Aren’t You Too Sweet Salt-God Sato-San? - Chapter 3.9

I feel like I’m doing everything right, but also feel like I’m doing everything wrong. And, of course, I feel like I’m going roundabout endlessly.

Let’s think straight, more straight.

Let’s say, what if it’s the “confession” just like what I thought in the beginning.

If that’s the case, what would happen then? If that’s the case,

“………… I’m happy”

My honest impressions spilled out of my mouth.

一一一I’m happy, yes, of course I’m happy.

I don’t know what kind of miracle happened, but at this moment, Oshio-kun and I are both “mutually in love with each other”.

And since, he has send me the confession, saying something like “I will be on your care from now on” is common sense, even I who doesn’t have deep knowledge about love affairs, know this.

“…….I wonder if it means we are dating now, I and Oshio-kun”

The moment I said these words, my heart began to palpitate rapidly.

一一一Dating.

I like Oshio-kun.

However, for me, who was doing all my best to get along with him, going out with him is like something above the clouds and I had never really thought about it.

Anxiety, anticipation, uneasiness, all sorts of unspoken emotions poured out of me, and I began to lose my way again.

My chest hurts, my head feels fuzzy, and I find myself staring at that one sentence for a long time.

“I like you, Satou-san”

I wonder how much time has passed.

I kept staring at the display of the smartphone as if it would make a hole in it一ー一and then noticed something.

“…….ahh”

It was sudden but MINE has an already read function.

In other words, unlike email, if I open the chat room and check the message, the other person will get a “read ” notification.

This is a very rudimentary feature that I don’t need to explain. Because even I, who don’t use MINE know much about this.

In short, I was so lost in my panic that I couldn’t even remember something as simple as that.

一一一It’s a situation where Oshio-kun was already informed that I have read the message he have sentー一一

“Ahhhhh!!?”

I shouted reflexively.

Hurriedly I compared the time the message was sent and the time on my smartphone. Six minutes had already passed since Oshio had sent me the message.

I was surprised that this seemingly eternal time was only six minutes, then I immediately realized that Oshio-kun knew I was staring at his message for around six minutes, It’s not exaggeration to say I thought my heart would jump out of my mouth.

Not good, Not good Not good Not good!?

Reply, I have to reply but what! I also like Oshio-kun? No, what if I was mistaken then I……!

I couldn’t even hold my smartphone properly anymore, and as I struggled to hold my trembling hand in place, the smartphone in jand shuddered this time.

When I looked at the screen to see what was it about一一

“Incoming call from Oshio Souta-san”

“Kyahhhhh!?”

I shrieked.

And then my finger slipped and I tapped on the “answer” button at the bottom of the incoming call screen.

♠️

In the room of Shizuku-san on the second floor of MOON’s residential part decorated with a sophisticated vintage interior.

“Come on”

It’s been half an hour since this meeting started.

Shizuku-san sitting on the quaint leather sofa, said laconically with a glass of red wine in her hand which seems to end soon.

“Souta-kun is in love with that girl called Satou-san, right?”

“…………”

I wonder how we ended up having this conversation?

I sat down on the sofa across the opposite side and sipped on an imported carbonated beverage from an unknown country. Of course It’s non-alcoholic.

“Hey! Answer us~ be a cool guy~”

“Wai, ouch!”

When I tried to exercise my right to remain silent, she kicked me in the shin with his outstretched toe.

Doesn’t this person know the word “Human rights”.

“Don’t you have a photo~ a photo~ Show me her face!”

“Ouch, hold up!…… there’s no way I will have one, and it’s not like we are going out or anything”

“一一I do have one though~”

Mayo-san, who was sitting on the sofa alongside Shizuku-san while elegantly sipping a glass of white wine from a slender champagne glass, said in a stilted voice.

” ” What? ” ”

Mine and Shizuku-san’s voices overlapped.

“Wh….why do you have one?”

“I was quite proud of my coordination for Koharu-chan clothes so I took it for Hidamari’s official Minsta account”

……That’s right, I hadn’t thought about it that much under the circumstances, but Sato-san was at hidamari before she met me.

So you’re saying that she got that killer (metaphor) coordination just right before?

Maybe Satou-san is like me and was preparing for Saturday’s date…..

一一一*pachin*, I clapped my cheeks with both hands.

“Whoa…..what are you doing suddenly?”

“…….I’m just trying to stop my disgusting thoughts”

“Huh….?”

“Here’s the photo”

While this exchange was going on, Mayo operated her smartphone at her own pace and then placed the smartphone on glass top of the table.

Shizuku-san and I leaned our bodies forward and looked at the screen of our smartphones.

In the screen was Sato-san in her casual clothes.

……… she’s pretty as expected.

However, with the fact that Sato-san is so cute, an unsettling feeling began to form inside me.

Mayo-san said she would upload this photo on the “Hidamari” official account later……..

“Don’t worry, I’ll crop the photo so that it doesn’t show her from the neck up, so don’t worry. Oshio-kun can have Koharu-chan in her casual clothes all to himself.”

“……….”

This person really doesn’t know how to read someone’s mind, right?

“Ohh, isn’t she really pretty? Surprisingly a cool beauty”

” Gap, it’s a gap. She is cute because she is a Klutz” (T/N- natural airhead or a clumsy person if you don’t know)

“Interesting…….so, how far have you gone, Souta-kun?”

Shizuku-san asked the question as her breath reeked of alcohol. Her eyes are also getting hazy from alcohol.

“What do you mean by how far…..?”

“Kiss, have you done something like kiss?”

She asked to me while narrowing her lips.

“…I-I haven’t”

“Not even the one without tongue?”

“Not the ones with their tongues in, not the ones without, not even the ones on cheeks.”

“What? Then what have you done? What’s the farthest you have gone?”

“……. taking a selfie together”

And it was almost like an accident.

Hearing that, Shizuku-san laughed and shrugged her shoulders Unnaturally.

“I’m not sure how you can say you’re in love with someone like that, Ese-ikemen-kun” (T/N – This one is quite a hard to localise. Ese here means something that looks like like it but is actually not. For example here, she’s implying Oshio looks like a handsome man but he isn’t actually after carefully looking. It’s different from fake/pretending)

“But I have never said that myself…..”

Deeply in love too. A handsome guy too.

……….No, there’s no doubt I am deeply in love with Satou-san but that was too embarrassing so I never said it.

Shizuku-san drunk the wine like water and slammed the empty glass on table with great force and said,

“Listen here, Ese-ikemen”

“When you are deeply in love……. they just don’t stand still! and just keep pushing and pushing!”

“……A person have its respective pace”

“Ha~~h, when you say something flimsy like this, then you aren’t seriously in love!”

Even though I knew it was the ramblings of a drunk, I was still taken aback by hee ridiculous tone.

I drank the carbonated drink again and slammed the bottom of the empty can on the table.

“If you really think about other person then you wholeheartedly made it so that they don’t get hurt or that you don’t cause trouble for them. That’s also love”

“Hu一一mph, who said to not get hurt?”

“Who said so……”

I shrunk back at an unexpected response.

Shizuku-san looked here with her drowsy eyes and said,

“It’s annoying, most of the time people are involved with each other which in itself is troublesome! noisy and also hurting them But there are a lot of people who wished for that! That’s why there are so many couples in the city! You don’t want to hurt them. …. Isn’t it you who doesn’t want to be hurt?”

“It…… it’s not like that”

I can’t stand it and argue with her.

Then Shizuku-san silently extended her palm.

“Then, lend me your phone”

“……..yes?”

“Hurry up”

Shizuku-san urged me in an insistent tone.

I just couldn’t understand what she meant and tilted my head.

Mayo-san also tilts her head as she doesn’t seem to understand Shizuku-san’s intentions.

“Hurry up”

Well, drunk people are always incomprehensible.

It’s not like there’s anything wrong with my phone, and to prove it, I didn’t even lock it in the first place.

And more importantly, I can’t let them think that I ran away.

“Is this okay?”

I hand out my smartphone to Shizuku-san.

Shizuku-san took the phone, operated it with a familiar hand for about 10 seconds, and then somehow put it back in her pocket.

Then she picked up the bottle and started pouring the next wine into the empty glass.

“………..”

Really…….what does she even want to do?

While I and Mayo-san looked at her with a gaze full of doubt, the person herself however just continued drinking the wine in silence.

We waited for a few minutes in a strange atmosphere.

“It’s about time”

Saying that abruptly, She took out my phone from her pocket and tossed it to me.

“Whoa…!”