「Hyakurath. Be honest with me.」
In the classroom after school was over. It was nearly time to leave the school. No human presence could be felt inside the classroom or outside at the corridor.
Even so, making this kind of talk inside a classroom felt awkward. But, from the looks of thing Mercuria didn’t look like she would budge an inch.
「Did something happen with Hida Kizuna? P-perhaps, you did Heart Hybrid with him?」
「──!!」
I unconsciously gulped. Mercuria let out a sigh with disappointment and sadness filling it.
「……As, I thought.」
「Y-you misunderstand. We didn’t, really──」
「What is there to misunderstand! It has become the talk between a part of the student body you know!?」
「Eh!? No way-!?」
The embarrassing scene that happened in the gymnasium’s storage room resurrected inside my head. I couldn’t stop my cheeks from boiling red. Mercuria’s expression became increasingly grimmer seeing my reaction.
「L-look here, Mer. There’s a reason for that. In a manner of speaking, it’s for your sake……no, for your and my sake──」
「Don’t try to console me like that! Just say it straight to me! T-that, you love Hida Kizuna more than me!」
「Eh……Mer?」
Tears spilled out from Mercuria’s eyes.
「I, I’m……Iii, waAAaA」
Mercuria who always acted easygoing and made fun of me with her actions. Mercuria who always tried to pretend like a prince, protecting and escorting me as though I was a princess.
That Mercuria was crying like a kid. I hugged Mercuria and buried her face into my chest. And then I kindly patted her back as though I was soothing a child.
「Calm down Mercuria. You see……how should I say it. Umm, the matters of Hida-kun and Mercuria, they’re two separate things.」
「S-separate……things?」
Mercuria sniffled convulsively.
「I too felt reluctant and also guilty to Mer at first but……but, Mer got hurt in order to protect me……that was why, I resolutely accepted it, thinking that there is no other way. Even if I lost Mer because of that, it’s far better than letting Mer die. That was what I thought.」
Mercuria looked up at me with her swollen red eyes.
「But you see……even after I actually went through Heart Hybrid, my feeling to Mer is still the same like before……strangely my guilt is also less than before doing it.」
「That’s……why is that? Even though I’m feeling this frustrated, this distressed.」
「That’s……might be because I did it with a man? Umm, I can’t really explain it well but, thinking that your lover is cute and thinking that cat or dog is cute are two different emotions aren’t they?」
Somehow, I myself was getting puzzled at what I was saying.
「E-err! T-that’s why, if Mer also try it yourself once──」
I noticed my blunder when I said that.
「You’re right……that’s certainly better than letting Hyakurath doing it alone with Hida Kizuna. Yosh! I’ll also try it, together with Hyakurath!!」
Aa……it feels like it will become another thing that make me feel so embarrassed that I want to die……do, do your best, do your best, Hyakurath!
「Hyakurath. Be honest with me.」
In the classroom after school was over. It was nearly time to leave the school. No human presence could be felt inside the classroom or outside at the corridor.
Even so, making this kind of talk inside a classroom felt awkward. But, from the looks of thing Mercuria didn’t look like she would budge an inch.
「Did something happen with Hida Kizuna? P-perhaps, you did Heart Hybrid with him?」
「──!!」
I unconsciously gulped. Mercuria let out a sigh with disappointment and sadness filling it.
「……As, I thought.」
「Y-you misunderstand. We didn’t, really──」
「What is there to misunderstand! It has become the talk between a part of the student body you know!?」
「Eh!? No way-!?」
The embarrassing scene that happened in the gymnasium’s storage room resurrected inside my head. I couldn’t stop my cheeks from boiling red. Mercuria’s expression became increasingly grimmer seeing my reaction.
「L-look here, Mer. There’s a reason for that. In a manner of speaking, it’s for your sake……no, for your and my sake──」
「Don’t try to console me like that! Just say it straight to me! T-that, you love Hida Kizuna more than me!」
「Eh……Mer?」
Tears spilled out from Mercuria’s eyes.
「I, I’m……Iii, waAAaA」
Mercuria who always acted easygoing and made fun of me with her actions. Mercuria who always tried to pretend like a prince, protecting and escorting me as though I was a princess.
That Mercuria was crying like a kid. I hugged Mercuria and buried her face into my chest. And then I kindly patted her back as though I was soothing a child.
「Calm down Mercuria. You see……how should I say it. Umm, the matters of Hida-kun and Mercuria, they’re two separate things.」
「S-separate……things?」
Mercuria sniffled convulsively.
「I too felt reluctant and also guilty to Mer at first but……but, Mer got hurt in order to protect me……that was why, I resolutely accepted it, thinking that there is no other way. Even if I lost Mer because of that, it’s far better than letting Mer die. That was what I thought.」
Mercuria looked up at me with her swollen red eyes.
「But you see……even after I actually went through Heart Hybrid, my feeling to Mer is still the same like before……strangely my guilt is also less than before doing it.」
「That’s……why is that? Even though I’m feeling this frustrated, this distressed.」
「That’s……might be because I did it with a man? Umm, I can’t really explain it well but, thinking that your lover is cute and thinking that cat or dog is cute are two different emotions aren’t they?」
Somehow, I myself was getting puzzled at what I was saying.
「E-err! T-that’s why, if Mer also try it yourself once──」
I noticed my blunder when I said that.
「You’re right……that’s certainly better than letting Hyakurath doing it alone with Hida Kizuna. Yosh! I’ll also try it, together with Hyakurath!!」
Aa……it feels like it will become another thing that make me feel so embarrassed that I want to die……do, do your best, do your best, Hyakurath!
