So You’re Telling Me I’m in My Popular Phase!? - Chapter 23: An Unexpected Skive!?

Chapter 23: An Unexpected Skive!?

“Ryu, it’s time for school, wake up.”

Woken up by Mom, I headed to the living room.

“Morning.”

“Hey, you’re up late, Ryu.”

Dad seemed a little annoyed.

“Why are you still at home?!”

Golden Week is already over, so he’s supposed to be in Hokkaido for work.

“Well~, I stayed home a little longer, and then I wanted to stay even more, so I just took off work.”

“‘Took off work’—are you serious?!”

My dad is seriously an idiot.

“So, until Dad goes to work, I decided to take off work too. Tehe.”

“Don’t ‘teehee’ me, you 30-something-year-old lady!”

It’s not just my dad—my parents are seriously idiots.

“Today I’m going on a date with Dad, so I won’t be coming home♪”

Whenever Dad has time off, they always go stay somewhere overnight.

Well, they only started doing that since I became a third-year in middle school, though.

“Also, Aki isn’t coming home either, so today it’s just you alone, Ryu.”

“What did you say?!”

The sleepover is today too?

Come to think of it, there weren’t any textbooks in Aki’s room at all.

Hahaha—since Aki isn’t home, I can go into her room as much as I want!

“So, Ryu, I hid the books that were under your bed.”

“What the hell did you do?!”

“So they really are there. Ryu’s a man after all.”

“T-there’s no way.”

“You’re way too shaken up.”

Dad said that with a totally straight face.

I want to die.

“So, are there?”

“No!”

“Hmmm.”

Why is even Mom laughing?

Seriously, there aren’t any.

There’s no way they’d be somewhere as obvious as under the bed.

No, no—I don’t even have books like that in the first place.

I definitely don’t have thin books of the little sister genre or anything.

“Setting that aside, hurry up and eat.”

That’s not something to just set aside.

Well, I escaped the topic, so whatever.

“Alright, I’m heading out.”

Dad was trying to go somewhere.

“Huh? Dad, weren’t you off today?”

Or rather than “off,” he’s skipping work.

“I’m just going to look for your thin books, though?”

“Don’t ‘just’ me—stop it!”

If he looks behind the dictionary, I’ll die.

No—it’s not like there’s anything there, okay?

“Ryu, look at the time.”

Mom told me, so I looked.

“Crap!”

It’s already past the time I usually leave.

I hurriedly ate breakfast and got ready for school.

Just in case—even though there’s nothing there—I checked behind the dictionary.

“Alright, I’m off!”

“See you later.”

“I’ll be searching for them.”

“I told you there’s nothing there!”

Is my dad a brat?!

More importantly, what should I do about dinner today?

Maybe I’ll ask Izumi.