Chapter 348 – An Unexpected Pursuit
“Animal Forest? Know.”
“How do you know?”
“What’s up? I know because I am famous.”
Lenka looks at me with her strange eyes as if asking something.
I asked, roughly passing her gaze.
“Have you tried it?”
“No.”
“Do you have a game console at home?”
“I’m at my uncle’s house. Maybe.”
Lenka’s uncles hear after a long time.
How are you? Suddenly, I want to ask how I am doing.
Even though it’s tough, it’s a fairly simple word.
“Are your uncles playing games too?”
“No. I must have bought it out of boredom about a year ago, played with it at her uncle’s house, and forgot to leave it when I came back?”
Looking at what I haven’t found so far, it seems that I’m not interested in the game at all.
She is like Lenka, who is only interested in things related to the anime side.
The game machine must have been made into a game, so I bought it to try it out, right?
“Aren’t you doing it now?”
“I will not.”
“I do.”
“…But what?”
“Let’s do it together.”
“Nope…?”
“You’re very crooked today.”
“I was just doing what I normally do.”
“I would have told you to be careful.”
“That, that’s only the case with Chinami…”
It’s funny how he reflexively turns into a jjuguri when he calms down his voice.
When do you put the plug in? I need to lower my reaction a bit…
Shall we treat you well for a few days from now? Or do you want to play idle?
I think both will be fine. If you mix it well, it looks like a very good picture will come out.
“Then won’t you?”
“I don’t have money to buy.”
“I will give you the title.”
“For that money…”
She blurs out her words.
I gave her what she wanted to say.
“You would rather buy a figure?”
“Wow…! What are you talking about…!”
It is obvious that he hit the right spot.
I giggled and said.
“Are you going to do it together?”
“You said you don’t have any equipment. My uncles may have abandoned it.”
“Why would you throw it away? Look for it.”
“It’s hard to find.”
“You just say you don’t want to do it?”
“It’s not like that.”
“Not really?”
“Uh.”
“All right. Then, I will only ask Master to join us.”
“Chinami doesn’t have a game console.”
“I bought an extra game console.”
At those words, Lenka’s eyes widened.
“Where is anyone buying extra game consoles…? Could it be that you bought it to be together…?”
“Yes.”
“It’s really messy… Shouldn’t you ask Chinami if she’s interested in games first?”
“Master likes everything with me.”
“You are funny.”
“It’s true. And isn’t that the same for the manager?”
“What…! No…!”
A strong denial is a strong affirmation, so it’s nice to see Lenka agreeing with me like that.
I put on a benevolent smile, as if I knew everything, and patted Lenka on the back as she vigorously told me not to misunderstand, and went back to work.
**
-Is it so. If my junior wants it that way, I’ll give it a try.
“You will like it.”
-Four. Then I have to go to dinner…
“Yes. Bon appetite. Say hello to your mother.”
-Muh…! Four…!
After the soft phone call with Chinami, I checked the message that came in the middle of the call.
[Ken Matsumatsu.]
It was from Hiyori.
You sent me a private message for the first time. I am very happy.
The things he saved from the host and the things he took care of while he was sleeping in the stands happened consecutively, so his likeability level also rose a lot.
[You don’t even call me a senior anymore.]
Not long after I sent her message, I got a reply from her.
[Should?]
Her mischievous personality seems to come out dripping even though she only read her writings.
I don’t intend to be respectful at all, but let’s keep the kkondae temperament.
[Of course I should.]
[No. I got it because I added a game account as a friend.]
[How did you know my account ID?]
[We made it together in the car.]
[That’s right.]
[Are you really stupid? The nickname, stupid ken, seems to have been built very well, so don’t change it.]
[Shut up. What are you doing?]
[I came to the cafe. Where the senior worked.]
I can’t say it’s a memory with me… But you went to that cafe where you got to know each other without me?
That’s a little disappointing.
[Why are you there? Trying to fill the coupon?]
[Yes. There was a reason for that, and I came because the chocolate chip frappuccino was delicious, but when I tried it today, it was just like that. Maybe the recipe has changed. It’s dim.]
[Ask for more condensed milk.]
[Then put it in?]
[I wonder if you can do it at your own discretion.]
[Additional condensed milk costs money! 50 yen! Are you kidding me?]
[If the taste is different from before and bland, of course you can ask for it, but what are you kidding me about?]
[Then, if I made this request when my senior was working, would he have listened?]
Mmmm… Comparison situation… That’s a good sign.
I think it’s a question I wouldn’t have asked if I didn’t like it.
[I won’t put it in.]
[Why?]
[Because it’s annoying.]
[I don’t have the mindset as a part-timer for a service job.]
[It’s okay because I’m not working part-time right now.]
[You’ve been authoritarian by telling me not to do it every time, so why are you so kind to yourself?]
[Because I am good at myself.]
[I am also good at myself.]
[A child who sleeps with his belly button and legs out would do well.]
[Ugh… I hate it.]
As I am exchanging messages with Hiyori, it feels like time is passing quickly.
Still, I had some concerns.
It was because the contact with Hiyori was less than that of the other heroines, so it was not easy for events to occur.
Making Hiyori approach me first is the best situation for me at the moment, so going down to the 1st grade classroom every day to show interest is a little bit…
Until now, he had been able to meet Hiyori because he had been wandering around, but there was no guarantee that he would be able to do so in the future as well.
If we’ve been slowly getting closer until now, I want to narrow the distance from now on.
I wish we could do something together, but is there any good way?
With such worries in mind, I grabbed the phone and talked with Hiyori for a long time.
**
I didn’t hear the alarm because I was playing games until late yesterday, so I hurriedly prepared and went to school.
As a result, I was barely able to avoid being late.
I almost got a penalty on the day Miyuki was guarding, but it was fortunate.
I arrived just in time, parked and crossed the campus.
“For a moment…! For a moment! Aren’t you standing there!?”
Miyuki, who was supposed to be guarding the school gate, found someone chasing after her.
Looking closely, I saw that someone was running away from Miyuki, wearing a uniform skirt padded over her gym pants.
With a gym uniform over his head.
The back of a suspicious woman running with her running shoes on as if she had made up her mind…
As soon as I saw it, I was sure who it was.
‘It’s Hiyori.’
Hiyori, who slept in like me, was late because she was taking public transportation, so she hid somewhere to avoid being penalized.
After all, do the heroines and I have anything in common?
It must be that this is the main character.
Such an unexpected event… It was very good.
There is a point of contact like this, but I think I was worried for nothing yesterday.
“Hey…! Heo-eok… Heo-eok… You won’t leave me alone!?”
Miyuki’s stern warning to Hiyori.
Hiyori, of course, did not listen to the warning and ran to the back of her lunchroom.
By the way, our Miyuki has lost some of her stamina.
She’s been idling around lately and not working out on her… All those good motor nerves are gone.
I need to build up her stamina by talking to her body.
Miyuki, who was looking around the inside and outside of her lunch room, couldn’t find Hiyori and eventually decided to give up her pursuit, putting her hands on her knees and panting her upper body.
I approached her and took out her handkerchief from her arms and held it out.
“Wipe your sweat with this.”
“Ha… Ha… Matsuda-kun? What are you doing not going in?”
“I thought you were rushing after someone.”
“Ah… I was late, but he ran away. I tried to catch it, but it was too fast…”
“Can I help you?”
Miyuki wiped the sweat from her forehead and crumpled her expression as if her medicine had been applied.
“It’s already gone… There must be a secret passageway that only he knows about.”
Hiyori is probably going to the place I told you about before.
It was the only place where they could hide secretly through the back of the lunch room.
The problem is that you have to go through a forest full of insects to go out the other way than the entrance you came in from, but Hiyori will be hiding and waiting for Miyuki to go, so it shouldn’t matter.
“Are you in first grade?”
“Huh. I saw her drop her name tag as she ran and then pick it up. The color is the first grade badge.”
“Did you see the name?”
“I couldn’t see you because I was far away. Ha… If you really get caught, you’re dead.”
I clench my fists and strengthen my fighting spirit, but it seems that the medicine has risen quite a bit.
“Matsuda-kun, go in quickly. If I go now, I won’t be late for class.”
After answering that I understood what Miyuki said, I lightly kissed her on the forehead and left.
Afterwards, after checking Miyuki from the wall of a building near her, she returned to her lunch room to hide herself as she moved away with her blushing face and her awkward gait, touching her own forehead.
Not long after, I saw Hiyori, with his hair scattered, creeping out like a stray cat from the passageway leading to the hideout.
Hiyori looks around her to see if Miyuki is there or not.
Hiyori, who had a triumphant expression on her absence, was about to go to the building where her classroom was located, at the timing of her going, I quickly blew her body and grabbed the back of her gym uniform she was wearing on her body. .
“Caught.”
“Huh!?”
Seeing her screaming and trembling all over her body as if she had seen a ghost, she is about to be intoxicated with her sense of victory.
I looked down at her, her whole body completely frozen, and I smiled, showing my teeth.
“Hi.”
“Eh, Matsuken-senpai…?”
Why isn’t it Matsumatsuken today?
Are you paying attention because you said yesterday that you don’t call yourself a senior?
It doesn’t matter which way it’s called, but it’s kind of sad.
I feel like a little bit of a teaching assistant.
Should I just let this troublemaker go? Should I not?
Embroiled in a blissful thought, I dragged Hiyori into her corner for now.
