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- Hiyori Volume 7 SS
- I wish we can become friends
- That day, I went towards the library when the lunch break started.
- 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.
- I didn’t have anyone I could consider as friend and I had always been alone.
- Of course, it’s not like I didn’t want to make friends, but I had never been good at dealing with people.
- “…It’s not here.”
- As soon as I arrived at the mystery novels section, I immediately dropped my shoulders in disappointment.
- 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.
- Although I was quite happy being alone, I also felt loneliness once in a while.
- 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.
- “Eh?”
- There was a book placed in a high place.
- Suddenly, I realized that the book didn’t match with the classification of the section.
- Was the staff member who made a mistake?
- “En…”
- I extended my hand in order to get it down, but I couldn’t reach it.
- Incredibly, even though I knew I couldn’t reach it, I still tried to do it several times.
- “I still can’t reach it.”
- Then, when I was about to arrive at the conclusion that I couldn’t reach it.
- “I might be doing some unnecessary things…”
- A boy said that and helped me draw the book that was classified wrongly.
- “I recall you are class C’s…”
- He said that to me and after that, I also remembered him.
- “I recall… you are Ayanokouji-kun, right?”
- Thinking back, I saw him previously during Ryuuen’s introduction.
- I remember at that moment they were looking for the person who defeated Ryuuen-kun… that sort of stuff.
- Although, as a result, they performed a thorough investigation to Class D, but that has nothing to do with the present situation.
- I have never been interested in those things.
- “Yeah. For now, I’ll give you this.”
- “Thank you.”
- I took the book and just in case I confirmed the library card.
- As expected, this book should be placed in another section.
- “Do you like Bronte’s books?”
- I opened the book and closed it again. He looked at me as if it was strange.
- It looks like he misunderstood me and thought I liked Bronte’s books.
- "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.
- "So it was like that…”
- At that moment, I noticed a certain thing.
- That was the book Ayanokouji-kun was holding in his hand.
- "By the way, the book you have in your hands is... "Farewell, My Lovely" right? It's a masterpiece."
- I didn’t know why but I thought I’d found a comrade, so I couldn’t help but to inquire him.
- "I managed to borrow it from a friend today."
- "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."
- "I’m sorry, I seem to have done something bad. Monopolizing it."
- "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."
- "…I see, that might be so".
- After that, I unconsciously talked passionately about books with Ayanokouji-kun.
- 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.
- Time passed in the blink of an eye.
- I felt lonely because the chat was ending and I unknowingly said the words that didn’t match my usual self.
- “You have probably not eaten lunch yet, right? If it’s okay, would you like to have lunch together with me?”
- "……Eh"
- It was normal to be confused.
- After all, not even I expected that I would proactively say those kinds of words.
- In addition, there seemed to be a lot of dispute between Class C and Class D.
- Even if I also believed I would be rejected, I still continued talking.
- "There's no one in Class C who likes reading novels, so I have no one I can talk to"
- Therefore, I frankly told him my feelings.
- “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.”
- "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?"
- "No. If there's no problem on your end, I have nothing to say either."
- "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.”
- Ayanokouji-kun didn’t reveal a disgusted expression, so that made me feel very happy.
- "Shall we leave then? Time is flying.”
- Maybe I can make a friend with similar interests.
- A part of me thought these actions were not like me, while the other part was extremely excited towards this development.
- I hoped that, in the future, the dispute between classes wouldn’t create a crack between us.
- I thought this deep in my heart.
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