54-54. Reunion

Eventually I couldn't come up with a good idea from that and decided it was a waste of time to keep thinking about it when I didn't have an answer, so I resumed my research at the library.

'Nyah!　I found a great book!

Oh.

Really?

Hearing Lenya's words, we rushed over.

We broke the rule that we had to be quiet in the library, which is an absolute rule whether it's on another world or Earth, at that time.

That's when I was beginning to get so fed up with searching for books.

'Let me show you,'

Here you go.

Mek looks at the book that Raina found.

There it is.............

The World's Delicious Fish Book!

That's what it said in the title.

I've only eaten animal meat before, but fish sounds delicious too! I'm drooling just looking at it.

Well, it sure looks good... but it wasn't!

Uh-oh!

Meku's flippant comedy explodes.

'What does it matter now that you're talking about food, at all?

Do you have anything else on your mind?

Because it looks so good.

No excuses!

Tetsuya, help me!

Well this time it's Lenya's fault.

Yeah, yeah.

I was also expecting a bit of a cold shoulder, but for once, I was a bit cold.

This series of interactions ended up causing quite a bit of noise in the library.

I'm sorry. You should be a little quieter in the library.

I was warned by a girl who was reading a book nearby.

The girl was a girl with thick-rimmed glasses. Her bangs were held in place by a hair clip.

From the woman, Meku moved to a corner of the library after receiving the attention and began to lecture her, lowering her voice a bit.

I was curious about the girl I was paying attention to.

I felt like I'd seen her somewhere.

Her voice also sounded something familiar....

Is it my imagination?

It's rude to stare at him too much, and I can only glimpse at him, but I feel like I've seen him somewhere....

''Um, what's the matter?''

He seems to have caught me glancing at him and looks at me a little suspiciously.

'Oh, no, whatever,'

Oh, I see................Huh?

The girl with the glasses starts staring at my face.

'Ahhhh!'

And then suddenly he shouted loudly.

It was quite loud and the other users looked at me white.

The bespectacled girl came to her senses and, after lowering her head to the people around her as if she thought she was in trouble, she

Could you come up here for a minute?

What? Where is it?

Outside the library.

Well, that's okay.

I was curious about her, too, and I decided to take her up on the offer.

But what the hell is this? All of a sudden she screams and suddenly asks me to come outside.

Anyway, I walk out of the library with her.

Mek and Lenya noticed it too, and

What's that?

Who are you?

He chased after me, saying.

'Thank God you're alive...'

She said outside.

'What do you mean?'

I didn't quite understand what she meant, so I asked her, and she took off her glasses and removed her hair clip.

''........eh!''

Looking at her face, I was astonished.

She had the same face as the saintly girl I saw just yesterday, Rico, who had been transferred to another world just like me.

''Do you remember?''

Oh, I remember, but...

No, I didn't notice.

I was just wearing my glasses and changing my bangs.

I can't believe I didn't notice it because of that.......

''Um........you're the guy who came to the other world with me at that time, right......?

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm sure.

The moment I answered that, she began to burst into tears.

I'm in a terrible hurry.

''What's going on?

No, no, I'm sorry...

Rico wipes the tears away, but he can't wipe them away because they keep pouring in one after another without stopping.

I'm so happy and relieved........I thought it was my fault that you died....... I couldn't move then......... And I thought that if I had rejected those delinquents more strongly, maybe I wouldn't have had to get involved.......I'm sorry.......

No. There's nothing wrong with you. Don't apologize.

She continued to cry and apologize to me for a while afterwards.

I felt a little guilty for making her feel this way, too.

'Anyway, I'm totally alive and I'm enjoying this world quite a bit,'

Yes.

Finally, Rico stopped crying.

''Um, I'm Riko Satomi, or in this world's sense of the word, Riko Satomi. What's your name?

He asked me my name, and I told him my name was Tetsuya Takahashi.