CH 7

“I’m really …… tired ……”

“What’s wrong, Yuuri chan? You look more tired than usual”

School was over and I was leaving school with Yuuri-chan.

I, Kurase Nanami, was worried about my best friend who was sighing deeply and called out to her

“Well, that’s what happens when you sit next to a guy like that.

“guy like that? Could it be Ito-kun?”

Apparently, Yuuri-chan is not good with Ito-kun.

It is true that Yuuri-chan is not good at socializing with people other than me, but it is unusual for her to be so exhausted after meeting someone for the first time.

Rather than being tired from being attentive, she seemed rather tired from being hostile all the time.

It was similar to when a boy confessed his feelings to her and persistently pressed her.

That look of no mercy. That time when she cut down her opponent without any mercy, Yuuri-chan was so cool!

…..wait, not that kind of thing, I’m talking about whether or not something happened to Yuuri chan and Ito-kun.

Maybe Ito-kun forced himself on her? I don’t think he’s the kind of person who would do something like that.

Remembering what happened yesterday, my face gets a little hot.

“Remember I told you about the molestation this morning?'”

“Ah, yes! The tyrant who suddenly hugged you! I’m going to see him and I’m going to beat him to death!”

“That was him.”

“…… eh?”

I was so shocked that I was speechless.

Yuuri chan was molested by ……?

“That’s how it is. That’s why Nanami shouldn’t get close to that pervert!”

Ito-kun, who saved my life, is the one who …… molested Yuuri -chan?

So, after all, it’s my body that he wants!?

“Nanami, are you listening?”

“Ito-kun. Next time I see him, I’ll give him the iron fist!”

“Did you listen…..?”

“Hoee??”

I noticed that Yuuri-chan was looking at me with a dumbfounded look on her face.

As I tilted my head, Yuuri-chan continued.

“By the way, before I came back from the bathroom this morning, Nanami seemed to be talking with that guy, what did you two talk about?”

“Well, I was thanking him again for saving my life yesterday when I drowned!”

“Haa……? Was he the one you were talking about?”

“Yes, it was.”

When I nodded, Yuuri chan suddenly started to touch my body as if she was in a hurry.

“That guy didn’t do anything weird to you right?! Are you okay?!”

“Wait, it’s all right, Yuuri-chan! T-That’s……, s-stop …… ahahahaha!”

After that I was investigated everywhere and finally released from Yuuri chan.

“Haa….Haa…Mouuu, Yuuri chan! What if I can’t be a bride anymore!”

“Don’t worry. Then I’ll take you.”

“……Eh! That’s ……!”

“No, I’m just kidding.”

…… What a joke. I’m so surprised.

“Because Nanami is her onii chan’s right”

“N-No, I’m not!”

I have certainly had a crush on my cousin’s brother, but it was years ago that I liked him in the first place. We’re not that far apart in age, and I haven’t seen him in years, so I don’t really have those feelings for him.

“Well, but Ito-kun, yesterday, as far as I talked to him today, he was normal. …… He helped me out too.”

When I thought about it, I realized that Ito kun had nothing to do with the drowning in the river. There was no way Ito kun, whom I had never met before, could have known that I would jump in under those circumstances. That’s what he told me yesterday, and I agreed with him.

“Nanami is just being deceived. He’s just a pervert.”

“Hmmm..……”

I was not bothered when he helped me, and if anything, he made sure to tell me that my underwear was too flashy. He even lend me his jacket

It’s not that I’m doubting you, Yuuri chan, but it seems like the Ito-kun in my mind and the Ito-kun that Yuuri chan is referring to don’t seem to mesh.

This discomfort …… won’t clear up until it’s resolved!

“Well then, Yuuri chan! Let’s check with him!”

“What? What do you mean, check?”

“Why did he suddenly hug you? Maybe Yuuri-chan is just too cute for him to suppress that urge!”

“…… isn’t that called molestation?”

“Anyway, let’s go!””

“Wait, Nanami!?”

Then I took Yuuri chan with me and started looking for Ito-kun, who was probably on his way home.

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“He’s quite hard to find, isn’t he?”

“That’s not surprising, since we don’t know where he’s going”

I, Asagiri Yuuri, have been taken around by Nanami since then.

Nanami apparently wants to know why he molested me. Nanami was saved by him, so it might be natural for her to want to know.

“I’m sure it won’t make a difference.”

“Mouu Rinne chan. You still don’t know, do you?”

“No, I do. He is just a pervert.”

I answered without a pause. Then Nanami suddenly became silent.

“Nanami?”

Nanami apparently realized that I didn’t want to face that guy and apologized to me.

Nanami is quick to take action when she doesn’t agree with something. I’ve been pushed around by that, but I don’t mind it. I like being with Nanami more than anything else.

“Nanami is not at fault. It’s not the first time that Nanami has acted on the spur of the moment. It’s that pervert who’s to blame.”

“………… haha.”

Nanami laughed.

Then I realized

“Oh, by the way, this is the place.”

“Eh?”

“I was molested here yesterday.”

“Eh, Here?”

Nanami and I stopped. It was an intersection a little ways from the school.

It is one of the major highways in the area and there is moderate traffic. There was a lot of people around.

“What was it like?”

It was like a crime scene investigation.

“What it feels like….He stopped me and I thought he was picking on me, so I ignored him and he just grabbed my arm and held me like that. I’m pissed off again.”

“Well, well, …… that …… why did Ito-kun do that?”

“Well, you know. I don’t know what molested men think. But..What was it? I think it’s …… something about an accident. I think it was something about a yellow car. ……”

“Yellow Car ……”

Nanami wrinkles her brow and brings her hand to her mouth in a thoughtful gesture.

She looks like a detective or detective in a TV drama.

She is the daughter of a detective, after all. That’s how it should be.

“Ah, by the way! My dad said there was an accident here yesterday.”

“An accident?”

That reminds me of yesterday. After I left here to get away from that guy, I remember hearing a loud noise in the distance.

I wanted to get away from that place as soon as possible, so I didn’t care and went home. ……

“…… maybe Ito-kun saved you from that yellow car?”

“It was just a coincidence, right?”

Nanami also said something out of the blue. I respond reflexively.

But soon, my own words come back to me as a question.

─ ─ Is it really a coincidence?

N-no, it’s just a coincidence.

Yellow cars are everywhere. …… No, you don’t see many flashy cars like that in the countryside like this.

Maybe he informed me of that? But how?

The questions that I don’t understand keep popping into my head.

What if he didn’t call out to me?

If I hadn’t run away from that place, I would have been at that intersection ……

“!!!”

I trembled as I imagined that much.

“N-No way. ……?”

There is no way that would be possible. It had to be a coincidence. I knew it was impossible, but it didn’t make sense to me.

How did he know that a yellow car would pass by?

“I knew I could have done something to confirm it.”

“……! Then I’ll look around some more!”

A little later, I ran into him and we decided to go to a café.