Chapter 53 - A Rainy Day (2/2)

“…”

Putting aside the super big part, I can’t really deny the brocon part.

“I was a little bit jealous of you two when I was watching, but then you didn’t go back with her. And so, I thought in front of the troubled Seiji-kun, Haruka-san could appear quite gallantly.”

From start to finish, she was watching the whole time.

“I see. And so, you decided to send me home while sharing an umbrella.”

“It’s not that far, so I could probably send you back and then come back to work.”

Potsu, potsu, the sound of the raindrops smashing into the top of the umbrella could be heard. Since even the sound of the rain hitting the ground was really loud, the distance between us naturally closed in order to listen to what the other person was saying.

“Seiji-kun, your shoulder is getting wet.”

Hiiragi-chan then tilted the umbrella towards me.

“Eh. Aaah. It’s fine. It’s only this much. I’m just going to go home and change anyways.”

“No. You’ll catch a cold.”

I lost to her pushing and so the umbrella tilted my direction. Inevitably, the umbrella became unable to cover Hiiragi-chan’s side fully.

“Haruka-san, you’re getting wet.”

“Just this much is fine.”

“It’s bad for a girl’s body to get cold.”

Or, so someone told me. Why it’s bad, I don’t really know though.

“Then, then, let’s get closer together?”

She wrapped her arm around mine, and so we walked with intertwined arms. No one will recognize us due to the umbrella, and since it’s raining, there’s probably not that many people around. We probably won’t be found out.

“It hasn’t been like this since our date in the city, right?”

“Really?”

“That’s—myaa!? I stepped in a puddle by accident… now, my leg is all wet…”

Hiiragi-chan’s mouth formed a frown.

I guess she had already thought up to sharing the umbrella and linking arms while doing it, but I guess she isn’t the type to really plan this far ahead. However, even after getting soaked by the rain, and getting her shoe stuck in a puddle, Hiiragi-chan still looked like she was enjoying it all.

“Going home with the person I love like this, has always been one of my dreams. Just once would have been fine. Sorry, for being so forceful about it.”

“It’s okay. I was troubled since I didn’t have an umbrella after all. Rather, it seems like it was just perfect.”

Now that I think about it, I don’t really know much about Hiiragi-chan’s past. From what Natsumi-chan said last time, let alone a boyfriend, she didn’t have any males that she was even close with, if I remember correctly.

“Haruka-san, when you were a student, were you popular?”

“Eeeh? Not popular, not at all.”

“Really…? Among the boys, Hiiragi-sensei is admired by all as an Onee-san character though.”

“Heeeh, is that so? So that means, the person that everyone admires was secretly stolen away by Seiji-kun.”

“That’s how it is.”

“But you know, that makes me kind of happy.”

Heheh, Hiiragi-chan giggled.

“If I look like I would be popular, despite my own self-assessment, that means in Seiji-kun’s eyes, I’m quite attractive, right?”

Right, right? Hiiragi-chan used her elbow to poke my sides.

“If that wasn’t the case, then I wouldn’t have fallen in love.”

“——— … M-mouuuu, Seiji-kun, you Italian!”

I told you, I’m Japanese.

As we got closer and closer to my house, Hiiragi-chan’s footsteps became heavier. Reluctant to let me go, she put a little more force into her arm that was entwined with my.

“…”

The amount of speaking lessened as she glanced at me from the side with her lips closed in a lonely manner.

“Why don’t we take a slight detour?”

“No, it’s okay. I-I need to go back to school since I still have work.”

Though she said that, her footsteps got a little lighter. It was easy to read Hiiragi-chan as her expression suddenly became brighter.

We weren’t really going anywhere, just taking a walk nearby. Having returned to our original state, we engaged in random conversations here and there. It seems that we can do normal couple like things on rainy days like this.

“Is something wrong?”

I shook my head as Hiiragi-chan turned to look at me.

“Mou, I’ve been so wet, that the skin on my foot, is probably wrinkly by now…”

“Don’t mind it.”

“If that’s the case, no matter how wet we get, it’ll all be the same…”

Mufufu, laughing like that, Hiiragi-chan jumped into a puddle. The splash flew towards me.

“Uwah!? ——So childish!”

“Ahahahahah.”

However, just walking back together under the same umbrella was enough to be happy with.