40 – After Party – 2
In the poor room, as if the after party had already begun, there was a lot of noise. He opened the door for her and led her inside.
“Manager-kun! You’re late…… Ah?”
“Claim!”
“What happened?”
Takase-senpai scratched his cheek in embarrassment.
It was a senior who didn’t move an inch from the spot I blocked the road, but unexpectedly, he pulled his arm and was easily dragged away. He said that he had already nailed himself down, but since I pulled him by force, he couldn’t help it….
“That, manager-kun… I was forced to bring….”
The senior lowered her voice, saying that she had no choice but to follow her.
“It doesn’t matter! Come on, both of you, sit down!”
“Here, here!”
“Wait… ! Someone bought you a drink!”
There were already many sweets and drinks on the table. After the students as well as the faculty had left work, they had asked for understanding from the remaining security guards.
Since these are the only students left at the school. They too ate and drank and made a fuss as if their reins had been let go.
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Even though it’s sweets and drinks.
“Senior~! Here you go!”
“Uh… huh.”
Guided by her members, Takase-senpai sits in her empty seat.
“Manager-kun~ here, here~”
“That’s not an empty seat.”
Senior Anda tapped her on her lap and smiled mischievously.
“Or is there a uni here too?”
She then taps the knee of her uni who is sitting next to her own. Her senior Yuni stopped her by saying not to do it.
How should I accept this obvious approach? She
She smiled bitterly and looked around her moderately before sitting down in an empty seat.
“Now, here.”
“Ah… Senior Sayoko.”
Unfortunately, Sayoko-senpai was right next to me. She
She held out a paper cup and poured me a drink.
“You guys. Are you going to drink that beer?”
“You can’t put it in the refrigerator~ We have to deal with it!”
Sayoko-senpai opened the bag of snacks while scolding the members for drinking. She pours it into her empty bowl and divides the other sweets into small portions.
“Claim. You did a really good job today.”
“Ah… thanks.”
I was in the middle of looking at the senior who was talking with Aoi.
A bowl containing various sweets was placed in front of me.
Putting it down, Sayoko-senpai pretended not to know and nagged her members across from her.
“Manager~ I left my bag in class today. Can you get me some?”
“Oh, yes.”
At the request of a senior in the third year, she stood up and tried to turn her body.
At that moment, Sayoko-senpai stretched out her arm to stop me.
“Wait a minute. Is the manager your errand boy?”
“Uh… senior?”
“You can bring it yourself.”
“……… ….”
The senior’s scolding makes the room quiet.
“What… what! Did I say something wrong? He’s the manager of our department! I’m not an errand boy doing chores… !”
Her staff all look at her in unison.
That was the same for me.
“Ah, anyway, you guys will be scolded if I get caught asking him to run private errands one more time?!”
“Sayoko-senpai… ….”
Unknowingly moved by her, I called her.
The senpai turned her head around and she kept pretending not to know.
“Tsundere….”
“No, vice-captain. Are you going to keep pushing it?”
“Who pushed who pushed! These!”
In an instant, the room becomes noisy.
It seemed that Sayoko-senpai hadn’t been honest with me for a while, perhaps because of her past. Even so, the attitude towards me seems to have changed. The gap was ridiculed.
“Manager-kun~ Do you like tsunderes?”
“I like it. Cute.”
“That’s great, Sayoko-senpai.”
“No… !”
Her red-faced senior got angry, and then she turned around.
When her eyes met, she smiled.
“Ugh…… Ugh… !”
Then the senior turned her head and looked elsewhere.
“Look at this. I can’t say anything to the manager.”
“How can I do this? I heard that the manager doesn’t like older people~”
Before she knew it, the hot topic among her members shifted to romance.
It also focused on me.
It was difficult.
“Manager-kun~ So you don’t have any girls dating?”
“Yes.”
“Isn’t it~? Going to school, doing club activities, when is a girlfriend…… Huh?”
“Yes. Girl friend.”
Anyway, if I don’t reveal it soon, the situation will go strangely, so I said it.
I want to get out of the love story.
“What~?!”
“Really? Who?”
“Are you here right now?”
The members were really excited.
I don’t know if it was because of the alcohol or if it was that much of a shock to have a girlfriend.
“We are in the same class. She was dating her before she joined the track team.”
“I see… ….”
“I’m sorry. Senior Sayoko.”
“Are you going to die?”
For some reason, the atmosphere is down.
I shouldn’t have revealed this.
He picks up and eats sweets in a slightly embarrassed mood.
When she glanced away, she saw Takase-senpai drinking quietly.
“Manager-kun, that’s quite the case. She manages to fall in love while being so busy….”
“We don’t have it!”
“Ah~ I envy you!”
But it soon became noisy again.
After a busy schedule, let’s really set up a group meeting. While watching the members raising their voices, I quietly ate the snack.
“Manager-kun. Can I stay until this late?”
In the midst of that, Sayoko senpai asked a question.
“Yes. Are you okay.”
“If you want to go, you can tell me without looking at me. I will stop those who catch on.”
“…… Thank you Thank you for taking care of me.”
When I thanked him, the senior looked away and murmured.
“What, what… Just like this.”
Other members make fun of her as a tsundere, but now she slowly realizes that such a friendly side is Sayoko-senpai’s real face.
Drink a drink, and in the meantime, drink the mixed liquor. As the atmosphere gradually matured, I came out to go to the bathroom.
After washing her hands, she leaned against the window in the hallway to get some fresh air and sighed.
Oops… A little tired
I felt as if I had been dragged into a dinner party at work. Although the suggestion was made by me.
While chatting with Haruna for a while, she looked up.
From the other side of the dark hallway, I heard the sound of footsteps approaching quietly.
“…… Oh, manager.”
“Takase-senpai.”
“You… You look pretty tired.”
“Not really.”
It’s completely lively. I put my phone in my pocket and turned on the stretch.
“I… I’m just a little tired.”
The senior came over with a smile and stood next to me.
“If you are tired, you can go back….”
“So who was it that brought me by force?”
“…… Ahahahaha.”
Of course drumsticks.
Is Eri Takase a great person who will be dragged because someone forcibly dragged him?
If you really hated it, you would have pushed me away then.
So, I knew that she still had her lingering feelings.
I want to resolve my regrets about today’s results. Like the rest of her crew, she could see her frustration and her stress lingering.
“……… Who were you texting with?”
“……… ….”
She just revealed that she has an ex-girlfriend.
Senpai had known that before, but she was a little hesitant.
“…… It’s Haruna.”
“Yes….”
The after party is getting long and doesn’t end. I was in the middle of sending such a text.
“Because I don’t want to worry about her girlfriend.”
“Yes… Joe.”
At that time, while she was giving her senior’s leg massage, when she talked about her girlfriend.
Takase-senpai quietly agreed.
She quietly listened to my explanation and finally nodded her head and told me.
Take care of Haruna.
I was relieved by those words.
Because she won her relationship without giving her misunderstandings.
However, in my head, I was thinking of another possibility.
I laughed at myself about that absurd case, but I suppressed it.
Today, Eri Takase met her horrendous rank.
When she ponders what could have been the cause, what could have bothered the stalwart girl Eri Takase, she didn’t come to mind.
If my guess is correct, then what should I do?
There was no way that came to mind now.
In the first place, that’s just a possibility. What is Takase-senpai’s reason why she has a low rank. Is it because of her physical condition? Otherwise, I don’t know if there was any other cause.
“……… Manager group. Sorry.”
“Yes?”
I looked back at my senior.
Shaking the can in her hand, she smiled bitterly.
“Didn’t I tell you at the battery training ground? In this competition… She said she would show you a nice side.”
“……… ….”
“Let alone a medal…… I only saw such a sluggish appearance.”
No, I don’t care about that.
Of course, it wasn’t that I didn’t want to see a senior win first place.
What I want to see is a woman who can smile sincerely and is happy.
“You said you were my fan.”
“Senior… ….”
“Has that fan spirit faded?”
Kidduk, the senior raised the corner of her mouth.
No, what I wanted to see wasn’t that self-deprecating smile….
“Not really! I’m still a senior… !”
When her eyes met, the senior’s expression cooled. I caught my breath at the sight of her fearful expression.
But I had to say something.
“Cheering…… I do… Just because of this….”
“Only?”
“Oh, no. I mean…….”
The senior’s eyes narrow. She seemed to be glaring at me, and she cringed at the gaze.
“……… I didn’t want my senior to die… ,”
“……… ….”
“I wanted to be a source of strength to my seniors. So… ….”
Looking up at her hesitantly, I said, looking straight at her.
Her eyes widen.
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Her shoulders trembled at the moment of her roar.
The senior who hit the wall with one hand looked down at me right in front of her and stuck her head in.
“…… Quietly….”
The senpai’s muttering face is getting closer and closer.
Her body shrank in fear, and she only lowered her head, unable to resist her senior who blocked me right in front of her and showed her face.
Her hand squeezes my chin and lifts it up.
The moment her lips were about to touch mine…
“……… Eri?”
A voice came from the other side.
The senior who raised her body looked in that direction.
There was Sayoko-senpai there.
“What are you doing?”
“……… ….”
“Now… What were you trying to do with the manager?”
“………… Sorry.”
Turning her body around, the senior spoke in a strained voice.
Then slowly walked to the other side of the hallway and disappeared.
My heart continued to beat while Sayoko-senpai hurriedly approached me and asked if I was okay.
I can’t believe what I did… That it was real
I realized that, but at this moment I didn’t know what to do, so I answered Sayoko-senpai that it was okay, and I managed to calm her mind.