I Was Supposed to Be Giving Love Advice on the School Radio, but Before I Knew It, the Beautiful Girls at School Were Hitting on Me
Zzzz.
A family restaurant on a weekday evening. In a restaurant where nearly half of the seats were filled with high school students, I—-Makino Kinami was drinking a glass of juice.
I made a deliberate noise to show my dissatisfaction, but the senior sitting in front of me picked up the cup with a nonchalant look on his face.
“Phew……”
“Don’t just drink coffee gracefully, why don’t you say something?”
“Don’t make such a grumpy face. You’re just bothering the other customers who are having fun.”
“I’ve already canceled my karaoke plans with my friends today.”
“Oh, I’m sorry about that.”
The girl who said this but didn’t seem to be apologizing at all was Kitahara Yuzuha senpai. She was the one who called me here.
Senpai put the coffee cup down on the saucer and took a deep breath.
“I have a little something I want to discuss with you.”
“Consultation, I see……”
Kitahara senpai slowly raised her gaze, which had been downcast.
“Yes, I’d love to consult you…about ‘Kombu Wakame’.”
“…….”
Senpai looked surprised as I remained silent.
“Oh, you’re not surprised.”
“……Well, I kinda expected it.”
‘Kombu Wakame’ …..I had a hunch it would be mention, but when that name came from Kitahara senpai, I felt as if I knew it.
If it weren’t for her, I wouldn’t have cancelled my karaoke plans to come here either.
On the other hand, Kitahara senpai also looked away and sighed languidly.
“I knew this hunch was coming true.”
“But, just in case we’re thinking differently, let’s check.”
“Well……there’s still a chance that our fears are unfounded.”
It may be a futile struggle, but I wanted to fight until the end. It seemed that Senpai felt the same way.
“Okay then, let’s go.”
“Yeah, sure.”
I took a small breath after confirming that he nodded his head.
“One-two.”
[ [Kombu Wakame, you are definitely the same kind as us (me)……] ]
The words we uttered to each other were almost identical except for the endings.
I see, I knew it……
“Haa….I thought I was just imagining things, but it seems I was wrong.”
“I could say the same thing～”
I replied in a sarcastic tone, but it didn’t clear my mind.
We both looked at each other and sighed at the same time.
“Sorry to keep you waiting ! Here’s a mountain of fries, the Olympus size !”
A plate full of fries is placed in the middle of us, as we slump down on the desk.
“……”
Without saying a word, I could tell that Kitahara senpai was a bit taken aback.
However, looking at the thing, which was named after a volcano on Mars, my stomach started growling heartily, contrary to my feelings.
♢
I felt that it would not be very presentable for me to finish this quantity of potatoes by myself, so I decided to ask her to eat some of it as well. I was just going to share it with her, with an air of tension.
Kitahara senpai picked up a fries. A straight fries had been plucked from the pile.
And then, she began.
“I knew you thought it was fishy, too. About Kombu Wakame.”
“Oh, come on…of course it is ! What’s with that? She’s just showing her desires !”
“Hey, don’t say things like that in public.”
When I inadvertently raised my voice, my senior quietly scolded me. I felt like the eyes of those around me were turning slightly in my direction, so I shrugged.
The story goes back to today’s noon broadcast.
We usually enjoy the broadcasts as listeners, but I had a very bad feeling about today’s letter from Kombu Wakame.
She may have been trying to deceive us with her polite sentence, but it was a letter aimed at Senpai.
“But you also contacted me because you thought something was wrong, right?”
“I can’t calm down after listening to such a female-oriented letter.”
“Female oriented……”
Senpai has a beautiful voice and says some pretty strong things.
I don’t intend to go out of my way to correct her, but what a surprising thing to say…
“Well, I’m wondering if you’re trying to show off by using the phrase ‘full of realism’ in your description.”
When I told her, Kitahara-senpai nodded, frowning slightly.
“Well, I guess there’s something wrong with Kageyama kun, considering he took the time to respond to a letter like that.”
“It’s true, even he looks like that at Bianca. Even though he’s in the kitchen, he’s always worried about me in the hall. He’s really a troublesome person.”
I folded my arms and nodded my head. Senpai glanced my way and then took a sip of cafe au lait.
“That’s right. No matter how rudely I treat him, he always greets me properly, and I think that kind of attentiveness is what led to this incident.”
“Heh, every day……”
I was frozen, clutching the fries, and Kitahara senpai was frozen, clutching the cup. We gazed at each other, and a tense atmosphere ran through us, like a master swordsman exchanging swords.
“There’s no point in fighting here.”
“…..Make sense.”
With a single word from Kitahara senpai, we sheathed our swords. Yes, the problem now is Kombu Wakame. There is no point in fighting here.
“But is there anything more we can do? No matter how much information we share here, there is nothing we can do, is there?”
That’s right. There is no way to change anything by talking about it here. There is no way to stop the Kombu Wakame even if we were to warn Senpai.
But, as she looked at me, she smiled.
“Kinami san, do you think I called you here just to share information with you?”
“……You’re not?”
“Yes, one of the reasons I called you here today…….”
Senpai slowly looks up and stares at me with those jet-black eyes.
Her mouth was filled with a bewitching smile.
“I’m here to find out who Kombu Wakame really is.”
At Kitahara senpai’s words, my brain freezes for a moment.
She was trying to figure out the true identity of Kombu Wakame……?
“No, no, no, no ! That’s not good !”
However, my brain immediately began to spin and I understood what this person was trying to do.
But Kitahara senpai looked at me with a puzzled expression.
“Why?”
“Why, you said….cracking the identity of the person in question is crossing the line.”
As I fumbled to correct my mistake, I remembered a certain fact.
(Oh, now that I think about it, this person confronted Bianca and revealed my true identity…)
Maybe she doesn’t have much of a concept of privacy or something, she certainly doesn’t seem to have many friends……
“Are you thinking of something rude right now?”
But I’m well behaved and have many friends. I can’t help such a bad thing, no matter if it’s Kombu Wakame I’m dealing with. I had to put a stop to it.
“Uncovering someone’s true identity is beyond the scope of a radio listener. If you want to do that, do it alone.”
“I see……”
When I firmly refused, Senpai was surprisingly reluctant to back off.
I’m glad to hear that, it’s a relief. …..
“But just imagine for a moment.”
“What?”
Lowering her eyes slightly, Senpai began to speak in a low voice.
“For example, suppose we leave Kombu Wakame alone, right? Then she will keep sending him letters like this. Each time, the content of the letter gets more and more heated.”
“…..”
Kitahara senpai’s slow and relaxed speech almost pulls me in, but I try my best to stay.
“Kageyama kun, who is passionate about radio, gradually becomes interested in her letters. He wonders what kind of person sends her letters, and how lucky a man must be to be loved by her…”
“Nn !”
I clear my throat, but she doesn’t stop.
“And finally, Kombu Wakame reveals herself. Kageyama kun, expressing his surprise, fearfully asks her standing in front of him. ‘Could it be that…..you are the Kombu Wakame?’ She gives a small nod, and then hugs him vigorously…..!”
Yes, and Kombu Wakame who hugged Senpai smirks without showing her face. As if to say that it was just as planned……!
“No way !”
My scream echoes through the store. The people around me look at me with surprise, but I can’t be bothered with that.
I calmed my rough breathing a bit and gazed upon my senior as she gracefully sipped her coffee.
“…I understand. I’ll cooperate.”
“Oh, that’s reassuring.”
“I’ll tell you what !”
I firmly stop Kitahara senpai, who is smiling proudly, with my hand.
“I’m helping because I think it’s necessary to scare away any bad guys that might get close to him ! Don’t get the wrong idea !”
“Yes, yes, do as you like.”
I glared lightly at Senpai, who was waving her hands, and grabbed a bunch of fries.
And so, we temporarily formed a united front in our search for Kombu Wakame.
Maitoshi