It’s Too Early to be Having Newlywed Syndrome! ~Childhood Friends Who Rekindled their Love for Each Other ~ - 4 - 14 - I Find It Interesting, Though

I Find It Interesting, Though

Shortly after Iida left to escort Haruka home. Naoto, who was walking behind Natsuki and the others, pulled on Natsuki’s uniform. ——Of course, this time, it wasn’t on the hem of Natsuki’s skirt.

“Wait a minute, stop, stop.”

“What’s up?”

“I just remembered how Iida wanted to write something on Tachibana-san’s yearbook, and I’m about to send Nagatomo-san a message to tell her about it.

Is it okay if I make the content something like ‘If it’s okay with you, once it’s just the two of you at the entrance to Tachibana-san’s house, can you try and talk about it’?”

Naoto showed the other three the message he wrote on his smartphone.

“That’s fine, I think.”

“Yeah, I think that’s good enough.”

“Thanks.

Also, I have a question. Is there anyone here who’s fine waiting at the station until Iida and Nagatomo-san returns?”

“I can wait for them.”

“Me too.”

“I want to wait for them as well.”

“Then, I’ll message them that we’ll be waiting for them while we play around there. I’m sorry everyone. I keep having you accompany me until late yesterday and today as well.”

“Don’t be sorry, it was fun. I was able to eat for free, after all.”

“The food was delicious, right?”

“Next time, while we’re on the way to Health Land at least let us give you some sweets.”

“That’s right, then let’s also tell Tachibana-san and Nagatomo-san not to bring snacks.”

“Ah—, we should’ve asked what their favorite drinks are, too.”

Naoto was smiling as he’s listening to the girls’ conversation, when the screen of his smartphone lightened up. Naoto immediately looked at the screen, and in a blink of an eye, energy dissipated from his body.

“The hells with this bastard? Just when I thought Nagatomo-san has already replied to my message, it’s Iida saying ‘I’m hungry right now’. Is he even properly keeping watch over them?”

“Do you think Iida-kun’s really walking twenty meters behind them?”

“Knowing Iida, the moment they turn a corner and he can’t see them anymore, he might be breaking that order. He might’ve already ignored my eighteen meters, and was just following two meters after them.”

“That eighteen meters from Morita-kun was really funny.”

Sakurako imagined Iida walking twenty meters behind the two girls, then smiled weirdly.

“There are many amusing lines like that in Morita-kun’s novel, you know. Like ‘On top of having my hair cut, to have a cute girl’s chest pressing on me from time to tie, free of charge. Even, if by any chance, my confession gets rejected, as payment for the awkwardness I can just ask her to cut my hair for 12,000 yen.’”

Aki looked at Naoto’s face while remembering and laughing about it.

“You memorized that well, Ninomiya-san.”

“Well, of course, Morita-kun’s hair got a lot cooler in reality after all. If it’s a normal novel, I would only remember the most impactful scenes.”

“Aah, is that so, then it was that obvious that Natsuki did it for me, huh.”

“But at that time, it still didn’t dawn on me that ‘Nat-chan’ is Natsuki. If I knew that you based the character from natsuki, I would’ve told her ‘Marita-kun’s definitely in love with you’.”

“Is Nao-kun’s novel like a diary or something?”

Natsuki asked Naoto.

“I do wonder if there are things that happened in real life that got inflated there. Are you planning on reading them, Natsuki?”

“That much is obvious.”

“Eh—……”

“What’s with that reaction? You have Aki and Tachibana-san read it.”

“It was unusual of Tachibana-san to have any interest in reading it, after all.”

“It’s unusual for me to have any interest in reading it too.”

“You won’t end up hating me once you read it?”

“I won’t hate you for such a thing.”

“As it happens, my sexual desires are actually in it, that’s all I can think about. You might be shocked once you read my novel, is that alright with you?”

“I already know about that after all!”

“Eh”

“I know all about it from top to bottom!”

“Even though I’m acting all gentlemanly towards you these past few days since you told me that the way I embrace you was pervy?”

“Where’s this gentlemanliness?! Didn’t you just take a peek under my skirt?”

“Eeh—, I thought I was doing well holding myself back, though. It feels somewhat embarrassing.”

“It’s too late to feel embarrassed when you just peeked on someone’s skirt.”

“Then, it’s okay with you if there are erotic scenes in the novel?”

“I’m okay with it.”

“There’s one more thing. Earlier, I was worried whether everyone would be accepting of my novel. Due to her connection with Ninomiya-san, I learned that Sasahara-san also reads my novel. I really want to know Sasahara-san’s opinion about my worry no matter what, so I ended up talking with her on the phone. Would you forgive me for that as well?”

“Such a thing is okay.”

“In the beginning, Sasahara-san asked me ‘Is this Aki’s boyfriend?’ I wondered how I should introduce myself. I thought that Ninomiya-san might have told her that she’ll introduce her to me. Maybe she misunderstood and didn’t think that she’ll be talking to the novel’s author over the phone.

Ninomiya-san and Sasahara-san were very amusing, that I played around and suggested to her a relationship between me and Ninomiya-san.

And then, at the end, I played around too much. I told Sasahara-san ‘If you come wearing cute clothes and underwear like Aki, then I might meet up with you’, then I ended the call. Of course, it was all a joke, I’m planning on apologizing to her tomorrow.”

“Sasahara-san’s a pretty serious person, so isn’t it bad?”

“Well, when I asked Ninomiya-san, she said it’s probably all fine.”

Aki made an expression of awkwardness.

“I did say that earlier, but it might’ve been bad. She asked me about it through chat while we were eating, so I replied that the person himself will explain it to you tomorrow, but she replied with ‘Is he still there with you?’ or ‘Did you properly tell him that I’m unattractive?’”

“For the time being, so Sasahara-san wouldn’t get nervous, please tell her I said ‘Ain’t she cute?’”

“How about apologizing to her on the phone right now?”

“Right now? Why?”

“Why, we have nothing to do while waiting for Iida-kun and Nagatomo-san after all. Why should we put the problem about Sasahara-san for tomorrow, is what I’m thinking. I feel like it would be better for Nao-kun right now to do the things he can as soon as possible. Didn’t you say that it’ll be harder to talk about it once you put something for later?”

“Ah—…… speaking of, there’s no real reason about it. Maybe I just want to put it off for later. Is it better to take care of it now?”

Naoto asked Aki.

“You can do whichever, I will apologize as well. I’m also at fault for weirdly making merry using Hatsumi.”

“Speaking of, I forgot that I want to ask Aki in detail why she looked like she’s having fun earlier.”

Natsuki suddenly remembered, then looked at Aki.

“You see, this morning, the character modeled after me appeared in this morning’s update of Morita-kun’s novel. And the stories about how MC-kun felt so glad to be able to come out with the things he’s been keeping a secret that he cried.

When I read that, I thought that I should also confess that I’m reading his novel. It felt like if it’s that person, then he’ll forgive me for doing so, that I felt like a heavy feeling’s been lifted from me. Thank you for your forgiveness, Morita-kun.”

“No, really, it’s because Ninomiya-san and Hirose-san helped me out a lot yesterday. That made me feel like writing something like that happening in my novel.”

Natsuki felt jealous. Of course, she believes in Naoto, but she hasn’t read his novel yet. She was curious as to how Aki’s character was written into the novel, and what part her character has in it.

“So, how does the character based on me fare on the novel currently?”

“The characters based on me and Natsuki are currently having a talk about memories of the past. Like the one when they played rock paper scissors on the fire escape and the one who wins gets to climb it. They talked about how they’re walking home slowly on purpose, then they felt nostalgic about the past. Then, she suggested to the MC that they do it again just like the old times, then without caution, she skipped to and climbed the fire escape, making what’s under her skirt visible to the MC.”

“Why did you write about that?!”

“Because I want to see it. Part of why I wrote it was because I fantasized about being able to see what’s under your skirt lots. I wouldn’t lose to Iida if it’s just about liking girls.”

“Is this guy’s novel really interesting like Aki’s making it out to be?”

Natsuki asked Aki without thinking.

“Well, I do like it, I find it interesting, though……”

As expected, Aki had to say it in a small voice.