When I Saved a Girl Who Was About to Be Kidnapped and It Turned Out to Be a Princess Who Had Come to Visit in Secret
“We’d better get ready for dinner.”
A few hours of watching cartoons and being at Luna’s mercy.
I was getting hungry, so I decided to cook.
Of course, I had already set the rice cooker.
“I see you really do cook. ……”
“Haha, do I look like a bad cook?”
Luna looks at me with admiration, and I tilt my head with a smile.
“No… I think it’s rare for high school students to cook for themselves in Japan… Living alone is rare in the first place, isn’t it?”
I don’t know how long Luna has been in Japan, but she seems to have some knowledge about the Japanese.
From her perspective, I guess I look different.
“Well, except for club activities and going out of the prefecture, it’s probably not that common,”
“Why do you live alone, Seito-sama?”
Luna stares at me intently, as if she’s interested in me.
I guess it’s part of her personality that she’s not afraid, or rather, doesn’t hesitate to jump into someone’s pockets.
It seems like she has some natural ingredients, so maybe she hasn’t thought about it too deeply.
“It’s not a pleasant story to hear, you know?”
“It’s about you, Seito-sama, and I want to know.”
“…………”
I think it’s great that she doesn’t hide her fondness for me at all so far.
Apparently, she likes me because I helped her.
That makes me happy, but to be honest…… , I’m having trouble grasping the distance between us.
“Well,…… actually, my father remarried last year. And with someone who had been my neighbor for a long time.”
Luna, who is very friendly toward me, seemed to want to hear this, so I told her what I had been keeping in my heart.
“Did you interact with your neighbor?”
Luna seemed perceptive and approached me with the problem I was having.
But it wasn’t simply a matter of being neighbors.
It was something that happened to me, as it often does in romantic comedies.
“Well,…… actually, the other person had a daughter,…… and she and I had known each other since childhood.”
“………….”
The moment she heard the word “childhood friend,” Luna’s expression plainly clouded over.
After all, it seems like a good guess.
“Are you on good terms with each other…?”
“Hmm I don’t know now.”
Two years ago, I might have answered that we were good friends.
But now ……I’m thinking that maybe I was the only one who thought so.
“What’s wrong?”
“………….”
You’re really pushy…..
It’s not something I want to talk about much,…… but isn’t it good to talk so much and then shut up about what’s not convenient,……
“I confessed to her, but she rejected me.”
“–. …… That’s a sad thing,…….”
Luna gave a few seconds, and then, as she said, she looked sad and lowered her eyes.
But this was still something I could relate to.
Even though we were childhood friends, I had thought about the possibility that we wouldn’t be able to date, and was fully prepared for it.
That’s why I managed to maintain my composure even when I was rejected.
The problem was after that.
A hard thing happened to me.
“It wasn’t long after that. I was told that my dad and his wife were getting remarried.”
At the time, I seriously thought I was in hell.
I was going to live with the person who had dumped me.
It was so awkward, I didn’t feel like living.
“The timing couldn’t have been better. ……”
“Well, my dad didn’t know that I had confessed and been dumped, and they probably thought we were good childhood friends, so I can’t really complain. But because of the awkwardness of it all,…… I was allowed to live on my own as soon as I entered high school.”
So now I am allowed to live alone in an apartment within walking distance of the high school.
My childhood friend who became my sister is also at the same school, but we are in different classes, so we have much less chance to see each other.
At least now, I don’t feel so dragged down by the rejection.
“Reality is not like in anime and manga. ……”
Luna gently hugs my body.
I guess she’s trying to comfort me.
My heartbeat was pounding loudly as this was being done to a cute girl I had just met, but I managed to regain my composure and smile.
“It’s in the past, I don’t care that much anymore.”
[…You’re dragging me to the point where you have to leave the house, so there’s no way you don’t care…]
Hearing my words, Luna blurted out something.
But since it was a whisper in English, I couldn’t quite catch it.
“What did you say?”
I was so curious that I couldn’t help but ask.
“It was nothing. I’m glad if Seito-sama doesn’t mind.”
Luna smiled a cute smile and moved away from me.
It didn’t look like it was nothing, but it seems that she won’t tell me. ……
“May I ask you a question?”
“Eh? Of course…..”
“Do you have a girlfriend, Seito-sama?”
“!?”
She suddenly asked me a probing question, and I couldn’t help but gasp.
“I-I don’t have one, Though ……?”
“I see. Okay”
What on earth?
After all, I can’t get a sense of the distance between me and Luna.
[Childhood friends are a problem, but once the relationship is broken, there shouldn’t be any problems. It seems like he doesn’t have a girlfriend either…so I have to try hard…]
“Luna ……?”
Luna, whose back was turned to me, seemed to be muttering something to herself, so I called out to her.
Then, she turns around and smiles at me.
“If there is anything I can do to help you, please don’t hesitate to let me know.”
“……?”
I felt somewhat misled, but Luna’s smile was too nice for me to bother poking her.
Childhood friend rarely won in JP novels