I Liked Her First, but My Brain Was Broken, Then for Some Reason, I Became Friends With Beautiful Girls, So I’m Done My With Childhood Friends
The exterior gave the impression of an old apartment, but the inside was beautiful, as if it had been renovated.
Well, that’s just my impression from looking at the walls and the barely glimpsed wooden floor.
“Tsumugi san? Why did you invite Hiro kun to such a dismal room? Don’t you have any awareness as a girl?”
I feel the pressure in Matsuyuki san’s smile.
The six-tatami mat room was cluttered with things. Clothes are scattered all over the bed, and I wonder how she sleeps with this.
“I thought it would be okay…with Yazawa senpai.”
“Please don’t spoil Hiro kun in a weird way.”
As soon as Kido san returned home, Matsuyuki san gave her a lecture.
“Well, I’m relieved that it’s just a lot of stuff and not filled with garbage. I’m sure you could make room for a few more things with a little tidying up.”
Clothes will get wrinkled if you don’t put them on hangers properly. Why do you have a closet and a chest of drawers, but all the clothes are scattered?
This bed sheet is a little wrinkled. Let’s stretch it out lightly.
I lifted the bed sheet on the bed, and something fell out.
“Buh !?”
I almost fainted.
What fell out was a black bra with lace. It was a lot sexier than my mom’s, but it was definitely a bra.
I mean, it’s big……. I didn’t know bras came in such big sizes……. It looks like it could fit a melon or something like that…….
“Hiro kun?”
“Hawaa !? I didn’t. I didn’t see anything !”
I felt the pressure in Matsuyuki san’s voice.
When I turned around, there she was with a smile on her face. It’s the smiling face of the most adorable girl in school.
But why does it send a chill down my spine?
“I’ll clean it up. Hiro kun, please go out of the room.”
“Y-yes.”
I did as Matsuyuki san said and went out into the hallway. When the door was closed, I heard the sound of cleaning ! …Is this the sound of cleaning?
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“What a surprise.”
Kido san’s eyes lit up at the sheer change in the before and after.
Her blue eyes reflected a tidy room.
She can now sleep properly in her bed, and the situation of having no place to stand on her feet has been improved.
“There is too much stuff to begin with. This only makes the room smaller, right? You should throw away the things you don’t use.”
Indeed. The mess has improved, but the room feels smaller because there is so much stuff.
Things were stored and put away, but there were too many things to store in the first place. The wardrobes, bookshelves, and storage boxes were cramping the six-mat room.
“It would be pitiful to throw them away……”
“Don’t look so sad. They are not living creatures.”
Kido san lowers her eyebrows. When she got that look on her face, I started to feel sorry.
“Well, it’s not like you have to cut down on things right now.”
“That’s too naive, Hiro kun. Even though you said that, things are irreversible.”
“But you don’t have to say it so harshly.”
“But, that’s not the case. If you put it off like that, she won’t be able to clean it up no matter how long it takes.”
I tried to quiet her down, but she didn’t seem to change her opinion.
Kido san looked at us alternately. And then she said something like this.
“You’re kinda like my parents…….”
[ [What !?] ]
Matsuyuki san and I were both stunned by these unexpected words.
I did not expect to be treated as a parent, and I did not know how to respond.
Am I really that much of an old man? It might be a little shocking for a junior to think like that…
“W-w-w-w-what are you talking about ! !”
Matsuyuki san’s face turned bright red and she shouted loudly.
Matsuyuki san, who is regarded as the prettiest girl in school, was unexpectedly treated like a mother. Even the most mild-mannered girl in the school could not help but get angry at this.
“I-I can’t believe me and Hiro kun are……h-husband and wife.”
“That’s impossible.”
“N-not….possible?”
Matsuyuki san seemed to freeze up with so much anger. She probably hated being treated like a mother. Girls care about things like that.
I don’t think she would think of me and Matsuyuki san as her parents, just looking at the way we look.
So, when Kido san felt that way, she was probably referring to the way Matsuyuki san and I interacted with each other.
“I wonder if the conversation between me and Matsuyuki san earlier was similar to Kido san’s father and mother?”
”Yeah.”
Kido san affirmed with a small nod.
So, Kido san’s father must be lenient with his daughter and her mother must be strict.
“But my father is no longer with us……”
“Eh?”
The somber tone of her voice suggests that this is something Kido san didn’t really want to talk about.
Her father passed? I asked awkwardly, as the truth was heavier than I had imagined.
“Does that mean they’re divorced?”
“My father is….dead……”
I shouldn’t have asked. That’s what I thought.
It was the worst fact I could have imagined.
Could it be that this was the reason Kido san was crying during lunch break?
If so, it can’t be helped. I, too, would be emotionally unstable if I suddenly got a call that my father had passed away.
In fact, I don’t think Kido san should be here for a long time. I don’t know what the cause was, but if you got the news that he passed away, you should go to the hospital where your father is as soon as possible !
“That was almost ten years ago.”
“Eh, ten years……?”
When I stood up and tried to hurry Kido san, I froze at the casual words.
Huh…maybe I’m jumping to a wrong conclusion?
I thought for sure that the reason for Kido san’s tears was about her father……. If I had said something like [Hurry up and go to the hospital where your father is !] I would have become a very unpleasant guy.
“It’s been a long time since I was able to remember my father….. Thank you, Yazawa senpai and Matsuyuki senpai.”
I was inwardly groaning, and Kido san smiled as she said that. I didn’t feel any sadness at all.
It was impossible that she was not sad. It is not surprising that she cried a lot in the beginning.
Still, time must have healed her heart.
Time will solve most things.
I, too, feel that my heart that was broken by Mitsuki is gradually healing. I’m not sure if it is rude to compare my situation with Kido san’s.
“W-well……yeah.”
How should I respond to this?
I was not able to come up with any witty words, so I scratched my head and fumbled.
“So, why did Kido san go out of her way to invite me to her house?”
I asked her what I had been wondering.
“That’s…….”
Kido san suddenly operated her phone and pointed it at me.
“A girl?”
On the screen of the smartphone I was shown was a pretty silver-haired girl in her early elementary school years.
“She is my younger sister.”
“If you ask me, she looks a lot like Kido san.”
The girl on the screen had a big smile on her face, so I didn’t immediately recognize her as Kido san’s sister.
But now that you mention it, she does look a lot like her. I was convinced that Kido san would be a lot cuter if she had an expressive face like that.
“….”
My throat was tight. I thought I heard such a sound and looked up to see Kido san looking as if she was holding something back.
After mumbling, Kido san opened her mouth in a very difficult manner.
“The reason why I live alone is…… My sister hates me.”
Maigetsu