Insensitive Bocchi-kun ~Reluctantly Heading to School Today~ [Dropped] - Chapter 36: Gondola ①

Chapter 36: Gondola ①

Ha? We’re climbing up to the observatory because the weather is nice? 

Seriously… 

Once again, an unexpected forced event has occurred, and my mood takes a drastic dip. 

Honestly, it’s broad daylight right now. 

Even if I climb up to the observatory, I won’t be able to see the night view. It’s just a slightly better view, nothing to be impressed about…

I want to go back to the hotel… 

Desperately.

“Hey, you guys. Gather around and get on in order.”

And then, as I’m thinking about such things, I hear the voice of the teacher. 

By the way, it’s not the voice of my class teacher. 

Right now, it’s not only my classmates who are around me. 

There are students from another class mixed in… it’s a complete mess… 

And what I see before my eyes are multiple students getting on the gondola lift heading towards the observatory. 

It seems like the ones who get along well, as the teacher said, are going on in groups of about four people at a time. 

I wonder what will happen to me…

As I’m thinking about that, the number of students remaining on the ground is decreasing one after another.

Ah, there’s Alice.

In my eyes, she appears, laughing happily inside the gondola with Yamamoto.

I’m glad…

She seems to be having fun with the other girls who rode together.

But I’m not in a position to worry about others.

Well, there’s nothing I can do but go with the flow…

And before I know it, there’s no one in front of me anymore.

Yes. I have to get on the next gondola.

However, I have absolutely no acquaintance with the people lining up behind me… and it seems like they have already formed their own groups.

I can see a few familiar faces here and there, but they definitely won’t ride with me.

Besides, I don’t want to ride with them either.

And as I’m thinking about such things, I suddenly realize the gondola is right in front of me.

“Okay, next group, please get on.”

I have no choice. 

Reluctantly, I follow the voice of the staff and step into the gondola that stops in front of me.

“Oh, would anyone else like to join?”

Sigh… just as I expected. 

No one else is getting on. 

Sigh, it’s truly a predictable public execution.

“Hahaha, Mamiya, seriously? Riding alone in the gondola. How much do you like being alone?”

“Hey, someone ride with him. I absolutely don’t want to, though.”

“Riding alone in the gondola on a school trip, seriously, don’t make me laugh. Kukuku.”

And as I sit alone in the gondola, the familiar insults from Sakaki and the others keep reaching my ears, one after another…

There’s no mistaking it. It’s Sakaki and his gang’s voices…

Sigh…

I have nothing left to do but sigh.

“Well, it seems like no one else is coming… I’ll close it then.”

Saying that, the staff member grimaces and kindly smiles at me while holding the door.

Please stop that sympathetic smile, as it only makes me feel more sad… 

And please close it quickly…

Even now, I can see Sakaki and the others directing their dirty smiles towards me.

Why do I have to go through this…

“Wait. I’ll ride.”

Hmm…?

In order to avoid hearing any more unpleasant voices, my mind empty, I suddenly hear a familiar woman’s voice in my ears.

The surrounding area seems to be buzzing in response to that voice…

“Huh?”

W-why?

Before I knew it, Arisa Shibuya was sitting firmly in front of me.

In an incredibly noble and elegant posture…

“Could you please close it quickly?”

With her words, the staff member promptly closes the door of the gondola we’re in.

And the gondola slowly departs, heading towards the observatory.

Unlike earlier, Sakaki is now glaring at me from the ground… I-I should pretend not to see him in this situation.

I don’t want to get involved.

But why did she…