The Reason Why The Cool Beauty Who Repeatedly Ignores Messages Replies Only To Me. ~The Lonely Beauty Wants To Know The Lonely Me〜 - Chapter 52

Episode 52: Each Other’s Feelings

After returning to the tent from the beach, Saeki was the first to get into her sleeping bag.

“Are you going to sleep now?”

“Oh my… I wonder if Okami-kun still wants to do something with me?”

Saeki said as she slid her lower half into the sleeping bag, raising her body slightly.

Saeki, with a dazed look in her eyes, looks in my direction while lightly stroking her long hair.

“I-It’s nothing! …Goodnight.”

When I turned off the lantern, the tent quickly became dark, and I got into my sleeping bag too.

“The sea at night was beautiful, wasn’t it?”

“Y-Yeah.”

Saeki had been speaking with an unusually calm demeanor since earlier.

Saying she wanted to go to a fireworks festival alone with me, something the usual Saeki would never say.

…The usual Saeki.

She’s completely uninterested in things she’s not interested in, she’s skinny even though she eats a lot of food, and when I talk to Mishiro, Tamari, Machibari, and the others, she’s extremely grumpy…

Saeki used to be a habitual offender who would always read books at her seat in class and never talk to anyone, consistently ignoring messages after reading them.

But after she got to know me, she changed significantly.

The lonely beauty, Yukine Saeki.

I used to think she lived in a different world, but after getting to know her, I suddenly felt like she was someone close to me.

That’s why I…

“Saeki… can I ask you something?”

“……”

“Saeki, about me…”

In the silent tent, my heart pounded loudly.

I can almost hear it.

“I wonder what you think.”

“……”

…No answer.
Has she already gone to sleep?
“…Goodnight, Saeki.”

I muttered and looked up.

Why am I even thinking of asking that?

There was no response after that, and I slowly closed my eyes.

✳︎✳︎

I ignored him.

A few minutes after Okami-kun turned off the lantern, he asked about my feelings.

But I pretended to sleep and didn’t answer.

Since it was decided that I would sleep with him after winning the game, I kept thinking about what to do… but in the end, I couldn’t come up with anything.

I feel like I’ve already done everything I can do with him in our current relationship.

So… at the fireworks festival, when it’s just the two of us…

I want to confess my feelings to him.