At the end of the last session, he asked me if I wanted to go out for ramen noodles. But I refused Ishida’s invitation and immediately got on the train by myself.
I took the train alone to the Funabashi karaoke bar that Enka had ordered me to come.
After parting with Touko-senpai at lunch time, I had no choice but to reply to her, “Okay, I’ll be there as soon as I can.
After getting off at Funabashi station, I entered the designated karaoke bar.
Just as I was checking in at the reception desk, Enka came in.
“Oh, you finally came.? You really have no respect as a man to make JK wait!”
“Even with this, I came right after college. In the first place, there’s no such thing as ‘late’ when you called me on your own convenience without asking me in the first place.”
I said with a disgusted look on my face, and Enka poked my chest with her index finger in an amused manner.
“That’s why your girlfriends cheat on you because you say things like that. You’re not cute, Isshiki-san!”
“…… you.”
What’s hell is wrong wrong with her.
Her height and facial features are similar to those of her senpai counterpart, but their personalities and atmospheres are nothing alike.
I can’t believe they are sisters.
“Kochi, kochi.”
Flameka pulled my hand and went to the room where I thought she was already in.
She opened the door with a bang.
“Finally, it’s here. The star of the day!”
She made a loud voice ……
Ishida’s younger sister, Meika, was there.
Meika-chan?”
I was taken aback.
“Hello, Yuu-san.”
Meika-chan was hesitant and puzzled, but she seemed to know I was coming.
“Sit, sit, sit.”
Enka now pushes me to sit next to Meika-chan.
She herself sits on the other side.
I felt like I was sandwiched between Meika and Enka.
“Why Meika-chan is here at last.
Enka answers to that.
“I told you the other day. Meika is my best friend and we’ve been friends since middle school.”
Meika nodded.
“So today, En-chan said, “She’ll make time for me to talk to Yuu-san.”
“En-chan?”
“Uh, I mean Enka. I call her ‘En-chan’.”
Then enka interjects.
“Oh yeah, so in order for Meika and Isshiki to get to know each other better, I thought I’d start by getting the three of us to get to know each other better.”
I glared at Enka.
“Isn’t it a little forceful method for deepening friendship?”
But she was undaunted.
“There’s nothing pushy about it, is there? I just sent an email to Isshiki-san. Whether you come or not is up to you.”
This girl, how dare she?
“Let not worry about small things and have fun together first. What do you sing, Isshiki-san?”
Saying this, Enka handed me the remote control.
I had no choice but to wait and see what she wanted to do.
I entered some popular songs at random.
Then, Flame-ka changed the order of the song I had entered and put it at the top of the list.
“Here you go!”
Then she handed me the microphone.
I had no choice but to sing along.
The score was 88, as if the scoring function had been set.
“Wow, you’re pretty good at it. You’ve got a rather boyish voice, don’t you?”
Enka said so, to which Meika responded.
“Yu-san is a good singer, because the last time we went to karaoke together, he scored some 90.”
“What, you’ve been on a karaoke date with Isshiki-san before?”
“No, it’s not. It’s just that when Meika was still in junior high school, me, Ishida and I once went there together with the three of us.”
When I explained this, Meika-chan added a little sadly, “That’s right.
“Is that so? By the way, Isshiki-san, have you ever gone to karaoke date with my sister?”
Ugh, I was momentarily stuck for an answer.
‘No, not yet. It hasn’t been that long since we started dating, and you were in Hawaii with your family during winter break, right? we didn’t have time for that.”
“Hmmm, really?”
Flameka looked at me as if I were a cat stalking its prey.
“Not even a kiss, not even a karaoke date, that’s less than friends. How can you say you are in a relationship with someone like that?”
Then she stands up, grabbing his own glass.
“Meika, you don’t have to hold back at all! As you can see, Isshiki-san and my sister are still at this level of relationship. You can go ahead and do it, no problem!”
“En, I didn’t mean it!”
But Enka left the room without hearing Meika’s words.
She probably went to get a drink.
When they were alone, Meika said with a sigh.
“I’m sorry. I think I gave Yuu-san some trouble. …..”
“No, this is not your fault.”
All I can say is that I was an idiot.
“En-chan said to me today, ‘You should talk to Yuu-san first.”
Then Meika looked at me curiously.
“By the way, how do you know En-chan? Is it because of your relationship with senior Touko?”
I was at a loss for a reply.
I couldn’t possibly say, “I fell for a beauty trick.
“Hmm, well, something like that? But still, I didn’t know that Meika-chan is friends with “Touko-senpai’s sister. If that’s the case, it would be nice to hear a word from Ishida.”
I said what I had been wondering.
I had never heard anything like this from Ishida before.
“I didn’t tell my brother about my friendships. Even if I knew En-chan’s full name, I wouldn’t go out of my way to tell him. And it wasn’t until much later that I found out that En-chan is a sister of Touko-senpai.”
Just then Enka returned with a drinks in her hand.
“Oh, you two are talking to each other, aren’t you? Great, great.”
She says this as if he is making fun of me.
“I didn’t say anything strange!”
In response to Meika-chan’s reddened rebuttal
“It’s okay, it’s okay. The three of us can have fun together!”
She picked up the remote control as she said this and selected the next song she was going to sing.
We had been at the karaoke bar for about two hours.
I proposed in advance that we leave at eight o’clock.
I thought Flameka would be complaining, but she agreed surprisingly easily.
We were all minors to begin with, so we couldn’t stay too late.
While we were waiting for the train at Funabashi station, Enka said to me as if she had come up with it.
“Tomorrow, you two should meet alone, Just Meika and Isshiki-san!”
“What?”
Both Me and Meika-chan raise our voices almost simultaneously.
“If they go bye-bye on this, won’t the two of them never see each other again for the time being? Then it’s no different than before. We got to know each other today, so we should be more proactive from now on!”
……Totally, She doesn’t think about people’s convenience at all. ……
But wouldn’t it hurt Meika-chan to deny it in one word here?
I turned my gaze to Meika and she looked at me as if waiting for my response.
…I can’t deny this one. ……
I let out a sigh.
“It’s almost time for the second semester of college exams. So now I have to study for the exams. I don’t have time for that.”
“That’s right. ……”
Meika said so sadly.
Then, Enka directs an angry tone at me.
“I mean, it’s not like you’re studying all day long before an exam, right? You even have time to take a break-up. And you say you can’t even take little time off?”
Meika-chan looks at Enka in surprise.
“Today is not yet Wednesday. You have time to study on Saturday and Sunday, right? But it’s not fair to say you can’t see her because you’re studying for exams!”
“Wait, En-chan!”
Meika rushed to stop her, but she did not listen.
“I’m not asking you to make time for hours. Just an hour after school is fine. You don’t even have that kind of time? That’s why your girlfriend cheats on you!”
“En, stop it!”
For a moment, an awkward atmosphere passes between the two of us.
I felt uncomfortable in that atmosphere.
“I understand. Let’s have tea for an hour or so after college if you want. I guess Funabashi is a good place. I don’t know what time my class finishes, so I’ll call you tomorrow, okay?”
Meika-chan looked surprised for a moment, but then said, “Uh-huh. I’m sorry, thank you,” she said in a small voice.
As expected, Enka also looked a little batty.
Soon after, the Sobu line arrived.
All three of us boarded the train in silence.
Two stops later, it was time for me to get off at Makuhari station.