The reason why this genius little girl who doesn't get along with anyone, wants to be only spoiled by me - Episode 10

Episode 10: Time Rewinds

—And just like that, I had a wonderful  long chat with Hoshimiya-san after school yesterday.

It really felt like a dream.

When I woke up in the morning, I even thought to myself, “What if that was all just a dream?”

And that brings us back to the beginning of the story.

With that in mind, ….As I arrived at school in the morning, I thought of greeting Hoshimiya-san, but as she had started reading a book, I couldn’t bring myself to say anything at all.

As I thought, yesterday was just one of Hoshimiya sam’s whim, and now we are back to being strangers again… Or so I thought when

“…Yohei-kun, why aren’t you saying anything to me?”

“Even though we chatted so much yesterday!”

She puffed up her cheeks, almost as if to say she had reached her limit of patience.

Apparently, she had been waiting for me to speak up to her. However, as I hadn’t said anything for so long, she got fed up and sulked.

And on top of that…

“…Come to think of it, why are you still calling me by Surname ‘Hoshimiya’?”

“It’s not Hoshimiya. I have a proper name: ‘Hime’!”

“Please call me by my first name. Can’t you do something like this, being someone older than me?”

It seemed she was quite dissatisfied with being called by her last name, because of which she pressed me further on this.

She wanted me to call her by her first name, or so I was asked to do.

More that how much I realized, she looked up to me…and she had a favorable opinion of me.

Then on top of that, despite being mindful of the eyes of our classmates, she sat on my lap.

“I find your lap quite comfortable, so I’ll attend my class sitting here today, got it~.”

Of course, my classmates were taken aback in surprise.

The classroom erupted into chaos, and even after the morning homeroom, the commotion didn’t settle down, and even after that, Hoshimiya-san showed no signs of coming down from the top of my lap.

—And then, time returns to present.

“…What’s going on? It’s so noisy today.”

Our homeroom teacher, a middle-aged man, looked confused by the unusual atmosphere in the classroom.

In his tracksuit, he scanned the room, then seeing Hoshimiya-san…no, Hime, sitting on my lap, got stunned for a second.

“Umm… Hoshimiya-san, what are you exactly doing?”

Probably, if any other student had done the same, they would probably have scolded them immediately. But Hime seemed to be treated with a kind of special respect even by the teachers, almost reverence. Because of that, they had a low-key demeanor regarding her, and even talked respectfully in a honorable language, all the more showing just how special she was.

However, perhaps Hime didn’t actually enjoy being treated like this as something special.

“…I’m just sitting on Yohei-kun’s lap. Is there a problem with that?”

Her tone was icy and curt, completely different from how she spoke to me.

In response, of course, the teacher couldn’t reprimand her.

All he did instead, was just bow repeatedly, clearly flustered all throughout his face.

“Nope! There’s no problem at all… please feel free to sit however and how long you like!”

Oi. From when are you the one deciding that.

It’s my lap, so obviously I should have the ultimate say in the matter.

But well, it seems like that was impossible.

“Oi, you there… uh, hmm? Well, whatever. You there, boy, make sure you don’t trouble Hoshimiya-san too much, got it? Just let her stay like that even during class hours as well, understood?”

And it appears the teacher couldn’t remember my name. Although he tried hard to recall it but ultimately couldn’t, so he ended up calling me, ‘you there, boy’, instead.”

Well, it wasn’t uncommon for me not to be recognized, so I wasn’t particularly upset about it. Regardless how it looked, it seems that Hime was allowed to attend the class just like that.

“Alright then, I’ll take attendance now. Settle down already!”

…And just like that, school hours began as usual.

“…Ehehe♪ Yohei-kun, you feel so warm, cuddle and cozy~.”

However, having Hime sitting on my lap was definitely not something out of ordinary.

Who would have thought that a background character, Mob A like me, would find himself in a situation like this… It felt like that dream-like time was still continuing.