Chapter 15.1: Me and Her

Chapter 15.1: Me and Her

It was a strange sensation. I was sleeping, yet somehow I was vividly conscious. Even so, I could not sense my body.

It was as though I was watching a filmI was looking at myself.

There I was, back in high school, with short hair that hadnt been dyed yet, wearing dull glasses. Dressed in the uniform of the baseball club, I was alone on the bench, tending to the ball.

The sports ground was vacant and dark. Nearly all the members of the club have already left.

Right.

Back then, the majority of the guys were either getting girlfriends in between club activities or skipping club activities to attend live concerts, whereas I was called a baseball fool by both myself and others since I was running around without exhibiting any interest in events such as karaoke or blind dates.

Even after my friends had made their way home, I remained on the field for as long as time allowed. I wasnt forcing myself to stick around and demonstrate that I was a striver.

For me, this time after club activities was the most blissful and settling time of the day.

Cleaning the used balls by removing all the mud, scrubbing them, and washing them up was practically a daily routine for me. Many times I was told that it was a meaningless thing to do since tomorrow they would be equally muddy again and that I should let the freshmen do it. As a pitcher, I wanted to throw a clean pitch yeah, I had the obstinacy to not concede to others from that time on.

Amidst the silence, I carefully cleaned up the balls on the darkened ground. After cleaning everything up and tidying up lightly, I would pitch the ball against the wall, and when satisfied, I would go home, which was my customary routine.

However that day did not end the same way as usual.

Arent you leaving yet? Senior.

A voice called out to me from behind, and I turned around with a startle.

Wrong, not there. It was higher up.

Right behind the bench was the wire fence, which I slowly followed with my eyes.

What!?Translator: MadHatter

It was inevitable that I rose from the bench with a yell.

After all, the guy who had called out to me was still standing on the other side of the fence. Like a huge bug, her legs and hands were hooked to the wire fence and she was looking down at me from a fairly high vantage point and smiling.

With hair so long it looked as if it might get tangled in the wire fence, she was sporting red-rimmed glasses that reflected the lights on the ground. Her bangs were neatly trimmed like a kokeshi doll, and she donned a navy blue sailor suit with a knee-length skirt.

A quiet girl who seemed like she would be quietly reading a paperback book during recess. Contrary to her appearance, though, she was looking at me while climbing up on the fence. Perhaps it was the gap between her appearance and her behavior that made me perceive her as a weirdo from this moment on.

After a few seconds of silence, I glared at her who appeared out of the blue and suddenly called out to me.

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Even if it was a girl, I wasnt going to be sociable with her. If anything, I was not good at dealing with girls.

Without a group, they couldnt manage anything and their attitudes varied depending on who they were with. I was not like that from the beginning but my prejudice against girls was at its peak at that time.

Something exploded with a bang as I repeated it in my brain. All the blood in my body pooled on my face at once.

You! What are you suddenly!?

This was the first time I had ever been told something like this but I instantly grasped the meaning.

I knew that it was a confession.

My ridiculously loud voice reverberated through the sports ground. I turned around with such speed that it seemed as if her glasses were going to be blown off. Just as I had thought, I was looking like an idiot, and Hyuga dropped the second bombshell remark on me right then and there.

Its a lie.

No matter how many times I thought back on it, this still irked me.

Did you believe it?

Accompanied by the sound of a cell phone button, that guy chuckled. At that moment, my mind cooled down at once and realization set in that I had been teased by the junior student one year younger than me. With my face bright red all over from unprecedented humiliation, I kicked off the bench, approached the fence, and shook it violently with all my might.

Youuuuuuuu!! Get down here, you monkey woman! Ill crush you!!

I wont come down as I dont want to be crushed.

Shut up! Delete that damn photo right now!!

Its not a photo, its a video.

Screw you! You amateur!!

Hearing my mad voice, she burst into a fit of hysterical laughter as she put her phone in her pocket, maneuvered dexterously off the fence, and faced me over the fence.

Youre interesting, senior. Can I come hang out here again?

Dont you ever come back! Dont disturb me! Forget it, just delete the video! You have bad taste, you bastard!!

I get it, Ill be back.

She took off running, disregarding all my words as she howled like a beast through the wire fence.

This was the first meeting between me and Hyuga, my first memory of her.

The first time I fell for Hyugas mischievous prank.

The day of my bizarre relationship with a strange junior ensued.

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