Chapter 277: Time when Sendai-san is not around — 277

Chapter 277: Time when Sendai-san is not around — 277

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「Where are we going?」

Sendai-san says, placing her chopsticks on a tortoiseshell cat chopstick rest.

I bite into a piece of toast with butter and jam for breakfast, cursing myself from a few days ago. Then, after chewing and swallowing it slowly, I asked without looking at Sendai-san.

「Where, you mean?」

「We are going out today, right?」

A bouncy voice returns questions to questions, but I can’t answer back.

I was out of my mind the other day.

I’m not the kind of person who would turn to Sendai-san and say, “I want to go somewhere with you” on Sunday. It’s just that being home alone all the time has made some part of me go crazy and I’ve said some crazy things. If I could, I would swallow the words of that day like toast and pretend they never happened, but I can’t swallow the words out of my mouth and they won’t disappear into my stomach.

「Is there anywhere you want to go, Miyagi?」

Sendai-san will not allow us to just sit back and let it slide.

「...None.」

I had no choice but to answer shortly and bite into a piece of toast.

If it was Maika, I could name a number of places I would like to go. But with Sendai-san as my partner, I can’t think of any places I want to go.

「Does that mean I get to decide?」

I looked at Sendai-san’s face, who was not angry with me for simpering, and she smiled across the table at me as she ate half a slice of toast with butter and jam and half a salad.

「Wherever you want to go is fine, Sendai-san.」

I throw her the whole schedule for the day.

「Let’s see. What about the zoo or the aquarium?」

「Why would you want to go to a place like that?」

「If we’re going out in the morning, wouldn’t it be nice to be somewhere reasonable? Also, you promised you’d go with me.」

「I didn’t say I’d go in the morning, and I don’t want to go today.」

「Then we don’t have to go to the zoo and aquarium. Can we go out at noon?」

「...I guess, we’re not going anywhere.」

I pull back the right to make the schedule I would have given her and tell her what I want to do.

It doesn’t matter if it’s morning or afternoon. I don’t have a part-time job to monopolize my property, and I won’t be alone here today. So I think I should just stay home.

If I stay here, I can touch my property when I want to.

Besides, as I said myself, I can’t think of a substitute for a zoo or an aquarium, nor can I think of a place that Sendai-san would want to visit.

「Miyagi, you said we’re going away on my decision, so I should take responsibility.」

Sendai-san rejects my suggestion and drinks orange juice.

「Then at least go shopping with me.」

Sendai-san smiles at me, having decided my schedule on her own.

「It’s not fair to put it out there after the fact.」

「If I told you first, you wouldn’t leave the house, Miyagi.」

There is no mistaking her words.

But if I say,「Absolutely not,」Sendai-san complies. She pretends that she didn’t have plans that were about to be made and spends time with me in this house. I know she is like that, but it is hard to say today.

「...We’ll be back as soon as we get our manicure.」

I’m the one who invited her.

It’s not mature to complain about an incidental shopping trip.

「That’s fine.」

Sendai-san chuckles.

She is in a good mood today.

It’s not often that Sendai-san is in a bad mood, but today she is in such a good mood that it makes me feel bad.

I empty my plate of salad and pour the orange liquid into my stomach. I put my glass on the table and looked across to see Sendai-san emptying his plate as well.

「Miyagi.」

I hear a brighter voice than before, and I have a bad feeling about it. It’s still before we go out, and I don’t think anything that would make her mood even better would be bad for me.

「I’ll go to Miyagi’s room when I’m done cleaning this up.」

「...Why?」

I can predict what is about to happen, but I’m going to ask just in case.

「To pick out clothes and do makeup on you, Miyagi」

「I don’t want to.」

「It’s alright.」

「It’s not alright. We’re just going to eat dinner and do a little shopping, nothing too much.」

Whenever there is something wrong with Sendai-san, she immediately tries to put on makeup or choose clothes. She should leave her dressing up to herself, but she tries to do something for me, too.

It’s a hassle.

But Sendai-san at a time like this will not give up.

It is really troublesome.

Why did I say that we should go out together on Sunday?

「We’re going out, so be a grown-up and get dressed and made up.」

Sure enough, Sendai-san smiles as if she is in a good mood.

I wish the day I said, “I want to go somewhere with you,” had been thrown into the cauldrons of hell to be stewed and melted.

I look at Sendai-san.

She was still in a good mood and was drinking orange juice with a delicious taste.