Chapter 39 - Fortune-telling (2/2)

I see. I tend to forget, but Hiiragi-chan is still an adult. Ever since I was a student, similar things have happened, so I would assume that she would also have abundant experience. There, the conversation ended, and the next day, the first class in the morning was world history. Hiiragi-chan came in with an unenergetic expression, causing the class to whisper to each other.

“Hiiragi-chan’s ghost?”

“No, it has to be a doppelganger, right?”

“Twin sister?”

“A shadow clone, the cloned one?”

Everyone had some sort of misunderstanding by how haggard she looked.

“……Okay…. Then…… let’s start class….”

Her voice was so quiet. She dropped her shoulders and started reading from the textbook.

“… Like this, Jeanne d’Arc and the French army were able to free the town of Orleans from the English army that surrounded it. It could be said that the battle was won through fortune-telling.”

That’s definitely not true! She definitely did the fortune-telling. Moreover, the result was probably really bad. Even though she had said with a smug feel that she wasn’t a kid that would take fortune-telling at face value.

Isn’t she feeling down from taking it at face value? It didn’t go like how she said it at all.

“—It could be said that the England army’s fortune-telling results, or that’s what Sensei believes from my point of view.”

Don’t put in any ideas with no proof. Please teach world history properly, Sensei. You’ve been influenced by fortune-telling and you’re now talking about unnecessary things. Haaah, Hiiragi-chan made a big sigh. She’s believing too much in fortune-telling, it’s almost like she got hooked by a conman taking away her money…

Where did your resolution from yesterday go? If she’s feeling so depressed, it was probably a pretty bad result. I pulled out my cell phone and secretly accessed the fortune-telling site. I entered our birthdays and stroke counts, and hit the button to start the fortune-telling. After a short amount of time, the screen changed.

[Compatability 0.6%]

So low!? It was to the point where it was close enough to call it zero. There was a comment written below it.

[In your previous life, you were archenemies.]

This is the worst.

Yeah… I guess, this is a little depressing…

If Hiiragi-chan had made a mistake while entering the information, and if the correct information would give a compatibility of 100% then that would be a big win! I was hoping for something like that, but reality was not that sweet.

“Hiiragi Haruka”, I’m pretty sure my stroke count was actually correct.

My stroke count as well, I’m pretty sure… Hmmm? While counting, I try writing it down in my notebook. Hmm? The stroke count for “Sanada Seiji” isn’t 37. It’s 36.

I told Hiiragi-chan, who had just passed by, that she had just dropped something.

“Sensei, you just dropped something earlier?”

“…. Eh, aah, yeah…”

What I dropped was just like before, a letter camouflaged as an eraser. Normally, she would quickly move to her desk to check its contents, however she didn’t seem that energetic today and dragged her feet like a ghost back to the teacher’s desk. I could tell that Hiiragi-chan was secretly doing something with her hands.

“…!?”

It seemed that she read it.

“S-sensei seemed to have forgotten some teaching materials, so I’m going to the prep room to get them.”

Emphasizing the preparation room, she gave me a wink for a moment.

“P-please be quiet, okay?”

Saying that, Hiiragi-chan started running down the hall. Seems like she was going to try it again. Pretending to go to the bathroom, I also left the classroom. Lightly jogging to the preparation room, I saw Hiiragi-chan grasping her cellphone. I still hadn’t entered the correct values, and determined whether or not I needed to comfort her or not.

That’s why, I thought that it would be better if I did it myself. But seeing Hiiragi-chan’s expression, it seems to have been a success.

“Seiji-kun…!”

With a tearful expression, she faced the cell phone screen towards me.

[Compatibility 120%]

I breathed a sigh of relief.

“That’s good. Today, you were depressed because the fortune-telling results were bad, right? Even though you said that you weren’t a child who would take it at face value.”

“T-that’s wrong… It was just that something bad happened. M-more than that, look. Look at this!”

Her index finger was pointing at the comment.

[Your fated partner.]

“Fated partner, huh…?”

“W-what? I-isn’t that good? Fated partner. Or, Seiji-kun, are you dissatisfied?”

Slowly, slowly, Hiiragi-chan continued to approach me. The way in which she was closing in, I was pretty sure I knew what she was expecting.

“It’s not that I’m dissatisfied. I’m perfectly happy with it.”

“That’s great!”

Slowly bringing her face closer, she came in for a kiss.

“It’s still class time.”

“It’s fine. It’s just once.”

Despite saying that, I was used to her repeating these two or three more times. Describing it as destiny, makes it sound a little cheap. Moreover, cellphone fortune-telling feels quite suspicious.

“For me, Seiji-kun is my fated partner. It would be great if for Seiji-kun, that person was me…”

Ah, I see. Switching the order of entering the values, this time we’ll do a fortune-telling from my point of view. As I tried it from my point of view, Hiiragi-chan asked me how it was as she peeked at my screen with an embarrassed expression.

[Compatibility 120%. Your fated partner.]

Yeah. This is good. I guess it’s alright to believe in it a bit more.

“A big win!”

Eheheh, Hiiragi-chan made a peace sign with her normal smile.