After a Heartbreak, My Bitter Childhood Friend is now Sweet Like Sugar - V2 Chapter 5.9
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Chapter 5.9
Hah.
I sighed heavily inside.
“Ehm, so, about the school report~”
During the meeting of the library committee, I kept sighing and praying for the meeting to be over soon.
I thought that after the exams were finally over, I would be able spend time with Yu, but out from nowhere I’ve to attend the meeting.
“First of all, I’d like you all to listen to my opinion… Shirayuki-san?”
The very idea of having a meeting right after the exams, when we were free at last, was out of the ordinary.
Well, I was busy preparing for the sports festival until recently, and after that I had no time to schedule anything before the exam.
“Shirayuki-san, they are called you.”
“… Eh? Ah, yes!”
As Uchiyama-san pointed out, I noticed that everyone was looking at me.
“E-excuse me, I’ve been a bit absent-minded.”
“I hope you’re okay. Are you tired from your final exams?”
“Yes, a bit. I couldn’t afford to lose any grades this time, so I worked really hard.”
“How could a lady as talented as Shirayuki-san be so desperate? There must have been some extraordinary circumstances.”
The library president’s calm words made me feel sorry, so I gave a fake smile.
At any rate, it was my own fault to begin with.
The reason I had trouble studying was because I had fallen in love with Yu and couldn’t concentrate when we were together and couldn’t relax when we were apart.
The cure was Yu’s voice recording in which he was cheering for me, which I received from Kasugai-san— or rather, Hotaru-chan.
|| “Well, how can I thank you…?”
|| “I did it on my own, so don’t worry about the details. Oh, that’s right, you can call me by my first name from now on. You’re being too distant, even though we’ve become friends.”
──Thank you, Hotaru-chan.
I’m really glad I had that.
When I got restless, I played it to calm myself down. When I started to lose my concentration, I listened to it to regain my motivation. For me, Yu’s voice was a candle that was tens of thousands of times more effective than the energy drinks sold in convenience stores.
Once I started listening to it, I would listen to it for hours and hours.
But I think the test ended well, and I’m fine with the results.
“So, please pick a few books for your report. In the end, we will have about ten books to choose from, as usual. The quota is at least three books per person, does everyone agree?”
—But these books, sigh!
I haven’t been able to read much lately because I’ve been busy improving my skills to make lunches and dinners a little better, and I’ve also been busy practicing my games so that I don’t lose to Yu.
The selection of books for book reports at this school is left up to the committee and is quite easy. It can be anything from children’s books to light novels, as long as it’s not… overly er*tic and doesn’t violate age restrictions.
“I’ll let Shiki-san know at a later date…”
Anyway, it’s been a while since I’ve read a book. By the way, one of my favorite authors had released a new book a month ago.
“Kimi no inai sekai, kimi no iru sekai” by Erika Kishi.
The main character, a boy who lost his lover and was left with a scar on his heart finds himself able to go back and forth between parallel worlds where his lover is still alive, and a love story involving his childhood friend who is his new lover in the original world.
In the parallel world, the protagonist and his childhood friend are already dead…
It was a novel that I had been reading for its similar content, and on top of that, the author had a tendency to portray characters who were somewhat grim, depressed and self-centered. In other words, just from the synopsis alone, you can imagine that the content is dark and sludgy!
If you read it when your mental health is weak, the dark tone may affect you and make your heart sink more. But I can handle it now.
Now that I remembered the book, I got an irresistibly urge about the ending.
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