My Beautiful Childhood Friend Is Working in a Maid Cafe For Some Reason

I couldn’t believe my ears.

In the quiet nurse’s office, Yukina’s voice echoed a bit louder than usual as she said she wanted to apologize.

“Are… are you okay? Are you feeling unwell?”

The words just came out of my mouth.

I mean, Yukina, who had just started to show a bit of her softer side, suddenly saying she wanted to apologize… It made me think she must be feeling so bad that she wasn’t thinking straight.

Besides, she said she came to the nurse’s office because she had something to do. So she must have been feeling off from the start!

“W-Why would you say that?!”

“Well, aren’t you feeling unwell? Look, I’ll leave now, so you should lie down and rest.”

“What!? Y-You suddenly want to sleep together… How shameless!”

“I didn’t say that. Listen carefully. I said I’m going back to the classroom, so you should lie down and rest.”

“You’re lying. You’re planning to attack me while I’m sleeping, aren’t you? Pervert!”

Here we go again… This is getting old.

I’m not interested in Yukina’s body at all!

“Haah…”

“Why are you sighing?!”

“I was just thinking that you really like this joke, don’t you?”

“Who are you calling a pervert?!”

Well, normally, a person wouldn’t think of such ideas about someone who’s just being kind. So it seems that Yukina’s mind is filled with those kinds of thoughts.

…If I said that out loud, I’d probably get hit. But honestly, it makes her seem more like a pervert than me.

“When did you start thinking like this…?”

“What!?”

“Nothing… So, you said you wanted to apologize?”

“Yes, that’s right. Just let me apologize already.”

“I’m listening… Go ahead.”

Even if she apologizes now, it’s not like my life will change. It’ll just make me feel empty. But since she’s offering, I might as well let her apologize and feel like I’m slightly above her for once.

“W-Well… I’m really sorry about yesterday. Because of the unnecessary things I said… I heard you had a hard time because of it.”

It was probably Haru who told her.

Most of our classmates misunderstand the relationship between me and Yukina. And since Haru and Yukina are friends, he probably told her about it.

And by “unnecessary things,” Yukina likely means when she said she wouldn’t mind if there were rumors about us… which could be taken as a confession of love, depending on how you heard it.

But Yukina is mistaken.

If she hadn’t told me to eat here in the first place, I would have moved elsewhere and spent lunch peacefully.

So if she’s going to apologize, she should start there—

…No, actually, none of this would’ve happened if I had realized sooner that the person sitting next to me was Yukina.

So, the root cause was that I didn’t realize it in time…

“It’s fine. The ones who misunderstood are just stupid, foolish, and clueless.”

“But…”

“By the way… why did you say something like that out of nowhere?”

“How should I know… I just got frustrated seeing that junior girl clinging to you so closely.”

“She was just being friendly, that’s all.”

“Friendly? Are you going out with her?”

“Of course not.”

“T-Then don’t let her touch you so easily!”

“Touch me? She just patted my back over my clothes, that’s all.”

The way Yukina says it makes it sound weird.

I mean, does patting someone on the back over their clothes even count as touching?

“S-Still, it’s not okay!”

“Why not? Besides, don’t you hold hands or let people touch you at work when you’re a maid?”

When I first met Miyuki-san, she hugged my arm and pressed her ample chest against me. She also pats my head and sometimes holds my hand when we talk. Of course, I know it’s not like those adult establishments, but sometimes it’s confusing.

So, Yukina must be doing at least that much at her maid café… even if she doesn’t have a chest to press.

“There’s no way I’d do that! I would never let strangers touch my body! Only one person is allowed to touch me!”

One person… So, Yukina already has someone she likes, and she’s been turning down confessions because of that.

“…Wow, I didn’t know you were so innocent.”

“What…”

“So, who’s that one person?”

If I can get her to reveal that, maybe she’ll stop saying such harsh things to me.

In fact, if I help her get together with him, she might even quit the maid café. That would ease my worries and let me keep going there without any doubts. Come on, spill it. Tell me who your crush is!

“Y-You should already know! You’re so dense!”

“Huh?”

For some reason, Yukina turned bright red and got mad at me.

“Know”… The only person we both know is Haru, right?

Could it be… Haru?

Haru is good-looking, athletic, smart, and friendly. He’s well-liked by everyone. He and Yukina would look good together, so it wouldn’t be surprising.

But he already has a girlfriend.

Is she planning to be a homewrecker?!

“Well, um… It’s hard to say, but Haru already has a girlfriend—”

“T-That’s not it, you idiot! A-Anyway, I apologized. So you’d better come to school tomorrow too!”

“Huh!?”

“Of course! If you don’t, then it’ll be a waste of my apology.”

“You apologize on your own and then—”

“I-I’m serious! You’d better show up, or else… you’ll see!”

What does she mean by “you’ll see”…?

Leaving those words behind, Yukina stormed out of the nurse’s office.

It seems Yukina hasn’t just become a tsundere… She’s turned into a queen-like tsundere.

“Haah… If you keep being like this, your crush will never notice you…”