c4 (1/2)

For starters, I stuffed three days worth of underwear and ht be cold over there, so I put on a thick jacket with a large hood attached Tying ood luck bracelet around my wrist, I stepped out of the house

Because I left a little earlier than I usually do for school, the train was empty But still, as always, Tokyo station overfloith people After waiting in line behind a foreigner dragging his luggage along, I bought a shi+nkansen ticket to Nagoya and headed towards the Toukaidou shi+nkansen ticket gate

Then, I saw so that made me doubt my own eyes

“W-Why are you here!?”

Beside the pillar in front of me stood Okudera-senpai and Tsukasa

“Hehehe, we cah

… What are you, a character from some kind of moe anime?

I glared at Tsukasa He returned the look with a nonchalant face that seemed to say ‘problem?’

“Tsukasa you bastard, I asked you to tell my parents an alibi and to cover my shi+ft at work, didn’t I!?” I yelled complaints to Tsukasa, who sat in the seat besidearea of the shi+nkansen was buried mostly with salarymen in their suits

“I asked Takagi to cover for you at work,” Tsukasa responded casually He held up his phone for i ‘But you owe me food’

“God damn it…” I muttered bitterly

Relying on Tsukasa was a ave me three days, today and the weekend, in Hida As an excuse, I asked Tsukasa to tell everyone that I had soent need to visit an acquaintance

“I came because I orried about you, you know?” Tsukasa said “I can’t leave you alone now, can I What if you get caught up in some sketchy scam?”

“Sketchy scam?”

What is he talking about? As I raised my eyebrow at Tsukasa, Okudera-senpai leaned over from the seat next to him and peered at me

“Taki-kun, you’re going to meet an internet friend?”

“Huh? Ah, not really… that was just an easy way to explain it…”