Chapter 74: Indivisible

Translator Soafp

“Have you become a little more positive?”

The day after meeting Katsuragi, at the meeting spot in front of the station.

We met just before 10:10 AM, and right away, Mari-san asked me that. It’s a foolish question, but I think that somewhere on my face, feelings that I can’t explain but are smoldering deep inside my heart must be showing, and I strongly feel that I must improve it.

“…Was there something on my face?”

So I asked her that, and Mari-san shook her head, awkwardly smiling with her eyebrows forming a figure-eight.

“It’s not like that.”

“…Well, that’s good then.”

“Rather, I’d be surprised if Kazunari-san could come to terms with such things within half a year.”

“…No doubt.”

After all is said and done, I’ve shown Mari-san some pitiful sides of myself, and it’s known that I’m quite a clingy person. For one thing, Mari-san herself is a former rejected person.

Birds of a feather.

To lick each other’s wounds, there’s no better partner than this.

But that’s all it is for now. Because they’re similar, they’re interested, and because they’re similar, they understand each other’s parts. So, being together doesn’t hurt more than necessary.

To me, who had only relationships that hurt each other, that alone felt like healing. Whether or not there was love was not a concern to either of us.

“Well, since today’s a rare chance, let’s enjoy ourselves.”

“…Yeah. If we don’t enjoy it, even the fortune we’ve had for the first time in a while will be wasted.”

When I bought stomach medicine, at a drug store where buying more than 3000 yen qualifies for a lottery, for some reason I got the first prize: a pair of free passes to Nezumiland.

But, of course, I and others don’t seem likely to put it to good use, so I gave Mari-san, “I’ll go with my friends,” so she invited me to this situation because she didn’t think I’d refuse it, but I can’t talk about it alone with two people without Katsuragi.