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| 1 | Hiyori Volume 7 SS | |
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| 4 | I wish we can become friends | |
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| 8 | That day, I went towards the library when the lunch break started. | |
| 9 | I had been going to the library several days in a row in order to look for Raymond Chandler’s “Farewell, My Lovely”. Recently, due to its popularity, it had been hard to borrow that book. | |
| 10 | I didn’t have anyone I could consider as friend and I had always been alone. | |
| 11 | Of course, it’s not like I didn’t want to make friends, but I had never been good at dealing with people. | |
| 12 | “…It’s not here.” | |
| 13 | As soon as I arrived at the mystery novels section, I immediately dropped my shoulders in disappointment. | |
| 14 | I’ll come back after the classes are finished to check for it, I need to come here before going to the Tea ceremony club. | |
| 15 | Although I was quite happy being alone, I also felt loneliness once in a while. | |
| 16 | Ryuuen-kun couldn’t stand to see me like that so he talked to me, but since there were always a lot of people around him, that made me feel very nervous so I wasn’t able to stay together with him. | |
| 17 | “Eh?” | |
| 18 | There was a book placed in a high place. | |
| 19 | Suddenly, I realized that the book didn’t match with the classification of the section. | |
| 20 | Was the staff member who made a mistake? | |
| 21 | “En…” | |
| 22 | I extended my hand in order to get it down, but I couldn’t reach it. | |
| 23 | Incredibly, even though I knew I couldn’t reach it, I still tried to do it several times. | |
| 24 | “I still can’t reach it.” | |
| 25 | Then, when I was about to arrive at the conclusion that I couldn’t reach it. | |
| 26 | “I might be doing some unnecessary things…” | |
| 27 | A boy said that and helped me draw the book that was classified wrongly. | |
| 28 | “I recall you are class C’s…” | |
| 29 | He said that to me and after that, I also remembered him. | |
| 30 | “I recall… you are Ayanokouji-kun, right?” | |
| 31 | Thinking back, I saw him previously during Ryuuen’s introduction. | |
| 32 | I remember at that moment they were looking for the person who defeated Ryuuen-kun… that sort of stuff. | |
| 33 | Although, as a result, they performed a thorough investigation to Class D, but that has nothing to do with the present situation. | |
| 34 | I have never been interested in those things. | |
| 35 | “Yeah. For now, I’ll give you this.” | |
| 36 | “Thank you.” | |
| 37 | I took the book and just in case I confirmed the library card. | |
| 38 | As expected, this book should be placed in another section. | |
| 39 | “Do you like Bronte’s books?” | |
| 40 | I opened the book and closed it again. He looked at me as if it was strange. | |
| 41 | It looks like he misunderstood me and thought I liked Bronte’s books. | |
| 42 | "Personally, I neither like nor dislike anything. But the book was in the wrong section, so I just wanted to return it to the right place. | |
| 43 | "So it was like that…” | |
| 44 | At that moment, I noticed a certain thing. | |
| 45 | That was the book Ayanokouji-kun was holding in his hand. | |
| 46 | "By the way, the book you have in your hands is... "Farewell, My Lovely" right? It's a masterpiece." | |
| 47 | I didn’t know why but I thought I’d found a comrade, so I couldn’t help but to inquire him. | |
| 48 | "I managed to borrow it from a friend today." | |
| 49 | "You're very luck then, for some unknown reason, Raymond Chandler is very popular amongst the 2nd-year students and the battle over this book has been continuing for a while. I've also been wanting to read it for a while now, but today I haven't been able to find it here either." | |
| 50 | "I’m sorry, I seem to have done something bad. Monopolizing it." | |
| 51 | "I don't mind. I've read this book before. And besides, while looking for that book, I was blessed to run into other books. It seems this school’s library has a large collection of books. If I were to immerse myself into reading them, I might have graduated before I realized." | |
| 52 | "…I see, that might be so". | |
| 53 | After that, I unconsciously talked passionately about books with Ayanokouji-kun. | |
| 54 | Although I also realized in the middle of the speech that he remained silent, but that was because extremely happy and I did it involuntarily. | |
| 55 | Time passed in the blink of an eye. | |
| 56 | I felt lonely because the chat was ending and I unknowingly said the words that didn’t match my usual self. | |
| 57 | “You have probably not eaten lunch yet, right? If it’s okay, would you like to have lunch together with me?” | |
| 58 | "……Eh" | |
| 59 | It was normal to be confused. | |
| 60 | After all, not even I expected that I would proactively say those kinds of words. | |
| 61 | In addition, there seemed to be a lot of dispute between Class C and Class D. | |
| 62 | Even if I also believed I would be rejected, I still continued talking. | |
| 63 | "There's no one in Class C who likes reading novels, so I have no one I can talk to" | |
| 64 | Therefore, I frankly told him my feelings. | |
| 65 | “Wouldn’t this cause a lot of problems? Right now Class C is in an uproar by actively looking for someone from Class D, right? I think I'm being counted as one of the many suspects.” | |
| 66 | "Please don't worry. Last time, I was only helping Ryuuen-kun as a formality. From the start, I was never interested in things like conflicts. Or is it a problem for you to talk to me?" | |
| 67 | "No. If there's no problem on your end, I have nothing to say either." | |
| 68 | "That's a relief. Because creating cracks between classes over such trivial things makes me unhappy. After all, the best thing is for everybody to live in harmony.” | |
| 69 | Ayanokouji-kun didn’t reveal a disgusted expression, so that made me feel very happy. | |
| 70 | "Shall we leave then? Time is flying.” | |
| 71 | Maybe I can make a friend with similar interests. | |
| 72 | A part of me thought these actions were not like me, while the other part was extremely excited towards this development. | |
| 73 | I hoped that, in the future, the dispute between classes wouldn’t create a crack between us. | |
| 74 | - | I thought this deep in my heart. |
| 74 | + | I thought this deep in my heart. |
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| 78 | Translated by MadBunnyru |