She is Reading My Thoughts Again Today - Chapter 20

I Don’t Care

I was supposed to go to a friend’s house and help him with his manuscript. However, when I got there, I was actually asked to play a game for him.

“The quest is going to start soon, until then just wait.”

I have no problem to play the game since I have played it myself, but I felt I want to complain to him about the fact that he asked me to come to his house only to play a game for him.

“I can’t afford to miss any of the rare cards from the event or any of the new books.”

He clung to me and entrusted me with his smartphone. When I saw his smartphone, lined up on the screen were very rare party members. I think it is a bad thing he spends this much money on a game.

“I thought it would be easier for you to play the game for me rather than writing the manuscript for me.”

I saw him looking seriously into his smartphone as he said that, I couldn’t help but sigh. I sat down on the sofa in his living room and tapped his smartphone. The party is full of the rarest character in the game, so all the characters in the party have very high performance. It looked like I can easily pass the quest.

“I know you are dumbfounded and you can’t say anything about it! But please!”

“Ah, no, I didn’t mean to.”

I had forgotten to say anything to him because there wasn’t much to say after all. But I hurriedly responded him.

“I just need to finish off this quest, right?”

“Yeah! Now I’m going to shut up for a while, don’t worry if I start growling!”

“Okay.”

Having said that, he put on his headphones and turned his attention completely to his manuscript. Why didn’t he just hurry and finish off his manuscript earlier? I panicked for a while after thinking it, but there was no way he could read my mind.

I thought to myself, this is a very serious situation as I tapped his smartphone and play his game. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t dumbfounded of the situation, but that is not the reason why I didn’t say anything. It was not because I couldn’t say anything to him, but I’m used to my mind being read by Kisaragi so I didn’t say anything to him unconsciously.

It reminded me that my father was worried about whether I have friends or not. I took the conversation lightly because I don’t think it’s a thing worth worrying about. But thinking back, I think it would make sense of him to be worried of his son.

I’m used to talked with Kisaragi that I don’t have to say anything back because she can read my mind.

Talking with Kisaragi has been my standard of conversation.

To think about it, how long have I been talking to Kisaragi? Looking back, it’s been almost three months since she started following me, a quarter of a year. The seasons are changing, and soon it will be summer. I let out a dry chuckle as I realized how fast time flies.

People around us used to think ‘Why are those two together?’ but now they are thinking ‘They are supposed to be together’. I think that’s why sometimes when I went to the library by myself after school, I would get some glances from them. The more I think about it, the more things come into my mind. It’s not something that will affect my life right now, but I want to do something about it before it’s too late.

The solution that comes into my mind for these problems is to avoid Kisaragi.

“Hokuto?”

“Huh, what?”

Before I knew it, he was in front of me. He looked at me as if he was worried.

“I’m sorry I didn’t offer you some tea and snacks. I’ll bring it right away so you can have them whenever you want to, and…”

Did something go wrong with his manuscript?

“You know if you have a problem you can talk to me, right?”

I thought there was some problems with his manuscript, but instead he was worried about me. Maybe my face looked terrible when I thought about those things.

“But after my manuscript is done of course!”

Without expecting my respond, he went back to his manuscript. …ah what’s wrong with me. I should talk more when I’m having a conversation with someone. I looked at the smartphone and there was 30 minutes left on the quest. So, I focused my mind to the game. I can’t let my friend’s rank drop because of my problems.