Episode 6 – Attempt to attend school and another suicide note

A Cheeky Childhood Friend Found a Suicide Note I’d Written for Fun a Long Time Ago, and as a Result, She Suddenly Became Very Clingy and Wouldn’t Leave Me

In the end, the teacher gave me a lecture after that.

Well, I managed to clear up the misunderstanding, but I earned a lot of suspicious points…….

Fortunately, the hugging strategy worked, and she sat in her seat during class. I was very glad.

However, she kept glancing at me during class and got angry. During recess, she was clinging to me and showing her anger, but it was probably her own fault that she got angry.

And what the heck, I made it to the end of today’s class without incident.

“Haaa……it was only Monday and I’m already exhausted.”

“Serito, are you okay? You mustn’t die of overwork, okay? I’ll do anything I can to help you, so don’t die……”

“I’m not that frail. ……And you shouldn’t say things like that.”

“I’ll only say it to Serito.”

“Nnn…..! !”

As expected, clinging to my arm is the default, and Kaori looks up at me with a worried look and says that.

I was on my way home from school and there wasn’t anyone around, so I’m not being asked. If you ask me, well…I have a feeling that I’ll be met with a cruel stare.

“Then, I’m going—“

We arrived at Kaori’s house and decided to part ways around here. However, if I’m going to leave like this, it seems like I would have no choice but to pull the arm that is attached to Kaori.

Unfortunately, I don’t have red hair, I don’t have a scar over one eye, and I’m not a pirate or anything, so I don’t want to lose an arm.

“Can I go home, please….?”

“Yeah, I know. Let’s go home.”

I was pulled tightly and began to be dragged towards Kaori’s house.

“Kaori san !? Let’s talk a little…..that’s too powerful ! Ah, I feel like a dead insect being dragged into an ant’s nest ! !”

While I was fussing like an anime character explaining the situation in detail, I was dragged into Kaori’s den.

Well, I had half-expected this to happen today. I’m ready for it.

“Haa, I’m sorry to bother you. …There isn’t anyone here today?”

“Yeah. Dad has to go to work and Mom has a photo shoot, so she might be late today.”

“Your mother is amazing. She’s the same age as my mom, but she’s beautiful, and when her photo book comes out, she’ll be trending on social media……”

As the mother of a beautiful girl named Kaori, she is extremely beautiful. I think my habit was probably broken a little because of that person.

“So, what are you gonna do? Play some shitty game?”

I suggested something to distract her from her loneliness, but she shook her head.

I wondered if there was something she wanted to do, so I did as I was told and was taken to Kaori’s room.

“I couldn’t sleep at all on Saturdays and Sundays when Serito wasn’t around, because I thought he was already dead. That’s why I…..wanted you to sleep with me….”

“Wha…..!!?”

I feel like it was probably the first time I’d slept with Kaori since second grade.

But I don’t think it’s a good idea to cross that line ! I feel like she’s taking advantage of my weakness…..no, but I’m the reason this happened ! !

“Serito, come on.”

“Kuh……! Am I done here……!?”

I thought it was finally over when the beautiful girl pulled me into the bed with her.

The pillow bounces a lot as I put my hand on the bed, and at the same time, a piece of paper appears from inside the pillowcase.

“Hm? What’s this?”

“Ah—hey ! N-no ! !”

Kaori reaches out her hand impatiently, but I pick it up and look at the paper before she can do so.

Apparently it was a photograph, but…

“My picture…..?”

The other day Natsuori said, [I’m gonna practice doodling, so let me take Serito’s picture !] and I remembered that she was being cheeky and taking pictures of me.

Why does she have a picture of that time in her pillowcase?

“Oh, ah….ahhh……!”

“Oh, successfully repulsed.”

She turned red in the face and rolled her eyes, then wrapped herself up in the futon and hid herself away.

“Why did you keep the picture in the pillowcase? ……Maybe because of my suicide note…..?”

“No, it’s not !  I mean, um,……uhh. I usually put it in my pillowcase,……and I was thinking that I wanted to see Serito even in my dreams…..”

“Eh……”

Half of me was smiling, thinking that she was doing something really cute, and the other half was feeling embarrassed, thinking that she wanted me that much.

The steam is rising from the futon, and I can feel my face getting hot too. I felt the room temperature rise in seconds. 

“Well….what the heck. I’ll take care of you more from now on. Cheer up.”

“Ugh,……I’m dying of embarrassment,…….”

I thought she was going to stay under the covers and not come out, but she just put out her hand.

I’m kind of nervous. Is this…a trap?

“Hand ! Hold my hand !”

“Ah, yes.”

I looked at her hand for a while, but finally she got angry.

I held her hand and she half-exposed her face to me. Then, she gave me a bashful smile.

Stop it, Kaori. That precious smile works on me.

“Really, I’m glad….if Serito had died, I would have……”

“…..Kaori?”

“…..Zzz……zz…………”

I don’t know if she was sleep deprived or if she was relieved to have her hand held by me,……. I didn’t understand, but Kaori started to take a breather.

Once again, I never expected that a single suicide note could change her so much. …There is just one question.

(Thinking back, I think there was another one of my suicide notes…..)

Did I forget to look for it or did I already throw it away…. Well, I don’t need it anymore, so why should I worry about it.

So I sat down on the floor and started to doze off.

# # #

–In a certain room.

A girl with silver hair and red eyes was looking at a piece of paper. On it was written “suicide note,” and Serito’s name was also on it.

Yes, this is the other suicide note Serito wrote.

“Miss, it is time to eat.  “

“Oh, is it that time already? I understand. I’ll be right there. You may go.”

After a knocking sound, a maid-like person entered the room and announced so.

The maid bowed and left the room.

“I’ll be transferring to a new high school tomorrow. Fufu, I’m looking forward to it. I can’t believe I’ll be reunited with Serito, the person I wrote my suicide note with. ……Now that I think about it, does he still remember that promise we made…..”

The girl raised the corner of her mouth and muttered.

“–The promise that we will commit suicide together.”

Maitoshi