127 – Understanding and Longing
Is this the track and field club?
Haru comes in following older sister and Yuuki.
“Ah, it’s been a while, both of you.”
The vice-captain of the track and field team came out and welcomed us.
“Congratulations on winning the gold medal!”
“I was completely impressed!”
Her two people exchanged greetings with her as if they had already met her. As I stood behind and paused for a moment, Yuuki came up and pointed at me.
“This is my younger sister. I recently transferred here. “
“…… This is Yuuki Yuuko. Please take care of me.”
“It’s Sayoko Mori. “You’re such a cute little sister that you don’t get along with your brother, right?”
“What do you mean!”
The sound of laughter echoes from everywhere. They seemed to be quite close friends.
After the competition ended, we participated in the track and field club’s after-party.
“Ah, coach.”
While sitting and chatting, the vice-captain stood up. At that moment, I froze.
If it were a coach, who would it be?
The pot-bellied, bald coach who has been harassing Eri Takase.
Let’s look back with a trembling heart
“You guys can’t stay up too late?”
“Don’t worry~”
“I won’t stay up all night!”
“Really… ….”
I stared blankly at the woman in tracksuit standing in front of the door.
“…… Me, Haru unnie. “Who is that person?”
“This is the coach of the track and field club. “I am also a recently appointed physical education teacher.”
“Ah… ….”
I see. As expected, it has changed.
I had a guess, but seeing the changed results right in front of my eyes made me feel dumbfounded.
There is no such thing as a bad coach.
I once again breathed a sigh of relief.
And belatedly, Eri came into the club room.
The gathering begins with lots of delicious snacks, drinks, and desserts to eat and drink.
I looked around in a noisy atmosphere. There are Haru, Yuuki, Eri, and members of the track and field club.
After cheering enthusiastically in the stadium, Aki collapsed from exhaustion and was carried back by Elena.
Then the other one is… ….
While I was feeling doubtful, the door opened.
“What~! “Manager, you’re late!”
“Here, here! “Sit next to us!”
“If you don’t sit next to me, you’ll get upset!!”
At the same time as the girls cheered enthusiastically, the man came inside.
“Sorry for being late. I have some work to do….”
“Did you really see the performance of the seniors!?”
“Manager, come quickly and praise me.”
“Pat my head~!”
What is this scene….
The members call out to him and extend their hands. He ignores such a popular sight and sits down next to Haru.
“Yes. “Well done everyone.”
“What~ boring!”
“Are you saying you only care about your girlfriend!?”
“Well, you can’t take care of another woman….”
I saw him talking to Haruna while leaving the club members grumbling.
Without realizing it, I glanced sideways at Eri across from me.
Eri was sipping her drink in silence.
My mind becomes complicated.
What is that incident just now?
Eri Takase proudly declared that she liked him.
However, despite hearing the confession, he remained silent.
And now.
No one noticed because there were so many people and the atmosphere was noisy, but Eri and the man were not even making eye contact, let alone talking.
There is definitely something there.
It’s not just about doubting him.
Although it may seem at first glance to be a harmonious school life of good friends, it is not only that.
There is a root of tangled emotions between them.
I had that feeling.
“I’m going to go to the bathroom in a moment.”
“Oh, yes.”
As the meeting was getting closer, I saw him talking to his older sister and leaving her seat.
But the man who went to the bathroom never came back.
After a quick glance, I got up from my seat.
“Oppa. “I’ll go out for a moment.”
“Oh, the bathroom?”
Leaves the club room.
Although I realized that I had been following that man for some time, I moved to look for him who had disappeared today as well.
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Do we have no choice but to accept it head on?
Actually, I guessed it somewhere in my heart, but I deliberately pretended not to see it.
If we pretend not to know each other and move on, nothing happens.
I was mistaken in thinking that we would be able to live in harmony from now on.
But now I can’t get over it.
That is no longer disrespectful to seniors.
If I reject my senior’s feelings, will we be able to stay together from now on?
– I like it now. –
– I like our current relationship. I don’t want to break it. –
I remembered a confession I heard from Haruna one day.
No matter what choice I make now, I will break her wishes.
If I reject her senior’s heart, I will distance myself from her, bearing her guilt that I ruined her senior’s career.
If I accept it, it will be a betrayal of Haruna’s feelings.
Either way… We can’t continue in our current relationship.
If I am the cause of this happening… I’d rather have….
While I was imagining that, I heard a voice from behind me.
“What are you doing there alone?”
She found me crouching in front of her front door on the first floor of her main building.
“…… “You are persistent.”
I sighed and looked ahead.
Yuko quickly approached and screamed.
“What, what! So persistent!? What do people… !”
That’s right.
Whenever the opportunity arises, they follow me as if this is the time.
Just now, I noticed someone following me in the stadium.
Yuko probably saw it.
In that case, will she push me as if her suspicions are confirmed?
They’ll use that as proof to kick me out among them.
“…… Me, I just want to know!”
“What?”
Yuuko pretended to extend her finger towards me.
“What happened between you and Eri?”
“……… ….”
You are so curious.
Somehow annoyed, I sighed and shook my head.
“Don’t look annoyed! The track and field coach was also replaced by someone else! “Obviously you did something!”
I did.
Now I couldn’t even figure out what meaning it had in boasting about my heroics.
“And… To Eri….”
Yuko flopped down and sat down next to me.
I felt like there was no way I could avoid it if I questioned it this much.
She had already announced that she would dig me up, and she had no hesitation.
“…… Okay. “I’ll tell you.”
“Joe, good.”
Yuuko nodded her head with a satisfied expression.
I told him about the process from when I joined the track and field club to when I kicked Suda out and left there.
Although it may seem long at first glance, it was actually a short period of time, not even a semester, and my activities were not much other than installing a tape recorder in Suda’s private teacher’s office and digging up evidence. The explanation didn’t last long.
“…… So… So Eri ultimately won the competition despite her injury?”
“Yes. “That’s how it happened.”
If you had understood this far, you would have also known that what I did was just a fluke.
“When I left the track and field team, I received that medal as a gift from a senior.”
“…… Huh.”
I made a promise about that when I received the medal, but I was too embarrassed to talk about it.
Yuko stayed silent for a moment and then looked at me.
“… You’re stupid?”
“What?”
And the question that came out was absurd.
“You asked. “Are you stupid and stupid?”
“There’s one more thing….”
While hesitating whether to nod her head to that question, Yuuko decided on an answer.
“You are an idiot. “You’re an idiot.”
“…… “Why?”
I so obediently told him what I was curious about, but in return I received only insults.
“If you are so good at understanding the flow of this world, why don’t you know a woman’s heart?”
“Woah, the heart of a woman. What is that….”
“So you’re an idiot!”
Hearing stupid things over and over again made me feverish.
“Okay. “What do you know about a woman’s heart?”
“Do you need me to tell you that for you to know? “As expected, you are a stone head!”
“What?”
She stood up and glared at her.
Yuko also stood up as if she wasn’t going to lose.
“Have you finished speaking now?”
“Yes, it’s done!”
Facing each other head on.
She had no intention of fighting with her.
Her mind was complicated, and she didn’t have the time to even accept her arguments, so she suddenly became angry.
“No, I haven’t finished it yet. “There’s one more thing left!”
“What is that?!”
After hearing this from her, I also planned to tell her what she was like.
It’s not that I have nothing to say.
Until now, when I was working hard and working hard, he didn’t even reveal his existence, but after the third episode, he only showed up and showed off.
What on earth did you do?
I was going to say that.
“…… Eri won for you! “She kept saying she was running for you!”
Yuuko stretched out her arms and shouted.
“And I wanted to be by your side! “I just said that was it!”
Hear through the mouths of others.
It was a much bigger shock than what I knew in my head.
What I couldn’t understand even though we were together, Yuuko understood right away.
“You idiot, didn’t you know how your sister felt until now? “That means you’re an idiot, you idiot!”
“……… ….”
The noise was so loud that people around me glanced in this direction.
“What are you, that you don’t even know how your sister feels and suffer alone like this? Huh?”
“Ugh… Ugh….”
There was no answer.
I was trying to refute her and vent out my accumulated emotions, but I couldn’t get a single word out.
“You don’t deserve it! You fool, fool, fool… “You idiot!!”
Yuko, who kept repeating the same thing as if she didn’t have enough variations in swearing, eventually shouted as if she were swearing.
There were even tears in the corners of his eyes.
Why are you crying?
I can’t understand it.
At the sound of loud shouting, people from upstairs were watching us with their windows open.
“Yu, Yuuko-chan!?”
“Ah, we are fighting after all. Haru-chan, let’s go stop him.”
“Uh, yes!”
I heard Yuuki and Haruna shouting as if they had misunderstood us.
I raised my voice, but now I felt dazed, as if I had been punched in the back of the head.
A fool who knows the flow of this world, but doesn’t know anything about women’s hearts.
In the end, I was convinced by her words.