CH 41

Supporting Highschool Student Services.

Weekdays quickly passed and it is now the weekend. Today’s Saturday, the day I promised to go to the aquarium with Suzuka.

The aquarium is located in the neighboring town so we would never arrive on time on foot, that’s why we are taking a bus there today.

……that being said, right now I am at the place I promised to meet up with Suzuka, the bus terminal where the private bus from the aquarium should stop at……..but there is a problem……………….

“I’ve done it again……..I’m an hour early……… what should I do now……”

Like last time, I came earlier than the promised time again. It’s not even double digits in the morning yet so the bookstore and supermarket are still closed. I have nothing to kill time with.

“Hmm…..well, let’s take this chance to make an SNS account.”

[TLN: SNS is Japan’s terms for social media, ie: Twitter, Facebook.]

We are going to the aquarium today so we will be taking a lot of pictures. It’s a good opportunity to have an account now.

Suzuka also told me that she created an account as Asuka and posted pictures there too. She said that she only posted the photo she took but it’s probably not that simple.

Still, I am interested in it for some time now so let’s make one of my own.

“Hmm, Hiura——not I can’t use that name. Let’s go with Kamishiro Kousei, I have to put in either my email or phone number huh. Let’s go with my number then.”

After I entered the verification code they sent me, the registration was completed. It was unexpectedly easy.

“Let’s see? Choose your favorite genres to follow…….? And they already checked all the boxes for me!…….argh, I have to uncheck all of them now……….”

“So, my birthday is on Christmas Eve so it’s December 24th……….Nn? There’s a privacy setting huh. I see, I can keep the year private.”

I finally arrived at the screen that I see in talk shows. I entered a lot of information but it seems that there’s still more that I have to enter.

“Icon image? Eh, shouldn’t I just put my face here? There’s the privacy to consider too……alright, let’s get this done later. Home? This one…..I guess I will leave it for later too. The rest is the profile huh?”

I open the profile and press the edit button.

“Well, my job is a model. The agency name……it’s alright to put it here right? Alright! Let’s make my first post……..Nn–, I guess this will do.”

I made my first post on SNS. A simple sentence. Even so, despite this being my newly registered account with no followers, several notifications immediately popped up.

“Oh! That was fast? Let’s see…….Nn?”

When I tried to check the notifications, I noticed a duo of nervous high school girls approached me.

“Ah, Uhh! Are you Kamishiro Kousei-san!?”

“No, you’ve g—–Yes, I am.”

“As I thought!”

I almost gave my usual answer but I reiterated because I remembered that I am going to spend my time as Kamishiro Kousei with Suzuka today.

It’s rare that someone came up to talk with me like this and since they seem like they are my fans, it should be nice to interact with them once in a while.

“K, Kousei-san, what are you doing here today!?”

“I am going to the aquarium with Suz—-with a colleague from my agency today and promised to meet up here. We won free tickets though…….also, it seems that I arrived a little too early………”

‘Ahaha’, I ended the sentence with a laugh. The same thing might happen tomorrow so it’s not really a laughing matter though.

“Is that so……! A, Umm! Can I take a picture with you!?”

“M, m, M, me too! If it is all right to take a picture, may I take it with you too! I can pay for it too! Will 10,000 yen be enough!?”

Eh, these two are getting funny……..it’s like their vocabulary just collapsed due to the pressure from talking to someone–………….wait, I am pressuring them!?

“U, Uhh, I’m sorry for our rudeness!”

“AWAWAWAWAWA.”

This is bad, they were so funny so I was trying to suppress my laughter but they thought I was angry at them. I have to clear that up.

“Hahaha. You two were funny so I was stopping myself from laughing you see. You can take pictures with me, no problems you know. Should we do a group picture? Or do you two want to take it one by one?”

“Eh, Ah, w, we can take turns!? Is it okay if we take it with our smartphone!?”

“Yeah, it’s okay. Then you can have your friend take it for your right?”

“Ye, Yes! Please leave it to me……Kyah!”

When I handed the phone to the other girl, she dropped it for some reason. She went ‘Kyah’ too, maybe there’s a bug huh.

“Hey! That’s mine alright! It’s not broken, right? Wait, what happened to you all of a sudden!”

“H, H, Ha, Hand…..! We touched!”

“I, It can’t be helped then……I will forgive you because it’s not broken okay!”

Nn? She dropped it because our hands touched?…..Innocent! She’s so pure! I’m ashamed of touching her now…..! Wait, and you let it pass because of that! Are you both that pure!?

While retorting so in my mind, my face was always smiling. My smile right now is as nice as the smiley emoji.

“Pl,Ppp, Please take care of me!”

Ah, she stuttered. Somehow, this has gotten really fun though…..? Now I want to play a prank on them.

“Eh? Aren’t you a little farther than your friend just now? It’s okay to stand a little closer you know?”

“Eh? Ah, U, AWAWAWAWAWA.”

Due to the small remains of my mob heart, I pulled on her bag and got her closer to me. If it was those from the top caste then they might have pulled her hand but I don’t have the heart to do that.

Mine is a chicken heart. It’s not fragile like a glass heart or easily crumbled like tofu but it can still short circuit when I act like a player.

“Okay, I’m taking it! 3, 2, 1, Cheese! Thank you very much!”

“No , it’s alright, I have to do this much when a fan calls out to me right.”

“I’m so excited to meet the real Kamishiro Kousei!”

“M, Me too. I’ve never thought that I would be able to meet the real person……!”

Hmm, these girls sure say some funny things.

“You talked like there’s a fake of me out there.”

“Yes, about that….since you do not have an SNS account, you might not know it but. Recently there has been a lot of fake Kamishiro Kousei on SNS…….”

“Once you became popular, a lot of troublesome impersonators popped up all over the net………In fact, there were as many of your fakes as those that claim they came from the future! Nowadays, when such a fake shows up…..there’s a lot of people that immediately flame them you know.”

“Eh”

Eh?