CH 14

Chapter 14: Girls Making Their College Debuts Are Usually Cute

TL: Akabane

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On Monday morning, I met Yuzuriha again on the same train on my way to school. Her hairstyle had changed a little. Her bangs were neatly styled, and the back of her hair, which used to be limp, was also neatly styled. Her glasses had been changed to stylish frames with thin lenses. She was wearing a lovely one-piece dress and a cardigan with a gorgeous design. Overall, she was lovely and beautiful. There was no sense of clutter at all.

"Yuzuriha, did you cut your hair?"

Unlike before, she had become a sparkling girl who gives off a glamorous impression.

"Oh, can you tell? Actually, I went to Harajuku with Ayashiro yesterday! She introduced me to a hair salon and helped me find clothes that would fit me at a vintage clothing store. Ayashiro is really a kind and wonderful person!"

Seriously, she takes good care of her. Contrary to her mine-type appearance, she is a woman who piles on the gap moe one after another. A terrible girl!

"That's great! Yup. It's certainly really glamorous. Yeah, yeah. But be careful. The guys in the department will definitely be looking at you."

With this girl in the department, all the guys must be thinking, "She's a plain heroine that only I know that she is beautiful!" but it doesn't develop that way, like in a novel. In fact, on Saturday, she was almost eaten by a guy who was a charlatan. The reality is really unreasonable.

"Don't worry. As long as I have this picture that Ayashiro gave me!"

She shows me the picture she took at the billiard hall. Looking at it as objectively as possible with a bare face, it was a picture that only looked like a tough guy with a woman in his arms.

"Please don't just call yourself a second! Please! Please just call me as your friend! Please!"

"Eh? What should I do? I'm having a hard time, aren't I? Hmmm..."

There was no more negativity in Yuzuriha's bright smile like a mischievous child. It was a wonderful smile. We then arrived at Komaba Station, ducked through the ticket gates, and walked out of the station. The Komaba campus is right in front of the station, but I noticed that the number one or two people I didn't want to run into were at the lottery ticket booth in front of the station.

"Oh, I missed again!"

My wife had bought a scratch lottery ticket and had drawn the wrong one. She enjoyed buying raffles. Well, after a while after we started dating, she stopped buying them once and for all for some reason.

"Haha! Riri really has bad luck with raffles, doesn't she? Look at that! I won two thousand yen!"

"Eee, that's not fair! Oh my god! You always win the raffle, Chuso! Is it possible that you're sucking my luck?"

"No, that's not true. So let's use this money to go to that expensive cafeteria today! I'll treat you."

"Yay! I've always wanted to go there. I'm looking forward to it. Hey, Tokiwa? Hey!"

I was walking to the campus, sneaking past, when my wife noticed me. My wife greeted me cheerfully, but Hagiri, her intermarried childhood friend, just twisted his eyebrows grimly. I just bailed for now and walked straight to the campus with Yuzuriha.

"Oh, wait a minute!"

As soon as we entered the campus, my wife caught up with me. So I reflexively stopped. Oh, I'm an ATM in the name of married life, can't I disobey my wife's orders? I hate ingrained habits. And since Hagiri also followed behind my wife as a set, my hatred increased not only twice, but about twice as much as squared.

"What?"

My wife is dressed glamorously today. She was wearing a brightly colored knit shirt and a flared skirt, an Anna-style neat bitch coordinate. The well-shaped big tits that stood out in the knit shirt were very destructive. A virgin would have been killed instantly.

"No, not what! Just greet me normally! It's so sad when you just walk by!"

My wife is angry. This is her face when she is not yet fatally angry. Specifically, the look she makes when I forget to take out the trash. After that, it's annoying. It's a tingle and a jam. I mean, the other day, she did her best to reject me, but she started talking to me again. She still has the memory of a bird. How she got into our university is too much of a mystery.

"Hey, hey, Tokiwa, are you shy? But in spite of that, you are always with beautiful girls, aren't you?"

My wife is looking at Yuzuriha next to me with interest.

"You're a very pretty girl! My name is Ririse Igarashi! I'm in the same architecture department as Tokiwa! What department are you in?"

My wife introduces herself to Yuzuriha with a big smile on her face in a very familiar manner. She always steps into other people's bosom. Yuzuriha gets a little freaked out and hides behind me. She squeezes the hem of my jacket. The person in the shadows is afraid of the light of the bright person. Because they are afraid of something. But Yuzuriha gathered her courage and spoke up.

"I'm Momiji Yuzuriha from the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science..."

That's great progress! She introduced herself! I want to give her a big hug for her effort!

"So you're in the math department. That's great! You're so smart! I hated math so much, so I respect you for that! I don't even know what extremes are! Haha!"

But that was as far as I got. Yuzuriha's eyes were rolling back and forth. She probably didn't know how to respond. That's probably why, for some reason, Yuzuriha took out her phone.

"It's me! I'm the second!"

She showed the example photo to my wife. My wife looked at the picture, rolled her eyes and tilted her head. And Hagiri seemed surprised.

"Second...? A baseball? If this girl is second, is Tokiwa in the picture with her a first? Pitcher? Catcher?"

My wife didn't seem to know what second meant. I guess it's not surprising that people nowadays don't know.

"You can do a search later on what second means.... That's a picture I took on Saturday to remember. We were playing billiards. That Ayashiro was there too. Yuzuriha is my new friend."

Why am I explaining this in such an excusable way? I shouldn't care what my wife thinks of me!

"Billiards! Wow, that sounds fun! Next time you play, invite me too!"

"Whenever you get a chance."

With the negative grammar, no opportunity ever comes along. Besides, I don't want to play billiards with my wife because sometimes she gets excited and tries to play a different ball and fails, and tears up the carpet with her cue.

"I'm looking forward to it! Uh-huh."

"Come on, Riri! I told you! You shouldn't have anything to do with him!"

Hagiri, who had been silent for a long time, finally interrupts me. He glares at me a little.

"You are a shrewd person after all. I never thought that you had made a pipe with Momiji Yuzuriha of the math department!"

"Huh? What? A pipe?"

What is this guy talking about? I tilted my head. Yuzuriha also tilted her head curiously.

"How dare you interfere with Riri's future chances while you yourself have established a connection with Momiji! Why don't you have some shame?"

"I still don't know what you're talking about. I have no idea. I don't understand as much as Fermat's Last Theorem."

And no matter how much space he had to complain to the interloper, he couldn't talk enough.

"Kanata! Fermat's Last Theorem has already been proven!"

"Eh? Really? The math department is awesome!"

Thanks to Yuzuriha's tsukkomi, I became one wiser.

"You seem to be fooling Momiji quite well. How can you get along with people while hiding your vile ambitions? You really are not a good person."

Hagiri looks at me with so much contempt. I thought you're the one who deserves contempt.

"But I don't understand why?"

I was getting annoyed too. That's when my wife opened her mouth.

"Hey, Chusho. Is Momiji famous? I remember you showed me a picture of Momiji at the entrance ceremony. You told me to say hello to her when I find her."

The day of the entrance ceremony. This guy had formed a group. That group is still alive today. In fact, it seems to be gaining more and more power among the first-year students. Some people even call it the "student council."

"Yes. Momiji is a celebrity in some fields. Have you ever heard of electronic currency?"

"What's that? You mean the money that is charged to the magnetic card of a commuter pass?"

Come to think of it, at that time, electronic currency was not yet famous among the general public. Would it be a fortune if I bought one now?

"No. I'm talking about a new currency system based on P2P type blockchain technology."

"P2P? A gaming machine?"

My wife wasn't particularly interested in electronic currency, even when it became famous. Or rather, surprisingly, she was not the type to get attached to money itself. From the very beginning, she was the type to split a date with me. She was the type to split the bill right down to the penny level, which was annoying to me. She also didn't want expensive gifts. But all of her ex-boyfriends had higher incomes than me. She seems to like men who can make a lot of money.

"That's why you're different. I'll explain it to you next time! Anyway, Momiji is awesome. Mining is necessary to obtain electronic currency. But it requires an enormous amount of computing power. The electricity bill for the computer is ridiculous. The amount of electricity used also has a negative impact on global warming. Momiji is a genius hacker who developed an algorithm that compresses the amount of calculation by 3% and released it to the world free of charge! She is a wonderful person who has contributed to the world!"

I was not just a little surprised, but super surprised. I don't think that Yuzuriha was an extraordinary human resource.