Chapter 4

Why don’t you notice me?

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“No, not there, here either.”

I looked around my room and even searched in my bag, but I couldn’t find my wallet.

“A~ah.”

Maybe I dropped it in the train station earlier when I bumped into that high-school girl. 

It is useless to go there now, or it might have been reported as a lost item. I hurried up and left the house.

“Kyaa~.”

“Ita~h.”
[TL: as kyaa~ is known for the girl’s scream, Itai~ is known for the boy counterpart.]

Suddenly someone jumped in from my blind spot — and the person who jumped in from there was me —- Nonetheless, I bumped into them.

[TL note: remember~ what he says in the previous pages~. Even if a high school girl was at fault with an unemployed old man, it’s the old man’s fault anyway~ Social hierarchy~.]

I feel a soft and cosy feeling through my clothes.

“Ex–excuse me… eh?”

As I looked, I realised it was the same girl with whom I had bumped into the train station earlier today.

As usual, she is a beauty that can make anyone nervous without any fail. I didn’t expect to bump into the same person twice in a single day. I can’t say if it’s my good luck or the bad one.

“Umm.., this…”

The girl tries to give me something timidly.

“A~ah, my wallet. So, you picked it up for me.”

The girl silently nodded her head.

“Iyaa~ thank you so much. Ah right! I should give you something for your help.”

“No, that’s okay. Rather than that.”

“Rather?”

The girl stares at me.

She gives off this quiet, literary girl aura who just glances without saying a word. 

What is this I wonder? This strange terrible nostalgia, which brings along with it this irritated feeling in me. What is this mysterious feeling?

Nn?

Irritated feeling? What am I even thinking about my saviour?

There is a limit to being rude to someone.

But this girl’s eyes…

 “Um … no, it’s nothing, after all. I just thought I would deliver you your wallet. Well, then…”

With that said, the girl ran away with unsteady legs. 

(… She is quite slow on her feet.)

I should have at least asked for her name or the school where she is enrolled in. Not because I have ulterior motives. Just to thank for her help.

Keeping that aside, I thought…

“How did that girl know my address?”

My address written on my driver’s licence was when I was still in Tokyo, furthermore, I just moved back here in the first place.

“… ?”

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(POV change to Haruyama Miya)

“A~h damn. Why don’t you notice me already? ha~a ha~a”

It has been a long time since I ran so fast. I ran so much that I was now out of breath.

I stopped running and took a deep breath.

I want you to realise that it’s me. If possible, not after I introduce myself, please recognise me by yourself.

“… stupid”

My childhood memories start getting revived.

I remember how I used to play with him even before I can remember it well.

“So nostalgic…”

Ha~ah, now I remember.

The number of pranks I did when I was still a little girl.

The number of mistakes I made in childhood.

Those dark histories.

Remembering the intolerable and cheeky child I was in the past. 

My face turns red in embarrassment.

“I–I AM SUCH AN IDIOT.

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