Buying a Weeping Girl Under the Wintry Sky, and Making Her Too Happy. - Chapter 37: Trauma.

Trauma.

“Hey, Miyu.”

“Hmmm?”

“I won’t be home for a couple of days starting tomorrow.”

“!?… What’s up with you all of a sudden? What’s wrong?!”

“I mean, what’s the big deal? I’m just going home to my grandparents.”

Last night I received a phone call from my grandmother. I had promised her that I would return home once during the spring break when I informed her of my collapse during the winter break, but I had completely forgotten about it, and this was her angry phone call.

I had already taken tomorrow off, but I had a part-time shift the day after tomorrow, so I asked Akikaze to take over for me, but as a condition, I had to buy her a special banana whipped chocolate crepe, another crepe with a name with a very low value.

“Two days means you are staying there, right? Is Kazuya’s grandparents’ house far away?”

“An hour and a half by train? I can go there on a day trip, but I always stay there when I go back to my grandparents’ house.”

“…You’ll surely come home, right?”

“!?”

I thought Miyu was overreacting earlier when I said I wouldn’t be back for about two days, but now I understand what she meant. …For Miyu, the word “not coming home” must have become something like a trauma.

But As expected, I can’t take Miyu to my grandparents’ house. …I could go back home only for like a few hours, but I don’t think Grandma would let me do that, and I wouldn’t know what to say if she asked me why. Grandma has always known when I lie to her, she immediately knows it’s a lie…. Grandma says that if a person lives long enough, he or she will naturally come to realize the facts. Huh. …I guess it can’t be helped…..

“Hey, Miyu. Can you give me a minute?”

“?”

I said that and left the room, then I made a call. There’s no way I can leave Miyu behind when she makes a face like that…

“Hello?”

“Oh, grandma. It’s me.”

“If you’re trying to scam me, please take your business elsewhere.”

“It’s not a scam! It’s Kazuya!”

From the looks of it, it seems that my grandma is not likely to fall for the ‘It’s me, me’ scam. That’s a relief. …But what is this complicated feeling?

“What is it, Kazuya? Don’t tell me you can’t come home tomorrow?”

“No, I’ll be. So about tomorrow it is that… Can I bring one guest?”

“You finally got a girlfriend?”

How did she know just by that one word ‘Guest’…. One also usually goes there with friends or something right?

“Spring has finally sprung for Kazuya! …Please bring her along. I’m cooking red rice and waiting for you with your Grandpa, so definitely bring her!”

“Absolutely not! I don’t want any red rice, don’t cook!”

[TN: As many of you know, Red Rice or ‘Sekihan’ is used for a grand occasion.]

Then I hung up the phone. Really grandma is… She’s so energetic that I wonder if she’s really old. …Now I’ve got confirmation from my grandparents, but Miyu has a part-time job with me, so I’m sure it’ll be fine till tomorrow, but about the day after tomorrow? In the first place, would she come to my grandparents’ house? Anyways, I returned to my room because I’ll find it out.

“Hey, Miyu.”

“What now?”

“You want to come with me?”

“What?! Can I go with you?”

“I called grandma just now and asked her about it, and she said I must bring you along.”

If anything, she said she’d cook some red rice and will be waiting for me, but I told her not to prepare it.  Really, please?

“If that’s okay with you, I want to go.”

“I understand. Just to confirm, what about your part-time job?”

“I have a shift the day after tomorrow, but I’ll probably be fine. It’s spring break right now, so there are a lot of people in the store.”

“In that case, I guess we’ll go home together.”

Thus, I was to take Miyu back to my grandparents’ house.

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