I Was Possessed By An Unknown Manga - Chapter 366



366 – Sincerely

Yuika’s meal ended about 30 minutes later.

Perhaps because she likes yakiniku and often comes here to eat it with her older brother Ryuji, she ate two servings of pork belly right before her eyes her her her.

You could say that I almost inhaled it.

Anyway, after the meal was over, Yuika got up from her seat and packed her bag.

“Sir, how much is it?”

“It’s 3000 yen.”

“Here.”

Immediately after, Yuika took out three thousand yen bills from her wallet and handed them to me.

I took it and put it in her apron pocket and asked.

“Do you have any time now?”

“There is.”

“Then, why don’t you go upstairs and talk for a while?”

When I said that and pointed to the second floor, Yuika looked conflicted for a moment, but she quickly nodded.

“Okay. If it’s just for a little while.”

“Then wait a moment. I’ll tell my parents.”

After I said that to Yuika, she told her parents in the kitchen that she would take a short break.

“Dad and Mom are okay, so go quickly. It’s because of Yuika, right?”

“That girl has grown a lot in the time I haven’t even seen her.”

I guess he couldn’t hear the conversation between me and Yuika because there was quite a distance between the kitchen and the hall.

Thinking that was a good thing, I took off my apron and handed it to her mother, then went up to the second floor with Yuika, who was waiting in the hall.

***

Tirring!

I opened the door lock and entered the house first. I glanced at Yuika, who came in behind me, and asked.

“What do you want to drink?”

“It doesn’t matter what.”

“Okay.”

There is an awkward atmosphere between them.

Well, it was inevitable since it was between the person who had just confessed and the person who had confessed.

I went into the kitchen and made some green tea, put the tea cup down in front of Yuika, who was sitting in the living room, and then sat across from her.

“That… “

“That… “

Voices overlapping at the same time as if they were waiting.

“Oh, you do it first.”

“No, you do it first.”

As if it were a scene from a situational drama, we gave each other our turns, and then I spoke first.

“Well, I really appreciate the confession you made earlier. But I can’t accept your feelings. You know why, right?”

Then Yuika, who was lowering her head sullenly like a student being punished, answered in a grumpy voice.

“Yes.”

What should I say when I see her like that?

I felt like I was doing something very wrong.

But I didn’t stop talking.

No, I couldn’t stop.

“I’m truly sorry. You must have the courage to confess, but I had no choice but to refuse.”

Then, Yuika suppressed her emotions and shook her head with an expression of mixed emotions.

“No, it’s okay. It’s really okay. It was just nice to be able to convey my feelings.”

Finally, she continued to wipe away the transparent tears that were flowing down with the sleeve of her clothes.

“But thank you for saying that, senior. Thanks to you, I think I can really shake off my regrets now.”

Yuika smiled brightly as she said that and jumped up from her seat.

“Then this is the end of this boring story. I think it’s too late today, so I’ll go back now.”

“Uh, then I’ll see you off… “

“No! It’s okay! Please sit down! Senpai! I’m really okay!”

After saying that and trying to stop her from getting up, Yuika packed her bag and headed to her front door.

I had no choice but to sit in her living room and see her off her. Yuika bent down to put on her shoes, looked back slightly, waved her hand at me, opened her door, and went out.

Crash!

As soon as the front door closes, the house becomes quiet again.

I looked at the spot where Yuika was sitting with her bitter eyes, then got up from her seat to clean up the teacup she had used.

***

“So, senior, what do you think?”

“… You suddenly summoned me and said you were giving me such advice?”

“The only people around me who can talk about this are my seniors.”

“There is Ryuji Sakamoto.”

“It wasn’t anyone else, it was that guy’s younger sister who said she liked me. Imagine Minami confessing to me.”

“… Kill.”

“That’s it.”

“Ah.”

Then the vice president, no, Akagi-senior, immediately looked understanding.

I rummaged through the bowl of shaved ice in front of me and waited for my senior to give me advice.

“But you just said it yourself. The matter was completed neatly. But what’s the problem now?”

“I was very uncomfortable with the ending. They said it was okay, but I don’t know if it was really true.”

“Originally, time heals the wounds of a broken heart. That doesn’t happen just because you care about it.”

“Definitely in times like this, advice from an experienced person is helpful.”

“Shut up.”

In the past, Akagi senior fell in love with Ryuko, an unidentified beautiful girl who appeared in the Ichijou Academy beauty contest.

However, senior Akagi, who belatedly found out that her real identity was Chiaki who had possessed Ryuji, was so shocked that she stopped eating and drinking for a while.

She said it was her first love.

Anyway, now it has become a memory that I can laugh about and talk about, but it still feels bad to be ridiculed.

Senior Akagi put a spoonful of shaved ice into his mouth as if he was annoyed just thinking about it, sighed a little, and then looked at me.

“To begin with, you are a married man with eight wives. When you receive a confession, it is natural for you to reject it.”

“That’s right.”

“Or maybe you’re not planning on cheating on her?”

Senior Akagi looks at me with murderous eyes.

But I lightly waved my hand and denied such suspicions.

“No way. If that was my intention, I wouldn’t have consulted in the first place.”

“… Well.”

Senior Akagi, who, like a top-notch ninja, was determined to survive quickly, poured all the remaining shaved ice into his mouth and spoke.

“I heard you said you were going to study abroad anyway? Then the best thing you can do is not to appear in front of that person. If you get out of sight, your heart will also get out of mind, so it will naturally be forgotten as an old love.”

It was much more helpful advice than I thought.

That’s why I bowed down and expressed my deep gratitude.

“Thank you for your help, senior.”

“Hmph, to this extent.”

Senior Akagi, who showed his tsundere moves until the end, left the cafe first, saying he had some work to do.

***

When you are out of sight, your mind is also far away.

It was definitely helpful advice.

The reason women wear their rubber shoes backwards when their boyfriends go to the military, and the reason long-distance relationships that were initially treated as if they were life-or-death are fragile, are all because the physical distance has grown in the end .

Human memory is not as great as we think, so we cannot remember happy moments for the rest of our lives.

So, if you don’t continue to paint over the faded pages with new memories, eventually even your feelings of liking that person will disappear into oblivion.

In that case, as Akagi-senpai said, all I had to do was not appear in front of Yuika.

She’ll be leaving Japan before September, so she’ll be living abroad most of the time for three years.

This must be the right choice.

“… It’s boring.”

A week has passed since then.

A daily routine that rolls like a treadmill.

Exercise in the morning, work at lunch, and sleep in the evening.

The day passes without anything special happening, and the next morning dawns again.

After that day, Yuika never came to our store.

Maybe I’m sick of people like me.

While she was relieved by that fact, she was a little heartbroken to think that Yuika, who she really thought of as her real sister, would be hated in the future.

But I’ll have to endure it.

***

Another week has passed.

From what I heard from Ryuji, it seems like there was a graduation ceremony this Wednesday.

Yuika, who was her vice president in her second year, gave an excellent speech as her valedictorian.

Ryuji’s her face her her her her, crying with her touching voice her her her, is still memorable.

Chiaki Yaguchi, who was next to her, shook her head as if she couldn’t stop it.

As she laughed and chatted with her high school friends whom she had not seen in a long time, her mood felt a little better.

After all, humans seem to be social animals.

***

And another week passed.

Since it had already been about a month since I stayed at my parents’ home, I thought I should go back to Kyoto.

I stayed at my parents’ house for about a month and met all the friends I could meet at least once, so I didn’t have any regrets anymore.

So, I thought I should just say hello to my neighbors and go down to Kyoto, so the night I bought my train ticket for the next afternoon, an unexpected person sent me a messenger.

[Senior, can you give me a moment?]

The identity of that person was none other than Yuika, whom I thought I would never meet again.

[Where?]

When I sent a reply right away, the number 1 next to the letter disappeared, and a new message arrived.

[It’s in the citizen’s park near my senior’s house.]

[I’ll be there soon.]

I don’t know why Yuika suddenly called me.

However, I felt like I couldn’t avoid her this time, so after replying to her, I immediately put on my training clothes and left the house.