Hey, Best Friend. How About A Kiss Today Too? - Chapter 15: "Hmm?"

“Hmm?”

Walking along the school route, basking in the transparent morning air, I noticed the streets in the residential area were still quiet, probably due to the early hour. As I strolled outside and embraced the gentle morning sunlight, any trace of sleepiness had completely dissipated.

Correction: I was forcefully awakened by Sagiri’s second kiss.

Well… It’s not that I dislike it.

“What are you planning this time?”

“Hmm?”

I questioned my childhood friend, who was walking gracefully just ahead of me. The most beautiful girl in the school, her long white hair shimmering in the morning sun, turned around with a strange noise.

She might be the perfect example for the term “dictionary definition of a beauty.”

Her voice, however, was a bit silly.

“Even though you usually arrive at school later than me, you deliberately came to wake me up at this early hour. There must be something going on.”

“Well…”

Sagiri stopped and, after folding her arms in front of her chest, displayed an expression of contemplation.

“Look forward to it?”

“Alright, spill it.”

“Ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch! Violence is prohibited! Violence is prohibited!!”

She stuck out her tongue playfully to distract me, so I lightly grabbed her head. This is what they call an “iron claw.”

…Her hair is still silky smooth.

“Release me! I’ll talk! I’ll talk if you release me! Let go, and I’ll talk! Release meeee!”

“You should have done that from the beginning.”

“Renji, have I been really awful since yesterday?”

“…I don’t want you doing something weird again and collapsing. I’m just concerned, that’s all.”

“Guhh.”

While sending a protesting look and holding her head with both hands, my childhood friend, who had followed me, passed me by and quickly walked alongside me.

Although she was grinding her teeth strangely.

She’s beautiful when she’s silent. I think it’s unfair because even if she doesn’t shut up, it creates a gap between her being beautiful, humorous, and interesting. Well, I know everything, but there’s no doubt that that’s why she’s even more popular.

Sagiri is popular…

“Did you peek at my breasts?”

“Wha-what hhahaaa!?”

In the quiet morning street of the residential area, an outrageous bombshell was dropped.

It was an unnatural diversion in the current flow of conversation, a forced attempt to change the topic. However, if someone else were to hear this, it would become an indisputable trump card to socially annihilate me. Moreover, with Sagiri herself blushing and muttering, it added extra damage to me.

So, please forgive me for shouting something absurd.

“No, that wasn’t right! No, it’s not that it’s wrong, but it was an accident, and even though it was an accident, it was true and I’m sorry, but I didn’t mean to see it, so… …!”

“Haha, Best friend, you’re too flustered!”

“…Wh-what?”

Having taken it seriously, I had let my guard down due to the excessive anticlimax.

“Really cute.”

“W-Wait a moment!?”

I didn’t realize that Sagiri had referred to me as her best friend.

“…Nn.”

“…Nn!?”

In the morning on the way to school, she pulled on my tie and kissed me.

“With this, I’ll forgive you.”

“Hey, you, we’re outside! What if someone sees us!?”

“It’s okay. I checked around properly.”

“Even so!”

“A-and this.”

“Nn!?”

This time, it wasn’t a kiss. Sagiri’s index finger touched my lips. While this act had happened last week as well, it might be slightly better than a kiss.

But let me say it again. This is outside, on a proper school route in a residential area. Despite the possibility of anyone seeing, Sagiri casually performs such actions.

“Because we’re best friends, right?”

“…gmmm.”

My childhood friend may not realize how attention-grabbing she is. Even if I try to caution her, I find myself unable to say anything in return.

While the term “best friend” serves as a kind of absolution for the kisses, it has become my weakness.

“Come on, come on, sorry for making you wait. Let’s go quickly!”

Make me wait? For whom?

Although such a question crossed my mind, I couldn’t focus on it now.

Today, I’ve already been kissed three times—twice in the morning and once just now. Despite it still being the morning commute, the frequency of kisses from Sagiri seems to be increasing day by day. At this rate, I wonder what will happen today?

Thinking about such things, I found myself worrying and… anticipating.