Chapter 20: My Fiancée Will Tell You In Time

TL: lime
ED: Spynine01

When we went to the courtyard as we were told, we found the two people we were looking for doing something that looked like they were filming something.

Touma was holding a video camera and Shijo was standing in front of the fountain.

As we approached, Shijo noticed us and gave us a big wave. Touma noticed it and turned around.

“Yoisho~. You’re doing it.”

As we approached Touma, who was looking back at us with his hand raised, he lowered the camera he was holding.

“Kojiro. And Nanasegawa-san. What’s up?”

He looked at both of us and asked curiously.

“Ah. Can I have a moment of your time?”

“That’s totally fine… It’s unusual for you to come here at this time of the day when you usually go straight home after school.”

“Well, it’s Shiori who has business here with Shijo.”

“With Sumire?”

Fuyuma let out a “Fumu…” and said, “Sumire!”

He gestured to Shijo.

In response to his voice, she tilted her head and ran over to us in a cute way.

“What’s wrong?”

“Nanasegawa-san has something to say to Sumire.”

Touma pointed his thumb at Shiori, and Shijo turned towards her.

“Me?――What’s wrong?”

Shijo tilted her head and asked Shiori with an expression that said she had no idea what she wanted.

Shiori looked a little uncomfortable.

It’s been a while, and with a third party watching, I guess it would be hard to say to her directly.

“Touma. Can you give them a moment?”

“Hmm. Okay―― .Wait a minute!”

When I was about to leave with Touma, he shouted in an unusually loud voice and held up his video camera towards the two of them.

“I see… If you put the two angels in the camera, it will look like this! ―― Both of you! Look here!”

At the sound of his words, Shijo’s face was drawn towards his voice, and Shiori’s expression was as expressionless as ever.

“Touma… You’ve changed quite a bit, you know… You weren’t like that in middle school.”

“Human beings are creatures that change and grow. That’s why I’ve changed ever since I got my camera.”

“That’s a good thing. It’s a very… But the two of them have something important to talk about, so we’ll talk to them later.”

I grabbed Touma by the scruff of his neck and pulled him along.

“Ah! Wait! Lolicon, pervert! Stay still――”

“Who’s the lolicon pervert here! Why don’t you bring a mirror and see what you look like right now!―― Ah! Sorry, sorry. You both can continue now.”

After saying that, I took Touma out to the vending machine.

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“――I’m sorry for interrupting your club activities.”

We walked to the vending machine in the courtyard and sat down on a bench set up there.

I lightly told Touma about why Shiori wanted to see Shijo.

We were interfering with their club activities, so he has a right to know why.

I’ll go ahead and buy him a can of juice as an apology for interrupting his club activities.

I’ve been with him for a long time, and he has no qualms about me buying an expensive can of juice for him.

“It’s fine.”

Touma said to me, standing on the bench instead of sitting on it.

“You’re shooting a film for the new students, right?”

“Yeah. There are only four of us in the film studies club, so we don’t have enough actors to make a movie. Sadly, this is the only activity that we can actually do…”

“That’s true. ――So, the film studies club makes movies?”

“We also watch movies and give each other feedback.”

“Hmmm… You do various things in the club then.”

When I drank the juice with admiration, Fuyuma asked, “So?”

“Are you on a campus date with your cool-headed, peerless fiancée?”

I look at Touma and see a grin on his face as he said that.

“My cool-headed, peerless fiancée… I mean, as I explained earlier, it’s not a date, I’m just simply acting as an escort to her.”

“Escort.”

He said to me after he drank his juice in a suggestive way.

“You’re trying to tell me something, aren’t you?”

“No… It’s nothing.”

He adjusts his glasses with a giggle.

“What is it? If you want to say something, say it.”

When I said this, I looked at Touma who adjusted his glasses.

“Fumu… So let me get this straight. Earlier, Kojiro said that I had changed, didn’t you?.”

“Yeah, I did.”

“Isn’t that also true of Kojiro?”

“What? Really?”

Touma adjusted his glasses when I asked.

“You’re not that meddlesome of a guy. You’re the type of person who doesn’t interfere too much with others. I can’t imagine such a type of person taking time out of his precious time after school to escort another person entirely to say thank you, at least not the same Kojiro as the one in middle school.”

When he said that, I said, “Ah…Well you’re right…” I was convinced.

“I was just wondering what that meant.”

Touma gives a hint with a smile on his face. I can vaguely guess the meaning of that smile…

Among the two angels who are at the fountain, he stares at the calm angel.

“I wonder, what does it mean?”

That was the first thing that came out of my mouth.

It was because I didn’t really understand it myself.

It could be simply because Shiori was a cute girl, or it could be because I was happy to be relied upon due to my male instincts, or it could just be because I was bored and in the mood to do something to cure my boredom. The only thing I can say is that there was no deep reasoning for it.

“Fuu~” I snorted at Touma, and gave him a suggestive smile, just like he did to me.

“You are the one who is having an after-school date with the angel of affection and elegance in the name of club activities.”

When I teased him about it, he laughed dryly, “Haha”.

“What are you talking about? We are a completely normal wholesome club.”

What!? He was super upset when I messed with him with her name this morning, but now he’s immune to it?

Damn. He’s not worth teasing anymore.

“Well, It’s a good thing if you’re careful. It doesn’t matter if she’s your fiancée or not, if anyone sees you with Nanasegawa-san, many people will turn against you.”

“Oioi. Don’t just threaten me all of a sudden.”

“Haha. I’m just telling you the truth.”

Touma threw the empty cans in the garbage and headed towards the fountain.

The other side seemed to have finished their conversation, and thus Shiori walked over to us.

She exchanged a word or two with Touma as they passed by each other.

Touma and Shijo walked straight from the courtyard and went right towards the school building.

At that moment, my eyes met with Shijo’s and she waved at me, so I gave her a small wave back.

As Shiori stood in front of me, I asked her.

“――Did you say thank you properly?”

“Yes.” she replies.

“Hmm. Then I guess I’m no longer needed here.”

I stood up and threw the empty juice can into the trash.

“I’ll go home first then. I’ll lock the door.”

As I was about to leave, she grabbed me by the sleeve of my shirt.

“I’m not done with you yet.”

“Hmm? You thanked Shijo now, didn’t you?”

“I thanked her with all my might.”

“Then what’s with that expression?――Is there anything else you need from me?”

When I asked her about it, she looked away and seemed to be choosing her words, saying in a small voice, “Um.. that…”.

“Kojiro…”

“Hmm?”

When she called out my name, she looked at me as if she had made up her mind.

“Thank you for helping me out at lunch. I was very happy that you said you would help me out again.”

Shiori smiled as she thanked me.

This was the first time I ever saw her properly smiling, my heart immediately began racing.

“I’m going home first.”

Shiori’s face turned red as she walked away from me.

I’m going to keep it a secret that Shiori’s smiling face looked so cute that I couldn’t get it out of my head at all.