Chapter 106: Starting Second Grade Today!
Spring break was over, and the second season was about to begin. One year ago, when I first entered the school, I couldn’t have imagined that I would be walking hand in hand with my girlfriend under the cherry blossom trees in full bloom.
“? What’s the matter, Yuya-kun? You have such a satisfied look on your face. Oh, you’re happy that you can hold hands with me and go to school! But, I’d be embarrassed if you said something like that!”
In the middle of the street, Kaede wiggled her body with her cheeks slightly tinged with vermilion. I didn’t say anything about being happy, but I was not going to deny it because it was generally true, just because I haven’t said it. Instead, I answered by patting her on the head.
“—! Yuya-kun! What are you doing all of a sudden!”
“You don’t have to be so surprised… I simply wanted to pat Kaede on the head because you were so cute, was that wrong?”
“N-no, it’s fine! Of course you can! It’s all right!”
Kaede stretched out her chest. Then she pushed her head against my chest as if asking me to pet her more. If I were at home, I would hug her tightly and stroke her all over, but unfortunately, we were on our way to school. If I’m doing this here…
“You’re still as lovey-dovey as ever, Yoshizumi.”
Naturally, I would run into my classmates. And there were only a few who talked to me or Kaede in a dumbfounded voice.
“Geh… Nikaido…”
“Hey, that’s quite a reaction for a classmate, isn’t it? Isn’t it awful that the first thing after recess is that you react like a squashed frog?”
The person who spoke to me was Nikaido Ai. She had a neat and clean appearance with well-defined eyes and nose. She was a selfish beauty with moderately trained, toned and healthy limbs along with the twin hills that were firmly assertive. She was the expected ace of the basketball team and has been active since she joined the team.
Her short cropped hair and husky voice earned her the nickname “The Prince of Meiwadai”. She was very popular among the girls, and even as a guy, I thought she was handsome. If Kaede was the representative of the beautiful type, Nikaido was the representative of the cool type.
By the way, Nikaido and I had been in the same class, and we had spent a year sitting next to each other.
“Good morning, Nikaido-san.”
“Good morning, Hitotsuba-san. I get that you’re in love with him, but please do it in moderation, okay?”
I wanted to raise my voice in protest at the morning greeting, which was 180 degrees different from her attitude toward me, but I held back. If I’m defiant here, what would she say in return?
“You know what I mean. Yoshizumi, you’ve learned, haven’t you? I’m surprised.”
“Hey, Nikaido-san. Aren’t you being a little too harsh!? What do you think, at which niveau my intelligence is!?”
“Well… you’re as intelligent as a monkey?”
That was terrible! Why did I have to be told this by my classmates so early after spring break! Can I cry?
“Fufu… really, Nikaido-san is very strict with Yuya-kun, isn’t he?”
“It’s okay. If someone doesn’t inform the indiscriminate sugar-spewing Yoshizumi properly, there will only be more victims, right? Besides, Hitotsuba-san will heal the wounds he caused, so it’s plus or minus zero, right? No, it’s more like a plus, right?”
“No, no matter how much Kaede comforts you, you can’t heal any wounds easily! I mean, what do you mean, ‘victim’?”
“Good grief…you’re still talking like that at this stage of your life. At this rate, many more students are going to suffer from sugar overload this year…”
Nikaido shrugged her shoulders deliberately. Was that what Shinji and Otsuki-san called ‘strawberry space’? Wasn’t that what all the couples in the world were forming, not just Kaede and I?
“… Really, you’d better stop, okay? Or is it useless to tell Yoshizumi that? Well then, Hitotsuba-san. I’ll go ahead and leave you to his naiveté there.”
“Yes, leave it to me.”
Then Nikaido waved her hand with a fluttering motion and strode away. Kaede waved back, but I didn’t have the energy to do so, instead I sighed heavily.
“Please cheer up, Yuya-kun.”
“…Thank you, Kaede. Haa… I’m getting depressed about watching the class change announcement. If I do not end up in another class with Kaede again, and in the same one as Nikaido, I might not be able to recover from this…”
Kaede laughed at my exaggeration, but I was quite serious. The main theme of today’s trip to school was to confirm the class change. Depending on the content of the change, this year’s high school life could turn into heaven or h**l. But it was a bad start.
“It’s okay. We’ve made a firm request to God. No one can tear the bond between us!”
The expression on Kaede’s face, as she clenched her fists tightly, was somehow full of confidence. Was it possible that she had the confidence to be in the same class as me?
“Fufu. It’s not just Yuya-kun, okay? I’m confident that we can all be in the same class, including Higure-kun, Akiho-chan, and Nikaido-san!”
“…May I ask where you get such confidence?”
“Fufu. I told you, didn’t I, Yuya-kun? I said that we would be in the same class no matter what method I had to use. Let me show you the results of that!”
Kaede took my hand with a giggle and started running. Hey, it was dangerous to start running so suddenly! So I decided to run with her with a bitter smile on my face.
Please let me be in the same class as Kaede!
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Chapter 106: Starting Second Grade Today!
Spring break was over, and the second season was about to begin. One year ago, when I first entered the school, I couldn’t have imagined that I would be walking hand in hand with my girlfriend under the cherry blossom trees in full bloom.
“? What’s the matter, Yuya-kun? You have such a satisfied look on your face. Oh, you’re happy that you can hold hands with me and go to school! But, I’d be embarrassed if you said something like that!”
In the middle of the street, Kaede wiggled her body with her cheeks slightly tinged with vermilion. I didn’t say anything about being happy, but I was not going to deny it because it was generally true, just because I haven’t said it. Instead, I answered by patting her on the head.
“—! Yuya-kun! What are you doing all of a sudden!”
“You don’t have to be so surprised… I simply wanted to pat Kaede on the head because you were so cute, was that wrong?”
“N-no, it’s fine! Of course you can! It’s all right!”
Kaede stretched out her chest. Then she pushed her head against my chest as if asking me to pet her more. If I were at home, I would hug her tightly and stroke her all over, but unfortunately, we were on our way to school. If I’m doing this here…
“You’re still as lovey-dovey as ever, Yoshizumi.”
Naturally, I would run into my classmates. And there were only a few who talked to me or Kaede in a dumbfounded voice.
“Geh… Nikaido…”
“Hey, that’s quite a reaction for a classmate, isn’t it? Isn’t it awful that the first thing after recess is that you react like a squashed frog?”
The person who spoke to me was Nikaido Ai. She had a neat and clean appearance with well-defined eyes and nose. She was a selfish beauty with moderately trained, toned and healthy limbs along with the twin hills that were firmly assertive. She was the expected ace of the basketball team and has been active since she joined the team.
Her short cropped hair and husky voice earned her the nickname “The Prince of Meiwadai”. She was very popular among the girls, and even as a guy, I thought she was handsome. If Kaede was the representative of the beautiful type, Nikaido was the representative of the cool type.
By the way, Nikaido and I had been in the same class, and we had spent a year sitting next to each other.
“Good morning, Nikaido-san.”
“Good morning, Hitotsuba-san. I get that you’re in love with him, but please do it in moderation, okay?”
I wanted to raise my voice in protest at the morning greeting, which was 180 degrees different from her attitude toward me, but I held back. If I’m defiant here, what would she say in return?
“You know what I mean. Yoshizumi, you’ve learned, haven’t you? I’m surprised.”
“Hey, Nikaido-san. Aren’t you being a little too harsh!? What do you think, at which niveau my intelligence is!?”
“Well… you’re as intelligent as a monkey?”
That was terrible! Why did I have to be told this by my classmates so early after spring break! Can I cry?
“Fufu… really, Nikaido-san is very strict with Yuya-kun, isn’t he?”
“It’s okay. If someone doesn’t inform the indiscriminate sugar-spewing Yoshizumi properly, there will only be more victims, right? Besides, Hitotsuba-san will heal the wounds he caused, so it’s plus or minus zero, right? No, it’s more like a plus, right?”
“No, no matter how much Kaede comforts you, you can’t heal any wounds easily! I mean, what do you mean, ‘victim’?”
“Good grief…you’re still talking like that at this stage of your life. At this rate, many more students are going to suffer from sugar overload this year…”
Nikaido shrugged her shoulders deliberately. Was that what Shinji and Otsuki-san called ‘strawberry space’? Wasn’t that what all the couples in the world were forming, not just Kaede and I?
“… Really, you’d better stop, okay? Or is it useless to tell Yoshizumi that? Well then, Hitotsuba-san. I’ll go ahead and leave you to his naiveté there.”
“Yes, leave it to me.”
Then Nikaido waved her hand with a fluttering motion and strode away. Kaede waved back, but I didn’t have the energy to do so, instead I sighed heavily.
“Please cheer up, Yuya-kun.”
“…Thank you, Kaede. Haa… I’m getting depressed about watching the class change announcement. If I do not end up in another class with Kaede again, and in the same one as Nikaido, I might not be able to recover from this…”
Kaede laughed at my exaggeration, but I was quite serious. The main theme of today’s trip to school was to confirm the class change. Depending on the content of the change, this year’s high school life could turn into heaven or h**l. But it was a bad start.
“It’s okay. We’ve made a firm request to God. No one can tear the bond between us!”
The expression on Kaede’s face, as she clenched her fists tightly, was somehow full of confidence. Was it possible that she had the confidence to be in the same class as me?
“Fufu. It’s not just Yuya-kun, okay? I’m confident that we can all be in the same class, including Higure-kun, Akiho-chan, and Nikaido-san!”
“…May I ask where you get such confidence?”
“Fufu. I told you, didn’t I, Yuya-kun? I said that we would be in the same class no matter what method I had to use. Let me show you the results of that!”
Kaede took my hand with a giggle and started running. Hey, it was dangerous to start running so suddenly! So I decided to run with her with a bitter smile on my face.
Please let me be in the same class as Kaede!
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