It’s very hard to stay in a sitting position for a long time in Kamokura’s passenger car.
“I understand. I’ll get ready, and you two can get in my car.”
I replied in a loud voice.
Then Kamokura came flying in, his face changing color.
“Hey, what are you talking about? I’ll take her back with me.”
I glared at Kamokura.
You can’t always let him do what he wants.
“Touko-senpai says her back hurts. In a passenger car, her back pain will get even worse. On that note, in my mini-wagon, the back seat can be fully flattened, so you can go home lying down. It puts less strain on my back that way.”
“Even in my car, if you fold down the passenger seat, it’ll work.”
“Isn’t that why Kazumi wants my car, because she thinks it would hurt?”
Everyone gathered around to see what all the fuss was about.
From among them, Kazumi stepped forward.
“Kamokura-san, Touko says her back hurts a lot. She says she can’t bear the thought of riding home in a passenger car for hours on end. That’s why I asked Isshiki to help.
But Kamokura didn’t back down.
“It’s okay. I’m Touko’s boyfriend and I’ll take good care of her on the way home. If she is in a lot of pain, we can rest on the way home. I should be the one to take her home in that respect as well.”
Is this guy still planning to take her somewhere when she says her back hurts?
“She said that her parents want her to come home today, and that they have some business to attend to tomorrow. If you’re going to take a break somewhere, you’re ignoring Touko’s convenience!”
Then Nakazaki, also a third-year student, arrived.
He is in the Faculty of Science and Engineering, but his department is different from ours: Electrical Engineering.
He is the head of this club.
“Hey Kamokura, Touko-san is saying that her back hurts, right? You can take it easy here, and let her take Isshiki’s car so she doesn’t have to worry.”
“But you know, ……”
“Maybe I’m worried about you as a boyfriend, but Kazumi says she’ll tag along. It won’t be a problem.”
Kamokura still stared at us for a while.
Finally, Nakazaki-san said.
If you’re so worried, Kamokura, why don’t you just follow Isshiki’s car? If anything happens, just call him.”
“All right, Nakazaki. I’m not that worried about it.”
Kamokura glared at me one last time and then walked away.
“I see. That’s how it is.”
In the car on the way home, it was Ishida who said that.
In the end, it was just me, Ishida, Touko and Kazumi in my car.
“I didn’t expect Kamokura-san to be so pushy.”
Kazumi replied in a dumbfounded but chuckling manner.
Tetsuya is the type of person who doesn’t back down once he’s made his point.
“I wasn’t going to back down this time either.”
I said resentfully.
“That’s why I’ve come between you and him. Isshiki-kun was also unusually eager to fight, you know.”
Kazumi said with a laugh.
I didn’t mean to be so obvious, but did it look that way to the people around me?
That may not be good for the future, though.
Finally, Touko-senpai concludes.
“But it really helped. Tetsuya was very forceful today. I was scared too. Thanks to Kazumi and Isshiki, you saved my life.”
She then bowed her head slightly.
Kazumi lightly patted Toko-senpai’s head with a “yoshi-yoshi”.
It’s okay! Leave it to me. I won’t let Touko fall prey to a cheating man!”
Later, as I was holding the steering wheel in the driver’s seat, Touko-senpai gently approached my face.
“Thank you so much, Isshiki. I was so happy when you covered for me.”
She said quietly in my ear.
I’m not sure if it’s my imagination or not, but I felt a subtle heat in her words.