CH 50

"Summer is almost here any time now~"

At the sudden mutter, Kouki and I looked at each other.

It is true that what is to come is the hot season of summer, but since it is only June, it is probably a little early to be thinking about it.

"What? Are there any events that you can't wait for?"

"Well yeah of course there is! If you were to talk about high school student summer, it means the sea right, the sea!"

"......Is that how it is?"

"Well, it might be a page of youth."

I replied so to Kouki.

There are various ways that high school students can spend their summer vacation, but certainly like Shinji said, going to the sea would also be the option number one, I think.

You will be able to see various things from a different perspective than when you were in junior high school, anyway, I guess......Well, to me, I don't particularly have an interest in it though.

"Not interested at all is what your face is saying I see, Taiga."

"Well yeah of course that's gonna be how it is. I'll say it now, but I probably won't leave Chisome alone and go myself to the sea or anything like that you know?"

"......I feel like saying, hear it this riajuu, but of course it'll become like that riight"

"If you have such a cute little sister and girlfriend like that, then of course riight."

"Umu"

So you do know it well, huh.

I'm also a man, so it's not that I'm not interested in women in swimsuits who visit the sea, but since there is an excessively attractive girl closest to me, it can't be helped.

"Aren't you curious about Shindou and Matou in their swimsuits?"

“...............”

To tell the truth, Misora's swimsuit is shown in the game.

Although there were basically no interactions (no outdoor events) with Yuika because there were a lot of indoor events with her, on the contrary, Misora has a lot of outdoor events, and going to the pool was part of that.

"How is it~? Onee-chan's swimsuit figure is......Ara♪"

A black bikini worn by a ladylike her......it had such destructive power that I can still remember it vividly.

A picture so drawn that one could end up easily imagining a spectacle of breasts that surpassed Chisome's and were jiggling and shaking......wonder how many times I have looked at that screenshot.

"Sure enough, as long as she was there, you're curious about that right."

"Of course right. I'm a man, you know?"

"Exactly that; you're a man Taiga."

It's not particularly something to feel frightened of either, but when I talk about things like this, I often feel Mashiro's gaze, but that didn't happen today.

While somehow feeling unfortunate that she wasn't by my side, however, I held a little feeling of relief that I don't know well; at that moment, when did she get here? I wonder, I heard the voice of a third party.

"What are you talking about?"

"-!?"

"Fua!?"

“Why!?”

The three of us men have already had an exaggerated reaction to that.

The voice was that of Misora, who had become no longer unusual to be by our side, and she was smiling and staring at us.

".......I'll ask just to be sure, why did you come here?"

"No, somehow I felt like my topic came up so. Was it wrong?"

After all, this girl might have an unusual power that I don't know about.

As expected, we were talking regarding you in your swimsuit. I can't stupidly honestly tell her about such things either, so when I say something that fits, Misora lets me have her believe it.

"So that's how it is isn't it. Fufu♪"

"What's wrong?"

"No, after all I......it seems I have come to understand it well♪"

"What about?"

Perhaps taking care not to let it be overheard by Shinji and Kouki, she put her face close to my ear and whispered.

"When Taiga-san thinks something of me, I have come to be able to feel it as if I could sensitively sense that. Fufuu, it is something of a with this vigour, I want to be able to understand Chisome-san and also Mashiro-san isn't it! Me, I'll devote myself to it♪"

"What in the world are you talking about?"

Lately, I've also lost my reserve towards Misora, but......it's a story of, if this kind of words and deeds continues, it'll become like that.

"So, what were you talking about?"

"......Ah~"

She should have been convinced earlier, but the fact that she asked me again is......it didn't seem like she was deceived at all, and she waited patiently for our words.

"......If that's how your state is, haven't you sensed even the contents?"

"No, no, no way, that sort of......"

"That's right you know, Taiga. If she knows that much, then she already has a psychic ability――"

"U~n"

Misora cutely put her finger to her lips, thought, and then continued her words like this.

"Summer is coming soon anyway, and you wonder what my swimsuit will look like...... Did you say something like that?"

It goes without saying that we all three bowed our heads together.

However, she doesn't look displeased at all and instead, consequently, ends up saying things like this.

"If it's going to be that way, then it seems like it would also be nice to go to the sea with everyone, isn't it. Rather, since summer vacation is long, it would be nice to go to my family's villa in the neighboring prefecture as well♪"

“Villa!?”

"......Amazing ain't that. As expected of a young lady (Ojou-sama)."

If it were the usual, they would jump at the suggestion of going to the beach together, but the reason the two were calm was because they didn't take it seriously, and above all, they were afraid of Misora, who saw through everything, right.

".......The break time is about to end you know, Misora."

"Ara, it is so isn't it. Then later on♪"

With a buoyant manner, she returned to her seat.

Staring at her back, I muttered in a whisper.

"......That Yuika relatively comes to look so unbelievably normal is strange, I tell ya."

Like Misora, Yuika also transforms into a complete otaku when she's in front of Chisome and Mashiro, but Yuika is still much better, for she stop herself approximately from letting her drool spill and from being lovestruck...... Misora, she is a terrifying girl alright, really.

Now then, as for my everyday life, I spend my time the whole time like this.

I sometimes get a jealous gaze because of the thing with Chisome, but I'm also blessed with friends so much that I don't mind it, so every day was really fun and fulfilling.

"Un?"

And that involved that guy too......Souma.

During the clean-up period hours just before the assembly at the end of the day, I ran into Souma when I was about to pour the dirty water in the washroom.

"Yo Taiga"

"......Ou"

Don't come and get me involved! I think so, but to tell the truth, compared to a while ago, the impression I held of Souma has changed.

"Lately, I've been very fulfilling you know? Kuku, after all, I was the protagonist. I was the chosen man."

"..............."

"The proof is that Shigure will always let me have her by my side. Always let me have her support me at any time. Akane, Misora, Yuika, even your precious Chisome; she's loving me so much that I don't even have time to call out to them, ya know?"

"..............."

"The feeling of being loved is a good thing right. Even when I'm alone at night, to the point it's seared into my brain, I can hear Shigure's voice...... Naa Taiga, your words are a miss I say. It's the second time, but I'll say it again――I am the protagonist."

"......Was that so really"

Naa Souma.......you, do you notice?

You're so dependent on Shigure that even from my point of view I could call it abnormal...... The realization of the thing about him being trained to the point where he could hear Shigure's voice as an auditory hallucination at night is.......he doesn't have it I think riight this guy is.

"Well, do your best."

"See you sore loser~"

What about sore loser you're saying this bastard.

Well, but......is it because I ended up somehow feeling pity for Souma's way of being, or is it exactly that, that it's better to be afraid of Shigure, who has made and changed Souma this much into a state of unconsciousness that he can't even be self-aware of it......Un, in any case, it's scary.

"......When it comes to this, as far as Akane is concerned, she's really normal isn't she."

Souma no longer meddles; we also don't get involved with her, and in the truest sense of the word, Akane, who is a senior (senpai) heroine, is like being released from her role in the game.

It just, I'm a little curious about the words that Chisome said.

"......She had a dark expression......huh"

That's why, though I don't know what it is, even if I mind it now, it couldn't be helped, huh.

From then on, it was after school, so while walking home after I met up with Chisome and Mashiro, and I took Chisome's hand and walked headed towards the town.

"Nii-san?"

"Today, let's have a little date in the town or something. I'm in the mood to play with you for a little while."

“Nii-san......Un♪”

It would also be nice to go home right away and flirt, but precisely because there are also things that can only be felt precisely because it's outside, Chisome nodded with a smile at my suggestion.

"Onii-sama, Chisome, go-go-"

Mashiro, who couldn't keep quiet when she heard that we were going to play together, pointed a finger at us and urged us on, and so, as if to follow such cute her like that, we started our date.

"Oh, come to think of it, today you know. I talked with Renjou-san a little."

"Hee. Well, I talked to Souma."

"How was it?"

"......Hasn't he been trained a lot like an animal that is"

"I suppose so, right. Even if I say it, it doesn't have any persuasiveness, but you see――that girl, she has considerably taken a full swing." [Tl note: She's pretty out of her element.]

......Aah~ Un, well yeah, also what I thought of as scary, I'm convinced now alright.