CH 39

Supporting High School Student feels Changed

The next day, after arriving at school an hour early, I started reading my book as usual.

“Morning Seiya………”

“Morning……..Nn? You aren’t looking too good today huh?”

“Really? Ah, I watched all the stuff that I accumulated during the exam so it might be because of that……”

“I see, rather than tired you are just sleepy huh. Well, do you best not to sleep in class alright?”

“It’s alright! I’m always sleeping in today’s class after all!”

Hmm, today’s class…….we only have lectures and no English class right. Wait.

“You are going to sleep because there’s no English class today!?”

“NAIVE! I’m sleeping even in English class! The only class I can’t sleep through is only Japanese Literature!”

“So you sleep in English class too!? Besides, you just can’t sleep in Japanese class because the teacher is very strict isn’t it!”

“I’m quite sensible, right? You don’t have to praise me so much…….”

“I’m not praising you alright!”

When we were having that pointless banter, the classroom became noisy. It seems that Eihashi-san has arrived.

“Good morning, Eihashi-san. Actually, I just changed my phone. The camera seems to be very good so can we take a picture together?”

“Good morning. If you want to take a good picture then I think it’s better to take a picture of a landscape you know.”

Certainly, a new smartphone was released last Saturday. The guys around Eihashi-san always came up with some strange excuse like that huh?

It seems like he was saying ‘No good huh…’ but at worst you might even get turned down hard you know?……Did he do that because he thought that she would be interested in the camera? Can’t he come up with something more interesting?

What’s this……somehow, I can’t say it well but this guy’s bad news. Did we have such a pushover in our class……? Nn? He just walked out the classroom. Don’t tell me he came from another class?”

“Good morning Reika! Look over here!”

“Good morning, Akir-cha—……Kyah!”

“HeHe, paparazzi’s shooting speed is amazing right! Looky here! I took a close-up picture of Reika but the view is still so wide! Apparently, this thing has a super-wide lens you see! Amazing right!”

Ichinose-san seems to have taken pictures of Eihashi-san who turned around to greet her.

“Mou, if you are going to take pictures then at least please don’t use the flash!……eh, did Akira-chan change your phone?”

“Correcto! Well～You see! Since my ranking on the test went up I was praised so much that I managed to get a new one! This one has one less button so I’m still getting used to it but It’s easy to unlock and the screen is big too you know!”

“Unn, I just changed mine last year so I will probably change to a new one next year……More importantly, please erase the earlier photos! You took it all of a sudden so I made all kinds of strange faces!”

“Ehh. they are all cute so it’s fine! No erasing!”

“No! If you don’t delete it then I will get angry you know!”

“Fufu. I might just send them all to the group you know!”

……..somehow, I got the feeling that Eihashi-san is being teased by Ichinose-san but she is now acting contrary to the image she has at school.

Before, even if Ichinose-san suddenly took pictures of her like that she would just reply with ‘Is that so’ or something along those lines but it doesn’t look like that at all now.

The people around were watching the situation unfolding and they were taken by surprise just like me. The scenes felt like it would be bad if you look but it is still funny to see.

Among people who blanked out by the situation, I took my smartphone up and…..Nn? A message?”

[Akira has sent a photo].

“Ah! I sent it!”

“Eh! Which group did you send it to!?”

“Wait wait! Hmm, Hiura-kun and Shiraki-kun’s group!”

Yup, that’s the picture. It was taken with a camera with improved image quality and wide lens so even though Eihashi-san didn’t look at the camera, she still looks cute.

Ah, she recalled the message. I couldn’t save it in time. Wait……is it just me or people are looking at me? Rather, I feel like this has happened to me just recently before.

“Hiura-kun, did you see it!?”

“Eh, I, I saw it.”

“So you saw it!?”

“When a photo suddenly arrived like that then you would look at it right! I think the fault lies with Ichinose-san for sending it you know!”

“C, Certainly, I would open the message too……”

I got an affirmation from Ichinose-san. That’s right, this is good. I have to double down on it.

“Pl, please forget about it!”

“Eh, but, I’ve already seen it. Besides, it wasn’t strange at all. You looked cute so it’s okay right!”

“～～～! Is this where you keep your memory! If I hit here will it disappear!?”

“Wait! Eihashi-san calm down! You are not making any sense right now! I’m not an old TV you know!”

She got heated up and the area around my desk is now a mess. Eihashi-san is trying to grab me and I don’t know about Ichinose-san but the people in our class are gathering around us.

By the way, I still haven’t found any thumbtack in my shoes or a wet rag on my chair yet but no one came up to talk to me either.

I wonder what my position in the class is right now. I don’t think that I am a mob anymore so am I something like Friend-A?

“Hey, you over there. I’m starting homeroom so get back to your seats okay.”

The teacher arrived and finally, the crowd dispersed. Well, I guess I will know how they plan to treat me soon.