Chapter 57: Sharing An Umbrella With My Fiancée

TL: lime
ED: Spynine01

There’s nothing more languid after lunch than PE class.

On top of that, we were going to be running a marathon today, so everyone’s motivation was almost non-existent. To make matters even worse, the sky was cloudy with the possibility of rain due to the low pressure that had developed these days. So, most of the students just ended up running lazily on the track.

As I was lazily running along the track, I noticed a former soccer player. Touma, who was running next to me with a relaxed look on his face. He started to talk to me.

“So? What did you do?”

“What?”

“You must have done something to make the always cool, expressionless, cool-headed, peerless angel in such a bad mood, right?”

He pointed with his thumb towards the stairs of the ground.

The girls had just finished running and were taking a break.

She sat down on the stairs and stared at me, her face was so grim that I could see it even from such a distance.

A group of people running in front of her noticed her sullen gaze.

“Isn’t the cool-headed and peerless angel staring at someone like crazy?”

“She’s staring quite a lot. Could it be that she’s staring at me――”

“Idiot. She’s staring at me of course.”

“Go and look in the mirror.”

“AH? You’re the one who should be looking in the mirror!”

You could hear them arguing lightly from this distance.

I thought it would be better to watch Shiori in a bad mood than to look at such an ugly fight in front of me, and when I looked at the stairs again, Shijo, who was sitting next to Shiori, waved at us.

“Yikes! The angel of affection and elegance just waved at me!”

“Wrong! It was me! ――Hey! You! What the hell are you speeding up for?”

“Shut up! If I don’t show her my best move now, when will I!?”

“Now right!?”

Simple-minded or straightforward――why are men so single-celled and always misunderstood?

Now that was clearly a wave to Touma――sorrowful…

“――Hey? Kojiro――”

“Hmm?”

Touma suddenly spoke to me with a mysterious look on his face, he shook his head, quipped his glasses and said, “No,” as he smiled at me.

“――And so? What did you do to Nanasegawa-san?”

“I don’t know. Seriously, I don’t have a clue.”

I noticed that Shiori had been acting a little strange this morning――but I had no idea why exactly that was the case.

Sensing that I really didn’t understand, “Fumu,” Touma said and suggested.

“It’s your fault anyway. If you run like this and fly down on your knees, she’ll forgive you, right?”

“Fly down on my knees?”

“Flying down on your knees has a 1000% success rate.”

“I definitely don’t want to test it against the odds that a grade school kid would use.”

While we were having this lowly conversation between ourselves, a drop of water fell on the bridge of my nose.

I looked up and saw that it had begun to rain.

『Hey! Boys! Abort! Go to a covered area!』

The gym teacher had already taken shelter and was shouting towards the field.

That dirty gym teacher. He’s got the nerve to evacuate immediately instead of helping us out.

While complaining about this, we dashed towards the nearest corridor.

“――Ah! Touma! You!”

Unfortunately, Touma and I were the furthest apart, but Touma took the initiative to show off his former soccer player skills.

“Ha-ha-ha! As long as I don’t get wet, it’s okay!”

“Wait! Damn it! That was fast!”

There was no mercy spared. The distance between us was just getting larger and larger.

And then, my bad luck striked again.

Just as I was about to go under a roof, a powerful splash of water hit me as if I had tipped over a bucket.

I was the only one who caught it straight to my face.

I was so deflated. Why is it just me?

While all the people who were doing PE were looking at me, the dirty PE teacher looked at me with pitying eyes and asked, “Are you okay Isshiki?”.

It’s useless, but as I get under the roof, I reply, “I’m not okay,” and he said,“Go ahead and change,” so I return to the classroom obediently.

As I shamelessly walked into the classroom, Shiori appeared in front of me, giggling and laughing at my appearance.

I don’t know where she got it from, but she had a towel present with her.

That’s where I get my jolt.

Could it be that Shiori… was going to lend me that towel? No, but if she does that in front of all these people――but I can’t just ignore Shiori’s bold action!

When I was touched, Shiori wiped her face with the towel and said to me with a blank expression.

“Serves you right.”

Eeeeeeeh!?

♢

That bastard Shiori… Only that girl is…

It was after school, and my hair and body were completely dry.

However, my resentment towards that cool-headed and peerless angel was definitely not dry, and it’s dampening my heart with gloominess.

“When I get home, I’ll sneak a G¹ G for Gokiburi or Cockroach toy into the bathroom and scare the shit out of her.”

That’ll be scary. That would freak her out so much. She won’t be able to sleep at night. Kekeke. I’ll have to go to the bathroom² Kojiro said he would go to “ロ○ト(ro0to)” which the author censored and I don’t understand what that means so I replaced it with “bathroom”, if anyone knows what reference this is to, please comment down below. as soon as I get home.

As I headed to the gate with a vengeance, I saw Shiori, who had left the classroom before me, looking up at the sky with a blank expression.

Could it be――.

“Yo.”

Standing in front of me, she turned her beautiful face to me and said, “Ah, Kojiro,” which made me think she was just as beautiful as she was in the morning, if not even more so.

I wonder if she put it back on after PE.

“Did you forget your umbrella?”

She nodded her head when I asked her.

『――Ha-ha! Serves you right! Piropiropin! Stupid! Small Fry! I told you there was a high chance of rain today! Watch the weather forecast sometimes too, not just reruns of morning cartoons! Ha-ha! I hope you suffer just like me! Ha-ha-ha!』

Fufufu. It’s a form of revenge in an unexpected time.

――However, this Isshiki Kojiro is not of such a young mental age.

Revenge can only produce vengeance.

As a grown-up, gentleman and dandy, I said to Shiori.

“Do you want to come home with me?”

“Are you sure?”

“It doesn’t look like it’s going to stop raining anytime soon.”

“But you’re worried about what people will think, aren’t you? Well, I don’t mind.”

“They can’t tell that if we’re in the umbrella together. ――Come on, let’s go.”

I said this and started to walk away, Shiori nodded and came up next to me.

The two of us walked in our usual position, me on the right and Shiori on the left, and as we walked out of the school gate, I became very conscious――I think this is what they call a shared umbrella situation.

I was too vengeful to be aware of it, but now… this is very embarrassing.

Ah, this is bad, my heart is throbbing so fast.

Shiori――seems to be fine with it, but I have to admit that I’m a bit nervous about my first time being under the same umbrella as her.

F-For now, I have to sacrifice my shoulder to protect Shiori’s… Goodbye freshly dried right shoulder.

It’s ironic that I’m protecting the girl who was the target of my revenge just a while ago.

As I was thinking this, Shiori lightly tackled me with her right shoulder.

“――H-Huh? W-What’s up?”

“Today’s rage.”

“Hey, hey,” I said as she continued to tackle me lightly.

“――No, why are you so angry today?”

I asked her this, Shioli said with a dumbfounded look on her face.

“It’s because Kojiro didn’t notice.”

“Notice what?”

What?

I twisted my head and thought about it for a while.

“Sorry. What is it?”

“I’m not going to tell you, you insensitive idiot.”

“Eh…”

I thought about it for a while, but I couldn’t think of anything, and a bitter smile filled my face.

“――Like, you’re wearing the lipstick I gave you?――Ahaha. Is it that simple?”

“――Eh?”

She looked at me with a surprised look on her face and unconsciously brought her hand to her lips.

“You noticed?”

“Areh? Could it be that I was right?”

She turned her head away when I asked her that.

“Did you notice…”

Ah, she’s serious.

“I thought it was very awkward to say that kind of thing to your face… And it’s a bit too beautiful… a little…”

Shiori looked at me happily when I said this.

“Does it look good on me?”

“Well, yeah…”

I answered embarrassingly, Shiori let out a sigh and said coolly, “Good grief.”

“I’ll keep using it then.”

“Thanks.”

Shiori’s mood had improved, “Areh?” She pulls her hand out of the umbrella.

I took my hand out of the umbrella, too.

“It’s stopped.”

It’s as if today’s weather was representing Shiori’s mood.

“Looks like it.”

“Well then――”

When I tried to fold the umbrella, she said, “Wait–”

“I’d rather stay like this for a while.”

“But wouldn’t it be dumb to hold up an umbrella when it’s not even raining?”

“――That’s the thing… See, you’re worried about what other people will think, aren’t you? This is like a protective barrier from that.”

“I see! That’s smart.”

When I praised her, Shiori laughed and said something, but I couldn’t hear it clearly.

“What did you just say?”

“Nothing.”

With Shiori in a good mood, I held an umbrella under the clear sky.

A rainbow was forming in the direction we were heading, and thus, we headed home in good spirits.

Heyo your friendly ED here. Usually I wouldn’t post anything after the chapter but the TL has something to say. The Translators PC these days has been having some issues, its gotten really slow and also really bad for translating right now, that’s why these chapters now took nearly an entire month to release. He’s still trying to translate with it but its gotten really hard, which is why he’s opening up a ko-fi to try and get donations for a new PC. Click here for the ko-fi link. This is not something you HAVE to donate to, but just something he’s trying to get for a new PC. That’s all, thank you for your support!