Editing Maria-sama ga Miteru:Volume13 Chapter5 4

=== <noinclude>Up to the Meeting Place. </noinclude>Part 4. ===

But alas, Shimura Takuya was not riding on that train.

Furthermore, because of where he lived, he rarely ever took that train line.

All this meant that he arrived at their meeting place quite a bit before the arranged time, allowing him to enjoy some time window shopping around the train station.

Naturally, he was completely unaffected by the irritation in that other train and was instead feeling quite relaxed.

It was 10:30.

He'd done a circuit around the fountain in the train station plaza then walked away from it. All he wanted to do was confirm that Nori-chan hadn't arrived yet. But it also gave him the opportunity to confirm his rival's movements.

"… I knew it."

Takuya nodded minutely as he started walking.

As expected, he was following along.

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Kounoshin.

He'd found out that Takuya was going to meet a girl and came along to have a look. How pitiful that he had nothing better to do on a Saturday than follow around a family member. He should get a hobby (at least something other than old-time comedy.)

Kounoshin was maintaining a respectable distance so that Takuya wouldn't realize he was being followed. 

What did he want? To pay his respects to Nori-chan? In that case, Takuya would reluctantly introduce him, then tell him to hurry up and go home.

"But, wait. What if mom asked Kounoshin to follow me – "

In that case, a careless introduction could potentially have major consequences. Who knew what would happen if Kounoshin reported that his partner was 15 years old.

(Uwah, Shimura-kun you pedo.)

That's how some of his female university classmates had reacted when he'd carelessly talked about Nori-chan previously.

(I don't want to think about that.)

Those girls were of no concern. It was none of their business. But it would be rough to have his own family look at him like that.

He'd have to keep Kounoshin from seeing Nori-chan after all.

– And so with that, Takuya put into effect his plan to throw off Kounoshin by wandering around the station building.