A Sweet Romance That Starts With One Bottle of Juice, Between a Heiress Who Must Marry Her First Kiss and a Lonesome Guy With a Menacing Look - Chapter 2 - Two People Who Crossed Paths - Part 1

Chapter 2 – Two People Who Crossed Paths – Part 1

—When I woke up in the morning, it felt like yesterday was a dream.

“…Haha, I don’t see how you can die early if you don’t marry the person you had your first kiss with, right?”

The plastic bottle thing was indirect, and I wouldn’t really call it a kiss.

I lazily got out of bed and went into the washroom for a quick fix…

“Yasuda-sama, I’ve been waiting for you—”

I closed the bathroom door.

“Was that Natsume-san?”

There’s no mistaking that dark hair, the cosplay-like maid outfit and the stylish glasses.

I’m even hallucinating now, I can’t believe it.

I opened the bathroom door again.

“I have been waiting for you. If it’s your bedhead, I have hot water and a towel prepared here, so if you place it on your head, it will quickly go away.”

I closed the door again and opened it again, but she was still there.

So…it wasn’t a dream…

She was waiting for me in a maid outfit, with a pot and a hand towel in her hands.

“Why are you here… The door was locked, wasn’t it?”

“I am not trespassing in any way. I was allowed to go up here with your mother’s permission.”

I went to my mom in the living room.

“Oh my, Tadakuni. Good morning.”

My mother was in the living room doing her daily radio exercises.

“What’s wrong? You haven’t gotten rid of your bedhead.”

“Mom… Why did you let her in the house?”

“She told me she was the guardian of one of your classmates~”

“That’s right. I am the maid of the Yasunomihara family. My name is Natsume.”

“Oh my goodness, you can be more casual.”

I didn’t realize that my mother’s quirkiness would cause trouble in a situation like this…

The fact that Natsume-san came all the way here means that what happened yesterday can’t be a dream.

✳︎✳︎

I left the house at the usual time and went to school as usual.

The only difference is that the Yasunomihara family maid, Natsume-san, is following behind me…

“Um, Natsume-san?”

“Yes, what is it?”

“I have so many questions I want to ask you.”

“Please get to the point.” 

“…Did you come to pick me up so early in the morning because you had something to do with me?”

“Yes. I am here to watch over the gentleman who is going to share the future with Yuuka-sama so that he does not have an accident on his way to school.”

“It’ll be fine, so you don’t have to do this again starting tomorrow.”

Having to deal with other people is already difficult for me, and now I have to go to school with this person…

Natsume-san walked behind me, swinging the long skirt of her maid uniform.

It hurts when people look at me, and it feels kind of awkward with Natsume-san…

“By the way…”

It was Natsume-san who suddenly broke the air of silence.

“Does Yasuda-sama dislike Yuuka-sama?”

“I-It’s not like I hate her or anything!”

“So do you like her?”

“Well, that’s…”

I can’t imagine that me and Yasunomihara-san would get along well, even though we ended up in this situation due to the first kiss and all.

The world we live in, the world we see, is too different.

“…I don’t like or hate her, but I’m fine as long as Yasunomihara-san doesn’t die.”

“…I see. It seems your way of thinking is quite modest for your appearance.” 

“Is that so wrong?”

“No. I found it better than some of the lowlifes out there.”

I don’t feel complimented at all.

A limousine was parked in front of the school gate.

That’s Yasunomihara-san, isn’t it?

Natsume-san approached the limousine and opened the rear door.

“Good morning, Yasuda-san.”

“G-Good morning.”

Yasunomihara-san exuded a divine aura from the morning.

A small fry character like me could be obliterated by her aura.

It’s a strange feeling, considering that just yesterday she was just a classmate.

It is no exaggeration to say that the number one in the school year is Yasunomihara Yuuka.

It’s special just to be able to talk to her—

“……”

“……”

Talking to such a Yasunomihara-san, who is the top student in our grade, is too challenging for someone like me who struggles with social interactions.

“Yasuda-san?”

“Well, um, you know…”

The moment I tried to find the words and managed to twist them together—

“Good morning, Yuuka-chan!”

My voice was completely drowned out by a group of girls who suddenly appeared.

They were two tomboy gals from our class.

I’m not particularly good with that type. 

“Yuuka-chan smells so good again today!”

“Please stop that!”

“Yuuka~ Share some of that young lady aura with us too!” 

“M-Mou~”

Looking at it this way, Yasunomihara-san is just an ordinary high school girl.

Perhaps because I was looking too closely at her, and Yasunomihara-san noticed me, and our eyes met.

“Hmm? Were you perhaps talking to Yasuda-kun?”

“That’s not…true.”

I turned on my heel in denial.

“Sorry, Yasunomihara-san. I’ll get going first.”

I said this and left the place as if I was running away.

“Hmm, what’s wrong, Yuuka?”

“It’s nothing.”

A semi-coercive romance that began with a relationship in which we had never spoken at all…

Are we really okay like this…?