She is Reading My Thoughts Again Today - Chapter 64

Avoiding Day

“Can you please stop showing up out of the blue and grab my shoulder from behind?”

The really annoyed voice can be heard from in front of me.

“I’m sorry about it, but just stay like this for a while. Can you please hide me for a little while?”

I know you don’t like it, but please just bear it for now,

“No, I don’t want to. I’m not going to. You’re running away from Nao-san, right? If you’re running away from your love affair, can you do it somewhere else?”

“It’s not like that.”

I reflexively said.

“Can you even look straight into my face while saying that?”

“Haha…”

I nervously laughed at his words.

“I can’t understand the sudden change in your expression.”

That may be true, but can’t you hear the desperation in my voice? Can’t you hear it? I’m sure I sound pretty desperate right now.

“Ah, Nao-san!”

He called out to Kisaragi. I should’ve known he would side with Kisaragi.

“Hokuto Usami is here, He is here!”

As he grabs me by the collar, I regret that I should have run to the men’s room instead of relying on him. He brought me to Kisaragi with a great force. I look into the ceiling to avoid eye contact with her. The ceiling is light blue coloured with some black spots on it.

“Why are you avoiding me? You should have done it in May.”

Come to think of it, when we first met, she asked me why don’t I just avoid her. A smile appears on my mouth as I’m recalling our nostalgic past. Indeed, I should’ve avoided her when I originally learned about her ability. What is she doing right now? I turn my toes around which had been facing the other way wanting to escape her, towards Kisaragi. She is looking at me with a dumbfounded look on her face.

“What are you laughing at? I’m more or less angry, you know?”

“Nothing, I am really sorry about that.”

Hoshikawa walks away with a sigh. His own thoughts must have reached Kisaragi, embarrassment, impatience, annoyance, and so on. When I think about it, I realize that I’m in the same boat as him, she can read my thoughts from here. So, I start to walk away from her. I don’t know the exact range of her ability to reach me, but I think this is enough. Perhaps I’m just comforting myself. She sighs at me. None of my feelings or imaginations can be hidden from her. Every special feeling I have for her, every evil fantasies or imaginations may I think about her, will be exposed. I’m so distressed about it that I really think about learning the same ability as her.

“…I know it, why don’t we just talk with Hoshikawa between us?

“What a terrible thing to say.”

It certainly is. She is also distancing herself from me.

“I can’t hear your thoughts from here. So for the time being, please calm down, Hokuto-san.”

“Ahh, yeah. Okay.”

I took a couple of deep breath.

“The other day Kisaragi seemed to be troubled about what we talked then, and I thought that it would be better if I didn’t say ‘I love you’ on my mind then.”

“I told you not to worry about it.”

She pats her own head to keep herself from blushing.

“But I am worried about it.”

“Then I’ll say it again. Don’t worry about it. No matter what you think about me, I won’t hate you Hokuto-san. Please don’t be so nervous about it.”

My heart raced as her words. My heart, is throbbing? ‘No matter what you think about me, I won’t hate you Hokuto-san.’ I kept repeating her words over and over again on my mind. Those are incredibly kind words.

“Really?”

“Yeah.”

“Really?”

Slowly, her face clouds over.

“I knew it, if you think of something that goes too far about me, I will be a little mad at you.”

“To what extent?”

Her expression grew even more grim. She thinks about it for a moment before she answers my question.

“To the extent of violence…?”

“Violence hurts.”

“Yeah, it hurts.”

“I would never do such thing.”

“I know.”

“I’m glad to hear that.”