Chapter 47 - Discussion 2 (2/2)
“You as well… don’t think of Haru-chan badly, right?”
“That’s, yeah. That’s right.”
“I’ll keep saying this, but it’s the first time seeing her like this. Being so happy when you were here, and immediately becoming sad once you were gone. When I asked her about you and when she told me about you, she had so much pride in it… She likes you. Probably.”
“M-mooouuu, stoooop iiittt.”
While having her face turn red, Hiiragi-chan hit Natsumi-chan with a cushion.
“Sei!”
“Ah!”
The cushion was immediately stolen from Hiiragi-chan.
“Be quiet. I’m talking right now.”
“… yes.”
The old sister is so weak.
But, Natsumi-chan wanted to say something. Is she going to deny Hiiragi-chan her feelings feelings, or is she going to support it?
“I’m quite worried about Haru-chan. I can’t even see the m in male around her, and yet she’s already twenty-four.” [1]
“My age is perfectly fine.”
Hiiragi-chan, who was trying to steal the cushion back, was easily prevented.
“Muuu…”
“Meeting you like this today, I can see that you’re quite calm despite being younger. I feel that I can leave the airheaded Haru-chan to you. If you were some weird guy, I would have stopped it though…”
Well, of course.
Natsumi-chan, after evaluating me was now pushing Hiiragi-chan towards me, despite how much she cared about her.
“If it was me, then you could leave Sensei to me?”
“If you are fine with it, that is.”
“But, I’m just a second year high school student.”
“Didn’t I say it earlier? If it was someone that I could depend on, then I would support Haru-chan’s love. Is age really something to consider when it comes to love?”
Alongside her, Hiiragi-chan nodded along, acting like an expert in the field.
We’re talking about you, you know?
As I thought, Natsumi-chan isn’t looking at people based on title, but actually looking at them. Rather than the part where I am a high school student, and Hiiragi-chan is a teacher, it was more about Sanada Seiji and Hiragi Haruka as people. Really, she’s such a good child.
This… is plan B.
“If it has already been found out, or if there was no problem for her to find out, then we will be open about out our relationship.”
“Yeah. Alright. If it’s Natsumi, I think she would accept it if we explain it to her, so if it comes to that, it’ll definitely be alright.”
That was plan B. It is one of the plans we made when we met in advance. Locking eyes with Hiiragi-chan, I nodded.
“Haru-chan, there isn’t many other timings like this, so you should just say it! I threw out a bone for you. Moreover, I don’t feel like Thief-kun is bad, definitely—”
“Ummm, Natsum—”
Before Hiiragi-chan could say anything, I spoke first.
“Natsumi-chan, Sensei and I, we’re already dating.”
“Eh?”
Shocked, Natsumi-chan looked at Hiiragi-chan as if to confirm.
“Yeah. It’s true.”
Saying that, Hiiragi-chan came to my side. Natsumi-chan’s eyes went wide.
“Eh? S-since when?”
“Since the middle of April. It’s been just over three months.”
“Then, that talk last time about the thief stuff…”
“Sorry about that. That was just something made up. A lie.”
“Whaaaaat… Tell me about this earlier…”
“We thought that you might be against it, so it made it hard to say… But this time, Seiji-kun said that if it looked alright, then we should be open about it.”
Tears started pouring out from Natsumi-chan.
“I won’t be against it… I even support it… don’t hide it… it makes it worse that way.”
Hiiragi-chan once again apologized to Natsumi-chan before hugging her and patting her on the head to stop Natsumi-chan from crying.
“It wasn’t just that time, I’ve thought about it a hundred times. Today as well, you didn’t bring out tea, but coffee, serving it without any milk or sugar, completely black, and yet Thief-kun didn’t give a word of complaint… coffee rather than tea, moreover black as well… you know someone like that Haru-chan, I thought… But, if it was someone that you were deeply involved in, Haru-chan would tell me… so I was wondering what it was.”
As expected, she was a sharp detective… But, the fact that she supports Hiiragi-chan and I is a relief.
“This is great…! Haru-chan, this is really great. Con—grats…”
With a tear strewn face and broken words, Natsumi-chan blessed us.
“Dank jou…! Najumi, fer zuppording uz, dank you…” [2]
Hiiragi-chan as well! She’s also crying!! Why is the person on the receiving end of the support crying more!
In this way, the relationship between Hiiragi-chan and I was revealed to her little sister, Natsumi.
TL Note:
This was in Japanese 男の『お』の字, which is basically saying the first letter in the word for male/boy. I hope this makes sense in English.
I hope it’s readable… but it’s supposed to say, “Thank you…! Natsumi, for supporting us, thank you…”