Volume 1 - CH 23

A few hours later the five of us started playing together.

Ayaka and Chiharu started to say something like this.

“Hey, I’m hungry…”

“I’m hungry too!”

They both insisted on Yuzuru and Soichiro.

Without thinking, Yuzuru and Soichiro looked at each other.

“I see.”

“That’s quite a big deal.”

And Ayaka and Chiharu looked blatantly unhappy.

The two of them pulled on Arisa’s hand, who was feeling puzzled.

“Hey, Arisa. Arisa is also a bit peckish, right?”

“Don’t you want to eat something salty?”

” Eh? Ah well, I did move my body, so I can’t deny that sort of feeling. ……”

Arisa seemed to be unsure of Ayaka and Chiharu’s intentions.

But for the two of them, whether Arisa understood their intentions didn’t seem to matter that much.

They nodded their heads repeatedly, exaggeratedly, and dramatically.

“‘Right?”

“We’re hungry, aren’t we?”

Chira Chira. (TN: Glancing SFX)

And then they looked at Yuzuru and Soichiro.

“After all, one of the requirements for a gentleman is whether or not he is thoughtful.”

“I can understand that. If a girl is hungry, it’s nice to have someone who will buy her something without saying a word…… Arisa-san, you think so too, right?”

“Huh? No, no ……, but that’s something ……”

When Arisa finally understood Ayaka and Chiharu’s intentions, she shook her head and tried to deny them.

But the two of them interrupted her, saying in a loud and deliberate voice.

“Oh, a lovely childhood friend is hungry…”

“I wonder what he is doing when his fiancée seems to be hungry too.”

Yuzuru and Soichiro sighed.

First, Soichiro asked Ayaka and Chiharu.

“Ha~a, …… what should I get for you?”

“I’ll have yakisoba.”

“Takoyaki is good for me.”

As long as Soichiro was buying, Yuzuru had no choice but to accompany him.

Yuzuru asked his fiancée, who looked confused.

” What about you, Yukishiro?”

”Well, um, …… that ……”

“I’m also free anyway.”

When Yuzuru said that, Arisa put her hand on her white slender stomach.

Then she blushed slightly and her pink lips moved while squirming.

“I’ll have some French fries, please.”

“Okay.”

As Yuzuru and Soichiro turned on their heels ……

“Oh, and a drink, please!”

“We’ll be waiting over there!”

The voices of their childhood friends were heard from behind them.

Yuzuru and Soichiro looked at each other and shrugged their shoulders.

“Okay, there they go.”

“They left, didn’t they?”

After seeing off Yuzuru and Soichiro, Ayaka and Chiharu crowded Airisa.

“Eh well,……what’s this about?”

“Let’s have a little girl talk.”

“I want to ask you a lot of questions, Arisa-san.”

She was taken to a chair by the two of them and made to sit down.

Then Ayaka and Chiharu sat in a position that exactly sandwiched Airisa.

“So, Arisa-chan. …… What do you think of Yuzuru?”

Ayaka asked Arisa.

“What?” Arisa exclaimed in surprise at the sudden question.

“What do you mean……?”

“Do you like him as a man?”

Chiharu expressly asked Arisa.

At that Arisa’s skin became slightly flushed.

Then she shook her head from side to side.

“No way!…… I don’t have any romantic feelings for him.”

Ayaka and Chiharu tilted their heads in response to Arisa’s answer.

“Yuzuru, at school he’s a bit sloppy. But when he’s dressed up, I think he’s pretty cool.”

“I also think he has a great personality. But what is there to not be satisfied with him?”

Then again, Arisa shook her head from side to side.

“No, not that …… I think Takasegawa-san is a wonderful man, but ……”

Arisa lowered her eyes in embarrassment.

After a few moments of hesitation, she spoke up clearly.

“But even so, having romantic feelings for him is a different thing, isn’t it?.”

“…… Hmm.”

“I see.”

Even if Yuzuru is wonderful as a man……., it is not a reason enough to fall in love with him.

This was the case with Ayaka and Chiharu, who only had feelings for Yuzuru as a best friend of the opposite sex.

This is the reason why the two of them easily backed off.

….is not what happened. 

“So what would you do if Yuzuru told you that he likes you?”

“F~u~e?”

Arisa was caught off guard by the sudden question, which made her yelp in surprise.

Her pure white skin turned crimson.

“No. That’s…… that is not possible.”

“That’s just a hypothetical. Don’t you think you could try out a dating relationship?”

While Arisa shook her head repeatedly, Chiharu asked with a smirk on her face.

“Oh, no, I cannot be that disloyal! And besides, ……”

” “Besides?” “

Arisa gave a small sigh.

Then she said in a weak voice.

“There are much more suitable women for Takasegawa-san than me, ……. He’s such a fine man.”

Arisa laughed a little after saying that.

Rather than a laugh of joy, it was a self-mocking, self-deprecating laugh.

“Hmmm.”

“So that’s how it is?”

Ayaka and Chiharu seemed to be convinced of something.

While Arisa was being puzzled, they both smiled at her.

“I’m sorry for asking such a strange question. Arisa-chan.”

“I’m sorry if I made you feel uncomfortable”

“No, no… It’s okay…….You guys and Takasegawa-san are childhood friends, right? I think it’s natural to be curious.”

While they were talking about this, ……

“Hey, we’re back.”

“I bought some drinks, so you can choose what you want.”

Soichiro and Yuzuru came back.

The three girls greeted the two men with smiles on their faces, as if nothing had happened.