Volume 1 - CH 2.6

Two days later.

\”Touma-kun, can we talk now?\”

Before the morning homeroom would start.

While I was fiddling with my smartphone alone in the classroom, Shirasawa-san called out to me.

\”Ah, yeah.\”

Shirasawa-san and I went out to the corridor, proceeded up the stairs leading to the roof, and stopped right in front of the door that separated the rooftop.

The fact that she purposely brought me to such a deserted place, she must want to discuss something secretive.

On top of that, Shirasawa-san has a serious face. It doesn\’t seem to be small talk.

What was she going to talk about? 

Don\’t tell me, did she find out about my relationship with Kohaku…

No, no. 

I\’m extremely careful regarding that. 

It\’s been less than a week since I met Kohaku again, so there\’s no way I\’d find out.

\”So, what did you want to talk about?\”

\”Actually, onee-chan has been acting strange lately.\”

When I knew that the topic of discussion that was brought up was about Kohaku, I got taken aback.

While pretending to be calm so as not to get discovered. I saw the change in her expression and asked back.

\”Shirasawa-sensei acting strange? Did she catch a cold? If so, why not take her to Akamine-sensei instead of asking me — or perhaps take her to the hospital?\”

\”No. That\’s not what I am trying to say … Well, since you\’re a boy, maybe you won\’t understand this expression… Oneechan, you see, she has the face of a maiden in love.\”

[TL note: here expression means the way of speaking]

Eh, heh, now I see. 

So that means — I\’m totally being seen as someone suspicious!

What should I do… 

I was being extremely careful so as not to be found out. Still, I didn\’t expect her to become suspicious after watching Kohaku\’s change in expression…

But we–well, I think we got lucky with this.

Thanks to you, we can take measures.

You mistook the person you should talk to, Shirasawa-san!

I\’m sorry for your worry, Shirasawa-san. But I\’ll be guiding you to think that it was all your misunderstanding to begin with!

\”Hee, did she have such a face? I didn\’t even notice! Isn\’t that just your misunderstanding?\”

\”It cannot be a misunderstanding. Onee-chan, she has the exact same face as she had before.\”

\”Huh? Same face? Does that mean Shirasawa-sensei had a boyfriend in the past? have you seen him?\”

I ask while stopping the cold sweat with enthusiasm. 

\”I\’ve never seen him. However, there is no doubt that Onee-chan had a boyfriend. All my classmates with a boyfriend made the same face as my sister then.\”

\”Now, I see. Shirasawa-san does look at people\’s faces carefully.\”

She seems suitable to get hired as a detective. 

\”Onee-chan began showing the face of a maiden in love from about Monday. But in terms of the range of action of onee-chan, the place of encounter is quite limited. If it\’s the time from when she moved in, I think she fell in love with a guy who lives in the same apartment as her.\”

From such a small amount of information, she is about to find out who her ex-boyfriend is!

Hmm. This is some trouble. To think that she was suspicious to this degree. If she has found out to this degree, it is probably impossible to make her believe it is a misunderstanding. Instead, if we try to take it to that route forcefully, she may become even more suspicious on the contrary … 

By raising the alert level by one more, let\’s have a word with Kohaku so that our relationship doesn\’t come to light.

\”T-I see. Sensei has someone she likes… Wait, why are you talking about that to me?\”

Don\’t tell me, are you already suspicious of me and devising a plan to trick me in…

\”I\’m worried about my sister because she has no eyes for men.\”

\”Is that so?\”

\”Yeah. The guy that Onee-chan dated before was just the worst. That b*****d, to make Onee-chan sad… if he ever shows up in front of me, I will punish him by cutting him into 100 pieces right at that sport.\”

That guy is right there in front of her, though…

Rather, Shirasawa-san, you definitely think that I was the one who dumped Kohaku in the first place, don\’t you?

I\’m actually on the side of being dumped, but…

Well, usually, the side that gets dumped is sad.

I guess it can\’t be helped for Shirasawa-san to misunderstand in this case.

\”So, in short, you\’re saying that Shirasawa-sensei might be getting deceived by some bad man, right?\”

\”That\’s what it is. So, if you see onee-chan bringing a man into her room, please let me know. I will find out whether that person is suitable for onee-chan not in the first place.

I see. 

So that was why you consulted with me, as someone who lives next door to Kohaku?

\”Okay. I\’ll tell you when I see someone like that.\”

\”Thanks a ton. Do you have your smartphone with you now?\”

\”Ah yeah. I have it.\”

I take out my smartphone and exchange contact information with Shirasawa-san.

All\’s good.

If I had the wallpaper of Kohaku in her apron dress, she would have beaten me into 100 pieces.

\”That\’s right. Don\’t tell anyone else about this. If you tell someone about it and it reaches my father\’s ears—the principal- he might really cut that person to death with a sword.\”

\”Eh!? He\’ll cut him to death!?\”

Me!? The principal!? With a sword in this day and age!?

\”Ah, I see. Since you\’re a transfer student, you don\’t know about it. During the teaching practice, a male teacher tried messing with my sister. So, when my father found out about it, he grabbed an imitation sword from the principal\’s office, went into the staff room, and did sorts of things to that teacher.\”

What sorts of things!? Don\’t skip those pieces of stuff! It\’s extremely important!

\”And after that, any teacher who might even think of messing with my onee-chan ceased to exist.\”

By ceased to exist, you don\’t mean… from this world!?

It\’s a pretty interesting episode but… damn scary, so it better not ask her about that.

All right. I just have to make sure that I am not found out as her ex-boyfriend!

\”This story will be a secret between Shirasawa-san and me.\”

Making a vow from the bottom of our hearts, we headed back to our classroom.

In the end, I couldn\’t concentrate in the class that day. 

As school ended, I quickly returned home and contacted Kohaku.

[I want to talk about an important topic related to our future. 

Call me when you\’re done with your work.]

Message sent.

When I changed into my loungewear, I heard an electronic sound. 

When I looked at my smartphone, I had already received a reply from Kohaku.

[Don\’t tell me, A Proposal!?]

[By an important discussion, I never meant that!]

[Sorry. Was it a surprise? ]

[As I am saying, it\’s different! ]

You\’re interpreting it too positively. 

Well, I\’m also responsible for writing in a slightly suggestive tone.

[What type of important discussion?]

[It\’s really important, so I\’ll discuss it after meeting with you in person. Do you have any plans after school today?]

In case Shirasawa-san might see her smartphone, it would be better not to keep it as a smartphone record. Well, we have already talked about \’propose,\’ I think it\’s already too late … However, it is still better to discuss this critical topic. So it would be better if we could meet and talk firsthand. 

Maybe she sensed some disturbing atmosphere from my writing, as I couldn\’t get any reply.

After a few minutes, a photo was sent along with the message.

\”Today, I want to do perverted stuff with Touma-kun.\”

It was a picture of her cleavage exposed from in between her bra. 

Even though I was looking at it from the screen, its softness somehow transmitted to me.

When I stared concentrated on those photos, a panchira photo came in this time.

[TL note: Panchira photo – Underpants photo]

The skirt was turned up, with her private part wholly exposed. Gawking at that dream-like photo, the region between the thighs and underpants, my heart pounding accelerates!

But there was no time to get h***y.