Aren’t You Too Sweet Salt-God Sato-San?

I had misunderstood Oshio’s kindness somewhere in my heart, and I said the decisive words.

——I’m thinking of going out for ice cream rolls this Saturday! If it’s ok with Oshio-kun, would you like to come with me?

I invited Oshio-kun for Date.

Regarding that, Oshio-kun replied with a terribly troubled face.

——–sorry, I have an errand to do that day.

If it had been just this, I would have been very disappointed, but I may have taken the words as they were meant.

But he cared for me and kept going.

——-But don’t worry, Sato-san can take such great pictures, even without my help.

If you say this much, even I, a person who is not familiar with love affairs, will understand.

I crossed a line that I shouldn’t have crossed in order to be friends and made the kind Oshio-kun reject me.

[…….]

*Crunch*, I continued to shave off ice cream.

The ice cream rolls, which originally look so good, are getting dirtier and jerky.

……..At the first place, why did I decide to aim for becoming minstagrammar?

To make friends… ….. Of course, that was there, but I don’t think it was the final goal.

Because I wasn’t that troubled even if I don’t have any friends.

Then, why is that so?

Giving it a little thought, I realised it soon.

That’s right—–to get closer to Oshio-kun.

In order to get closer to Oshio-kun, who is cool and kind to everyone, I decided to become a proper high school girl and started doing stupid things like this.

Even if I don’t have any friends or no charm, I thought that if I became a glittering Minstagrammar , I would be on the same stage as him……

But that was a shallow idea.

For a long time, Oshio-kun was an unattainable flower, which was impossible for me to touch.

And now, it’s disappeared from my scope of vision.

[Ah…. that’s right.]

I totally understand as I eat the terribly salty ice cream.

The reason why 800 yen ice cream, which should have been delicious, is not delicious.

Oshio-kun had said before, what’s important isn’t tapioca milk tea.

I particularly didn’t want to eat pancakes, drink tapioca milk tea or even eat ice cream.

I just wanted to be on the same frame as Oshio-kun.

[……….]

As emotions started overflowing I couldn’t endure anymore and downcast my face.

A strange floating feeling wraps around the whole body, making me feel uncomfortable enough to vomit.

The laughter of the high school girls feel so distant that it seems as if it is coming from another dimension.

And I feel as if I am the only one in the world.

I remember this feeling.

But this feeling of being crushed in the depths of the ocean was much more incomparable to that day.

Because My first love, which comes in life only for one time, had just now dissipated.

[……… Oshio-kun……]

As if wishing for help,I said his name.

As if it becomes the signal, the dam Inside me started to break, at that time——

A coat gently covers my upper body.

[…..what?]

Suddenly the upper half of my field of vision is covered, and the emotions that overflow from me are pulled back.

W-w-what is it……?

[It would be bad if you get cold, so use it.]

Suddenly, a voice comes from above my head, the voice that I had even dreamed of.

At this time, I really had the illusion that my thumping heart stopped suddenly.

Dressed in his Cafe Tutuji uniform, he slowly sat down on the seat opposite me and placed his own ice cream roll on the table.

I couldn’t see him because of the coat covering my upper half but I understood.

I understand his gentle voice and his beautiful fingers.

As soon as he got to the table, he scooped up an ice cream with a plastic spoon and put it in his mouth.

Here for the first time I looked up and saw him.

Holding spoon, somewhat mischievously but kindly.

[Oh, I ate it before I could take a picture……. Ah well, it’s not very tasty, is it?]

Saying so, Oshio smiled at me as usual.

I hate my own naivety for getting even a little carried away.

I squeezed the jacket over my head and put it on even deeper.

I don’t want Oshio-kun to look at such a face.

[Ha….haha, how did you know I was there Oshio-kun?….]

I somehow managed to let out a shaky voice. If I let my guard down even a little bit, I would be going to explode again.

[Besides that, didn’t you have an errand to do today…..?]

After I said that, I was disgusted by my own bad character.

However, if I don’t do that, I will misunderstand it again.

Of course it’s already decided, Oshio-kun only pitied a gloomy woman like me who was eating ice cream rolls alone——

[……yes, but I really wanted to eat ice cream rolls with Sato-san, so I finished my errand earlier.]

[What……?]

I couldn’t help but raise my head.

Hereupon, Oshio held his mouth with his hand, his gaze slanting downward with an expression I’ve never seen before.

Oshio-kun, his face is red…..

[…….I’m sorry, that sounded like I was hitting on you.]

[Eh……how?]

Suddenly, my face became hot as if it was on fire, and I quickly retracted into the shell of my jacket and looked back at Table.

No, that isn’t it. That’s not the type of voice a high school girl let out.

[So……so it’s like that. hahaha]

It’s not a haha. Already, I didn’t even know what’s the right response anymore.

I couldn’t look at Oshio-kun’s face.

I was looking down at my empty ice cream cup, frozen——it was at that time.

I heard the sound of taking a deep breath twice or three times from above, and immediately after that, something slipped into my field of vision.

[What…?]

It was Oshio-kun smartphone.

What displayed on the screen was the photo of ice cream I had uploaded on Minsta.

I was surprised that Oshio-kun knew my Minsta account, but even more surprised that it had already been almost 30 minute since I uploaded the photo.

It seems I’ve been so absent-minded that I’ve even lost track of time.

[…. about how I know you are here, first of all there aren’t many store who serve ice cream roll in sakuraba.in addition with mint on cream, you don’t even have to guess around since there’s no one but “aytim 9”.]

Oshio-kun said like a detective and pointed to the tags I have set up.

When I saw it, I certainly forgot to tag the store name.
Oshio told me that it’s important where I ate, but what an elementary mistake I made,I started to hate myself.

At that point…..

[As expected, Oshio-kun is amazing.]

I muttered with self-deprecation while staring at Oshio-kun smartphone.

Not good, I can’t control my emotions anymore.

[Not only do you work as an employee at a stylish café, but you also have much more knowledge than I do and you’re a great photographer……haha, I’m losing confidence.]

That was a lie.The truth is that my fragile confidence was shattered long ago.

The more I know about Oshio-kun, the more I understand that he is not within my reach.

[……..I think I might have gotten a little carried away, uploading these crappy pictures to Minstagram and wanting to be a Minstagrammer……… I guess might be better to delete it……]

I said in a shaky voice.

Hereupon, Oshio-kun answer to that was—–

[Yes, they are terrible.]

I tied my mouth tightly at his harsh words.

I knew it,I should have known that.

[First, you have taken the photo from too high position, then aytim9 logo is on the side but it’s not reflected properly and the filter is also strange.]

…………I knew it.i should have known it all along

Still, it’s sad to be told directly from Oshio’s mouth………

When the inner corner of the eye gets hot and a drop of water is about to fall off….

[But they are much better than me]

Oshio’s thin finger bounces on the display, switching the screen of the smartphone.

And when I saw what was projected there, I was surprised.

[This is…..]

What was projected out was a pancake from cafetutuji.

But, how should I say it’s …… Compared to the one on Minsta’s official account,

[They are terrible, right? This is the first pancake photo I’ve taken.]

[What?]

Oshio said with a bitter smile, I inadvertently jumped out of the shell of my jacket and raised my face.

[This …… Oshio-kun]

[But, but such photo on the official account of Cafe tutuji]

Ah, Mouth slipped.

This makes people think I’m a creepy person who checks all the 300 pictures uploaded to cafetutujjua’s official account……

However, fortunately for me, Oshio-kun didn’t seem to particularly care about what I said.

[Yes, they sucks too much so I didn’t upload it……look here]

Saying that, Oshio-kun starts scrolling the photo folder.

I was surprised.

A huge number of photos of pancakes lined up from one end of the screen to the other.

[Here’s a pancake that was shot too high up and turned into a sun circle, here’s a backlit pancake, and here’s a pancake from ………this is a pancake that was taken too long and the butter is completely melted.]

[Wai…….wait! How many are there Oshio-kun?.]

[I wonder if I took about 1000 photos until I uploaded the first photo in Minsta?]

[………]

That’s more than double the number of photos uploaded to Minsta by cafetutuji.

Just for the sake of uploading one photo, Oshio-kun have—–

[I started Minsta with a light hearted desire to help my dad, but when I got into it, I realized that it was a lot more than that, when I was taking the first photo to upload, my hands didn’t stopped sweating, how many times did I get lost trying to erase it?]

[I thought that Oshio-kun could do something like that easily.]

[Haha, isn’t it impossible for sure?I studied like crazy nevertheless i was still anxious.but—-]

Oshio’s finger bounces over the smartphone to display the photo I uploaded to Minsta again.

[I and Sato-san both have uploaded photos in Minsta,at this point you are already a minstagrammar.]

He said this, and smiled kindly.

Seeing that smile, I thought…….Oh, what an idiot.

[By the way, Sato-san, it seems that a shaved ice shop that is Minsta worthy has recently opened in the neighboring town.As an apology, Would you like to go with me next weekend? This time I couldn’t eat the ice cream rolls together.]

My chest is painful and my body trembles naturally.

[But I sucks at taking pictures…….]

[I will teach you.]

[I don’t have anything interesting to say, and I don’t have any friends.]

[I can’t say anything interesting either.]

[I’m not at all like highschool girl but, still then]

I raised my face and looked at Oshio-kun.

[Still then….will you go with me?]

With a little shy voice, Oshio-kun replies,

[—–I want to go together with Sato-san.]

That smile is foul!

I couldn’t help but fall flat on my face. I didn’t want him to see my face now.