heat up. I almost coughed at the smell, which was so pungent that it stung the back of my ears, and I hastily swallowed the liquid in my mouth.

"Yuriko, you put Tabasco or something in there, didn't you?"

"Did it not suit your taste?"

I could see Yuriko unnaturally putting her hand over her mouth in an elegant gesture in my tear-stained vision as if to say, "Oh my," she said nonchalantly.

"Seriously, stop doing that!"

I said, drinking the water Nagai handed me with a laugh. D*mn, the cold water is making my tongue numb.

"I was just trying to make it taste good. I mean, in another way."

"That's not good! No matter how you think about it, tabasco in cola is definitely wrong."

"it's delicious, Sakamoto-senpai."

Tachibana interrupted from the side.

"No, it's not!"

Yuriko said to Tachibana, "It's delicious, isn't it?" and the two of them said to each other, "that's right~". What a suffocating reaction. I'm starting to feel like I'm being bullied.

Nagai said, impressed, "Only Mori can mess with Sakamoto this much."

"Sakamoto-senpai is saved by Mori-senpai. Characteristically."

For some reason, Tachibana, too, had a satisfied look on her face.

"What do you mean by that? I mean, Yuriko, do something about this. I don't want to drink anymore. My throat hurts."

It seemed that I had poured down a surprisingly large amount of the Tabasco cola, although the amount of cola with Tabasco was reduced, there was still about half a cup left to go.

Yuriko said, "It can't be helped," and Yuriko took a moment to prepare herself, then gulped down the Tabasco cola in one gulp.

I said, "It tastes like s*it, right," and Yuriko sucked in her breath and smiled, "I guess it's not that bad," But her hands were shaking. She immediately started drinking water, though she kept her expression relaxed.

"I'll drink it too, senpai."

Tachibana, whether she read the atmosphere or something, gulped down the rest of the drink. There was no time to stop her. She placed the glass, rather carefully, on the table amidst the attention of the other three.

"...................................................................."

"Hey, it's getting quiet. Is she all right?"

Nagai asked Yuriko. Yuriko, looking at Tachibana with her mouth half-open as if to say, "I did it,". She was bent down, and from the front, I couldn't see her expression because it was hidden by her bangs.

I was a little worried and asked her, "Hey, are you sure you're okay?", Yuriko also asked, "Akari? Are you okay?". Eventually, Tachibana raised her face and nodded with her lips tied. Then, after a few more seconds, she opened her mouth, breathed in, and said with a red face.

"Sakamoto-senpai is exaggerating, isn't he~"

"You're not convincing at all!"

Yuriko laughed when I retorted reflexively. Tachibana, perhaps having reached the limit of her endurance, seized the melon soda with teary eyes.

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