There was a pain in my heart.

The reason why Nanami didn't notice the message was because she was spending time with Yukiko.

Get along with peace of mind...

He didn't care about his own plans at all.

Maybe so.

Perhaps, for Nanami, the existence that suddenly intervened in her life could not be compared with Yukiko who had always been by her side...

Someone who doesn't matter.

Maybe it's better to disappear.

The feeling of suffocation continued to come.

The pain in my heart made it difficult to breathe.

The glaring light from the phone made my vision blurry.

Arisu focused his attention on the chat window of 'LINE'.

[Sorry for disturbing Nanami's normal life]

[This will never happen again]

Chapter 49: Don’t let it rain so much (please read on)

Suffocation.

The sound of the heart beating faster completely drowned out the sound of the wind whistling past my ears.

I can clearly feel that my body is overwhelmed.

But, I still couldn't stop running.

"It's great that Arisu-san isn't here."

——Everything I have suffered...

It is no longer possible to pretend that nothing happened.

---------

The turned-off cell phone was tightly held in his hand, and his lower lip, which had been squeezed by his teeth for a long time, turned a faint purple.

Feeling exhausted, Arisu Sato, who was no longer able to run, stopped at the steps in front of a roadside convenience store.

Because of the dense cumulonimbus clouds in the sky, there were not many pedestrians on the cool streets.

Keeping his face buried in his knees, the weakness in his body was more obvious at this moment than at any other time before.

"It's great that Arisu-san isn't here."

Nanami's words emerged uncontrollably in my mind.

For Nanami, will my existence only cause him unnecessary trouble?

For Nanami, it must be very painful for her to suddenly be an outsider and interfere in her originally peaceful life. She had chosen to hide this fact all along.

Just leaving can solve everything.

If I just leave Nanami I won't have to worry about this anymore, right?

Nanami has the same idea in her mind, right?

I am a person who only knows how to ask for things. Aren't you annoying?

Nanami, who had kept this thought hidden in her heart, must have been tormented when facing herself?

It's okay to leave.

Leaving would solve everything.

My vision, obscured by tears, became blurry.

My thoughts were emptied and everything in my mind was replaced by blankness.

"Really..."

"It's really hard to find Arisu-san who suddenly announced that he was running away from home."

The light from the sunset shone on the steps under my feet, giving the surface a golden hue.

The brown leather shoes that suddenly appeared in his field of vision made Arisu suddenly realize something.

The cheeks gradually rise.

——It was Nanami Fumito who was leaning forward with his hands on his knees.

"You suddenly said something like 'I disturbed Nanami's normal life' on LINE. Since we are roommates, can you let me know the reason before leaving? I want to understand how Arisu disturbed me. If you are determined to leave, at least tell me clearly about these aspects."

Nanami had never experienced a moment like this before.

After seeing the message sent by Arisu on LINE, I didn't think about anything else and just wanted to confront the other party in person.

——Desperate to achieve the goal.

Yuusi sat down next to him silently, not minding at all that the steps under his feet were steps that had been trodden countless times.

After a few minutes of stalemate, Nanami looked at Arisu whose hair was messy due to the wind.

"Can you tell me why you suddenly said something like that? It's weird, isn't it? I clearly remember that I didn't say anything like 'I hate Arisu-san' or 'Arisu-san should just leave'?"

He still just kept his face lowered.

There's something wrong with Arisu-san who remains silent.

Nanami shifted her gaze towards the 'probability event' that appeared above Arisu's head.

[If we can explain the misunderstanding in Yukiko's house, the chances of getting closer to each other will be 100%]

Is this a misunderstanding at Yukiko-senpai's house?

Nanami's expression turned serious.

"Is it because of what I said to Yukiko-senpai that Arisu has the thought 'I hate you'?"

"It's great that Arisu-san isn't here."

It seemed... that these words were said inadvertently.

Was Arisu-san misunderstood?

That's why I had the idea of ​​running away from home...

Forget it.

It doesn't matter what the other party thinks now.

The important thing is to explain everything clearly.

Nanami Fumito looked at Arisu Sato with a very serious expression.

"Ahem, I wanted to hide this matter, but since Arisu has forced me to this point, there is no need to hide it anymore. Anyway... just listen to me. When I was collecting my underwear, the thread of my suit pants accidentally broke, and the red underwear I was wearing was exposed... Yukiko-senpai, who happened to be hanging clothes, witnessed it all. It was because of this incident that she teased me, 'Nanami, have you been eating too much recently?' Anyway, this is the cause of everything, so I said, 'It's great that Arisu-san is not at home', which caused misunderstandings."

"I don't mean to ask you to leave. I just think it's embarrassing that you didn't even notice something like this when you're an adult. If Arisu saw this, she would definitely laugh at you, right?"

After hearing Nanami's long speech, the uneasy feeling in my heart seemed to disappear a lot.

Arisu's cheeks puffed up slightly, just like a pufferfish that had been provoked and had activated the 'self-defense counterattack' mode.

"If that's the case, why did Nanami deliberately ignore my message and even show up at that guy's house... Did she think I'm unimportant and that's why she thought replying to messages was unimportant?"

"...I went to Yukiko's house only because I left my charger at the company and forgot to take it. If I had known that it would cause such a serious misunderstanding, I would never have neglected these things."

When he saw Nanami's panicked explanation, the cumulonimbus clouds that had been building up in his heart were immediately dispelled by the sunlight.

Everything that was covered by darkness became bright again.

"Why does Nanami know I'm here?"

Arisu Sato secretly observed the subtle reactions on Nanami's face from the side.

Nanami responded calmly.

"Because I noticed it thirty seconds after Arisu sent the message, and I saw you as I ran downstairs. I kept calling out to you, 'Arisu-san, wait a moment,' but you didn't pay any attention to me. You chased after the female JK like a pervert on the street, and were even stopped by the police. It was all because Arisu ran too fast."

Listening to Nanami's complaining words -

The negative emotions accumulated in my heart disappeared without a trace.

"Anyway, after my explanation, Arisu's thoughts of running away from home should have disappeared."

Nanami Fumito brushed off the dust on his body, as if he had anticipated the other party's inner thoughts, and then stretched out his right hand towards Arisu Sato who was squatting on the ground.

"In that case, let's go back now. I still need Arisu to wash my underwear."

Seeing Nanami's smile again, I don't know how to feel about it.

Happy? Joy?

No.

But this monotonous emotion is simply not enough to express the complex feelings in my heart.

Holding Nanami's right hand tightly, as he stood up, the noisy sound of rain quickly filled his field of vision.

The rain came completely unexpectedly.

This is the rainy season in Tokyo...

"Really? Please don't rain like this."

Nanami showed a rather helpless smile on her face.

Chapter 50: Nanami just mentioned the word 'like', right?

The rain that had lasted for half an hour showed signs of stopping.

Tokyo was covered by rain, and the lines were blurred in the rain. I had never experienced such a close-up view of the rain before.

I don't like being outside when it rains.

Tap the screen to use advanced tools Tip: You can use left and right keyboard keys to browse between chapters.

You'll Also Like