Buying a Weeping Girl Under the Wintry Sky, and Making Her Too Happy. - Chapter 25: Interrogation.

Interrogation.

“First of all, just to confirm, was that your girlfriend?”

“No, not like that, but….”

I was now sitting face to face with Miyu. Of course, I’m sitting on my knees. But what is happening?

“Really?”

“It’s true. I mean, My age = Number of years for which I have been single…”

“If so, then it’s fine…”

“By the way, I want curry.”

I have no idea why ‘My age =  Number of years for which I have been single’ but right now I’m more interested in curry! The room has been filled with the delicious smell of curry for a long time, and it’s really whetting my appetite. It’s a bit of a killjoy that she lets me smell it all the way outside the room, but doesn’t let me eat the curry when I enter the room.

“I’ll feed you the curry later, now is the time to talk.”

“Loud and Clear…”

I don’t really mind talking while I eat, but I probably won’t be allowed to do that. …I don’t know why, but Miyu is in a slightly bad mood. The atmosphere has been like an interrogator for a while now, and every time she asks a question, it’s tense as hell….

“What’s your relationship with that girl?”

“We work at the same convenience store.  We were classmates in junior high school.”

“Classmates from junior high school….Have you been close with this girl since junior high school?”

“Yeah. ….Well, I think we were close enough that we talked a lot. Also  I mean, why am I being interrogated?”

Why is this really the case? This situation seems to me like a husband who cheated on his wife and is being questioned by her. …I’ve never been unfaithful, and Miyu and I have never had that kind of relationship in the first place….

“It looks okay now, but …I gotta be careful in the future…”

“Um… Miyu? What are you whispering to yourself? And can I have some curry now?”

“Just tell me one last thing.”

“Okay.”

“Do you like this girl, Kazuya-kun?”

“Well, if you have to ask me if I like her or not, I guess I do.”

I think of Akikaze as a good friend, and we talk a lot at my part-time job since our shifts often overlap. It seems that she worked for me while I was absent from work for a while, and there is absolutely no reason to dislike her.

“!? …Does that mean you like her as the opposite sex?”

“Well, I guess I do?”

The question of whether you like her as a member of the opposite sex would be whether you like her as a friend of the opposite sex. If that’s the case, then of course I likes Akikaze as a member of the opposite sex. Miyu’s face suddenly looks like a salaryman who was fired from his job. ….I wonder why?

“No way. ….I didn’t know Kazuya-kun had someone he liked….”

“She’s not the only one whom I like of course! I like You too, Miyu, you know?”

“!? What’s with suddenly hitting me with a surprise… Kazuya-kun?”

“What do you mean?”

“I’d like to confirm it ….How did you interpret what ‘you like as the member of opposite sex in’ Kazuya-kun?”

“Of course it’s a friend of the opposite sex, right?”

“Huuuhhhhhhhhhhh…….”

What is it? Why is she very dumbfounded? She looked as if she was about to die, but now she looked as if she had just seen something impossible.

…It’s interesting to see how Miyu’s expression changes from time to time. When she first came to my house, she would only smile a little once in a while, but the rest of the time she would keep a straight face. ..Is that how much she’s accepted me? If so, I’m genuinely happy. I wonder if this is how people feel when they are loved by the cat they picked up.

“What happened? You feel amazing after hearing my answer?”

“Forget it. …It’s  the Kazuya-kun I am talking to here…”

“Uhmm. …Can I have some curry?

“Wait a bit while I warm it up.”

“Yes!”

I can finally eat curry! My stomach was already at its limit. The curry I’m about to eat is bound to be delicious, since I’ve been killed alive for half an hour in a room filled with the smell of delicious curry on an empty stomach! Well, Miyu’s curry is always delicious. As I waited in suspense, Miyu brought me a bowl of rice with curry.

“Now now! Thank you for the food!”

“Thank you for the food.”

Miyu’s curry was, as always, the best I’ve ever tasted. I wondered the last time I ate it, was it really made from store-bought ingredients? I’m not sure I could make a curry this good even if I used the same ingredients. Then I had two more bowls of curry.

“I’m full.”

“I’m sorry for keeping you waiting. Kazuya-kun, you really like curry, don’t you?”

“Sure, I like curry, but Miyu’s curry is the best of all.”

When I said that, Miyu turned her head down, blushing slightly, as if she was embarrassed. It’s probably not my fault for thinking that this kind of gesture of hers sometimes looks so darn cute.

Normally Miyu looks pretty, but when she’s embarrassed or smiling, it’s like a gap between the two. Anyway, she just looks so cute. What I’m trying to say is that this kind of surprise is bad for the heart, so please don’t do it…..

“Oh, by the way.”

“What’s wrong?”

“You want to go for crepes sometime?”

“….Why all of a sudden?”

“Because Miyu wanted to eat crepes too, right?”

Miyu must have suddenly become unhappy when I told her that I had bought her a crepe. If that’s the case, I was thinking of going out for crepes next time, not as an apology.

“….Kazuya-kun’s an idiot.”

“Why is this really happening this time?”

I’m not sure what’s going on here, but I’ve noticed that the number of times Miyu curses me, or rather calls me an idiot, has increased dramatically lately. How will you take responsibility for me if I start to develop a strange fetish? Well, that’s not going to happen. ….I’m not going to develop such a fetish!!

Also, she said she was going to eat the crepes. I knew she wanted to eat them. …So why is she calling me an idiot? …I don’t understand.