Having Had My Bride Stolen, I Just Want to Live Peacefully - Chapter 11

The slope leads to Amagamine High School.

The trees are lush with fresh green.

After seeing off Arata’s suit, Nene went to high school.

“Fufu.”

She had Arata-san tell her to go.

She’s glad to hear that. She feels better when she goes to comfort him.

“Fujisaki-senpai is smiling.”

“Really! That’s very rare.”

“The place where she covers her mouth with both hands is so pure…”

The boys are whispering about it, but Nene doesn’t hear them.

She paid no attention to that, Nene took out her smartphone and looked at the display.

“A strange face.”

It showed a selfie taken with Arata this morning.

Arata was holding the bento and chopsticks with a sulky face, and Nene was covering her mouth tight next to him.

“I look so strange… I.”

Her face seemed to bear the smirk of her face.

And though it might have been an adorable expression, she did not seem to like it.

“But it can’t be helped.”

Because this is what happens when Arata in a suit is next to her.

She has never seen him before, but he’s wearing a suit, and he feels like a perfect and capable boss, and he’s too cool.

Didn’t she think it was strange when she tried to keep it from smiling or to burn it into her eyes?

Looking back on this morning, Nene worries like that.

She thought about deleting it and taking it again, but she couldn’t delete Arata-san’s picture, and she gave up thinking that she would definitely look strange again even if she took it again.

She has to work hard so that she can take a good picture.

Nene clenched her fist tightly and made up her mind.

Then she looks back at the display and sighs.

“Haa.”

Nene murmured in her heart that she was too handsome no matter how many times she looked at him.

She was then slapped on the shoulder from behind.

“Good morning, Nene. What’s with the sigh? Are you still not feeling well?”

“Good morning, Himari. Huh? I’m fine.”

Nene just let out a sigh of admiration when Himari saw Arata’s photo, but she was worried about it.

Nene was in a hurry and she quickly put away her smartphone so that she wouldn’t touch it.

“Really? Are you all right?”

“Yes, I’m all right.”

Himari, who peeps into Nene’s face, opens her mouth a little later.

“Yeah, you look like you’re doing well. But you’re doing better than usual, aren’t you?”

“Is that so? I think it’s the same as usual.”

“No. I see you every day, so I know. Did something good happen to Nene?”

Her usual low blood pressure, transparent white skin, and her cheeks flushed a little today, though she lacked expression.

It is a small change that the average person would miss.

However, Himari does not miss the change. As expected, she is her close friend.

“Hmm. Something good may have happened.”

“Oh! This is really passionate! Tell me!”

“What shall I do?”

“Himari-chi, Nene-chi, good morning! What’s wrong with you looking happy? Let Miu in on the fun!”

It was Miu who broke in between them.

As soon as she saw Nene’s face, she got excited.

“Wait, isn’t today’s Nene-chi cuter than usual? She’s kind of girlish.”

“Right! Miu notice too? I’m looking for the reason right now!”

“Yeah, I noticed right away! This is a maiden’s case, isn’t it?”

“Am I that different from usual?”

Nene tilted her head to express her doubts as she asked.

In response, the two spoke in unison.

“You’re completely different.”

Himari and Miu were excited, as they were constantly asking questions, and the girl talk was in full bloom.

This continued with the school until the morning homeroom began.

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Night.

With a puff, Nene falls on the futon.

All she has to do is get dressed and go to bed.

Nene is in a nightgown with cute characters and is looking at her smartphone calendar.

Nene taps the date marked with a heart mark on the calendar.

“Tomorrow is the day I’ll cook with Arata-san. I wonder if my clothes are all right.”

Nene thinks while remembering the clothes in her closet.

“It’s all right, I’ve had both of them help me pick it out.”

Since then, Himari and Miu have been overwhelmed by their aggression of questions and she talked about her current situation.

When they heard the story, they pushed her on the back, saying, “We’ll cheer for you!”

Even though things were complicated, it was something to support from the two people who knew about Nene’s past.

Of course, she also told them that she was going to teach him to cook.

Later, they all went to buy clothes for the day.

The clothes she bought at that time are now hanging in her closet.

“It’s different from usual, but will I look mature in those clothes? There was a time when I was considered a child and wouldn’t talk to me…”

The last time she was referring to was when Arata-san didn’t tell her about the circumstances that led him to quit his job.

Fujisaki’s family caused trouble, and his father forced him to quit his job.

He must have thought she’d be worried if she knew.

She was happy with Arata-san’s concern, but at the same time, she felt a little sad that she was treated as a child.

Actually, I wanted him to tell me.

I wanted him to worry about me.

I wanted him to be spoiled.

So I knew what was going on, so I just said it myself.

When Arata-san heard this, he looked very sorry.

It wasn’t that he was embarrassed or uncomfortable, but that he was just worried.

I am already eighteen years old.

I don’t get conceited as an adult, but I’m already an adult.

The law has changed, and even if I am a high school student, I can get married if I am 18 years old, and since I am not a minor, I don’t have to bother Arata-san.

But I guess I’m still unreliable…

Because I’m not a good child like Arata-san told me, because I’m really a bad child.

With such anxiety in mind, Nene looks at her smartphone.

This is a picture of Arata’s selfie in a folder.

“…Do we look like lovers?”

I was surprised by the small whisper in my mouth.

My body got hot and wriggled on the bed.

After a while, she breathes and calms down.

She looked at the wrapper she had placed on her desk and imagined tomorrow’s plan.

“I’m looking forward to it, fufu.”