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Chapter 21: I Don’t Know Much About My Fiancée

TL: lime
ED: Spynine01

Human beings are creatures of habit.

I’ve heard that saying somewhere, and I can feel that it’s very true.

Shiori Nanasegawa, a beautiful girl who’s also known as the cool-headed and peerless angel, suddenly came to stay at my house claiming to be my fiancée.

At first, I was confused and wondered what would happen with this situation, but after a few days, Shiori’s presence in my house became extremely normal, and there were no more hanging around the living room naked or accidentally peeking into the bathroom situations.

Unreality is turning into reality at this rate.

“――So it’s like this…”

I muttered to myself as I stretched at my desk in my bedroom, having just finished studying for tomorrow’s final exam.

I’ve not been particularly picky about my studies, but since I’m living away from my parents, I need to get some good grades or else they’ll worry about me. This would interfere with my future work, so as a person who’s allowed to live alone, I want to show that I can do well on my own without worrying my parents.

I left the bedroom and went to the living room, where I found the cool-headed, peerless angel sitting at the dining room table with her headphones on.

There were textbooks and notebooks spread out all across the table. She was also busy studying for the test, wearing the cheap loungewear that we had bought when we went shopping together yesterday.

I figured that since she was wearing her headphones, that probably meant that she wanted to shut down any sound around her and purely concentrate on her studies, so I walked to the kitchen without talking to her, opened the refrigerator, and drank some mineral water from my favorite brand. [ED: people have favorite brands for water…?]

I drank the water, imagining it going through my mouth, down my throat, and seeping into my entire body――yeah, it tastes the same as usual. It’s just plain water from the supermarket.

I looked towards the dining table from the kitchen.

“Is she…asleep?”

I put the water back in the fridge and sat down right in front of Shiori.

She was sleeping with her back against the back of the chair, looking like an angel resting its wings after a long flight.

“You’ll catch a cold if you sleep her-”

I was about to shake her awake, but my hand stopped midair.

Shiori must be tired from this unaccustomed life of hers.

If I think this situation is unreal then Shiori should be thinking the same thing too, and unlike me, she’s probably tired from sleeping in an unfamiliar house with cheap bedding.

She seemed to be sleeping comfortably, and the room was heated and warm, so I didn’t think I needed to disturb her restful sleep.

My body naturally took a seat right in front of Shiori and slowly put my elbows down on the table to stare at her sleeping body.

“Eyelashes…”

That was the first thing that caught my eye after seeing her well-groomed face.

She still looks beautiful even in her sleep, and staring at her face right now reminds me of the smile I saw on Shiori’s face the other day.

“That was the only time I ever saw her smile.”

After that situation, she went back to becoming the same expressionless, mysterious girl who I don’t have a clue about what she’s really thinking about.

But… the impact of the face that smiled at me was so strong that I can still recall it vividly.

“I don’t know what she’s usually thinking about huh…”

I don’t know much about Shiori, and even though I’ve gotten used to living with her, I still don’t know a thing.

The only thing I actually know about her―― is that she wakes up early and cooks delicious food that may or may not look well made…

I have no idea what music she’s listening to right now, what book she always reads whenever I see her, when her birthday is supposed to be, what could be her favorite food, what her hobbies are, what her skills are――I don’t know anything about her even though I live with her.

She’s such a quiet girl, so there was no time to talk about any of those things.

“――Ah…”

As I was thinking about such things while looking at Shiori’s sleeping face, her eyes suddenly opened and our eyes locked each other perfectly.

I was surprised and for some reason, I sat back up properly. Shiori took off her headphones and started talking to me.

“Have you been staring at me the entire time?”

“N-No… that one? That one.”

“Which one?”

“Y-You’re studying. Pretty impressive, huh?”

“You didn’t answer my question.”

Yep, that’s right. No doubt about that.

Shiori closed her textbook and notebook without pursuing the matter further, it was as if she was not that interested in pursuing the subject anymore.

“What? Done studying?”

“Enough. Too much studying is not good for your health.”

“Are you a top student, Shiori?”

I may be slightly breaching her privacy, but we don’t have a tradition of announcing the top students in the grade at our school. So, I don’t know if Shiori’s grades are good or bad.

“I’m confident in my studies.”

“Really?”

She sounded very confident whilst showing her usual expressionless face, but I couldn’t honestly believe her statement. There was a possibility that she would say that her grades were good, but she was actually right on the verge of failing her tests..

“Are you done studying, Kojiro?”

“That’s right. Shiori and I had the same idea.”

“Yes.”

Shiori replied quietly, and thus silence fell upon us.

I could have ended the conversation here, but I decided to ask her what she was listening to in her headphones.

“So, what are you listening to rig――”

Right in the middle of my words, the phone in my pocket started vibrating.

The length of the tremor made me realize that it was a phone call, and when I picked it up, the screen showed “Touma Rikudo”.

“Touma? ――I’m sorry.”

I apologized to Shiori and picked up the phone, “Hello?”

『 It’s me.』

“It’s rare for you to call me. What’s up?”