She is Reading My Thoughts Again Today - Chapter 26

Request Day

“A junior who knows that you have an ability to read minds asked me to ask you to read the mind of someone he likes.”

“What do you mean?”

“He wants to confirm the feelings of someone he likes. I think that’s all to it. I guess he just wants to be sure that the person he likes has the same feelings as he does before confessing. In conclusion, he doesn’t want to be rejected.”

Summer break is just around the corner, it is the perfect time of the year to confess to someone. Let’s make his confession a success so that he can spend an exciting summer with his lover! I could sense his feeling wanting to spend an exciting summer with his girlfriend. For the summer break, people must have been depending to their friendships from school events, training camps and class matches to spend their summer break. I don’t think anyone would want a boring summer with no one they could spend the summer break with.

“Huh?”

She has a puzzled look on her face. I think it’s ridiculous too, but I promised him to tell Kisaragi about it anyway. So let me keep my promise to him.

“If you want to help him then we will make a plan for it, but if you don’t want to just say so. I think he will understand when I tell him so.”

“Let me ask you something. Is that junior an acquaintance of yours Hokuto-san?”

“No, he is not.”

How can I possibly know any juniors when I don’t even know many of my classmates?

“You think of the saddest things without hesitation.”

“It’s just a fact.”

I can’t say that I think of a sad thing just now, it’s the truth after all.

“For me personally, I don’t think it is fair to decide whether to confess your feelings to someone or not depending on what the other person thinks about you. So…”

“Hokuto-san, you play gal games, don’t you?”

She interrupted me and asked a question that was subtle and difficult to answer. I had a bitter look on my face in contrast to her cheerful face.

“Well, just a little.”

“Would you confess to a girl that you’re interested in even though you haven’t built up her love gauge?”

Ah, so that’s what she means.

“No, I won’t.”

“In real life, there is no such thing as love gauge. Of course, there are no clear options to the route and he can’t be sure whether his crush likes him back or not. That’s what he is worried about.”

“I understand what you are trying to say. But I just can’t agree about it.”

This is real life. There is no such thing as love gauge, fixed route or the perfect choice. It’s obvious, isn’t it?

“They say that only those who have fallen in love can understand the pain of love. Introverted people like us have no right to say anything about whether he confesses to his crush or not.”

I didn’t think she would go so far as to say that. I couldn’t bring myself to argue any further, so I turned away from her.

“…I don’t agree with that.”

“Well, it’s a student romance. It is best to observe it warmly.”

Her tone of voice is more teasing rather than interested in how other people’s love story will turn out. Maybe, this is what she really wants. In short, she is interested in the request.

“So that means, you are going to help him?”

“Yeah, I’ll help him.”

“You can’t be serious.”

“I’m serious.”

I took a glance at her and she nods with a happy expression on her face. It seems that she is really excited about it. Well, it’s a good thing for him to ask me to tell Kisaragi about his request.

I decided not to be childish anymore and face her like an adult. She relaxes her mouth as if to say it is the right thing for me to do.

“Now let’s digest and plan on how to fulfil that request.”

“Okay.”

The way she said ‘digest’ is very much like her.

“Did he specify anything?”

“No, he didn’t say anything.”

“What is his relationship with the person he loves?”

“He said that they are good friends.”

“I see. Well then, this should work. When they are talking, I will read their minds.”

“As simple as that.”

“You would think so, wouldn’t you?”

You would think so, wouldn’t you?

“It’s not that simple.”

She lets out a deep sigh as I unintentionally repeated what she said on my mind. She looks at me as if she was asking me ‘you don’t understand, do you?’ But how could I understand about it?

“What, it’s not that simple?”

“These things can be tricky.”

“Why? Oh, is it because the range of your ability?”

“That is one of it. There are a few things about my abilities that I didn’t tell you because they are hard and complicated to explain.”

Then she folded her arms, apparently, she is trying to figure out how to explain about her ability to me. Is there still something I don’t know about her ability?

“Is it just really because it is hard to explain?”

“What are you suspecting?”

“Nothing.”

After she thinks about it for a while, she finally opens her mouth.

“For example… Ah, I didn’t ask for the name of the person who made the request.”

“Ah, my bad. His name is Aizawa Kota, and the person he has feelings for is Tadakoro Mizuki. They both are first-year students.

“Ah, okay. Then let’s continue our conversation.”

“Go ahead.”

“For example, if Tadakoro-san is the kind of person who can’t hide her feelings for Aizawa-san when he is in front of her, all he needs to do is complement her nicely so that I can read her mind.”

“Complement her?”

“Yes, that’s right. But if she is the type of person that can hide her feelings, he will need to ask her some questions such as ‘Do you like someone?’ or ‘What do you think of me?’ Well, more or less questions like that.”

“Why don’t you just read her mind like you always have?”

“Unlike thoughts that are arise from our own thinking, those thoughts that come from conversations or questions may not be thought from our mind.”

“Huh…”

What do you mean? She is looking at me silently. I can feel my head starting to hurt just from thinking about it.

A response that doesn’t come from our mind?

“…so that means, if you say something spontaneously without thinking about it, or even if you don’t take them seriously and just say it aloud, what you meant to say is not the same with what you were thinking.”

“That’s right! That’s what I mean. ‘I’m not going to let you stay on TV any longer! Do your assignments already!’ ‘I know!’ Was it easier to understand if it was something like that?”

Why does she imitate someone’s voice like that even though she knows she isn’t good at it? I couldn’t even laugh at it even if I tried to.

“Now you understand it don’t you? Well, let’s move on then.”

“Sure.”

“If I fail to read her mind, that means I can’t fulfil his request. Well, if I fail to fulfil his request, it’s not a big matter for me, but it is for him. If he gets upset with me, please help me, okay?”

“I’m not going with you.”

“It was Hokuto-san who accepted the request, wasn’t it? Of course, he is.”

I was assured about that.

“So?”

I can’t back down now that I have come this far. So I grabbed my smartphone to send a message to him.

[Where and when can we talk about it?]

[Tomorrow after school, at the library. Let’s get this over with quickly.]