The Blonde Saint Only Makes Strange Noises In Front Of Me, What Should I Do?

Episode 35: Before Summer

June has come and gone, and we are now approaching July. The rainy season is not over yet, but the days are still hot and humid, as if to announce the coming of summer.

It was such a hot and humid day, and the test period was approaching, but the four of us were still playing together. Playing catch, games, card games, apps, and useless conversations, we were enjoying our …..moratorium to the fullest.

In addition, last weekend, I participated in a long-awaited grass baseball game with Sana. Sana played as a pinch hitter in place of the injured starting pitcher, and I played catcher.

She pitched five scoreless innings and allowed only three hits. She allowed no runs in five innings and allowed only three hits, with an astonishing zero walks. There were some former Koshien ballplayers on the other team, but they were helpless against Sana’s moves, splits, and sinker, which she had recently learned.

She looked like a saint, but when she struck out, she would cheerfully shout, “Yippee!” Sana was called a savior, not a saint, and was asked to come back as a helper in the near future.

But──

(Hmmm ….well, if your schedule allows, I guess?)

What was a little surprising was that Sana had muddled her reply like this. It was a little surprising that she didn’t agree to the game, even though she was having so much fun throwing the ball and beating the other team. When I asked her why, she said, “Well, I don’t know. I’ll decide if I’m invited again.

The guys and I looked at each other and tilted our heads, not knowing why she gave such a response. It was also surprising that after that, Sana stopped asking to play catch with us.

Despite these slight changes, there had been no progress in the relationship between me and Sana in the two months …that I had known her. I’m even beginning to think that all the hand-holding and kissing we did when we first met was just a dream.

It’s July now, and of course, there’s less than a month left before the semester ends. If possible, I would like to take some action before the summer vacation, but the fact that the four of us are working together like this is going in the wrong direction. There was hardly any room for the two of us to be alone.

For example, at the beginning of this month, there will be the Tanabata Festival. The four of us are going to buy a bamboo branch, write our wishes on it, and then play a game afterwards. Two days later, there will be a fireworks display in our town, which the four of us are going to see together, so it would be difficult for us to be alone. However, before I introduced my friend and brought her into our group, I couldn’t make a single progress… I had to sigh a lot.

“What’s wrong, you two?”

Asuka turned to me during lunch break and asked. At the same time that I let out a sigh, Sana who was beside me also had an ennui expression on her face and let out a small sigh at the same time.

By the way, now Kazuharu is going to buy juice. The four of us had just been playing a game of mahjong on the app, and this was our punishment for losing.

“Eh, what?””

Sana tilted her head, reverting from her earlier ennui expression to her usual beautiful smile.

“No, you were both sighing, so I was wondering what was going on.”

“Nothing at all? I just thought it was …too hot. What about you, Kaoru-kun?”

Sana tilted her head and asked. I was almost sucked in by those beautiful blue eyes, and I couldn’t help but look away.

“No, … same for me. I just thought it was hot.”

I let out a bitter laugh and somehow managed to escape with such words.

“Well, it’s summer, isn’t it?”

Asuka leaned back in his chair, rolled a Chupa Chups in his mouth, and looked up at the clear sky.

“There’s Tanabata, there’s a fireworks display, it’s …summer, right?”

Then she glanced at me.

She looked at me with eyes that were trying to prompt me to do something.

“It’s summer…”

I pretended not to notice Asuka’s gaze and muttered to myself, looking at the sky as well, and Sana continued to do the same. She was also looking up at the sky with a somewhat ennui expression on her face.

I wonder if …..the relationship between me and Sana will change before summer comes. And why does she have that expression on her face when summer is approaching?

I stole a glance at her profile and let out another small sigh.