The Students I Once Tutored As Part-Time Home Tutors During My Student Days Had Suddenly Achieved Excessive Success In Their Careers. - Chapter 10: Sae's POV- Sae After Returning Home

Sae’s POV: Sae After Returning Home

This is the story of what happened after the seventh-period class ended, and Sae, also known as Jito-chan, returned home.

Standing in the kitchen, where her mother was preparing dinner, Sae eagerly interrupted, saying, “Mom, listen, stop for a moment!” She tugged at her apron and excitedly reported today’s events to her mother.

“I met Sora-kun today,” she said, “Sora-kun has become a schoolteacher,” and she even boasted about it, especially because Sora was someone she liked.

Having successfully conveyed her news, Sae went to her room as usual, singing a tune. She was in high spirits as she exchanged emails with the company that had given her a job.

From an objective standpoint, one might think that she was thrilled because she had met Sora and received a new job request. However, that was far from the truth.

The content of her current correspondence was a request for revisions to her submitted illustration, specifically, they wanted her to add a single accessory. Her workload hadn’t increased.

So, why was she so elated? The answer should be obvious.

“Hehe, Sora-kun seemed so happy… He praised me a lot,” she said, reminiscing about what had happened during lunch break.

She remembered the counseling room conversation.

“Sora-sensei, there’s something I need to apologize for.”

“Huh? Apologize? Why?”

“Because thanks to you, I was able to want to go to school again, and I passed the high school entrance exam. But I still can’t come to school every day…”

She tried to bow deeply. She had thought she might get scolded.

But it didn’t turn out that way.

“I’m really proud of you.” Sora-sensei had said.

“Because Sae-san, you chose her path and are working hard to follow it. Not everyone can do that. I’m proud of you for that.”

“You’ve become quite remarkable. Really.”

Even though it wouldn’t have been strange to feel uncomfortable, he praised her so much.

And when she showed him her Twitter, he reacted as if it were his own achievement.

“Of course! Sae-san, this is truly amazing! It’s incredibly amazing, seriously!!”

“No, no, this is all your ability! I really can’t find words other than amazing… wooowww, I should have known about this sooner considering how hard you’ve been working.”

He rejoiced as if it were about himself.

For Sae, the joy of having her mentor rejoice in her achievements was unparalleled.

“Hehe. Sora-kun, you haven’t changed at all…”

Both a home tutor and a high school teacher, the job of “teaching others” was the same, perhaps that’s why it felt the same as it did back then.

But she had also found differences.

“Adult… Sora-kun has become an adult,”

This impression was strong because Sora looked sharp in his suit, confidently standing at the podium and conducting the class as a teacher.

“He looked incredibly cool,”

Sae muttered as she covered her mouth with both hands, and naturally, her face flushed.

“…”

She froze for a few seconds, her expression remaining blank.

Sae found herself in a situation where she covered her face with both hands.

At that moment, she couldn’t help but remember a vivid memory when she had shown her SNS profile to the opposite sex, stating that she was a “I’m an illustrator who loves the Sora (Sky)”

“I did something incredibly embarrassing…”

The more she thought about it, the more she updated her list of life’s most embarrassing moments. If Sora hadn’t misunderstood back then, the situation might have turned into a student confessing to a teacher.

“Ugh…”

After sending an email to the company, Sae made an inaudible sound and buried her face in her desk.

Her understanding of “I did something incredibly embarrassing” wasn’t limited to this incident.

In the counseling room, when she heard her words “I love Sora” read aloud for the first time, she was shocked.

As a result of her continued efforts, she had been promoting her crush to over 400,000 accounts, using her work account for that very purpose.

“I’m an illustrator who loves the Sora (Sky)” had been written in her profile since the day she created the account. She had set it when she had zero followers. At the time, it had also been a hobby account, and she had been using the same phrase for over two years, which had made her lose sight of the fact.

“I ended up telling 400,000 people that I love someone…”

Sae had never even told her friends about her crush, and she was so embarrassed that she hadn’t even talked about love. It was because she had been living in this real world that she couldn’t show her face anymore…

***

A few hours later, there was some activity on, SaKu’s Twitter account.

As if something had clicked, as if she had become determined, the words “I’m an illustrator who loves the Sora (Sky)” had reappeared.