Chapter 13: 13

03-13-Even if you take a different path

On the way back from collecting, before nightfall, I was approached in the central square of Eschmerde.

“Oh, it’s Fujima.”

“huh……?”

She has short, fluffy flaxen hair and droopy eyes. She is a little tall for a girl, or about the same height as me. Her green robe reveals feminine lines and healthy legs. She is Kana Suzuhara of the Paripi Legion.

“See you.”

“See you later. …… Just a minute. You don’t say ‘See you’ to a classmate right after meeting them.”

What is this? What should I do then?

I was in a panic because of the sudden contact with the paripi. Suzuhara looked at me and said

“Hey, is that the summoned monster I’ve heard about?”

“What do you mean by rumors? Well, yes.”

“Heh. It’s a lot cuter than a Kobold, the monster. What’s it’s name?”

“Kobotaro.”

“Kobotaro?　Ha-ha-ha, isn’t he cute?”

Was she talking about the name “cute” or Kobotaro?

As if to say that it was both, Suzuhara circled around the puzzled Kobo-taro, observed him to the fullest, and then began to stroke his hairy head.

Kobo-taro set his [spear lvl. 1].

“Wait, wait, wait, calm down. Maybe she’ll be all right. Probably, probably.”

“Gah, gah. …….”

Kobo Tarou sets defense level 1.

I’m glad he’s not at [spear] anymore, but I’m wary of him, Kobotaro …….

I felt a little sorry for him, and I opened my mouth to break off Suzuhara’s stroking hand.

“Let’s see… ……. Are you alone?　That’s unusual.”

The unfamiliar effort of starting a conversation bore fruit, and Suzuhara let go of Kobotaro’s hand.

“Yeah. We started arguing again. I got tired of it and ran away.”

“Arguing?”

“ Shinya-kun and Naoto-kun. Except for living expenses, they exchange all the money they earn from hunting with real money. Even though they have to spend money on skills and equipment.”

Shinya-kun is handsome B, and Naoto-kun is handsome C, no, Naoto-kun is B? Is Shinya-kun C? …I still don’t even know their surnames.

“Well, if there are six of us, there shouldn’t be two of them like that. Isn’t there a lot of them in the class, too?”

Instead, I thought that everyone except myself and Ashima was constantly exchanging money. I was surprised when I heard Takagi say i regretted exchanging 1 silver at Starbucks yesterday.

“But, we’re a party of six. Four of us are desperate, but two of us are not like that… In fact, Reina’s MP is also used quite a bit to heal them… Fujima-kun?”

I don’t know.

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I have no idea what Suzuhara is worried about.

 “No, …… that’s not what’s bothering me. There’s nothing to argue about, is there?”

“What would you do, Fujima-kun?

“The only reason you’re in this situation is because you’re a six-person team. Why not reduce it to a four person team.”

Suzuhara widened her eyes wide as if she was a little surprised, and then dropped her gaze.

“I don’t think we can do that,……, we’re friends.”

“Friends are such a pain in the ass,…….”

I hate it from the bottom of my heart.

I don’t know, I’ve never tried to have a friend. ……

Is it really that troublesome to have friends?

When you and your partners don’t agree, you always have to go along with one of them, or if you’re friends, you have to be in the same party all the time.

“I don’t really know, but there are times when we disagree because we’re friends, right? 　At times like that, you don’t have to force yourself to fit in. It’s the same with school, but if you work in the future, you’ll have to fit in as much as you hate it. What are you going to do now by forcing yourself to match the other person? Rehearsal?”

“Umm… what do you mean?”

“No, I really don’t have any friends, and I only have knowledge of comic books. I don’t think it’s a matter of being ‘friends, so I can’t do it.’ I think a friend is someone who recognizes differences in values even when there are differences of opinion and provides mutual support even if you go down a different path. I don’t know…”

That’s how friends are supposed to be in comic books. So I don’t understand what it means to be friends just because you chit-chat, or just know each other’s contact information, or just go to karaoke together or tapi-tapi with each other.

Suzuhara opened her eyes in surprise and eventually smiled softly.

“Fujima-kun is …… kind of hot.”

“Of course not. ……”

“But it’s a little dark.”

“No shit.”

“Fu…Fu.”

After swaying her brown fluffy short hair a little, she looked a little troubled again,

“I wish I could say something like Fujima-kun.”

“scared?”

“Because that means, if they don’t want to change, we’ll go our separate ways, right?　I’m too scared to say such a thing.”

“Why are you so scared?”

However, Suzuhara naturally said so. Maybe I, who is a loner, can’t understand, but Suzuhara, who is a positive character and a paripi, and many others, probably understand.

I know one thing.

If friends are like what Suzuhara said,

Then I don’t need friends.

Above all, I don’t think I’m qualified to make friends.

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