She is Reading My Thoughts Again Today - Chapter 57

Dazzling Day

“I heard that you’ve finally started dating, right? That’s great, congratulations!”

When I returned from the library and open the classroom door, I’m offered a tangerine in front of me. The familiar small, round shape seems to be shining.

“Umm, what is this about?”

“It’s a congratulations tangerine. I’m about to share it with the three of us if you hadn’t come back.”

You shouldn’t say that in front of the person himself.

“Three of us?”

In front of me is Kosaka who is offering me a tangerine. Then I look around the room and see Kisaragi who is sitting on her own seat looking greedily at the tangerine, and Hoshikawa is sitting behind Kisaragi staring at her. Next to Kisaragi, traces of Hoshikawa sitting there can be seen. That’s an unusual combination. Well, I might call it a Kisaragi’s connection.

“I’ll just accept it as a good will. The three of you can eat them together.”

“Are you sure!? Really!?”

“Yeah, sure.”

“You won’t regret it…?”

With a serious look on her face, she asks me for a final confirmation. Come to think of it, she really loves tangerines as well. I guess she must be wondering why I don’t want to eat that tangerine. I don’t hate tangerines, but I just don’t like them as much as they do. It would be better if someone who really loves tangerine eat it.

“I won’t.”

“Not even a little bit?”

“Not even one bit.”

“Waa, yayy!”

She happily returns to her seat and start to peel the tangerine. Unlike Kisaragi, she peels it in a circular way, it’s a beautiful way to peel it.

“I’ll pass too. Please share it between the two of you.”

What, really? Are you sure? Well, I guess he just doesn’t like tangerines as much as they do.

“We can do it half and half then. Here, Nao.”

“Thank you, Mikan…san.”

“Ahh, you added ‘san’ again! I’ll take a slice from you!”

“Please stop. You’ve already taken three slices of them, I feel like I’m about to cry.”

“That’s right. You look cuter when you smile.”

“T-That tickles…!”

Nao and Mikan. I have a feeling that they had become really close recently, but I’m surprised that they already calling each other by their first name. How could they become so close after they distanced themselves with each other because of their differences in eating tangerine? Is the relationship between the two of them better than I thought? No but how did they become so close to each other in the first place? Without thinking, I approached Hoshikawa’s seat and ask him about it.

“Do you know when those two became such good friends?”

He looks at me sharply.

“How could I know something that even you don’t know”

Maybe he knows that Kisaragi won’t be listening to our conversation because Kosaka is fooling around with her. Well, it’s better to have a conversation with him than being silent to each other. Although I feel bad for asking him that, I respond him with a few words so he won’t know it.

“That’s true.”

Aside from Kisaragi, he and Kosaka have just met and know very little about each other. Well for that matter, I’m not much different than him.

“But I’m glad.”

“About what?”

“I never thought I would see Kisaragi-san talking to someone so happily.”

I really think so too. He has known Kisaragi since grade school, he must be more deeply moved than me.

“…speaking of which, what were you talking about earlier?”

“It’s a secret.”

“Are you telling me not to tell anyone about it?”

“Regardless of the content, I feel like I have a friend privilege now.”

“Friend privilege?”

“I’m starting to see Kisaragi-san as a friend that Hokuto-san can’t see.”

“What do you mean by that?”

Even if the kind of feelings he has for Kisaragi has changed, Kisaragi’s feelings on the other hand shouldn’t have changed. There shouldn’t be any friend privilege or anything like that.

She is talking with Kosaka and notice our gaze. She smiles at us.

“Certainly, I feel like she looks more dazzling than before.”

“Regardless of Kisaragi-san, your words genuinely piss me off.”